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you can't find in all Hammerfell, a single jewel more beautiful than that scar. Nor woman so proud of wearing it.
Front entrance to an old bank in Tapanui. Built in 1919, previously operated as a Bank of New Zealand but has served as a family home for many years.
Made for a quinceanera and modeled after a cake on a brides magazine. The Birthday girl looked stunning!
There is probably a technical term for these scrolls above the windows on the Ashton Court Mansion. I don't know what it is but I like them.
Albertsons #4360
8030 Pines Blvd.
Pembroke Pines, FL
Opened July 9, 1986
My most recent upload on my other flickr account: YonWooRetail83, I posted a Grand Opening ad for this store from the Fort Lauderdale Times/ Sun Sentinel from 1986. It's amazing how much food prices have changed in 35 years. One thing that shocked me is that Albertsons was selling 2 liter Coke products for 1.79, even back then. I thought 2 liter brand name beverages would have gone for about $1 back then.
Anyway, I had done just a tad bit a research on this Albertsons scrolling through newspaper archives, and while most Albertsons store in Florida had very little excitement going on in them, some made headlines. Some Albertsons stores became the focal point for an extortion plot, some were robbed at gunpoint, a few were attempted to be burned down, and this one had one interesting event happen in the early 90's. While I can't remember what year it was, I want to say it was 1993. During this time, a few bad guys walked in here one morning and held store employees and customers hostage for a few hours before police could get here and fix the situation. I will try and hunt down that story and post a link here.
Also, as you may have already learned by following Albertsons Florida Blog, you probably already know that this particular model of Albertsons building with the dual side entrances is known as a "Superstore" model. These stores ranged between 60 and 67,000 square feet. This store was the first of such a type to open in South Florida. During the year after 4360 opened two more of these superstore model Albertsons stores would open in South Florida, one in Port St. Lucie and the other in Lake Park in 1987.
I kind of liked the design of Pembroke Pines' Albertsons. A lot of these 80's Superstore model buildings were not too exciting, but this particular store at least had some artistically-shaped columns.
In January 2010, Albertsons announced that they would close 8 South Florida stores by February 13 of that year. The Pembroke Pines store was one of them.
Actually at 24 years old when it closed, this was a pretty successful Albertsons. A New York City - based chain known as Western Beef market would open in here in Late 2010.
Western Beef Supermarket Grand Opening
I can't remember when Western Beef closed, but I think it was about 4 years ago. This building is now occupied by Broward Meat & Fish. While Western Beef Market pretty much did minimal changes to the building, Broward Meat & Fish did a lot more renovations to the inside of this store and closed off the original left side entrance to Albertsons (Western Beef may have done that) and also placing corrugated metal siding over the left side windows. (All of this is based on what I've seen on Google Maps, as I have not been here in person). I will say this though, a video I saw a long time ago showed the Grand Opening of Western Beef Market, and this place was swarming with people!
A work in progress. A scroll. Painted on tea bags. The handles on the scroll are made from the cardboard of a match box. I like the interactive element.
The mute swan (Cygnus olor) is a species of swan and a member of the waterfowl family Anatidae. It is native to much of Eurosiberia, and (as a rare winter visitor) the far north of Africa. It is an introduced species in North America – home to the largest populations outside of its native range – with additional smaller introductions in Australasia and southern Africa. The name 'mute' derives from it being less vocal than other swan species. Measuring 125 to 170 cm (49 to 67 in) in length, this large swan is wholly white in plumage with an orange beak bordered with black. It is recognizable by its pronounced knob atop the beak, which is larger in males.
Mute swan sub-fossils, 6,000 years old, have been found in post-glacial peat beds of East Anglia, Great Britain. They have been recorded from Ireland east to Portugal and Italy, and from France, 13,000 BP (Desbrosse and Mourer-Chauvire 1972–1973). The paleosubspecies. Cygnus olor bergmanni, which differed only in size from the living bird, is known from fossils found in Azerbaijan. Cygnus Falconeri, another paleosubspecies from the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Sicily, may have been even bigger (one third bigger than Cygnus olor) and flightless.
Adults of this large swan typically range from 140 to 160 cm (55 to 63 in) long, although can range in extreme cases from 125 to 170 cm (49 to 67 in), with a 200 to 240 cm (79 to 94 in) wingspan. Males are larger than females and have a larger knob on their bill. On average, this is the second largest waterfowl species after the trumpeter swan, although male mute swans can easily match or even exceed a male trumpeter in mass. Among standard measurements of the mute swan, the wing chord measures 53–62.3 cm (20.9–24.5 in), the tarsus is 10–11.8 cm (3.9–4.6 in) and the bill is 6.9–9 cm (2.7–3.5 in).
The mute swan is one of the heaviest flying birds. In several studies from Great Britain, males (known as cobs) were found to average from about 10.6 to 11.87 kg (23.4 to 26.2 lb), with a weight range of 9.2–14.3 kg (20–32 lb) while the slightly smaller females (known as pens) averaged about 8.5 to 9.67 kg (18.7 to 21.3 lb), with a weight range of 7.6–10.6 kg (17–23 lb). While the top normal weight for a big cob is roughly 15 kg (33 lb), one unusually big Polish cob weighed almost 23 kg (51 lb) and this counts as the largest weight ever verified for a flying bird, although it has been questioned whether this heavyweight could still take flight.
Young birds, called cygnets, are not the bright white of mature adults, and their bill is dull grayish-black, not orange, for the first year. The down may range from pure white to grey to buff, with grey/buff the most common. The white cygnets have a leucistic gene. Cygnets grow quickly, reaching a size close to their adult size in approximately three months after hatching. Cygnets typically retain their grey feathers until they are at least one year old, with the down on their wings having been replaced by flight feathers earlier that year.
All mute swans are white at maturity, though the feathers (particularly on the head and neck) are often stained orange-brown by iron and tannins in the water.
The mute swan is found naturally mainly in temperate areas of Europe then across the Palearctic as far east as Primorsky Krai, near Sidemi.
It is partially migratory throughout northern latitudes in Europe and Asia, as far south as North Africa and the Mediterranean. It is known and recorded to have nested in Iceland and is a vagrant to that area as well as to Bermuda, according to the UN Environment Program chart of international status chart of bird species, which places it in 70 countries, breeding in 49 countries, and vagrant in 16 countries.[citation needed] While most of the current population in Japan is introduced, mute swans are depicted on scrolls more than 1,000 years old, and wild birds from the mainland Asian population still occur rarely in winter. Natural migrants to Japan usually occur along with whooper and sometimes Bewick's swans.[citation needed]
The mute swan is protected in most of its range, but this has not prevented illegal hunting and poaching. It is often kept in captivity outside its natural range, as a decoration for parks and ponds, and escapes have happened. The descendants of such birds have become naturalized in the eastern United States and Great Lakes, much as the Canada goose has done in Europe.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mute_swan
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Sumi-e ink on rice paper. A rolled up scroll found tucked away into a corner of my studio. I thought to throw it but tried a photo first. It's pretty abstract. I guess you can make anything you want out of it.
Flickr Bingo 4-Workmanship
This is my last photo entry for Flickr Bingo4. I'm thrilled that I won the game after nearly a year of participation. It was a great game. Thanks Tom, I enjoyed it immensely!
Back around the turn of the century, this bass was created. So, we've guesstimated it to be around 116 years old. Someone carved this bass scroll by hand. The workmanship that was put into these huge instruments is really amazing!
And found my Holiday photo! I didn’t post it! Shocked and impressed at the same time! I mean I think it’s one of my best photos, but it’s before I started ‘water marking’ again.