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This is the third image of this place I have posted. Previously when selling multiple brands and then also as seemingly a solus Shell site although that's not certain from the view given in that photo which is the same view as this one. It's hard to put a timeline on these three images but certainly the solus ones come after the one where it is clearly selling more than one brand. This is a colourised image, I am almost certain it is based on a image previously posted by Daves_Archive1, you can see that one below along with the two other images I have posted. If I had to stick my neck out I'd say this image is the most recent but still probably later 1960s.
The main focus of all these images is the Green Dragon pub and not the garage of course, it's just coincidence that the pumps were positioned so that they show in such postcards. As an aside the pub is superb and serves wonderful food.
Of course the garage didn't last, it was tucked in between the pub and the church with a tiny entrance and in more modern times would have been entirely impractical.
Fort hose who don't know or don't remember, BP Zoom was two stroke for mopeds.
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This was a fun project that I completed on the side. I made up three different necklaces with silver cylinders and magnets all containing several strands of sellar tape. In between the tape that had been folded over on itself I had put in some 'faux diamonds'* (my university budget didn't allow me to use real ones though the project asked for it)
Playing on what we assume valuable and what we assume not to be; and then joining them.
Ever since I watched Jaws 3D as a kid I've had a special love for 3D. Especially the clunkier earlier format with the image split into red and blue versions with the throwaway cardboard glasses with matching coloured eye filters. Apparently this works by means of encoding each eye's image using the filters of chromatically opposite colors. When viewed through the 3D glasses, each of the two images reaches the eye it's intended for, revealing an integrated stereoscopic image. The visual cortex of the brain then fuses this into the perception of a 3D scene. Aren't our brains clever? I've even got a 3D tattoo. So there.
This canvas isn't in the best of shape so I'm thinking she'll make it to the streets some time soon. She can lead a new life with someone else...
Cheers
id-iom
Bad photographer, putting the horizon slap bang in the middle.
The only Rule Of Thirds I follow is: when telling the husband how much your camera cost, reduce the amount by a third !!!
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In the next 20 years, the amount of water available for each person
in the world will be reduced by one third.
Today we have 6.5 billion people in the world, and of these,
2 billion have no access to drinking water.
In Brazil, 22 million people lack access to drinking water.
Rio Negro, Amazonas - Brasil.
Black River, Amazonas -Brasil.
The third stop was a surprise treasure trove. We stopped mostly because of the assortment of tools but in the corner I found some dolls! I got twirly curls and got her for $5, her box is awful but she is going to be a "play" doll for me. I also found a beyond dirty Superstar Barbie, I'm not sure she is actually a Superstar Superstar if you know what I mean. She might be a Roller skate Barbie version. I'm not sure at all, she has blue earring and a blue ring. I also found Barbie's cousin Jazzie, I think she is super cute. I'm going to re-root her too and modernize her a bit. Both the Superstar and Jazzie were $2 all together!
My third Laura Ashley frock for Frocktober 2018. I bought this a few years ago, wore it once and fell out of love with it. I realised the other day that it was because I wasn't happy with the photos I took the one time I wore it, nor how I accessorised it. So I gave it another chance yesterday and regret not wearing it sooner. It really is a lovely dress (despite being a button-front, which is not normally a style I'm attracted to).
Anyway, here I am in my favourite Sydney selfie spot.
My Frocktober campaign to raise funds for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation has now hit the $400 mark. Please help me reach $500 by the end of the month. Any donation, no matter how small, will be very much appreciated. And you can even make them anonymously. The link is here: www.mycause.com.au/page/185933/it-has-pockets
alternative title - honest doc
as in honestly doc, I wasn't snorkelling.. I'd left the camera/underwater housing, mask and fins at home so I wouldn't be tempted but it was very hot and so I went for a paddle.
I saw quite a number of species including a big eel and these tiny blue fish.
gimp - curves, sharpening in L channel and a bit of cloning and blur to get rid of grains of sand on the surface of the water
Third Day
Oh Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Jesus and Our Mother, we pray and we hope that the promise made by you at Fatima will soon be realized. Our kirk and kin made the supreme sacrifice, and our loved ones languished in the horror and hardships that came upon a world at war. We know that it is your ardent wish and desire that there be peace in the world, and it is only through reparation to your Immaculate Heart that such can be accomplished. You have told us your wish in the message of Fatima: Reparation through the Rosary and the practice of First Saturdays. We beg of you, Oh Mary immaculate, that through your pleadings, our prayers and example may show the world the road to the true peace which the world itself cannot give. Bless, we beseech thee, our country, and inspire us and our leaders to receive, understand, and promote that glorious message delivered by you at Fatima.
Our Lady of Fatima, Queen of Peace, inflame our hearts with the love of Reparation.
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St. Paul the Apostle is a very revered saint in the Sicilian town of Palazzolo Acreide, the feast in his honor is celebrated on two occasions (very important periods if referring to peasant civilization), on 29 June (the day I took this photo story this year 2025) date of his martyrdom, and January 25, the date of his conversion to Christianity. The "summer party" of June 29, begins with a particular collection of donut-shaped bread (in Sicilian called "cuddura"), donated by the villagers and collected on a cart, this is the "round of bread", these loaves (called "di San Paolo") have decorations that recall snakes: the reference is always to San Paolo, considered the protector from the poisonous bites of vipers, this is the ancestral legacy of an ancient peasant civilization, the wheat harvest period that coincides with the feast, it makes working in sunburnt fields particularly dangerous; once there were characters to whom supernatural gifts were attributed, they were called "ciarauli", capable of protecting from the venomous bites of the viper (This year, a very nice man of Palazzolo Acreide, who was also present last year, was present at the feast to recall these ancient figures. Instead of little snakes, as was once the custom, he had with him a very calm python, also because it was full). The procession takes the name of "sciuta", with reference to the "exit" from the basilica of San Paolo of two floats, first the float comes out with the relic of the saint, carried on the shoulders by the devotees, immediately after, at 13.00 o'clock the exit of the float takes place with the ancient statue of Saint Paul holding a sword in his hand (the iconography represents him with the sword for two reasons, he was beheaded with a sword stroke, and because he, referring to the word of God, defined it more effective and sharper than a double-bladed sword), at this point they begin among the most spectacular and evocative pyrotechnic games that I have ever seen, we witness a phantasmagoric and kaleidoscopic explosion of colors made with enormous colored confetti and with colored ribbons about two meters long called 'nzareddi, which recall the shape and movement of snakes. During the procession we witness the rite of children who, often completely naked, are taken by their parents by the expert hands of two devotees present on the float, they are thus placed in front of St. Paul to ask for his intercession and protection, sometimes these children are adorned with paper money, in fact, the donation of money is part of the rites that accompany the procession. Among these rites is the vow of the "bare shoulder" made by devout bearers, and that of women who walk barefoot by vow. The procession with the two floats then arrives, as a sign of devotion, in the church of the Annunziata.
San Paolo Apostolo è un santo molto venerato nel paese siciliano di Palazzolo Acreide, la festa in suo onore viene celebrata in due occasioni (periodi molto importanti se riferiti alla civiltà contadina), il 29 giugno (giorno in cui ho realizzato quest’anno 2025 questo foto-racconto) data del suo martirio, ed il 25 gennaio, data della sua conversione al cristianesimo. La “festa estiva” del 29 giugno, inizia con una particolare raccolta di pane a forma di ciambella (in siciliano detta “cuddura”), donato dai paesani e raccolto su di un carretto, questo è il “giro del pane”, questi pani (detti “di San Paolo”) presentano delle decorazioni che richiamano i serpenti: il riferimento è sempre a San Paolo, ritenuto il protettore dai morsi velenosi delle vipere, questo è il retaggio ancestrale di un’antica civiltà contadina, il periodo della mietitura che coincide con la festa, rende particolarmente pericoloso il lavoro nei campi arsi dal sole; una volta esistevano dei personaggi a cui si attribuivano doti sovrannaturali, erano chiamati “ciarauli”, capaci di proteggere dai morsi velenosi della vipera (quest’anno era presente nella festa, a rievocare queste antiche figure, un simpaticissimo Palazzolese, presente anche l'anno scorso, che al posto delle bisce, come si usava una volta, aveva con se un docilissimo pitone, anche perchè satollo). La processione prende il nome di “sciuta”, con riferimento alla “uscita” dalla basilica di San Paolo di due vare, dapprima esce la vara con la reliquia del santo, portata in spalla dai devoti, subito dopo, alle 13,00 in punto avviene l’uscita della vara con l’antica statua di San Paolo che stringe una spada in pugno (l’iconografia lo rappresenta con la spada per due motivi, egli fu decapitato con un colpo di spada, e perché egli, riferendosi alla parola di Dio, la definiva più efficace e più tagliente di una spada a doppia lama), a questo punto iniziano tra i più spettacolari e suggestivi giochi pirotecnici che io che io abbia mai visto, si assiste ad una fantasmagorica e caleidoscopica esplosione di colori realizzati con enormi coriandoli colorati e con dei nastri colorati lunghi circa due metri chiamati ‘nzareddi, che richiamano la forma ed il movimento dei serpenti. Durante la processione si assiste al rito dei bambini che, molto spesso completamente nudi, vengono presi dai genitori dalle esperte mani di due devoti presenti sulla vara, vengono così messi al cospetto di San Paolo a chiederne la sua intercessione e protezione, a volte questi bimbi sono adornati con della carta moneta, infatti la donazione di denaro fa parte dei riti che accompagnano la processione. Tra questi riti c’è il voto della “spalla nuda” fatto dai devoti portatori, e quello delle donne che per voto camminano scalze. La processione con le due vare giunge poi, in segno di devozione, nella chiesa dell’Annunziata.
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Penelope (the one who is cutting) speaks: “Look it’s easy Susie! A third for me, a third for you and a third for Hazel. There is no need to leave anything for your brother! And he won't be home for ages anyway”
Oh dear! LOL!
And do please forgive me for bending the prompt somewhat too! LOL! ((hugs))
ADAD September
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Subió la cuesta en un suspiro, sin mirar atrás.
No quiso ver la cara del dueño de esos pasos que le seguían.
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He climbed the hill in a heartbeat, without looking back.
He would not see the face of the owner of those footsteps following him.
A heads up from a friend informed me that the Grafton and Upton would be making their third revenue run over the Milford Industrial Track with two loads for Bluelinx in Bellingham. So instead of doing the responsible thing and having breakfast and then going to bed so I'd be rested for work that night I did the opposite and headed to Milford!
The one shot I wanted above all else was them swinging through Bellingham Junction, but when I got there I found the fresh snow u undisturbed so continued on up the line. I found them just as they were departing from the junction in Milford where their historic owned property meets this former New Haven branch line.
On a brilliantly cold clear winter day it was worthy of a little chase and I got them at three spots before they got to Bellingham Jct. where unfortunately they derailed ending my chase for the day as seen in this photo posted earlier: flic.kr/p/2kANeRg
Anyway, here was the first spot on the chase as the pair of pair of patched ex CSXT nee SCL MP15ACs (EMD blt. Feb. 1978) numbers 1191 & 1160 cross Howard St. at MP 35.5.
Hopedale, Massachusetts
Thursday February 11, 2021
La Noria de Viena, también conocida como Wiener Riesenrad ("Noria de Viena" en alemán), o simplemente Riesenrad, es una noria ubicada a la entrada del Parque de Atracciones del Prater, ubicado en el parque homónimo, en el segundo distrito de Viena, Leopoldstadt.
Fue una de las primeras norias, construida en 1897 para celebrar el quincuagésimo aniversario del reinado de Francisco José de Austria. El diseño corrió a cargo del inglés Walter Bassett, lo que explica que su altura sea de 61 metros, 200 pies exactos.
La Riesenrad es, hoy en día, uno de los principales atractivos turísticos de Viena. Era considerada la noria más alta existente en el mundo, de los años 20 hasta 1985, año en que la noria Technocosmos (ahora demolida) fuera construida en Tsukuba, Japón.
Originalmente, la noria contaba con 30 góndolas, pero debido a los daños ocasionados durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, durante la reconstrucción, solo se recolocaron 15 de estas cabinas.
La noria está formada por cables de acero, los cuales trabajan a tracción. El movimiento se ejerce desde la base, moviendo la estructura perimetral de acero.
Ha sido escenario de películas tales como El tercer hombre, The Living Daylights o Antes del amanecer.
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The Wiener Riesenrad (German for Vienna Giant Wheel), or Riesenrad, is a 64.75-metre (212 ft) tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna. It is one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions, and symbolises the district as well as the city for many people. Constructed in 1897, it was the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel from 1920 until 1985.
The Wiener Riesenrad was designed by the British engineers Harry Hitchins and Hubert Cecil Booth and constructed in 1897 by the English engineer Lieutenant Walter Bassett Bassett (1864-1907), Royal Navy, son of Charles Bassett (1834-1908), MP, of Watermouth Castle, Devon. Its purpose was to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I, and it was one of the earliest Ferris wheels ever built. Bassett's Ferris wheel manufacturing business was not a commercial success, and he died in 1907 almost bankrupt.
A permit for its demolition was issued in 1916, but because of a lack of funds with which to carry out the destruction, it survived.
It was built with 30 gondolas, but was severely damaged in World War II and when it was rebuilt only 15 gondolas were replaced.
The wheel is driven by a circumferential cable which leaves the wheel and passes through the drive mechanism under the base, and its spokes are steel cables, in tension.
When the 64.75-metre (212 ft) tall Wiener Riesenrad was constructed in 1897, both the original 80.4-metre (264 ft) Ferris Wheel in the US (constructed 1893, demolished 1906) and the 94-metre (308 ft) Great Wheel in England (constructed 1895, demolished 1907) were taller. The 100-metre (328 ft) Grande Roue de Paris, constructed in 1900, was taller still. However, when the Grande Roue de Paris was demolished in 1920, the Riesenrad became the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel, and it remained so for the next 65 years, until the construction of the 85-metre (279 ft) Technostar in Japan in 1985.
In popular culture
The Riesenrad appeared in the post-World War II film noir The Third Man (1949)
The wheel is featured in the 1973 spy thriller Scorpio (1973)
The 1987 James Bond film, The Living Daylights features scenes throughout the Prater, around the wheel, and a lengthy romantic scene on the wheel.
The wheel appears in the novel The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
The wheel appears in Max Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948).
Scenes in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995) were filmed around the Prater and on the wheel.
The wheel appears in The Glass Room by Simon Mawer.
The Riesenrad appears in the film Woman in Gold (2015), about the repatriation of a Klimt portrait stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish Viennese family.
The wheel appears in Kommissar Rex the Austrian television series
Winter City in Burnout 3: Takedown is based on Vienna and includes the Riesenrad.
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El Wurstelprater, más conocido como Prater, es un parque de atracciones localizado en el Prater de Viena (Austria), en el segundo distrito, Leopoldstadt.
Su atracción más famosa es la noria, conocida como Wiener Riesenrad. No obstante, el parque cuenta también con otras atracciones como montañas rusas, tiovivos o autos de choque.
La mascota del parque es Calafati, una escultura de un hombre chino de nueve metros de altura, que se encuentra junto a la noria.
El parque está abierto entre las diez de la mañana y la una de la madrugada, desde el 15 de mayo hasta el 31 de octubre. No obstante, ciertas atracciones, así como los restaurantes y los puestos de comida, están abiertos durante todo el año.
No es necesario pagar para acceder al parque, sino que se paga en cada atracción, generalmente gestionadas por familias locales.
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The Wurstelprater (Viennese "Wurstel" or "Wurschtel" = German "Hanswurst" = pantaloon) is an amusement park and section of the Wiener Prater (a park) in the second district of Vienna, Leopoldstadt.
This institution dates back to the time of the Austrian Empire, when Emperor Joseph II made the Prater (which had been serving as Imperial hunting ground until then) open to the public in 1766. Soon the first snack bars, stalls and bowling alleys opened up on the grounds and the Wurstelprater was born.
The best-known attraction is the Wiener Riesenrad, a Ferris wheel. The park also features various rides, bumper cars, carousels, roller coasters, shooting galleries, ghost trains, a Madame Tussauds wax works cabinet and much more. Apart from the rides, the park features various famous traditional Viennese restaurants (such as the Schweizerhaus and the Walfisch) and souvenir shops.
The mascot for the park is Calafati, a 9 m-tall sculpture of a Chinese man, which stands near the Wiener Riesenrad.
The park is open from 10:00 am to 1:00 am daily in its season, which runs from March 15 to October 31. Some attractions, as well as the food stands and restaurants, are open throughout the year. There is no entrance fee to get into the park; instead, each attraction charges its own fee, the attractions being individual businesses mostly owned by local families.
During the advent season, a small Christmas Market can be found on Riesenradplatz, right beside the Wiener Riesenrad Ferris Wheel at the Wurstelprater entrance. This Wintermarkt is open from mid-November till beginning of January and features traditional Christmas gifts as well as seasonal food and beverages.
The Wurstelprater is located in the Wiener Prater and can be conveniently reached by public transport (U1/U2 Praterstern) as well as by car (parking facilities available).
I also have a rule that I shouldn't post comments or pics when I have been drinking. Sometimes I break that rule.
Today's the last day of summer vacation for the kids and tommorrow it's back to school, which means I have to do third grade homework now every day. How delightful.
In any event, this is a $ 1 daisy with a Panasonic ZLR, cheap tripod, a black foam board, a pop up flash, a reflector, H2O, photoshop, and a sleepy photographer --- Priceless! Enjoy your Sunday folks.
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And how appropriate to end the summer with one of my favorite songs from the Beach Boys ---
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Sittin' in my car outside your house
(Sittin' in my car outside your house)
'Member when you spilled coke all over you blouse
T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs
(T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs)
We've been having fun all summer long
(All summer long you've been with me)
I can't see enough of you
(All summer long we've both been free)
Won't be long til summer time is through
(Summer time is through)
Not for us now
Miniature golf and Hondas in the hills
(Miniature golf and Hondas in the hills)
When we rode the horse we got some thrills
Every now and then we hear our song
(Every now and then we hear our song)
We've been having fun all summer long
Won't be long till summer time is through
(Summer time is through)
Not for us now
Every now and then we hear our song
(Every now and then we hear our song)
We've been having fun all summer long