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Perhaps a little optimistic, but at least it's forecast that it's going to warm up over the weekend! Have a good one! A little about our stay at Hotel Chocolat, for those who're interested... For anyone who's familiar with the brand of chocolate "Hotel Chocolat" this is the hotel, restaurant and plantation where it all begins. We were lucky enough to meet co-owner Peter Harris on our stay, a fascinating guy who started the business as a mail order chocolate company and has worked to create something virtually unique. I've not met many true entrepeneurs before, but what I found most interesting is that I got no sense that he'd built this for the money. It seemed much more about creating something very special, realising a dream if you like. It seemed clear that the workers here are getting a good deal. The plantation works to promote agriculture and to help farmers set up their own crops, with a clear focus on education and providing a fair return on the cocoa! If ever you're lucky enough to visit St Lucia, I cannot recommend this place enough. It makes you see your chocolate in a whole new light, and I doubt you'll ever grumble again at paying a couple of pounds for quality bar of dark chocolate once you've seen the work that's gone into it! flic.kr/p/dPqJBH
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The Farnbacher Loles Porsche during Sunday morning warm-up at Mosport ALMS 2008. The car ended up with its back end up against the tire wall down from turn two.
No great damage, apparently, as this car ended up in second place in its class in the race itself.
Scanned from film.
The Optimistic Suburbia Workshop took place at ISCTE-IUL from may 18th to may 22nd 2015. Fotografia de Hugo Alexandre Cruz.
Today, there is considerable doubt that there will even BE a United States of America to celebrate a Tricentennial by 7/4/2075.
Spent most of May 5th revisiting this massive hulking abandonment. Optimistically scheduled for demolition later this year.
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. ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977
A beautiful grey lichen on Hazel.
Still working on the ID.
The West Highlands of Scotland are home to a characteristic type of coastal hazelwood, rarely found elsewhere. Whereas hazel is often a component of mixed woodlands dominated by bigger trees such as ash, on the west coast it can often form almost pure stands, in exposed coastal locations. Outstanding examples of this woodland type in the Sunart Oakwoods area can be found at Drimnin, in Morvern, and Ardslignish and Sonachan in west Ardnamurchan, with smaller areas elsewhere.
These coastal hazelwoods are rich with wild flowers in springtime before the leaves on the trees are out, but less obviously to the untrained eye, also play host to a unique and very diverse lichen flora.
The importance of these woods for lichens is a result of a number of factors: the mild 'oceanic' climate; the special characteristics of hazelbark that make it suitable for a wide range of lichens to grow on; the lack of atmospheric pollution in the area; and finally the particular structure and long-established nature of the woodlands.
more at www.sunartoakwoods.org.uk/woodlands/woodlandhazelwoods.htm
Of course, I would have posted my optimistic New Year's picture yesterday but for some reason was unable to log on to flickr. Did anyone else have such problems?
Anyway, I hope that everyone rang in the new year with style and fashion, and for those who chose to do it in a more subdued way, I'm sure that it was all good. Wishing you all the most prosperous year ever.
Nigel
photo of pink bougainvillea in a classical urn in the Botanical Gardens, Georgetown, Guyana, South America
On the way from Mangatepopo Valley to Soda Springs, it was very cloudy but it hadn't started to rain yet. We were very optimistic.
PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- Chief Warrant Officer 1 Tim Sprague tosses an approving thumbs up during the Feb. 7 airing of the Superbowl.
The tower blocks at Cruddas Park, opened with an optimistic flourish by Hugh Gaitskell Labour leader, on the 9th June 1962, have had yet another makeover. This latest revamp is more radical than previous ones and the optimism returns.
Thomas Dan Smith was Newcastle City leader from 1960 to 1965 with a vision to improve the city and make it a commercial centre to rival the best in the world. He was compared to an American style 'city boss', called Mr. Newcastle by his supporters, and Mouth of the Tyne by his opponents.
Whilst many see him as a visionary, and ahead of his time, others brand him a charlatan, entangled in a web of corruption that almost toppled the Wilson Labour government.
His most controversial plan was for high rise housing, and the Cruddas Park scheme was part of what was called a 'city in the sky'.
The flats were built by Wimpey to a Swedish modular design. It was later to be alleged that Dan Smith took cash and other benefits for awarding the contracts.
Smith was sentenced to six years imprisonment for his involvement in the Poulson affair.
Taken on 1st September, 2010 at 1032hrs with a Leica IIIf on Fujicolor Pro 400H colour negative stock.
dont know if any of you are interested in Sears/Kmart but I kinda am. the Sears closest to my house had this banner up when I went in to pick up some stuff I ordered. Kinda funny how it says "and counting" when the company is almost bankrupt but an optimistic view always makes it look better.
Edited NASA image of a painting by Robert McCall of an astronaut on the Moon. This is a mural on a wall in the Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.