EXILE ISLAND-Childrens Wish Foundation-MapleRidge Chrysler-Return It-photos by RonSombilonGallery and PacBlue Priting (1163)


Image by Ron Sombilon Gallery

EXILE ISLAND-Childrens Wish Foundation-MapleRidge Chrysler-Return It-photos by RonSombilonGallery and PacBlue Priting (79)


Image by Ron Sombilon Gallery
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Image by Sparkzy
The lawn care service.

In the Great Lawn, looking south-west #1


Image by Ed Yourdon
(more details later, as time permits)

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A year from now, nobody will remember (or care about) the details — but if you happened to live anywhere on the East Coast of the U.S. when these pictures were taken, then you surely know that we’ve just been hit by the first major snowstorm of the 2010-2011 winter season. Of course, upstate New York and the Midwest have already been hit by multiple storms, and they’ve gotten far larger accumulations of snow than we’ll probably end up with … but since a few of the nation’s major TV headquarters and newspapers are based in New York, we tend to get a disproportionate amount of attention when we’re hit with a major storm.

When I took the first few pictures in this set, it was too early to tell whether it really would be a major storm. But it snowed all night, and throughout the evening, we heard that some 1,400 flights in and out of New York’s three airports had been canceled, and that the Amtrak/Acela train service from New York to Boston had been suspended. And when we got up the next morning and found that the airports were still closed, and that 13 inches of white stuff had fallen in Central Park, we decided that it really was a significant storm.

At lunch-time on the day after the storm, I ventured out towards Central Park, with my Olympus E-P2 "micro four-thirds" camera and my Canon G-12 compact digital camera; with the blustery wind blowing snow flurries in all directions, I wasn’t willing to risk getting my Nikon D700 wet. I used a combination of slow-running subways and buses to get to the 86th Street entrance to Central Park, and then walked over to the Great Lawn, where I was fairly confident I would see people doing all kinds of interesting things — including a very energetic game of football! — on the large, snow-filled lawn.

And indeed, I saw not only the football players, but also people with skis and snow-shoes and sleds, as well as people jogging(!), walking their dogs, building snowmen, and just enjoying themselves as they walked through the winter wonderland.

The most amazing part of the day was the sight of quasi-snow-flurries kicked up by the gusting wind. If I didn’t know any better, I might well have thought I was at the North Pole; but the skyline view of skyscrapers and apartment towers all around was a constant reminder that I was still in New York.

Other parts of Central Park were probably equally photogenic, and equally filled with people taking advantage of the fresh snow … but after a couple of hours of wandering around and taking a few hundred photos, my feet were too numb to continue. If I have enough energy, maybe I’ll venture back out to the park during the next couple days; if not, you’ll just have to make do with these photos that I’ve uploaded.

In the Great Lawn, looking west #2


Image by Ed Yourdon
(more details later, as time permits)

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A year from now, nobody will remember (or care about) the details — but if you happened to live anywhere on the East Coast of the U.S. when these pictures were taken, then you surely know that we’ve just been hit by the first major snowstorm of the 2010-2011 winter season. Of course, upstate New York and the Midwest have already been hit by multiple storms, and they’ve gotten far larger accumulations of snow than we’ll probably end up with … but since a few of the nation’s major TV headquarters and newspapers are based in New York, we tend to get a disproportionate amount of attention when we’re hit with a major storm.

When I took the first few pictures in this set, it was too early to tell whether it really would be a major storm. But it snowed all night, and throughout the evening, we heard that some 1,400 flights in and out of New York’s three airports had been canceled, and that the Amtrak/Acela train service from New York to Boston had been suspended. And when we got up the next morning and found that the airports were still closed, and that 13 inches of white stuff had fallen in Central Park, we decided that it really was a significant storm.

At lunch-time on the day after the storm, I ventured out towards Central Park, with my Olympus E-P2 "micro four-thirds" camera and my Canon G-12 compact digital camera; with the blustery wind blowing snow flurries in all directions, I wasn’t willing to risk getting my Nikon D700 wet. I used a combination of slow-running subways and buses to get to the 86th Street entrance to Central Park, and then walked over to the Great Lawn, where I was fairly confident I would see people doing all kinds of interesting things — including a very energetic game of football! — on the large, snow-filled lawn.

And indeed, I saw not only the football players, but also people with skis and snow-shoes and sleds, as well as people jogging(!), walking their dogs, building snowmen, and just enjoying themselves as they walked through the winter wonderland.

The most amazing part of the day was the sight of quasi-snow-flurries kicked up by the gusting wind. If I didn’t know any better, I might well have thought I was at the North Pole; but the skyline view of skyscrapers and apartment towers all around was a constant reminder that I was still in New York.

Other parts of Central Park were probably equally photogenic, and equally filled with people taking advantage of the fresh snow … but after a couple of hours of wandering around and taking a few hundred photos, my feet were too numb to continue. If I have enough energy, maybe I’ll venture back out to the park during the next couple days; if not, you’ll just have to make do with these photos that I’ve uploaded.

William H. Cottew (1)


Image by jajacks62
Co. F, 36th ILL. Infantry
Peabody Herald, Thur., March 18, 1909, Pg. 8
Vol. 36, No. 35

Another Pioneer Passes Away.

With the death of William H. Cottew, another of the Peabody pioneers goes to join the fast increasing list of those who, having served their community through years of hardships and toil, are passing on leaving to their children and grandchildren the heritage of their labors.
Mr. Cottew was born in England, July 28, 1840, and died at his home in Hutchinson, June 3, 1913, age seventy-two years, ten months and five days. His parents located in Illinois when he was but a boy, and it was from this state that he enlisted in Company H, 36th Illinois Cavalry afterwards to Company H, 4th Regular Artillery. He did valiant service and was wounded during the battle of Chickamauga. Soon after coming home from the war he was married to Margaret Bastian, who with four children, survive him.
It was in 1871 that he brought his family to Peabody, living on the old homestead until 1909, when he moved to Hutchinson where two of his children lived. Of the four children, Charles H. lives in this city, Fred F. in Halstead, Mrs. Gertrude McElvain, and Leo H. in Hutchinson. Five grandchildren, two brothers and one sister also mourns his departure. Rev. M. C. Brooks conducted the funeral services at the Methodist church, the remains being interred in Prairie Lawn cemetery at this place. The deceased was a worker for the best interests of the neighborhood in which he lived and was a member of the Christian church at Hutchinson.

Plaque on a Granite Rock on the Lawn of the Atchison County Courthouse at Atchison, Kansas, Commemorates an Address Made by Abraham Lincoln on the Issues of the Day December 2, 1859…06/1974


Image by The U.S. National Archives
Original Caption: Plaque on a Granite Rock on the Lawn of the Atchison County Courthouse at Atchison, Kansas, Commemorates an Address Made by Abraham Lincoln on the Issues of the Day December 2, 1859. The Monument Was Erected by the Atchison Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1917 06/1974

U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-14633

Photographer: Duncan, Patricia D., 1932-

Subjects:
Atchison (Atchison county, Kansas, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA

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Top View of the Little Ones in my Lawn Moss


Image by Seattle.roamer
I like that the Forest Service Publication: Handbook to Additional Fungal Species of Special Concern in the Northwest Forest Plan mentions the slight violet in cap — "dark violetbrown
to dark sepia and margin vinaceous cinnamon"
– Rickenella swartzii entry p S3 – 97

The Lawn, Lincoln


Image by Lincolnian (Brian) – BUSY – IN AND OUT
This imposing building is part of ‘The Lawn’ complex. Now both a public amenity and conference centre it is a popular venue for meetings, fayres, weddings etc., a far cry from it original usage. The building opened in 1820 as the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum and was the County’s first purpose-built hospital for the mentally ill. The south front of the main building (seen here) was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777-1838). Following the opening of the County Lunatic Asylum at Bracebridge Heath in 1852, there was an increasing emphasis on fee-paying patients. The Asylum was re-named as The Lawn Hospital for the Insane in 1885, taken over by the National Health Service in 1948 and was finally closed in the mid 1980s.

Ghosts among the trees


Image by Ed Yourdon
This is an artificially created 3-image HDR composite, created by making three copies of the original RAW file, and bumping the exposure UP one f-stop on one copy, DOWN one f-stop on another copy, and keeping the original exposure on the third copy. All three copies were then combined with PhotoMatix…

Note: this photo was published in an undated (Jan 3, 2011) Everyblock NYC zipcodes blog titled "10024."

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A year from now, nobody will remember (or care about) the details — but if you happened to live anywhere on the East Coast of the U.S. when these pictures were taken, then you surely know that we’ve just been hit by the first major snowstorm of the 2010-2011 winter season. Of course, upstate New York and the Midwest have already been hit by multiple storms, and they’ve gotten far larger accumulations of snow than we’ll probably end up with … but since a few of the nation’s major TV headquarters and newspapers are based in New York, we tend to get a disproportionate amount of attention when we’re hit with a major storm.

When I took the first few pictures in this set, it was too early to tell whether it really would be a major storm. But it snowed all night, and throughout the evening, we heard that some 1,400 flights in and out of New York’s three airports had been canceled, and that the Amtrak/Acela train service from New York to Boston had been suspended. And when we got up the next morning and found that the airports were still closed, and that 13 inches of white stuff had fallen in Central Park, we decided that it really was a significant storm.

At lunch-time on the day after the storm, I ventured out towards Central Park, with my Olympus E-P2 "micro four-thirds" camera and my Canon G-12 compact digital camera; with the blustery wind blowing snow flurries in all directions, I wasn’t willing to risk getting my Nikon D700 wet. I used a combination of slow-running subways and buses to get to the 86th Street entrance to Central Park, and then walked over to the Great Lawn, where I was fairly confident I would see people doing all kinds of interesting things — including a very energetic game of football! — on the large, snow-filled lawn.

And indeed, I saw not only the football players, but also people with skis and snow-shoes and sleds, as well as people jogging(!), walking their dogs, building snowmen, and just enjoying themselves as they walked through the winter wonderland.

The most amazing part of the day was the sight of quasi-snow-flurries kicked up by the gusting wind. If I didn’t know any better, I might well have thought I was at the North Pole; but the skyline view of skyscrapers and apartment towers all around was a constant reminder that I was still in New York.

Other parts of Central Park were probably equally photogenic, and equally filled with people taking advantage of the fresh snow … but after a couple of hours of wandering around and taking a few hundred photos, my feet were too numb to continue. If I have enough energy, maybe I’ll venture back out to the park during the next couple days; if not, you’ll just have to make do with these photos that I’ve uploaded.

Veterans Day 2010: Washington DC


Image by Be the Change, Inc.
Mission Serve, Habitat for Humanity and Veterans Green Jobs organized civilian volunteers to serve alongside veterans and military family members to build two new homes in the Deanwood neighborhood of Northeast Washington, D.C. on November 10, 2010. The home building project was part of a kick-off event being hosted at over 20 coast-to-coast civilian-military service projects on Veterans Day, November 11, 2010, as part of Mission Serve’s "Call to Service." Bank of America and Walmart also sponsored the event and organized funds as well as employee volunteers to help in the home building efforts. (Jamie Rosen/ewscast)