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We have a volunteer sunflower too, but not nearly as pretty as yours. Beautiful gift.
Natural palm oasis, Southern California desert.
Not the best photo, but a right place, right time kind of thing.
I saw that moon Wednesday night when I took my wife out for ice cream.
I'd be concerned if you saw any others.
I think @ DougBriggs might have a second career- that’s Yankee wit! You can take the boy out of New England but you can’t take New England out of the boy.
Just past sunset last night, looking west, then east. Big Bear Lake, CA.
Like my wife always said "there is one in every crowd, no matter how small the crowd" and it usually is me she is talking about.
This was taken on Mt. Greylock in western Massachusetts. Connecticut, Vermont and New York are all visible at the peak on a clear day. Herman Melville looked upon it as he was writing Moby Dick and I could see it from behind my house about 7 miles away as a kid.
Thanks to@Tricia for helping me with this.
Thanks to@Tricia for helping me with this.
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A guy in Mount Pocono, PA Planet Fitness right now…
Memorial climb. Firefighters climb the twin towers in full gear.
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Yesterday, North Tower footprint pool west side looking southeast. The memorial is well worth a visit, it’s open and free. It is powerful. If not for the dogged determination of some who lost family, those spaces would’ve been built over..
For some it’s still too much. I know people who worked for months on the recovery and still won’t set foot again on the site.
Twenty years ago. Maybe a fragment of the South Tower, not sure. It’s important to note that for every firefighter killed there were some 8 others killed.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/raising-flag-ground-zero-second-look-180978592/
This is a 9/11 memorial sculpture in Saratoga Springs NY. It’s called “ Tempered by memory “ and created by my friend Noah Savett and John Van Alstine.
It is made out actual pieces of the North and South towers- I’ve seen and held actual leftover pieces of this in my hand and that is a strange and profoundly moving experience.The bends and twists in the steel beams are a direct result of the destruction only. The Iron workers Union brought these up from NYC. as they wanted to participate and treat them with the reverence they deserve.
It is made out actual pieces of the North and South towers- I’ve seen and held actual leftover pieces of this in my hand and that is a strange and profoundly moving experience.The bends and twists in the steel beams are a direct result of the destruction only. The Iron workers Union brought these up from NYC. as they wanted to participate and treat them with the reverence they deserve.
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A friend and coworker at one of the ski shops I worked, later took a job in the WTC lost his life that day. I was talking and having a beer with him only days earlier so sad, left a wife and children behind. One of the guys I ski with lost his brother a police officer that day also, he also left a wife and children behind, so it is very sad for me.