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Same place as previous shot but 13 minutes earlier. The colours and shapes were quite diferent. This one a 3 shot panorama.
Chillin; I had work today from 12-5 then came home and we did our usually hanging out in our room on our bed texting,watching tv, and on the computer.
Tell me everything you want me to be
Forever with you
Forever in me
Ever the same
Call on me
I'll be there for you and you'll be there for me
Forever it's you
Forever in me
Ever the same
same but different.
shot by Diego Cupolo, found in the CC group.
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textures by les Brumes and Jenny
thank you for sharing:)
This is Victoria in a tshirt she got from her big sister. She was about 2 in the picture on the left and 16 on the right.
This large mural was installed overnight on a wall at the Dame Street end of South Great George’s Street.
This large mural by Joe Caslin was installed overnight on a wall at the Dame Street end of South Great George’s Street.
Here in Ireland a referendum on same-sex marriage will take place next month.
This set mixes it up a bit with both a pretty blonde and brunette goddess! You can see them both modeling the Gold 45 Revolver swimsuits as well as a 45SURFER camera bracket mount for shooting stills & video at the same time.
Here's some epic video of the beautiful goddesses:(pretty closeups!)
Nikon D800 Photos of Brunette and Blonde Swimsuit Bikini Goddesses with Pretty Green Eyes and Pretty Blue Eyes shot with the Nikon D800E and Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor Zoom Lens!
Shot in both RAW & JPEG, but all these photos are RAWs finished in Lightroom 4 ! :)
All the Gold'N'Virtue swimsuits with the main equation to Moving Dimensions Theory on the swimsuits: dx4/dt=ic. Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! :) You can read more about my research and Hero's Journey Physics here:
herosjourneyphysics.wordpress.com/ MDT PROOF#2: Einstein (1912 Man. on Rel.) and Minkowski wrote x4=ict. Ergo dx4/dt=ic--the foundational equation of all time and motion which is on all the shirts and swimsuits. Every photon that hits my Nikon D800e's sensor does it by surfing the fourth expanding dimension, which is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic!
Modeling both the the Gold 45 Revolver(TM) Gold'N'Virtue(TM) Black Bikini and the Red, White, an Blue American flag bikini!
May the HJM Goddesses guide, inspire, and exalt ye along yer heroic artistic journey! all the bets on your Heroic Journey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
Was so cold this day and I only had an hour of daylight left. Did the twigs know what an amazing frame they would make?
The same evening as the earlier female photo. The Cardinals have been coming to the feeders as it has been very cold the last few days and more bad weather is on the way. Best viewed in large and on black here ------ bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=5262034961&size=large&...
Another gorgeous June day at Brick Lane, Spitalfields and Columbia Rd, an East London summery Sunday
Same Cottonwood Tree - Different Angle - This tree is next to Rapid Creek Road a few miles from the community of Beckton in Sheridan County, Wyoming.
Same plant with many of views.. Late afternoon, so the flash went off on the first two and natural light on the last two images.. I was standing under the plant and looking up...
So proud is Astoria of its history and architectural heritage that enlargements of vintage streetscapes hang in the windows of downtown buildings.
These two photos capture the same stretch of Commercial Streets several years apart.
Judging by the style of the cars on the left, I'd say the photo was taken in the 1920s. However, it would have to be after 1922, the year of the great fire, because what we see here is the new downtown that came into existence around 1924.
The photo on the left is dated 1935.
Let's see what we can learn about the businesses whose names appear on the signs.
LEFT: 1920s
Fellman's Department Store
Morton Nelson Building
1343 Commercial Street
Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 576 - 579
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
WERNER H. FELLMAN, a progressive and enterprising citizen of Astoria, owns one of the largest department stores in the city, as well as one of its prosperous industries, and is regarded as one of the community's most valuable citizens, having shown a helpful and effective interest in local public affairs. Mr. Fellman was born in Uleaborg, Finland, on the 14th of February, 1881, and is a son of Abram and Maria (Elfving) Fellman, also natives of that country, where the mother is still living. The father, who is deceased, was a university graduate and a successful merchant and was prominent and influential in his community, and the Fellman family has played a prominent part, educationally, financially and in a business way in Finland since 1582. To Abram Fellman and his wife were born six children, of whom four are living.
Werner H. Fellman is the oldest and the only one to come to the United States. He attended private schools for four years, had six years of high school work and four and a half years in Brahestad Borgare and Handelsskola College, in Brahestad. On completing his college work he took a postion as bookkeeper in a mercantile establishment, and later served as cashier for a large logging company for nine months.
In 1902 Mr. Fellman came to the United States, locating in Astoria, Oregon, where he went to work as a shipping clerk for the Hammond Lumber Company. Later he was employed for a few months in H. H. Zaph's furniture store, going from there to David Shanahan's furniture store. Six months later he was made manager of the store, which position he held for one and a half years, and then, desirous to see more of the United States, he went to Reedley, Fresno county, California, where he bought a farm. He planted it to peaches, grapes and oranges, and soon afterward sold it at a good profit.
He then returned to Astoria and bought the Shanahan furniture store, which he enlarged, increasing the stock, putting in the largest and finest stock of furniture on the lower Columbia river, doing business under the name of Astoria Furniture Company.
In the big fire of December, 1922, Mr. Fellman lost heavily, but with the enterprising spirit which has characterized him in all of his business career here, he at once erected a fine two-story and basement concrete building, seventy-five by one hundred and twenty-five feet, in one of the best business locations in the city, and in this building he has one of the most complete lines of goods to be found in this section of the state, carrying, besides furniture, floor coverings, crockery, stoves, women's ready-to-wear, dry goods, millinery, and men's goods, and the rapid and steady growth of his business has abundantly vindicated his judgment in making the additions to his original line.
In November, 1925, Mr. Fellman still further enlarged his scope of operations by buying together with Mr. Frank Patton, Astoria Banker, the Freeland Table Company's factory in Astoria. It was a small plant, which has been replaced by a fine new factory building, one hundred and seventy-five by one hundred and ninety feet, in which is now installed a complete equipment of most modern wood working machinery, and here he is now producing high grade furniture. He uses native wood, principally alder, with walnut and mahogany veneer, and specializes in making dining room suites, tables, ladies' desks and secretaries and novelty furniture of all kinds. The factory employs several traveling salesmen and fifty-five men, many of whom are skilled and highly paid workmen, while in the store he employs from twenty to thirty clerks, salesmen, and women. The factory products find ready sale throughout Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, British Columbia and the Hawaiian islands.
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Mr. Fellman is a member of Temple Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M.; belongs to all of the bodies of the York and Scottish Rites; Al Kader Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Portland; Astoria Lodge No. 180, B. P. O. E.; the Modern Woodmen of America, the Finnish Brotherhood and the Astoria Golf and Country Club.
For many years he was chairman of the Merchants Association, a director of the Chamber of Commerce and also its vice president. He served on the school board of Astoria two terms, also as chairman one term, and was chairman of the building committee at the time the city expended three hundred thousand dollars for new school buildings.
Mr. Fellman gave freely of his time in supervising the erection of these buildings, in order to protect the city's interests, and today Astoria's schools are second to none in the state.
In 1923 Mr. Fellman was appointed Finnish consul for the entire northwest, but, because of the pressure of his private business, he had his jurisdiction cut down in 1925 to include only the state of Oregon, and he is still serving in that capacity. In the discharge of his duties as consul he has made one return trip to Europe where he has been knighted into the Order of the White Rose, first class of Finland.
He is a keen student of public affairs, being well versed in political economy, and has shown himself a capable and successful
man in every relation in which he has been placed, being a man of high principles and true to his obligations of every character. Cordial and friendly in manner, he has a host of loyal friends throughout the community in which he lives and is highly regarded by all who know him.
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Barton Hotel
M. H. Smith Building
1255 - 1271 Commercial Street
In the heart of the Astoria Downtown Historic District, the Commodore Hotel occupies the 1925 Lewis Building, designed by John E. Wicks, Astoria's most influential architect. The hotel operated from 1925 until 1968, first as the Barton Inn Hotel and then as the Commodore. Shuttered for 40 years, the Commodore reopened in 2009 after an extraordinary renovation. Retaining the original doors, windows, woodwork, and fixtures-all meticulously rehabilitated-the Commodore is now a shining example of the highest standards of contemporary design and construction. The Commodore shares the historic Lewis Building with the legendary Street 14 Coffee, which you can enter directly from the lobby.
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On April 6, 1923, Dr. M.H. Smith, local physician and surgeon, announced he was having plans and specifications drawn up for a business block on the north side of Commercial Street between Twelfth and Fourteenth Streets. On April 15, 1924, a building permit was granted to contractor John Hedstrom for the construction of a $20,000, one-story concrete building for Dr. M.H. Smith.
On May 17, 1924, Dr. Smith announced that the building was to be a three-story structure. The two top floors were be used as a 36-room hotel while the ground floor was suitable for offices and shops. On August 11, 1924, it was announced that Mrs. Katherine E. Barton of Portland had leased the hotel portion of the building. The Barton Hotel opened for business on October 25th [, 1924].
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By October 29, 1924, the Smith Building was fully occupied; Byler's Variety Store occupied the eastern storefront, Johnson Optical Store was located in the middle of the building and Coffeeland Grocery Store occupied the western portion of the building.
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RIGHT: 1935
Imperial Grill
1312 Commercial Street
Another new building for Astoria's reconstructed district was announced on May 28, 1924, when it became known that Mrs. Mary F. Dealy and Mrs. J.S. Malone would erect a one-story structure on their property on the north side of Commercial Street between Twelfth and Fourteenth. It was also learned at this time that the building would be leased by M.B. Gallagher, proprietor of the Imperial Grill. On September 21, 1924, a building permit for the amount of $15,000 was issued to contractor John Hedstrom for the erection of this 25'x 95', concrete building. The Imperial Grill Restaurant occupied this building from 1925 through 1952. It currently houses Columbia
Chocolates.
If restored, this building would be significant for its contribution to the streetscape. It is locally significant for its long term tenant, the Imperial Grill.
Siddal Hotel
1255 - 1271 Commercial Street
On March 18, 1931, Mark Siddal, Sr., leased the Smith Building and in addition to locating his sporting goods store there, he took over management of the hotel. The hotel portion was remodeled and renamed the Siddall Hotel. The hotel burned Febmary 22, 1952, but was quickly repaired and rebuilt. The building currently houses the Siddall Apartments, an office for the community police and the downtown caretaker and shops called Downtown Thrift, Let It Rain and Astoria Health Foods.
Fast fertig - das Bahnhofsgebäude des oberfränkischen Bahnhofs Stammbach im Zustand der 1990er-Jahre.
We were drawn from the weeds
We were brave like soldiers
Falling down under the pale moonlight
You were holding to me
Like a someone broken
And I couldn't tell you but I'm telling you now
Just let me hold you while you're falling apart
Just let me hold you and we'll both fall down
Fall on me
Tell me everything you want me to be
Forever with you forever in me
Ever the same...
-- Rob Thomas
This was shot at my favorite overlook along the Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park, Hazel Mountain Overlook.
This year I have really begun to get into night photography. I had dabbled a bit in the past, but I think my trip to Yosemite with Darren Barnes in February cemented my love for the night sky.
I didn't get out at night as much as I'd have liked to, but I believe next year that will be changing as I am planning on doing more camping so I don't have to drive so many miles in the night. After last November when I hit that deer I got somewhat hesitant about traveling for my passion during the wee hours of the night and morning.
This is a shout out to Larry Brown... "See, I am still there, just not at Midnight". LOL!!
I feel so good whenever I think of you...
Cause you are my sweet memories...
SMILE...SMILE..SMILE...SMILE...HAPPY...HAPPY....HAPPY ;-)!
Could you help me ;-)? Please don't tell my friends that I posted this ;-)!
I don't know how to explain about this funny shot. I know only it makes me laugh when I see it every time. Now I am laughing and smiling (again) ;-)!
***NO INVITES PLEASE***...Thanks so much for your visits and also for any comments and faves. I appreciate for all. All your words are nice awards for me. Thank you..thank you ;-)...
Coonalpyn – from Desert to Downs.
In the early years, Coonalpyn was known as the Ninety Mile Desert. It was not a desert in a true sense as it consisted of Mallee scrub, yaccas and banksias interspersed with lagoon and swamp flats, low fossil limestone hills and sand ridges. Early in 1850 Police Inspector Tolmer travelled through this vast uninhabited area on his way to the Victorian Goldfields to safely bring gold back to SA for assaying here. After 1852 Government wells and signs were established every 20 miles to aid travellers passing though the desert country. The pastoral era began with John Barton Hack who had a pastoral property here and chose the name Coonalpyn Downs for his estate from a local Aboriginal word meaning barren woman. Coonalpyn Downs was a 123 square mile leasehold property. It had several owners in the 19th century and the homestead was a substantial six roomed stone dwelling. By 1895 the land from Tailem Bend through to Coonalpyn and Tintinara was being managed under pastoral lease by the Cooke Family. Parts of it were resumed by the government to create settlements along the intercolonial railway line to Melbourne but larger areas were not resumed until the early 20th century. Coonalpyn is situated in the Hundred of Coneybeer which was declared and surveyed around 1895. (Frederick Coneybeer was a unionist and state parliamentarian for most years from 1893 to 1930.)
In 1887 the Adelaide-Melbourne rail link opened up the area and a small settlement at Coonalpyn was established. It began with the Coonalpyn Post Office followed by the primary school in 1889. But the township of Coonalpyn was proclaimed in 1909. The Coonalpyn Congregational (now Uniting) Church on Poyntz Terrace now the Dukes Highway was built in 1927 but Congregational services were held in the old institute from 1907. Fund raising for the Coonalpyn Congregational Church was under way by 1919. Also in 1927 the primary school moved from the institute hall where it had been held to a new government school room in the western part of Coonalpyn. Coonalpyn originally had two Lutheran Congregations (Bethlehem and Emmanuel) which were formed in 1930 and in 1940 respectively. They both held services in the Institute but in the early 1950s the two congregations cooperated to build a Lutheran Church at a cost of £5,000 that both congregations could use. The new church was dedicated in November 1952 and was the first Lutheran Church in Australia to serve both main Lutheran synods (ELCA and UELCA). In 1966 with Lutheran churches unification it changed its name to Redeemer Lutheran Church. E.T.S.A power came to Coonalpyn in 1962. Before this, private operators supplied electricity. A boost to the community occurred in 1968 when a water pipeline from Tailem Bend to Keith was constructed. The Coonalpyn Hotel was proposed in 1953 and finally constructed in 1956. The town has a general cemetery on the outskirts. The stone RSL Hall was the original institute hall which closed in 1953 when a new one opened. This institute was open by 1906 and during the 1930s and 1940s Catholic masses were held within it. The old institute was sold at public auction in 1954. It is not known when the RSL acquired it. The new 1953 Institute was built at a cost of £8,000 and it was opened by the Premer Sir Thomas Playford. Catholic masses were moved to the new institute after 1954. The town also still holds an annual agricultural show which was first held in 1945. A new bank of Adelaide opened in 1954 in the former chemist shop. The town was growing.
In the early 1950s the town boomed as the so called Ninety Mile Desert was transformed into the Coonalpyn Downs with the addition of trace elements to the soil which suddenly made them productive for some crops but especially for pastures (subterranean clover) for sheep and cattle. This important work took years of research and development and the actual discovery of the importance of trace elements to soil fertility was only discovered by intelligent chance by scientist Hedley Marston and his colleague David Riceman. Riceman noticed grass under coper power lines was greener than grass elsewhere because of constant dripping water from the wires in winter. He investigated this further. Marston’s work with trace elements transformed the Ninety Mile Desert from poor scrub to thriving farms carrying luxuriant pastures. Deficiencies of copper and zinc as well as of phosphorus in the sandy soils of the area were demonstrated by Marston's colleague, D.S. Riceman. Co-operative experiments with a private landowner, Mr J.E. Becker (later Sir Ellerton Becker) were begun by Riceman in 1944 which led to a definition of the mineral nutrients limiting pasture establishment. Superphosphate appropriately supplemented with copper and zinc gave spectacular pasture and cropping results. The Australian Mutual Provident Society invested capital in family farm holdings and first developed much of the land which it later sold to farmers. The prices of land in the Coonalpyn district and Keith area rose from about 25/- per hectare to about £25! This was a major scientific breakthrough. Much of David Riceman’s experimental work was carried on the property of Sir Ellerton Becker near Keith.
Today after decades of decline it is now revitalised by the silo art of the town. Bulk handling of grain began in SA in the early 1950s but most silos in the Upper South East were only built in the 1960s or later. They are now managed by Viterra grain buyers and exporters. Victoria began silo art in Australia and created a specific silo art trial across the Victorian Wimmera several years ago. Coonalpyn decided to follow suit in an attempt to revitalise the town. The silo art in Coonalpyn was only completed in April 2017. The paintings are 35 metres high. Five silos were painted and the work was done with a grant from the Coorong Council. $80,000 was needed for the project with local fund raising and grants from Country Arts SA and the Regional Arts fund. The Coorong Council employed the services of Brisbane artist Guido van Helten who created the first silo art mural in the Victorian Wimmera town of Brim. Helten visited the town of Coonalpyn for most of the month of February and decided to use actual portraits of children from the Coonalpyn School. They are truly stunning and they are encouraging some of the four to five thousands vehicles a day that pass through the town to stop and look more closely at the silo art. Van Helten has painted similar giant silos in Florida, Russia, Mexico, Poland, the Ukraine, and Belgium etc. To take advantage of the silo art a new café and coffee shop has opened in Coonalpyn. South Australia is unlikely to create a silo art trail as the next silos transformed by art are in Kimba about 660 kilometres away! Above is the silo art of Brim in Victoria’s Wimmera painted by the same artist but it is less successful than the Coonalpyn silo art. The colours are drabber, all the faces look downwards and it is extremely difficult to tell that the third figure form the left is a female farmer. In our view he should have made the contribution of local women to farming at Brim much more obvious. Coonalpyn is also the home of the Careship Coorong snail farm. It was established in 2011 to provide a kind of therapeutic environment for people suffering from dementia. Volunteers run the snail farm and the coordinator learn of the scheme from care farms in the Netherlands. The farm is home to about 15,000 snails which will be harvested from 2018 as they are destined to become a gourmet style of pâté. The dementia volunteers capture escaped snails and ensure the gardens are thriving to provide food for the snails. The farm has received an Alzheimer’s Australia award and it is the first snail farm in Australia but the concept of care farms for dementia sufferers is more common in Europe.
“Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long asit's the Marine breed.” — Lt. Gen. “Chesty” Puller
The uniforms may change, the battlegrounds may change, but Marineswill always be America’s warriors. Each week we’ll take a look at, how as time goes on, we remain the same breed.
(Photos courtesy of Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections and Cpl. Tyler Main)
Same little protea different light and angle. Had these photographs the other way round but as you seemed to think the original was more pleasing I changed them
The store is in pretty good shape, but little was done to it when Acme took over. At first, the store was crowded (as Pathmark always was)...but as Albertsons has raised prices and cut products left and right, "sales have fallen off a cliff", as one employee told me.
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The Acme (former Pathmark) of Ferry Street in Newark, NJ is having a going-out-of-business sale. The closing was announced by the UFCW local 1262 a few weeks back. Unfortunately, the closing is not surprising. In a gentrifying neighborhood full of immigrants from Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Ecuador and lots of other places--Pathmark, with its deep expertise in ethnic merchandising--was a perfect fit; by contrast, Acme makes little effort to carry the products that the people of the neighborhood want to buy. It’s like the company has one model for supermarkets, and they plop them down no matter what neighborhood they operate in.
The sad part is that Pathmark was so successful and high-volume in this neighborhood that, in 1995, they replaced an older store next door with this 65,000 sq. ft. super center. Once A&P took over, prices went up, but at least the store still carried the wide selection of fresh and dry goods that the neighborhood wanted. Acme cut tons of these products and greatly reduced the selection. They replaced the once vibrant international flavor of Pathmark with a WASPy supermarket that your grandmother might have shopped at.
I am sure this is only the first of many former A&P/Pathmark stores that will close under Acme's leadership. The stores are mostly devoid of customers. The owners of New Albertson’s never had a long-term strategy to be in the grocery business. This is a company run by Wall-Street money men who buy up companies, leech money out of them to make themselves rich, saddle the companies with debt, and then try to sell them quickly. And believe me, they are saddling New Albertsons with billions of dollars of debt, financing all these acquisitions and store renovations. Unfortunately for them, there has been low interest in an Albertsons IPO the two times they have tried to offer the company up for sale, and now that same-store sales are tanking, it seems even more unlikely. To top it off, the company still hasn’t had a single profitable quarter since it was formed and is losing tens of millions every quarter.
Employees are being offered opportunities to relocate to other stores, but the ones I spoke to said many of the stores are too far away, and after being put through the wringer over the years, I think they are ready to move on. No one has yet signed on to takeover the supermarket, but the buzz was that ShopRite was interested in the store. The Kearny ShopRite operates 3 miles away.
...same female as in preceding photo.
ISO400, aperture f/11, exposure .003 seconds (1/320) focal length 300mm