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Podge is 19 years old today. He is the most adorable cat and I can't begin to image life without him. We have always had a house full of pets but now Podge is an only one. I would really love to get another dog but Podge is a sensitive soul who doesn't like change.

I converted this to black and white which I think I prefer but Podge has such lovely colouring that I thought I'd post this one.

- São João das Lampas, Portugal -

Our little town of Sylvester has two main streets which run north and south on which almost all our storefronts face. I had no idea what the "underbelly" looked like until I started meandering around when no one was there. This is a potpourri of shapes, lines, angles, colors and textures, a result of add-on after add-on. Thank you to my Flickr friend, www.flickr.com/photos/chuk-haze/, for turning me on to these photographic possibilities! (My battery went our on my Olympus so I had to keep shooting with my iphone.)

This evening the view from the backyard.

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51/365 -Around the house - Day 51

I've spoken before about how I enjoy the absolute mess of buildings and styles in London. It's fairly evident when you're standing by the Bank of London and looking across to the brand new towers in the City.

I really do love walking around the City at night; there's just so few people around. Whilst the road ahead of us was closed there wouldn't have been much, if any, traffic anyway. It feels like a more peaceful version of 28 Days Later.

14/30: April 2017: A month in 30 pictures

I felt it only right that there should be at least one photo of Podge in the April challenge...not just because I am desperate for inspiration but, at the grand old age of nineteen and a half, he is a very special boy. He still won't pose for the camera though so this is as good as it gets. He always looks grumpy too!

Taking a walk through deserted streets of my little town.

The Bruxner Highway (B60) runs across north eastern New South Wales from Tenterfield through Casino, Lismore and eventually the Pacific Highway at Ballina on the coast. The first section between Tenterfield and Casino is a shocker of a road to drive, winding through dense forest and ranges for what seems tormenting hours. I have done it a couple of times but never again. It does have a few redeeming features along the way.

We came across this collection of very mixed breeds of community letterboxes. The traditional PMG/AP speckled red box in the middle is a private inwards box with AC DC written on the front. Maybe they know something we don't. This is the Sandy Hill area, extremely rural with a couple of pretty creeks/rivers. See tomorrow's shots.

I'm always up for letterboxes of course but not much of great interest here, the best being out of frame and for another time.

Just come back from a weekend meetup in the lakes, the weather was pants but the company was excellent. I visit places I'd never been, all will get a return visit. This picture is from Hodge Close, a slate quarry. This time of year the Silver Birch has changed and you get the lovely golden leaves against the grey of the slate and sky.

You can find more pictures like this in my Hodge podge set

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R&S was always an interesting railroad to photograph. You never knew what power would be sitting around, what paint it would be in, or where it might be sitting. This particular evening RS-1 was going on duty at Brooks Ave yard. G&W 50, RSR 807, & RSR 3807 make up the day's power.

Location: Brooks Ave. Yard, Rochester, NY

Train: RS-1

No two locomotives are the same teaming up to power this eastbound manifest off of the Appleton Subdivision at Benson heading eastward towards Willmar. Although a basic shot, I was drawn to this location because of the unusual flanger sign in advance of the crossing. I have never seen a flanger like this.

21/52: For Project 52 - Black and white

I had a few options for this challenge but decided on this one of Podge, our elderly gentleman, he will be 19 in September. Converted to black and white in Lightroom.

taken from a water taxi ride.

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Hodge podge of ice, on Lake Winnipesaukee, near Ellacoya State Beach, Gilford, NH. You can see how quickly the ice froze here. Most likely, less than 48 hour old ice. I'm 1/4 mile off shore in this photo. The ice beneath me looks broken up, but it's actually fairly thick. The layer of ice beyond this point, however, was less than a day old. Next pic will be from that vantage point.

Various Flowers

Beautiful 8 year old sports horse podge

Hard to say where all the bits came from for this creation.

... of roofs in vieux Dieppe, Normandie, France

Neon Museum, Las Vegas, NV

I made this from an old medicine cabinet. With a fresh coat of paint and some pretty fabric mod podged to the inside, it now houses all of my buttons!

Blogged about at: createstudio.blogspot.com/2009/10/let-countdown-begin.html.

Seen standing east of the Gosford/St-Claude Street, looking west, here is quite an architectural hodge podge starting by the modern design of the Chaussegros-de-Léry building right next to us, then the City Hall (here emerging in the sunrise), and then a whole series of buildings old and new all the way to the horizon. /////// À partir de la rue Notre-Dame, quand on se tient juste à l'est de l'axe Gosford/St-Claude, on a une vue de ce que j'appelle le 'hodge podge architectural' de la rue Notre-Dame, quand on regarde en direction ouest, avec à droite, à l'avant-plan, la facture moderne de l'édifice Chaussegros-de-Léry, qui jure avec l'Hôtel de Ville, puis toute une série d'édifices fort différents jusqu'à l'horizon.

Class taught by Rebecca Sower at Silver Bella

class taught by Rebecca Sower

Podge is not a very good model, like most cats, he doesn't keep very still unless he is sleeping! He does think he's the cat's whiskers and I am inclined to agree!

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Tampa and North Carolina--compositie

The Chinese restaurant is in Tampa. The building on the right is in Asheville, NC. The guy with the skateboard was standing at a crosswalk in downtown Tampa. The girl with the hoola hoop was at a Tampa farmers market and as was the pink T-bird and bicycle and dog. I don't remember where the window is from. The mountain was on the Blue Ridge Parkway in NC.

Beautiful 8 year old sports horse podge

Kubuswoningen, or cube houses, are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in The Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom in 1984. The houses in Rotterdam are located on Overblaak Street, and beside the Blaak Subway Station. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. There are 38 small cubes and two so called 'super-cubes', all attached to each other.

[Excerpt from Wikipedia]

Enjoy it better large and on black.

Made it #439 on Explore (see history).

I love how she painted this!! this was a 2 day project started at the neighbors.

cardboard, modge-podge, paint= fun!

Class taught by Rebecca Sower at Silver Bella

Lighting used for next image of a French Bulldog.

Canon 580ex in softbox at left, 430ex with Lumiquest softbox on right. Sunpak 383 for hair light in the back, with Stofen Omnibounce taped to it (was model for Canon 580ex). 383 was triggered with an optical slave.

Initially I thought this place was a dud, but after entering the site we found it to be an old & abandoned Pet Food Mill. It suddenly got a bit more exciting. It was a hodge podge of different types of equipment and it was fun to photograph

stone, brick & siding

brown, yellow and red paint

funky rooflines

curved brick arch on one side

boxy screened porch on the other

and yet, somehow, it all works together

and the result is really inviting

part of an on-going series of houses on film