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You know that feeling, when you've eaten too much and need to sleep?
Mallard duckling, Sheffield, UK
Mine are the green toes. You can tell because my skin is the most pale.
My mother is the foot in a sock. She doesn't like pedicures but we didn't want to leave her out.
Suhlendorf, Lower Saxony. Post mill built in 1810 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bockwindmühle "Auguste" aus dem Jahre 1810 in Suhlendorf, Niedersachsen.
Photo © Oxfordian
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this photo is not mine but came from the internet so if the owner wishes for them to be removed please say.stanley thurstons dodgem load.
the art deco architecture design of this buliding always attracted me to see it everytime I pass this building.
I was approached by a film company because they wanted to use my Delica while shooting a short film set in the near future.
They asked me to make it look as 'Post Apocalyptic' as possible. I did my best!
Fliming took place in South London on an abandoned/dereclict housing estate. A massive place with 2000+ apartments all empty. Quite eery!
I took these shots just after filming had finished and the crew had gone home. It made for a nice setting.
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The fountain in front of the Central Post Office at Paya Lebar. Behind is the Paya Lebar MRT Station.
My first test with a 10-20mm lens.
The Arkansas Post National Memorial, in southern Arkansas.
A lot of history has taken place at Arkansas Post, which was established by the French way back in 1686 (which makes it the oldest European settlement west of the Mississippi River). The post was an isolated and lonely place, and it never had a large population. In 1723, the Inspector-General of the colony visited the post to find only 17 Frenchmen living there. In 1763, the post and surrounding land were given to Spain at the end of the French and Indian War. A census taken that year showed that only 31 people lived at the post.
One of the last battles of the Revolutionary War occurred at Arkansas Post, when British loyalists attacked the fort. Spain was an ally of the Americans, and the Spanish forces successfully defended the fort from attack. By 1798, the population there had risen to nearly 400. And in 1800, Arkansas Post and all of colonial Louisiana became the property of Napoleon’s France. The period of French rule was short-lived, as the U.S. government got all the land as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
Arkansas Post remained a small and isolated town up until 1819, when it became the capitol of the new Arkansas Territory. The population here grew to over a thousand people, and several new buildings were constructed. That was again also short-lived, when the territorial capitol was moved to Little Rock in 1821. The town of Arkansas Post declined after this, only to see a lot of activity during the Civil War. A fort was constructed next to the town, which was attacked by Union troops in 1863. The battle destroyed the fort and most of the civilian buildings of Arkansas Post. In the decades after the war, the Arkansas River claimed the ruins of the civil war fort, and the town was moved a few miles upstream. By then all of the historic buildings were gone, lost to time or the waters of the river.
For all the history that has occurred in and around Arkansas Post, there really isn't much to see at the park. The visitor center sits near the plot of Arkansas Post back in the time when it was the territorial capitol. But it takes a lot of imagination to see what the town was like back in those days. The only remains are a few pieces of foundation, and an old cistern. Sidewalks criss-cross the park, following the path of roads in the old town.
Linotype-Post,
Hausmitteilungen der Linotype GmbH, Berlin und Frankfurt am Main,
Neue Folge, Heft 51, Juli 1961
In the mountains, even in June, it gets cold pretty fast once the sun goes down around 8pm. If you want to extend your time outdoors, snuggling in a zero degree duck down sleeping bag is a good solution.
I enjoy both dawn and dusk in terms of observing wildlife and also just witnessing the majestic light transformation from night to day or vice versa.
The plan for the new van is to build an observation/sleeping deck on the roof, accessible by a boat hatch directly above the bed. The view from there should be impressive, especially in the desert.
My wife and daughter have taken to placing post it notes on the ceiling above the computer in the attic. Read and enjoy...
Surgery #2:
To resolve breathing issues due to a paralyzed right diaphragm causing a collapse of the right lung.
Post surgery #2:
Not only is he looking better, he's much calmer and can breath much easier. Doesn't need the face mask to blow oxygen into his lungs and both lungs can now work in unison.
Surgical story:
Once the surgery was complete, the anesthesiologist was removing the breathing tube inserted down his nose. Even under the anesthesia, the Dr.'s said he was still feisty and even tried pulling out the breathing tube himself.
He's our little fighter. :)
This desk was once in an old brick general store in a part of West Caldwell then known as Franklin, near the current site of the town's fire department. It was used as a post office for the local farmers; they'd go to the store to send and collect mail.
The desk was later recovered during an auction in central New Jersey. The general store - the kind of place that would draw tourists if West Caldwell were still rural and still exists in out-of-the-way places in different parts of America - was demolished years ago.
The current post office, built in 1975, is a typical suburban U.S. post office - it looks like a fertilizer factory and is accessible only by car.
On the desk are newspapers from when Roosevelt was President.
Teddy Roosevelt. :-D
I saw a photo of this bridge posted on John4KC's Flickr stream and thought it might be a good time to post these.
This is a two-span through truss bridge that crosses the Big Piney River at Devil's Elbow on U.S. Route 66 (currently Teardrop Road) in Pulaski County, Missouri. The bridge is still open to traffic, but a little TLC wouldn't hurt. It was built in 1923 by Riley & Bailey, Contractors, however, it was made obsolete by a new U.S. Route 66 bridge in 1942.
Traveling east to west, the direction we were headed, the traveler crosses four concrete deck girder spans with a curved alignment, then two riveted 8-panel Parker through trusses, and finally one riveted Warren pony truss.
The total length of the bridge is 588.8 feet, with the largest span being 161.0 feet. The deck is 19.4 feet wide and the vertical clearance is 14.0 feet (although it's marked 13 feet 8 inches).
The bridge appears on the Devil's Elbow USGS topographic map. The bridge's approximate location is 37°50'51"N, 92°3'44"W (37.8475, -92.0621)—that's actually where I was standing when I took this photo.
The bridge's inventory number is MONBI 18976 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory).
During the inspection of September 2007, the deck condition rating was Poor (4 out of 9). The superstructure condition rating was Poor (4 out of 9). The substructure condition rating was Fair (5 out of 9). It's Sufficiency Rating was 30.9 out of 100. The overall condition of the bridge was appraised as Structurally Deficient.
In 2007, an average of 100 vehicles crossed daily.
South side of the bridge looking north (looking eastbound)
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