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Posting this one to help cheer a friend up...you know who you are. She's a bit on the down side cuz she didn't get to go to prom...inside joke.
Anyways, this is quite possibly the most embarassing picture i've ever posted of myself...so that certain someone better appreciate it.
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Continuing with posting photos from my archives. Not sure when I will get out for a drive, given that our winter weather continues. November 23 2024: lots of snow and it looked like almost 10-12 inches of snow on top of my back fence. Can't complain, though, as mild, fall weather lasted well into November, which was wonderful. So thankful that I managed to get out for groceries a few days ago, so now I can hibernate for a little while.
28 November 2024: got up early, thinking of driving south to the Saskatoon Farm. However, change of plans, as our weather yesterday morning was -17°C (feels like -23°C), with freezing fog. More freezing fog today (29 November 2024), too. Another good day to stay home! Next week is forecast to be 'warmer'.
I will be adding the description that I wrote under a different, previously posted image taken on the same day.
"This photo was taken on 8 September 2015. In the morning, I joined a group of friends for a three-hour stroll at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. 38 bird species were seen, though I didn't manage to see any of the tiny, fast-moving Warblers. It was good to see 28 Wood Ducks, but they were far, far away, in an area that is still closed due to devastating flood damage. The Sanctuary had been closed for about two years for this reason and only very recently re-opened just a part of the area.
The Calgary Zoo is very close to the Sanctuary, so after our morning walk, I decided to call in at the Zoo. I hadn't been for about a year and I really missed going there. Of course, many of the garden flowers were past their prime, but I did find a few that were fit to photograph. I love photographing the Water Lilies. They always seem to glow, as if they had a light inside.
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I knew I wouldn't be able to walk far, having already been walking all morning, but I really wanted to get to the ENMAX Conservatory to see what was going on. I had been longing all summer to see the tropical butterflies and plants. The butterfly season is coming to an end for these tropical beauties, but there were still plenty of them to be seen. Also, this month, the parking lot that I use will close for the winter and I don't like the drive back home from the north parking area, using Deerfoot Trail, so tend not to go to the Zoo all winter.
There was so much activity going on at the Zoo two days ago. People everywhere, carrying large animals wrapped in white, protective coverings, preparing for the upcoming ILLUMINASIA, Lantern & Garden Festival. Each animal is an individual lantern and there are so many of them. I noticed that several of the real animals in their enclosures were watching all the unaccustomed activity, which made me smile.
A good day, despite the overcast sky, and plenty of photo opportunities. Recently, I have been finding far fewer things to photograph, with fall on its way, so a day like this was more than welcome."
Today we have an album to browse through with images of two architects' works captured. The chosen image is of a corner building with a much decorated hoarding outside, while the works are ongoing. The hoarding is covered in posters, and as we have had great fun in the past with posters and handbills, we hope that you will enjoy this one!
Photographer: Unknown
Date: Between 1880 and 1900? Circa 1879/1880? February/March 1878
NLI Ref.: ALB74
FÓGRA: Photographs in our Albums are generally not individually catalogued, so if you want to examine this photo in the NLI catalogue, just scroll to image 77 of 79 in this Thomas Deane Album.
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Posting a few blurry images of Cornwall’s fireworks display on Canada Day. I made a last minute decision to go view the fireworks so I took a few handheld shots without much consideration of my camera settings. I’ll be more prepared next year.
Posting six more old photos that were taken by my father many years ago, all taken before 1944.
I don't have the date that this photo was taken. All I know is that it was taken before 1944.
Tom Carden Bassindale, 1907 - 1976
Vera Kathleen Bassindale (nee Neal), 1914 -1998
They were married on 4th June 1938.
"The Valley of Rocks, sometimes called Valley of the Rocks, is a U-shaped, dry valley that runs parallel to the coast in north Devon, England, about 1 kilometre to the west of the village of Lynton. It is a popular tourist destination, noted for its herd of feral goats, and for its landscape and geology." From Wikipedia.
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its funny. How one minute life is great, the next minute it sucks again. Its funny how parents can treat one child one way, and another child in the complete oposite.
Its funny how people can make you hate them so much, that you just cant stand to see their face anymore. Its funny how some people see you as being old enough to leave you on your own, whilst
they leave you to go to another country, left to fend for yourself, yet, you arent old enough to get married. Its funny how some people are just pathetic. Its even worse when some people are your parents.
Yeah, im not in a good mood, you can probably guess by reading that. Infact, i hope my parents read this and realise that what they are doing is unfair, and wrong. And infact, if they bothered to stop for one moment, and just
ask me how im feeling, they'd see all the anger, the stress, the worry and the hurt that i lock up inside and hide from them. I hope they read this and realise that they are hurting me and pushing me away.
These holidays suck. They are boring and slow, and im fed up already. Just need to find somewhere exciting to go, even if its just for a day.
anyways, rant over.
Me and chloe went for a walk yesterday. The sun was setting, and i had a long exposure of the beach planned. But me being me, we got there and the tide was out. So we went for a little walk instead.
30 mins, 4 cold hands, 40 crappy photos, 20 cold toes, and 1 soaking wet foot later, we went home. This was the best of the bunch. Not great eh? If you've actually read all of this, then well done! let me know and
i'll fav/comment/testimonial you or something xD
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Although the thought is nice, id rather a simple link to the group.
The National Covid Memorial Wall London 3 of 3.
The lady above the wall was wearing a Covid mask, which somehow seemed appropriate...
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As I promised, I'm posting a photo of the ancient St. Hripsime Church. It's located in the city of Echmiatsin, not far from Yerevan (about a 30 minute ride by car). At the time we arrived there, the area was full of people, as there was a wedding ceremony going on. That girl with the Armenian flag around her, came as quite a surprise for me :)
Saint Hripsimé Church is one of the oldest surviving churches in Armenia. The church was founded in 395 AD, and completed in 618 AD. It contains the remains of the martyred Saint Hripsimé to whom the church was dedicated. Saint Hripsime Church is known for its fine Armenian-style architecture of the classical period, which has influenced many other Armenian churches.
Wikipedia {Saint Hripsimé Church sits on the remains of a pagan structure and also the site where the aforementioned saint was martyred during the time of the conversion of Armenia to Christianity in 301 AD. The fifth century Armenian historian Agathangelos wrote that the young and beautiful Hripsimé who at the time was a Christian nun in Rome, was to be forcefully married to the Roman emperor Diocletian. She and the abbess Gayané among other nuns fled the tyrant emperor and left to Armenia. The pagan Armenian King Trdat received a letter from Diocletian in which he described her beauty. Trdat discovered where the nuns were hiding, and fell in love with Hripsimé and later Gayané. After her refusal of his advances, Hripsimé was tortured and martyred at the location of this church, while Gayané was tortured and martyred at a separate location where the church in her name was later built in 630. The remaining group of thirty-eight unnamed nuns were martyred at the location of Shoghakat. During the time that Hripsimé was being tortured, Gayané told her to "be of good cheer, and stand firm" in her faith. King Trdat was to be later converted to Christianity and made it the official religion of the kingdom.
In the early 4th century, Saint Gregory the Illuminator saw a vision in which Christ descended from the heavens, and struck the ground with a golden hammer to level it. In its place he saw the site where Hripsimé was martyred, with a red base symbolizing blood below "columns of clouds, capitals of fire, and on top, a cross of light." In the vision, Christ tells him to erect a memorial to Hripsme in the given place. Saint Gregory was designated to set out the foundations at the location where Hripsimé had been martyred.}
Thanks for your visit and have a great day!
Posting this photo on 15 April 2020 from a January 2020 visit to TransLink to sound the alarm TransLink is in trouble. They are having to start planning for dramatic, structural cuts in May without outside intervention due to Covid19-related economic impacts. You can sign the petition to save TransLink at bit.ly/SaveTransLink .
Otherwise, happy to show the Canada Line SkyTrain rolling on the tracks in the Vancouver, BC night. Please enjoy!
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
As I was posting this picture I'm afraid my mind wandered (it does that, apparently) to a song by Tom Lehrer. Wherever you are in the world, if spring is just around the corner... this is for you :)
I strongly recommend that you listen to THIS as you read!
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I'd like to take you now on wings of song, as it were, and try and help you forget perhaps for a while your drab, wretched lives. Here's a song all about spring-time in general, and in particular, about one of the many delightful pastimes the coming of spring affords us all.
Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.
I do, don't you? 'Course you do.
But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me,
And makes ev'ry Sunday a treat for me.
All the world seems in tune
On a spring afternoon,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
Ev'ry Sunday you'll see
My sweetheart and me,
As we poison the pigeons in the park.
When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide,
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide.
The sun's shining bright,
Ev'rything seems all right,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
Lalaalaalalaladoodiedieedoodoodoo
We've gained notoriety,
And caused much anxiety
In the Audubon Society
With our games.
They call it impiety,
And lack of propriety,
And quite a variety
Of unpleasant names.
But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon.
So if Sunday you're free,
Why don't you come with me,
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park.
And maybe we'll do
In a squirrel or two,
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment.
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strychnine
We feed to a pigeon.
It just takes a smidgin!
To poison a pigeon in the park.
Tom Lehrer
As I stood stationary in this open square at Yasaka Shrine composing various shots of the architecture, the two young ladies I had seen earlier began walking directly towards me. I turned around to see where they were headed, the rows of wires on which people traditionally hang their o-mikuji. I liked how their dark coloured dress was speckled in lighter colours and also how their forms contrasted against the rows of white paper.
Olympus OM-D EM-1 with 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO
Sorry for posting SO many photos today! I think it's the only way I will ever get through all the images from this Texas trip.
On Day 6 of our birding holiday in South Texas, 24 March 2019, we left our hotel in Kingsville, South Texas, and started our drive to Mission, where we would be staying at La Quinta Inn & Suites for three nights. On the first stretch of our drive, we were lucky enough to see several bird species, including a Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Hooded Oriole, Red-tailed Hawk, Crested Caracara, Harris's Hawk, Pyrrhuloxia male (looks similar to a Cardinal) and a spectacular Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. I'm not sure if this stretch is called Hawk Alley.
We had a long drive further south towards Mission, with only a couple of drive-by photos taken en route (of a strangely shaped building that turned out to be a deserted seed storage building). Eventually, we reached our next planned stop, the National Butterfly Centre. This was a great place, my favourite part of it being the bird feeding station, where we saw all sorts of species and reasonably close. Despite the name of the place, we only saw a few butterflies while we were there. May have been the weather or, more likely, the fact that I was having so much fun at the bird feeding station. We also got to see Spike, a giant African Spurred Tortoise. All the nature/wildlife parks that we visited in South Texas had beautiful visitor centres and usually bird feeding stations. And there are so many of these parks - so impressive!
nationalbutterflycenter.org/nbc-multi-media/in-the-news/1...
"Ten years ago, the North American Butterfly Association broke ground for what has now become the largest native plant botanical garden in the United States. This 100-acre preserve is home to Spike (who thinks he is a butterfly) and the greatest volume and variety of wild, free-flying butterflies in the nation. In fact, USA Today calls the National Butterfly Center, in Mission, Texas, 'the butterfly capitol of the USA'." From the Butterfly Centre's website.
The Centre is facing huge challenges, as a result of the "Border Wall". The following information is from the Centre's website.
www.nationalbutterflycenter.org/about-nbc/maps-directions...
"No permission was requested to enter the property or begin cutting down trees. The center was not notified of any roadwork, nor given the opportunity to review, negotiate or deny the workplan. Same goes for the core sampling of soils on the property, and the surveying and staking of a “clear zone” that will bulldoze 200,000 square feet of habitat for protected species like the Texas Tortoise and Texas Indigo, not to mention about 400 species of birds. The federal government had decided it will do as it pleases with our property, swiftly and secretly, in spite of our property rights and right to due process under the law."
"What the Border Wall will do here:
1) Eradicate an enormous amount of native habitat, including host plants for butterflies, breeding and feeding areas for wildlife, and lands set aside for conservation of endangered and threatened species-- including avian species that migrate N/S through this area or over-winter, here, in the tip of the Central US Flyway.
2) Create devastating flooding to all property up to 2 miles behind the wall, on the banks of the mighty Rio Grande River, here.
3) Reduce viable range land for wildlife foraging and mating. This will result in greater competition for resources and a smaller gene pool for healthy species reproduction. Genetic "bottlenecks" can exacerbate blight and disease.
IN ADDITION:
4) Not all birds can fly over the wall, nor will all butterfly species. For example, the Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, found on the southern border from Texas to Arizona, only flies about 6 ft in the air. It cannot overcome a 30 ft vertical wall of concrete and steel.
5) Nocturnal and crepuscular wildlife, which rely on sunset and sunrise cues to regulate vital activity, will be negatively affected by night time flood lighting of the "control zone" the DHS CBP will establish along the wall and new secondary drag roads. The expansion of these areas to vehicular traffic will increase wildlife roadkill.
6) Animals trapped north of the wall will face similar competition for resources, cut off from native habitat in the conservation corridor and from water in the Rio Grande River and adjacent resacas. HUMANS, here, will also be cut off from our only source of fresh water, in this irrigated desert.
Sorry I have been posting boring stuff. It's not that I haven't been taking pictures, I have actually taken a lot. It's just that lately I haven't been able to portray my ideas so well, so everything I take doesn't seem to work out. I'll keep trying though.
Also, whenever I look at my stats, there is yahoo mail or hotmail, listed as a referrer. Does that mean someone is emailing a link to photostream or what. Has this ever happened to any of you?
Here is my last posting of some images taken on the Wisconsin & Southern’s Northern Division the morning of December 7th, 2023.
Now it’s around mid-day and we are at Ackerville, a small yard alongside the Canadian National where L599, the WAMX 3892 which I had photographed earlier in Hartford, and train L249, WAMX 5904 which I had just caught passing through Richfield, are meeting up near the State Highway 164 overpass.
At this location, the crews will basically swap trains, and sometimes a few locomotives, that way after the CN interchange work is completed they can head back to their respective base terminals. This seems to be the normal routine here for these two Wisconsin & Southern jobs.
For the most part, WATCOs locomotive road numbers are EMD model based, so the 3800s seen this day were GP38s and the recently acquired 5900 series were GP59s. ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©
I am posting some art photography from Dave LaTrobe, who is nearly 90 this year. Much of his work include using the techniques of Posterization and Solarization all from analog positives and negatives. Much of this is a lost art in the photographic world.
Photography: Dave LaTrobe
Edit: Dennis Huey
T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the web,
no one was posting, not even a thread;
The MOCs were arranged in the display case with care,
In hopes that new sets would soon be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of Duplo danced in their heads;
And Mamma with her dio, and I with my vig,
Had just settled down to build a thingamajig,
When out from the brick room, there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the floor to see what was the matter.
Away to the brick room I flew like a flash,
As the silence was broken by a second crash.
(I had just built this really cool set,
But hadn't taken pictures yet),
When what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,
Built by a little man, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick,
BUT HE TORE APART MY SETS TO BUILD IT!
THAT STUPID SANTA IS SUCH A NITWIT!
My mech! My spaceship! My scale Titantic!
My heart raced and I became frantic,
"Get of here, Santa.Get out of here now,
Or I swear that I'll kill you some way...somehow!"
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount up to the sky,
So out of the room Santa did fly,
Leaving me to hold my scattered parts and cry,
And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof,
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof,
As I gathered my ruined creations,
I saw one of Nick's fabrications,
It was covered in cheese slopes and 1x2 grills
(I have to admit, this guy had skills),
Gears ran inside, with axels and pins,
So I grabbed the lever and gave it a spin,
It opened up with details inside,
And hundreds of NPU's I spied,
(Like TLC rifles used in weird ways:
E.g. minifig headgear, and ties on railways),
It was covered in rare colors like Dk tan and old bley,
And trans bricks I didn't even know were made,
Then I called Santa back to where I sat,
"Hey Santa" I said, "let's chat."
He was a good builder, and a kind looking elf,
And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
Made me realize I didn't want him dead.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And rebuilt my sets with clicks and a smirk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
He gave me some really cool stuff,
The Death Star alone was enough!
And I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"
Couldn't resist posting this with the weather finally getting consistently decent here in NYC.
Although it was cold a couple of days in February, for the most part it was absolutely stunning down there.
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There are some fantastic photographs of London out there, but a lot of them tend focus on famous landmarks, swirling night lights, that sort of thing. I try to take pictures of quirky day-to-day London scenes, which usually involve people going about their business (but caught in a particular moment).
That's why I was very excited when I spotted this gentlemen clambering into a post office box in Sadler's Wells. I like to think he's entering a tardis where Royal Mail workers kick back and relax after a long day.
This picture was taken on an Olympus OM-D E-M5, with a 75mm lens in Sadler's Well, London, UK.
Posting shots of this bike never grows old for me. As it’s so much fun to ride and so capable as a #fastfar offroad / gravel bikepacking rig. And as these two photos were made in my last real holiday wit real sun in August / September last year. On my way to Badlands in Granada.
Posting for amusement value -- Ragnar's head (EID Arvid in RS) is temporarily on Gremory's NS nYID body for the wigmaking process, and he looks like an Arvid lollipop, LOL!
Wig is about half-done in this pic -- it's drying from Step 3 currently (I added more hair -- he's going to have a dread-y ponytail, so I first covered the wig cap in glued-down hair going the right direction, let it dry overnight, and applied loose hair (glued inside the hairline) today.
When it's all dry, I'll dread the remaining loose hair, and my sexy pirate captain can have his official debut ^___^
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I'm posting another version of this subject. I just like all of them for various reasons. This one has a nice skyline, with the various structures and poles. It includes the graffiti on the side of the red brick building and the building next to it, the fluorescent yellow on the corner of the white building, and the orange of the "End Road Work: sign in the background at left. I also like the way the diagonal lines of the paint on the pavement and the wires work together with the lines of the buildings. Others I posted are:
I debated doing my Friday posting as it has been a hard week for all, but mustaches seem to bring a smile and if a smile comes from it, that is a good thing. Silly mustaches for my daughter’s class. Not my designs this time. Used with permission from the scrapbook paper company and I changed up the font. Now I ‘mustache’ you all to smile a bit and perhaps even pass that on to another. Best wishes to all this weekend.
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Posting today five different Japanese brochures from my collection. I like little cars and these are just a bit different. This is a Japanese market version.
Here’s one of my photos from the Saturday night at Troy. Yes, I have two drinks but only one was for me, lol.
Continued from previous posting:
In the late 1980s, Mr Seckerson who was then in his 90s, sadly passed away. His daughter inherited his property and decided to clear the land to build a new house on the site. Realising the significance of the old tram body, she made arrangements for the tramcar to be donated to the Black Country Museum at Dudley in the West Midlands.
The tramcar was duly inspected by museum staff, and in 1989, a team arrived on site to extract the tram and to remove it by low-loader to the Black Country Museum. I’d learnt of this, so on the 18th October 1989 I again visited the site to see the progress. On my arrival, the tram body had been removed from its resting place, and had been lifted onto tram-jacks in readiness for its removal to the Museum.
By now, more was known about the old tram body. It had long been thought that the tram had originated with the Dudley & Stourbridge Electric Tramway Company, and it would appear that this was indeed the case.
In previous years the late J. Stanley Webb, had researched and written extensively about the Black Country’s tramways, and it was largely through Mr Webb’s findings that it is thought the tram body started life in 1901 as tramcar No36 with the Dudley & Stourbridge Electric Tramway Company.
No36 was one of sixteen identical open top, double deck cars built by the Electric Railway & Tramway Carriage Works (ER&TCW) in Preston, for the Dudley & Stourbridge Electric Tramway Co. Few records exist, but it’s known that during the early part of their lives, some of these cars received ‘Bellamy’ top-covers, a crude looking over-canopy to enclose the open upper decks, which certainly didn’t enhance their appearance.
Between 1919-1920 and after fairly long-lived lives, these cars were replaced by new single-deck ‘Tividale’ tramcars. The original tramcars dating from 1901 were withdrawn and eventually broken up. However, tram No36 seems to have survived the scrapping program, and was instead acquired by the Wolverhampton & District Tramways Company, who numbered it 19, and converted into an engineering car.
Just a few short years later, the W&DT tram system was closed and the trams and infrastructure dismantled. As was often the case, several of the old tram bodies were sold off as summer houses, and were often transported many miles by their new owners to picturesque locations in rural areas, where some survived for decades after.
As for No19, that had its Brill-21E tram-truck removed and along with others the tram body was put up for sale. Seeing as it had been used as a mobile workshop by the W&DT, Mr Seckerson must have viewed it as the ideal candidate for his bicycle repair business, and so he purchased it. It was hauled out to Seisdon on a trailer pulled by a steam driven lorry, the hire of which cost him £5.
Today, the tram still exists, but is stored in acquired condition at the Black Country Museum, awaiting its turn when time and money allow for its restoration and possibly, its return to working condition.
Photo: 18th October 1989.
More about the Dudley, Stourbridge & District Electric Traction Co. Ltd.
www.petergould.co.uk/local_transport_history/fleetlists/t...
More about the Wolverhampton & District Tramways Comapny:
www.petergould.co.uk/local_transport_history/fleetlists/t...
Now completely redeveloped, this was the site from where the tramcar was located and recovered.
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I'm not posting this based on the quality of the shot. This was more of a challenge. The Vatican staff makes it's very clear that photography is not allowed inside the Chapel - guards are even walking through the crowd to ensure this rule is followed. Hence the challenge! First of all, the Chapel is simply stunning - words or pictures cannot do this work of art justice. Michelangelo was a true master.
So the shot above was taken from the hip. I was surprised I was able to score the centerpiece of the ceiling. About 10 minutes later I was discovered shooting from the hip and was told if I took any more shots I would be asked to leave. Mission was accomplished - the Nikon was placed back in the bag. I know - troublemaker...
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