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When I stepped out onto the deck the snow was up to my knees. That was at about 9PM last night and it was still coming down. The plow returned at 10PM and by 11PM the ground was covered again. Bananas!!
Then this morning we had an earthquake. It's apocalyptic weather in Chicaoland...
Found this guy trapped in a bucket in the yard. When released, he was still for a bit, allowing me to get a few shots. But he always turned those eyes on me .....a little scary when I got in for a closeup !
Where do I go when I'm so alone?
Where do I go when I'm so alone?
Where do I go when I'm so alone?
Where do I turn when
you are so close?
We try not to crash but
we still collide
Tears
I've cried,, I'll survive
I'm alive !!
I'm stripped, I'm bare
I'm left here with nothing
I hold the wheel
And know where I'm going
Your face, I see, in
every reflection
No time, no space
I've lost all direction
And there's no turning
back this time
Gotta stay alive
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When a Hummie buzzes the forty too slow, a fluid dump is in order....
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)
Adult Female
Family: Hummingbirds
Patapsco Valley SP--JMC Quadrant
Baltimore, MD
2015/04/30
when selecting a guitar, it is important to take care in choosing the tonewoods. make sure the guitar will blend well with your personality. will the guitar resonate with the acoustics of the room where you are playing?
عندما تتشكل الغيوم , لوحة الهية ... سبحان الله
من سواحل منطقة السالمية - موسم السرايات -
Seascape from Al Salimeya coasts , in Thu 6-4-2006.
Kuwait
I have been experimenting with self portraits
This is a double exposure shot using a print screen
An abstract playing with the idea that when one
person or situation leaves us feeling bruised we
need to remind ourselves of all the people that love us
Raphael "Raffi" Mikelstein as Christopher Robin from "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"
Costume is designed by moi.
Props by moi
Behind the scene photography by Jillian Direktor (Seen in her album)
Raffi looks extremely younger than his actual age in the photograph, (and if you know him, he already looks younger than his age). That's just my opinion.
The line "When you never forget." is inspired by the conversation between Christopher Robin and Pooh Bear.
"Promise you'll never forget me."
"Oh I won't Christopher Robin. I promise."
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I included all of the classic characters:
Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Owl and Gopher (who's not in the book, so in the movie he repeatedly says "I'm not in the book!")
Three craters resulting from Soviet-era gas exploration. The third, and most famous, has apparently been on fire since the day, decades ago, when someone had the idea to burn off the gas to aid exploration...
Cosplay 角色扮演 海貓鳴泣之時 Umineko no Naku Koro ni うみねこのなく頃に 海貓悲鳴時 When the Seagulls Cry 海貓鳴泣之時 Umineko 謝斯塔 シエスタ 謝斯塔姐妹 シエスタ姉妹近衛兵 謝斯塔45 シエスタ45 謝斯塔45 ヨンジューゴ 謝斯塔00 シエスタ00 謝斯塔00 ダブルオー
I am a cosplay photographer from Hong Kong.
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I have been living in London area for two years now and the only one thing I hate and really dislike is the rain. I know I know everyone gonna keep telling me e7md rbk eno fee rain o e7na fe al7ar BUT over here when it rain everything fade and It get too depressing. You know what they say, never trust England weather ;)
P.S ele byz3jni 3ala al3amod ele fe alno9 baksr ra9ah okay :@ it was raining couldn't get a perfect shot (A)
Cicindela denverensis -- female
Here is a closeup of this species elytral surface that so thoroughly, under sunshine, humiliates the most expensive cameras. It appears completely unremarkable in shade. The mystery is still unsolved. This is also the pose they most often assume when it gets cloudy as they await the return of the sun. Same beetle as the previous photo.
Tháng 4 về...mang những hơi thở của mùa hè
Và tất nhiên ko thể thiếu hoa loa kèn..loài hoa kiêu sa và rất Hà Nội!:X:X:X
Bộ ảnh kỷ niệm sinh nhật tuổi 20!:)
Photo by : Kankuli
Edit : Hằng moon!
Originally constructed to dual door configuration when delivered new to London General as their fleet number PDL34 in March 2003, this Plaxton bodied Dennis Trident type PN03 ULT joined the Norse Eastern fleet for use on Norwich P&R services in October 2010 having been converted to single door layout. In November 2015 it subsequently passed to Norwich School who now use it and a number of other vehicles for transferring pupils between various sites in Norwich and further afield. Here we see it bound for the UEA when captured on Castle Meadow in September 2016.
"... But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up. "
~ George Burns
My entry for No.31 - Down, in 111 in 2011.
Much better on black - click on the image or press 'L' on your keyboard.
(Taken with a Raynox DCR-250 attached to a 50mm lens)
Today is my 12th Trannyversary… the day when I celebrate the anniversary of the first time I ever fully dressed up in 2011 and became Penny.
The pic on the right is from 10 years ago, and was when I finally found the look I wanted for myself after dressing up for a couple of years. I kept pretty much the same look until two years ago when I had a revamp and went blonde, changed my eye makeup, and did my lips differently.
Living in the sunshine for three and a half years has made me way more tanned now… I didn’t realize how pasty white I used to be!
Seasonal change in magical colors.
Awesome when viewed in LIGHTBOX!!!!!
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taken on the 7.12.97, Minsterley Motors fleet was mainly a Bedford fleet, ( then there was no low floors for this country fleet ), here we have RRR520R a YMT carring a Plaxton Supreme lll Express body and RAX805M, a YRT carring Plaxton Elite lll Express body, and just to the left is Bedford YLQ Duple Dominant MWB115P.
Construído em 1973, o Torre Palace Hotel, fruto do trabalho do libanês Jibran El-Hadj, foi o primeiro Hotel de grande porte a ser contruído no Setor Hoteleiro Norte. Sua localização é uma das mais privilegiadas do país. No centro do eixo monumental, os 140 apartamentos integram o complexo que tem vista para a Torre de TV e a Esplanada dos Ministérios, um dos metros quadrados mais caros do Brasil.
No entanto, o hotel de 40 anos tomou um rumo inesperado. No final de maio de 2013, o estabelecimento recebeu seus últimos hóspedes. Do dia pra noite, ninguém mais poderia fazer check-in. Era o fim de um dos hoteis mais conhecidos da capital. De acordo com a Prefeitura do Setor Comercial Norte, que também administra o Setor Hoteleiro, após a morte de Jibran, em 2000, o hotel passou a ser administrado por 7 herdeiros que teriam entrado em desacordo sobre os rumos do patrimônio.
Completamente desativado, hoje, o antigo Torre Palace Hotel é habitado por moradores de ruas e usuários de drogas. Desde agosto de 2014, o hotel foi sendo depedrado pouco a pouco por quem entrava no local. Tudo o que poderia ser reaproveitado foi arrancado por invasores: portas, portais, janelas, vidraças, pedras de mármore e granito, pias e até mesmo vasos sanitários. Não restou absolutamente nada, além do esqueleto da obra e de seus novos habitantes, que causam medo e geram insegurança aos hóspedes de hotéis vizinhos.
Rômulo Araújo é gerente de um hotel que fica ao lado do Torre Palace. Ele conta que os hóspedes se sentem inseguros com o vizinho e os instrui a não andarem sozinhos pela redondeza durante a noite. Rômulo ainda diz que "a procura pelo hotel diminuiu bastante nos últimos meses. Boa parte dos clientes são moradores fixos, e muitos deles estão se mudando por conta da insegurança".
O acesso ao local é livre. Sem portas, janelas ou barreiras, é possível adentrar o local sem nenhuma dificuldade. Já logo na entrada o cheiro é completamente insuportável. Por todos os cantos é possível encontrar fezes, entulho e muito lixo. O cenário é de completa destruição. A cena remete à algo como a passagem de um tornado ou de um terremoto. Em uma primeira vista, um morador de rua dormia envolto em uma fina coberta verde rasgada, sob a proteção de apenas uma bíblia aberta ao seu lado.
Ao subir os primeiros degraus a cena não é diferente. Destruição, roupas, sapatos, preservativos: tudo ali denunciava a presença de pessoas que passaram recentemente pelo local. Ao subir no primeiro andar, foi possível ver um quarto com um varal e algumas peças de roupas estentidas. Enquanto as gotas pingavam no chão cheio de poeira, panelas com comida fria ambientavam o cheiro do local. Não havia nenhuma pessoa no quarto.
No segundo andar, ao entrar em um dos quartos para registrar as imagens, encontramos um morador de rua deitado em um colchão. Morador do local há 2 semanas, Antônio Pereira, comunicativo e aparentemente alterado, aceitou ser fotografado dos joelhos pra baixo. Segundo Antônio, "de dia é tranquilo, fica pouca gente aqui dentro. É de noite que o bixo pega. Rola droga, rola crack, rola briga [...]". Ao ser questionado sobre sua estadia, Antônio é enfático quando diz "já fumei muito crack, hoje fumo só maconha. Só tô aqui mesmo pra ter um lugar pra passar as noite [sic]. Enquanto ninguém embassa eu vou ficando".
O lugar não é apenas o "paraíso" dos desabrigados. As paredes do antigo hotel abandonado dão lugar à manifestações de arte urbana onde pichachões e grafites dão um pouco de vida ao local. Pichadores e grafiteiros fazem a festa todos os dias. É muito comum encontrar latas de tinta spray jogadas pelos cômodos do hotel abanadonado.
No décimo quarto (e último) andar do edifício, foi possível identificar algo que seria uma espécie de escritório ou biblioteca do hotel. Entre centenas livros, fotos, impressoras, documentos e carcaças de monitores antigos, eu senti a sensação de estar sendo observado por algo ou alguém e isso foi assustador.
No final da reportagem, fomos surpreendidos por 4 viaturas da Polícia Militar. Alegaram ter recebido denúncia de que 2 pessoas teriam entrado no edifício há cerca de 2h e não teriam retornado até então. Ao explicar a situação, tomamos depoimento dos oficiais. De acordo com o Sargento Ferreira, "os PM's fazem patrulhamento, mas alegam que só podem entrar no edifício em casos de flagrante, uma vez que é propriedade particular."
Built over 1973, the Tower Palace Hotel, fruit of labor of the lebanese Jibran El-Hadj, was the first large sized hotel to be build at the Hotel Sector North of Brasília, capital of Brazil. Its location is one of the most privileged in the biggest country of south america. In the center of the capital, the 140 apartments are part of the complex that overlooks the TV Tower, National Congress and the Esplanade of the Ministries, brazilian postcards and one of the most expensive square meters of the country.
However, the 40-year hotel took an unexpected turn. In late May 2013, the property received their last guests. From day to night, no one could check in. It was the end of one of the most known hotels of the capital. According to the City Hall, after the death of Jibran in 2000, the hotel is now managed by seven heirs who reportedly at odds over the direction of the patrimony.
Completely deactivated today, the old Tower Palace Hotel is inhabited by homeless people and drug addicts. Since August 2014, the hotel has been plundered and vandalized bit by bit by them. All that could be reused was removed by invaders: doors, gates, windows, glasses, marble stones, granite stones, sinks and even yet toilet boil. There is nothing left beyond the skeleton of the building and its newer dwellers, that scares and causes insecurity for the guests at nearby hotels.
Rômulo Araújo is manager of a hotel next to Tower Palace. He says the guests feel insecure with the neighbour hotel and instructs them not to walk around there at night. "The demand for the hotel has decreased since last year. Most of the guests are permanent dwellers and many of them are moving due to the insecurity."
With no doors, windows or barriers, it's possible enter the place with no difficulties. At the entrance the smell is completely unbearable. Everywhere you go you can see feces, trash and urine. The scene is utter destruction. Everything over there seems something like after a tornado or an earthquake. In a first glance, one homeless slept wrapped in a torn blanket, under the protection of just an open bible at his side.
Going up the stairs the scene wasn't different. At the first floor, it was possible to see a room with clothes on the line. While the drops dripped on the floor full of dust, pipes of crack and rotten food made the smell of the place unbearable. Destruction, clothes, shoes, condoms and pans: every thing over there revealed the presence of people who have recently passed through the abandoned hotel. There was no one in the room.
On the second floor, when entering a room to take the pictures, I found a homeless on a mattress. Local resident for 2 weeks, Antonio Pereira, communicative and apparently high, has agreed to be photographed from the knees down. According to Antonio, "during the day is quiet, there is few people here. Overnight that the going gets tough. Many people use drugs. People do fight, people stab each other. It's horrible. [...]. When asked about his stay, Antonio says "during a long time I've smoked crack, today I just smoke weed. I'm just right here to have a place to spend the night [sic]"
The abandoned hotel is not only the "paradise" of the addicts and homeless. The walls of the old hotel give way to demonstrations of urban art where graffiti gives a little of life for the building. Taggers and graffiti artists has fun over there everyday. It's common to find spray paint cans over the rooms of the hotel.
On fourteenth (and last) floor of the hotel it was possible to identify something like an office or a library. Among thousands of books, pictures, printers and documents, I've felt the sensation of being watched by something or someone. It was scary.
Don't forget to reach for what you want and be sure to be thankful when you get it :) I am going to visit some and then try to go on a photo shoot. Hopefully I can find some interesting things today. This is the underside of one of the gerbera daisies in my neighbor's garden. Happy Flowery Friday!!
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Little and large. Dad in his monster truck with his kid in tow! www.picfair.com/pics/06900381-inspiration-i-want-to-be-li...
"when the last teardrop falls" by blaque
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Diptych #10: When the last teardrop falls
Diptych collaboration with Zmedia.
Top pic: mine
Bottom pic: Zmedia
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It's getting hard to wake up these days. It's getting colder. This week, the alarm of my cellphone was not able to wake me up on time. It did alarm though ...
So today i went to search for a good alarm clock. It took me an hour to do that, shucks such a waste of time. Anyway, i'm happy with the clock. I hope it wakes me up on time tomorrow!
HGGT!
“When race keeps intruding into your romances, you start to wonder why. You look for patterns. I used to think the problem with white men is that they want control, a childish and obvious hankering. They’re used to it, socialized to seek it. But over time, I started to believe that the problem is that they’re unformed, shapeless. White men have had nothing to battle against or fight for; their identity is this amorphous default. They ooze around, taking up space. They manspread and mansplain. Even the ones who know better mandream on the sly. It always breaks my heart when I get wind of my white boyfriends’ secret fantasies: to rescue, to rebel, to rule. Every single one of them wants to own a motorcycle. It’s all so boring. It’s all just history.” —Namwali Serpell
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I'm into you, I'm into you
steps that you take
bend and they break
they break like I do
you held me on for so long
with what's a lie
and what is true
when you hear this song
you'll say you knew all along
you're into me too
These may seem a little odd, but yesterday morning turned out to be very, very interesting for me.
I was just working on my comic at my computer, hearing the local bus (#80) that runs past the front door of my house coming up the hill, when all of a sudden there was the most outrageous bang followed by the bus stuttering for power, it then limped to a halt outside my front drive in a fog of acrid black smoke, whereupon the driver immediately opened the engine bay door and started dousing the street with sand from what had apparently been a fuel leak.
Passengers were unloaded, and Country Bus sent up another two buses to cover. Eventually their engineers arrived in their company coloured LDV Convoy, as did a local hero of the roads, the Count of Heathfield, a gigantic tow truck used to rescue HGV's and Coaches.
The bus is a 2004 Dennis Dart SLF with SC Coachbuilders body, and is a regular on this route. I overhead one of the engineers mentioning something to do with the 'Big End', which is part of the Connecting Rod, and connects to the bearing journal on the crank throw.
On 20 May 1978 the Lea Valley Railway Club "Thames - Forth Express" tour, which had been brought from London St Pancras to Leeds by a pair of class 25s, switched traction to Deltic 55012 "Crepello" which had brought the nearly adjacent DAA/D&EG tour the "East Coast Pullman Salute" from London Kings Cross. An audacious piece of loco diagramming which worked! The Pullman set had gained 37037 and 37102 for its next leg to York via Harrogate.