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When I drove my wife home from a clinic I thought i heard a rhythmic clicking sound. As I sped up, its frequency got higher. But the sound went away and I forgot about it. The next day I discovered my right rear tire was flat. A screw was the cause. I mounted a spare, made an appointment for the next day at my tire dealer (Discount Tire) and got the flat fixed free of charge.
Bolivar Flats Texas, April 2010
Shooting into the light here in what Im guessing was a 40 MPH wind. Had to clean the front glass every few minutes.
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These are the only flats (ballerinas) I own.
They are a little short (EU size 41 instead of 43) but I can walk in then for a short time...
Aren't they cute?
The Yellow Sea, shared by South Korea, China and the DPRK, has an estimated 2 million ha of remaining tidal-flat , and is one of less than 10 regions globally that have “megatidal environments”. As such the Yellow Sea is a globally very rare type of ecosystem, and it forms the core staging area for an estimated 2 million migratory shorebirds in spring and a further 1 million in autumn. This represents no less than 40% of the total number of (long-range) migratory shorebirds supported by the whole East Asian-Australasian Flyway, a wide and long migration corridor stretching from southern New Zealand, through Australia, up through countries of south-east and eastern Asia, through the Yellow Sea, on through eastern Russia as far northeast as the North slope of Alaska.
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BNSF job pulls empty rack flats out of Hallett 8 in West Duluth MN. The flats carried in "swamp mats" used by construction companies as temporary roads in territories where the ground surface are less than ideal to operate equipment on.
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Alviso Flat lies just a hundred yards north of the Alviso Marina County Park. Situated just west of the 1880 South Coast Pacific railroad grade, the flat is a widening of the ditch flanking the rail track. I have no idea why the ditch widens here but it makes an interesting and photographic landscape feature. The area fills with a few inches of water during our winter rainy season and tends to dry out in the summer. This has been an exceptionally dry winter so I was a bit surprised to find water in the flat during this January visit. Perhaps it is due to the adjacent salt ponds, which were relatively full, or a connection to the New Chicago Marsh on the other side of the track. This marsh is running with much higher water levels since the Salt Pond A16 construction project.
As you walk along the levee past Alviso Flat you can see the vague remnants of a few marsh channels. These are much more evident from the air as is the color du jour of the flat’s shallow water (in this case light brown).
Fellow KAPper Dave Wheeler, who was visiting from Maryland, accompanied me on this outing. You can see Dave’s white Rokakku kite in several of the images.
I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife. Kite flying is prohibited over the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve without a Special Use Permit, as is access to this part of the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge.
Does this angle make it look a little more tame? You can see the boxed corners here too and how they fold in to lay flat. And the back of the pouch is just the plain green Kona you see here.
I'm wearing my new silver 'grommet' flats from RAID London with 20D black pantyhose and pleated skirt. They feel great and will garner a lot of attention when I wear them in public soon!!💕
Our flat was on the first floor of this building. Each flat was built round an open space and there was masses of wasted space. The water tanks were on the roof
The setting sun glows between the flats down at the links. Liked the contrast between the flat in the shade and that illuminated. The Haar gave the scene a painting like effect.
They look as if they've been there forever and most possess a monumental grandeur which is hard to equate with a sudden speculative spree. But London's mansion blocks were the high density housing of their time and a source of much controversy and concern
The story sounds surprisingly contemporary. In the late nineteenth century central London was running out of space and wealthy bachelors and well-bred families were finding it difficult to locate suitable accommodation.
Flats were the obvious solution but in the eyes of the fashionable and the fastidious sharing a roof with total strangers was simply unthinkable.
Flats were damned with a double dose of original sin. Since the first to be built in London were philanthropic ventures, Model Dwellings for the deserving poor, they were forever equated with the lower orders and therefore beyond the pale.
But even worse, flats were foreign. The French, more specifically Parisians, lived in flats and everyone knew what a badly behaved, unhygienic, morally corrupt lot they were.
French flats, as R. Phene Spiers told the Royal Institute of Architects in 1871, were small and poorly designed, forced the upper classes to live in close proximity to their servants, and generally lacked refinement and sophistication.
In Paris, he continued, "utterly dissociated and discordant people" lived under one roof, but this would never do for London, where delicate English ladies would suffer "incalculable distress" if they encountered a common artisan on the stairs.
The French, he concluded, clinching the argument, "use very little water, believing they can wash themselves with the corner of a wet towel."
Convincing uptight English Victorians to live in flats was therefore a tall order, and there weren't many speculators keen to test the market.
When the first great mansion block, Albert Hall Mansions, was started in 1876 the developer Thomas Hussey worried that the scheme might fail and Norman Shaw, the architect, divided the block plan into three distinct sections, to be built separately, in an effort to minimise the risk.
As it turned out they had a winner on their hands and Albert Hall Mansions, with its ornate red-brick exterior, Dutch gables, triple windows, and iron balconies, kick-started the late-Victorian craze for mansion blocks which continued well into the new century.
Once Shaw had shown them how to do it more and more developers took the plunge and a rash of mansion blocks appeared in Kensington and St John's Wood, Marylebone and Maida Vale, Belsize Park and Battersea, Fulham and Chiswick.
As the fashion took hold whole streets were give over to mansion blocks Fitzgeorge and Fitzjames Avenue in West Kensington, Prince of Wales Drive in Battersea but the building frenzy came to a halt with the war, and never really revived.
Some exceptional mansion blocks were built in the thirties but thereafter the energy of the initial flurry was never reproduced.