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I had to post all of these photos because he was making so many funny faces! This was the day that Romeo's love affair with Tweety started. He is always finding things on our walks through the construction sites and woods...trash from the workers' lunch, work gloves, and even found a shoe in a puddle one time, but on this beautiful fall day, he found Tweety and so it began...
As far as toys go, his top 5 in order are:
chicken - his favorite toy from puppyhood
www.flickr.com/photos/romeoromeo/2287790494/ - I tried to find something that was round and rubber and squishy like Tweety and got the yellowish orange one because I figured that he likes yellow! It makes a much nicer sound than his bad cuz and actually sounds kind of like a duck, and he likes it because when he brings it to me, I can grab the neck and shake it back and forth, making weird sounds.
World Orbee - he loves for me to stand on the rope while he tugs on it ferociously
See him live playing with his rubber chicken, including some lip action and him body slamming me!
Pretty cool building. Just down the road is the Hinsdale Humane Society, the one time home of Morris the Cat!
Hinsdale IL / Symonds Drive
Post Office
Weld County. Photo by J Gallagher, Jun. 1994.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
OWL POST, POST OFFICE, in Hogsmeade Village - Universal Studios, Orlando, USA.
You can just about see some of the owls and the bird cages in the window, just a shame a lot of people's reflections in the Florida sunshine mean you cannot see them very easily....very busy place !
Summer 2012
Story is that the chef of this restaurant used to cook for the Chairman himself, Mao Zedong. Here you can order the favourite dishes of the former Chinese leader. I've not eaten there, but you may want to try. 113 Little Bourke St, Melbourne.
Post office, Imlaystown, New Jersey - 1995. I believe this no longer serves as a post office. Kodachrome.
Bronx Central Annex-U.S. Post Office, Mott Haven, The Bronx
The Bronx Post Office, built in 1935-37, was designed by the architect Thomas Harlan Ellett in a style< which combined modified classical ornament with the elegant simplicity of modem architecture, A description in Architectural Forum for June 1938 states: "A distinct modem influence and the continuing tradition of "government classic' are the two conflicting tendencies which have resulted in the first signs of vitality in American post office design, and the new Bronx Post Office is an excellent example of best recent work ... the building subtly suggests a Georgian precedent without the use of traditional detail Plans for a much needed Bronx Post Office were announced in 1934; the building was to be erected at the Grand Concourse site which the Federal Government had purchased twenty-five years earlier.
Construction began in 1935 under the direction of the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury Department, Louis A..Simon, and of the Supervising Engineer, Neal A. Melick. The cornerstone was laid on June 13, 1936, with Postmaster General James A. Farley and New York City Postmaster Albert Goldman officiating. Farley made the occasion an opportunity to assail the critics of the New Deal. The same officials were present at the opening of the new building on May 15, 1937, when it was announced that the building would be known as the Bronx Central Annex and would serve as the Bronx headquarters of the New York Post Office.
The Post Office occupies an entire block. Its smooth gray brick walls rise above a granite terrace which varies in height along the side elevations to conform to the slope of the street. Broad, shallow steps lead up to the three entrances facing the Grand Concourse. The terrace is enclosed by a classically-inspired balustrade, flanked at the entrance steps by blocks decorated with highly stylized swags and rosettes and carrying flagpoles. The ornate foliate bronze flagpole bases have a rather baroque character.
The most prominent features of the building are the graceful window openings set within marble arches which contrast handsomely with the smooth gray brick walls. Radial brick arches, above impost block level, enframe the marble arches of the window openings. The three openings which contain the bronze entrances are set within deep reveals. The facades are crowned by a simple continuous stone bandcourse set with stylized rosettes and containing the inscription "Bronx - United States Post Office - New York."
Two sculptures, larger than life-size, affixed to the front facade add further interest to the building. The designs were chosen from over 400 models submitted in a national competition held in 1936. "The Letter," designed by Henry Kreis, portrays a mother and her child receiving a message from an absent member of the family, "Noah," by Charles Rudy, depicts the Patriarch, with a deer in one arm, straddling the Ark, and receiving the dove's message that the flood was subsiding. Also of considerable artistic and historical interest are thirteen murals in the main lobby depicting the occupations of American workers, painted by Ben Shahn and his wife, Bernards Bryson, in August 1939.
The elegant simplicity of the building with its finely exacted details make it one of the best examples of government architecture in this style* It is notable not only for its architecture but also for its sculpture and paintings. It met a long-felt need in The Bronx when built, and continues to serve that function today.
- From the 1976 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
Taken and originally posted in 2014.
(Post) Modern Love, a Boston Book Festival panel discussion held at the Church of the Covenant in the Back Bay:
Love is nothing if not complicated. Our three panelists have lots of experience and are bound to shed some light, as well as humor, on the subject. In Love Illuminated, Daniel Jones, editor of the New York Times Modern Love column, gleans observations about love from the fifty thousand submissions he’s received. Margo Howard, who wrote the advice column Dear Prudence and is the daughter of Ann Landers, shares the wisdom that comes from having been married four times in Eat, Drink, and Remarry. Jennifer Finney Boylan, whose memoir Stuck in the Middle with You describes parenting first as a father and then as a mother, knows a thing or two about complicated. Moderated by Boston Globe advice columnist and author of the novel The Singles, Meredith Goldstein.
St. Petersburg Open Air Post Office.
5 exposure vertorama, hand stitched after perspective correction and manual blending. Gave up trying to make the final "roof shot" fit, so not quite 180° vertical view.
National Registry of Historic Places:
400 1st Ave N
4/4/75
#75000564
27°46'18"N 82°38'20"W
Comments and feedback welcome.
Teil einer erneuten Fotoserie rund um den Posttower in Bonn.
Part of a new series of photographs around the Post Tower in Bonn.
Dade County. Photo by J Gallagher, Apr. 1998.
Part of the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) collection.
The rusted wire had cut deep into the split post...he stopped to examine the wood and oxidized steel, fused together in a decaying embrace. For a while they had become one. In time they would both return to the soil, dissolve in a slow journey back to the earth.
Food at my class reunion. I had other (better) pictures for this day but I don't want to post them.
Day 105
Title: Akbar's tomb
Other title: Tomb of Akbar
Date: circa 1605 (begun) 1612-1614 (finished)
Current location: Sikandra Rao, Uttar Pradesh, India
Description of work: Construction of the tomb is thought to have been in progress when Akbar (reg 1556–1605) died and was ""...completed between 1612 and 1614 by his son, the emperor Jahangir (reg 1605–27). The contribution of each has been debated: the form of the building seems characteristic of Akbar's reign, while some of the decoration is typical of Jahangir."" R. Nath, Oxford Art Online
Description of view: Close up view of a highly decorated ceiling of mostly blue and gold with a lantern hanging in the center.
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Style of work: Mughal
Culture: Indian (Islamic)
Materials/Techniques: Stone
Source: Pisciotta, Henry (copyright Henry Pisciotta)
Date photographed: 10/28/2008
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG
Image size: 2304H X 3072W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. For additional details see: alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightsarch.htm
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2008-0472 Akbar Tomb.jpg
Record ID: WB2008-0472
Sub collection: tombs
monuments
Copyight holder: Copyright Henry Pisciotta