Reading in public
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I went to the basement to look for a particular matchbox which I had in mind but then I came across these tiny matchsticks which I didn't even know existed. They are less than 3cm long and the little pot is maybe 1.8 cm high. I have no box for them so the pot will have to do. I combined the matches with other items that are just as tiny (a candelabra, a good book :) and a cup of something hot and comforting). Not that the weather calls for a hot drink at the moment, but it went with my theme :) I used Xmas wrapping as wallpaper. I found lots of good tiny things today, I need to get them out and use them. MM is perfect for it. I sacrificed one matchstick to see if it would burn and yes it definitely does. A surprisingly bright flame and the "stick" burned slow enough not to burn my fingers. I did not try to burn the candles :)
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The inscription over the entrance to one of the Etruscan tombs at the Necropolis del Crocifisso del Tufo (my husband was pointing as he was reading it to me - yeah, he can read Etruscan).
The necropolis is situated below the town of Orvieto (which sadly we did not have time to visit), made by tufa rocks and in use mainly from the middle of the 6th century B.C. and then some hundred years (though the area actually was in use in total from the 8th to the 3rd centuries B.C). There are some 70 family tombs, built almost like small houses, with an entrance and straight walls and a door-opening (and inscriptions over the doors, telling who is buried where).
Behind a market stall in Kunming, the capital of the Chinese province Yunnan
A westbound Herzog "candy cane" train blasts out of Montgomery tunnel with the Reading heritage unit in the lead.
3-9-2022
Holly is our advertising model today for reading, and for choosing fun and appropriate books! I am not so sure she should have picked a book about a mouse . . . Hmmm. :)
Taken for the Happy Caturday! group: cat models and brands
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Reading & Northern’s “mountain job” drifts into Gordon Pennsylvania. It looks like those two Norfolk Southern box cars were on their first revenue assignment when they took newsprint to International Paper in Mount Carmel junction.
Vintage portrait of a man in a neat suit reading a magazine (or possibly a catalogue of some kind) - taken at Hall photo studio in Borås, Sweden, in the early years of the 20th century.
The photo studio was run by two sister, Ellen Hall (1873-1956) and Ida Hall (1874-1955), which seems to have opened in 1903.
Reading class T1 2102 leaves downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. the morning of May 22, 1977 double heading a trip over Conrail to Altoona and back with GTW 4070.
The Reading heritage unit soldiers on, looking like it's been through a battle, through the farm land of Perry County PA along NS's Pittsburgh Line.
July 27, 2020.
In 1970, the US Treasury’s longest-running promotions for Savings Bonds was initiated. Posters and billboards seemed to be everywhere, and even some railroads got into the act. The Reading Company had several freight cars augmented with the placards, including this covered hopper seen at Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1986
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