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Chester Cathedral
I know this will go down like a lead balloon but at least you can see what all the fuss is about… or maybe not!
THE 2021 MAKING TRACKS exhibition was a tremendous success for Chester Cathedral – so successful that it brought record visitor numbers to the venue through the summer and paved the way for Pete Waterman and the Railnuts group to develop plans for a second layout for 2022.
The first modelled the West Coast Main Line with scenes replicating Shugborough Tunnel, Cefn Viaduct, Tring Cutting, North Church Tunnel and Watford Tunnel. It brought more than 55,000 people to the cathedral and saw ‘OO’ gauge models running seven days a week for nine weeks on the four-circuit, 64ft x 12ft layout which we featured in full in HM171.
The layout’s track plan was relatively simple, but suited the environment it would be operating in as the four tracks could run independently, while there was also the option to switch circuits through crossovers.
The successes of the 2021 event were recognised by the team and having gone back to the drawing board Pete and the team came up with a bold new plan to develop a completely new scenic layout in just over six months to be ready for the opening on July 18. Making Tracks II was born.
I won’t bore you all with the ins and out of its development, but if you’re ‘really’ interested click on the link below. Article and images as featured in Hornby Magazine July 2022.
www.keymodelworld.com/article/pete-watermans-making-track...
this young buck has already dropped one of his antlers.
I stirred him and a couple of his buddies up walking down through the woods the other day.
The 1962 Cadillac Fleetwood limousine is an art piece called Making Change by artist Monica Mahoney. The Cadillac is covered in $952 worth of coins and sits outside the 21C Museum Hotel in Bentobville, Arkansas.
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The creation of a dream or maybe a nightmare....perhaps an android fabricated in the mind
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Bella inspecting my wooden jigsaw cat & kittens ornament. I found this years ago in a craft market & watched the artist working on other pieces while he talked with customers.
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One unexpected bonus of picking up a digital camera after retiring has been the interactions I have had with thousands of people, online and at shows where I exhibited photographs of barns and wildlife. My initial intentions in buying my first camera were simply to explore a hobby I had always had an interest in, but never had the time to engage.
My gruff German dad would laugh if he were alive to see my subject emphasis. He always told me that if I spent as much creativity working in the barn as I did in trying to find ways to avoid it, I would be very valuable.
The hours I have spent reading and listening to older country folks reminisce about their lives as they struggled with having nothing when they started farming to making a decent living later on were inspiring.
Decades ago, a simple house like this one nestled in the green shade of summer was the dream of a young couple starting out. When they built this small farmhouse, the attached garage was likely an afterthought, a homemade addition crafted from spare boards and nails, yet it felt like a luxury.
Back then, cars were often left outside to face the rain and snow, and an attached garage meant you could step from the kitchen to your car without immediately facing a brutal Minnesota winter morning.
Attached garages only became popular in the U.S. around the 1940s and 50s, when the automobile became the centerpiece of family life. Before that, detached barns or sheds were common, sometimes doubling as storage for farm tools and chickens.
For a couple living in this house, adding that garage must have felt like a sign they were “making it,” turning a simple farmhouse into something more modern.
Inside these walls, you can imagine children growing up, their muddy boots lined by the door after chores, the scent of wood smoke drifting from the stove. The back porch, though weathered now, once echoed with laughter on summer evenings and the hum of a screen door slamming after little feet ran out to chase fireflies.
Though the years have passed and the trees have quietly crept closer, this house still whispers the story of hard work, determination, and a family who called this modest place their forever home.
It’s not popular today in some circles to talk about the ill effects it has on younger people when they begin their young adult years already possessing cars, houses, and bank accounts that took their parents 40 years to attain.
But amid our prosperity, there are still older folks who wistfully recall the satisfaction they felt when they started with little but gradually built a life, a family, and a heart full of memories they would not exchange for anything.
(Photographed near Chisago County, MN)
I'm making it here the south Indian style, I ground an impromtu Sambar masala and made it with a red chilli tadka.
Passengers aboard the California Zephyr are hopefully enjoying the incredible views of the Utah desert under crystal clear skies this morning. The train is making its way east toward its next station stop in Grand Junction, CO.
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Sinter terraces and pools built up around Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
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This is a park I had been to many times and this particular day was looking like any other day. I wasn't seeing anything new to photograph. But then I saw the sprinklers. This wasn't new, but they created something different. I took shots of them like they were models on a fashion catwalk. I took all the pics in color as I always do but converted a few of them to b&w. (Cascade Locks area DSC_8553.jpg)
Es war total schön heute mit Dir, Hilde !! Es macht Spaß mit Dir auf dem nassen Waldboden herumzulümmeln ... :-)))))) ....
Tom and I met my mom and sisters in Michigan's famous "Christmas Town" (Frankenmuth) for the holidays last weekend.
This (and more) was featured in a blog post! I'd love it if you took a look at the whole set.