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200 photos :n (. Actually, I'll probably end up deleting a few, so this is only ALMOST it. But the end is nigh!
Yellow knit top: J.Crew
Dress: Crossroads
Shoes: eBay
Bag: Thrifted in WA
But there's always the blog!
This was the outfit I made for Georgia's meet outfit. She was purchased nude and needed special clothes when she arrived. Georgia is one of Robert Tonner's 10" Ann Estelle dolls.
So, the talented and oh so lovely Cherry Pop has assigned homework for our burlesque class. One of the tasks is to practice giving good face. We were supposed to use a mirror, but I like to share. Whatcha guys think of this one?
I am such a dork :) Mwuhahahaha
P..S. I'm sitting on my bed wearing a blankie. (Hello neighbors!) This counts for happy something something chair day, right?
Pilot Knob Wilderness Area - Iowa
Some mornings are just mystical.... an ambiance of mist, rising sun and shadows. A moment to phase, listen and take it all in......
This is my spring and autumn hiking turf, a place to think, find balance and peace!
Copyrighted 2011 ( Nice on black)
Note: Heading to Northern Minnesota on a "golf adventure" near Tower with the guys! Sweet! Be back soon...
1/9/2010
I really want a dollhouse. Like really bad. I tried convincing my daughter that she wanted one for Christmas, but she wasn't interested.
Then I realized that I was wanting to buy her a dollhouse so I could "play" with it. So you know what? I'm going to get my own dollhouse. Yes, I am!
I don't have my dollhouse yet, but I do have this adorable washer and dryer! Got it for $5.00 at Hobby Lobby. The washer's lid opens up!
This is a first for me. I've never seen the table and chairs before.
Using up more of my stash of APS film.
This prairie dog hasn't fully grown into its nose yet. Not long from now, you won't be able to tell it from an adult.
This male wood duck has gone through the eclipse phase and is back into full fall colors.They will all be leaving here in a day or two and heading south for the winter.
This is a pano shot at the Monkey Forest in Ubud, Bali. Fuji X100 made it really easy to shoot panorama. Love that feature. This picture is straight out of the camera JPEG.
This one is through the window! He/she kept going to the door and is now looking at me "Why won't you let me in?"
This was during the period when Eurotrams ruled Line 14 (and Line 14 only). HDR + Sepia Tone effect. However, the tram is in full color, such as it is (the Eurotrams are not that colorful). Scan from a Kodachrome slide. May 2, 2002. © 2017 Peter Ehrlich
This vehicle from Hunters Coaches of Fife in Scotland had brought Foreign students to Dover's White Cliffe's Park.
This is a very old jug and I've no idea where it came from - something my wife was given or picked up many, many years ago! Anyway, it sits on a high shelf in our kitchen and that little guy just keeps watching me!!
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This one was taken while i was traviling to london on oman air.. Its not 100% Perfect but i liked it..
This parachute was recovered from the outer Thames Estuary during dredging for the DP World London Gateway project.
To find out more about this project follow this link www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/location/88631/london-gateway
L'alba è un momento temporale variamente definito, secondo i contesti linguistici, o come l'intervallo nel quale appare il primo chiarore all'orizzonte, parzialmente confondendosi col concetto di aurora, o come il momento del sorgere del sole, ponendosi come l'opposto del tramonto.
Le prime luci dell'alba derivano dalla rifrazione dei raggi solari da parte dell'atmosfera quand'ancora l'astro si trova sotto l'orizzonte. La sua luminosità è di un colore biancastro che vira poi in una tonalità arancio-giallo oro.
(Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera.)
This is my very first star trail attempt. I know there's nothing interesting in the foreground, but I wanted to see how to make star trails with nothing else to contend with initially. For those more experienced with this, please let me know if there are things I should be doing differently or if I'm off on the right foot. I like the results, but if I can improve, that'd be great! 14mm (28mm in 35mm-format), f3.5, 30 seconds, ISO 800, 120 stacked images using StarStaX. I took this with a full moon, and didn't center at any one location in the sky, so it really was a "fly by the seat of your pants" first attempt.
This way my mother forced me to dress up to 16 years old. My mother loved that I dressed very childish and effeminate, I remember that it was from 6 years old up to 16 years old this was one of the clothes that I used often, always with school socks or ruffled anklets, I could not miss the mary jane shoes, t-bar or orthopedic shoes girl, I looked like a child very sissy. I await your comments.
De esta forma me obligo mi madre a vestir hasta los 16 años. A mi madre le encantaba que vistiera muy infantil y afeminado, recuerdo que fue desde los 6 años y hasta los 16 años de edad esta era una de las vestimentas que utilice a menudo, siempre con calcetas escolares o tobilleras con volantes, no podían faltar los zapatos mary jane, t -Bar o zapatos ortopédicos de niña, me veía como un niño muy mariquita. Espero sus comentarios.
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Please welcome the new member of my dolly family ^__^
She's a bambicrony elf Inez! I wasn't very sure if I liked her or not but after taking this pics, I'm sure that she's definitely part of the family . I love her lil' sad face.
This picture showed up after quite a bit of deliberation...I had a bunch of pictures after my previous pic that were pretty good, but not quite good enough for Flickr; each had some minor problem or another...I guess it's hard to get a good composition of buildings from ground level when you've got an 8-storey building next to a 60-storey tower. I could work with this one, because the tops of all the buildings are cut off!
/Need a wide-angle lens for my eventual trip to New York City.
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Today marks the start of a 7-day workweek for me -- 72 hours in one week, including 40 overnight hours. It's gonna be a challenge, but I can't complain, because it's more experience and more money, both of which I am fortunate to be able to obtain.
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This is
Not 1945, but 2006.
Not Germany, but California.
Not battle ground, but someone's backyard
Check out www.kombatkalendars.com/ My friend owns this 88 and other guns, and made a very cool calendar out of his collection.
This photo was taken in the fall of 2015. I was on a hiking trail outside Smiths Falls, Ontario Canada.
This beer is brewed to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the brewery and it is the first in the line of specialty beers "Gouverneur".
Flickr Group Roulette landed on Album Cover Art today. Lucky for me, I just happen to have a new disc dropping this Tuesday. Check it out!
This SHIP takes up way more space packed then build, no where near as space efficient as my four previous SHIP's when packed. It is even worse than Heart One which is somewhat bigger when assembled.
This image is protected by copyright, no use of this image shall be granted without the written permission from Yaman Ibrahim.
This old house appears to be on its last leg. Outside of the photo sits a modern RV in which the owners probably live. Located in rural Kamas Utah.
Just another of my miniature mushroom memories : ) This tiny shroom was no more than three-quarters of an inch tall. At last I can actually say that I'm looking forward to being able to search for these teeny mushrooms later THIS year, instead on NEXT year, LOL. This particular mushroom (Marasmius - thanks, Doug), growing on the stalk of a small leaf, was found at Shannon Terrace, Fish Creek Park. Meanwhile, I noticed that snow was mentioned in the forecast, unless it has changed by now. Hopefully that means some beautful snowflakes rather than the powdery white stuff : )
The helpful lady from the Coroner's Office in England called a short while ago and left a message with the results of my brother's autopsy - natural causes, Ischaemic Heart Disease. I was up to about 5:00 a.m. this morning, I think, trying to find a few songs/music that felt right for John's funeral. I went to YouTube to listen to various ideas, but I'm still not sure how I can get some of these choices from "here" to "there" (Birmingham) : ) I wasn't thinking very clearly and just saved the songs from YouTube - which I read later doesn't work (for obvious copyright reasons, I guess). I think my friend in England said that the funeral place has a list of music to choose from, but of course there are so many versions of, say, Amazing Grace, that I'm not sure how I know what version would be played. Any help/suggestions from anyone who has had to do this, would be much appreciated. Now that the autopsy results are known, I know that time for getting things done is running out rapidly.
Built in 1903-1905, this Prairie-style mansion was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Larkin Company executive Darwin D. Martin, whom built the house as a way to bring his family, which had been scattered in various parts of the United States when his mother had died early in his childhood. The house was the culmination of immense personal wealth and professional success that Martin had enjoyed in his life despite his difficult childhood, starting as a soap seller in New York City, being hired by the Larkin Company in 1878, before moving to Buffalo and becoming the single office assistant to John D. Larkin in 1880, and in 1890, replaced Elbert Hubbard, who was a person that Martin immensely admired, as the Corporate Secretary of the Larkin Company. When the Larkin Company was seeking a designer for a major new office building for the company at the turn of the 20th Century, Martin, whom had witnessed Wright’s work in Chicago and Oak Park, wished to hire the architect as the designer of the new building, but needed to convince the skeptical John D. Larkin and other executives at the company of Wright’s suitability for the project. As a result, Martin decided to have Wright design his family estate. Darwin D. Martin became such a close friend of Wright that he commissioned the family’s summer house, Graycliff, located south of Buffalo on the shores of Lake Erie, to be designed by Wright in 1926, and spearheaded the effort to assist Wright with his finances when his personal residence, Taliesin, was threatened with foreclosure in 1927.
The main house is made up of four structures, those being the house itself, which sits at the prominent southeast corner of the property closest to the intersection of Summit Avenue and Jewett Parkway of any structure on the site, the pergola, which is a long, linear covered porch structure that runs northwards from the center of the house, the conservatory, which sits at the north end of the pergola and features a statue of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, which is visible from the front entrance to the house down the long visual axis created by the pergola, and the carriage house, which sits immediately west of the conservatory and behind the west wing of the house, enclosing the rear of the house’s main garden.
On the grounds of the mansion are two other houses, those being the Barton House, built at the northeast corner of the property along Summit Avenue to house Darwin D. Martin’s sister, Delta Martin Barton, and her husband, George F. Barton, which was the first structure to be built on the property and very visually similar to the main house, using the same type of bricks and incorporating many smaller versions of features found on the main house, and the Gardener’s cottage, built in 1909 to house gardeners who maintained the grounds of the property, which is the smallest and plainest of the three houses, which is sandwiched into a narrow strip of the property between two other houses, fronting Woodward Avenue to the west.
The main house features a buff roman brick exterior with raked horizontal mortar joints and filled in vertical joints, giving the masonry the appearance of being made of a series of solid horizontal bands with recessed joints, accentuating the horizontal emphasis of the house’s design and creating texture with shadows. The roof is hipped with wide overhanging eaves, with the gutters draining into downspouts that drop water into drain basins atop various one-story pillars at the corners of the house, with the roof having a T-shaped footprint above the second floor and three separate sections above the first floor, which wrap around the second floor to the south, west, and north, with the roof soaring above a porte-cochere to the west of the house, as well as a separate roof suspended above a porch to the east. The house’s roof is supported by pillars that sit near, but not at the corners of the building, with windows wrapping the corners. The windows are framed by stone sills and wooden trim, with some windows featuring stone lintels. The front door is obscured inside a recessed porch on the front facade, with the tile walkway to the door turning 90 degrees upon its approach to the doorway, a quite common feature of many of Wright’s houses at the time. The house is surrounded by a series of low brick walls with stone bases and stone caps, with sculptural decorative stone planters atop the pillars at the ends of many of these walls, with some of the planters containing carefully chosen decorative vegetation, and others serving as semi-hidden drainage basins for the adjacent one-story roofs.
Inside, the house features a foyer with a head-on view of the pergola and the conservatory to the north, simple but finely crafted wooden trim elements, the beautiful Wisteria Mosaic Fireplace between the foyer and dining room on the first floor that reflects light in different ways via various types of tile with different types of glazing, rough plaster painted a variety of colors, careful use of shadow to highlight certain elements while obscuring others, art glass windows featuring stained glass and clear glass panes in decorative patterns, wooden built ins and Frank Lloyd Wright-designed furnishings, a large kitchen with lots of white surfaces and wooden cabinets overlooking the garden, a living room with a vaulted ceiling and brick fireplace featuring an arched hearth opening, extensive use of expansion and compression via ceiling height to drive movement through the space, ventilation ducts that can be operated via decorative casement windows at the pillars ringing the various spaces of the house, wooden screens to obscure the staircase and second floor, custom light fixtures, art glass ceiling panels, and five large doors with art glass lights to the eastern porch on the first floor. The second floor of the house has multiple bedrooms with a variety of Frank Lloyd Wright built-in and freestanding furniture, wooden trim, and multiple bathrooms. The house is further decorated with Japanese art pieces procured by Wright in Japan, as well as being heavily inspired by traditional Japanese architecture, with usage of shadow and light to obscure and highlight different features, as well as the general form of the house, with the wide eaves providing ample shade to the interior during the summer months, while still allowing light to easily enter the space during the darker winter months.
To the north of the main house is an approximately 90-foot-long pergola with evenly spaced brick pillars framing the tile walkway, decorative wooden trim on the ceiling at each column, light fixtures at each column, and a glass transom and a door with large glass lights and a narrow frame providing a nearly unobstructed view of the interior of the conservatory at the north end of the pergola, focusing the attention of visitors upon their entrance to the house, as the conservatory and pergola form a continual visual axis from the foyer to the statue of the Winged Victory of Samothrace that stands in the northern end of the conservatory. This entire section of the house was rebuilt during its restoration, having been demolished in the 1960s after falling into disrepair. The pergola features a gabled roof that terminates at the bonnet roof around the perimeter of the conservatory to the north and at the first floor hipped roof of the house to the south.
The conservatory sits at the north end of the pergola, and has a latin cross footprint, with a glass skylight roof with a gabled section running north-south and a pyramidal hipped section at the crossing. The skylight terminates at a parapet that surrounds it on all sides, which features distinctive and decorative “birdhouses” at the north and south ends, apparently intended to house Blue Martins, but were not designed appropriately for the specific needs of the species, and have thus never been occupied. Two of the birdhouses survived the decay and demolition of the original conservatory in the 1960s, and were prominently displayed atop a wall in front of the house until the restoration of the complex in 2007. The interior of the conservatory features only a few concrete planters flanking the walkways and below the large Winged Victory of Samothrace that sits in the northern alcove of the space, with this apparently not having been what the Martin family had in mind, leading to the erection of a prefabricated conventional greenhouse made of metal and glass to the west of the Carriage House shortly after the house’s completion. The conservatory utilizes the same small tile on the floor as other areas of the house, with suspended wooden trim frames breaking up the large void of the space into smaller sections, supporting the space’s light fixtures and carefully framing the planters, fountain, and sculpture.
To the west of the conservatory is the two-story Carriage House, which features a simple pyramidal hipped roof with wide overhanging eaves, recessed corner pillars with central sections featuring wrap-around bands of windows on the second floor, a large carriage door in the center of the south facade, flanked by two smaller pillars and two small windows, and a one-story rear wing with a hipped roof. The interior presently houses a gift shop, but is set up like the original structure, demolished in the 1960s, would have been, with horse stables, red brick walls, a utility sink, and a simple staircase to the upper floor.
The house complex was home to the Martin family until 1937, when, owing to financial difficulties brought on by the loss of the family fortune during the 1929 Black Friday stock market crash and Darwin D. Martin’s death in 1935, the house had become too difficult for the family to maintain, with the family abandoning the house, allowing it to deteriorate. Additionally, Isabelle Reidpath Martin, Darwin’s widow, did not like the house’s interior shadows, which made it difficult for her to see. D.R. Martin, Darwin’s son, tried to donate the house to the City of Buffalo and the State University of New York system for use as a library, but neither entity accepted the offer, and the house remained empty until 1946, when it was taken by the city due to back taxes. In 1951, the house was purchased by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, which intended to convert the house into a summer retreat for priests, similar to the contemporaneous sale of Graycliff by the Martin family to the Piarists, a Catholic order. However, the property languished until 1955, when it was sold to architect Sebastian Tauriello, whom worked hard to save the architecturally significant and by-then endangered property, hoping the house would avoid the fate that had befallen the Larkin Administration Building five years prior. The house was subdivided into three apartments, with the carriage house, pergola, and conservatory demolished and the rear yard sold, and two uninspired apartment buildings with slapped-on Colonial Revival-style trim known as Jewett Gardens Apartments, were built to the rear of the house. In 1967, the University at Buffalo purchased the house, utilizing it as the university president’s residence, with the Barton House and Gardener’s Cottage being parceled off, both converted to function as independent single-family houses. The university attempted to repair the damage from years of neglect and did some work to keep the house functioning, modernizing portions of the interior and returning several pieces of original furniture to the house. The house would exist in this condition for the next half-century.
In 1975, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and in 1986, was listed as a National Historic Landmark. In 1992, the nonprofit Martin House Restoration Corporation was founded with the goal of eventually restoring the historically and architecturally significant complex, and opening it as a museum. In 1994, the organization purchased the Barton House, and had the Martin House donated by the University of Buffalo in 2002. The restoration of both houses began under the direction of Hamilton Houston Lownie Architects shortly thereafter, and the Jewett Gardens Apartments were demolished upon the acquisition of the site by the nonprofit around the turn of the millennium. In 2006, the Gardener’s cottage was purchased from private ownership, and work began to rebuild the lost Pergola, Conservatory, and Carriage House, which were completed in 2007. Additional work to restore the house continued over the next decade, restoring the various interior spaces, with extensive work being put in to restore the kitchen and bedrooms. Finally, in 2017, the last part of the house was restored, being the beautiful Wisteria Mosaic Fireplace between the dining room and foyer, which had been extensively altered. An addition to the grounds, located on the former rear yard of an adjacent house, is the contemporary, sleek glass and steel-clad Eleanor & Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion Visitor Center, designed by Toshiko Mori, with a cantilevered roof that appears to float and tapers to thin edges, with glass walls on three sides, which houses the visitor information desk, ticket sales, presentation space, a timeline of the Martin House’s history, and restrooms. The restoration of the house marks one of the first full reconstructions of a demolished Frank Lloyd Wright structure, and is one of several significant works by the architect in Buffalo, including three designs that were built posthumously in the early 21st Century - the Fontana Boat House in Front Park, the Tydol Filling Station at the Buffalo Transportation Pierce Arrow Museum, and the Blue Sky Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery, which was designed for the Martin family in 1928, but not built until 2004.
Today, the restored Darwin D. Martin House complex serves as a museum, allowing visitors to experience one of the largest Prairie-style complexes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, faithfully restored to its circa 1907 appearance, giving visitors a sense of the genius and design philosophy of Wright.
This was taken from where we stayed, near the southern end of the bay, looking out at the hills across the way that were almost glowing from the light of the setting sun behind us.
My infrared set has more IR images and an explanation of how they are done. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157600507865146/
Other pictures I've taken over the years from this beautiful part of the world can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157600779263103/...
This looks better when viewed large. Press "L" to see it that way.
This is my daily work in "Engel & Volkers".
Aquí os enseño algunas de las fotos que saco a diario en "Engel & Volkers".
For more info: www.engelvoelkers.com/es/vigo
This elderly O gauge loco came in for a strip and repaint. During the process I discovered a date marked on of January 1967!
The body is mostly white metal castings which must contain a high percentage of lead as they are very soft. Old technology shows in the myriad of air holes and pit marks. I considered filling and removing all the imperfections but decided it was economically unviable. Best let this old lady show her age gracefully.
At some point it has been re-motored with an ABC motor gearbox and it's a beautiful runner. It has cast wheels and Fox transfers. Just waiting for Severn Mill Plates to arrive.