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Talula the tarantula lying flat as a pancake. She's tired after her first molt (skin shedding) in almost a year.
The locals started calling me the 'pilot' for a while because of the sound the wheel made, like an airplane.
Photo from our Fujitsu Laboratories of America 9th Annual Technology Symposium, held on June 24th, 2015 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
Our theme this year was “Intelligent Computing: Technology Disruptions and Social Impacts.”
Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © Colleen Watson-Turner.
Seen in Stirling. I'm pretty sure they are student flats. The big money making fad of the the last few years.
Our walk on the Portage Creek Bicentennial Trail eventually took us to a piece of park called Celery Flats, a collection of historic buildings that were either collected from across the county and brought here, or were part of a celery farm that was here a century before it became a municipal park in the Kalamazoo suburb of Portage. (Portage would likely complain about being called a "Kalamazoo suburb.") According to a sign at the site, the Portage-Kalamazoo area became a major player in the world celery markets in the 1860s, and Kalamazoo County celery was in high demand internationally. This lasted well into the 20th century, but the mass migration of celery farmers eventually drained the water table (seriously), and competition combined with local development drove most of the celery farmers out. I don't know whether the invention of Buffalo wings in the later 20th century led to any kind of resurgence, or if that was just a New York phenomenon.
The town of Portage acquired one of these former celery farms along Portage Creek in 1988 and turned it into Celery Flats Park. The barn in this picture dates to some time between 1900 and 1920, and it used to stand along a road about a half-mile north of here. In the 1940s, somebody converted it into a private bottle club, and then it became a theatre for local summer stock plays in the 1950s, The city of Portage moved it here in 1992 and uses it to house the Hayloft Theatre,
Celery Flats also seemed to be popular with young people either at the end of middle school or near the start of high school, and a bunch of them had come here in fancy outfits to take pictures of each other. I'm guessing they were on their way to a dance. You can see some of them in this picture. I was wanting to wait for them to get out of the way so I wouldn't be that creepy old guy taking pictures of tweens in the park, but they were being slow about it, so I took the picture anyway.