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Whenever I happen to see a similar sewing machine, I'm instinctively associate it with memories of Nonna Esther, my maternal grandma.
What special items make you think of somebody special ?
Well, I know Remembrance / Veteran's Day is not until Monday, but we were all together this Sunday and wanted to beat the crowds, so this morning we all took a trip to the amazing and historic Calgary Military Museum.
Established in 1914, it is a huge building filled with amazing military dioramas, art, and all sorts of military vehicles, weapons, paraphenelia, etc, from all periods of Canada's Military history.
Around the outside of the building are an amazing assortment of flags, historic military statues, tanks, jets, armored vehicles; it is a very cool place!
We went there last year on Remembrance Day around noon and the crowds were so huge there were parts of the museum that we did not even get to see!
So this year we went the day before and saw every single part of the museum, in and out, me snapping photos to record the whole trip!
This amazing Mural of Honour is the very first thing you see when you step inside the building.
It dominates an entire wall of the anteroom of the museum, and is made up of 240 iconic and amazing images denoting important events and people in Canadian Military history, and altogether they form the amazing image of the three soldiers you see above.
They have various touch screen computer monitors spread around the room where you can select individual images in the Mural and read a write up about them, they are all very unique and interesting.
Here is a link to the Mural of Honour section of the Military Museum website, where you can view online each individual image and write up, for those who are interested:
Calgary Military Museum - Mural of Honour
Also, positioned directly in front of the mural is a display with a rifle and a soldier's battle helmet on top, symbolizing all those who have fallen to defend our freedom.
So, let us all take this time to remember all those soldiers worldwide, through all history, who have fought so hard and made the ultimate sacrifices to help protect our rights, freedoms, and way of life!
Lest We Forget.
As I always do with Remembrance Day posts, I am including the wonderful, timeless, and touching poem In Flanders Fields, written in the First World War by Canadian Physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McRae, and which I, to this day, can not read without getting teary eyed:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Lest We Forget.
"Collect memories, not things. Fill-up dreams, not pockets. Rise above your calling and be the person you always wanted to be." - Akash Lakhotia
For Self Portrait Sunday, theme "Remember"
Remember Me • Cheat Engine table by IDK31 + table by jim2point0 & Erika Tschinkel • UE3 tweaks • GeDoSaTo • Nvidia DSR • SRWE • ReShade (DoF) • MSI Afterburner
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Today made me a bit nostalgic and I revisited photos I took during our trip to Ireland in May of 2012. I selected this series of photos that I believe I hadn't previously posted so that I could share some of the scenes with you. While there are many places in the world that I haven't visited yet, the home of my ancestors keeps calling me to return. It's a call I'd like to answer in the not too distant future.
We liked it and we put a ring on it! 💍
You might remember the Southern Ring Nebula was one of the first images released from Webb. Webb saw two stars within the nebula: 1) the dying star that created the nebula by blowing off its layers, and 2) a companion that orbits it. But now, after carefully studying Webb data, scientists believe that there may be more hidden companions that have helped shape the gas and dust of this nebula, potentially a total of 5 stars!
Each of these two views of the Southern Ring combine near- and mid-infrared data from Webb. On the left, the selected infrared wavelengths highlight the very hot gas that surrounds the two central stars. The central star that created the nebula is shown here in red; the companion is white/blue. On the right, different infrared wavelengths show the outflows from the star that reach out into space.
Read more about these findings: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-indicates-s...
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and O. De Marco (Macquarie University), with image processing by J. DePasquale (STScI).
Image description: Two views of the Southern Ring Nebula, taken by the Webb telescope, are shown side by side. Both feature black backgrounds and show the planetary nebula as a misshapen oval that is slightly angled from the top left to the bottom right. At left, the image shows two stars that are almost overlapping at the center. The top left star appears white and the bottom right appears red. A large almost solid white oval surrounds the central stars. It takes up about a quarter of the view. At right, the image shows one prominent star at the center. A large translucent pink-and-red irregular oval surrounds it. This approximately matches the size of what’s shown in the image at left. Unlike the left image, a lot of wispy, wavy material extends outward all around this region in the right image, particularly jutting out towards the top and bottom.
You might remember the Southern Ring Nebula was one of the first images released from Webb. Webb saw two stars within the nebula: 1) the dying star that created the nebula by blowing off its layers, and 2) a companion that orbits it. But now, after carefully studying Webb data, scientists believe that there may be more hidden companions that have helped shape the gas and dust of this nebula, potentially a total of 5 stars!
How did up to five stars create the Southern Ring Nebula? Panel 1 shows a wider field with stars 1, 2, and 5, the last of which orbits star 1 far more tightly than star 2 does. Panel 2 zooms way in on the scene, and two other stars (3 and 4) appear in view; star 3 is emitting jets. Panel 3 shows star 1 expanding as it ages. Both stars 3 and 4 have sent off a series of jets. In panel 4 we zoom out to see how light and stellar winds are carving out a bubble-like cavity. Star 1 is surrounded by a dusty disk. In the fifth panel, star 5 is interacting with the ejected gas and dust, generating the system of large rings seen in the outer nebula. The sixth panel portrays the scene as we observe it today.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, E. Wheatley (STScI)
Image description:
This six-panel illustration depicts the interactions among five stars that may have helped make the shapes in the Southern Ring Nebula.
In panel 1, a reddish star labeled 1 appears at left, with a smaller light red star labeled 5 orbiting it. To their right is a white star, labeled 2. The background is black.
In panel 2, the red star, labeled 1, takes up most of the frame. It is whiter at the center, and has semi-transparent red layers surrounding it, which extend almost to the edges of the frame. A tiny white star, labeled 3, appears within star 1’s central white region. Star 3 is emitting thin white bipolar jets to the top right and bottom left. The smallest star, labeled 4, appears toward the right, just within the transparent red emission from star 1.
In panel 3, the central star, labeled 1, is shown significantly larger. Its white region takes up more than half the frame, and its red ejections take up the rest of the frame. Two stars appear within the white region of star 1. Star 3 appears small and toward the center, emitting jets to the left and right. Star 4 appears toward the bottom right of the white region of star 1 and is emitting jets toward the top right and bottom center.
Panel 4 zooms out significantly, showing a disk of red material with a white center, which represents star 1, at the far left. Star 4 is labeled within that disk, where white switches to red. There is a lighter pink circle of diffuse color surrounding the disk, a layer of deeper blue material that extends almost to the center of the frame outside of that. Beyond the blue is an area of gray dust that follows an arc toward the center top and bottom of the frame. At the center is a tiny white dot labeled star 5. To Its right, to the edge of the frame, are layers of red gas.
Panel 5 zooms out again, now only showing star 1, which is larger and has red emission around it, and star 5, which is whiter and appear within that red emission. They sit at the center of the frame. Outside of them is a blue circular region, followed by a loop of white, and then loops in orange, which extend off frame. The orange areas look irregular and disturbed. Toward the bottom right is a tiny white dot labeled star 2.
The sixth and final frame is an illustration of Webb’s image of the Southern Ring Nebula. Two stars, labeled 1, which is red, and 2, which is blue appear at center. They are surrounded by a circle of blue emission, which then transforms into a lighter orange, and then a deeper orange. The orange shape has irregular edges and extends only halfway across the frame. The surrounding background is black.
August 7, 2020: New York Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons held a press conference to urge the NY City Council to pass legislation to abolish Nuclear Weapons
Don't forget it was real
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ7XJG0Z2ho
Do you remember the way it made you feel?
Do you remember the things it let you feel?
© All rights reserved Anna Kwa. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission
On a sunny afternoon I stand before the Hiroshima Genbaku (A-bomb) Dome, 150m from ground zero for the USA attack on August 6 1945. It was 237 days before I was born, and perhaps one of the reasons I was born at all when peace finally came. The building, reinforced as protection against earthquakes and known then as the Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, was one of the few buildings to survive the attack. An estimated 60 to 140 thousand people were killed by the immediate explosion.
On a biographical note, I saw the aircraft that dropped the 'Little Boy' bomb, 'Enola Gay' a Boeing B29 Superfortress, several times when I studied at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in the 1980s. The plane was parked for years at the edge of the nearby Chanute Air Force Base on the I-57 highway to Chicago. I was told at the time that there was controversy about what to do with it. Was it an important historical object or an icon of shame?
Hello dear Flickr people, I know it's been like a thousand years since I uploaded something on here or have been active in any way. It's just that these past 8 months of my life have been crazy. Living in Panama for one year definitely was a big decision for myself and I hope you will understand that there just wasn't really space in my head for photography, as sad as it is. And I'm really sorry. I wish I would've been more active, I really do, but I just had to put my life, the progress in learning so many things about culture, life and myself in the first place in this time. And there are still 3 months left until I will return home, return to Germany and I guess I won't be uploading things in that time either, but i'll try to start commenting again. And when I'm home I really want to start photography again, with my film camera and my best friend who can be a sort of model for me. And the title of this photo has nothing to do with my life or anything I just felt as if it fits this photo. I also realized that I still have a giveaway open, what a shame...but I came to the conclusion that I'll close it when I'm home, that just makes more sense. I hope you are all doing well and you can forgive me.Love you!Rike
11.11.2010 Remembrance Day ♥
Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth;
Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth...
~Thomas Moore
♥ The light burns in our hearts ♥
Back in April our DC Area Trans Ladies' MeetUp Group held its "Spring Fling" Soirée and this was my outfit for welcoming Spring! I think it looks quite fetching!
This wonderfully curve hugging sea foam lycra spandex cap sleeve minidress is from coquetryclothing.com! I've matched it up with my Hanes Alive Barely There support hose from onehanesplace.com and my snakeskin print peep toe ankle strap platform pumps with the 5" heels from alloy.com.
To see more pix of me in other tight, sexy and revealing outfits click this link:www.flickr.com/photos/kaceycdpix/sets/72157623668202157/
To see more pix of me in clothes from Coquetry Clothing click this link:
www.flickr.com/photos/kaceycdpix/sets/72157626739774869/
To see more pix of me out & about click this link: www.flickr.com/photos/kaceycdpix/sets/72157632318953102/
To see more pix of me showing off my legs click this link: www.flickr.com/photos/kaceycdpix/sets/72157623668202157/
To see more pix of me wearing blue & green ensembles click this link: www.flickr.com/photos/kaceycdpix/sets/72157662531123100
To see more pix of me in shiny wet look spandex outfits click this link: www.flickr.com/photos/kaceycdpix/sets/72157625106117954
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Goodbye 2008...
A thank you to all my fellow flickr friends for your continued support and friendship these past months. All of you inspire me. Best wishes for the new year.
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This is the Mission Espiritu Santo De Zuniga… tons of history, it’s a beautiful place, very peaceful and relaxing...
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Express Motors Volvo B10M / Alexander PS R901 XVM is pictured in Penygroes depot prior to operating Bws Coleg 464. Before coming to North Wales the bus was operated by Stagecoach in Merseyside where it was numbered 20901, although new originally to Stagecoach Manchester as 901, one of a large batch of similar vehicles acquired to replace elderly double deckers.