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No, i don't believe it'll work for a second. But it's my first year with an allotment, so I'm allowed to be unrealistic about the obstacles slugs and snails will get round 🐌.
ODC2. Optimistic.
It would be optimistic to think it would be restored.
Well this is a church not far away from me, me and my companion went for a ride just so I could get some images. Well this church closed years ago when it wasn't making enough money, and sadly it never got restored, and I think there may even be plans to have it knocked down. Which is a shame as I adore abandoned buildings. So I did have to capture this before I got caught! Well I am exhausted after that cycle, have a good Saturday everyone :-)
Check out my photostream for the video of this building!
This CF-104 at CFB Comox's Air Museum is missing several key parts critical to airworthiness, so the "Remove Before Flight" tag may be slightly presumptuous.
This Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) was singing away in the warm sunlight while the world under him was covered in snow. Spring is still a long way away but at least this bird is optimistic that it will come. Wilde Lake, Howard County, Maryland.
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Because I believe in the power of maintaining a positive and grateful attitude, I do my part by maintaining a blog,...
The most beautiful way to capture the essence of a river, is to take a photo of water.
I used to capture water by letting the camera sit there as still as possible and dragged the shutter for 5 seconds or more.
But i had to try a new technique with this lens i borrowed. I dragged the shutter for a mere 1 second, and panned along the water's surface.
I love how it's both sharp and blurred at the same time.
1/18/2011
Cautiously optimistic.
(Texture used found here: www.flickr.com/photos/virtually_supine/4615831761/)
hair: [elikatira] - Mood
necklace: *League* Long Daydream Necklace - Moving Sky
dress: DRIFT Mood Dress - Optimistic (New!)
hands: SLink
clutch: .::Mother Goose's::. LaceClutch J (5L gacha at Sound Gravis Beach)
shoes: *G Field* "Alex" Mint
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makeups:
[mock] Stardust Shadow BubbleSky [eye] (free wearable demo in store)
[mock] Hippie Pink Lipshine
Izzie's - Glossy Lip Highlights 3D
I loved the optimistic 50s look of this card. It looks like a pastel paradise.
Verso Reads:
Town 'n Country Motel
P.O. Box 572
One of West Virginia's Finer Motels
Located on U.S. 60, Seven Miles West of Charleston
A New Motel on landscaped grounds, attractively
furnished rooms, TV, Clock Radio, Air Conditioned or
Fans, Tile Shower baths and Vented Heat. Playground.
Restaurant convenient
The card is postmarked 1960. The message talks about how hot yet beautiful it is and is sent to someone in Wisconsin.
I rather optimistically took my macro lens out while walking Poppy after work, but it's so windy here, it was enough of an effort just to walk! Poppy's favourite spot on the cycle path is where runoff from the field above drops down through a bridge, normally creating a gentle trickling waterfall that drops into a pool of water below that Poppy likes to have a dip in. Today the spray was blowing everywhere, making it even more exciting for Poppy :)
Taking an optimistic view, Portman urged the importance of taking "full advantage of 2015, particularly the first six months of that year, when maybe there'll be a little less politics, I hope, to try to make some of these changes, and do it again, with the administration working with Congress."
The former Tynewydd Junior School in Ogmore Vale.
It was open from 1892-2003.
Like many historic buildings it was deliberately left insecure until it became so badly damaged (in this case a severe fire) that it was declared unsafe and could be knocked down.
Within six months a set of ugly new build houses were in it's place.
Canon EOS 350D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
What a year. I think it’s safe to say all of us are looking forward to not being in 2021 anymore. I (Eric) am optimistic, but I was optimistic for 2020, and we see where that got us. As per usual, we wrap up our years by talking about our favorite video games that we’ve […]
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I hear that when country and western music is played backwards, you get your truck, dog, and wife back. ;)
Wendover, Ontario.
(Sulukule, Istanbul, Aug. 08)
A photo with a story, and not so optimistic but I'd like to tell it nonetheless : I met Birol’s wife (let’s call her Gönül, a common name for women of that age there) at Sulukule. She did not allow me to take her in photos (forbidden by the men of her family she told me) but wanted me to photography the tatoo on her chest…
She is a woman in her early 30s with hair died in blond and both her forearms have plenty of scars strangely neatly alligned, apparently self-inflicted wounds made the same day like sorts of wierd decorations, this shows a lot of suffering in her life. She has 2 young children, about 4 and 2 years old : could not ask how Birol could possibly have fathered the kids as he is serving a jail sentence far away, in çanakkale, with 5 more years to go…
(Other women too in that neighbourhood have their husbands in jail and some sell souvenirs made in glass beads, something that is done in other areas in Turkish jails as well...)
She is a neighbour of the family who (being evicted like all the others), had chosen to move that day ; she too will have to leave within one year and the whole Roma population will eventually be scattered in various parts of Istanbul (NB : it is interesting to note that this was the first Roma settlement in the world : they had settled there since almost 1000 years during the Byzantine era and before the Turks moved in Constantinople).
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... As I am not disciplined enough to make a proper "travelogue" with photos in neat succession but as I still have a lot to tell about my experience there, I'll type a text telling about my impressions as it could be useful to other travellers :
First, I entered into a small café in poor condition - the place where only tea is served and where only men are spending long hours : all, very friendly and respectful, happy to talk to a foreigner and offering quantities of free teas for the pleasure of the conversation and of being taken in photos ;
Then, I spotted some children and tried to take decent photos of them in the ruins and with the ancient walls in the BG ;
A nearby family was busy with house removal and it was not easy to understand who was related with who, many neighbours, friends, "akrabas" = family were around there too.
But in the same time, when I was taking photos of mostly young children, I was challenged by older ones (not more than 12 or 13 years old, though), 2 of them hit me repeatedly on my back precisely when I was pressing the shutter, to test me, see my reaction (even, collecting stones probably meant to be thrown at me = I sensed that the situation could become dangerous) : first, I laughed but they definitely wanted to upset me, carried on the same way so in the end, and in the presence of a passing man, I said that it was a shame to treat foreign visitors that way, that in Turkey in general everyone was welcoming and that they'd better leave me alone or I'd deal with them and give them some severe "ceza" (correction) - ... well, this was said very loud but not too seriously - I did not think of it any more as the man chased the eldest of the 2 boys...
But about 10 minutes later, in front of the family busy with transporting furniture with whom I was talking, the same man reappeared with one of the screaming offending boy and the way he beated him in public was absolutely disgusting - an adult (and not the father) throwing the child on the ground and hitting him repeatedly with his foot : I succeeded in reasoning him but not before the child was badly beaten and humiliated : that's how young adults grow angry IMO...
Apart from that unpleasant experience, nothing dangerous happened to me ; still, one has to be weary of thieves (leaving the area, I suddenly became aware of a youngster who was following me, moved backward and he was doing the same, then entered in a shop and talked a bit to the shop keeper : he was still waiting for me, so I stayed longer inside another shop and was helped by every one)...
Saw drug trafficking happening in front of me in the open but pretended not to see it (and this, I dared not photographying although the dealers did not seem very threatening to me) ;
Saw also other kinds of misery, - but also, plenty of children enjoying the holidays and other women seeming happy with their lives and ready to joke with me, even sing for me !...
(More infos about that very special place - the oldest Roma settlement ın the world that was almost reachıng 1000 years of age : Sulukule (Wiki) and here too).
Built by the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway in 1908. It is now a great museum.
From The TSHA:
QUANAH, ACME AND PACIFIC RAILWAY. The optimistic tag "and Pacific" was attached repeatedly to the names of western railroads. Only a few of these actually stretched to the Pacific coast or found service areas there. Nevertheless, the tag frequently implied transcontinental aspirations or a desire to connect with lines reaching that broad area. In the case of the Quanah, Acme and Pacific it was a matter of merely wanting to be a part of a transcontinental route. The QA&P started in 1902 as the Acme, Red River and Northern, a local road in Hardeman County designed to serve the needs of the Acme Plaster Company. By 1909, however, Sam Lazarus, owner of the railroad and the plaster plant, perceived that the country south and west of Quanah and Acme was "ready to open" and that profits could be made by expanding the railroad in that direction. Thus the ARR&N perished to become the Quanah, Acme, and Pacific. The QA&P built into Cottle County and then Motley County, claiming that its eventual goal was El Paso and a connection there with the Southern Pacific's famed Sunset Route to Pacific tidewater. The track reached thirty-five miles to Paducah in 1910 and was extended thirty-nine miles to MacBain, a stock-loading point just short of the Caprock, in 1913. In addition, Lazarus and the railroad promoted townsite developments at several locations, the most impressive of which was Roaring Springs. In 1916 the Quanah owned six locomotives, fifty-eight freight cars, two passenger cars, and ten company cars and earned $63,932 in passenger revenue, $241,196 in freight revenue, and $9,522 in other revenue. Stock control of the QA&P passed to the much larger St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company (Frisco) shortly after construction began, although the small road retained independent management with Lazarus as president. The Frisco saw the QA&P as a logical extension of its own line, which began in St. Louis and passed through Tulsa and Oklahoma City before reaching the Red River near Quanah. During the mid-1920s West Texas was the scene of many competing railroad proposals. In the end, the QA&P won only the right to extend from MacBain twenty-six miles to Floydada, which was reached in 1928. Two years earlier the road had also acquired eight miles of track from the tiny Motley County Railroad, which connected the community of Matador with the QA&P, but this branch was abandoned in 1936. In 1931 the Quanah was listed by the Railroad Commission as a Class II road and owned eight locomotives, forty-seven freight cars, and twenty-seven company cars. Earnings for 1931 included $27,126 in passenger revenue, $449,431 in freight revenue, and $9,980 in other revenue. The Great Depression threatened to kill not only the Matador stub but the QA&P as well. Fortunately, however, the QA&P won important regulatory and legal decisions to participate in transcontinental movements with the Frisco on the east and the Santa Fe on the west. Thus, from the late 1930s until the fall of 1973 impressive through trains passed over QA&P rails. This arrangement ended when the Frisco and the Santa Fe agreed to divert overhead business to another gateway. This decision and the era of big mergers in the railroad industry spelled doom for the QA&P. The line from Floydada to Paducah was abandoned in 1979, and although the remaining trackage remained in service, the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway-as a corporate entity-perished shortly after the Frisco became part of the Burlington Northern in 1980