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This is what Santa's Helpers wore back in the 70's. Original 8x10 press photo from a newspaper archive.
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I've been using my doll desk to build GLaDOS, my new gaming computer, and some of the dolls decided to help out. -L
Right now I'm building an h0 scale model of this Algoma Central baggage car. I found the original in the former AC yard at Sault St. Marie (ON) in the summer of 2007.
Model is built using an IHC streamlined baggage car, that has the same door configuration.
Now the questions:
- who built this car? Budd?
- are the three windows at the right original?
- did the AC buy this car new or second hand?
- if so, who was the former owner?
- was this the only corrugated baggage car in the AC fleet?
I've already got the Algoma Central passenger cars by Rapido Trains (2 coaches and a baggage). I'm still waiting for the heater car.
This is the train I want to model:
www.flickr.com/photos/cklx/516522858/
The engine was offered as a special run by LifeLike a few years ago.
St Mary sits beside the back road from Oulton to the AA143 at St Olaves, the way to Norwich and beyond avoiding the traffic in Oulton Broad. So, I passed the church hundreds of times, and never thought to go in.
And then I got into churchcrawling, and because visiting Mum was sometimes unpleasant, visiting a church or two when in Suffolk was the sugar that helped the medicine go down.
St Mary sits on the edge of the estate of Somerleyton Hall, one home to railway magnate, Sir Morton Peto.
Most memorable feature are the painted saint's icons on the rood screen.
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Suffolk's Lothingland peninsula drives a wedge up between Norfolk and the coast, and contains five parishes which are otherwise cut off from the rest of Suffolk by the town of Lowestoft to the south of them. To the north there were once half a dozen more, but they were taken into Norfolk by various boundary changes between the 1890s and 1974. To this day the Lothingland parishes are in the Diocese of Norwich, not the diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, and Somerleyton is one of them.
The 1844 edition of White's Directory for Suffolk described Somerleyton as a pleasant scattered village, and indicated that the parish was best known for its Hall, built by Sir John Jernigan in the reign of Elizabeth, (which) stands in a beautiful park finely clothed with trees and evergreens. The directory goes on to quote the antiquarian Thomas Fuller, who thought that it well deserves the name of Summerley, for it was always summer there. The parish church of St Mary sits on the edge of the Somerleyton estate, which was a busy one, for at the 1851 census Somerleyton had a population of 627. It had quite outgrown its little church, which was recorded as having sittings of just free 60, others 100. Samuel Brame, the registrar who filled in the return for the Census of Religious Worship here, pointed out that Mr Peto's chapel reduces church attendants, and furthermore that there were a large number of Baptists.
'Mr Peto' was Samuel Morton Peto, the millionaire entrepreneur and industrialist, who in 1844 had bought Somerleyton Hall, demolished it and had it completely rebuilt. Peto had made (and would lose) his fortune from railways, and at one point he was described as the largest employer of labour in the whole world. Peto was a Baptist, and his Somerleyton Hall Baptist Chapel had been erected three years earlier in 1848 as part of the rebuilding of the Hall. Non-conformism was strong in this part of East Anglia, but in fact Mr Peto's Chapel doesn't seem to have had a huge effect on the parish church, for the attendances for morning worship at both church and chapel were roughly the same, about 70. Rural East Anglians tended to be 'independents', which is to say congregationalists, or else they were Methodists of various hues, so perhaps the urban Baptist tradition of the new chapel was still a little exotic for them. William Treen, the minister who filled in the return for the Chapel, recorded that the congregation was apparently composed of Baptists and Independents, and we may assume that if the chapel had not been there then they would have headed off to the chapels of Lowestoft rather than to their parish church. Almost 150 people were at the chapel in the afternoon, for typically in rural East Anglia the locals preferred a sermon to worship of any kind.
This then, is the background to the events at Somerleyton in the middle years of the 19th Century. Pevsner described the rebuilt Somerleyton Hall as one of the most flamboyant and best-preserved Victorian country houses in England. The architect was John Thomas, who had worked with Pugin and Barry on the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament, and in 1854 Peto directed Thomas to turn his attention to the church. The nave and chancel were entirely rebuilt on a larger scale, while the lower part of the square tower was retained but the upper third was rebuilt. What remains of the old tower appears to be from the very end of the medieval period, a date which is supported by records of bequests at this time, including one of 1503 by John Bassett who left a noble to the making of the Somerleyton steeple (steeple in this context meaning a tower rather than a spire).
The church that John Thomas rebuilt sits set back from the Blundeston to Somerleyton road. As you approach it you can see that the exterior has that crisp, almost urban feel that you get with churches of this age, but Peto insisted on the very best materials for his projects. However, as Pevsner pointed out, it is surprisingly self-effacing considering what they had dome to the Hall. The style is entirely in the rural East Anglian style, with no aisles or clerestories, and it is so successfully done that for a moment it is easy to forget that this is, in fact, a Victorian church. The square tower seems unusual in this area, for just about all the neighbouring churches have round ones, and it may be that the late medieval rebuilding of the tower here replaced an earlier round tower. Peto must have been proud of his new estate, and in 1855 he was made a baronet as a reward for his quickly built supply-line railways between Sevastapol and Balaklava during the Crimean War. But the end was coming. The railway bubble was bursting, and in 1863 he sold Somerleyton Hall as a result of the decline in his fortunes. By 1866 he was bankrupt. The loss of his non-conformist steadying hand here allowed the chancel to be extended for the fashionable High Church liturgy of the day in 1871.
The churchyard baked under the hot sun on the day I revisited in July 2022, but the headstones have not been reset by lawnmower enthusiasts, and pleasingly there were sheep lazing beneath the trees in the south-east corner. You enter the church through John Thomas's simple south porch, and step into a wide nave under a single span roof, the roof in the chancel replicating that in the nave. The proportions are broadly similar to those of the church at neighbouring Blundeston, although the chancel arch here is wider. Within it is one of the survivals from the church's predecessor, one of Suffolk's more memorable late medieval rood screens. The dado is painted with sixteen saints in eight pairs of panels, four each side. On the north side they are St Michael, St Edmund, St Apollonia, St Laurence, St Faith, St Thomas of Canterbury, St Anne and St Andrew. On the south side they are St John, St Mary Magdalene, St Felix, St Petronilla, St Stephen, St Dorothy, St Edward the Confessor and St George.
The saints here are roughly paired across the north and south sides of the screen. The two outer saints are St Michael on the north side and St George on the south side, both of them dragon killers The next two in, St Edmund and St Edward the Confessor, are the two traditional patron saints of England. Another pairing is that of the two deacon martyrs, St Lawrence and St Stephen, and there are two familiar pairings of female saints, St Apollonia with St Dorothy and St Faith with St Petronilla. These four are all virgin martyrs, and were often asked for their intercessions for familiar domestic problems, St Apollonia against toothache, St Petronilla against fevers, and so on.
The other major survival from the old church is a bulky 15th Century font wearing a characterful 17th Century font cover. It feels a bit crammed in, because in 1967 an organ gallery was added at the west end of the church. This is an unusual date and it was an unusual thing to add to a church at any time after the 1830s, but presumably an organ was acquired and it had to go somewhere. Intriguingly, this gallery now partially obscures what appears to be a medieval stone reredos reset above the south doorway. James Bettley, revising the Buildings of England volume for East Suffolk, records that it was discovered during the 1854 rebuilding, and intriguingly notes that it seems to be of the same date, and perhaps by the same hand, as the font. The glass in the nave is mostly good of various dates. The most interesting is a pair of exquisite panels of 14th Century Flemish glass depicting St Catherine with her wheel and the Blessed Virgin and Christchild. She stands on a crescent moon wearing a crown as Queen of Heaven.
These two panels are said to have come from the nearby St Olave's Priory, which at the Reformation was bought by the same Thomas Jernegan who had built the original Somerleyton Hall, explaining their removal to the Hall and then after the 19th Century rebuilding to the church. Two modern panels beside them commemorate more recent owners of the Hall. The 1960 panel of St Francis is by Maile & Son, its 1985 partner of St Clare by Paul Quail in 1985. The rest of the glass in the nave is by the then-fashionable Munich workshop of Mayer & Co, and it was installed in the 1890s.
The chancel is dominated by a large black and white monument on the north wall, another survival from the earlier church. It is to John and Anna Wentworth, who are represented by conventional busts, but is of interest because it was commissioned in the 1650s, during the Commonwealth. The Wentworths must have been people of some influence, but the Latin inscription is carefully worded to ensure that this great edifice could be manufactured and erected under the suspicious eyes of the local puritans. There are a number of other noteworthy memorials, but it is hard to forget General Sir HP de Bathe, and not only because his memorial comes complete with a sword and a plumed hat. De Bathe not only served in an official capacity at the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838, he did so again at her funeral, 63 years later.
Simon Knott, September 2022
I've never been one to ask for help, but today I am.
As a lot of you know I volunteer at a rescue for Australian Cattle dogs. So this is very close to my heart. The operation this little girl needs is going to costs at least $1500. If I can raise even a small amount of that I'd be happy.
If you can help, please flickr mail me.
Thank you :)
Ps. If you have suggestions on her little poster I'd appreciate that too.
I found this chipmunk trapped in a large plastic basin in my mom's front yard. I heard noises coming from the basin and found him partially submerged in water and soggy plant debris. He looked completely resigned and miserable , and then he sort of looked right up at me, so I got done with my shot and tipped over the container. He sat there in the grass for a moment then scampered across the driveway and let out a single "CHIP!" I took it as a thank you...
PCA246 - Body Parts
Image tag: pca246
Sunday, March 3 to Sunday, March 17, 2013
For this assignment you are to capture an image of a body part. Whether an ear, an eye, elbow or toe, be creative with your composition and lighting. You can be your own model or you can find someone else. Remember, this is family oriented group, so let's keep it clean.
WIT:
I had this idea in my head a long time ago so this was the perfect time to try this.
I used my son and husband as models.
... I think I've fallen too deep...
I really like the reflections of the water surface. I feel impulsive to jump into ponds lately. Somedays, I imagine how it is to be sinking to the bottom of the pond, and other days, I imagine doing back stroke across the pond.
Maybe I need to see the shrink soon.
This past week I went on a road trip from Roxbury, NJ to Logan, UT to help my partner move out there for grad school. The first two days we powered through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota to get to our first break at Badlands National Park in South Dakota.
The landscape there was stunning and otherworldly. As I comented to my partner and her sister, I'm certain I've seen sci-fi films and TV shows use the park for scenes taking place on another planet. We were also there the week of the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, so there were bikers everywhere.
We of course practiced social distancing and wore masks whenever we were around others throughout the trip, though much of the time on the trail there wasn't anyone else around!
Photos from our next breaks in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks to come soon!
Explored
today was a very slow day. verrryyyy sloowwwwww. i was just experimenting with natural light. i realllyyy like this. i pulled out the couch bed today and just layed on it all day long. the only times i got off were to do this shoot and to edit and upload it.
These photos and videos shows the results of the hard work of 115 volunteers in the Merritt Boulevard area of Bread and Cheese Creek between Merritt Boulevard and Willow Road on 4/14/12 (Our original goal was Plainfield Road by our incredible volunteers wet way beyond that goal.
Together we cut up and moved 3 fallen trees blocking the stream, we removed thirty yards of trash and debris, on twenty yards of metal metal (which included 7 shopping carts, a lawn mower, and engine head and the bumper from a 1972 Chevelle), 7 tires, 5 cans of paint 2 bicycles, a couch, a bowling ball and an office chair. This has helped reveal the natural beauty of the historic Bread and Cheese Creek, and kept this trash from flowing into Back River, The Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean!
All left over donated food is re-donated to the local food kitchen "Saint Rita's Table" which hosts dinners for Dundalk's needy and homeless every Monday evening.
Although we had help and volunteers from many organizations we would like thank the following: Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability (DEPS), The Baltimore County Highway Administration, The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay’s Project Clean Stream, Sonic, The Baltimore Arts and Music Project (BAMP), Chesapeake Quality Traders, UPS, Hamilton Federal Savings Bank, Towson University’ History Club and Circle K, Moments By Thomas Photography, The Gray Manor & North Shire Community Association, The CCBC Geocache Club, Gotugo Portable Restrooms, Cambridge Iron and Steel, Entenmanns’s Bakery, Gold’s Gym Dundalk, and more! If we missed your group, please let us know and we will include you as well!
We are a not-for-profit organization with no paid positions and absolutely no funding relying completely upon donations to clean and restore the environment in the Dundalk Area.
Thank you volunteers and sponsors, we couldn't do it without you!
To learn more about Clean Bread and Cheese Creek please visit our website www.BreadandCheeseCreek.org
Orca Network has started a campaign to promote awareness and conservation of the Southern Resident population of orcas: Orca Month! They are proposing that June be recognized as orca month, and they need your help! If you want to sign their petition, send your signature via email to info@orcanetwork.org
The Southern Residents are an endangered population of orca. Their population is in danger, especially after 5 orcas died this year, including two young mothers and 2 babies! There are only 85 of these genetically distinct whales left. The two whales in the photo are members of the population; the big guy is Skana (L79), an 18 year old male, and the smaller whale is either his mom Spirit, or his younger brother Solstice.
UPDATE: June has officially been declared Orca Awareness Month! :)
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Taken at Papuma Beach, Jember, East Java, Indonesia during Extraordinary Photo Adventure Travel 2010
Papuma located in the village of Sumberejo, Subdistrict Ambulu, Jember regency, East Java.
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" In Distress.".......by Uranie Colin-Libur....1902.
Panther Racing and JR Hildebrand host Operation Hire our Guard during the Grand Prix of Long Beach, April 21, 2013. Employers were invited to hear “The Road Map to Help” presentation to help end unemployment amongst National Guard Soldiers and their r spouses. Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin, the Adjutant General, California Military Department, attended the program to help educate employers on the need to keep our Citizen Soldiers employed in California. Check out www.roadmaptohelp.com for more information. (Air National Guard photo/Master Sgt. Julie Avey)
There is a such thing as a "Steampunk Sourcebook" ? haa, someone was hiding it in the drawing section of Barnes and Noble
camera: Canon EOS 5
lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
film: FUJI Fujifilm Velvia 50
exposure compensation: +/- 0 EV
filter: HOYA HMC Circular Polarizer
film development: Color Drack
scan: CanoScan 9000F with SilverFast SE
Slightly edited shot of a girl in Amsterdam. Taken with my Sony HX1.
Sometimes when I try to secretly shoot somebody, they notice me waving my camera in their general direction and they might panic (hey, having a wicked Reflectah pointing his cam at you can be a somewhat disturbing experience!), and some even go as far as calling the cops, like the lady in these pictures. Once she realized that she might end up in a puddle, being wickedly reflected on, she grabbed her mobile and started dialing 911 112, hysterically screaming at the emergency services people to come and rescue her, crying, sobbing and ululating all over the place. Of course by the time her fingers hit the '1' on the dialpad the first time, I had already hopped on my trusty bicycle and was rapidly riding into the sunset, only to search for less attentive victims, or at least a fool without a mobile phone, lol :D
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The Connect the Dots project (at ClimateDots.org) is designed to empower people to highlight the connections between extreme weather and climate change. By making those connections clear and compelling, we will help communicate a call for bold climate action to communities, the media, and policy makers at the local, national, and international level.
In Charlotte today several different environmental groups joined together in front of Bank of America to hold their Climate Dot. The Climate Dot represented bank of Americas funding of the coal industry. Bank of America is currently the largest funder of coal in the USA.
Charlotte, NC
12-05-05
Edwin helps a patron digitize a personal recording. We recently created a reservable Memory Preservation Station where patrons can convert home recordings, printed photographs, or slides into a digital format.
mcpl.info/memories