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Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Listed 12/24/2013
Reference Number: 13000978
The historic district comprised of Flat Top Estate, now Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, is significant at the state level under National Register Criterion A as an example of a Country Place era estate. At Flat Top, Moses Cone established a gentleman's country retreat in the style of those established by American captains of industry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The historic district is one of the largest and best preserved country estates in western North Carolina, incorporating a large manor house surrounded by orchards, pastures, meadows, lakes and other constructed water features, roads, and forests. The historic district is also significant at a state level under National Register Criterion B in the area of industry for its historic association with Moses Cone, who revolutionized textile manufacturing in the South, and particularly in North Carolina, during the late nineteenth century. In partnership with his brother Ceasar, Moses Cone reorganized the marketing of textiles by southern textile mills and introduced the manufacture of denim in the South. The entrepreneurial efforts of Moses Cone during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries throughout the southeast region affected this industry throughout the country. The historic district is nationally significant under National Register Criterion C in the area of landscape architecture for the planning of the estate, in particular the extensive network of carriage roads and associated plantings designed by Moses Cone. The carriage roads are among very few such systems in private estates ofthis period in this country; represent extensive and careful design and planning; and remain nearly intact today. The historic district also includes the Colonial Revival style manor house, significant at the state level in the area of Architecture. The association of the Flat Top Estate Historic District with the Blue Ridge Parkway, and its role as a recreational area along the parkway, are not considered as part of this nomination. The structures of Flat Top Estate are closely related to the surrounding environment. Archeological remains, such as trash pits, privies, wells, and other structural remains which may be present, can provide information valuable to the understanding and interpretation of the contributing structures. Information concerning land-use patterns, agricultural practices, social standing and social mobility, as well as structural details, is often only evident in the archeological record. Therefore, archeological remains may well be an important component of the significance of the structures. At this time very limited investigation has been done to discover these remains, but it is likely that they exist, and this should be considered in any development of the property.
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We got stuck with a flat tire in the Wal-Mart parking lot today..it wasn't a fun experience. It turned out to be a much longer trip than planned, and we even had the pup with us.
Adelaide to Mannum Road
The 2015 Sampson Flat bushfires were a series of bushfires in Australia in the state of South Australia, that primarily effected the Adelaide Hills and the outer Adelaide metropolitan area. The fires began on 2 January 2015 during a day of extreme heat and lasted until 9 January 2015.
The fires began in the outer northern area of the city, in the suburb of Sampson Flat. It later travelled southeast towards the Kersbrook township and across the Mount Lofty Ranges toward the Adelaide Hills. As of 6 January 2015, at least 26 houses were destroyed with 37 families in temporary accommodation. This count had increased to 38 houses, 125 outbuildings and 134 injuries by the evening of 6 January. The town of Kersbrook was worst hit, with twelve houses destroyed. On 7 January, the number of houses destroyed throughout the affected area was revised down from 38 to 32 and again down to 27 a few days later. There were no fatalities as a result of the bushfires; and the total cost was estimated to be more than A$13 million.
2014 was Australia's third-warmest year since national temperature observations commenced in 1910. Following Australia's warmest year on record in 2013, both maximum and minimum temperatures remained well above average, with frequent periods of abnormally warm weather throughout the year. For the 6-month period from July to December 2014 southeast South Australia recorded the lowest 5 per cent record of rainfall deficiencies, extending a continued pattern of severe rainfall deficiencies over a 27–month period.
On 1 January 2015 a fire weather warning and total fine ban were issued across most of South Australia as the Bureau of Meteorology estimated the temperature in Adelaide would peak at 42 °C (108 °F), with temperatures throughout the north-west of the state and stretching down to the Eyre Peninsula estimated to range between 43–46 °C (109–115 °F) on that day. On 2 January the temperature in Adelaide peaked at 41.1 °C (106.0 °F), approximately 17 °C (31 °F) degrees above the average December temperature for Adelaide while the following day reached 38.2 °C (100.8 °F), which further aggravated conditions.
The Sampson Flat fire was declared to be a "major emergency" at 08:30 ACDT on 3 January 2015, giving the South Australia Police and emergency services additional authority to manage the event and control access in and out of the area. Over thirty roadblocks limited access to the fireground to anybody not involved in the emergency response. Residents started to be allowed back in from 6 January, with their identity and address being checked to limit access to only the roads that had been cleared as safe for travel. Road clearing was suspended on the afternoon of 7 January due to the wind and thunderstorms making the activity unsafe for the cleanup crews. The major emergency declaration was rescinded at 3pm on 7 January, despite it being able to remain in force for 14 days.
The weather assisted to contain the fire on Sunday and Monday 4–5 January with mild winds and temperatures in the range of 30–34 °C (86–93 °F), but daily temperatures rose again on Tuesday and Wednesday 6–7 January, with forecast maximum temperature in the range of 35–39 °C (95–102 °F) on both days.
Thunderstorms on the afternoon of 7 January produced a spate of new grass fires from lightning, but also brought cooler temperatures, increased humidity, and rain over some parts of the fireground, making it easier to control and extinguish the remaining areas. In the early morning hours of Thursday 8 January, the South Australian Country Fire Service confirmed on its website that the fire had been completely brought under control with crews remaining on the ground to extinguish the remaining hot spots. Extensive rainfall across South Eastern Australia on 9 and 10 January significantly reduced the fire risk.
Canon 5D
2015
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Tortilla Flat is Arizona's smallest town. It is hidden in a canyon along the Apache Trail just east of Canyon Lake.
Originally Tortilla Flat was a camping ground for the prospectors who searched for gold in the Superstition Mountains in the mid to late 1800s. In 1904 it became a freight camp for workers and freight haulers on their way to the construction site of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. A flood in 1942 badly damaged the town, resulting in many residents moving away. Today Tortilla Flat is made up primarily of a small store and restaurant, which were constructed in the late 1980s after a fire consumed the existing store and restaurant on the same site. Several hiking trails into the Superstition Mountains begin near Tortilla Flat.
In the early 1900s, Tortilla Flat was a stage stop for tourists on their way to see the Roosevelt dam.
The name "Tortilla Flat" originated from the cowboys who used to drive cattle from Globe to Phoenix. While in Phoenix, rancher Mr. Cline, and his fellow cowboys celebrated their sale, and, having a little too much to drink, forgot to get supplies while they were in town. Which is how they ended up with only flour to make tortillas when they camped at the flat and were stranded.
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A brilliant evening of jazz last night at the Slug & Lettuce. Didsbury
from the FLAT 5 QUARTET
Tom Favell - gtr., Phil Haywood – saxes, Ollie Young – bass,
Jenny Pearson –dr
Out walking with a loaned Leica M4-P and a 90mm Summicron. Wonderful camera and lens! Love them dearly, and will at some point purchase similar equipment.
Film: Fomapan 400 film / HC-110 Dil H
The flat finish/non-shiny suits offer much more freedom of movement than the vinyl shiny ones. The material feels more like neoprene than vinyl and limits on movement are really more from the base figure body.
The Flat Iron Building was the tallest building in New York at the time of it's construction in 1902. It was New York's first sky scrapper. It is not actually a flat iron.
Pekeliling Flats or better known as Tunku Abdul Rahman Flats was the second high-rise apartment building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia after Suleiman Courts. They were built between 1964 and 1967,
Blocks A and B were demolished in mid-2006 to make way for a proposed luxury apartment development project,
The remaining blocks (Blocks C - L) on the other side of the road was earmarked to be demolished later. The last family was evacuated to Setapak in 2008. However, as of December 2010, the blocks continued to stand, appearing as a sore thumb in the Kuala Lumpur skyline.
-Wikipedia-
Fantastic skies over Vine House Farm at sunrise
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It is lonely out on the Salt Flats in Death Valley National Park. It is even lonlier after the sun goes down although I wish I stayed out there for some Milky Way images.
Stupid driver.......got a flat tyre coming down on the hill and instead of stopping on the side of the road with two completely free lanes decided to continue on to the flyover causing all the traffic to switch to one lane. You can see the complete backlog of cars on the top right of the photo
Btw, correct me if i am wrong on the model
This E Flat (Eb) Parsons Cornet is from my father’s personal collection. He is an avid antique brass wind collector and longtime member of the First Brigade Band, Watertown, WI (The 1st Brigade Band is the oldest re-created Civil War brass band; playing original music from the band books of the period on original antique instruments). This cornet was last in service in 1985 when my father formed a small band for the Centennial Celebration of West Bend, WI. The cornet has not been used since.
This cornet was made in the last quarter of the 19th Century. It is marked Charles H Parsons New York. Parsons was a Dealer, not a maker of instruments in the last part of the 19th & first part of the 20th Century.
The cornet is in original condition including the mouthpiece and is an excellent working example of the type of instrument a solo E flat cornetest would use in a typical town band of that time.
The horn is silver plated brass and in addition to being in excellent original condition, is an excellent player. It would be a fine instrument to acquire for a solo cornetest or someone interested in re-creating a town band of the 1875-1900 for reenactment purposes. It would also be a nice addition to an existing collection.
I adjusted this "Dynamic Art" HDR from the FZ40 for levels & noise reduction. You can really see how great the Blues fly formation - especially at full size.
Links to Seafair Friday Blue Angels and Seafair Saturday Blue Angels for more viewing pleasure. Cheers!
Hillstar (Lithophragma bolanderi) with Western buttercup (Ranunculus occidentalis var. occidentalis) growing in the area of Lightner Flat, Breckenridge rd, Kern County, California
There are a number of statues of famous writers around Dublin - I brought Flat Stanley to meet some of them....
The first writer I took Flat Stanley to meet was Patrick Kavanagh, who is commemorated with a bench on the banks of Dublin's Grand Canal (Dublin has 2 canals, the Grand Canal on the south side of the city and the Royal Canal on the north).
One of Kavanaghs best known poems was set to music and is sung as a ballad -
On Raglan Road
By Patrick Kavanagh
On Raglan Road on an autumn day I saw her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue;
I saw the danger, yet I passed along the enchanted way,
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.
On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge
Of the deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passion's pledge,
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts and I not making hay -
Oh I loved too much and by such by such is happiness thrown away.
I gave her gifts of the mind I gave her the secret sign that's known
To the artists who have known the true gods of sound and stone
And word and tint without stint for I gave her poems to say.
With her own name there and her own dark hair like clouds over fields of May
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet I see her walking now
Away from me so hurriedly my reason must allow
That I had loved not as I should a creature made of clay -
When the angel woos the clay he'd lose his wings at the dawn of day.
You can listen to the ballad here:
www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=364189&s...
Flat Stanley meets Patrick Kavanagh on a Seat on the Grand Canal
Didn't get much done tonight, anything good at least. Need to work a few things out for next time.
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The Arvada Center is pleased to present the encore presentation of The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, directed by Billie McBride, based on the book by Jeff Brown, Book and Lyrics by Timothy A. McDonald. The show playing October 15 - December 30, 2011
For details go to www.arvadacenter.org or call 720-898-7200
Set Designed by Brian Mallgrave
Photo Credit P. Switzer 2011