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It’s not about you.
The purpose of your life is far greater than
your own personal fulfillment, your peace of
mind, or even your happiness. It’s far greater
than your family, your career, or even your
wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to
know why you were placed on this planet, you
must begin with God. You were born by his
purpose and for his purpose.
- Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life
only man has the capacity to reflect the meaning of life and discover the light in the mirror of his/her own heart...
Again the purpose of our honeymoon (believe it or not) was NOT to be a photo safari through Europe for me. Now one advantage of marrying a photographer is that when planning the honeymoon, more than likely you’ll be brought to some very photogenic areas.
We had no idea that Austria was so beautiful. Just walking along the Inn River at night and seeing those buildings reflect on the moving water with the Alps in the background was just breathtaking. On the other side of us were people sitting at tables dining alfresco. Mostly college kids.
Felt so alive. All we wanted to do was dance in the middle of the town square illuminated by the lights of the city. But seriously, who does that? Not us. So we just walked around.
no matter how many holes you dig,
or fill in
or make
or take
or break.
some days, you're just left
without a single
purpose
unless you decide
to be
boundless
Album: Creativo - Creative
"New purposes" "Crazy Tuesday Theme" "7DWF"
"Nuevos propósitos"
En este 2018, yo y mis otros yo estamos en veremos!, Fuera de broma, la verdad es que todo lo que quiero esta a mi lado mis pequeños y mi mujer, todo lo que uno se propone es por ellos y para ellos, todo lo demas va y viene.
"New purposes"
In this 2018, I and my others I will see, out of joke, the truth is that everything I want is by my side my little ones and my wife, all that one proposes is for them and for them, all everything else comes and goes.
Argentina Buenos Aires CABA Villa Crespo
Ph.Wal Wsg
"Sole Purpose - Jogging Shoeprints" by Patti Deters. A young woman athlete is seen jogging past a concrete wall covered with large, varied shoe sole imprints, creating a unique and eye-catching scene. The runner's silhouette is captured in motion, perhaps her sole purpose is to finish this daily run in record time. The overall composition suggests a sense of determination and perseverance, capturing the essence of athleticism and urban energy. The concrete canvas whispers stories of countless footsteps, each sole a silent testament to a journey taken. The lone runner becomes a metaphor for our own individual paths, with her stride echoing the rhythm of progress, and her determination a beacon against the faded imprints of the past. Thank you for viewing this image. Please enjoy more landscapes and other artworks at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/sole-purpose-jogging-sho....
The purpose of this shoot is to promote to youngsters different things they can do instead of staying at home all day in front of the television. I hope they get involved and live a balanced life other than just their education. Sports, spirituality and hobbies are better than playing just with the XBox 24 hours a day.
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BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium located at the north side of False Creek, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is owned and operated by the BC Pavilion Corporation (PavCo), a crown corporation of the province. It is currently the home of the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL), Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer (MLS) and the annual Canada Sevens (part of the World Rugby Sevens Series) as well as the BC Sports Hall of Fame. The stadium also served as the main stadium for the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2010 Paralympics which Vancouver hosted, the 2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, as well as a venue for multiple matches including the championship match for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. The stadium will also host several matches during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
The stadium opened on June 19, 1983, and was built as an indoor structure with an air-supported roof, the largest of its kind in the world upon its opening. Following the 2010 Winter Olympics, BC Place was closed for 16 months as part of an extensive revitalization, the centrepiece of which was replacing the inflatable roof with a retractable roof supported by cables. Once construction was completed, the stadium's new roof was also the largest of its type. BC Place Stadium
Mirabilis Jalapa, "the marvel of Peru" or "four o'clock flower", is the most commonly grown ornamental species of Mirabilis plant, and is available in a range of colours.
Mirabilis in Latin means wonderful and Jalapa (or Xalapa) is the state capital of Veracruz in México.
Mirabilis jalapa was cultivated by the Aztecs for medicinal and ornamental purposes.
The flowers usually open from late afternoon (around 4'o clock) onwards, giving rise to one of its common names.
Flowers then produce a strong, sweet-smelling fragrance throughout the night, then close for good in the morning.
New flowers open the following day. It arrived in Europe in 1525. Today, it is common in many tropical regions and is also valued in Europe as a (not hardy) ornamental plant.
Picture taken in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain, 2018
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Mirabilis Jalapa, "la maravilla del Perú" o "la flor de las cuatro", es la especie ornamental más cultivada de la planta Mirabilis, y está disponible en una gama de colores.
Mirabilis en latín significa maravilloso y Jalapa (o Xalapa) es la capital del estado de Veracruz en México.
La Mirabilis jalapa fue cultivada por los aztecas con fines medicinales y ornamentales.
Las flores suelen abrirse a partir de las últimas horas de la tarde (alrededor de las 4), dando lugar a uno de sus nombres comunes.
Las flores producen entonces una fragancia fuerte y dulce durante toda la noche, y luego se cierran definitivamente por la mañana.
Al día siguiente se abren nuevas flores. Llegó a Europa en 1525. Hoy en día, es común en muchas regiones tropicales y también se valora en Europa como planta ornamental (no resistente).
Foto tomada en Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, España. 2018
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New as LT61BHT, LT2 was sent abroad for demonstration purposes before arriving with First West Yorkshire where it was painted green. The green was adapted upon arrival back into London into London Country livery and now LTZ1002.
Petra, Jordan
HOW TO LIVE BEAUTIFUL LIFE
You can do it easily with these 5 daily questions.
Make a habit to wake up daily and write down the answers to these five questions.
Keep your daily journal with answers – and you’ll be amazed how different your life is.
You are going to see something that has been LOST ON PURPOSE.
1. How would I live this day if I knew it is my last day?
2. What should I be thankful for in my life?
3. What I can do today to make my life more meaningful?
4. What can I do today to add some joy to my life?
5. How can I help somebody today?
Be compassionate!
Serve other people faithfully.
Only when you give something to others you can be truly happy man.
Start this easy practice today, do this daily, and create your new, positive and beautiful life!
Special thanks to Tania, for your great inspiration.
Thanks Isna for your quick comment
This unique signal and gate set up resides in Canton, Illinois where it was built to guard the CB&Q and TP&W diamond. Unfortunately in recent years the CB&Q, which became the Bnsf Yates City Subdivision was removed. Now the gate and signal sits pointless alongside the TP&W, which is now the Keokuk Junction Railway.
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"We all have something that we are meant to do.
Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and then direct all your energies towards it."
(From "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" by Robin Sharma)
This man was sitting at Sheetla Ghat along the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras).
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An onion dome (Russian: луковичная глава, lúkovichnaya glava; compare Russian: лук, luk, "onion") is a dome whose shape resembles an onion. Such domes are often larger in diameter than the drum upon which they sit, and their height usually exceeds their width. These bulbous structures taper smoothly to a point.
It is the predominant form for church domes in [Russia] (mostly on Russian Orthodox churches) and in Bavaria, Germany (German: Zwiebelturm (literally "onion tower"), plural: Zwiebeltürme, mostly on Catholic churches), but can also be found regularly across Austria, northeastern Italy, Eastern Europe, Mughal India, the Middle East and Central Asia. (source-Wikipedia)
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One of the purposes of Friday's 6Z21 was to move this JXA wagon from Sellafield to Kingmoor for onward transfer south.
The wall divides the railway from, rather appropriately on this occasion, the waggon road which connected the one time fishing port and hive of industry that was Parton to the larger town of Whitehaven negating the arduous climb over the Bransty cliffs.
The waggonway now serves as a walkway & cycle-path and is a pleasant place to while away some time on a sunny day.
Photographed in Lake Ndutu, Tanzania on day 3 of our 2018 trip to Africa
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We always enjoyed seeing Secretary Birds in various locations during our trip. We would usually see two birds, walking with a purpose through open fields_on the hunt, sometimes speeding up when they saw movement of some creature that might be a meal and then returning to their steady pace.
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From Wikipedia: The secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is a very large, mostly terrestrial bird of prey. Endemic to Africa, it is usually found in the open grasslands and savannah of the sub-Saharan region. Although a member of the order Accipitriformes, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites, hawks, vultures, and harriers, it is given its own family, Sagittariidae.
It appears on the coats of arms of Sudan and South Africa.
Taxonomy:
In 1769 Vosmaer was the first European to describe the secretarybird in one of the pamphlets later collected as his Regnum Animale, naming it Sagittarius for its gait which was thought to resemble an archer's. He also mentioned that it was known as the Secretarius by farmers at the Cape of Good Hope who had domesticated it to combat pests around homesteads. In 1779 English illustrator John Frederick Miller also described it as secretarybird, and it was soon after assigned to its own genus Sagittarius by French naturalist Johann Hermann in his Tabula Affinitatum Animalium. It was not until 1935 that the species was moved to its own family, distinct from all other birds of prey—a classification confirmed by molecular systematics. Recent cladistic analysis has shown Sagittariidae to be an older branch of the diurnal birds of prey than Accipitridae and Falconidae, but a younger divergence than Cathartidae. Sometimes, the enigmatic bird Eremopezus is classified as an early relative of the secretarybird, though this is uncertain as the bird is only known from a few fragmentary body parts such as the legs. The earliest fossils associated with the family are two species from the genus Pelargopappus. The two species, from the Oligocene and Miocene respectively, were not discovered in Africa but France. The feet in these fossils are more like those of the Accipitridae; it is suggested that these characteristics are primitive features within the family. In spite of their age, it is not thought that the two species are ancestral to the secretary bird.
Though strongly convergent with the modern secretarybird, the extinct raptor Apatosagittarius is thought to be an accipitrid.
Description:
The secretarybird has distinct black feathers protruding from behind its head.
The skull of secretarybird at Museum of Natural History at University of Wrocław
The secretary bird is instantly recognizable as a very large bird with an eagle-like body on crane-like legs which increases the bird’s height to as much as 1.3 m (4.3 ft) tall. This bird has an eagle-like head with a hooked bill, but has rounded wings. Height can range from 90 to 137 cm (35 to 54 in). Total length from 112 to 152 cm (44 to 60 in) and the wingspan is 191–220 cm (75–87 in). Body mass can range from 2.3 to 5 kg (5.1 to 11.0 lb) with 20 birds from southern Africa found to weigh an average of 4.02 kg (8.9 lb). Other attempts to estimate the mean weight range for secretary birds correspondingly lie between 3.5 and 4.2 kg (7.7 and 9.3 lb). The tarsus of the secretary bird averages 31 cm (12 in) and the tail is 57–85 cm (22–33 in), both factor into making them both taller and longer than any other species of raptor since these features are not as long in any other living raptor. The neck is not especially long, and can only be lowered down to the inter-tarsal joint, so birds reaching down to the ground or drinking must stoop to do so.
From a distance or in flight it resembles a crane more than a bird of prey. The tail has two elongated central feathers that extend beyond the feet during flight, as well as long flat plumage creating a posterior crest. Secretary bird flight feathers and thighs are black, while most of the coverts are grey with some being white. Sexes look similar to one another as the species exhibits very little sexual dimorphism, although the male has longer head plumes and tail feathers. Adults have a featherless red face as opposed to the yellow facial skin of the young.
Distribution and habitat:
Secretary birds are endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa and are non-migratory, though they may follow food sources. Their range extends from Mauritania to Somalia and south to the Cape of Good Hope. These birds are also found at a variety of elevations, from the coastal plains to the highlands. Secretary birds prefer open grasslands and savannas rather than forests and dense shrubbery which may impede their cursorial existence. While the birds roost on the local Acacia trees at night, they spend much of the day on the ground, returning to roosting sites just before dark.
Behaviour and ecology:
Diet:
Unlike most birds of prey, the secretary bird is largely terrestrial, hunting its prey on foot. Adults hunt in pairs and sometimes as loose familial flocks, stalking through the habitat with long strides. Prey may consist of insects, mammals ranging in size from mice to hares and mongoose, crabs, lizards, snakes, tortoises, small birds, bird eggs, and sometimes dead animals killed in grass or bush fires. Larger herbivores are not generally hunted, although there are some reports of secretary birds killing young gazelles and cheetah cubs. The importance of snakes in the diet has been exaggerated in the past, although they can be locally important and venomous species such as adders and cobras are regularly among the types of snake preyed upon. Secretary birds are kept as pest controllers by farmers to rid of snakes.
Prey is often flushed out of tall grass by the birds stomping on the surrounding vegetation. It also waits near fires, eating anything it can that is trying to escape. They can either catch prey by chasing it and striking with the bill and swallowing (usually with small prey), or stamping on prey until it is rendered stunned or unconscious enough to swallow. Larger or dangerous prey, such as venomous snakes, are instead stunned or killed by the bird jumping onto their backs, at which point they will try to snap their necks or backs. There are some reports that, when capturing snakes, the secretary birds will take flight with their prey and then drop them to their death, although this has not been verified. Even with larger prey, food is generally swallowed whole through the birds' considerable gape. Occasionally, like other raptors, they will tear apart prey with their feet before consuming it.
Young are fed liquefied and regurgitated insects directly by the male or female parent and are eventually weaned to small mammals and reptile fragments regurgitated onto the nest itself. The above foodstuffs are originally stored in the crop of the adults.
The secretarybird has a relatively short digestive tract in comparison to other large African birds such as the kori bustard. As the foregut is specialized for digesting large amounts of meat in a short amount of time, there is little need for the physical breakdown of food within the digestive tract over extended time spans. The crop of the secretarybird is dilated and the gizzard is nonmuscular in comparison to other birds. The large intestine lacks a cecum as there is little need for fermentative digestion of plant material.
In hunting and feeding on small animals and arthropods on the ground and in tall grass or scrub, secretary birds occupy an ecological niche similar to that occupied by peafowl in South and Southeast Asia, roadrunners in North and Central America and seriemas in South America.
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The purpose of the prominent blue veins is to direct insect pollinators to where the pollen and nectar are. You may have noticed that many flowers have such veins, usually in blue, purple, or red, to reflect the ultraviolet light that insects evolved to see.
We have a lot of these on our two acre property. Coincidentally, a man stopped by this morning and offered to get rid of them and all of our wildflowers with toxic chemicals.
A new, purpose-built, covered stadium in Hobart, for $750,000 does not pass the "sniff test". There is no business case for it. In reality, paying for the stadium and an AFL team would cost nearly $1 billion.
Imagine this. These are per person adult and concession ticket prices.
CATEGORY Adult Concession
CATEGORY 1 $435.00 $370.00
CATEGORY 2 $424.00 $360.00
CATEGORY 3 $392.00 $333.00
CATEGORY 4 $361.00 $307.00
Imagine driving nearly 10 hours round trip from Smithton in northern Tasmania to Hobart to watch an AFL game, plus paying $157.52 for fuel, plus food at the game and probably a meal en route. So, two adults and two teenage children for a Category 4 (cheap seats) would set a family back well over $1,500.
So, who does the Tasmanian government expect to fill the stadium with? Cashed up folks from interstate and well off locals who maybe would not have to drive further than an hour. The government expects us taxpayers to fund this nonsense.
IF the business case was so great and AFL CEO Gillan McLachlan's claims about returns were truthful, then why doesn't the AFL fund it? Why doesn't the private sector/investors jump on board to fund it, yesterday? Why? Because it is all complete bullshit!
IF "a meeting of around 300 people at Hobart Town Hall on Wednesday unanimously expressed their opposition to the project", doesn't send a clear message, including Liberal and Independent Senator, then nothing will.
A majority of Tasmanians are doing it financially tough, the cost of living and petrol, diesel and gas keep going up, wages increases are just not keeping up, and you want to tax us for someone else's dream?
There are other priorities. The PHS needs fixing, urgently. The hospitals are a mess. The nurses are over-worked, short-staffed. There not enough GPs. The roads are potholed and some have needed sealing for decades, but the State government wants to waste hard-to-come-by money (nearly a billion of it) on building a stadium and securing an AFL team. Let's put it into perspective, if I sold one of my books for $54.95 every day, it would take me nearly 50,000 years to make $1 billion in sales.
Think of all the other ways Tasmania could be improved, if that money was spent on the PHS, social housing, roads that need to be sealed, like the B11 Marlborough Highway between Miena and Bronte Park . . . Imagine a washboard dirt road called a "highway". It is dangerous. The single lane bridge just our side Miena is dangerous and needs to be widened. We need a telephone tower on Table Mountain, north of Bothwell, so telephone coverage can be extended line-of-sight toward Arthurs Lake, Saint Patrick Plains, and Hollow Tree Road. Each Telstra tower costs $1 million. There is so much that Tasmania and Tasmanians needs that would improve everyone's lives.
How will a stadium improve my life and my fellow Tasmanians, in the immediate future?
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Kairos; The Overseer. The deity of time. A being whose sole purpose is to make beings of other worlds interact. To create small pocket universes that house copied species and persons from other worlds into his own. He starts by creating a standard world filled with lush green environments, then gazing upon a lists of planets, star systems, universe, choosing what he deems to be the most interesting. If he finds a person of interest or a species, he copies that being from that exact moment to prevent altering timelines. He creates an exact copy, without the copy realizing it, and puts them on his planet. Dozens, hundreds, thousands, he keeps adding until the planet can no longer sustain itself or he gets bored with his progress. If the fate of the world becomes the latter, he descends down to a lower plain of existence to personally exterminate what he had created with is massive hammers. The hammers are used to create his worlds and are used for their destruction, as well.
His personality is a patient one. He takes his time searching through worlds to see what can make his own more interesting. Like a chef rummaging his cupboards for the right spice or ingredient. When the selected being is copied, they perceive the copy as an otherworldly event that knocks them out, to then be awaken in the new world, without question. Kairos chose those who would be friendly at first, then adds conflict to his world to watch it crumbles. His goal is to study interactions of other beings, and report back to his commander, Lady Void. Kairos is seen as more-or-less an outcast among his kind. He acts like a god for the powers he possesses and gives him an ego that is unfitting for his race. Due to his dimension-hopping, he is hard to pinpoint, making his actions under the radar and dangerous to Lady Void. The Migrator is currently in pursuit of this being, and will be put to death once found.
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Overexposed (on purpose! … I do like to be different) Urban Light, Chris Burden, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California.
Hey Guys…
“What did you expect...?”
“I am burdened with Glorious Purpose!”
-Loki
Here is the “Vote Loki for President” pin from the Disney Plus Original Series Loki.
I had a ton of fun building this up and messing around with the letters. In the end, I also decided to build up a stand for the pin and incorporate Loki's infamous horned crown into its design to give it that extra mischievous flare. That crown stand can be seen in the other photos of this post.
For all time, Always
-God Bless
Carculio
The Origins and Purpose of Street Art and Graffiti — A Historical Essay.
Prehistoric and Ancient Beginnings (40,000 BCE – 500 CE)
Graffiti’s origins stretch back to humanity’s earliest visual culture. Prehistoric cave paintings — including hand stencils created by blowing pigment through tubes — functioned as some of the earliest “tags,” marking presence and identity. These date from 40,000–10,000 years ago.
By the classical era, graffiti was widespread across Ancient Greece and Rome, where people scratched messages, jokes, political commentary, and personal boasts into walls. The oldest known written graffito dates to around 500 BCE.
In Pompeii, graffiti served as advertising, satire, political slogans, and everyday communication, revealing the lives of ordinary people rather than elites.
Purpose in this era:
1. Marking presence (“I was here”)
2. Social commentary
3. Recording daily life
4. Religious or political expression
5. Communication by non‑elites otherwise absent from written history
Medieval to Early Modern Graffiti (500–1800 CE)
Graffiti continued through the medieval period, especially in religious and rural landscapes. In the Middle East, the Safaitic inscriptions — scratched onto rocks across Syria, Jordan, and Arabia — are the only surviving record of an ancient Arabic dialect.
In Europe, travellers, workers, and even antiquarians carved names and messages into castles, churches, and monuments. At Stonehenge, 18th‑century visitors left carved signatures, showing graffiti as a record of presence and identity.
Purpose in this era:
1. Recording travel or pilgrimage
2. Personal memorialisation
3. Folk expression by ordinary people
4. Documentation of labourers and craftsmen
The Birth of Modern Graffiti (1950s–1970s)
Modern graffiti culture emerged in Philadelphia in the 1950s, led by figures like Cornbread, who pioneered tagging as a form of self‑promotion and identity.
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, graffiti exploded in New York City, especially on subway trains. Writers such as TAKI 183 and others transformed tagging into a competitive, stylised art form.
This era marks the shift from simple inscriptions to complex lettering, murals, and large-scale public visibility.
Purpose in this era:
1. Personal identity and fame (“getting up”)
2. Reclaiming public space
3. Youth expression in marginalised communities
4. Resistance to social and economic exclusion
The Rise of Street Art (1980s–2000s)
Street art evolved from graffiti but expanded into stencils, wheat‑paste posters, stickers, installations, and murals. Artists like Keith Haring, Jean‑Michel Basquiat, and later Banksy brought street art into global consciousness.
Street art differed from graffiti by focusing less on lettering and more on imagery, political messages, and public commentary.
According to The Art Story, street art grew from the belief that art should be:
1. Accessible to everyone
2. Outside traditional institutions
3. Democratic and empowering
4. A counter‑attack against advertising and corporate messaging
5. Purpose in this era:
6. Political protest
7. Social commentary
8. Challenging authority and capitalism
9. Beautification and community identity
Artistic experimentation outside galleries
Contemporary Street Art and Graffiti (2000s–Present)
Today, graffiti and street art occupy a complex space between vandalism, public art, activism, and cultural heritage.
Graffiti remains illegal in many contexts, yet it is also recognised as a vital form of urban storytelling, especially for marginalised voices.
Street art, meanwhile, is often commissioned by cities, festivals, and cultural institutions, blurring the line between rebellion and acceptance.
Current purposes:
1. Urban regeneration
2. Tourism and cultural branding
3. Community identity
4. Political resistance
5. Artistic innovation
Street art and graffiti are not modern inventions — they are part of a 40,000‑year human tradition of marking presence, expressing identity, and challenging power. From Roman jokes to New York subway tags to global street murals, they remain one of the most democratic and immediate forms of public expression.
I am posting two different versions of the same photo this evening with the second photo being a bit of a crop to show where I launch my canoe. I took the photo merely to show the colors in the sky in the north as there were some subtle color to be seen in the sky. I never intended to use it for any other purpose, but will try to add a bit more about the bayou system while I am on the subject.
A bit of an explanation will point you in another direction and allow you explore Armand Bayou which extends north from this point and snakes its way along for rough 4.75 miles. That doesn’t sound like a great distance but it does take some to paddle up in that direction and explore all of the nooks and crannies of Armand Bayou. If you stop and take photos like I do, you could easily spend an entire day along that stretch of the bayou. You can launch the canoe or kayak and paddle under the bridge and be on your way to explore another waterway. Just stay to the left where the bayou splits you’ll enjoy the trip a lot more.
The white structure that you see just to the right of center in the crop is a floating dock that I use to launch my canoe. Most people slide their canoes into the water on the boat ramp that you see in the far right of the scene. It adds a lot of scratches to the underside of the canoe, and so I never use it. A bit harder to launch from the floating dock, but my canoe is much happier when I treat it nicely. My last canoe lasted 33 years and is still in good working order still useable.
I’ll stop blabbering away an be on my way. It’s a nice place to enjoy with endless possibilities.
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Making it's presence felt outside the Co-operative store on Beamish Museum town street is this mighty Wallis & Steevens general purpose engine No.7013 of 1908, registered PY 668.
The engine was at Beamish as part of the Power from the Past event of October 2019.
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Berks County Heritage Center, PA. USA.
Nikon D7200 with 500mm f4 G ED VR lens and 1.4 converter with fill flash.
1/320 f5.6 ISO 250
Greetings all and Happy New Year. My wife (Frances Brown 266 ) and I ended the year with a bang-a birding bang that is, by getting a “lifer”. For the previous 5 days, ebird had been reporting a Pacific-slope Flycatcher at the Berks County Heritage Center, about a 1 and ¾ hour drive to the west. This is only the third time this species has been reported in Pennsylvania. We got up early on New Year’s Eve and made the easy ride. Friends who had been there the day before gave us directions to the hedgerow where the bird was seen. We hadn’t been there 10 minutes when the flycatcher came out of the thickets, went to the ground to get an insect and returned to his perch, as all flycatchers do. He continued this behavior from one end of the hedgerow to the other, about ¼ mile, for the 3 hours we were there. He was very cooperative and allowed for some great images (we would have been very happy just to see the bird-the images were a bonus). The Pacific-slope Flycatcher is a small yellowish/greenish bird found in warm, humid lowland coniferous forests (usually pine-oak) and dense second-growth woodlands of the Pacific Coast states. A distinguishing feature is that the white eye ring extends to the back in a tear-drop shape. It is nearly identical in appearance to the Cordilleran Flycatcher, and the two forms were formally considered to be the same species, known as the “Western Flycatcher.” A word about ebird. If you are a “birder” at any level, I encourage you to become a citizen-scientist and record your birds using ebird. It’s free and easy and administered by Cornell Lab. More info here: ebird.org/content/ebird/about/
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We're looking back toward what most people would consider the left corner at least, at the closed pharmacy and everything to the left of that. We can see the edge of the "beauty shop" section in the extreme left of the photo, and for all practical purposes, the store was devoid of all merchandise beyond there by the May 12, 2018 visit.
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Rite-Aid, 1998-built (closed May 2018), Goodman Rd. at Tulane Rd., Horn Lake MS
'The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.' - Pablo Picasso
Given that I was spending most of my stay on the French Riviera with a friend, I decided to splurge a little and spend a few days on my own beforehand, in a beautiful waterfront hotel, the Hotel Napoleon, Menton.
The hotel was filled with all sorts of beautiful artworks and photography too, but one of the things I loved, along with the vibrant coloured feature walls, was this perhaps Picasso inspired bed head, which just happened to adorn my incredibly comfy and luxurious king size bed. (It was heavenly and conducive to an unrivalled three nights, of totally restful and peaceful sleep).
Call us indulgent soles (pun intended), but the red stilettos and I quickly found ourselves feeling right at home and very at ease here. Our visit, without a doubt, a very memorable and very inspiring one, especially with the red stilettos gaining quite a following here too.
After spending time here myself, it's not difficult to see why artists like Matisse, Picasso, and Chagall all spent here long periods of time in this region. They quite literally 'saw the light' and were drawn here by the luminosity.
Said Henri Matisse after arriving here in 1917 (for health reasons) - 'When I realised each morning I would see this light again, I could not believe my luck.' He decided to stay and fill his paintings with the generous Riviera sun. I now understand, first hand, why.
I also read somewhere that - 'The South of France is a vision as much as it is a place' . . . I couldn't agree more, as I felt mesmerised the whole time I was here, constantly having to pinch myself to believe it was real . . . it's a creative's paradise and one is easily inspired here.
As I continue to daydream about my days spent on the French Riviera and dreams of perhaps living there one day, I leave you with an additional quote from Picasso - 'When I haven't any blue I use red'.
You can see all of the red stiletto adventures so far here @ 100 x Red Stilettos: The 2014 Edition