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Bharatanatyam Dancers
Murugan Temple of North America
6300 Princess Garden Parkway
Lanham, MD 20706, USA
**Raton Pass** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000474, date listed 10/15/1966
U.S. 85-87, CO/NM border
Raton, NM (Colfax County)
A National Historic Landmark (www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/list-of-nh...).
Raton Pass was the shortest and most practicable route from the upper Arkansas Valley to New Mexico. Both as a barrier and a gateway, the Raton Mountains symbolized the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail as did no other landmark. Those who traveled this way viewed Raton Pass as the climactic challenge of the trip to Santa Fe, for ahead, under the looming cliffs of castellated Fisher's Peak, lay a tortuous, rugged trail that claimed many wagons and animals as the price of passage.
The first man to cross Raton Pass with wagons was Captain William Becknell in 1821, Before him there had been Indians, Conquistadores, trappers and traders, but all these had traveled on foot or with horses or mule trains. Becknell traveled west from Franklin, Missouri to Bent's Fort, Colorado, and then south through the Raton Pass. The narrow trail followed the dry rocky bed of Raton Creek on the north ascent and Old Willow Creek on the southern descent. The narrow defile was so craggy as to permit the passage of only one wagon at a time at some places, and the wagon axles were splintered and sawed by the rocks which covered the "trail".
In 1865, with the close of the war, an individual approached the territorial legislatures of Colorado and New Mexico for charters to build a road from Trinidad, Colorado, to the Canadian River in New Mexico. Richens L. "Uncle Dick" Wootton was to build a toll road through Raton Pass, and his charters were granted without trouble. In the spring of 1866, he began the clearing, grading, blasting, and bridge building necessary to make an all year road suitable for heavy wagon and stagecoach travel out of the twenty-seven mile stretch which had been termed the worst on the entire Santa Fe Trail. Wootton's efforts were amply rewarded as traffic from New Mexico to eastern Colorado through the Pass increased heavily, and Wootton collected $1.50 a wagon. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...
Part of my extended project on trees, their forms and shapes, their beauty, their caducity and vulnerability. This one was damaged by a storm and cut down by the forest rangers.
The United States has a military presence in two-thirds of countries around the world, and some of them have had enough. A group of terrorists calling themselves The Engineers initiate a terror ultimatum called the Blacklist - a deadly countdown of escalating attacks on U.S. interests.
Archaic seating arrangements inside the barrel roofed grandstand at Kendal RUFC's Mint Bridge ground. Within six months, bulldozers will raze this structure. The Hornets, members of National League Three North, are moving a quarter of a mile up Shap Road - the A6 - to a state of the art complex costing £11m.
A part of this huge tree had broken off, leaving intersting splinters - and -- it seems, an eye peering out! whose, I wonder?
I just pulled that out of my finger. It was embedded, pointing straight down into the finger. It sat there overnight because I didn`t think there was actually any splinter in there.. I knew it was trouble when the hole was still sore this morning. Had to extract with a razorblade and some tweezers.
The United States has a military presence in two-thirds of countries around the world, and some of them have had enough. A group of terrorists calling themselves The Engineers initiate a terror ultimatum called the Blacklist - a deadly countdown of escalating attacks on U.S. interests.
My buddy and fellow TMNT Maniac Joe Keatinge and I were playing around with the idea of pitching a turtles series to IDW once we heard that they had gotten the license from Nickelodeon.
Once we started talking about our ideas, I immediately started drawing the boys and some of their awesome cast mates, mostly from memory. It's funny, the turtles aren't the most complex designs, but I hadn't drawn them since I was a teenager and they just came right back to me, easy peasy.
We hadn't gotten super far into the process before we heard that series co-creator Kevin Eastman was coming back to the turtles to do the new series! You pretty much can't go wrong with one of the people who created the series, so while I'm really sad I probably won't ever get to draw the turtles professionally and make my childhood dreams come true, I'm excited to see what Kevin and series artist Dan Duncan get up to!
Figured I'd go ahead and post these sketches up just for fun.
6.18.2009
Urbex in Detroit with Terry - powerbooktrance
2 Cities. 2 Days. 2 Guys. 2 Cameras. All urbex.
Sarah Splinter.
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Toronto, Canada ~ April 19, 2017.
Sarah Splinter.
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Toronto, Canada ~ April 16, 2016.