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Day of the Dead Festivities, Mexico City

 

Top of the Rock, New York City

 

Bottom of the American Falls, Niagara Falls, New York

The height of the American Falls ranges between 21 to 34 metres
(70-110 feet). This measurement is taken from the top of the Falls
to to top of the rock pile at the base, called the talus slope. The height
of the Falls from the top of the Falls to the river is 57 metres (188 feet).
The crestline of the American Falls is approximately 260 metres
(850 feet) wide.
niagaraparks.com

 

Wave Swinger, Navy Pier, Chicago

An August night's amusement on Chicago's Navy Pier.  A history of the pier can be found here.

This ride shown above is known as the Wave Swinger. Some of the other attractions on the Pier
are the Ferris Wheel, the Musical Carousel, 18-Hole Miniature Golf Course, Rock Climbing Wall,
Amazing Chicago's Funhouse Maze, Chicago's Children's Museum, Chicago Shakespeare Theater,
Navy Pier IMAX Theatre, Build A Bear Workshop and the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows (I love
this part of Navy Pier the most and only wish it were larger).

 

Early Evening, Balboa Park

Balboa Park in San Diego is really more of a museum complex than a park.
One could easily spend two full days just in the park and not lose interest.

Some of the highlights include the San Diego Museum of Art, the Mingei International Museum,
San Diego Natural History Museum, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, Timken Museum of Art
and the San Diego Aerospace Museum.

My favorite—the  San Diego Museum of Man—can be seen in the center of this photograph,
with its distinctive combination of spire and dome contrasting against the darkening sky.

A friend is someone
you can do nothing with,
and enjoy it.

— Anonymous

Sunset on My Street

 

Shhhhhhh...

 

But to the hero, when his sword
Has won the battle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,
And in its hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be.

— Fitz-Greene Halleck

The illicit has an added charm.

— Tacitus

Space Needle, Seattle

It has been a while since the Space Needle  
was the tallest building in the Seattle skyline,
but it has endured as that city's symbol.
One's eye is constantly drawn to this architectural icon,
even though there are several buildings downtown which are much taller.
It is this structure, more than all the others, which tells you that you are in Seattle.

The Space Needle lies in the Seattle Center, which also includes several other
points of interest, including: Experience Music Project, the Pacific Science Center,
the Key Arena and the Bagley Wright Theatre.

 

 

Independent Film Maker, Larry Strong

No one worth possessing
can be quite possessed.

— Sara Teasdale





Westminster Abbey and Sculpture of King George V

According to tradition a shrine was first founded in 616 on the present site, then known as Thorn Ey
(Thorn Island); its tradition of miraculous consecration after a fisherman on the River Thames saw
a vision of Saint Peter justified the presents of salmon from the Thames fishermen that the Abbey
received. In the 960s or early 970s Saint Dunstan, assisted by King Edgar planted a community
of Benedictine monks here. The stone Abbey was built around 1045–1050 by King Edward the
Confessor, who had selected the site for his burial: it was consecrated on December 28, 1065,
immediately before the Confessor's funeral. It was the site of the last Saxon coronation of his
successor King Harold.

The only extant depiction of the original Abbey, in the Romanesque style that is called "Norman"
in England, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the Bayeux Tapestry.
Increased endowments supported a community increased from Dunstan's dozen to about eighty
monks (Harvey 1993 p 2).

The Abbot and learned monks, in close proximity to the royal Palace of Westminster, the seat of
government from the later twelfth century, became a powerful force in the centuries after the
Norman Conquest: the Abbot was often employed on royal service and in due course took his
place in the House of Lords as of right. Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which
passed to the reformed Cluniac movement after the mid-tenth century, and occupied with
the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster,
"the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their
times, and particularly with upper-class life", Barbara Harvey concluded, to the extent that her
depiction of daily life (Harvey 1993) provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry
in the High and Late Middle Ages.

The proximity of the Palace of Westminster did not extend to
providing monks or abbots with high royal connections; in social origin the Benedictines of
Westminster were as modest as most of the order. The abbot remained lord of the manor of
Westminster as a town of two to three thousand persons grew around it: as a consumer and
employer on a grand scale the monastery helped fuel the town economy, and relations with
the town remained unusually cordial, but no enfranchising charter was issued during the Middle
Ages (Harvey 1993 p 6f). The abbey built shops and dwellings on the west side, encroaching
upon the sanctuary.

—Wikipedia

Metropolitan Cathedral, San Jose, Costa Rica

 

If John Kerry had a dollar
for every time he bragged
about serving in Vietnam -
oh wait, he does.

— Ann Coulter

 

   

Botanical Heads

I found these heads laying around in the Denver Botanic Gardens.
Hopefully they are being put to good use now.

Among the many interesting sections of this landmark are the following:
Romantic Gardens, June's PlantAsia, Birds and Bees Walk,
Rock Alpine Garden, Water Garden, Monet Garden, Japanese Garden,
Sacred Earth, Cloud Forest Tree, Water Smart Garden, Children's Secret Path
and the Mile High Garden.

Sunset Outside Penn Station, Baltimore

Pennsylvania Station (generally referred to as Penn Station) is the main train station in Baltimore,
Maryland. Designed by McKim, Mead & White, it was constructed in 1911 in the Beaux-Arts style
of architecture for the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is located at 1515 N. Charles Street, on a raised
"island" of sorts between two open trenches, one for the Jones Falls Expressway and the
other the tracks of the Northeast Corridor. The Mount Vernon neighborhood lies to the south,
and Station North is to the north. Penn Station is about a mile and a half north of downtown
and the Inner Harbor. The station was originally known as Union Station, but was renamed to
match other Pennsylvania Stations in 1928. Penn Station is served by Amtrak, MARC, and the
Maryland Transit Administration's Baltimore Light Rail system. It is the tenth busiest rail station
in the United States by number of passengers served.
—Wikipedia

 

Shade in the Valley of Fire

 

Lit Trees, San Juan, Puerto Rico

 

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