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Grand Portage State Park is located at the northeastern tip of Minnesota on the Canada–United States border. Its 120-foot High Falls is the tallest waterfall in the state and has been an icon of the area for centuries. The falls and rapids that proceed it were obstacles that led the voyageurs and fur traders of the 1700s to craft the area's name Git-che-O-ni-ga-ming (Ojibwe) or Grand Portage (French). In order to connect heavily-used trade routes, these men had to traverse nine miles around the falls from the Pigeon River to Lake Superior.
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Got out early today in the dark to hike for some sunrise photos along the Gunpowder River here in Maryland.
The only explanation needed is being in a waking dream that takes you on a ride through endless colors and beauty.
Taken at The Endless Graveyard maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Legio%20a%20Morte/22/53/354
reaching the west coast after several amazing weeks in the sonoran desert, we anticipated a leisurely seaside drive back north, but things took a surreal turn as plan a became b, then c, then d...
hiding out in the desert again for another week as we waited for the border rush to end before reluctantly coming home
there is no place like home, however, it is nice to be back and we wait another 2 weeks under a voluntary quarantine order before seeing our friends and raising a glass...hope you are all safe at home, hunkering, hankering, hopefully not hoarding
cheers
Gunpowder River under sunset conditions ... and just entering into Fall. Looks more bare now with Fall past full swing. Amazing that only a month can make a big difference.
Grand Portage State Park is located at the northeastern tip of Minnesota on the Canada–United States border. Its 120-foot High Falls is the tallest waterfall in the state and has been an icon of the area of centuries. The falls and rapids that proceed it were obstacles that led the voyageurs and fur traders of the 1700s to craft the area's name Git-che-O-ni-ga-ming (Ojibwe) or Grand Portage (French). In order to connect heavily-used trade routes, these men had to traverse nine miles around the falls from the Pigeon River to Lake Superior.
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Clear Lake - Iowa
Not much action on the beach today! Temps cool in the mid fifties, and strong sustained winds at thirty-five plus mph. We didn't stay very long either, but the whitecaps on this side of the lake were amazing!
Spring is having a tough start in north central Iowa. Come June, this whole area will be filled with parents, pipsqueaks and poodles!
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Union Pacific's Sharp, Utah - Valmy, Nevada coal train is making good time, rolling along State Street on the Provo Subdivision between American Fork and Lehi, Utah the afternoon of Nov. 3, 1985. The open fields that bordered the track are all gone now. In fact, a Costco big box store occupies this plot of land today. Time marches on, like it or not!
This majestic Gothic Revival schoolhouse was designed and built by W.W. Eldridge in 1889. It served the community until 1986 when the school was relocated to a modern building. Renovations were carried out and it was converted into Council Chambers until the Town Council was amalgamated with the larger Northern Midlands Council in 1993.
But the building still serves the community as a tourism information hub, and importantly continues to house Evandale's valuable historical archival material.
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The original pavilion at Longhorn Cavern State Park in Burnet County, Texas. Completed by the Civilian Conservation Corps mid-1930s.
This foggy early morning scene at Guadalupe State Park in Texas provided an inviting landscape to explore.
Neat state park we came across while traveling from North Dakota towards Devils Tower as we passed through Montana.
Medicine Rocks State Park
Here is a second attempt at the State Capitol building. The sky was on fire this particular morning, see previous panorama of the same morning.
This image is double exposed in photoshop. I created a duplicate layer and exposed the bottom layer for the foreground and exposed the top layer for the sky manually blending the two with layer masks.
Thanks for looking.
There's nothing like a State Fair on a Summer evening to treat the senses -- the sights and sounds of the Midway, the smell and taste of Funnel Cakes, Fried Zucchini, Corn Dogs, Turkey Drumsticks, and cold beer.
Source photo courtesy of Pixabay
Fuji X-E2 plus Samyang telephoto mirror lens at close range. You are, of course, completely free to associate this image with ideas of your own. To me, there is some symbolism involved, namely, a visual expression of the way many nations have rubber-stamped or given their seal of approval to the atrocities directed by Israel's right-wing government - not necessarily by their words, but by their deeds or rather by their non-action. Some nations had already acknowledged the statehood of Palestine and France has now joined this group. This is extremely important for the pursuit of the long-awaited "two-state" solution. A quick fix it certainly is not, for the rulers of Gaza, though fairly diminished now, are Hamas, a totalitarian and violent regime that has as much to do with liberty as a cow with playing the violin. But France has made a point.
A Lake State Railway northbound train is picking up fly ash loads at the Central Michigan yard in Bay City, Michigan. Here C420 976 leads C425M 381 and HR412 698 on a nice summer evening June 21, 2001.
Helmeted Honeyeater (Lichenostomus melanops cassidix)
This critically endangered Honeyeater is the State Bird of Victoria Australia.
From the archives.
What began as a could line right at N Holly signal when I arrived 25 minutes prior to the train getting here, turned into partly cloudy skies and a nice early sunlight shot here at N Holly with Lake State’s EMD SD40-2 No.6303 leading.
Desde las alturas.
EL HOTEL.
- ¿Hotel ROYALE AMBREE.COM?
-SÃ dÃgame, en que podemos ayudarle.
-QuerÃa una habitación para la semana del 7 al 15 de Agosto.
-¡Un segundo¡
.................
-Sin ningún problema, pero le tengo que informar que después del cambio de dirección y una completa remodelación de nuestras instalaciones, ahora nos llamamos, apunte si es tan amable:
RUBENS AT THE PALACE SUITS ROYALE AMBREE BOUTIQUE, SPA.COM.
-Un nombre bien bonito que seguro hará honor a su exclusividad.
-No lo tome a broma caballero, todas nuestras suits son lo último en tecnologÃa NFC inalámbrico que permite el intercambio de datos entre dispositivos Smartphone, inteligencia SHAR ROOM KEY, un sistema que no solo permite abrir su habitación, adecuar la iluminación a su gusto sino preseleccionar la comida y peticiones de servicio de habitaciones.
Nuestras suits cuentan con cuarto de baño con flora autóctona donde un toque primaveral convertirán ese instante intimo en una exótica experiencia.
Y por no hablar de nuestra gastronomÃa. Contamos con un restaurante donde este verano reinterpretaremos recetas tradicionales de la cocina Andina a cargo de nuestro joven chef Louar BROUCHER, seis estrellas Michelin que sin caer en tópicos, le demostrará que la exquisitez puede ir de la mano de la sencillez, todo un universo estético, caprichoso y
subversivo. ¡Caerá rendido amigo mÃo, se lo digo yo ¡
-Impresionante, se me está haciendo la boca agua.
-Pues aún no hemos terminado y agárrese, este verano contamos con noches mágicas a cargo de los mejores djs del mundo bajo la batuta y dirección creativa de RIHANNA.
-¡ No me lo puedo creer, RIHANNA ¡
-Tal cual, “ Fashion and Music “ se llamarán estas jornadas musicales.
Y también contamos en nuestro hotel con una galerÃa de arte exclusiva donde acogeremos esta temporada obras de Manuel Sierra, Barceló y Edgar Plans.
Invertir en obras de arte se puede convertir no solo en una forma de rentabilizar sus ahorros sino en una forma de vida diferente.
Y para terminar, decirle que todas nuestras habitaciones cuentan con mayordomo personal las veinticuatro horas del dÃa a su plena disposición.
-¿Y no podrÃamos quitar lo del mayordomo?
Se lo digo porque soy más de pueblo que las amapolas y si se enteran por aquà que voy a hoteles con mayordomo se están “ descojonando “ un año entero y no podré salir de casa en una buena temporada.
-Creo señor que no estamos hablando el mismo idioma, nosotros lo que vendemos son sueños, instantes únicos, irrepetibles y singulares.
-Vale, vale, era una broma, me deja usted anonadado, ya veo que sabe vender bien el producto. Y llegados a este punto creo que ya solo nos queda hablar del precio final de esos sueños tan singulares.
Y me dijo la cantidad……y me quedé sin palabras.
-¿Sigue usted ah� dijo una voz desde el otro lado del teléfono.
-Si, sÃ, sigo aquÃ. El caso es que tengo que consultarlo con mi suegra que en definitiva es la que paga las vacaciones ¡ le hace tanta ilusión¡
A ver cómo le cuento lo de los djs. Es que a mi suegra le sacas de dos gardenias para ti y clavelitos, clavelitos de mi corazón y a la pobre se le alborotan las neuronas.
Lo consulto y le llamo lo antes posible, se lo prometo.
-Pero dese prisa porque ya tenemos casi todas las fechas cerradas.
-Lo tendré muy en cuenta. Ha sido un placer hablar con usted.
-Lo mismo digo caballero.
-Adiós.
-Adiós.