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[Jupiter7]

Autumn seems to be coming early here!

 

[giradman]

Just showed up on my FB page - gorgeous - credit to photographer quoted below. Dave

A beautiful photo of first light at Glacier National Park in Montana. Of the image, photographer Kevin LeFevre says: "While shooting the sunrise at Bowman Lake, we were graced with this meandering doe. I scrambled to change my camera settings to accommodate the movement and pulled off this solitary photo. A once in a lifetime." While parts of Glacier are closed because of #ReynoldsCreekFire, most of the park remains open, including Bowman Lake area. Photo courtesy of Kevin LeFevre.

 

[J. A.]

Not as breathtaking as the image above:
Sunflower with visitor, taken with my iPhone

 

[Jupiter7]

My favourite place!

 

[scifan57]

My Waltham railroad pocket watch.

 

[J. A.]

My Waltham railroad pocket watch.
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What’s it’s age?

 

[scifan57]

What’s it’s age?

It's close to 100 years old. The exact year of production was 1926.

 

[giradman]

My Waltham railroad pocket watch.
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Boy, I've not seen inside an old jeweled mechanical wrist watch in years - I change the batteries in our wrist watches, but all are quartz movements; we do have some 'solar' ones but assume the same mechanism.

The only 'mechanical' clock that we have in the house is shown below - a chiming Howard-Miller 'School House' wall clock - 8 day wind movements for time & sound - bought in 1975 to help teach our young son then to learn to tell time. Unless I forget, I wind the clock every Sunday - now kind of a family heirloom. Dave
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[J. A.]

Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki

 

[J. A.]

Market Square, Helsinki, from above

Taken while sitting in the Skywheel, thus the blue hues.

 

[J. A.]

Sibelius Monument

 

[scifan57]

An early Railroad pocket watch from about 1912. The movement is a 19 jewel Bunn made by the Illinois Watch Company. The dial is what is known as a Montgomery dial as it has every minute numbered around the edge of the dial as well as the 6 inside the seconds dial.

 

[giradman]

Market Square, Helsinki, from above
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Taken while sitting in the Skywheel, thus the blue hues.

Johanna - needed to see that Helsinki SkyWheel (pic below for others) - 460 ft high - impressive @ over twice the height of the 'little one' that we were on in Myrtle Beach - also piqued my interest as to others that may even be taller? Well, I was unaware of one being built on Staten Island w/ a grand view of New York Harbor - projected spring 2018 opening - height will be 630 ft! Susan & I may have to revisit the Big Apple and take the ferry out to Staten Island - cheap but great boat ride & then a BIG WHEEL! Dave
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[giradman]

Sibelius Monument
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Beautiful monument - I have nearly 20 CDs in my collection of Sibelius music (mostly Symphonies & Tone Poems; some Chamber & Solo Piano) - although the monument looks like the pipes of an organ, he wrote just a handful of pieces for that instrument (list of compositions HERE) - some interesting discussion of the monument and its conception in this Wiki Article, for those interested. Dave

 

[J. A.]

Helsinki Cathedral and it's organ