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"I stand before you tonight to represent the people who do not count: The poor, the poets, and monks. As long as there are people who are trying to realize the divine in themselves, there shall be hope in the world."
Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
These nested arches were just too tempting, that I ended up setting up my tripod for the scene. Then I noticed the nice effect when people flashed through them. So there I laid my camera poaching for pedestrians. I only aimed for one pedestrian crossing, but I ended up having three, each at different depth.
three of Lisettes cubs lying in the shade looking at some wildebeest, close to Mata Mata. one of my last shots on that trip and a nice way of the KTP to say good-bye....
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The Three sisters are one of the most famous landmarks of the Blue Mountains. Legend has it in the Aboriginal Dream time to rival tribes were at war. One of the chiefs, fearing for his three daughters safety, magically turned them to stone, to protect them until the war was over. Unfortunately the chief was killed before he could undo the spell and his daughters remained trapped in stone forever.
This section of the great dividing range west of Sydney is known as the Blue Mountains and are one of the famous landscape views of Australia. They are named after the blue mist that gives the mountains it's hue. The mist rises from Millions of eucalyptus trees and hangs in the air, painting the mountains and sky alike. The Mountains are actually a series of canyons, the Plateau is around 1000m above sea level and over millions of years rivers carved great canyons into it. It was thought to be an inpenitrable barrier to the west., until finally traversed in 1813 by explorers Wentworth, Blaxland and Lawson. It is now home to many small outback towns but sees huge tourism from rockclimbers, canyoneers, hikers, horse and bike riders and those who just want to enjoy the view. It is flooded by tourists and Sydneysiders alike trying to escape the bussell of the city.
I'm not entirely sure what this body started out as. I don't believe it was a Ford, and that leaves dozens of other possibilities. The engine is a 1950's Chrysler Fire Power Hemi. Photographed in the car show at the 2015 Meltdown Drags, Byron, Illinois.
Watercolor on Arches paper, 20"X14".
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be good this weekend!
trying to do something besides flowers
a little outside of my comfort zone
bear with me
lovely frame care of borealnz
lovely texture found here: www.flickr.com/photos/dianna1966/3297190749/in/set-721576...
Another shot of the rare Bond 750 at Stratford on Avon. A friend had one of these and informed me of some long forgotten facts. Firstly you only required a motorbike licence. The body was Aluminium, the engine was the Villiers 250cc unit. This retained its kick start, so if the battery let you down you could open the bonnet and kick start it. No screen heaters, bit of problem in the cold weather.In those days you could buy a stick on heater from Halfords etc, which did little to help the battery, that's were the kick start comes in. There was also something strange about the gearbox. I THINK it had three or four forward gears. To get reverse you stopped the engine, and selected reverse, which gave you the same number of gears going backward. This should have been the original Bond film car, after a long ride in one of these you were left " Shaken and not stirred". Would love to hear more facts about this British classic, they did a good job in there day.
One Two Three graphic available for download at dryicons.com/free-graphics/preview/one-two-three/ in EPS (vector) format.
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the four of us went to this tiny little rocky beach on a 100 degree weather. we sat in the river and smoked cigarettes and talked about harry potter.
Three girls in gymslips sitting on the grass. 1930s or likely earlier. Could this in fact be our 3 intrepid travellers in their schooldays??
These geta are not made by me. These gorgeous geta were made by kilik_fox_ho on instagram. Beautiful traditional ones hand painted and hand polished. Cut with mastery too!
Three little kittens they lost their mittens,
And they began to cry,
Oh, mother dear, we sadly fear
Our mittens we have lost.
What! lost your mittens, you naughty kittens!
Then you shall have no pie.
Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow.
No, you shall have no pie.
With apologies to Sue ;-)
Our Daily Challenge ~ Nursery Rhyme ....
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Seen on the back of a car. I've been seeing these laughing bears for years, but don't know anything about them.
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Three photos from an evening out with the local photo group, they are all made on and around Queen Louise's bridge here in Copenhagen.
This is the first major sign that greets drivers as they arrive in Washington, DC via the Teddy Roosevelt Bridge.
The first three options lead into that famously tangled mess of highways southeast of the Kennedy Center. The signs themselves could be simplified: first, let's use a consistent font. The two EASTs are clearly different. I would also center them with the numbers in the highway symbols (66 and 50). I would consistently abbreviate Avenue - you see they use Ave with Constitution but spell it out with Independence. I'd always use Ave and keep it on the same line as Independence. Next, there's no need to indicate Downtown under 50 EAST - I'd consider E Street to be closer to downtown anyways.
That boxy truck on the left is used to move the concrete barriers two times every work day. They switch the direction of the middle lane since the traffic flow is lopsided, with more cars driving into the city in the morning and then flocking into Virginia at night. It would be interesting to see whether patterns have normalized as DC experiences a housing boom and Virginia experiences a jobs boom.
Anton Corbijn's (@antoncorbijn4real) favourite spot in London? As a long-time fan, that famous grainy Ian Curtis postcard glued to my teenager wall, I had to check it out. And had to laugh: despite all those shiny London photo spots Corbijn chose Three Colts Corner when asked by the @szmagazin in February: "...a railway crossing close to the lively Brick Lane. But now that London became so fancy I like this place more than ever: that charm of brick, graffiti and dog shit."
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East End Pool & Library, location, Hadrian Square, Byker. So called because a 29 metre stretch of remains of Hadrian’s Wall were discovered during the development of the pool and library complex. It is thought that on the east side of the Ouseburn Valley the wall followed the line of the present Shields Road. There was actually a lot of protest in the late '90s, as our local library closed, and the building remains mostly empty to this day. However, despite the extra journey, most people now appreciate the modern facilities at the new building.
The official line from the council website www.newcastleleisure.co.uk/eastendpool
"East End Pool opened in the year 2000 and has the latest in leisure facilities to cater for everyone in the community. There are three pools including a toddler pool with a bubble machine, studio pool and the main leisure pool with a wave machine and fountains. The leisure pool also has two 50m flumes a sauna and steam room. The East End pool also has the latest in fitness provision housing an exceptional Impulse Fitness suite along with a modern dance studio allowing a range of activities from martial arts to aerobic's. The Fitness Suite has the latest fitness equipment from market leaders Life Fitness and is staffed with a fantastic team of instructors. After your workout you can relax in the sauna or cafe, or even explore the library which is situated within the building."
Library details, should you want a book!
Official list entry
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1228336
Date first listed: 28-Nov-1950
List Entry Name: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1: St Mary's Church,84 South St, Bridport DT6 3NW
Location
Statutory Address: St Mary's Church,84 South St, Bridport DT6 3NW
District: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Bridport
National Grid Reference: SY 46577 92595
Details
I Dates of main phases, name of architect (where applicable): 13th century E.E. transepts, the rest mainly late C14 and C15. Two west bays of nave and the entire eastern arm rebuilt by John Hicks of Dorchester, 1859-60. Nave roof repaired after fire damage in 1996.
Materials: Ham hill stone, with clay tiled roofs.
Plan: Cruciform plan with crossing tower, 6-bay aisled nave. North and south chapels to chancel, porch and chapel of two storeys between the south aisle and transept.
Exterior: From the road the dominant view is of the impressive triple-gabled and buttressed east end, of 1860, with Perp traceried windows of five lights (chancel) and four lights to the chapels. The north and south windows to the chapels have three-light windows with reticulation units; these are matched in the aisles, where the medieval tracery was replaced in 1860. The aisles have solid parapets above a string course of fleurons. The transepts have big gabled ends with Perp windows (six lights south, five lights north), seemingly not renewed 1859-60. The square angle buttresses with chamfered corners topped by octagonal pinnacles are an Early English feature. West of the south transept is a two-bay addition probably of the late 14th century, containing a chapel (of St Katherine) with a two-storey porch to its west. The porch has a standard Perp two-centred moulded arch, and a small oriel window above. It also has a small octagonal chimney stack at the corner of the parapet, with a crenellated rim; the oriel perhaps lit a priest¿s room. The nave has three-light Perp windows between buttresses; four bays clear on the south side, six on the north side. The two west bays are of 1859-60, virtually indistinguishable from the medieval work. The west front is gabled in the centre, with a door under square label, and four-light window. The ends of the aisles are treated as rectangular blank walls. The imposing tower is late 14th or 15th century, and rises above the roof in two stages, with offset buttresses at the lower stage, and a two-light bell opening in each face of the upper stage. It has an embattled parapet with a continuous moulding around the merlons. The square angle-pinnacles are small and insignificant. Access to the tower is by a big stair turret in the angle of the north aisle and transept, then horizontally through a passage over the aisle roofs into the tower.
Interior: Floors mainly stone flagged. The nave arcades have Perp piers that are a variant on the standard four shafts and four hollows pattern ¿ here, the north and south sides of each pier have a flat face flanked by hollow chamfers, the east and west faces each have three shafts continuing up to the arch mouldings. The former room over the south porch was opened up to the south aisle with an arched opening above the internal porch door, and by removing its eastern wall towards St Katherine¿s chapel. The rear arch of the oriel window which lit this room has shafts and ring-moulded capitals in the E.E. style; if in situ, this implies that the porch may be 13th century with Perp remodelling. The transepts have in their east walls arches, now blocked, to former east chapels. E.E. fluted trumpet capitals. In the west wall of the south transept is a former lancet window which now opens into St Katherine¿s chapel. The crossing piers are Perp, with slim shafts and a little foliage decoration in bands at the capitals. Over the crossing is a ribbed vault with a large bell-hole in a concave-sided lozenge. This must all correspond with the rebuilding date of the tower. The chancel and its chapels are all Victorian, continuing the style of the crossing and nave. Nave and transepts have ceiled wagon roofs with moulded ribs and carved bosses, the aisles have lean-to panelled roofs with plain rafters on carved corbels. The roofs in the west arm were conservatively repaired after fire damage in 1996. The chancel roof is more elaborate, of dark stained timber with hammerbeam trusses. The north chapel serves as an organ loft and sacristy.
Principal Fixtures: On the outside west wall of the south porch is a badly weathered medieval carving from St Andrew¿s chapel (see History), placed there in 1883. Light oak bench seating in the nave and aisles, of the late 20th century. The chancel retains few fittings; a late 20th century reordering installed a nave altar and simple three-sided communion rail just west of the crossing. Late 20th century nave benches. Heavy pulpit of Caen stone, 1860, with much Perp carving and three sides opened up beneath ogee arches to form a frame for a high relief scene of the Sermon on the Mount. The font is Perp, octagonal with quatrefoil panels on the bowl, and a heavy panelled foot. At the west end of the south aisle, the Royal Arms painted on board in an arched frame; said to have been given in 1820, now with arms of Queen Victoria. Good pale oak organ case, 1984-8. In the north transept is a trefoil-headed piscina of the 13th century. In the south chapel is a Gothic oak reredos, 1907, and an entrance screen of wrought-iron, from a reordering and restoration of the chapel in 1900, when encaustic tiles were laid in the sanctuary. Monuments: The outstanding monument is in the north transept, a knight in chain mail of c. 1250, possibly John Gervase d. 1262; the face was restored c. 1860. Small brass in decorative frame, to Edward Coker, gentleman, shot in 1685 by one of the Duke of Monmouth¿s officers. Slate tablet to Katherine Frampton d. 1705, with naive incised decoration. Stained glass: a varied collection of 1850-1914. East window with typically bright colouring of c. 1860. South chapel east, by A.L. Moore, 1902, depicting Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. South chapel south, second from east, by E. Baillie, 1851. The south transept east dated 1865 may be by Clayton & Bell. St Katherine¿s chapel south window is c. 1894. Four in the nave of c. 1890-1914; the first from east (north wall) signed A.L. Moore, 1908, and the fourth signed Cox, Son, Buckley & Co., London, c. 1890. North transept east also by Moore, 1908.
Subsidiary Features: Large churchyard with a yew walk to the south porch, and many good monuments, including prominent obelisks near the road. South-east of the chancel, gatepiers with heavy V-jointed rustication, dated 1831.
History: One of four Saxon boroughs in Dorset, Bridport was a substantial settlement by the 11th century. The earliest parts of the present church are early 13th century, probably indicating rebuilding on the site of a Saxon predecessor. As Bridport grew from the 13th century, the centre of settlement moved northwards, accounting for the church¿s position on the southern edge of the old town centre. This resulted in the building of a chapel of St Andrew dedicated in 1362, on the site of the town hall c. ¼ mile north of the church. It was demolished by 1798. Several chantries in the church were endowed in the late 14th century (1368, two in 1387, two in 1400) and these may coincide approximately with the Perp rebuilding around the crossing, and of the south chapel and adjacent porch. Galleries were added over the aisles in 1717 and 1790, removed in 1859. The north transept was `repaired and beautified¿ in 1776 for the use of the poor, at the expense of Mr Jullantigh. Thomas Hardy seemingly did not approve of the restoration of 1859-60. In Wessex Tales (1888) he wrote, "The church had had such a practical joke played upon it by some facetious restorer or other as to be scarce recognisable...", which is odd since the `facetious restorer¿ was John Hicks of Dorchester, to whom Hardy was articled 1856-62, and became an assistant, 1867-9. Pevsner offers `congratulations¿ for Hicks¿s restoration. John Hicks (1815-69) was born at Totnes, Devon, and worked as an architect in Bristol c. 1838-48 before settling in Dorchester. He restored or built at least 27 churches, mostly Gothic. He was popular, amiable and scholarly, and was seemingly at work on at least three churches when he died; yet his death went almost unremarked, and he is little known now except for his association with Hardy.
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Three sister BNSF GEVOs put a train together in Redmond, Oregon with the Three Sisters of the High Cascades in the distance. Went to the Oregon Trunk to catch a UP reroute due to the collapse of Tunnel 11 on the Cascade line but did not catch one.
Golden-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla)
Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary, Saanich, BC
The colors of the Golden-crowned Sparrow are a mix of subdued browns, exept for that royal yellow crown.
The three sparrows in this series were all in the same place, on a moss and lichen encrusted rock, looking for goodies.
the ancient packhorse bridge bove the Panniers Pool at Three Shire Heads.
This point is where three counties meet (Derbyshire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire) - three old packhorse routes converting on a central point. It is a place of legends, the resort of rogues and outlaws of yesteryear: they could quickly slip from one county to the next, thus eluding the agents of the law...
Three angels look out from the gravestone of Charles and Johanna Root in the churchyard of St Andrews church in Cherry Hinton. Charles died in 1907 and Johanna followed in 1932.
For Station Saturday here is a look at the grand Laconia depot in the center of town which built by the Concord and Montreal Railroad in 1892, three years before that road was swallowed up by the expanding Boston and Maine system. Designed by New York City architect Bradford Gilbert, it is built out of granite and red sandstone, and has a central area, the former waiting room, that is 2-1/2 stories in height, with a pyramidal roof. That area is flanked by single-story sections with tall hip roofs, and its front is dominated by a porte-cochère with large rounded arches. The waiting room area features a large sandstone fireplace, and has a floor covered in patterned tile.
The size and scale of the station were due in part to the activism of Charles Busiel, a local businessman who was the Mayor of Laconia from 1893 to 1895 and then governor of New Hampshire from 1895 to 1897. Having also sat on the board of the Concord and Montreal it is clear that his influence led this small city to receive a station as grand as those in much larger communities. Placed on the National Historic Register in 1892 it is the last large station left in the state since the cities of Manchester and Concord having long since lost their depots to the wrecking ball, and in fact may be the largest surviving former B&M station surviving anywhere although arguments could be made for a few other locations.
Sitting beside MP 27.5 of the state owned former White Mountain Mainline it saw its last thru passenger train in October 1954 when the Boston to Montreal Aloutte was shifted to the Northern mainline upon the abandonment of the White Mountain mainline from Plymouth to Wells River. For another decade Laconia would rate RDC service to Boston until that too disappeared in January 1965. A decade later the B&M petitioned for abandonment and the town was poised to lose the rail service it had had since 1849. But the state of New Hampshire stepped in and purchased the full 73 miles from Concord to Lincoln. A series of freight operators tried and failed until finally the New England Southern took over in 1982. But freight operations dwindled, and by the early 1990s the NEGS had no freight customers remaining north of Tilton.
However in 1986 the Plymouth and Lincoln Railroad had been formed with the purpose of operating a theme park and railroad out of Lincoln, New Hampshire that had transformed itself from a paper mill town to tourist destination. The following year the HOBO railroad was born operating on the northern 7 miles of line between Lincoln and Woodstock. Four years later thanks to their success in Lincoln the state offered the P&L the opportunity to operate another section of the same rail line and a new lease gave the company exclusive passenger access to the entire 50 miles from Tilton to Lincoln. In 1991 the Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroad started operations on 8 miles of lakeside trackage between Meredith and Lakeport with a stop in Weirs Beach and has operated successfully ever since. Additionally the railroad operates a series of scheduled foliage trips north 15 miles from Meredith through Ashland to Plymouth.
But outside of these operations there are two separate segments comprising the other 20 miles of line that see vietually no movement other than the occasional company work train or equipment move. Consequently the opportunity to photograph trains on these sections of track is exceedingly rare which is why when I heard trains were returning for this weekend I had to make the trek up.
As for this train, was brought down for a rare mileage passenger excursion from the historic Laconia Train Station to Silver Lake Road in Lochmere. Riders on this sold out train were treated to a delicious feast catered by Hart's Turkey Farm, and while the railroad hosts many Hart's turkey trains from Meredith to Lakeport, this special dinner train run from Laconia to Lochmere was about as rare as it gets. This ride coincided with the NH Pumpkin Fest in Downtown Laconia October 27th and 28th.
The four car train consisted of two demotored ex B&M Budd RDCs and two ex Lackawanna MU cars bracketed by SW1000 1012 on the south and GP7 302 on the north. The 1012 was blt. Dec. 1970 as Burlington Northern 438 and was acquired in 2014 thru LTEX and is a regular on all their summer passenger runs. 302 was blt. Aug. 1950 as Rock Island number 438 and came north in 1985 when the start up New England Southern acquired it from the bankrupt ROCK's estate. It hauled freight on all the remaining ex B&M lines north of Manchester as NEGS 302 until 1998 when it was sold to the Plymouth and Lincoln, who promptly chopped the nose and repainted it maroon and silver.
Again, per Jay the old geep usually sits around Meredith Yard as a spare engine and has seen very little use. But it was kept serviceable and returned to revenue service from October 14th thru the 28th for the first time since October 2018! This was my first time seeing her turn a wheel since the late 1990s when my Dad and I rode behind her still in green and yellow on the NEGS's short lived passenger operation operation out of Canterbury.
Laconia, New Hampshire
Friday October 27, 2023