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I just found out today is Sue, Saving Memories' birthday. She is wonderful and full of humor!

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Hope you have a great day Sue!

Apologies for my absence. This may give you a clue as to my whereabouts. If any rail buff can provide info I'd be very grateful.

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I'm finally getting down to posting pictures from my Route 66 road trip in July of 2013. My wife, Theresa went with me this time.

Three images each one stop apart merged in Photomatix and polished up in Photoshop CC.

Oly OM-D E-M5 and M Zuiko 12-50mm f3.5-6.3 lens with circular polarizer.

This little cute cat did not moved a finger while i was shooting :D

I missed posting Caine's birthday last year - as I recall, that was during the time after I had lost my charger & was using my camphone for everything! So I am posting his b'day pic now, while I have a few mere minutes left in his b'day (April 4, 2011). Was simply too busy earlier in the day, took him to guitar lessons & then out to dinner. Here is Caine with his new toy, taken 3/15/11. His dad was too excited to wait for his b'day to give it to him, & Caine did not complain about that at all! It didn't turn out too badly for a cell phone pic, but I'd like to get a better one with my Nikon sometime if he ever lets me! The following song is the first one he learned when he started taking lessons. It's a fave of his, so I'm posting it for him. :) View On Black

Well you done done me and you bet I felt it

I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted

I fell right through the cracks, now I'm trying to get back

Before the cool done run out I'll be giving it my bestest

And nothing's going to stop me but divine intervention

I reckon it's again my turn to win some or learn some

But I won't hesitate no more, no more

It cannot wait, I'm yours

Well open up your mind and see like me

Open up your plans and then you're free

Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love

Listen to the music of the moment people, dance and sing

We're just one big family

And it's our God-forsaken right to be loved loved loved loved loved

So I won't hesitate no more, no more

It cannot wait, I'm sure

There's no need to complicate, our time is short

This is our fate, I'm yours

D-d-do do you, but do you, d-d-do

But do you want to come on

Scooch on over closer dear

And I will nibble your ear

I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror

And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer

But my breath fogged up the glass

And so I drew a new face and I laughed

I guess what I be saying is there ain't no better reason

To rid yourself of vanities and just go with the seasons

It's what we aim to do, our name is our virtue

But I won't hesitate no more, no more

It cannot wait, I'm yours

(I won't hesitate)

Open up your mind and see like me

(No more, no more)

Open up your plans and man you're free

Look into your heart and you'll find that the sky is yours

(It cannot wait, I'm sure)

So please don't, please don't, please don't

(There's no need to complicate)

There's no need to complicate

(Our time is short)

'Cause our time is short

(This is our fate)

This is, this is, this is our fate

I'm yours

I'm Yours by Jason Mraz

Posting some more of the horrible dollies I made in 2016! You can see more on my blog: chipinhead.com/category/suzanne_forbes_artwork/action_fig...

CLAY NATIONAL GUARD CENTER, Marietta, Ga., Dec. 13, 2017 - Youth ChalleNGe Academy Cadets post the colors during the 381st National Guard Birthday celebration.

(Georgia National Guard photo by Desiree Bamba / Released)

Further to 'berresfordmotors' postings of Jeffreys coaches, and comments by 'reddman', here's a pic of their Super Vega UNT 132 on the parking ground adjacent to their Charlotte Street Garage.

When it became clear that the longstanding Jeffrey's business was giving up, rather than face the struggle which fellow Goldenhill operator Stoniers were going through with regard to finding replacement premises, I decided that I'd better take a few photos. Swallowing my 'anti lightweight' pride, I ventured the hundred yards across the village in my lunch break. UNT 132 was something of a dinosaur with it's petrol (gasoline) engine at the time, but if it was old, then the business itself was ancient, having it's roots back in 1863.

The settlement in the background is the village of Newchapel, famous amongst industrial historians as the burial place of canal engineer James Brindley.

With Edwardian gent posting a letter.

Some more 'Then and Now' shots from around the suburbs, taken in February 2013.

All these photos can also be seen on my new Facebook page...

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Please feel free to add any comments, corrections, additional info or memories you may have, and if you know anyone else who might be interested, please feel free to let them know about it.

I have contacted the owners of as many 'original' photos as I can to ask their permission to use it in this way, and where they have requested it, I have credited them accordingly. However, if you are the copyright holder and I haven't yet been able to contact you, please do get in touch and I'd be happy to add any details, credits or links, or remove the photo if you wished..

Thanks for looking, I hope they are of some interest!

Second one I spotted.

Happy young woman posting mail in Traditional Japanese towm

Just posting this photo of the Tacoma Link (basically a Sound Transit branded streetcar for Downtown Tacoma, Washington) in living color for posterity... more photos to come.

PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com

Posting three street images from Manaus. This guy was painting a wall but I couldn't help feeling he was entrapped by all the electricity cables.

Again, posting a day late. However, with this I'm announcing that the coming month, posting will actually continue to be very irregular, because... I'm going on a one-month USA road trip!!! (WARNING: long post ahead)

My girlfriend and I are leaving for Houston, TX, this Sunday, where we will stay with my parents for a few days and visit some old friends. Then, on Wednesday we drive off on our road trip to the West coast.

For about two and a half weeks, we will be driving to San Francisco and back, visiting lots of national parks and cities along the way. We don't have a fixed plan yet, but some milestones along way will most likely include San Antonio, Grand Canyon, Arches, Monument Valley, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Yosemite... I realize it's quite a lot, and we'll definitely favor "quality" over "quantity", but it's good to have a general plan.

As for transportation, there's no Tesla Roadster (like the toy car on this picture), but my mom was nice enough to allow us to take her Jeep Liberty on the trip, so we'll have a very nice car to cruise around in. Plus, it saves us an aweful lot of $$$ on rental costs. (Note-to-self: find nice a way to thank mom for being so incredibly trustful and generous)

With regards to photography:

I'll be taking my Nikon D90 with 18-200mm for sure (I actually bought the combo for this trip), probably will take my 50mm/1.4 as well (if only 'cause it's so small anyway), and still thinking about what flash equipment to bring.

I've brought my flash along on quite a few day day-time occasions already, so I know it can make a big difference.

So, I'm thinking of bringing at least the SB-900, but I'll try to bring the SB-600 if it fits as well. Not sure about the umbrellas and light stand / super clamp though....

Speaking of strobes:

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See camera, setup and strobist info for technical details.

Posting this tonight as a reminder that it is a supermoon night tonight, In fact, even better, it is a super-full-moon night when the moon is both full and close.

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After posting the pic of the yellow balloon yesterday & getting responses that I ought to dispose of it for the sake of the environment & wildlife, I ventured out into the cold, seeking the wayward balloon. Since it had only traveled the short distance from my neighbor's flowerbed to mine in the previous day or two, I was surprised to discover that it was not in sight. I supposed that, perhaps, a member of our maintenance staff had picked it up. Nonetheless, I walked around a bit to make sure. Imagine my surprise when, on a windless day, I found the balloon around a corner in the building, nestled beneath the National Grid gauges, seemingly hiding! Good for the environment & local wildlife/bad for the balloon, I plucked it out, deflated it, & safely disposed of it. We'd had a short, but fun relationship! Thanks, yellow balloon!

My postings of the Harshaville Covered Bridge in Adams County, Ohio, reminded me of my visit to the county's other covered bridge when I was in Ohio last summer. At the time, I posted a close-up image of the Kirker Covered Bridge, but in looking through the archives, I located this broader shot that includes the concrete highway bridge and the surrounding countryside. On this cold winter day it's nice to see a picture of the greens of summer!

The Kirker Bridge was named for Thomas Kirker, an early Adams County resident who was governor of Ohio from 1807 to 1808. The bridge was built in 1890 and crosses the East Fork of Eagle Creek.

Info from the Ohio Department of Transportation covered bridge page.

posting out this pair today ! Phone photo and the colours are a bit off : (

Posting pics

West Campus

The Ohio State University

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This is a photograph from the FINISH of the SSE Airticity Dublin Marathon which was held in Dublin City, Ireland on Monday October 27th 2014 at 09:00. This was the 35th year of the SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon, which is run through the historic Georgian streets of Dublin, Ireland's largest and capital city. This photograph was taken in Dublin City Center at Mount Street Canal Bridge which is just before the 26 mile mark on Mount Street.

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Without posting a high-resolution scan, it's difficult to get across how badly some old slides deteriorate. In this example half of the sky has yellowed, the entire transparency is covered in what appears to be ingrained specks of dirt? In addition to this the slide has been scratched, presumably in a slide projector many years ago.

View in 'All sizes' Original to see some of the damage. A higher resolution image would show even more damage.

don't bitch at me for posting untagged. they are EVERYWHERE. twitter, tumblr, etc.

Goldseekers Track in the Selwyn area of Kosciuszko National Park is an easy 3km loop track.

For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/in-search-of-gold-gol...

I am posting these pictures for the Hajj season this year which is happening now. in this picture you see Mina tent city, 4 million people stay in these tents for a week, most of Hajj rituals happen here such as shaving head and stoning

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After posting the previous Quonset photo (#25...the fantastic, over-the-top 20-humper) this simple, but quite huge empty Quonset is almost relaxing for me to gaze at. I'd come across it before, but never when I had a chance to get a shot of it (tho it's not like it's going anywhere...) but was in that 'hood this week, and had a camera with me, so went for it. Unfortunately the battery was in a dying mode, so of the many shots and angles I went for, this is the only one that showed up just now, after I recharged it to upload. There's a big cyclone fence all around this old dear, and there didn't used to be, so hopefully something good is in store for it in the future.

Random postings of photos I have taken over the last few years. Explore the photo set to find other work by the artist or of the same theme or event.

All photos © Ian Cox. If you would like to use this image please ask first. Best viewed as a set here

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For someone who thinks he is a non-birder I've been posting a lot of bird photos recently. On thinking about it, I have decided it is the technical challenge of taking a good bird in flight photo that has me interested.

For a blog post on how to mate a state of the DX art D7000 with a very non-state of the art lens for bird in flight images visit: scribble-jpc.blogspot.com/2011/03/chasing-best-setting-on...

Posting a letter to my Dad ,who was working abroad.I think it was taken in 1972,when I was four.

I am posting this old shot of a lighthouse in memory of a FB and Flickr friend who passed away early this morning from cancer. She was an avid lighthouse visitor, a Boatnerd member, rode on a Harley with her husband and a lover of books, specially Stephen King. When we first met online, she knew I made jewelry and entrusted me with a piece of her prized sea glass she sent to me in the mail for me to incorporate into a bracelet for her.Though she lived in the Detroit area, I never met her as happens with many of us who have FB friends. Godspeed Violet.

I am not sure how many of you knew Violet. Her Flickr name was Lady Pirate.

1949 to 1950 Egypt

I am indebted to John Fielding (www.flickr.com/photos/john_fielding/) for posting an aerial shot of Holy Trinity, and my interest was piqued by the timber-framed building with the triple gable at the east end. Turned out this was the Lady Chapel, and more of that later. So, on my way back home to Kent, I called in to see if it looked as remarkable in the flesh as in photographs.

I arrived at Long Melford, after being taken on a magical mystery tour in light drizzle from Wortham, down narrow and narrower lanes, under and over railway lines, through woods, up and down hills until, at last, I saw the town laid out beyond the church.

I parked at the bottom of Church Walk then walked up past the line of timber framed houses, the tudor hospital and the tudor manor house.

Holy Trinity sits on top of the hill, spread out, filling its large churchyard and the large tower not out of proportion.

Inside it really is a collection of wonders, from brasses, the best collection of Medieval glass in Suffolk, to side chapels, and behind, the very unusual Lady Chapel.

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The Church of the Holy Trinity, Long Melford is a Grade I listed parish church of the Church of England in Long Melford, Suffolk, England. It is one of 310 medieval English churches dedicated to the Holy Trinity.

The church was constructed between 1467 and 1497 in the late Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a noted example of a Suffolk medieval wool church, founded and financed by wealthy wool merchants in the medieval period as impressive visual statements of their prosperity.

The church structure is highly regarded by many observers. Its cathedral-like proportions and distinctive style, along with its many original features that survived the religious upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, have attracted critical acclaim. Journalist and author Sir Simon Jenkins, Chairman of the National Trust, included the church in his 1999 book “England’s Thousand Best Churches”. He awarded it a maximum of 5 stars, one of only 18 to be so rated. The Holy Trinity Church features in many episodes of Michael Wood's, BBC television history series Great British Story, filmed during 2011.

A church is recorded as having been on the site since the reign of King Edward the Confessor (1042–1066). It was originally endowed by the Saxon Earl Alric, who bequeathed the patronage of the church, along with his manor at Melford Hall and about 261 acres of land, to the successive Abbots of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmund’s. There are no surviving descriptions of the original Saxon structure, although the roll of the clergy (see below) and the history of the site extend back to the 12th century.

The church was substantially rebuilt between 1467 and 1497. Of the earlier structures, only the former Lady Chapel (now the Clopton Chantry Chapel) and the nave arcades survive.

The principal benefactor who financed the reconstruction was wealthy local wool merchant John Clopton, who resided at neighbouring Kentwell Hall. John Clopton was a supporter of the Lancastrian cause during the Wars of the Roses and in 1462 was imprisoned in the Tower of London with John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford and a number of others, charged with corresponding treasonably with Margaret of Anjou. All of those imprisoned were eventually executed except John Clopton, who somehow made his peace with his accusers and lived to see the Lancastrians eventually triumphant at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

The dates of the reconstruction of the church are derived from contemporary wills, which provided endowments to finance the work

In 1710 the main tower was damaged by a lightning strike.[3] It was replaced with a brick-built structure in the 18th century and subsequently remodelled between 1898 and 1903 to its present-day appearance, designed by George Frederick Bodley in the Victorian Gothic Revival style. The new tower was closer to its original form with stone and flint facing and the addition of four new pinnacles.

The nave, at 152.6 feet (46.5 m), is believed to be the longest of any parish church in England. There are nine bays, of which the first five at the western end are believed to date from an earlier structure.

The interior is lit by 74 tracery windows, many of which retain original medieval glass. These include the image of Elizabeth de Mowbray, Duchess of Norfolk, said to have provided the inspiration for John Tenniel's illustration of the Queen of Hearts in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The sanctuary is dominated by the large reredos, of Caen stone and inspired by the works of Albrecht Dürer. It was installed in 1877, having been donated by the mother of the then Rector Charles Martyn.

On the north side is the alabaster and marble tomb of Sir William Cordell who was the first Patron of the Church after the dissolution of the Abbey of Bury St Edmund's in 1539. On either side of the tomb are niches containing figures that represent the four Cardinal virtues of Prudence, Justice, Temperance and Fortitude.

The sanctuary also holds one of the earliest extant alabaster bas relief panels, a nativity from the second half of the 14th century. The panel was hidden under the floor of chancel, probably early in the reign of Elizabeth I, and was rediscovered in the 18th century.[6] The panel, which may be part of an altar piece destroyed during the Reformation, includes a midwife arranging Mary's pillows and two cows looking from under her bed.

The Clopton Chapel is in the north east corner of the church. It commemorates various Clopton family members and was used by the family as a place of private worship.

The tomb of Sir William Clopton is set into an alcove here, in the north wall. An effigy of Sir William, wearing chain mail and plate armour, is set on top of the tomb. Sir William is known to have died in 1446 and it is therefore believed that this corner of the church predates the late 15th-century reconstruction. There are numerous brasses set in the floor commemorating other members of the Clopton family; two date from 1420, another shows two women wearing head attire in the butterfly style from around 1480, and a third depicts Francis Clopton who died in 1558.

There is an altar set against the east wall of the chapel and a double squint designed to provide priests with a view of the high altar when conducting Masses.

The Clopton Chantry Chapel is a small chapel at the far north east corner of the church, accessed from the Clopton Chapel. This was the original Lady Chapel and is the oldest part of the current structure. After John Clopton's death in 1497, his will made provision for the chapel to be extended and refurbished and for him to be buried alongside his wife there.[10] The chapel was then renamed, while the intended Chantry Chapel became the Lady Chapel.

The tomb of John Clopton and his wife is set in the wall leading into the chapel. Inside, the canopy vault displays faded portraits of the couple. Also displayed is a portrait of the risen Christ with a Latin text which, translated, reads Everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. A series of empty niches in the south wall most likely once held statues of saints. Around the cornice, John Lydgate's poem "Testament" is presented in the form of a scroll along the roof, while his "Lamentation of our Lady Maria" is along the west wall.

The Lady Chapel is a separate building attached to the east end of the main church. In an unusual layout, it has a central sanctuary surrounded by a pillared ambulatory, reflecting its original intended use as a chantry chapel with John Clopton's tomb in its centre. Clopton was forced to abandon this plan when his wife died before the new building was completed and consecrated; so she was buried in the former Lady Chapel and John Clopton was subsequently interred next to her.[12]

The stone carving seen in the Lady Chapel bears similarities to work at King's College Chapel, Cambridge and at Burwell Church in Cambridgeshire. It is known that the master mason employed there was Reginald Ely, the King's Mason, and although there is no documentary proof, it is believed that Ely was also responsible for the work at Holy Trinity, Long Melford.[13]

The chapel was used as a school from 1670 until the early 18th century, and a multiplication table on the east wall serves as a reminder of this use. The steep gables of the roof also date from this period.

The Martyn Chapel is situated to the south of the chancel. It contains the tombs of several members of the Martyn family, who were prominent local wool merchants in the 15th and 16th centuries, and who also acted as benefactors of the church. These include the tomb chest of Lawrence Martyn (died 1460) and his two wives. On the floor are the tomb slabs of Roger Martyn (died 1615) and his two wives Ursula and Margaret; and of Richard Martyn (died 1624) and his three wives.

Originally, the Martyn chapel contained an altar flanked by two gilded tabernacles, one displaying an image of Christ and the other an image of Our Lady of Pity. These tabernacles reached to the ceiling of the chapel, but were removed or destroyed during the English Reformation in the reign of King Edward VI.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Trinity_Church,_Long_Melford

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The setting of Holy Trinity is superlative. At the highest point and square onto the vast village green, its southern elevation is punctuated by the 16th Century Trinity Hospital almshouses. Across the green is the prospect of Melford Hall's pepperpot turrets and chimneys behind a long Tudor wall. Another great house, Kentwell Hall, is to the north. Kentwell was home to the Clopton family, whose name you meet again and again inside the church. Norman Scarfe described it as in a way, a vast memorial chapel to the family.

Holy Trinity is the longest church in Suffolk, longer even than Mildenhall, but this is because of a feature unique in the county, a large lady chapel separate from the rest of the church beyond the east end of the chancel. The chapel itself is bigger than many East Anglian churches, although it appears externally rather domestic with its triple gable at the east end. There is a good collection of medieval glass in the otherwise clear windows, as well as a couple of modern pieces, and a very mdern altarpiece at the central altar. Jacqueline's mother remembered attending Sunday School in this chapel in the 1940s.

The intimacy of the Lady Chapel is in great contrast to the vast walls of glass which stretch away westwards, the huge perpendicular windows of the nave aisles and clerestories, which appear to make the castellated nave roof float in air. An inscription in the clerestory records the date at which the building was completed as 1496. Forty years later, it would all have been much more serious. Sixty years later, it would not have been built at all. A brick tower was added in the early 18th Century, and the present tower, by GF Bodley, was encased around it in 1903. As Sam Mortlock observes, this tower might seem out of place in Suffolk, but it nevertheless matches the scale and character of the building. It is hard to imagine the church without it.

I came here back in May with my friend David Striker, who, despite living thousands of miles away in Colorado, has nearly completed his ambition to visit every medieval church in Norfolk and Suffolk. This was his first visit to Long Melford, mine only the latest of many. We stepped down into the vast, serious space.. There was a fairly considerable 19th Century restoration here, as witnessed by the vast sprawl of Minton tiles on the floor, although perhaps the sanctuary furnishings are the building's great weakness. Perhaps it is the knowledge of this that fails to turn my head eastwards, but instead draws me across to the north aisle for the best collection of medieval glass in Suffolk. During the 19th century restoration it was collected into the east window and north and south aisles, but in the 1960s it was all recollected here. Even on a sunny day it is a perfect setting for exploring it.

The most striking figures are probably those of the medieval donors, who originally would have been set prayerfully at the base of windows of devotional subjects. Famously, the portrait of Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk is said to have provided the inspiration for John Tenneil's Duchess in his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, although I'm not sure there is any evidence for this. Indeed, several of the ladies here might have provided similar inspiration.

The best glass is the pieta, Mary holding the body of Christ the Man of Sorrows. Beneath it is perhaps the best-known, the Holy Trinity represented in a roundel as three hares with their ears interlocking. An angel holding a Holy Trinity shield in an upper light recalls the same thing at Salle. Other glass includes a fine resurrection scene and a sequence of 15th Century Saints. There is also a small amount of continental glass collected in later centuries, including a most curious oval lozenge of St Francis receiving the stigmata.

Walking eastwards down the north aisle until the glass runs out, you are rewarded by a remarkable survival, a 14th century alabaster panel of the Adoration of the Magi. It probably formed part of the altar piece here, and was rediscovered hidden under the floorboards in the 18th century. Fragments of similar reliefs survive elsewhere in East Anglia, but none in such perfect condition. Beyond it, you step through into the north chancel chapel where there are a number of Clopton brasses, impressive but not in terribly good condition, and then beyond that into the secretive Clopton chantry. This beautiful little chapel probably dates from the completion of the church in the last decade of the 15th century. Here, chantry priests would have celebrated Masses for the dead of the Clopton family. The chapel is intricately decorated with devotional symbols and vinework, as well as poems attributed to John Lidgate. The beautiful Tudor tracery of the window is filled with elegant clear glass except for another great survival, a lily crucifix. This representation occurs just once more in Suffolk, on the font at Great Glemham. The panel is probably a later addition here from elsewhere in the church, but it is still haunting to think of the Chantry priests kneeling towards the window as they asked for intercessions for the souls of the Clopton dead. It was intended that the prayers of the priests would sustain the Cloptons in perpetuity, but in fact it would last barely half a century before the Reformation outlawed such practices.

You step back into the chancel to be confronted by the imposing stone reredos. Its towering heaviness is out of sympathy with the lightness and simplicity of the Perpendicular windows, and it predates Bodley's restoration. The screen which separates the chancel from the south chapel is medeival, albeit restored, and I was struck by a fierce little dragon, although photographing it into the strong south window sunshine beyond proved impossible. The brasses in the south chapel are good, and in better condition. They are to members of the Martyn family.

The south chapel is also the last resting place of Long Melford's other great family, the Cordells. Sir William Cordell's tomb dominates the space. He died in 1581, and donated the Trinity Hospital outside. His name survives elsewhere in Long Melford: my wife's mother grew up on Cordell Road, part of a council estate cunningly hidden from the High Street by its buildings on the east side.

Simon Knott, January 2013

www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/Longmelford.htm

Posting a few of my archived photos from the past few weeks , Flickr has lost its appeal to me , hence I post a few every now and again instead of daily , I do not know why though somehow Flickr is not my first choice for posting any longer, I prefer Instagram now.

It seems posting about religion that is not pro-religion is considered unacceptable and offensive/triggering to people here who are religious. All well and good, but the same applies in reverse too. My 2c on the matter.

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