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My guess is those are fabric signs attached to lamp posts and are usually used to advertise a festival or event, sometimes a business or district. Occasionally they are put there purely for decoration, usually with an artistic design of some sort applied.

 

Steve, I should have done this earlier. As an artist, I have enjoyed your pictures and I wondered if you took them in your travels. They are beautiful and I might try some oil sketches soon. Keep them coming because I'm certain that I'm not the only one who appreciates them. Wales is a gorgeous place as is the rest of the U.K. Thanks much, Mate.
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but otherwise, what he said.

 

A few shots from the trip the Ferrari Club took to Cannon Beach on 5-6-06.
Here's one for ya Sparky,

The "Devil Car" was up to it's old tricks on the way down. Since Dan's purchase it has had this uncanny habit of not starting at the worst times, like when it's time to get off of a ferry boat or when it's blocking a construction zone.

It was true to form on Friday. A mysteriously disconnected negative battery cable this time......Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Thats the real plate number sans the last three digits.
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A lovely place to visit. Cannon Beach, Oregon.
Haystack Rock
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This beach house probably goes for 800k to 1 mil. only because of severe restrictions in building and density.
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Forgot to mention, Haystack Rock is 235 feet high.

 

How'd ya get "ATLANTIS"
(what you erroneously call "Haystack rock", but we all know better....!) ,
to rise up out of the sea like that??? HUH??

top pic nuttin...there
next pic later, still nuttin
3 rd pic later yet, VOILA! Atlantis!

You a wizard?? ...........or sumptin??

 

That's what makes it so popular. Never know where it's going to show up.........

 

Landing Parralell runways
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Uh Oh!
Did those pilots make an agreement before this flight,
as the FAR requires for formation flight??

 

Anyone ever been to the Netherland Antilles?

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1-this is actually the moon at sunrise, from the deck in the back of my house
2-sunset at a lake in Raleigh
3-the Kissing Camels rock at Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs
4-Helen Hunt Falls in Colorado Springs
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I have seen photos of that approach taken from the beach looking across the road towards the end of the runway. There is a road between the beach and the runway with a chainlink fence between the road and the airport property.

I have read this account from numerous sources, as the story goes, a certain person would stand at the chainlink fence while a 747 was spooling up for takeoff , brakes still locked, at the moment when the engines were up to take off power and right before releasing the brakes this gentleman would throw his dog up in the air and it would be blown across the road and beach to land in the water. The dog would swim back to the beach and run back to the owner wagging his ass off at the fun of this "flying game" they were playing.

It reminds me of a picture I have of my old Labrador jumping off the roof of a boat house after a tennis ball. It was a 12 foot jump and he flew like a squirrel each time. A truely amazing dog.

If I have time I'll do a search on www.snopes.com to see if it really is true.

 

This was video was posted on F-chat and it almost exactly matches what you describe. The Airbus widebody is kicking up a lot of sand (and people) while the turbines spool up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NemEIFQgMVo&mode=related&search=