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I had to throw in this detail shot of a prairie ranch house wall that has seen better days, all of them in the distant past. Not even the asphalt roll siding can keep the weather out any longer. It just blew and blew! Time for a down comforter on the bedstead. This shot is all texture, patina and more patina. The aging siding is gaining more character as the years pass. It must have gone through years of patching to keep the winds from the Rockies outside... in vain, certainly. I wonder how much labor was packed into this gem over the ages? My clean up uncovered this prairie shot. Even the skimpy grass got beat up by cattle queuing for drinks.
This proves that the word "plain" can be a double entendre. Anything that sticks above the sparse grass is interesting out here especially without outstanding skies. Even the sky held little to show, other than a good burn, on that April day in 2006. Summer was still lying in wait for a couple of months. Where will shelter from the elements be found then? The ancient Greeks didn't have few enough elements to describe this landscape.
This is on\near the Pawnee National Grasslands beyond Grover in northeast Colorado and boy, did the railroad land sales brochures in the latter half of the 1800s ever pump the benefits of life and a piece of soil to eastern hicks. The brochures claimed that plowing this fertile land would cause an increase in the normal rainfall. No rain today, could that claim have been optimistic puffery or an outright lie? Surely not the Union nor the Denver Pacific! Perhaps the problem was a hick problem - could there have been microcephaly and the Zika virus back then? I dunno, Trey Gowdy proves microcephalics can progress at least part way up the ladder. The buffalo were far better stewards of this land than the hicks ever could be.
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El fusell alemany de la I Guerra Mundial, el Mauser Gewehr 98 (no comfondre amb el Kar98k de la II Guerra Mundial, més petit), tenia un molt optimista mira graduada des de 400 fins a 2000 metres. Com si haguessis de encertar a algú a dos quilometres!
www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=WkBrh1euWg0
El Museu del Exercit Nacional o Muzeum Armii Krajowej, a Cracovia, mostra la organització d'una resistencia armada durant la Segona Guerra Mundial contra la conquesta alemana del 1939, però també contra els sovietics tant a partir de 1939 (al·liats amb els nazis) com a partir de 1944. El més interessant és la colecció d'armes d'infanteria de l'època, sobretot les improvissades.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armia_Krajowa_Museum_in_Krak%C3%B3w
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The German World War I rifle, the Mauser Gewehr 98 (not to be confused with the smaller World War II Kar98k), had a very optimistic "tobogan" like rear sign graduated from 400 to 2000 meters. As if you had to hit someone two kilometers away!
www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=WkBrh1euWg0
The National Army Museum or Muzeum Armii Krajowej, in Krakow, shows the organization of an armed resistance during the Second World War against the German occupation of 1939, but also against the Soviets both from 1939 (allied with the Nazis ) as from 1944. Most interesting is the collection of infantry weapons of the time, especially the improvised ones.
Call me Snake offers an optimistic provocation – ‘imagine what could be here’ by Judy Millar. On a walk into the city October 3, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.
The work is comprised of vibrant graphics of Millar’s looped paintings, which are adhered to five intersecting flat planes, and draws inspiration from the forms found in pop-up books. The colourful piece will add a dramatic and rhythmic counterpoint to the city’s current urban landscape — a mix of flattened sites, construction zones and defiant buildings that have stood through the quakes. The work employs theatricality, playfulness and visual trickery, whereby the viewer is unsure about the work’s flatness or three-dimensionality; and it has been designed to offer a different perspective from each angle. The bright colours interrupt the grey of the work’s surrounds, and as buildings pop up around it,
SCAPE 8, New Intimacies curated by Rob Garrett was a contemporary art event which mixed new artworks with existing legacy pieces, an education programme, and a public programme of events. The SCAPE 8 artworks were located around central Christchurch and linked via a public art walkway. All aspects of SCAPE 8 were free-to-view.
The title for the 2015 Biennial – New Intimacies – came from the idea that visually striking and emotionally engaging public art works can create new connections between people and places. Under the main theme of New Intimacies there are three other themes that artists responded to: Sight-Lines, Inner Depths and Shared Strengths.
For more Info: www.scapepublicart.org.nz/scape-8-judy-millar
An optimistic trip to Sidmouth for sunrise proved just that - optimistic. Therefore I tried to make what I could of this breakwater that I always have trouble with, composition-wise.
I'm feeling very optimistic about my coming adventures. I'm excited and anxious, and I think I'm ready. I hope so anyway.
Taken in September 1973.
This 1973 Evening News headline has the channel tunnel (the "Chunnel") to France opening in 1980 -- though it wouldn't actually be completed until 1994. I took this shot not for the headline (who knew at the time?) but for the vendor picking through the change in his hand. England had recently switched from the "old" pence to the "new" -- and both were in circulation at the same time. Any transaction involving coins could be an adventure, especially for a tourist.
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1968 Motor Trend Magazine: Former GM designer, Harry Bradley makes hard cash by publishing fantastic, impossible, beautifully optimistic, disproportionate pen and ink renderings akin to the impossible, disproportionate female figures by Bill Ward in the pages of 'From Sex To Sexty'.
2015 Various Online Forums: Anonymous designer gives away free fantastic, impossible, disproportionate, optimistic Photoshop renderings reminiscent of the impossible, disproportionate female figures found in Second Life.
it is the first day of spring
and i, the eternal optimist, do think the sun will stay out
and the temperature will rise above freezing
and that i will spot crocuses peeking up
and that this will make at least 2 people smile ~grin~
scavchal16 optimist or pessimist-- can there be any doubt??
365days of color yellow
20/31
looks dyn-o-mite on black
This, by far the grandest of the three Lucy memorials, is to Sir Thomas Lucy III, who died in 1640. It was commissioned by his wife Alice, whose effigy lies beside him. Made from Carrara marble, the panels at the back list his many achievements (in Latin), show titles from his well-stocked library (many of those in Latin too) and on the left, a relief showing him on horseback, as he's thought to have died following a fall. Once rather optimistically attributed to Bernini, most of the memorial, including the effigies, is thought to be the work of Schurman.
1960 was the 4th year in a row for Ford to change it's body style. This was an expensive thing to do, but times were very optimistic.
The Future was happening and it could be seen in the swooping, "acres of glass" hardtop and the flattened "ready for flight" tail fins.
I just happened to have a roll of 1960 wallpaper on hand that matched the mood and color of the car.
I miss the future.
"“Dead as dead can be,” my doctor tells me
But I just can’t believe him, never the optimistic one
I’m sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me, don’t play dead cause maybe
Someday I will walk away and say, “You disappoint me,”
Maybe you’re better off this way
Leaning over you here, cold and catatonic
I catch a brief reflection of what you could and might have been
It's your right and your ability
To become…my perfect enemy…"
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Eva did not understand her - why was she getting out of her way? Cypher was hurting and was trying to get back to her previous level of expertise. Eva wanted to help her but Cypher wouldn't let her...
Eva did not see her former teacher's jealousy, her fear to have been outrun, her passionate anger at herself.... she didn't see that Cypher needed a kick - right into the kisser....and certainly no hug.
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Eva's faceup is by the wonderful NeuroDollasticSurgeryWard
Cypher got painted by me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNnyfeFhdQA
A Perfect Circle - Passive
"Weltall, Erde, Mensch (Mikrokosmos)". Wandmosaik aus Glasmosaiksteinen von Otto Schutzmeister. Eisenhüttenstadt 2026.
Optimistische gesellschaftlich-technologische Zukunftsvision in einem Wohnkomplex.
"Universe, Earth, Man (Microcosm)". Wall mosaic made of glas blocks from the artist Otto Schutzmeister.
Optimistic social-technological vision of the future in a housing complex. Eisenhüttenstadt 2026.
The optimistic name town of Hope, NM, is in the high plain dessert before the foothills of Lincoln mountains. Some see desolation. Others see sea of undulating grassland. Other are taken by the sky. nikon 750, 8 frames, lightroom cc
I recently took a spectacular photo of a Blue Dasher dragonfly. The vibrant blue and green colors on its body made it stand out against the lush green backdrop of the duckweed growing in a pond. The dragonfly was perched on a dried leaf, with its wings slightly open, as if posing for the perfect shot. Its delicate wings were transparent, allowing the sunlight to shine through them. Spotting a blue dragonfly could be a sign of a happy and optimistic phase in your life. I was lucky to have captured such a beautiful moment in nature.
(A big reason why I chose black & white for them was it fitting the song/style I was going for but another good reason is that the true colors of the gloves & tie don't match their outfits but were perfect as a look so I needed to eliminate the mis-matching XD)
The Dixie Walesbilt Hotel, known as the Grand Hotel in later years, is one of a small number of skyscrapers built in the 1920s that still stand today and is a prime example of how optimistic people were during the Florida land boom. Built in 1926, it found financing through a stock-sale campaign in the local business community, costing $500,000 after it was completed(which equates to about $6 million today.)
The building architecture, masonry vernacular with hints of Mediterranean-Revival, is also a good example of the time is was built. It was designed by two well-known architects at the time, Fred Bishop who designed the Byrd Theatre in Virginia, and D.J. Phipps, whose designed both the Wyoming County Courthouse and Jail and the Colonial Hotel in Virginia.
The hotel was constructed using the “three-part vertical block” method, which became the dominant pattern in tall buildings during the 1920s. Three-part buildings are composed of a base, shaft and a cap, all noticeably visible.
The hotel opened as the “Walesbilt” in January 1927, shortly after the land boom had started to collapse and two years before the Great Depression began. It’s also best to note that the hotel opened around the same time the Floridan Hotel in Tampa opened, another hotel built during the Florida land boom.
In 1972, the hotel was purchased by Anderson Sun State and renamed the “Groveland Motor Inn”. The firm completely renovated the hotel and used it to host visitors to the area who were interested in Green Swamp, land sectioned off for land development. At the time there was heavy speculation in the land because of it’s close proximity to Walt Disney World and were selling for around $5,000 an acre at the time. That ended after a state cabinet designation of the swamp as an area of critical state concern, placing the land off-limits to any large land developments. The firm filed for foreclosure and the hotel was auctioned off in 1974. Despite RCI Electric purchasing the hotel, it remained empty for many years afterwards.
n 1978, the hotel was signed over to the Agape Players, a nationally known religious music and drama group, who would assume the mortgage and would pay the costs to make improvements to meet city fire and safety standards. The hotel was renamed the “Royal Walesbilt” and after extensive improvements were made, it became the headquarters for the Agape Players; using it as a teaching facility and the base from which the group launched their tours. In addition, they operated a restaurant, an ice cream parlor on the lobby floor and a “Christian hotel” on the upper floors, catering mostly to groups. The Agape Players disbanded in 1985 and put the property up for sale
Victor Khubani, a property investor from New York acquired the property and renamed the hotel “Grand”. The hotel closed briefly in December 1988, due to a variety of code violations and causing the owner to later pay $14,000 in fines. On August 31, 1990 it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, possibly for tax exemption reasons. In October 1991, The State Fire Marshall’s Office gave the owner one year to install a new sprinkler system and in May 1993, the code enforcement board gave Khubani until March to complete the work.
In March 1994, the hotel closed due to multiple code violations and was to remain closed until a new fire sprinkler system was installed. To reopen, the fire escapes and elevator, which did not function, would have to be repaired as well. In 1995, the hotel was auctioned off to a redevelopment firm, which dismantled part of the interior for reconstruction, which was never completed.
Since then, the hotel has deteriorated, becoming an eyesore to many of the residents of Lake Wales and nicknamed “The Green Monster” for the greenish color it has acquired from over the years. In 1995, it was even jokingly mentioned to become a sacrifice to “the bomb”, an economic boom that occurred in parts of Florida where movie production companies would pay cities to blow up buildings for their movies. In 2007, the city foreclosed on the structure for more than $700,000 in unpaid code fines, with hopes in finding someone to restore it.
Development firm, Dixie-Walesbilt LLC announced plans to restore the hotel, signing into an agreement with the city of Lake Wales in February 2010. By the agreement, the city would retain ownership of the building until a defined amount of work had been accomplished. The work must be completed within 16 months and the amount of money invested must succeed at least $1.5 million. The building would then be handed off the Dixie Walesbilt LLC, where they may continue with private funding or other methods to for debt funding.
Ray Brown, President of Dixie Walesbilt LLC, planned to invest $6 million into the renovation, with original plans to put retail stores on the ground floor and using the upper floors for as many as 40 condominiums.
On June 2, 2011, the city of Lake Wales agreed to deed the building off to Ray Brown in a 4-1 vote, after meeting the requirements of the redevelopment agreement. Though Brown submitted a list of costs to the city totaling $1.66 million, Mayor Mike Carter wasn’t satisfied with the results so far, pointing out that Brown failed to repair the windows and repaint the building. Previous owners had put tar on the building and then painted over it, so much of Brown’s investment went to stripping the tar off the exterior walls.
To repaint the building, Brown would also have to resurface the hotel with hydrated lime to replicate the original skin as well as the window frames would need to be constructed of Douglas fir, red cedar and gulf cypress. According to Brown, previous owners who renovated the building rarely removed the building original elements. They carpeted over intricate tile flooring, stuck tar paper above skylights and placed modern drinking fountains in front of the originals. He estimated about 98 percent of the building is still in it’s original form.
Restoration of the building’s exterior began in January 2015 and included surface repair, pressure washing, paint removal, chemical treatment, and a comprehensive resurfacing of the exterior.
While the original plans were for turning the building into condominiums, that has since changed and current plans call for operating the building as a boutique hotel. The hotel will feature geothermal cooling as opposed to traditional air conditioning, a permanent art gallery as well as theme gallery showings throughout the year, and the best WiFi/internet in the city. The project is expected to be completed in 18 to 24 months.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.cityoflakewales.com/505/Dixie-Walesbilt-Hotel
www.abandonedfl.com/dixie-walesbilt-hotel/
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A slightly optimistic destination board on the unit doing the Looe - Liskeard shuttles. The train has stopped to reverse at Coombe Junction Halt. At one time there was a signal box here, but now the guard operates the token machine - also the key to the shed containing the token machine is on a staff doubly to ensure safe branch line working. There is a number 2 frame and token machine just beyond the station, so the cement trains don't need to stop at this point, but carry on a couple of hundred yards and use the token machine for the freight side of the line.
Departing Seaton Carew station, 156487 works 2N42 Hexham to Nunthorpe. The title refers to the inclusion of an ICE train picture on the 'Friends of Seaton Station' banner.
vulnerable
crying for the good of me
home is hard but is still a home
sifting through the layers
an optimistic self
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Mr Optimistic.
Always sleeping when i see him, Mr Optimistic possesses an optimistic outlook in his life.
When it's sunny outside, he naps in the shade and doesn't awaken when the motorbikes drive around him.
When it's drizzling, he naps in the gentle breeze and doesn't awaken when the motorbikes drive around him.
When it's pouring outside, he naps in the strong cold wind and enjoys his own body heat by curling up. Again, he doesnt awaken when the motorbikes drive around him.
When the rain has stopped and there are puddles everywhere, he chooses a puddle he likes and drinks there. He doesn't move when the motorbikes drive around him.
And when the regular people come visit him, he enjoys their company and food. Of course, he doesn't move when the motorbikes drive around him.