Bangkok – Wat Traimit
The Golden temple
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Another golden image
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Made from Palm leaves
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The Golden Buddha
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Bangkok – Wat Arun
Wat Arun – Temple of the Dawn
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Wat Arun – Temple of the Dawn
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Wat Arun – Temple of the Dawn
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Model at a photo shoot.
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A Three headed elephant.
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A guard maybe
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Bangkok – Orange Barge – Canal ride
Canal Barge service – Orange line. See the amount of turbulence. The barges go at a high speed and shout at people to get on and off quickly.
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Bangkok – Interlux Premier apartment
Two pineapples for $1.50 Aus
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Bangkok – Chatuchak weekend market
Adults and children buy these high powered water cannon for water fights during Songkran. It is an annual festival which takes place over three days during the traditional Thai New Year, April 13th-15th (in almost all provinces). The official Songkran festival lasts three days but in reality the whole week is taken over by a mass celebration as the whole country shuts down for a momentous water fight.
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Chatuchak weekend market. 6 pairs of sock for Aus $2
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The mangos look very juicy.
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Real lemons for lemonade
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What a happy looking chap
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Coconut ice cream stall
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In progress
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Revealing the design
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A lion / princess /dog or maybe all three
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For Aus $3 you get a passport cover, a metal logo and a metal nameplate with you initials.
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Different types of material in colourful scarves.
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Bangkok – Canal
A desirable canal plot ready for development
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A wide drain, maybe
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Bangkok – Shrine shop
A shrine shop
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Bangkok – Chelsea FC Soccer school
A long way to go to watch a match.
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Bangkok – Interlux Premier apartment
The apartment where I am staying
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The pool deck
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Bangkok – Canal
I call that a ‘Real Barge’ with a tug at the front and back.
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Bangkok – Go Thai Cooking course
Thai cooking course – Chef Cherry
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The star pupil (Actually he is the only pupil) next stop Master Chef.
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First course – Papaya salad
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Yum! Yum! I made this Tom Yum salad
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Main course – Chicken with Cashew nuts – All my own work!
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Mango with sticky rice – The Mango on top is the one I chopped all on my own.
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Bangkok – Shrine
A small shrine
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Bangkok – Broom sellers cart
A broom seller’s cart
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Bangkok – Backgarden
A veggie patch
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Bangkok – Compter mall
That is a wide screen TV!
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The text says it all
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It is driven by a pirate copy of Windows
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Bangkok – Gravestone shop
A gravestone shop
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Bangkok – Grand Palace
Grand Palace
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Grand Palace
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Grand Palace
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Grand Palace
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Grand Palace
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Grand Palace
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Grand Palace
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Grand Palace
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Grand Palace
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Grand Palace
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Grand Palace
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Grand Palace
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Bangkok – Streets
An interesting pway to store nuts and bolts
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Spare part storage
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More spare parts
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Bangkok – Canal Ferry ride
Chao Phraya River
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Chao Phraya River
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Chao Phraya River
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Bangkok – Go Thai Cooking course
Where am I what am I doing?
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Heavy concentration is required
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Years ago I had a doctor who looked over his glasses like that
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Bangkok – Golden Temple
The Golden Temple
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At prayer
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Bangkok – Wat Arun
Figure on side of Temple of the dawn
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Beautiful temple detail
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Bangkok – Chatuchak weekend market
I thought about having one of these images and the chap said it would look good on my chest provided I had a dog or horse. Something with lots of hair. I decided against it.
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Bangkok – Grand Palace
Grand Palace
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Grand Palace
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London – British Museum
Royal Gold cup – French 1340
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Largest hoard of coins ever discovered in Britain dated1237
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Mosaic of Christ 4thC AD
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Anglo Saxon 6th century AD
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London – Museum Tavern
Museum Tavern near the British museum
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London – British Museum
Longcase Clocks c1705
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Polished Slate clock – French 1880
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Hadrian of wall fame
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Bowl for mixing wine and water 330BC
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Egyptian Mummy
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London – Tate Britain
Salisbury Cathedral from the meadows by John Constable
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Wokingham – Holmes Crescent
Flowering Cherry tree near Jeremy’s house
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Hereford – Black & White museum
Bedroom in Butcher’s house
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Dining room
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Hereford – Hereford Cathedral
Cathedral interior
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Chained library in Hereford Cathedral – Volumes chained up to stop Monks from stealing them. One of the many volumes is The Golden legend – 900 pages printed by William Caxton in 1483. Two pages of another copy were recently sold for £50,000 each.
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Hereford – Cider museum
Original apple press to make cider.
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Those were the days!
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Apples were enclosed in cloth called ‘cheeses’ were pressed to extract the juice to make cider
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I only bought one bottle – honestly!
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Hereford – Hampton Court Castle
The beautiful gardens at Hampton Court castle, Hereford (built 60 years before the famous palace near London).
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The beautiful gardens at Hampton Court castle.
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The beautiful gardens at Hampton Court castle.
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The beautiful gardens at Hampton Court castle.
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Hampton Court castle.
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The castle hosts weddings – this is one of the 26 bedrooms available for guests.
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A bathroom with a fireplace and carpet.
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The library.
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Hereford – Monkland Cheese Factory
Monkton Cheese factory
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Hereford – Black & White museum
Former Butcher’s house from Tudor times
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Hereford – Hereford Cathedral
Hereford Cathedral
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Mappa Mundi – Map of the world incl. mythical and real animals from 1300s. Centre of the world is Jerusalem.
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Hereford – Hampton Court Castle
The castle
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Hereford – Hereford Cathedral
Hereford Catedral
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Hereford Cathedral again
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Swindon & Cricklade Railway – Hayes Knoll
Swindon & Cricklade Railway
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Swindon & Cricklade Railway – Blunsdon Station
Swindon & Cricklade Railway metal sign
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Are you sure?
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Swindon & Cricklade Railway – Taw Valley Halt
Swindon & Cricklade Railway
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Marden – Countryside
Converted Hop drying ‘Oast house’
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Rape seed at Marden Herefordshire
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Some Hereford cows
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This sheep seemed interested in me (or my camera)
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Marden – Founders Cottage
Founders cottage (the middle home) where Jeremy and I stayed for a week in Marden, Herefordshire
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Marden – Countryside
A recently thatched cottage
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Ludlow – St Laurence
St Laurence Historic 12th-century church interior.
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St L:aurence Historic 12th-century church carved misericords.
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St Laurence Historic 12th-century church high alter
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Devon – Ilsington
The church at Ilsington, Dartmoor.
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Karen, my daughter’s first school – Islington on Dartmoor. A few years ago now!
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Devon – Haytor Vale
We rented one of these cottages whilst waiting to emigrate to Australia in 1978
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Devon – Granite Railway
Part of the Haytor Granite tramway, a 16km track built of granite (rather than steel) that used gravity to send 12 carts full of granite at a time from the Haytor granite mine to Teigngrace where it was shipped to London. This trade lasted 20 years from 1820. The granite was used in the building of the London bridge that was subsequently sold to an American 50 years ago. The bridge was reassembled and it now stands at Lake Havasu in Arizona.
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Devon – Haytor
Haytor rock
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The lunch break of some wild Dartmoor ponies.
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Devon – Cliff at Budleigh Salterton
Trevor and I on the Cliffs at Budleigh Salterton, Devon (The 2nd selfie I have ever taken)
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Trevor and I again on the cliff edge (nearly)
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Devon – Haytor Vale
The Rock inn at Haytor vale on Dartmoor
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New York – Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
A new project for my lathe?
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The Guggenheim
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New York – Central Park
Central park
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Activity in Central Park
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New York – Metropolitan Museum of Art
Marble statue of a wounded Amazon 1st century AD
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Carvings from the Pacific
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More carvings
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Dionysos, god of wine and intoxication 27BC
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Cabinet by Herman Doomer 1650
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New York – Empire State Building
View from 86th floor of the Empire State building looking E to Long Island
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View from 86th floor of the Empire State building looking NE
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View from 86th floor of the Empire State building looking E to Long Island
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New York – Wall Street
Lunch-time at Paesano of Mulberry St in Little Italy
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My lunch of Calamari in Little Italy
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New York Stock Exchange – Wall St
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New York – Pennsylvania Station
Heaven – The largest buffet in new York. Lunch is charges at $10.99 per lb.
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New York – Library
The New York Public Library, the third largest in the world. It featured in the movie ‘The Day after Tomorrow’
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New York – 5th Avenue
Rock shop – 5th Avenue
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New York – Streets
Steam really does come out of the drains!
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New York – Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
Dominant Curve by Vasily Kandinsky
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Several Circles by Vasily Kandinsky
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The Soldier drinks by Marc Chagall.
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New York – Metropolitan Museum of Art
Imperial Danish Palaces Egg by House of Faberge.
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Lilies of the Valley basket by Faberge with diamonds and pearls
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Mademoiselle Victorine Meurent dressed as a bull fighter by Edouard Manet. An early impressionist work, the composition is still formal but the pink cloak is not defined,
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The garden at Sainte-Adresse by Claude Monet. An early impressionist work, his father is seated.
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Madame Georges Carpentier, next to her son Paul and Georgette her daughter with the dog. At the time young boys wore dresses and hair was left uncut.
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Gray Weather by Georges Seurat, a late (post) impressionist work.
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Wheat field with Cypresses by Vincent van Gogh
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Vase with flowers of the four seasons – Qing dynasty 1700s
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The Thinker by Auguste Rodin 1880
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Woman seated beside a Vase of Flowers by Edgar Degas 1865
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New York – Wall Street
Wall St The bull, the symbol of aggressive financial optimism and prosperity, leaning back on its haunches and with its head lowered as if ready to charge.
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Fulton Centre on Broadway
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New York – Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty in a mist
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Chicago – Lake Shore Limited
These 3 cases took 20 minutes to arrive. Mine was the last. Phew! was I glad to see it again. I am sorry I said those things about it.
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Chicago – Streets
Street sculptures.
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Chicago – Voting station
Voting in the Federal election – Chicago style
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Chicago – Streets
Street sculptures.
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Chicago – Lake Shore Limited
And so into Union Station Chicago
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Chicago – Route 66
The start of the iconic highway
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Chicago – Lake Shore Limited
The Hudson river from the Lake Shore Limited from New York to Chicago. 19hrs plus. We followed the Hudson river for over 2 and a half hours
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Time for bed
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Good old 3015
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Chicago – The Rookery
The Rookery office building, the interior was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in early 1900s.
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The Rookery
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The Rookery
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Rooks carved in the entrance. The building was built on the site of an old water tower after the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871 which burnt 17,500 buildings and made 1 in 3 people homeless. The name came from the Rooks that used to live around the old water tower.
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The iron staircase goes all the way up the 12 floors. The building is 181 feet (55 m) high, is considered the oldest standing high-rise in Chicago.
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Chicago – Richard Driehaus museum
The Richard Driehaus museum.
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Silver Jug created by Tiffany for the World’s Fair in Chicago 1893
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Fireplace
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Another fireplace – Byzantine.
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There are other things beside fireplaces.
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Like these rooms
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Chicago – Art Instute of Chicago
A very large Paper-Weight
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Chicago – Millenium Park
Millennium Park in Chicago. One of the benefactors is Richard Dreihaus of museum fame.
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Chicago Skyline
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Chicago – Science Museum area
Tesla Electric Car 2008
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Now this is a model railway
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The WW2 submarine captured by the US Navy
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Chicago – Millenium Park
Where is Barry? I will show you later.
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Chicago – Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan
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Chicago – Metra
This could be a Sydney electric train.
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I am not sure what all the metal racks are for. They do not allow any large luggage items so?
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Chicago – Subway
Chicago subway
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Chicago – Streets
Street sculptures.
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Chicago – Union Station
The inside of Union station in Chicago
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Chicago – Richard Driehaus museum
These shells were for use as flower vases, the light in the centre was also removed and flowers put in its place.
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Chicago – Art Instute of Chicago
Some more paper weights
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Woman at the Piano by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow by Camille Pissarro
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Two Sisters (On the Terrace) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Poppy Field (Giverny) by Claude Monet
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Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer) by Claude Monet
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Irises by Claude Monet
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Manxman Pianoforte by Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott from the Isle of Man hence Manxman.
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Number 17A by Jackson Pollack
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Early Liz #3 (Early Coloured Liz) by Andy Warhol
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American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman) by David Hockney
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Anthropomorphic Tower by Salvador Dali
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Painting with Green Center by Vasily Kandinsky
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Cabinet made in 1640 of ebony, ivory, silver and silk plus other woods
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Chicago – Millenium Park
I told you so!
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Chicago – Science Museum area
Empire State Express No999
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I stood in front of a projected image and the image changed when the balls hit my shadow!
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Daddy long legs
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Submarine interior
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The cover (on the floor) was removed and the sub should have sunk when the water rushed in. The Germans left the plate nearby. The US Navy replaced the cover, pumped the water out and sailed the sub to Bermuda 2,500 miles away. The Germans did not know the sub was captured with 900 lbs of information including codes and 2 Enigma machines.
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Another interior shot
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More of me than you can poke a stick at! NB I am in black and white because the Blue colour was too scary.
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Chicago – Millenium Park
The Man in Blue
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Chicago – Streets
A Chicago street – just like the movies?
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Albuquerque – Streets
A street in Albuquerque
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Albuquerque – San Felipe de Neri Church
San Felipe de Neri Church in Albuquerque
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Albuquerque – Old town
A Prickly Pear
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Albuquerque – Albuquerque Museum
Sculptures outside the Albuquerque Museum
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Albuquerque – Old town
Old Town Albuquerque market plaza
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Albuquerque – Albuquerque Museum
Jicarilla Apache Moccasins
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Albuquerque – Old town
An attractive home in Albuquerque
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The design in the background is for New Mexico state.
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Albuquerque – Flea Market
I bet there are very few Bush Turkeys in Albuquerque with a mini crossbow available.
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Boots and a belt to match
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Albuquerque – Albuquerque Museum
Survivor by Tom Palmore
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Albuquerque – Old town
Albuquerque’s Barber shop
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Santa Fe – Cathedral Basillica of St Francis of Assisi
Cathedral Basilica of St Francis of Assisi interior
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Cathedral Basilica of St Francis of Assisi – Font
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Santa Fe – Cathedral Basilica of St Francis of Assisi
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Santa Fe – Oldest House in USA
Santa Fe – The oldest house in the USA
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Santa Fe – Lunch – Cheese Enchilada
Lunch – Cheese Enchiladas with green Chile, Spanish rice, whole beans, sour cream and a sopapilla (A kind of fried pastry)
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Santa Fe – New Mexico History Museum
Kit Carson’s Beaver skin blanket. Sadly he waged a brutal campaign against the Navajo in 1863. When bands of Navajo refused to accept confinement on reservations, Carson terrorized the Navajo lands–burning crops, destroying villages, and slaughtering livestock. Carson rounded up some 8,000 Navajo and marched them across New Mexico for imprisonment on the Bosque Redondo Reservation, over 300 miles from their homes, where they remained for the duration of the Mexican-American war.
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Santa Fe – Palace of the Govenors – Print shop
The Santa Fe palace of the Governors Print room. It has quite a few hot metal presses which are still in use today and they create books to sell. A recent one was a reprint of the first book of cowboy songs with engraved wood-cuts. Tom Leech made the paper for the front and end pages. A beautiful book with coloured wood-cuts.
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Santa Fe – State Capitol Building
Senate chamber
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Office of the Governor of Santa FE Antonio Bonfatti, who was elected on 24 July 2011.
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Santa Fe – Santa Fe Botanical Garden
Santa Fe-Santa Fe Botanical Garden
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Santa Fe-Santa Fe Botanical Garden
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Santa Fe – Santa Fe Trail
The staff at the Santa Fe-Santa Fe Botanical Garden said that there were no flowering Cactus at present. I went for a walk and found this by the road-side. Does it qualify as flowering?
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The Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Spanish for ‘Blood of Christ’) are the southernmost subrange of the Rocky Mountains.
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On the Old Santa Fe trail
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The Old Wild West
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Santa Fe – Buffalo Thunder Flea Market
Santa Fe-Buffalo Thunder Flea Market Rock stall
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Santa Fe – Streets
A stretch limo for sale
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Santa Fe – Ford F250 Super Duty
Just a bit too big for me. (See the newsletter)
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Santa Fe – San Miguel Church
Santa Fe – San Miguel church – The oldest church structure in the USA
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Santa Fe – San Miguel church interior
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Santa Fe – Loretto Chapel
The ‘Miracle’ staircase in Loretto church, Santa Fe. Engineers cannot agree how the stairs stand. (The hand rail was added much later than the original construction so does not support the stair)
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Before the handrails were installed
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Santa Fe – New Mexico History Museum
A singing cowboy movie poster
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Maybe in the future this will become the company song for a certain Multimedia agency in Austrlia?
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Santa Fe – State Capitol Building
A tapestry from an exhibition in the Santa Fe State Capitol building.
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A tapestry called Fast Food
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The tapestry named ‘La Luz’ – Light in Spanish
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The tapestry called ‘Restless Waves’
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Plaza of Santa Fe in 1880s
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Santa Fe – New Mexico Museum of Art
Border monument No 218 on the USA – Mexico border. (The fence pre-dates Mr D Trump.)
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Wells Fargo Stage coach
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Santa Fe – New Mexico Museum of Art
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Santa Fe – Cathedral Basillica of St Francis of Assisi
Santa Fe-Cathedral Basilica of St Francis of Assisi
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Santa Fe – Walmart Guns
A 760 Pumpmaster Gun for under US $30 in Walmart – at least the guns locked up.
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Santa Fe – Museum of International Folk Art
Models – traditional American homes
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Dance Capes from Peru
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Model of a traditional Pueblo reservation. (with an error)
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The error is – no would take photos – it is not allowed. I have noted the corn dance and the woman telling stories.
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Santa Fe – Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
This pot was fired in the traditional Pueblo method using a hole in the ground, covering with earth and cow dung t o keep out the oxygen. A fire is lit over the op to fire the clay.
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Santa Fe – Hilton Santa Fe
North Santa Fe Hilton
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Socorro – San Miguel Church
San Miguel Church in Socorro New Mexico.
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Church interior
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Socorro – Streets
The Economy Inn in Socorro New Mexico was built 1963. Bonny, the lady who sometimes runs reception, lives in the mountains 80 miles away, no mains electricity but solar and propane gas with no running water. She has been a balloonist and sky diver in Alaska and packed parachutes. She is 76.
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Kelly – Ghost Town
An abandoned mine at Kelly in New Mexico.
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Socorro Texas – Socorro Mission
Socorro Texas-Socorro Mission church interior
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Socorro, El Paso Texas (Different from Socorro in New Mexico) -Socorro Mission church.
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VLA – VLA
One of 17 200 ton satellite dishes that, when linked electronically, can create a radio telescope 22 miles (35 km) in diameter. It is 50 miles east of Socorro in New Mexico.
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Some of the 17 dishes
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The 18th dish in a hanger for maintenance. The transporter, which runs on reused railway tracks, moves the dishes back into position after maintenance..
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Las Cruces – New Mexico Farm and Ranch museum
Las Cruces-New Mexico Farm and Ranch museum. Charlie, Yes Fred. Charlie, Should we charge at that bloke with a camera, it would give him a bit fright and it would be fun. Ok, Fred, on the count of three, One, two ….
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Wind driven water pump.
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El Paso – Union rail depot
Old Number One locomotive was on the American railroads before the Civil War in 1860s. It was retired in 1909.
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San Elizario – San Elceario Church
San Elizario, El Paso -San Elceario Church interior.
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San Elizario, El Paso -San Elceario Church.
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Ysleta – Old Ysleta Mission
Ysleta-Old Ysleta Mission church interior
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Ysleta-Old Ysleta Mission
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Tombstone – Tombstone
The participants of the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Wyatt Earp on the left and Doc Holiday in the Black coat and red neckerchief. the three cowboys that get shot are between Wyatt and Do plus the gentleman holding his hat.
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Buckshot Rockey, 54 the blacksmith at the OK Corral. He has visited Sydney and hopes to return. He was sad that he could not take his gun when he went to Sydney. He brings it in to the smithy (he makes commission works). He says ‘It is handy if there is any trouble to sort out’. He was deadly serious.
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The graves, in Boot Hill, of the three cowboys shot at the OK Corral by Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday. Wyatt Earp was the only one to be uninjured in the shoot out. His two brothers and Doc Holiday were all injured and the cowboys died.
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Rockey’s gun with a white grip in the leather holster.
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Geronimo ‘the one who yawns’; June 1829 – February 17, 1909. was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache tribe. While well known, Geronimo was not a chief among the Chiricahua or the Bedonkohe band. However, since he was a superb leader in raiding and warfare he frequently led large numbers of men and women beyond his own following.
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Tucson – Miniatures Museum
Christmas – Tucson-Miniatures Museum.
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Tucson-Miniatures Museum – 1920 Wedding Reception.
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Tucson-Miniatures Museum – Oriental Floating Garden.
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Tucson – Premium Outlets
Factory outlets in Tucson where I bought some Nike walking shoes. The already good prices were improved by a Memorial Day sale. Memorial Day is for remembering and honouring people who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.
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Tucson – Old Tucson Movie set
Tucson-Old Tucson Movie set – The cannon prop used in the film The Alamo starring John Wayne 1960
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Tucson-Old Tucson Movie set. This was built as it stands now so that cowboys could have easy access for gun fights.
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Another Saguaro cactus.
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As the name suggests, The bath house
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This room was used in Little House on the Prairie starring Michael Landon,
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Don’t shoot me I am pregnant. (N.B. It is my wallet and two passports really)
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Tucson – Streets
I do love these Saguaro cactus.
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Tucson – Cactus
Botanical name: Cactus with Yellow bits
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Botanical name: Cactus with Sad Red bits
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Tucson – Santa Cruz River
Santa Cruz River – the greenery is growing on the river bed.
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Tucson – Pima Air and Space museum
The Convair B-36 ‘Peacemaker’ is a strategic bomber and used by the US air force from 1949 to 1959. The B-36 is the largest mass-produced piston-engine aircraft ever built. It had a range of 10,000 mi (16,000 km) compared to the Airbus A380’s15.800.
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Super Guppy 377SGT-F. Since the first flight in 1965, the aircraft has since flown over three million kilometres in support of NASA’s Gemini, Apollo and Skylab programs carrying immensely massive yet incredibly delicate components and specialized equipment. Without the Guppy, NASA would have never been able to send astronauts to the moon by 1969!
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This Douglas C-54 Skymaster flew in the Berlin airlift of 1948.
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This Douglas VC-118A was ‘Airforce One’, the USA president’s aircraft for Kennedy and Johnson from 1961-1965.
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Lockheed L049 Constellation flew from 1943-1949 for Trans World Airlines (TWA). In 2001 they were acquired by American Airlines after flying for 71 years.
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The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engine heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC).
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Sud Aviation Caravelle VI-R in service from 1961. I flew to France in one of these planes in the early 1960s.
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Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress nicknamed Sentimental Journey.
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Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress bomb bay.
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Boeing 720B Cockpit simulator.
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Tucson – Another Car
Car No: 3 Nissan Altima
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Tucson – Mission San Xavier del Bac
Tucson-Mission San Xavier del Bac
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All these candles are alight in this building, the mortuary. The heat was immense.
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Tucson – Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Saguaro cactus at Tucson-Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
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Azurite
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Gold
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Chalcotrichite
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A Bee’s morning tea – the Yellow flower of the Prickly Pear Cactus
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Saguaro Cactus Flower – it is the state flower of Arizona.
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The flowers of the Boojum tree
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The red flowers on the right are on the Rocket Torch Cactus.
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This bird was in the aviary.
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Most likely a Duck?
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A Humming bird NB. My very good friend Dorice recently made a Humming bird cake but she used Pinapple insead of Humming birds. Aparrently you cannot get them these days, for cakes.
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A Desert flower
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A Desert flower
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A Desert flower
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Tucson – Streets
Tucson’s Modern day tram.
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Tucson – Pinal Airpark
No engine cowling (i think that is the right term) around these two engines. The first parts to go are often the doors, nose cone and landing gear as these are very valuable.
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Tucson – Miniatures Museum
Tucson-Miniatures Museum – Coyote Trading Post.
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Tucson-Miniatures Museum – Ivan the Terrible.
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Tucson-Miniatures Museum – Regency style home in London.
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Tucson – Old Tucson Movie set
Reno, the locomotive, was built in 1872, Reno stared in more than 100 films including How the West Was Won.
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Tucson – Heirloom Farmers Market at Rincon Valley
Making my belt shorter, that is because I am soooo thin!
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Tucson – Bird
A Greater Roadrunner – true!
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Tucson – Pima Air and Space museum
Moonrock brought back by the Apollo 16 mission in April 1972.
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Tucson – Mission San Xavier del Bac
The Alter
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The church interior
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Local Native Americans cooking my ‘Fry Bread’ – plain no sugar, honey or cinnamon.
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Tucson – Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Nobody messes with this Saguaro cactus!
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A chunk of Iron meteorite at the Tucson – Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum .
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The Teddy Bear Cholla.
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I spotted this little red bird in the wild at Tucson-Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
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Fouquieria columnaris, the Boojum tree .The plant’s English name, Boojum, was given by Godfrey Sykes of the Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona and is taken from Lewis Carroll’s poem ‘The Hunting of the Snark’.
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The Organ Pipe Cactus.
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Opuntia, commonly called prickly pear. There are over 110 different types of Prickly Pear.
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This cactus is a Golden Barrel.
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$4,000 worth of Crane’s feathers.
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Tucson – Arizona State Museum
A photo of a Native American family.
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A view of the Spiritual World of the Yaqui Native Americans.
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The Pottery of the Colorado River Native Americans.
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Native American modern craft.
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Hopi Katsina Dolls: Changing Styles, Enduring Meanings
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Arizona 13,000 years ago – rather more green than now also elephants in the wild and not in a zoo.
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One of the many attractive buildings at the University of Arizona
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Tucson – Pinal Airpark
At Pinal Air park there was a demo of the SkyRunner, a flying car, capable of all-terrain driving and actual flight plus gliding with a parasail.
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Pinal Air park is a specialised maintenance facility as well as a storage and scrap facility. It has 86 planes in storage at present. This desert climate is ideal for the preservation (or scrapping?) of aircraft. This 747-128 was built in 1976 and entered service with Air-France.in that year. In the mid 1990s it was acquired by TWA . It arrived at the airpark in 1997. TWA no longer exists, it was merged into American Airlines in 2001.
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An engine from a 747
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A view of the cockpit of the TWA – this was from the web as I was not allowed into the plane.
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The TWA’s undercarriage.
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The planes with the red and blue tails belong to Delta airlines and are surplus to requirements.
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A sparrow hawk has found another use for the tail. A place to build its nest.
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Tucson – Streets
I could not resist taking this photo of the food preparation room at the Quality Inn in Tucson
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Phoenix – Rosson House Museum
Rosson House Dining room
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Phoenix – Heard Museum
Navajo Rug brighter colours after 1860s due to new dyes and yearns available from Germantown Pennsylvania.
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Phoenix – Desert Botanical Garden
Sculptures made from Glass.
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Desert Botanical Garden Cactus Flower
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Desert Botanical Garden – This bird may be a politician – he is sitting on the fence.
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Desert Wild Flowers
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Now that is a Cactus
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I think this is a regular rabbit but it may be a Jack Rabbit
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I don’t know the name of this cactus but it should be called a Sarfish cactus
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I never realised that an artichoke was so beautiful. A lunch for the hovering (bee?)
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More Wild Flowers
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A cool drink on a hot day
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Three for a drink now
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This bird has been feeding on the flowers.
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Time to find another plant.
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Greetings from the Sonoran Desert
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The inside of the Saguaro, it can swell by up to 20% when it stores water.
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An attractive plant I think.
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A last look at a Cactus
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Phoenix – Rosson House Museum
Rosson House museum,1895 Queen Anne Victorian house which interprets the history of Phoenix
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Phoenix – Heard Museum
Navajo Rug around 1900 called Eyedazzler style.
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Navajo Rug
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Navajo Rug Eyedazzler style
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Indian Chief – Doll
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Early Navajo Rug – access to different colours is limited around the American Civil War 1860s
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Phoenix – Desert Botanical Garden
The black areas are hole made by wood-pecker, away from heat and cold.
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Phoenix – American Heritage Museum
1909 Model T Ford ‘Runabout’
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The engine of this Model T is rather more simple than the Nissan Altima I have hired!
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On March 13th !997 a UFO was sighted by hundreds of people over Phoenix and Tucson in the evening. This is an image creted from eye witness descriptions. The planes behind are 747s drawn to scale.
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Do you remember these? A Paper airline timetable.
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Azurite is a soft, deep blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits.
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The food on this table is all different types of rock. (Except the Tomato sauce)
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The food and it rock substance
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To Las Vegas – Willow Beach, AZ
The Colorado River near the Hoover Dam and Boulder City.
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The Colorado River near the Hoover Dam and Boulder City.
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Las Vegas – Streets
The view from my Balcony in the Royal Resort, Las Vegas. What a picturesque parking lot.
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The iconic Las Vegas sign and the Mandalay Bay Hotel in the background.
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Las Vegas – Caesars Palace
The Shrine of the Four-faced Brahma
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Three Card Poker anyone.
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Another view of the palace.
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Las Vegas – Monorail
The Las Vegas Monorail.
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Las Vegas – Paranormal Mind Reading Magic
At last! My true status is recognised. I am the first in line for the Paranormal Mind Reading Magic show by Frederic da Silva.
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The chap in red has my watch and is winding the time.
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See the newsletter for the significance of this shot. A close up of my watch. You can just see part of the steel strap at the bottom of his clasped hands.
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Las Vegas – Streets
This phot of of the Statue of Liberty is a bit clearer than the last one I took.
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The Excalibur Hotel
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Las Vegas – Neon Museum
The Neon Sign museum in Las Vegas.
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Kenneth L. Lehman used to give out 7 free aspirins to women customers together with a hug.
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Las Vegas – Paris Hotel and Casino
The Arc de Triomphe in front of the Paris Hotel and Casino
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The Casino, Arc de Triomphe and Eifel Tower in front of the Paris Hotel.
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Las Vegas – Streets
A wedding anyone.
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Las Vegas – Caesars Palace
Part of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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Inside Caesars Palace.
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Gamble and Drink at the same time.
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The Colosseum Theatre where Judy and I saw Celine Dion in 2016. Her last performance here is this week. She has no plans to return.
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And another view
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I took this shot because Celine was looking straight at me!
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Las Vegas – Paranormal Mind Reading Magic
Frederic da Silva whose show Paranormal Mind Reading Magic I saw. . He asked me to think of a number between 1 and 100. I chose 49. He wrote this number above his autograph on a flyer. Stunning. I caught up with two ladies I sat next to during the show, they chose 7 and 89, he guessed both numbers. Two other people have seen the show 14 times and he has never failed at an illusion.
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Las Vegas – Australian Bee Gees
The Australian Bee Gees tribute band. Some of them were Australian and they performed quite a few of the classic songs very much like the original group.
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Las Vegas – Royal Resort – Copy
I did 2 widths at 9:30pm and a dip in the spa. (One does not do 2 lengths of a pool when you cannot swim, 2 widths at the 4ft mark. I swam earlier in the day but at night the air was much cooler and the swim much more pleasant.
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Las Vegas – Neon Museum
The Neon Sign museum in Las Vegas.
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This sign is from the 1955 Moulin Rouge Casino that was open for only 6 months. It was the first casino to allow both black and white patrons. In all other casinos black performers were only allowed on stage and once their act was over they had to leave by the tradesman’s exit. It is thought that the Moulin Rouge was closed from pressure of the other casinos because the friends of the black entertainers would leave the other casinos to go and socialise at the Moulin Rouge thereby taking their trade away from the other casinos. NB This photo was from the web – I could not take my wide angle lens camera into the museum.
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Las Vegas – Paris Hotel and Casino
The Casino and Eifel Tower of the Paris Hotel
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