Evening..sorry off topic. Midnight here and I am sitting in hospital..a 1 hour surgery turned into 3 and I feel like a road train has hit me. So I maybe among the missing for a bit..
A new born baby has arrived..she is crying somewhere in the hospital..I wonder what she will see in her life time...
Would have been my aunt's 94 birthday today...as they say one soul departs this earth, a new one enters..
The lady in the next bed is snoring like a freight train.. glad someone is getting some sleep.. Going to be a long night..
Think I will have to eat more Vegemite..that fixes everything.
I hope you make a swift and full recovery, and get right back to being your usual ornery (nah - good-humored) self.
The medical center where my doctors are located is part of a hospital complex. Whenever a baby is born there, they play a lullaby on all of the speakers located throughout the entire medical center. I've heard that several times and I think it's just great. Kind of exciting.
get well soon. have you tried holding holding a pillow over your roommates face for a few minutes? then when she flatlines crawl back into your bed and pretend to be asleep... /s
Sorry to hear of your hospitalization, and hope for a full recovery soon, but you're "snoring like a freight train" comment made me burst out laughing.
Arvo..just got back home again from hospital..all good rather tired but glad I went to a bigger hospital even though it's an hour away for the op..
The local one would not have been able to handle the unexpected complications and I would have been cactus (up the creek without a paddle) chucked in an ambulance and sent there anyway..
So I am now able to grace you all with my presence again..
Thank you so much. After seeing your amazingly beautiful Atlantic City Boardwalk photo, and Buzz and Kavika's very nice street scene photos, I thought I would join the party!
I was stationed in Germany from December 1959 to May 1961 and there were many bombed-out buildings and those that were in use but showed a lot of damage from the WWII.
This is a photo of Merrell Barracks in Nurenberg in 1960. It was a SS Karasne prior to the US Army taking it over after WWII. You can see from the pox marks the savage fighting that took place there.
I often thought when I was there that only a few short years before 1944/45 my two uncles and three cousins had been fighting there and in Italy. two never returned, KIA at Bastogne on December 24, 1944 327th PIR, 101st Airborne the other KIA on November 22nd, 1944 at Immendorf, Germany, F Company 405th Infantry. But that is another story, an experience burned into my memory. Little did I know that a few years later, 1964/65 I would be fighting in another far-off land called Vietnam.
I have often thought about the fact that WW2 ended just a few years before I was born. Without question the greatest conflagration, the biggest and deadliest war in history, and it happened in modern times. Terrible.
"Deterioration" does not always happen as the result of age and environmental phenomena; carelessness, exposure to light, dirt, extreme temperature, spills, creases, tears … a photo with less than perfect exposure, focus, composition, etc. can be, if technically speaking, not "restored," but rather edited for "quality" without compromising the subject matter captured by its originator.
If nothing else, in the age of "digital," what is vulnerable as film or paper, can be preserved in perpetuity and reproduced as a tiff, jpeg, pdf, print … the process can be hugely gratifying, or, disappointingly falling short of expectation.
Last weekend I rode 3 trains in 2 days in Pennsylvania. First was East Broad Top, a narrow gauge railroad in Rockhill Furnace PA, It was discussed here a few months ago and I said I was planning on riding it. It was built to haul coal and was sold for scrap but the man who bought it decided to haul tourists. Then is was idle for several years and is now back open.
Next was Reading, Blue Mountian & Northern from Reading to Jim Thorpe PA. It was pulled by Reading 2102 a 4-8-4 type, which was restored last year. This is a big powerful locomotive, here it is getting ready to start and blowing steam out the cylinders ,
Not all controls are visible, the sideways D shaped thing is the firebox door. A stoker feeds the coal, a fireman could not shovel enough coal for this locomotive
Thanks for that great series on steam trains. It brings back happy memories from when I was a kid, and used to hear their whistle echoing in the night when I was spending vacation at my grandmother's cottage on Burlington Beach. As well, when I was a kid and spending time at her husband's (my grandfather's) dry goods store on York Street in Hamilton, Ont., I would walk down the street to Dundurn Castle and sit on the hill behind it and watch the trains shunting on the tracks below. About thirty years after that, when I was living in Toronto, I drove back to Hamilton to revisit the castle and took this photo of what I had spent time watching so long before:
The last train ride I ever had was on the super-speed 350 km/hr train from Chengdu to Chongqing. It was very smooth, quiet and comfortable.
They are photos of the big screen, since we always get lawn seats and the stage is too far away for a decent iPhone photo. The amphitheater at Wolftrap is beautiful but there’s a big difference between inside seating and lawn seats. Wolftrap is the only venue I’ve ever been to that allows unlimited food and alcohol to be brought in, just not into the amphitheater. You roll the dice with the weather when you get lawn seats, but some of my favorite concerts actually took place in the rain there. I took my parents to see The Beach Boys there and it poured, but the younger crowd took the opportunity to turn the long grassy hill into a water slide which was fun to watch.
Wolftrap is an incredible venue. I've enjoyed both lawn in inside seating. In addition to bring your own food and drink, they sell tasty items with short or no concession lines. They have perfected parking and departure of large crowds as well. When my daughter was little, we also went to their Children's Theatre in the Woods. The Barns at Wolftrap is a good winter spot.
here in colorado at red rocks during june, and july this year, you can count on a late afternoon shower. experienced concert goers would wear a hat and stuff a 30 gallon trash bag in their pocket for use as a disposable rain coat. you're on your own if it starts hailing though...
Stroll in with your creativity.
A good example of Street Photography.
Street photography from some of the places I've been;
Pudong District, Shanghai. The small hotel we stayed in was on this street.
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Downtown riverside, Chongqing
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The streets get really busy at night.
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A street in Xi'an, previously known as Chang'an, where the Terracotta Warriors are located
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Entrance to a very old street with many small shops in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
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At the base of the Radio and TV Tower in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
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Street shopping in Zhengzhou, Henan Province.
Excellent group of street scenes!
It really is.
Thank you, A.Mac.
Thanks, GG.
I hope those of us here who celebrated the Holiday had a good one...
Street scene, Savannah, GA.
Evening..sorry off topic. Midnight here and I am sitting in hospital..a 1 hour surgery turned into 3 and I feel like a road train has hit me. So I maybe among the missing for a bit..
A new born baby has arrived..she is crying somewhere in the hospital..I wonder what she will see in her life time...
Would have been my aunt's 94 birthday today...as they say one soul departs this earth, a new one enters..
The lady in the next bed is snoring like a freight train.. glad someone is getting some sleep.. Going to be a long night..
Think I will have to eat more Vegemite..that fixes everything.
I hope that you’re feeling better soon.
I learned to sleep in small doses when hospitalized. I didn’t have a roommate but nurses or doctors were coming into my room 24-7.
Hope you are doing well and nothing serious.
Tell the nurse you need something good to help you sleep.
Or at least some earplugs...
Best wishes to you and keep us posted.
I hope you make a swift and full recovery, and get right back to being your usual ornery (nah - good-humored) self.
The medical center where my doctors are located is part of a hospital complex. Whenever a baby is born there, they play a lullaby on all of the speakers located throughout the entire medical center. I've heard that several times and I think it's just great. Kind of exciting.
hope you feel better soon
get well soon. have you tried holding holding a pillow over your roommates face for a few minutes? then when she flatlines crawl back into your bed and pretend to be asleep... /s
Sorry to hear of your hospitalization, and hope for a full recovery soon, but you're "snoring like a freight train" comment made me burst out laughing.
Arvo..just got back home again from hospital..all good rather tired but glad I went to a bigger hospital even though it's an hour away for the op..
The local one would not have been able to handle the unexpected complications and I would have been cactus (up the creek without a paddle) chucked in an ambulance and sent there anyway..
So I am now able to grace you all with my presence again..
And thank you for the good wishes..
that's good to hear, welcome back home.
Arvo...must admit I laughed when I read your comment about the pillow..😁 fair dinkum she was full on and the nurse asked did I want ear plugs..🤣🤣
... you could have stuffed those earplugs into her nostrils.
Street Scenes, Antibes, Côte d'Azur
© G. Gam
© G. Gam
© G. Gam
© G. Gam
These are exceptional!
Thank you so much. After seeing your amazingly beautiful Atlantic City Boardwalk photo, and Buzz and Kavika's very nice street scene photos, I thought I would join the party!
Well, you could come visit me in cracktown...
Haha
Umm... Sounds like fun?
I was kidding, my pics are no where near as good as everyone else's. Self depreciating humour I guess...Haha
Your photos are cool.
A superb collection. The top image of two elderly ladies made me think of this photo I took in Ciqikou Old Town in Chongqing.
Thank you. It is similar.
Of course mine are never as good as the ones you all show. Haha
In the first one you can actually see the cranes from the Gulfport harbour.
Those are good photos, Ender. Of course I like the first one since I'm an old Harbor Rat.
Found this one from the same set. Tying to figure out what it was..
Is that a dune buggy?
Nice fins.
Nothing beats a nice ass...
No, and isn't that a 1957 Chevy Bel-Aire on the left?
I couldn't tell you either one.
I always loved that look though. There was a car I really liked in the movie Rebel Without A Cause. I don't remember what that was either.
Then again I am partial to a Nova, so....
World War II Damage, Bombed Building, Munich, Germany, 1958
Restored Vintage Photograph
© A. Mac/A.G.
That is a very interesting photo.
I was stationed in Germany from December 1959 to May 1961 and there were many bombed-out buildings and those that were in use but showed a lot of damage from the WWII.
This is a photo of Merrell Barracks in Nurenberg in 1960. It was a SS Karasne prior to the US Army taking it over after WWII. You can see from the pox marks the savage fighting that took place there.
I often thought when I was there that only a few short years before 1944/45 my two uncles and three cousins had been fighting there and in Italy. two never returned, KIA at Bastogne on December 24, 1944 327th PIR, 101st Airborne the other KIA on November 22nd, 1944 at Immendorf, Germany, F Company 405th Infantry. But that is another story, an experience burned into my memory. Little did I know that a few years later, 1964/65 I would be fighting in another far-off land called Vietnam.
I have often thought about the fact that WW2 ended just a few years before I was born. Without question the greatest conflagration, the biggest and deadliest war in history, and it happened in modern times. Terrible.
I watched a movie the other night, it was about WW1. Called 1917.
I didn't think photos from 1958 would deteriorate so quickly that they needed much restoration. But whatever, you do a great job of it.
"Deterioration" does not always happen as the result of age and environmental phenomena; carelessness, exposure to light, dirt, extreme temperature, spills, creases, tears … a photo with less than perfect exposure, focus, composition, etc. can be, if technically speaking, not "restored," but rather edited for "quality" without compromising the subject matter captured by its originator.
If nothing else, in the age of "digital," what is vulnerable as film or paper, can be preserved in perpetuity and reproduced as a tiff, jpeg, pdf, print … the process can be hugely gratifying, or, disappointingly falling short of expectation.
The model railroad club I belong to had this display for the 4th of July. We are working toward a new permeant location.
Check this out. They just expanded and reopened the model train museum. I haven't been to it yet but I want to one of these days.
Thanks for link, That would be something to see
I leaned about it before the newscast. A guy that worked at Advance Auto Parts was telling me about it...
We are LOOKING GOOD! Keep 'em coming!
Sunset, Stone Creek, Ocala, FL.
Excellent pic.
If I lived there the one palm tree would be lit up like in the old Corona add...
It does reminded one of that. And, I found one in the back of the refrigerator so now is a good time to enjoy it
Last weekend I rode 3 trains in 2 days in Pennsylvania. First was East Broad Top, a narrow gauge railroad in Rockhill Furnace PA, It was discussed here a few months ago and I said I was planning on riding it. It was built to haul coal and was sold for scrap but the man who bought it decided to haul tourists. Then is was idle for several years and is now back open.
Next was Reading, Blue Mountian & Northern from Reading to Jim Thorpe PA. It was pulled by Reading 2102 a 4-8-4 type, which was restored last year. This is a big powerful locomotive, here it is getting ready to start and blowing steam out the cylinders
,
This is in the cab of the locomotive
Not all controls are visible, the sideways D shaped thing is the firebox door. A stoker feeds the coal, a fireman could not shovel enough coal for this locomotive
This is a view from on the 3rd train that I took during the layover in Jim Thorpe, after eating a huge BBQ sandwich. We went up the Leigh Gorge
This was a very scenic ride, the whole trip was through some beautiful country.
Thanks for that great series on steam trains. It brings back happy memories from when I was a kid, and used to hear their whistle echoing in the night when I was spending vacation at my grandmother's cottage on Burlington Beach. As well, when I was a kid and spending time at her husband's (my grandfather's) dry goods store on York Street in Hamilton, Ont., I would walk down the street to Dundurn Castle and sit on the hill behind it and watch the trains shunting on the tracks below. About thirty years after that, when I was living in Toronto, I drove back to Hamilton to revisit the castle and took this photo of what I had spent time watching so long before:
The last train ride I ever had was on the super-speed 350 km/hr train from Chengdu to Chongqing. It was very smooth, quiet and comfortable.
© A. Mac/A.G.
Sunrise over the Stone Creek GC.
It is hot in Ocala, today. Talk about dog days.
Maxi Priest at Wolftrap (happening now). UB40 coming up next.
I love UB40
45th anniversary tour
Outstanding, Hal.
Beautiful.
Interesting technique.
They are photos of the big screen, since we always get lawn seats and the stage is too far away for a decent iPhone photo. The amphitheater at Wolftrap is beautiful but there’s a big difference between inside seating and lawn seats. Wolftrap is the only venue I’ve ever been to that allows unlimited food and alcohol to be brought in, just not into the amphitheater. You roll the dice with the weather when you get lawn seats, but some of my favorite concerts actually took place in the rain there. I took my parents to see The Beach Boys there and it poured, but the younger crowd took the opportunity to turn the long grassy hill into a water slide which was fun to watch.
Wolftrap is an incredible venue. I've enjoyed both lawn in inside seating. In addition to bring your own food and drink, they sell tasty items with short or no concession lines. They have perfected parking and departure of large crowds as well. When my daughter was little, we also went to their Children's Theatre in the Woods. The Barns at Wolftrap is a good winter spot.
here in colorado at red rocks during june, and july this year, you can count on a late afternoon shower. experienced concert goers would wear a hat and stuff a 30 gallon trash bag in their pocket for use as a disposable rain coat. you're on your own if it starts hailing though...
Thanks for another outstanding article-participation; see you Thursday night!