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Chipmunk
I met this little fellow today while Bob and I were walking.
Upload Date: 2006-09-29
Photographer: Randy
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McMillan Wildlife Area V
These represent spring and summer in the marsh.
The first two are from my very first visit and were taken in the summer of 2006. The others are from the spring of 2007.
Upload Date: 2007-11-07
Photographer: Randy
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McMillan Wildlife Area IV
These were taken in December of 2006
Upload Date: 2007-11-07
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McMillan Wildlife Area III
I've been going through some older folders I had forgotten about...these were taken in November of 2006
Upload Date: 2007-11-07
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Wereldmarkt Floriande Centrum
A fair in Floriande Center on October, 26.
Upload Date: 2007-10-26
Photographer: MacMurph
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Cheap Entertainment
It's a safe and riskless thing to do but it's nevertheless always so exciting to experience a train which is just passing through without braking at the station. I was standing closely to the tracks while I did these shots. Whheeeeeeeeeeeeeewww !!
Upload Date: 2007-10-07
Photographer: MacMurph
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a day at the beach
met a friend for lunch in Monterey ..after lunch we drove along the coast .
i ,of course, was mostly interested in the sea Birds
Upload Date: 2007-10-17
Photographer: 0x6a
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Molen van Piet
Due to fact that the Piet Family has turned the mill for 4 generations, the familiar name of the mill has become "de Molen van Piet" (Piets mill).
The flour mill was built in 1769. The Piet family have an interesting history.
In the previous years, the shop in the mill was used for selling different grains and flour. Now it is a souvenir shop where a video of the mill in 1933 can be viewed. The shop is also the museum entry.
The residential section of the mill can only be visited on internet; various photo's can be viewed.
The gardens, terrace and glazed verandah surrounding the mill can be explored. The area surrounding the immediate gardens has lovely plants and high trees, unfortunately not always favourable as they minimize the wind available to the mill for turning.
A parking garage offering 400 places, situated under the Singel canal, makes the mill very accessible.
http://www.molenvanpiet.nl/uk/index.html
There is a database about dutch windmill's and Molen van Piet is Nr. 627, a fact which is not mentioned in the english version:
http://www.molendatabase.nl/nederland/molen_e.php?nummer=627
Upload Date: 2007-10-02
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De Waag in Alkmaar
A waag ("Weighing House") is a building near a market-square, where goods that are to be sold on a public market (and between 1550 and about 1690 people accused of witchcraft as well) are weighed by local authorities. The name stems from the Middle Ages. Waag is an old Dutch word for scale; compare the etymologically cognate German word: die Waage = the scales. Most of these buildings were built before 1800, as public control of the weights of goods was very important, because international standards for weights did not yet exist.
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The Cheese Market in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, now a demonstration for tourists, still includes the weighing of the cheeses in such a "waag". Outside the Netherlands and Germany the public weighing usually didn't take place in a special building, but in a town hall, guild hall, court-house etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waag
The main market square is the Waagplein, with the most photogenic building of Alkmaar, the Waag or weighing-house. It forms the backdrop for most postcards of the Alkmaar cheese market. The Waag now houses the Kaasmuseum (Cheese Museum). The building was originally a chapel, built around 1390, and converted to a municipal weigh-house in 1582.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Alkmaar
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Trompetterssteeg
In the center of the Redlight District, there is also the narrowest street in Amsterdam.
Upload Date: 2007-09-29
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