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Sire Thomas Wildey Monument
architectural style: neoclassical, Grecian Doric
architect - sculptor: Edward F. Durang
dedicated: 1865
Past Grand Master, Sire Thomas Wildey established the American charter for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Washington Lodge Number One), in 1819. He was buried in Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery, in 1861.
Atop the doric column is a life-size statue of the widow Charity (protecting orphans) and two children.
The dado (pedestal) bears bas reliefs of symbols of the Order. On the southern face is the seal of the Grand Lodge of the United States. Carvings of Faith and Hope are featured on the eastern and western facings.
The four emblems of the IOOF are sculpted in the faces of the frieze of the entablature - the three links, the heart and band, the bundle of rods and the globe.
Washington Hill
Dunbar neighborhood
North Broadway & East Fayette Street
Baltimore, Independent City, Maryland
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INSCRIPTIONS:
He who realizes that the true mission of man on earth is to rise above the level of individual influence and to recognize the fatherhood of God overall and the brotherhood of man is nature’s true nobleman.
The site for this monument was unanimously voted by the Mayor and City of Baltimore, Anno Domini MDCCCLXV.
This column erected by the joint contributions of the lodges, encampments and individual members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the United States of America and, jurisdiction thereunto belonging, commemorates the founding of the Order in the City of Baltimore on the 26th day of April 1819 by Thomas Wildey.
“Amicitia Amor et Veritas. Grand Lodge of the United States of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 1834. ‘We command you to visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan.’ ”
This morning my wife showed me a magazine cover that featured a beautiful still life painting of a bunch of garlic. What made the painting so effective, to me, was the look of the light in it, which resembled the northern window light that we've seen in the old masters paintings. I decided to try and imitate that lighting with three onions we had in the kitchen, but realized that for the composition to work it needed something else. So I grabbed a tomato for the foreground. When interviewed after the shoot about the experience of working with onions, the tomato said it brought tears to his eyes.
Lighting info: Lit with one YN560-II in a 24 inch soft box placed camera left and slightly in front at about 7 o'clock. The light was within 4 inches of the subjects so that it would be as soft as possible. For fill light, I hand held a large silver reflector at camera right. The flash was in manual mode and was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other still life images that I've attempted are in my Still Life album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157635247182331/
I can use some help from the train buffs out there. This locomotive makes no sense to me. It looks like the front end is on a flat car however the back is actually on the tracks and yet it's still looks like it's knuckled-up to a flat car in the back. It's been a "head Scratcher" for me.
Sorry but I like these guys!!
Who do you think is the odd one out (in my opinion) and why? the winner could potentially win some Kudos.... (aka nothing except a 'well done').
ODC - What doesn't belong
21/02/11
Well it is pretty obvious what doesn't belong 8)
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I passed out Frodsham Junction on Thursday 25th January 2018 and was then booked to work it on Saturday night 27th January for a slightly odd 22.00 - 08.00 shift to cover engineering work.
The box is not manned 24/7 but instead is covered by two resident signallers who work 7 hour shifts. It is thus open 06.00 - 13.00 & 13.00 - 20.00 Monday to Saturday.
Note no illuminated track diagram but instead TC's indicated on the block shelf, LNW stirrup handle frame, standard BR penguin block.
This was the first time I've ever opened up a box by switching in and replacing the signals to danger.
My Shift pattern is 12 hour shifts and the box is normally covered by Chester men so I don't expect to be here too regularly so I took the opportunity to take the obligatory Selfie's
02.24 Hrs, Sunday 28th January 2018. Frodsham Junction signal box.
Post Christmas every year the number of people taking annual leave drops off majorly and also with an influx of signallers displaced from the Blackpool line boxes and most boxes being fully manned then there is no shortage of bodies to work my current boxes. This means this is a good time of year to go training any boxes you've yet to sign.
Any opportunity to train a new box is gleefully accepted on my part so post Christmas two have been passed out.
Frodsham Junction seen here was the first.
A nice box located between Helsby and Acton Grange Junction (Warrington), it is here that the line to Halton Junction (on the Weaver Junction to Ditton Junction line) diverges.
It works Absolute Block in both directions, in fact in all three directions if you include the Halton Curve. This is the first of my boxes with AB in both directions and it's nice to get back to pinging bells and playing with the block.
I first visited this box on 22nd July 1977 when the line round the corner to Halton Junction was still a fairly busy double line. For no reason other, I suspect, than penny pinching the Up Branch fell out of use and was lifted so now the chord can only be traversed in the Down direction from frodsham Junction to Halton Junction. The chord has one booked service a week, a true "Parliamentry". In the winter it runs as an Empty Stock from Chester to Lime Street and in the summer it runs as a class 2 from Chester to Runcorn.
All this is to change with the reintroduction later in the year of a Liverpool Lime Street to Chester service which I'm lead to believe will be further extended to North Wales therafter thus giving North Wales and Chester easy access to Liverpool John Lennon Airport and the City without having to use the Merseyrail DC lines.
In order to facilitate the new service a provision has to be made to enable trains to travel over the chord in the up direction. The line is to remain as a single line and at both Frodsham Junction and Halton Junction new crossovers and signalling are to be provided to permit bi directional running.
Halton Junction is doomed, it and Runcorn boxes are to close in May with the resignalling of the Weaver Jcn to Wavertree Junction scheme on the WCML, control of this end of the chord will pass to Manchester ROC. The outcome of this for Frodsham Junction is that it is to lose it's 32 lever LNW frame and the new all power operated layout will be controlled from a new IFS panel housed in the existing box. The box will still work AB to Norton and Helsby Junction on the up and down main and the single line will, as I understand it, be effectively controlled by the ROC with them giving a release to Frodsham if FJ requests to send a train towards Liverpool.
The up loop sees very little use but is being retained.
Originally delivered to Continental Airlines in August 2001. This B737-824 registered N33264 continues in service with United.
On a walk around Mona Vale September 2022 Christchurch New Zealand.
Mona Vale, with its homestead formerly known as Karewa, is a public park of 4 ha in the Christchurch suburb of Fendalton. The homestead and gate house are both listed as heritage buildings with Heritage New Zealand. Wikipedia
I thought it was time to start getting some shots of my new neighbourhood in Preston (Cambridge), Ontario. This is the old Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Hall, which stands a block south of me on Duke Street. It housed both the Odd Fellows (male) and Rebekahs (female). It was founded in 1875 (I believe). I guess it's a sign of the changing times, but lodge membership has shrunk to such a degree that the members had to sell off the building about a year ago. It has been bought by an insurance agency, and is currently undergoing a retrofit. The workmen are replacing the old cornice. Glad to see that the building is being retained.
Here's a link to the IOOF website
13/21
when we were on hiddensee, i thought odd would be the happiest little creature alive. i mean, what else could he ask for: nature, peace, silence, the sea, the beach...
how wrong i was! the whole time he kept asking when his mommy would get there to meet us. he was really missing her so much. "If I never loved I never would have cried."
you won't believe this: odd kept telling me to step back for this picture, step further back and step even further back.. and right after i had pressed the shutter he actually JUMPED into the water! all i could do was scream "oh noooo! you can't swim odd!!" then i too jumped in there, got my pants and shoes soaked, but in the end i managed to save the little fellow.
We had some really high winds here followed by (more) snow; when I ventured out this morning there were some orphaned Christmas ornaments which had blown down the street and ended up in this snowbank.
Another in my shiny surface self portrait series :)
I like the barely visible stop sign across the street.
A Common ringed plover and a Sanderling foraged together like an old couple on the banks of the Douro River in the early evening. When they weren't walking side by side, they took turns walking a little ahead and then waited for the other to come.
December 31, 2025.
Not sure as to why this is heading into Portsmouth, but gave me an excuse to get out of the house for 30 minutes. Condor vessels have been refitted at the dockyard in the past, but that's not the case here. as it's due out again at 13:30 today.
Condor Vitesse
Southsea
25 November 2020
The short answer to this odd photo is that you can just blame it on Mardi Gras, but let's think about this for a minute. Here, we have the old "Stars and Bars" Confederate battle flag from the American Civil War with the promise of another rise of Southern strength. Yet, right next to that flag, is the similar design, yet decked out in the traditional Mardi Gras colors of gold, purple, and green.
This marketing ploy seems to inadvertently set up a question of symbolism . . . can a display of decadence as a sort of religious purge of excesses to get back in touch with humility co-exist with a flag that has come to represent oppression to so many?