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Message 1825737 - Posted: 20 Oct 2016, 22:14:42 UTC - in response to Message 1825731.  

(West) Berlin had double-decker buses when I visited in 1968. I believe it may still have them today (not the same ones, obviously).

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Message 1825739 - Posted: 20 Oct 2016, 22:27:55 UTC - in response to Message 1825737.  

OK. That's one more city:)
Now I learnt that Gibraltar also have double-decker buses.
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Message 1825742 - Posted: 20 Oct 2016, 23:01:03 UTC - in response to Message 1825473.  

Nice pix, as usual, Bernie.

A green bus. My favorite color. I've never seen a green bus before now.

In my youth, many years ago, I thought all busses were green in the UK, My maternal family location.Southdown busses, my Paternal family location Blackburn busses


Wow! Look at all the green busses!
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Message 1825743 - Posted: 20 Oct 2016, 23:03:07 UTC

They are popular at Burning Man too:
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Message 1825744 - Posted: 20 Oct 2016, 23:04:33 UTC - in response to Message 1825737.  
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(West) Berlin had double-decker buses when I visited in 1968. I believe it may still have them today (not the same ones, obviously).



Ah, a picture of the largest open-air urinal in the world!

(I visited that church and the predominant smell was urine. Many men use that
church as a urinal. Or they used to, anyway. I hope someone has done something
to end that behavior. It's not something tourists want to remember.)
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Message 1825754 - Posted: 20 Oct 2016, 23:54:51 UTC

Found that also Sydney Australia have double-deckers.
And green of course:)
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Message 1825773 - Posted: 21 Oct 2016, 1:46:42 UTC - in response to Message 1825754.  

Found that also Sydney Australia have double-deckers.
And green of course:)

Use Wikipedia to look up Double Decker busses.

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Message 1825776 - Posted: 21 Oct 2016, 2:05:55 UTC - in response to Message 1825773.  
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Use Wikipedia to look up Double Decker busses.

Why?
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Message 1825817 - Posted: 21 Oct 2016, 7:08:57 UTC - in response to Message 1825754.  
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Found that also Sydney Australia have double-deckers.
And green of course:)

Now there was a bus to drive. :-D

Yes there was still a few of them around in service when I started driving at Sydney Buses (there were several name changes in my time) and I've driven almost all of these in service, http://ufies.org/~aleith/transit/sydney/syd_pres_bus.html, and a lot of these, https://www.google.com.au/search?q=sydney+leyland+atlantean+bus&sa=X&biw=1280&bih=953&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ved=0ahUKEwjS5eGWqevPAhUPzGMKHRjDA9QQ7AkIJw#imgrc=_ and these http://www.sydneybuses.info/bus-fleet except those models that have either been trialed or put into service in the last 15 years.

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Message 1825840 - Posted: 21 Oct 2016, 11:49:21 UTC

Well from busses to er ships.. why not.

I keep my second PC with the screen open on Marinetraffic.com luckily ships don't move as fast as trains so I can usually get up to the fort in time to see it pass.

This is a somewhat unusual vessel that passed through the Solent today.

THV (Trinity House Vessel) Galatea.



Currently employed with buoy laying.

I did see it at a distance at the weekend.

Here a lot closer.



Passing Hurst Point Light, en route to ST Ives Cornwall, with the buoys in evidence on the rear deck.


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Message 1825982 - Posted: 21 Oct 2016, 22:37:40 UTC

First of all, let me emphasize that I am not talking to anyone in particular.

I just want to post a gentle reminder that this thread is for original photos
taken by you (or of you), only. Please don't post pix you got from the web.

I'll go so far as to accept photos that you are certain were taken by friends
or family and that you have permission to post. For example, this photo of my
cousin's Elephant Ears:



An occasional "oops, I forgot" pic is okay, but let's not let the thread get
filled up with "borrowed" pix.

Thank you.

We now return you to our normal broadcast.
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Message 1826158 - Posted: 22 Oct 2016, 18:50:17 UTC - in response to Message 1825982.  

photo of my
cousin's Elephant Ears:


I've seen that plant before around here, but never that big!
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Message 1826160 - Posted: 22 Oct 2016, 18:55:39 UTC

It's a gorgeous Fall day, and I thought I'd go take a picture of Muhammad Ali's monument in the cemetery that's a couple miles from my house.

This first picture is of the temporary marker they installed right after he died:


Today's pictures:






Entrance to the cemetery:

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Message 1826162 - Posted: 22 Oct 2016, 19:23:15 UTC - in response to Message 1826160.  



It's a gorgeous Fall day, and I thought I'd go take a picture of Muhammad Ali's monument in the cemetery that's a couple miles from my house.

This first picture is of the temporary marker they installed right after he died:


Hi Gordon,
Thank you for sharing those photos with us.
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Message 1826189 - Posted: 22 Oct 2016, 22:45:49 UTC - in response to Message 1826158.  
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photo of my
cousin's Elephant Ears:


I've seen that plant before around here, but never that big!


And that's exactly why I asked her to post a photo so I could see how
big they've gotten. Amazing!

Hopefully she'll send me a few bulbs when it's time to dig them up.
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Message 1826190 - Posted: 22 Oct 2016, 22:47:57 UTC - in response to Message 1826160.  

It's a gorgeous Fall day, and I thought I'd go take a picture of Muhammad Ali's monument in the cemetery that's a couple miles from my house.


Is that where he's interred? If not, any idea why they decided to install the
monument?
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Message 1826193 - Posted: 22 Oct 2016, 23:03:49 UTC - in response to Message 1826190.  

It's a gorgeous Fall day, and I thought I'd go take a picture of Muhammad Ali's monument in the cemetery that's a couple miles from my house.


Is that where he's interred? If not, any idea why they decided to install the
monument?



Oh yes, that's his final resting place. It just took them awhile to get the monument in the ground. When you drive in to the cemetery, there is a yellow line on the road that leads to Col. Sanders, and a green line that leads to Ali. It's a huge old cemetery.
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Message 1826207 - Posted: 22 Oct 2016, 23:48:13 UTC

I love cemeteries. I even had my stone made ahead of time and set in the ground, so I can go by and look at it at my leisure.

Here are some more pictures I've taken inside the cemetery where Ali is buried. It's an oasis in the the middle of an urban area, here in Louisville, and about a five minute drive from my house:




Cemetery ducks. There are lots, and even some swans. There's a big lake/pond in the cemetery where people like to have picnics and feed them. I'll take some pictures of that another time.


Kentucky Fried Chicken founder:


My grandmother on my father's side is buried under this tree:


This is just kind of an art-deco stone that struck me:









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Message 1826242 - Posted: 23 Oct 2016, 4:44:20 UTC

Gordon,

Thank you for sharing photos of the final resting places of two American legends: Muhammad Ali and Col. Harlan Sanders.

The granite monuments at that cemetery reminds of the many "old" cemetery in and around the Chicago metro area.

About 1/2 mile from where I lived in Chicago, there is an "old" cemetery where people still do an occasional picnic and also a guided tour once a year where they point out some of the famous and less than famous have been laid to rest over the last 120+ years.
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Message 1826312 - Posted: 23 Oct 2016, 15:10:34 UTC

Had a visitor in my garden who I have seen for a number years. This hedgehog was mooching about front garden when I came back from shopping. Hedgehogs used be regular visitors years ago, but some reason I not seen them for a while.


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