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This posting should surprise no one!! giggling
The Macro Mondays theme for 5/8 is broken and I’m so glad I keep resisting the urge to cast this aside- to refuse to throw this away!! It’s a bottle that I have photographed a gazillion times. Will post a size verification a bit later.
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Feels Like Home_Chantal Kreviazuk
Something in your eyes
Makes me want to lose myself
Makes me want to lose myself
In your arms
There's something in your voice
Makes my heart beat fast
Hope this feeling lasts
The rest of my life
If you knew how lonely my life has been
And how long I've been so alone
If you knew how I wanted someone to come along
And change my life the way you've done
It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I'm all the way back where
I come from
It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
Feels like I'm all the way back where I belong
Songwriters: Randy Newman
Picture taken @ The Notebook
🎶 Sorry about the earworm 🎶…..
It was as either this one or the mini Oreos and the Cookie Monster singing in my head won out!!
The Macro Mondays theme for tomorrow, 11/7, is biscuits, or - on this side of the pond - cookies. These are one of the six varieties I bought to photograph. Luckily there is someone who will help eat them, to save me from myself… giggling.
Btb, I’ll put up a size verification in a bit- each letter is just one inch square.
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Or - an accidental discovery.
There is a certain satisfaction in discovering through experience the underlying reality of something we take for granted. I mean, we all know what a mile is right - 1760 yards. Well, actually no, it wasn’t that at all, that calculation must have come later, the mile stood alone prior to that.
On my long walks with my guide dog, and later with just my white stick, to pass the time I used to count my paces - sad I know, but I can’t see the scenery, so it kept me awake. I used to count 100 paces on just one foot, on each finger and thumb, and when I had done all digits - 1000 paces, I would transfer a coin to another pocket. As time went on, on certain walks , if there was a marker nearby like a large tree, a road or whatever. - something I could pick up, I would mark the 1000 paces or sometimes 500. One day I went in the car with my wife to see how far a particular walk was and as we drove I asked the distance at the markers I had accumulated, and to my surprise, they coincided almost exactly with 1 mile, or half mile intervals! The fact is - and you can verify this, 1000 strides on one foot is one mile, it is very accurate, to within 20 or 30 paces for me. I am of average height and stride. One hand half a mile, two hands a full mile.
This must be how the distance of one mile came into being, people in times of yore, needed to know how long a journey would take and therefore a standard was set by which anyone could gauge their progress. All you needed was 10 fingers and some stones in a pocket.
As a small boy I can remember seeing very old stone roadside markers - milestones, ’40 miles to London’ or 50 miles to London’ or which ever town, they must be all gone now. Somebody - with a pocket full of stones - must have paced those markers, 100 paces x 10 fingers x 10 stones = 10 miles. He would then leave some sort of marker by the wayside, and later along comes the horse and cart with the large stone markers and drops them off at each marked point.
The measurement of a yard has nothing to do with a mile. The name tells us that, it was obviously a measurement for small pieces of land and fields a *yard*. One day somebody said I wonder how many yardsticks make one of those mile things? They had someone - probably several people walk the mile, then lay down a yard stick at the starting point and discovered you had to flip it 1759 times to reach the mile.
So a mile is not a measurement of yards and feet, it is a measurement of hands and feet, and that photograph above, of all the cow parsley lining the road was taken precisely 3500 paces (on one foot) from my front door, or exactly, three and a half miles……
OCEAN GRANVILLE (IMO: 9833632, MMSI 316020998) is a Tug built in 2019 (1 year old) and currently sailing under the flag of Canada.
Ocean Granville is a 381 gt vessels built by Damen's Song Cam shipyard in Vietnam
*Information has been compiled from various sources and not verified to be correct.
I was truly fortunate to have a photo opportunity on the Lynnwood Docks, North Vancouver, BC.
There is no public access to these docks, marina or surrounding property. I had a special access tour as a guest, from a long time personal friend.
Strive to be different and original , be your own artist.
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.
Stay healthy
Happy Clicks,
~Nautical me - Christie
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The demise of the multiple carnival-type piers at Old Orchard has taken place over 120 years. All renditions started out grand and were humbled by Mother Nature. The first was built of steel by Berlin Iron Bridge Co in 1898 and considered a “global cultural icon.” At 1,825 ft (556m), it was the longest in the world.
“The Pier Casino” sat on its ocean end, an elaborate ballroom that held 5000 people. (I have verified that with several sources, but wonder. Since I wasn't around in 1898, I'll go with it, even though 500 seems much more likely.)
In 1908 after multiple storms, the pier was shortened to 700 ft (210m) and the casino was scaled down. Its heyday was between World Wars I and II when big names like Guy Lombardo, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Xavier Cugat, and Frank Sinatra were regular acts.
After consistent storm damage, the casino was demolished in 1970. A blizzard in '78 destroyed the entire pier. Today it is the 500 ft (150 m) 1980s tacky structure you see here with a wooden walkway, souvenir shops, junk food, and a beach bar at the end. 😊
(The tiny figure on the shore has a guitar and is serenading the sunrise.)
Anyone that knows me, knows my huge passion and love for boats, ships and tugs.
The Ku'ulakai is by far my most favorite tug.
This beautiful old girl is being lovingly refit and moored in the historic, fishing village of Steveston.
Located in Richmond, BC
Canada
KU'ULAKAI Tugboat c. 1944
(Ku'ulakai meaning: Hawaiian Fishing God)
Her history: as per online sources: (Unverified)
Built:1944
Length: 111.9
Gross Tonnage: 301
Used as a Tugboat all along the West Coast of BC
Ku'ulakai is said to be the only intact Mikki tug in Canadian waters.
Builder: Northeast Shipbuilding, Quincy Massachusetts, USA
According to onlines sources, this tug was built as a wooden Mikki US Army Tug - LT465, and used by the U.S. navy during the Second World War to tow damaged ships from the Pacific back for repair.
Online information also reports that later on in life, she was used by drug runners in the South Pacific and that in 1988 was seized by the Canadian Coast Guard for smuggling drugs out of China.
She was originally named: Lloyd B. Gore, decommissioned & sold 1946.
Please note* All information has been taken from online sources and has not been verified to be accurate.
I 💖 Steveston
Definitely one of British Columbia's best kept secrets.
Series: Steveston by Romance
Thank-you so much for all your views, comments and faves
So very much appreciated !!
~Christie (happiest) by the River
The MM theme is odd and the micro-mini duckies are back!! After a MM posting last week that wasn’t at all my usual, I thought the blue duckies should make an appearance.
for #MacroMondays "HAPPY TOGEHTER"
Picture for SIZE VERIFICATION in the first commentbox.
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Toy museum || Speelgoedmuseum Deventer
Hotel Europe is a six storey, flatiron style building, built on a pie shaped property located in Historical Gastown, Vancouver BC Canada.
Construction began in 1908 and the hotel was completed and opened in 1909.
It was the first reinforced concrete structure to be built in Canada and the earliest fireproof hotel in Western Canada.
For the first years, the hotel flourished as people arrived to Vancouver by Steamship and stayed at the hotel.
The ground floor was once a beer parlour and is now currently a store. Below this beer parlour was an underground saloon accessible by stairs from a sidewalk entrance.
The underground area, including the saloon is said to have extended under the sidewalks on both sides of the hotel. These extensions were known as “areaways,” a typical feature of buildings in the Gastown area. Areaways were used to load and unload freight through trap doors in the outside sidewalk.
The Hotel Europe’s areaways were eventually filled in and bricked up and the underground saloon is said to be now a storage basement.
A more luxurious, Vancouver hotel opened in 1919 and the guest traffic shifted to the new hotel. At sometime it was said that the Hotel Europe became a brothel.
This building was later renovated into suites and is currently an affordable housing complex.
Rumored haunted. It is believed there is one, possibly two ghosts residing in the Hotel Europe. The first ghost was reported in the early '80s by a contractor who had been working on some repairs alone in the cellar, near the bricked up areaway entrance. Supposedly, he had left the cellar briefly and when he returned he found his tools had been scattered all over the floor. He heard scratching noises coming from behind the brick wall (a wall said to have been previously filled in) and felt a bad presence. He grabbed his tools and fled. Also, reported was a man dressed in a black coat with a flat cap that appeared in the shop on the ground level. One evening in the early 2000's after the shop owner had closed the store, the owner saw a man/ghost clearly reflected in the convex security mirror at the top end of the store. She was surprised to see him as she was sure there were no customers left in the store when she locked up. When she went to investigate, there was nobody there. The man in the mirror had vanished. The owner was left shaken and fled the property. This man/ghost was reported to return again at a later date.
It is questioned if this was the same original ghost or indeed a second one.
**Please note: All enclosed information has been collected from various online sources and has not been verified to be true or accurate.
Thank-you for visiting
~Christie by the River
The #MacroMondays theme for 5/13 is charm. Bracelets, necklaces, wine glasses, keychains - am figuring any ornamentation is fair game, as long as it’s small. Loved the blue shadow on this one! And it’s blue (surprise, surprise) and sparkly (more surprise)!… will include the size verification in a bit. It's a bit over 3cm
By the way, I dithered a bit between this and the Dutch clog
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The MM theme for 1/6 is keychain and I *couldn’t* resist doing this. It is the partner to a picture I took for keyhole/lock!! Will put the size verification up later, if this is the one I choose to post.
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If those Flickrites who know their nondescript wee buff birds could verify or correct my best guess above, I'd be grateful.
Lake Genval is one of the MOST beloved places for a Nature lover and photographer like myself!! You can verify it by watching some extraordinary moments and views I have already experienced here, in my photo file with this name . But this last 23d of June, I tasted this magical place in a more …deeper way!! Because I stayed here overnight!! In the Château du Lac! A lovely hotel with a strong personality and history! Though very modern inside!
During the evening of this day, and in the morning of the following one, I have tasted the magical energy, light, and colors of this place, taking some pictures again, of course! But also sharing the upliftment of these special moments with a very beloved person by my side, a great Nature photographer himself…
I am so happy to share with you today, Lake Genval, on my Birthday!!!
The Macro Monday theme for 1/30 is screw. This choice fits the three parameters of the theme for MM. It also has garnered the most views and faves. I like the other three for totally different reasons, so I think I’ll dither for a bit before choosing.
Btb, I had an incredibly difficult time getting any of these to post. I finally discovered a work around but I’m hoping that my iPhone and Flickr app learn how to play nicely together again— SOON
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GMC 910 Truck 1969 Owner Verification (Vintage manual focus lens) - Chatted for a while to the owner of this 1969 GMC 910 Truck (he verified the year) who was unloading it outside the skate hire shop at Olympic Plaza today. He’d owned the truck for a number of years and was thinking about having it repainted in the spring. Didn’t look in bad shape given it’s age!
In the 1660s, English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton began a series of experiments with sunlight and prisms. Based on his experiments he argued that the geometric nature of the laws of reflection and refraction could only be explained if light is made of particles, which he referred to as corpuscles, as waves don't tend to travel in straight lines. Newton concluded that light is composed of colored particles that combine to appear white.
A shot of a female wood-carving leaf-cutter bee primarily taken for identification purposes. The large head and pale pollen brush with a black tip can be seen clearly. The ID has been verified in iRecord from this shot plus three others from different angles.
Photographed on a fleabane flower about 2-2.5 cm across (this is a big bee!) at Burton Mere Wetlands RSPB reserve.
So this version includes the essence of the teabag. #SmileonSaturday theme of #CoffeeorTea. It smells delicious in here! I may go brew me up a cuppa!
And this version is a possibility for the #MacroMondays theme of #string. And, yay, I found the ruler! So I can do a size verification, later!
I do love a two-fer
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…..By the way, I decided to go with this one because I really like the reflection of the string in the tea house. 🏡 …. The size verification coming up later- the whole scene is about 5cm.
This snow bunting was pretty busy getting a drink from some Mississippi River backwaters and let me approach fairly close. I asked a friend of mine who is an expert birder to verify the ID on this little beauty. It was a new one for me! Photographed in Goose Island Park, La Crosse County, Wisconsin.
Exceptions verify the rule, but every moment is forever. And the moment it's over, it's been over half an hour ago. After an hour it's a day ago, after a day, a week, and so on. And when it's over it took only an hour or two, when it reality it was a whole day at work. Selling a ticket to the last car on the ferry, taking a look around if I forgot anyone, and I spot the red convertible all the way at the front. Oh right, that one, now that I see it. That's still there. Completely forgot I ever met that at all. Might as well have been ten crossings ago that I sold him his ticket.
Today I went to one of my ship spotting places. Yesterday... did I even go anywhere yesterday? Ah right, Hattingen. Or was that the day before yesterday? Did yesterday even happen? If so, where was I? Spending another day not worth remembering, I guess.
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August 27, 2011 - Amherst Nebraska
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"Stacked Plates" is storm chasers jargon for us to describe a strongly striated mesocyclone! Oh this was a B E A U T Y!
Late August 2011. This was a LP (Low Precip) Storm, and she didn't drop an ounce of rain. If anything did come down it evaporated before it hit the ground. It was so damn hot and humid and was just happy the sun was blocked out by the clouds and then this came along. Along with the severe warning it had on it a few counties north of my location as it moved south.
You can clearly see the mid-level inflow bands. Better known as striations. These were so well defined it was jaw dropping!
When the storm got close enough I couldn't really see or verify a wall cloud of any type. We had a few lowerings, but nothing significant to get me to report it. So I really can't call this a supercell. But it sure was fun one to witness!
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Bus no.: 723K
Classification: "Lazy Boy Extreme" Airconditioned Provincial Operation Bus
Seating Configuration: 2x1
Seating Capacity:
Model: Kinglong XMQ6129Y
Manufacturer: Xiamen Kinglong United (Kinglong)
Chassis: King Long XMQ6120R (LA6R1HSM)
Engine: Nissan Diesel MD9M
Suspension: Air Suspension
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Shot Location: Araneta Center Bus Terminal Cubao, Quezon City