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Found in Seabrook NH on U.S.1 . I see this often when im up in the area visiting my aunt nut i'll never understand why its there.
Odd Future Wolf Gang - NYC Webster Hall 11/8/10 OFWGKTA Tyler Syd Domo Hodgy Left Brain Taco Mike Earl New Yrok City LA Cali
Spotted this, arriving into Cambo. It's a dolphin, which is the Trevelyan family (who remodelled the village in the late 19th century). And the Latin motto "futuri haud immemor oevi", means "not unmindful of future generations". Thanks to www.geograph.org.uk/photo/147504 for the detail.
An embroidery after an odd image in one of my old sketchbooks. Turned out a learning experience more than anything.
During PBS’ ODD SQUAD session at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, CA on Tuesday, July 22, 2014, co-creators/executive producers Tim McKeon and Adam Peltzman, and Vice President, broadcast and digital media for Fred Rogers Company Paul Siefken discuss the new PBS Kids series.
(Premieres November 26, 2014)
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
Odd Future Wolf Gang - NYC Webster Hall 11/8/10 OFWGKTA Tyler Syd Domo Hodgy Left Brain Taco Mike Earl New Yrok City LA Cali
Odd Future Wolf Gang - NYC Webster Hall 11/8/10 OFWGKTA Tyler Syd Domo Hodgy Left Brain Taco Mike Earl New Yrok City LA Cali
Odd Future Wolf Gang - NYC Webster Hall 11/8/10 OFWGKTA Tyler Syd Domo Hodgy Left Brain Taco Mike Earl New Yrok City LA Cali
gift bag with no label... it may sound odd but I don't talk about my work to people. other than a few friends, family, flickr'rs I rarely tell people what I do. I made this cool little gift bag to fill with goodies for a white elephant party and keeping with my quirky ways, didn't put a label in it. I get 0 points for networking... that's for sure.
Strong winds and high tides in winter has caused the right conditions for the odd massive spray of water at the breakwater, where the Southern Ocean meets Lady Bay. Quite a school holiday attraction today with almost traffic jam conditions along viaduct road.
Breakwater on a very calm day www.flickr.com/photos/gervo1865/5787903293/
From Victorian Heritage Database vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/vhd/heritagevic_new#detail_places...
Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number
H2124
Level of Significance
Registered
Statement of Significance What is significant?
The Warrnambool Breakwater was designed by the eminent British harbour engineer Sir John Coode in 1879 and constructed between 1884 and 1890. Warrnambool was the centre of a prosperous farming region from the 1840s, and following the construction of jetties in the 1850s the harbour was extensively used and was a regular stop on the coastal steamer route. A plan was approved by the Government in 1874 to provide protection to shipping by constructing a breakwater, at an estimated cost of £110,000, but work stopped in 1877 after only £30,000 of this had been spent. In 1879 the Government commissioned Coode, who had been brought to Victoria by the Melbourne Harbour Trust to advise on works to improve the Port of Melbourne, to present a plan for completing the breakwater at Warrnambool. His original proposal was considered too expensive, and he presented a revised plan for a shorter structure to cost an estimated £134,000, consisting of a timber viaduct leading from the shore out to a 900 feet long concrete breakwater and wharf. In 1884 a tender was accepted for the approach works to the viaduct, to cost £27,173, and in 1885 a contract for £129, 017 was accepted from Arthur Dobson for the remaining works. The work was completed in 1890, but the structure soon proved to be too short to give good protection from weather from the south-east or to allow berthage for larger vessels. Rather than trade through the port increasing after the completion of the breakwater, it fell, largely because of competition from the just-completed railway line. It was also apparent that the breakwater was causing siltation in the harbour, which by 1910 required continuous dredging. In 1914 a contract was let for £70,000 to extend the breakwater by about 300 ft, but this work was a failure and the new structure soon began to subside. By the 1920s about two-thirds of the original harbour was silted up. An attempt was made in the 1920s to reduce siltation by sheeting the viaduct, but this only increased the problem. By the 1940s the harbour was no longer used. During the 1950s and 1960s the viaduct was altered again, with the base enclosed and filled with basalt and the road on top re-levelled.
The Warrnambool Breakwater consists of two parts: the concrete breakwater extending out into the bay, and the timber viaduct which once joined it to the shore, which now runs along the east side of the Merri River and is surrounded by land to the east. The breakwater is 30ft wide with a 15 ft wide parapet with a walkway along the top. It is made up of a base of 32 ton concrete blocks with mass concrete above the waterline. The viaduct was originally a raised timber structure, but is now filled in below and to the sides with bluestone rubble, and there is an asphalt roadway, known as Viaduct Road, laid along the top. The area to the east of the viaduct which was once part of the harbour is now land, and a car park has been constructed along the new shoreline. The breakwater railway was removed in 1962, though some remnants of rail remain, and all buildings once associated with the breakwater have also been removed.
How is it significant? The Warrnambool Breakwater is of historical significance to the state of Victoria.
Why is it significant? The Warrnambool Breakwater is of historical significance as one of the most important maritime engineering projects in Victoria in the late nineteenth century. It is evidence of Victoria's nineteenth century investment in regional port infrastructure and the development of Victorian coastal shipping. It is of significance for its association with the English civil engineer Sir John Coode, the most distinguished harbour engineer of the nineteenth century, who was brought to Victoria to advise on works to improve the Port of Melbourne, but was retained by the Government to advise on improvements to the harbours at Portland, Geelong, Port Fairy, and Lakes Entrance, as well as Warrnambool. His projects for Melbourne, Lakes Entrance and Warrnambool were major engineering projects of the nineteenth century. The breakwater is historically significant as a reminder of Warrnambool's early maritime history as a Western District port, and as one of Victoria's major 'outer ports'. While the Warrnambool Breakwater is a demonstration of the engineering skills of the nineteenth century, it also demonstrates the limitations of knowledge relating to sedimentology at the time and the confidence apparent in a number of nineteenth century plans which assumed that natural forces could be overcome or contained by engineering.
Year Construction Started 1884
Heritage Act Categories Heritage place
Municipality WARRNAMBOOL CITY
Breakwater on a more normal day www.flickr.com/photos/gervo1865/4688863135/
The oddball is on the left, with modern bricks on the right. I was trying to capture the shinier texture of the odd brick, which I believe is CA. The color difference is somewhat evident here, too. It is more pronounced in person.
Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, UK, February 2026
A very odd male Tufted Duck with pink bill and brownish plumage. It's being reported as a Tufted Duck x Red-crested Pochard hybrid, but I think it's more likely to be an aberrant male Tufted Duck.
Posters on a wall on Hennepin Avenue in Uptown in an area fairly heavy damaged in May, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Odd Future Wolf Gang - NYC Webster Hall 11/8/10 OFWGKTA Tyler Syd Domo Hodgy Left Brain Taco Mike Earl New Yrok City LA Cali
Odd Future Wolf Gang - NYC Webster Hall 11/8/10 OFWGKTA Tyler Syd Domo Hodgy Left Brain Taco Mike Earl New Yrok City LA Cali
St Mary, Denton, Norfolk
Norfolk is so huge that it swallows big churches like St Mary. Unless you knew to look for it, you would not even notice that it was there. Here, on a low ridge in a folding landscape, is one of the county's more interesting churches. And yet it does not even front on to a public road.
You come down the narrow lane from Alburgh and across the old pack bridge, and there it is on the high ground above you. But to get to it, you carry on, and then through the yard of the Hall. Beyond the converted stable block the lane opens up, and steps lead up into the walled graveyard. A sign reminds you that the building is now in the joint stewardship of the Church of England parish and the local United Reformed Church community.
Denton has one of the most curious church towers I know, with evidence of three rebuildings, all of them quite different to each other. The earliest was a flint round tower, and the curved eastern face of this survives, abutting the nave. This round tower fell in the 18th century, and it was rebuilt in the late Tudor style, a beautiful red-brick square tower. Finally, the Victorians added the unusual west windows in the Decorated style, and a top stage was added in flint and freestone. There's nothing else quite like it. Across the valley to the west, the tall, stern tower of Alburgh stands, a sentinel.
St Mary has a number of features that would be famous in almost any other county, and the first of these is the extraordinarily good series of bosses in the fine 15th century north porch. They are obviously by the same workshop as those at Hethersett and Wymondham. They are intricately carved, at once delicate and bold. They have been sympathetically restored, and depict the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Ascension of Christ and the Coronation of the Queen of Heaven. This is effectively a rosary sequence, and it is easy to imagine 15th century Dentoners standing in this porch telling their beads as they looked up in wonder.
You step inside to what at first seems a large, anonymous, Victorianised interior. It was difficult for the Victorians to resist giving such a big church as this an urban feel, but there are still local, rustic survivals that provide a link with the lost generations. The most famous of these is the Denton chest, a large, solid object made up of panels painted with Saints. The panels are very small, and there is some debate about whether they came from a rood screen, a rood loft, or something else altogether; but in fact they are no narrower than the panels of the screen at neighbouring Alburgh.
The chest is probably a 19th century construction. It features two Saints on each end, with two groups of four Saints on the front - twelve altogether. This is barely sufficient to stretch across the chancel arch here even if set in divisions, and with a doorway in the middle, but the odd mix of Saints suggests that some are missing. I'd have liked to have moved the chest to see if there are any others on the back, but for security reasons it is bolted firmly to the stone floor.
Anyway, on the east end of the chest are St Agnes, with a dagger and a little lamb, and St Dorothy, with a basket of flowers. The eastern range on the front consists of St Jude with a boat, St Peter with a bunch of keys, a Bishop who appears to be wearing a papal tiara and is therefore St Gregory, and St Clement with an anchor. The western range on the front is St Zita with her household keys, St Barbara with a tower, St Edmund in royal robes and carrying an arrow, and St Edward the Confessor in royal robes carrying a ring. The west end of the chest contains probably the most interesting figure, St Walstan of Bawburgh with his scythe, and St Paul with a sword.
Perhaps the most spectacular feature of St Mary is the east window. This is an elegant four light window, with interlocking tracery, and it is crammed full of English and continental glass, mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries, but with a small amount of very good English medieval glass set in it.
Windows of this kind are not unusual in Norfolk, and are of two kinds. Either, as here, the collection of some antiquarian local Squire or Rector that was bequeathed to the church, or sometimes a collection bought as a job lot, often from the Norwich dealer JC Hamp. A small pane records that the glass here was collected by the Rector, John Postlethwaite, and it was left to the church along with an astonishingly large amount of money, £200, to have it installed. This is about £40,000 in today's money. No wonder they did a good job. The most interesting thing is quite how early this was, for while many of the collections of this kind made their way into churches in the late 18th and early 19th century, but this dates from 1716. It was reset by Ward & Nixon in the 1850s.
The best feature here are the two roundels in the centre, one depicting St Christopher and the other the eagle of St John. Just above, the Flemish glass is signed C Le Grys Manfylde, 1567. There are at least two sets of Royal Arms, one fragmentary but the Stuart set is complete and particularly vivid, and some of this glass probably came from secular buildings originally.
There is a grand piscina and a single seat of the former sedilia up in the chancel, which must date from its early 14th century construction. At the other end of the church, the entrance to the stairway that leads to the parvise, the upper storey of the porch, is in the north-west corner of the nave. It is a grand entrance with a fleuroned doorway set under a triangular pitched roof. This upper storey was obviously open to the elements for many years. The font, with its shields in quatrefoils, is set in a sea of minton tiles, but at least the Victorians didn't replace it.
There seems to have been a particular loyalist sympathy in this parish over the centuries. There are sets of royal arms to both Victoria (in stone) and George III (on boards) at the back of the church, set above the south and north doors, and on the west wall a set for the current queen. Along with the Stuart set in the east window, this means the church has four complete sets of royal arms, more than any other church in East Anglia.