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An optimistic squirrel I me near Oxford on a morning walk. We have moved on to Bristol and next is Shrewsbury tomorrow. A strange itinerary but depended on when peope could see us.
Sorry to contacts I am only on a hotspot from my cell phone which is too slow downloading pictures. Will try to get back to you when I have proper wifi.
Having failed to see one of Hope Cement works' 20 on the last visit ,a year ago last September. probably because it was 330 on a Friday afternoon and only 3 66s were seen in the sidings and no wagons.We were not over-optimistic, with it being just after Christmas. But when in Hope ! there is always Hope! We had gone along Edale Road to the overbridge which carries the works line over the road and the River Noe ,enquired of the locals if the Works was open - 'don't know' was the answer. Then we heard the sound of a loco horn, and quick drive back
around the hairpin bend, with 'The Joker' at the wheel got us to the overbridge on Bowdens Lane.Result, Happy Days .
Canon 50D | ISO 100 | f11| 1/2 | 10mm | Lee 0.6 and 0.9 Soft Grads
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More Point Cartwright love.
Flies are buzzing around my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
Big fish eat the little ones
Big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem give me some
You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
(x2)
This one's optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one dropped a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on an animal farm
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
(x2)
I'd really like to help you man
I'd really like to help you man.....
Nervous messed up marionette
Floating around on a prison ship
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
Dinosaurs Roaming the earth (x3)
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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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1. I try to be optimistic at all times, but it usually doesn't work out.
2. I'm pretty lazy.
3. I have a text draft on my phone with a bunch of photo ideas, but I never get to using them.
4. I'm perfectly happy not having an SLR camera for now, I love mine :)
5. I get annoyed easily.
6. My favorite cereal is Peanut Butter Crunch, but I never eat it anymore.
7. I have a love/hate relationship with running.
8. I want to travel the world someday.
9. I don't really have many secrets.
10. I have a doctor's appointment in an hour.
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There are a few reasonable excuses for stowing things in boxes, I suppose. Admittedly, I make several most excellent explanations and often quickly without blinking an eye as to why it is important to save things. Recent moves, clothing that no longer fits but might next year, the death of a loved one, cleaning and organizing no longer wanted items to mention a few. Does every home have a particular place in which these boxes migrate? You know the place to which I am referring; the basement, the area of the entry closet that now expands its birth by three in which there is no more extended room for coats. What about the garage?
Some say, "keep that you will want it one day."
Others say, "give that away, better yet, throw that away!"
I've spent the better part of the last twenty years in and never completely out of boxes. It's true. One move follows another like dominoes tumbling over just to be propped up once more merely to do it again; what an enormous waste of time, money, and energy. In retrospect, it makes no sense.
In my defense and the defense of others afflicted with unsafe keeping, it was never an intended extension of remaining trapped in and by the boxes. As a hopeful human, always optimistic, the chore of unpacking everything has remained the goal. Again; the excuses, in the form of defensive measures this time, insidious but easily unwrapped themselves to defend the box brigade. See how they slithered in again?
In considering something for The Lightbulb Project, I took much time to narrow down a personal wish for the theme, freedom. For me, freedom would be to unpack absolutely everything from every single box and gift it forward or throw the things away. The boxes have become a burden, a source of sadness. A reminder that life in a box is never the way in which we are intended to exist. It's not living. It's in limbo. Trapped, stifled, growing old without movement or use is a debilitating state for not only humans but also material things.
Freedom, in the form of unpacking once and for all, would be a generous gift from myself to myself. I know it. Now, to get it done.
#thelightbulbproject_freedom
I think humans like to seek patterns and maybe it is comforting to do so...to find an order in things. I chose this fence since it's design forms a pattern that can make the light conform to a certain pleasing pattern also. My title came from a random word generator which I have used occasionally to choose the challenge topic. One day optimistic lung came up and though it did not make a good challenge topic I think it's randomness adds a nice chaotic imbalance. Another random thing that happened today is a couple of people waited for me to get my shot of the fence not realizing they were in the shot and one person ended up waiting in a very good spot.
for our daily challenge - patterns
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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/
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Mrs M looking for Thor's cave (it's just below the toothy rock outcrop just emerging from the mist below the centre of the horizon). We'd walked over from the other side of Wetton Hill after sunrise (it has several tops). We gave up soon after and went down to the cafe at Wetton Mill for a cup of tea.
EXPLORE: March 27, 2009
These Lilac buds are optimistic that warmer weather is just around the corner. After several days of blizzard like conditons we are all ready for some Spring time. Last night it got down to ten above zero. My first photo with the Nikon 105VR lens. In fact this is my first macro posted on Flickr. If it does not have wings, does not quack or honk or is a critter with four legs and teeth, I feel totally out of my element. Your support is deeply appreciated.
Keep my Mom in mind today and keep optimistic! Her infectious smile and laugh that makes everyone happy. For a month, she has been in isolation and tested positive two weeks ago, and is making it through the COVID-19, age 93 at the epicenter (Life Care Center of Kirkland) in the US, and she will be 94 when it is over. When asked how she was feeling, she said, better than I was! She has made it through the great depression, tuberculosis quarantine, measles, mumps, chickenpox, and so many more episodes of flu than we can imagine. She has the faith and hope of a mustard seed and loves the Lord, Jesus Christ. With these factors, she is a perfect example that we must fight to flatten the line, keep self quarantined and keep smiling. Stay inside, please.
So many lives taken in this world from the virus. I am sorry to all who have lost someone they love.
This, too, shall pass! And we will be a better world for it.
Love to everyone!
My mage's cosplay of an what Conan would dress like as an optimist. The sword's rubber.
Nocturne RP sim
At a total height of 88 feet, this handsome segmented plunged-based waterfall drops only once and is quite the charm for its audience. Belonging to the North Fork Nooksack River stream and the Nooksack River watershed, this beautiful fall has a dark side; since the 1940s, at least 11 people have met their fate here. More than likely, they were attempting to achieve a better view of the falls, which costed them their lives. Be sure to exercise caution in this rather easy-going environment.
Photo of the top portion of Nooksack Falls, at its drop, captured via Minolta MD W.Rokkor-X 24mm F/2.8 Lens. Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. North Cascades Lowland Forests section within the Cascades Region. Whatcom County, Washington. On the first day of May 2016.
Exposure Time: 0.3 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/22 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 6450 K * Filter: Warming Filter (85)
A rather optimistic shot, early in the morning at Dunaskin washery on the Waterside system.No.24 brings a mixed consist down the slight grade from the tippler sidings. The AEC Mercury tipper is something to savour as well!
Slapton Ley South Hams Coast Devon.
"Ramblings"
Only a few occasions have I arrived at or been driving past Slapton ley during the sunrise hours to find some welcome mist over the ley.
I`m sure these atmospheric conditions over the lake occur a little more often during the early hours than I happen to see but for the most part its only the weekend mornings I can make time to visit.
This was the best I have witnessed with the mist covering most of the ley as normally its just a few pockets drifting around the lake and I was not expecting to see any mist on a mild July morning so a nice welcome surprise and a lovely start to the day.
You need a little luck on your side having the Swans in an ideal location for images as it is a rather large lake with only a few areas you get an eye level perspective over the water so a nice bonus when the Swans play ball and a photo opportunity comes together.
The Mute Swan my "Spark Bird" that lead me up the happy path of "Birding" and bird photography back in spring 2020.
And to this day the graceful Swans are is still my fav waterbird to watch and photograph especially if you happen upon some atmospheric mist.
Optimistic Sharp-shinned Hawk foraging for nesting materials.
Common activity... uncommon species for this area.
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Yellow roses are the perfect way to toast friends, lift spirits and send a general wish for well-being.
You can never go wrong with yellow roses.
In many Eastern cultures, the colour represents joy, wisdom and power, the symbolism of flowers eh.
By the 18th century the worldwide love of roses was in full swing, but they were only cultivated in shades of pink and white.
At last, the elusive yellow rose was discovered growing wild in the Middle East, and the European love affair with yellow roses was born.
The early yellow rose lacked the sweet scent for which the rose is now also famous.
So, as cultivation methods were developed and refined, the beloved sweet-and-spicy rose scent was soon introduced and the yellow rose achieved all its optimistic and aromatic glory.
Thanks for your visit, M, (*_*)
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Sitting optimistically next to a picnic hamper, Hubert is carefully keeping his clean shoes - as can be seen - off the tablecloth while hoping that there are some goodies coming his way.
When the new Railway Children film is out in 2022 Oakworth and the KWVR generally may well be very popular for tourists. It is anyway and it could get hectic.
This optimistic hawk was eyeing up the pronghorn antelopes at the zoo. Probably wishing he was a golden eagle.
“Reaching out, for new heights
You inspired me to try
Felt the magic inside
And I felt that I could fly
I'm looking at the world in an optimistic light
You made me appreciate my life
'Cos when you came you were like
Sunshine through my window
That's what you are
My shining star (Sunshine)
Making me feel like
I'm on top of the world
Telling me I'll go far.”
Sunshine | Gabrielle
A group of fishermen take a break from casting their reels to enjoy the dramatic sunset as the storm clouds roll in. Sandy Point, Trinidad & Tobago.
Ptilopsis leucotis
Northern white-faced Owl - Noordelijke witwangdwergooruil (Spain)
Canon 7D + Canon EF 300mm F2.8 L IS USM + 2x TC
I wasn't really optimistic that the weather would play ball as i set off for Rumbling Kern on sunday morning,but i was really pleased that the clouds would clear and give way to some quite nice light.
This was taken at that great time,when the darkness of night gives way to the light of day.In the right conditions its surely one of the best times to be out there with camera in hand.
EXIF....F19....3 SECONDS....ISO 100....11MM....LEE 0.9 ND GRAD (HARD)
The metro (subway) in the Washington, DC, area was having all kinds of delays the past couple of days. The crowds jammed this metro stop. Everyone was impatient and they were in very bad moods. I, however, was on the optimistic side of the situation - Photo Op!
I took this photo last week. Sadly there was a very bad collision on the red line today and several people were injured. The news is now reporting that nine people were killed. The collision occurred at rush hour. Fortunately, the trains were not full like they often are at this time. They are still investigating the cause of the collision.
The 50mm f/1.4 has been a solid walkabout lens for me so far. It is light and handles almost anything thrown at it. Love it!
I was hoping to shoot Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks before it fell below the horizon, but I was overly optimistic. By the time I arrived at my imaging site, the comet was sitting on the western horizon. I had all my gear and nearly clear skies and hadn't imaged in well over a year, so rather than head home, I decided to image something. I chose the Pinwheel Galaxy on a whim. I was able to squeeze the Whirlpool Galaxy into the frame as well.
Instead of using Astro Pixel Processor for gradient removal (my license expired), I used GraXpert for the first time. It worked well, especially considering the cost (free!).
Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10; Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600; tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro; 32 x 60 sec; stacking with DeepSkyStacker; gradient (i.e. vignetting) removal with GraXpert; and curves adjustment/star reduction/editing with GIMP; taken on April 8, 2024 under Bortle 3/4 skies.