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I could not resist but to have some fun with this image using a 2001 Space Odyssey quote and added art from Hal.
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Sun Sets On 2015. Day's End Ends Year as I was able to capture another blessed view from my home in Apollo Beach, Florida
This was created from several handheld iPhone 6S+ photos and merged into this full 360 panorama.
© 2015 IMRAN
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CSX power sits in the engine storage track above Lakeview Road in Clearwater in 1989. It includes U36B slug mother 5758 with MATE 5224, both in early CSX livery, and GP16 locomotive 1747 with the older Family Lines paint scheme. Courtesy Mark Zielinski
left of the channel bank: Peter O. Knight Airport (a local airfield);
right: Tampa industrial sea port with oil & gas landing terminals and storage tanks. In the port area there are some shipyards and shipbuilding industry.
How about including a Bench Monday in my 365. Taken on my last morning walk before heading back to the cold weather.
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Clearwater is a city located in Pinellas County, Florida, United States, northwest of Tampa and St. Petersburg. To the west of Clearwater lies the Gulf of Mexico and to the southeast lies Tampa Bay. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 107,685. Clearwater is the county seat of Pinellas County and is the smallest of the three principal cities in the Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater metropolitan area, most commonly referred to as the Tampa Bay Area.
Cleveland Street is one of the city's historic avenues, and the city includes BayCare Ballpark and Coachman Park. The city is separated by the Intracoastal Waterway from Clearwater Beach.
Clearwater is the home of Clearwater Marine Aquarium, where bottlenose dolphins Winter and Hope live.
The global headquarters of the Church of Scientology is located in Clearwater; the organization had tried to take over the city in what was called Project Normandy.
By the early 1900s, Clearwater's population had grown to around 400, ballooning to nearly 1,000 in the winter. Clearwater's oldest existing newspaper, the Clearwater Sun, was first published on March 14, 1914. Clearwater was reincorporated, this time as a city, on May 27, 1915, and was designated the county seat for Pinellas County, which broke from Hillsborough County in 1912. In 1915, a bridge was built across Clearwater Harbor, joining the city with Clearwater Beach to the west. Clearwater Beach, although located on a separate barrier island, belongs to the city of Clearwater and fronts the Gulf of Mexico. A new, much higher bridge now arcs over the bay, replacing the former drawbridge; the connecting road is part of State Road 60 and is called Clearwater Memorial Causeway.
During World War II, Clearwater became a major training base for US troops destined for Europe and the Pacific. Virtually every hotel in the area, including the Belleview Biltmore and the Fort Harrison Hotel, was used as a barracks for new recruits. Vehicle traffic was regularly stopped for companies of soldiers marching through downtown, and nighttime blackouts to confuse potential enemy bombers were common practice. The remote and isolated Dan's Island, now the highrise-dominated Sand Key, was used as a target by U.S. Army Air Corps fighter-bombers for strafing and bombing practice.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearwater,_Florida
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After taking the S-line from Clearwater, the northbound Amtrak Champion leaves the east leg of Tampa's Gary Wye and prepares for the track switches that will allow the train to back into Tampa Union Station on July 3, 1977. A crewman has already positioned himself at the vestibule for the reverse move. Courtesy Fred Clark, Jr.
Absolutely Stunning Blood Red Memorial Day Sunset 2024 On Tampa Bay At Blessed Apollo Beach Home (VidCap) - IMRAN™
It’s only a low resolution video screenshot on the iPhone 15 Pro Max but it gives you an idea of tonight’s stunning Memorial Day 2024 sunset. I captured it at my blessed home on Tampa Bay.
This corner of my place in the universe at this moment in space and time has among the greatest sunsets I have seen in all my travels for half a century or more. Tonight was a great example.
I said a prayer of gratitude soon after. The Nikon D850 timelapse being captured right now will be posted another day, God permitting.
© 2024 IMRAN™
This 1962 photo, looking west along First Avenue South from Bayshore Drive, shows an EMD diesel electric switcher locomotive in use at the St. Petersburg ACL depot. The switcher brought the Champion down to the station, and is now waiting to move the train that arrived earlier in the morning back to the railroad yard after the Champion departs. Courtesy City of St. Petersburg