model for London games 2012, Heatherwick Studio exhibit, Cooper Hewitt Museum, NYC

Out on the Dungeness Trail

This was the #1 photo by Flickr - Interesting on the date July 24th 2004.

Happy week everyone

thanks for all the comments last week much appreciated

greetings all the animals on the farm

caroline

Hello everyone

Thanks for all the comments last week much appreciated

have a nice Happy new week

greetings all the animals on the farm

Caroline

sympathy for the victims of France

Olympic National Park, Washington State

Olympic Stadium

Greece

Manuchar Kvirkelia of Georgia (in red) fights Peter Bacsi of Hungary during their 74 kg men's Greco-Roman wrestling semi-final match at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 13, 2008. REUTERS/Oleg Popov (CHINA)

Olympic National Park, Washington.

Though the IUCN categorizes this species as "least concern", some research has lead me to conclude that their population is precarious. A study by the University of Michigan showed steady decline of the population between 2002 and 2006, when the population reached a low point of about 1000. By 2010 their numbers increased to about 4000, but whole colonies can disappear as "islands" of high meadow dry out, depriving them of their primary source of food. Predation by non-native coyotes have has also had an impact on the population. Climate change may have and adverse impact as well.

So it was nice to see this pair doing there part to perpetuate their species. Taken in Olympic National Park, Washington, where 90% of the Olympic Marmot calls home.

The Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park is a plaza located at the south end of Rice-Eccles Stadium on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. During the 2002 Winter Olympics, Rice-Eccles Stadium was known as Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium and hosted the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. The plaza contains a 2002 Winter Olympic museum, the Olympic cauldron, and other memorabilia from the 2002 Olympic Games. As the University of Utah moves forward with stadium expansion and limited space, the future of the park is uncertain. The Hoberman Arch was removed in August 2014, while other portions of the park, such as the film, are no longer functional.

The park contains the cauldron that was lit during the duration of the Games. The Cauldron was designed with the official 2002 Olympic motto Light the Fire Within and the Fire and Ice theme in mind. It was designed to look like an icicle, and was made of glass which allowed the fire to be seen burning within. The actual glass cauldron is 12 feet (3.7 m) high and stands atop a twisting glass and steel support, while the flame within burns at 900 °F (482.2 °C). Together with its support the cauldron stands 72 feet (22 m) tall and was made of 738 individual pieces of glass. Small jets send water down the glass sides of the cauldron, both to keep the glass and metal cooled (so they would not crack or melt), and to give the effect of melting ice. The cauldron was designed by WET Design of Los Angeles, California, its frame built by Arrow Dynamics of Clearfield, Utah, and its glass pieces created by Western Glass of Ogden, Utah. The cauldron's cost was 2 million dollars, and it was unveiled to the public during its original install at Rice-Eccles Stadium on January 8, 2002.

During the Games, the cauldron was installed atop stands at the south-end of the stadium, which allowed it to be seen burning from various points around the Salt Lake Valley. Following the conclusion of the Games, the cauldron moved to the plaza just south of the stadium. It now sits in a reflecting pool, at the center of the park, and is flanked by a V-shaped stone wall. The stones on this wall are engraved with the names of the 2002 medalists, and water cascades down into the reflecting pool from the top of the wall. The cauldron remained operational for a period of time and was lit on special occasions, which included the opening weekend of the 2006 Winter Olympics. During the 10-year anniversary of the Olympics, on February 8, 2012, an attempt was made to light the cauldron, it did light but not on mark and remained lit for only a short period of time. The delayed lighting was blamed on weathered mechanical parts and a lack of maintenance.

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Heath competes in the high jump

Centralia, Washington

Stephanie Grundsøe, Youth Olympic Gold winner. The 50 m rifle range (cal .22) at Ballerup Skytteforening. Training with the youth elite team.

This remarkable vehicle was for many years Stockton's only single-deck bus. Leyland surprised the market with the Olympic, its first underfloor-engined model. Not only was it of integral construction but the bodywork was by MCW rather than its own bodybuilding department.

Stockton Corporation possibly created as much surprise locally, not only by purchasing a single example of the new model but by specifying a rear entrance and front exit. Delivered in 1951, MPT 858 (fleet number 26) seated 41 passengers rather than the standard 44. It must have been difficult to judge the success of a single vehicle of such unconventional layout in a fleet that was otherwise made up entirely of traditional open-platform double-deckers. The only thing that we can be sure of is that it remained unique, although Stockton returned to the concept of dual door single-deckers in its twilight years - albeit with a front entrance and centre exit.

As far as the home market was concerned, the Olympic was soon succeeded in Leyland's catalogue by the Royal Tiger, marking a return to conventional body-on-chassis construction (16-Jan-10).

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by Alexander Calder 1971

Olympic Stadium

Architect: Calatrava

Brazilian Graffiti Artist Creates World's Largest Street Mural For The Rio Olympics. Street art isn't an Olympic sport, but if it was then Eduardo Kobra would almost certainly win gold for his 30,000 square foot (2787 square metres) mural that he painted for this year's Rio Olympics.

N322XV - Boeing B-737-219 - Olympic Airways

(leased from ASC)

at Athens Ellinikon Airport (ATH) in 1989

c/n 19.930 - built in 1968 for National Airways Corp. of New Zealand -

operated also by Inter Canadian between 04/1088 and 01/1989 -

leased to Olympic between 03/1989 and 03/1990

Olympic was the final user of this aircraft - broken up in 1991

scanned from Kodachrome-slide

At the Berlin Olympic Stadium I was pleased to see that the old olympic pool had been put to good use and the locals can come and enjoy the sun and facilities

Offshore supply vessel Olympic Electra in the Rijnhaven of Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

View from Edmonds, WA. across the Puget Sound

I liked the overexposed and the sense of motion in this . My sport would be power walking .. :)) I did a bit of cloning to get the olympic rings in the overexposed part of the picture.

The lovely fireplace in the Olympic room at the Legend of French Lick Resort. The resort is the former home of basketball legend Larry Bird. There is also a chair in this suite matching that nice white leather couch. Check out their website at: www.legendoffrenchlick.com

The confluence of Barnes Creek and Falls Creek, just below Marymere Falls, in the temperate rain forests of the northern reaches of Olympic National Park. 1/3-second exposure.

early fall morning----looking 34 miles across Puget Sound

This unusual tropical hibiscus cultivar called Olympic Torch was spotted at the 2008 Lafayette Louisiana Hibiscus Show. I had seen the same bloom at the New Orleans Hibiscus Show about a month earlier. It is not available for sale locally. It would be a nice one to have. It was entered by the Dupont Nursery, but they only have the single bush that produced this magnificent bloom. This variety was hybridized by Curt Sinclair of Florida. The mother plant was named Toronto, but she must have been drunk, because she doesn't know who the father was.

Located in the U.S. state of Washington, in the Olympic Peninsula. The park can be divided into three basic regions: the Pacific coastline, the Olympic Mountains, and the temperate rainforest. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt originally created Olympic National Monument in 1909 and after Congress voted to authorize a redesignation to National Park status, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the legislation in 1938. In 1976, Olympic National Park became an International Biosphere Reserve, and in 1981 it was designated a World Heritage Site. In 1988, almost all of the Olympic Peninsula was designated as the Olympic Wilderness, further enhancing the protection of the region.

Olympic spirit in Shanghai.

El espíritu olímpico en Shanghai.

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Olympic NP

Contax t2, kodak tmax 100

Katerini, Paralia - Greece

Olympic Village - Montreal, Quebec

Montreal, Quebec

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The Olympic Mountains appear in silhouette from across Puget Sound in Lincoln Park, Fauntleroy in West Seattle at sunset.