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Happy Slider Sunday!!
I may have gone too far with this one ..;)
But I had fun doing it. So, there's that. I thought if nothing else it'll but a smile on your face.
If you're been watching the news then you know Texas is under a heat dome. Yep, it's really hot. I started doing my walks right at sunrise and sunset when it's only in the 80ies. It feels so good to be walking again after the open heart. At first I could only walk about a block. Now, I'm up to 30 minutes.
How do we find each other now that we don't have the People tab?
Happy Bench Monday!!!
HBM!!
I saw this old guy while driving around La Grange, Texas. It's the very first jail house build in the town. Now it's being used as the City of La Grange Visitor’s Bureau and office space for the La Grange Area Chamber of Commerce. In the mid-1930’s, two members of the infamous Bonne and Clyde gang, Raymond Hamilton and Gene O’ Dare were held here for robbing the Carmine Bank.
Here's more info:
Fayette County opened its first jail in July, 1838. The cost of the first structure was $460. It was a primitive structure; prisoners were ironed and chained but within 10 years the building was sold. With no jail, prisoners were parceled out to various citizens for safekeeping. The plan worked until a murderer’s apprehension made arrangements for his incarceration in another town necessary.
In 1852, plans were finalized for a new jail that was in use by 1854. This jail was built by German immigrant Heinrich Kreishe, who was a stone mason by trade when he immigrated. You can see his work still at the Monument Hill/ Kreishe Brewery State Park.
By the early 1880’s, the need for a more modern and larger jail was evident and work began on the structure we now call the Old Jail. In November 1881, the county commissioners selected the Victorian Gothic design of Andrewarthe & Wahrenberger as the new look. The building was opened in 1883.
This is an older one I worked on. I had a different camera and lens back than and I wasn't as experienced so the bird isn't as sharp as I would like. Especially after seeing some of your bird shots which, by the way, are amazing. But, the setting and colors are so nice, I thought, what the hell..;)
This is from Port Ingleside. Just a little northeast of Corpus Christi
to be allowed to go for a walk during this troubled time. We are fortunate to be allowed to do so. Some countries have had to bring in measures to stop people from even leaving their homes except for essential things. I do feel my walks with Marnie are essential for both of us. I'm so fortunate to have this beautiful place just 3 miles away from home. And what a glorious morning it was ! No social distancing to worry about - we only saw a couple of people a fair distance away, in all the time we were out.
To all those who aren't as fortunate as I am, who perhaps can't take advantage of a walk in the sun, or exercise... or worse, are ill, we're thinking of you now.
Perhaps you'd like to dance along to this great song. (I know, showing my age) !!
In these times of social distancing, I'm giving you a virtual hug. Hope that's OK !
~ Edited in Topaz Studio ~
Just your normal every day situation - an azalea bush rolling down a hill :)
It's actually an ICM and I turned my camera while the shutter was open.
HSS!
Theme: Spiral
This is The Capital Grill on 4th street in Austin. It use to be the Spaghetti Warehouse. Guess people got tired of Spaghetti..;:) I'll tell you one thing for sure. Steak and Lobster cost a lot more than Spaghetti..;) Like, $53. Yikes! I didn't go in. I was just downtown killing some time. I have to back to Austin Friday for an eye exam. I hate those because it's almost impossible to drive for about an hour.
This is another one from the country series. This was a fun hike. I really enjoyed my day
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I had forgotten that I have to darken images before I upload into flickr.
I've posted images of this wonderful place many times, but it seems to look different every time I go. This is Pitt Lake in Maple Ridge, another one of my favourite places to go and just take in the beauty of nature.
44:52 Giving Thanks
There is always so much to be thankful for, and I am thankful that I live in such a beautiful part of this world, and that in minutes I can be in the midst of nature.
Zoom in and take a look around if you like :)
HBM!
This is the Georgetown court house. It sits in the middle of the square and can be entered from all four sides. These type of court houses are commend in small Texas town.
I had the flu a little over a week ago and on my worst day with high temperatures, I got to go to the bathroom and hit the door frame with my small toe. The pain was unbelievable. It still hurts. I called the Veterans clinic and they said they couldn't look at it until Friday..:( The nurse said to tape it to my other toe..:)
Also, how do you remove yourself from a group?
..HFF!!
I hope everyone is holding up OK. There have only been 2 confirmed cases in my little town of 2500. luckily no one here ever goes anywhere..;) This lighthouse has a little historical significance. A schooner carrying the bricks for the tower foundered on the sandbar at the entrance to Aransas Pass during high seas in late December 1855. The crew was rescued, but the ship and its cargo were a total loss. During 1856, new bricks arrived at the island, followed later by the lantern room, and finally a fourth-order Fresnel lens. The keeper’s dwelling and the fifty-five-foot, octagonal tower, with a coat of brown paint, were completed by the early part of 1857. The light from the tower’s lantern room first illuminated the night sky above the pass later that year.
Sometime after the start of the Civil War, the lens was removed from the lantern room for safekeeping. Control of the tower passed repeatedly between Confederate and Union forces. Then, on Christmas Day 1862, Confederate General John B. Magruder ordered the destruction of the tower. Two kegs of powder were exploded inside the tower, damaging the upper twenty-feet of brickwork and destroying most of the circular staircase.
After the war, Texas’ lights were gradually repaired or rebuilt and returned to service. Early in 1867, a work crew arrived to repair the upper portion of the damaged tower at Aransas Pass. Acting District Lighthouse Engineer M.F. Bonzano described a winter storm that hampered the work: “During the progress of the repairs one of the severest Northers ever experienced on the Texas coast occurred. The cold was so severe that frozen fish were hove ashore by the hundreds and birds of all sorts sought refuge in the tower and camp of the workmen where they perished in large numbers.” Aransas Pass Lighthouse was the last principal light along the coast to return to service, doing so in the spring of 1867.
Roman agora of Athens. Greece.
This image is included in the gallery GRAPHIC ART curated by Henri DUBUC.
These days Srilanka , is too hot and the temperature almost 40+C but its awesome for swimming and spend the time at beaches.
44777 - Patricroft 21-07-1968 R387bw
Agfa Instamatic (film)
Agfachrome CT18 colour slide scanned to digital
South Bucks Tour
Gazania /ɡəˈzeɪniə/ is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
The genus occurs from low-altitude sands to alpine meadows in South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Angola. Additionally, species are naturalised and declared weed in South Australia, New Zealand, the Mediterranean, and California.
They produce large, daisy-like composite flowerheads in brilliant shades of yellow and orange, over a long period in summer. They are often planted as drought-tolerant groundcover.
Gazania species are grown for the brilliant colour of their flowerheads which appear in the late spring and are often in bloom throughout the summer into autumn. They prefer a sunny position and are tolerant of dryness and poor soils.