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鼠 - The Year of the Rat 2008; Chinese New Year. Kung hei fat choi!!!
恭喜發財 - 'Congratulations and be Prosperous' (in traditional Chinese).
Although the New Year fell on Thursday 7 February, celebrations in London
took place today, on Sunday 10 February, centred in Chinatown and Trafalgar
Square. The streets all around Chinatown were beautifully decorated with red
lanterns, symbolising prosperity for the new year.
~ Chinatown in London reminds me so much of androon shehr, literally the 'inner
city', which refers to the old walled city of Lahore. Androon shehr, which is original
Lahore, is fortified and surrounded by thirteen gates built by the Mughals, and most of
them still exist. I of course mean that they share the same vibrancy, life and industry.
It's a strange sensation which feels so much like walking through the high walled
gulleys of the androon shehr! Everything is the same, I'm convinced that everything
is the same wherever I go...
a enormous curved reflective surface in the middle of one of the most beautiful cities on earth can never be a bad thing.
explored- thanks!
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This series-within-the-series focuses on dune features and the interplay between dunes, the personalities sculpted by wind and modeled by light.
In late October, I made a trip to New Mexico to shoot the dunes at White Sands National Park. I hooked up with my close friend and photographer, Sandra Herber. www.flickr.com/photos/sandraherber/ We were at White Sands four days, made eight excursions into the dunes, hiked over 20 miles and shot close to 2,000 photos between us.
We are posting our images at the same time and it will be interesting to see how we handled being in the same locations together. For safety reasons and for the fun of it, we hiked the dunes together, sometimes pointing our lenses in the same direction, other times wandering apart. I am sure we got some similar shots, but it will be interesting to see those that are different as we each have our own way of looking at things, as well as having different focal length coverage. Then there is the processing aspect.
To say White Sands is magical is an understatement. As photographers, we talk about the light, emphasize the light, are critical about the light. The dunes at White Sands react in amazing ways to the change in light, offering different looks, revealing various personalities. It is this diversity of the dunes that I wanted to capture then, and present here now.
While I was photographing the beautiful view from Rampart Range Road near Woodland Park, Colorado there was lightning in the distant clouds behind me. The view in that direction lacked the magnificent mountains but it had its own beauty. From this spot.. I was already at the top of one of the smaller mountains of the Front Range. This was probably at around 10,000 feet close to two hours after sunset.
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Sixty years ago, on January 15 1965, the last steam train operated within the vast Penrhyn slate quarries in North Wales. That last train was operated by Avonside loco "Ogwen" - and the driver wrote his name and the date inside the cab to mark this end of an era.
Since then, "Ogwen" has been to the USA and returned, has been restored back to steam and now lives at Apedale - but the inscription in the cab remains!
To mark this anniversary, the Apedale light railway operated their two ex-Penrhyn locos - "Ogwen" and "Stanhope" with a selction of suitable slate wagons.
My Muse is buried in four places within this piece but I can "see" six counting those within the clouds. (Look at the larger photo to see if you can find them all.) Click on the upper right corner of the view larger picture and it will fill your frame. They are singing "Here Comes Peter Cottontail". Not the right season but this popped out as I was trying to still trying to create that surreal piece. Enjoy!
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“Within you, there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
— Hermann Hesse
SUNRISE - Coastal State Road A1A - Florida Keys
Smathers Beach - Key West, FL U.S.A. - 6:50 AM
First Light - Fall / Autumn 2023 - Nov. 25th, 2023
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - moving - rain-clouds]
*[off-shore rain - looking NE - Saturday morning - dawn]
*[really looking like a volcano! - hot cauldron! - skyscape]
--------- Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail ----------
-----Key West: Far from Normal - Close to Perfect-----
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"Fire and Rain" - James Taylor (1970)
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"Margaritaville" - Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
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"It's Five-Oclock Somewhere" - Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffett
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RIP Jimmy Buffett - Passed 9/1/23
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None of us can control the stream, but we can set our sail.
September 2019 | Niefern-Öschelbronn
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The Distillery District is a commercial and residential district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located east of downtown, it contains numerous cafés, restaurants, and shops housed within heritage buildings of the former Gooderham and Worts Distillery. The 13 acres (5.3 ha) district comprises more than forty heritage buildings and ten streets, and is the largest collection of Victorian-era industrial architecture in North America. The district was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1988. [Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillery_District]
Deep within your heart, you know it's plain to see
Like Adam was to Eve, you were made for me
They say the poisoned vine breeds a finer wine
Our love is easy
If you ask me plainly I would gladly say
I'd like to have you round just for them rainy days
I like the touch of your hand, the way you make no demands
Our love is easy
Oh our love is easy
Like water rushing over stone
Oh, our love is easy, like no love I've ever known
Within a few years, one of these Bucket Trucks will be parked in every driveway. They are being produced for the general public.
No more carrying heavy ladders and propping them precariously against the house.
The uses are too numerous to mention. Okay, I’ll mention a few. Changing burnt out floodlights, patching the roof, cleaning gutters, painting, chasing away vultures and removing extra large antennas come immediately to mind.
The prototype colors are the blue, pictured here, and olive green. There will be more colors later. HTT
Typically found deep within the branches of Pocillipora corals. During our 900 hours of diving and surveying Honaunau Bay, we found only four of these approximately 1 1/2" fish living in one Antler Coral located at approximately 10-15 ft. (3-4.5 m.) of sea water. This area experienced frequent surge, making photography challenging, not to mention the reclusive nature of this species. This particular coral has now died, so the creatures living within, either had to find another coral head or perished with the loss of their micro-habitat.
ABC's and 123's V is for Velvetfish
Within just a few moments, the fog roiled over the headlands, and obscured almost all the landscape in its wake. I was looking at the Western Red Cedar boughs as the fog passed through them, and the way the fronds are spaced, they seem to do a perfect job of combing the air for moisture. Some studies have shown that Coastal Redwoods get a significant amount of their water from fog, and I wonder if cedars do something similar, particularly during the (relatively) drier summers.
Common Nighthawk observed in Montana, Texas and Ohio within a small observation window. This caprimulgid is unique to the New World and is in the US and Canada exclusively in the Summer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefton_Park
Sefton Park is a public park in south Liverpool, England. The park is in a district of the same name within the Liverpool City Council Ward of Mossley Hill, and roughly within the historic bounds of the large area of Toxteth Park. Neighbouring districts include modern-day Toxteth, Aigburth, Mossley Hill, and St Michael's Hamlet.
The park is 235 acres (0.95 km2) in area[1] and has been designated a Grade II* Historic Park by English Heritage[citation needed] making it one of three such parks in the city, along with the nearby Princes Park and St James Cemetery.
History
The site of the park was once within the boundaries of the 2,300-acre (9.3 km2) Royal Deer Park of Toxteth which became "disparked" in 1591. The land eventually came under the control of the Earl of Sefton.
As Toxteth rapidly grew, the green fields and woodland of Toxteth Park grew into narrow streets and courts packed tiny uninhabitable houses where the air was stagnant, there was little or no sanitation and running water consisted of one tap in the middle of the court. At the same time there was demand for large aristocratic mansions in the South of Liverpool. In 1862 the Borough Council Engineer recommended a site for this development. An Act of Parliament[which?] in 1864 permitted corporations to borrow sums of money up to half a million pounds to be repaid over thirty years. This allowed steps to be taken towards the purchase of land for Sefton Park. In 1867 the Council purchased 375 acres (1.52 km2) of land for the development of the park for £250,000 from the Earl of Sefton.
Even though it was recognised by politicians that clean, fresh open spaces were now regarded as necessity there was an outcry from the public that £250,000 was extravagant and wasteful. As with neighbouring Princes Park plots of land on the perimeter were sold for housing which helped in the funding of the layout of the park.
Soon after, a European competition was launched to design a grand park. 29 entries were received and the competition was won by a French landscape architect Édouard André with work on the design also undertaken by Liverpool architect Lewis Hornblower. The park was opened on 20 May 1872 by Prince Arthur who dedicated it "for the health and enjoyment of the townspeople".
The Park design is based on circular, oval and marginal footpaths, framing the green spaces, with two natural watercourses flowing into the 7-acre (0.028 km2) man-made lake. Hornblower’s designs for the park lodges and entrances were elaborate structures, and included follies[specify], shelters and boathouses. The parkland itself included a deer park and the strong water theme was reflected by the presence of pools, waterfalls and stepping stones. The Park, its exclusive villas and ornamentation reflected the grandeur of the City during its mid Victorian period when Liverpool was the second city of the Empire.
The perimeter road's outer edge is lined with Victorian buildings constructed to around 1890, and Edwardian houses. Additional development of the park continued with the construction of the iron bridge in 1873.
The park had a gallops[specify] which led to it being nicknamed "the Hyde Park of the North" but was always referred to by locals as "The Jockey Sands".[citation needed]
A major park improvement programme was undertaken in 1983 prior to International Garden Festival.
Sporting uses
Sefton Park Cricket Club moved their ground to the park in 1876 and WG Grace was amongst the three Gloucestershire players who made up a "South of England" team who won there in 1877. The park also has tennis courts, a bowling green, a popular jogging circuit and local league football is a regular weekend fixture. It is also used every November to hold the European Cross Country Championships trial races for the British team.
Entertainment uses
The park has also been a site for Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's summer pops season, Africa Oyé and the Moscow State Circus. Bands have also played at the park in the 80s such as Echo and the Bunneymen.
Restoration
In 2005 the park received provisional approval for a major £5 million Heritage Lottery funded renovation project which involves the refurbishment and improvement of many of the park's features. The work began in June 2007 was expected to be completed in summer 2009. This work was very controversial with some regular users of the park as it included destroying trees and breeding sites of birds.[2] The work led to the formation of the "Friends of Sefton Park" campaigns.
Notable features of the park
Palm House
This is a Grade II* three-tier dome conservatory palm house designed and built by MacKenzie and Moncur of Edinburgh which opened in 1896. Liverpool millionaire Henry Yates Thompson (the great nephew of the founder of Princes Park) gifted £10,000 to the city to fund the construction. It was designed in the tradition of Joseph Paxton's glass houses and was stocked originally with a rich collection of exotic plants.
During the Liverpool Blitz of May 1941 a bomb fell nearby and shattered the glass. It was reglazed in 1950 at a cost of £6,163 with costs covered by War Restoration funds. A period of decline and deterioration culminated in its closure in the 1980s on grounds of safety.
In June 1992, a public meeting was held highlighting the dereliction and calling for restoration. A petition was presented to the City Council by what had become the "Save the Palm House" campaign. A public fund raising campaign was established, with a "sponsor a pane" programme generating over £35,000. This led directly to the conversion of Save the Palm House into a registered charity (Friends of Sefton Park Palm House). The Palm House was partially repaired and reopened in 1993. It was fully restored at a cost of £3.5 million with Heritage Lottery and European funding and reopened in September 2001. It is now both a popular visitor attraction offering free and paid-for public entertainment and is venue for hire.
The eight ‘corners’ of the Palm House are marked by statues by the French sculptor Leon-Joseph Chavalliaud. These include explorers Captain Cook, Christopher Columbus, navigators Gerardus Mercator and Henry the Navigator, botanists and explorers Charles Darwin, Carl Linnaeus and John Parkinson and landscape architect Andre le Notre. Inside the Palm House are two sculptures by Benjamin Edward Spence "Highland Mary" and "The Angel's Whisper".
The grounds of the Palm House feature a statue of Peter Pan which was one of the last works by the British sculptor Sir George Frampton. This is Grade II listed and is a replica of a similar statue given as a gift for the visiting public to Kensington Gardens by author J.M. Barrie. The statue was donated to the park by George Audley in 1928 and was unveiled in the presence of Barrie. It originally sat in Sefton Park but was damaged in the 1990s. It was restored at Liverpool's Conservation Centre, and returned to the more secure location of the Palm House's grounds in December 2005.
Shaftesbury Memorial and Eros Fountain
This is Grade II listed and situated in the centre of the Park next to the cafe and former site of the aviary. The fountain, made from bronze and aluminium, was unveiled in 1932 and is a replica of a memorial to Lord Shaftesbury created by Sir Alfred Gilbert in London's Piccadilly Circus. It was restored in 2008 with a new aluminium Eros statue replacing the original which now resides in Liverpool's Conservation Centre.
Grotto
An artificial cave also known as Old Nick's Caves. This was built around 1870 by French rockwork specialist M. Combaz. It includes a waterfall which flows into a mirror pond.
Other statues and facilities
The park features a Gothic drinking fountain and several prominent statues including a memorial to William Rathbone V by Sir Thomas Brock unveiled in 1887, and an obelisk, the Samuel Smith memorial located by the principal entrance to the Park. There is a bandstand, popular since the Victorian era, which is said[by whom?] to be the inspiration for The Beatles' song Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. An iron bridge was opened in 1873 which spans the Fairy Glen. There is a cafe in the centre of the park called the Aviary Cafe and a pirate themed children's play area opened in 2009.
Former features of the park
Aviary
An aviary was introduced to the park in 1901 and was home to many exotic birds. After falling into disuse in the 1990s, the old cages were removed during the restoration project and replaced with a new curved viewing point overlooking new outside planting.
The Concert
The park also boasted a small open-air theatre – "The Concert" – near the café which featured singers, magicians and talent contests to entertain local children during the summer holidays. This was removed in the 1970s.
Boating lake
The lake was a popular venue for boating until the 1970s, with a jetty and boat hire facilities. The lake was totally emptied in 2007 for the extensive renovation work and all of the fish (which included specimen weights of carp, tench, roach, pike and golden orf)[citation needed] were caught with large nets and sent to various locations across the UK. Following its restoration, the lake was refilled in 2010. Turtles have also been spotted in the lake.
Others
There was a small pirate ship located in one of the lakes until the early 1990s when it was removed due to falling into disrepair.
The Taj Mahal framed by a doorway. Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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•Fire Within•
Light burns in the dark, shadowy canyon as icy water flows beneath, catching and reflecting golden light, kisses of blue and teal. Shimmering cottonwoods dot the banks of this geological marvel and the tranquility of kneeling in the water of this place is pure magic. Little drops of water splashing on cold cheeks. I enjoyed this beautiful scene with my buddy John a few weeks ago on a banzai mission to Zion National Park.
Enjoy!!
One from last year. A much photographed location but I couldn't resist those clouds and that view of Plymouth.
Mount Edgcumbe House is the former home of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe. It is set in Grade I Cornish Gardens within 865 acres of Country Park on the Rame Peninsula, South East Cornwall.
The House was first built in the 1500s and was restored after World War Two. It is jointly owned by Cornwall Council and Plymouth City Council and is one of the region’s most popular historic tourist destinations.
The formal gardens are found in the lower park and were created over 200 years ago in the English, French and Italian styles.
A folly comprising a deliberately ruined stone tower incorporating medieval architectural fragments from the churches of St George and St Lawrence in Stonehouse, stands to the south-east of the house, among mature specimen stone pines. The folly was constructed in 1747 as a picturesque feature in place of a navigation obelisk.