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Rakes Mill Pond
Blue Ridge Parkway
Floyd County, VA
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Rakes Mill Pond is a dammed up pond and adjacent swamp located on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd County, Virginia. A mill built in the early 19th century once stood here. It was the brainchild of Jarman Rakes who promoted business by stocking his pond with trout and letting customers fish it while he ground their wheat.
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If you wonder why all those wires and loudspeakers: those rakes had microphones attached to them, so that each scratch made on different surfaces, got amplified and played through the loudspeakers. They also had other sound-producing gadgets all over their bodies, so even when they threw away the rakes, they squeaked, barked, grunted, oinked and whatnot, with every move. :-)
Cardiff Canton based 37280 leads a rake of loaded BPA steel bogie wagons over the River Usk at Newport.
Released new to traffic in 1965 the loco was allocated to Cardiff Canton. Withdrawn in 1994 and broken up at Old Oak Common in April 1997.
Details: Pentax MX. 1/500, f4. Ilford FP4 film.
Hmm, not a broom, but it looks like it. Happy Halloween
Added for the October 2012 Monthly Scavenger Hunt pool - 8 - Rake
Joanna Hedrick’s rake design of concentric circles into the blanket of yellow ginkgo biloba trees in the walkway between Calaveras and Alpine Halls at Sacramento State. (Sacramento State/Jessica Vernone)
Sweep me up with the raking light, blow me down with lost leaves and loose snow, skating on the ice. Good shelter but no warmth, in old schoolhouses turned community halls. It's the edge of existence, enough purpose to keep lasting, a little less each year. The old hooklight over the door only shines when the sun hits it, a shepherd's crook calling cold strangers in. You stand beneath and cast shadows down yourself, all the way to the ground. The next step is always silence, awareness of the past and your place in making it. Memories leave little impact, just wisps of wind voiced under your breath, dead flies on the windowsill in their millions. But I'm committed to keeping them close, handfuls of history and dust.
February 19, 2019
Clarence East, Nova Scotia
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Hay Rake in the front fields at The Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt located in Hyde Park, NY
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The hooligans love to help rake the leaves at my mom's house. We got this pretty good pile raked together, but it's not quite big enough for diving into yet. We're saving those days for more leaves. They will be here soon enough. For now we're enjoying the steady temperature and the light!
Joe helped me rake the entire backyard today!
I remember having to rake the gravel out of the grass along the driveway every spring until the driveway was finally finished with concrete :-)
I was finally able to track down some flat metal (from a rake) to use as kalimba tines. here's what i came up with.
Las Ventanas al Paraiso "The windows to Paradise"
Km 19.5 Carretera Transpeninsular
Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo - MEXICO
In the 1970's the Mexican government designated "hot spots" for tourism development including Cancun, Ixtapa and Los Cabos. Los Cabos, which means the Capes has twin towns of Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo which are separated by 20 miles of beach coast line. Mexican developer Javier Burillo Azcarraga acquired eighteen undeveloped acres at Cabo San Lucas in the early 90's. He envisioned for the site a unique, super-luxury, boutique hotel that would stand out from the crowd and reflect Baja's indigenous culture and landscape. He brought in Atlanta-based architect and developer Hal Thannisch, Jr. to create the master plan and orchestrate the design, construction, financing, and ultimate operation of the completed resort. Thannisch hired HKS Architects of Dallas to provide architectural services, and they in turn, retained The SWA Group of Dallas to create the site plan and landscape architecture. The SWA Group developed the Las Ventanas landscape which blends the natural desert environment with the sensuality of the Mexican-style architecture to enhance the resort’s sense of authenticity. Construction began in December 1995, and the five-star Las Ventanas al Paraiso, or "Windows to Paradise," welcomed its first guests in July 1997. When guests enter Las Ventanas, they don't see all the buildings at once. Rather, the resort gradually reveals itself as guests walk down to the sea. The site plan radiates out from the open-air lobby, and every guest suite has a view of the blue Sea of Cortez. The resort resembles a small, sand and earth-colored Mexican village. The hotels opening rate was $325 a night. The 61-room Las Ventanas al Paraiso claims to have the longest celebrity client list of any hotel in the world. The discreet resort does not have a sign outside on Highway 1. Zen-inspired raked-sand entrance opens to beach views from the restaurant, private rooftop patios, and infinity-edge pools, where super-attentive pool butlers clean your smudged sunglasses and provide unlimited towel service. All over-sized guestrooms have pebble-inlaid headboards, hand-carved cedar doors, wood-burning fireplaces, and telescopes for stargazing.
Javier Burillo belongs to the Azcárraga family, owner of Televisa. He is the son of Carmela Azcárraga Milmo, sister of the late Emilio Azcárraga Milmo and daughter of Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta, founder of Televicentro, now Televisa. Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. is a Mexican multimedia company and the largest in Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world (Univision in the United States). The company has been led and owned by three generations of Azcárraga. Javier Burillo inherited the Ritz Acapulco Hotel from his grandfather. In 1999 he and Rosewood's Hal Thannisch proposed a $62 million, 105-room Rosewood Resort in Sonoma, CA which failed to get city's approval.
Thannisch Development Services, Inc. (TDS) specializes in complex issues of development planning, financing, interdisciplinary management, design management and implementation. Thannisch was directly responsible for the renovation of the historic Cogswell College building now the Ritz Carlton San Francisco and the redevelopment of the Mahogany Run Resort, St. Thomas, USVI. In 1985, Thannisch joined Caroline Hunt's Rosewood Hotel Group as vice president, development. Based in Dallas, he was immersed in the development of the Hotel Hana-Maui at Hana Ranch and The Hotel on the Old Course, St. Andrews, Scotland. In 1989, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company called on his experience to manage the feasibility, pre-development, development and construction of the Ritz-Carlton Aspen, Hotel Arts Barcelona, Spain. Thannisch brought to Rosewood its first Mexico project, Las Ventanas which has emerged as a premier five-star resort in all of Mexico.
Las Ventanas al ParaÃso became the first world-class resort in Los Cabos under hotelier Edward Steiner who served the hotel from opening to 2008. The resort achieved AAA Five Diamond status under his leadership.
In December 2003 Paraiso Los Cabos, S.A. de C.V. sold Las Ventana al Paraiso to Dallas based JTL Capital in partnership with Farallon Capital Management L.L.C.for an undisclosed price. Rosewood Hotels & Resorts agreed to a long-term contract to continue management of the resort. The purchase also included land entitled for up to 30 additional villa residences as well as an unfinished Phase IV building containing 8 premier villas that JTL Capital will finish constructing in September of 2004. The transaction was a first for JTL in Mexico. Morgan Stanley Mortgage Capital provided the financing. JTL Capital, L.L.C. is a closely held, real estate investment and development concern founded in 1999 by David A. Lane and Mark J. Sullivan. JTL Capital employs a "buy and enhance" strategy that produces attractive risk-adjusted returns.
In September 2004 Ty Warner Hotels & Resorts, LLC purchased the 61-room Las Ventanas al ParaÃso Resort from Dallas-based JTL Capital, LLC. According to Ty Warner, the goal is to extend and enhance the beauty and amenities at the resort. Warner believed the essential component to achieving that goal is in Rosewood Hotels & Resorts' continued operation of the resort. Ty Warner is an American billionaire who created the 1990s stuffed toy fad - Beanie Babies. At the peak of the Beanie craze in 1999, the privately owned Ty Inc. is believed to have earned over $700 million in profits in a year. The Beanie Babies phenomenon, coupled with the rise of the Internet, is cited as elevating Warner to billionaire status. Ty Warner Hotel and Resort Properties include: Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara, CA, Four Seasons Hotel New York, NY and San Ysidro Ranch, Montecito, CA.
Managing Directors since Edward Steiner include: Lionel Alvarez appointed Managing Director in 2008. He previously was General Manager at at Aquapura Vale Do Douro Hotel, Portugal. Martein van Wagenberg was appointed managing director of Las Ventanas in 2011. He previously was at Rosewood Little Dix Bay in Virgin Gorda. In 2014 Rosewood named Mário Candeias the managing director of Las Ventanas. He was the Director of Operations at Pestana Hotels & Resorts in Portugal. Rosewood appointed Frederic Vidal the Managing Director of Las Ventanas al ParaÃso in 2014. Previously he was Managing Director for YOSH Hospitality, a company managing palaces and villas in the United Arab Emirates.
Compiled by Dick Johnson, November 2019
New Holland Rolabar 56 Rake in hay field. Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
This rake was manufactured between 1959-1967.
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