Overview
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Yates Mill near Raleigh, NC |
For infromation on our water tower, see, sorry only in German.
Taken at 3:30 PM, the sun set around 2 hours later. Note the really long shadows. | The sun had set about three quarers of an hour before, but the sky was still bright, and I had waited for the streetlights ot go on. Yellow on yellow. Sometimes I have the feeling hat one cannot see so well with this yellow light, but I cannot see well by any light. |
Gone but not forgotten: Tom with drill, on his way to visit Sam,
by Asuka Nakayama 中山明日香
I have over the past two or three years taken a lot of photos in the garden. This mostly of details for flowers, and sometimes of spiders, sometimes just a overview of the garden itself. Our garden is rather sprawling and a bit difficult to keep under control. I have given some thought as to how to organize this. For want of a better structure, I will set it up organized by flower types. That is a group for peonies, iris, day lilies etc.
Peonies were along with mums, my mother's favorite flowers. The flower in the anchor is a Botan, the first one which flowered in my garden, 2001. However the next year it showed signs of being weak, had one flower, but from the roots, Peonie lactoflora leaves sprouted and now we have a a normal unfilled white peony. |
Iris are also a favorite of mine. |
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Thistles and other interesting things. | At some point I thought it would be a good idea to collect some different day lilies. These are not fast growing, but otherwise easy to deal with. My problem now is that I see that I must sort one big bundle of these thing into component parts. |
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Other things in the garden |
The sunflowers! | ||
The fish, mostly kois | Wandering in our neighborhood | ||
Unsere Solaranlage | Garden in 2008, just a bit to see |
I retired and we had serious renovation of the house facade as well as adding a new garage. You may see this here..
I was ill for most of September, 2005 and this gave me a bit of time (but not unfortunately energy) to start to write this up. It has taken much longer than I had expected. I have edited the photos to the extent that when information was written on the back side, I have merged them together so one can see the photo and at the same time read the message. This is time consuming, but thank you to GIMP that I have a tool to do it!
I do not know when, but Dad somehow started a sort of project to paint portraits of various American Indian Chiefs. Only Chiefs as far as I could tell. I showed him photo I had taken in Brookgreen Gardens of a bronze bust of a Tewa indian, but this kindled no interest. Here is a set of photos of those painting to which I have access. Have a look.
Most of the paintings have notes of some sort on the back. I have tried to present these in a form which is readable, but I fear that a few of them must be download and blown up a bit.
In our house on 5 th and Prairie there was a large spacious stairway to the second floor, and here Dad started to paint a mural.This is sadly the only photo I have.
I have a few other paintings, and one belongs to my brother-in-law, Eerie Specter, sort of a James Bond name. I actually have no idea how many other such miscellaneous paintings, but I can recall a few, but have no photos of them. Have a look at them.
Here are two versions of the Louton family tree. Note that there are differences. I have now way of knowing exactly what is what. Also the reference to Ms. Henderson's web is no longer valid.
I found this at the Mahon web site, www.loutontree.com. Some points are not accurate. I have marked them in it. But there is a lot of information at the end, much of which I had not known, but on the other hand, how does one know that it is true? I would love to see photo copies of documents.
Here family tree for the Emorys, but here I am using a bit of inference. I cannot for example be sure these folks really lived in Arkansas. I think that this is (fairly) correct however.See also the note from Ms. Ochs with respect to the Emory heritiage.
Here the family tree for the Achuffs and Cregars.
as well as some hand drawn family trees and some photos from about 1895 to 1920 or so.
I came across this just by chance then end of 2012. Harden Family tree, sort of pruned. I have been unable to contact Judy Harden
Photos from before 1920 or so, mostly from the Louton (Achuff) side.
Photos from my mother's side of the family, sadly very few.
Miscelanous Photos to 1940 or so The country club, My father riding, a few from Deland, Stetson University, etc. Plus Willy Wilson.
Letters relating to family history, from my father and grandfather.
letters
I can recall well, in Boyton as Dad related this trip. It was quite vivid and since he loved to tell stories and I think was very good at it, it was really fun to listen. There was even more detail in the tails than in this piece. Have a look at it.
Dad wrote a history of Tuff Kote I guess about 1989.
I have found several documents which give some information on where and when Annanias Luton lived, and his kids, ext. See Perry County
Wabash County,IL and note that my father wrote that Dr. James Emory was born in Mt. Carmel (IL?) Compare this to note by Ms. Edith Ochs above. The two bothers seemed to have existed, but I can find no trace of a James Manley.
While I was in Tübingen in 1968/69 I somehow got the idea that it was a good thing to learn a bit about photography. So I bought a camera. Actually, a friend, Bruce by name, told me I could get a good deal from a company in Berlin, Photo Klinke, which was still here a few years ago. So Bruce organized this, I gave him the money and bought a Rollei Twin Lens. Bruce promptly used it and shot several roles of film before telling me it had arrived. I began to learn how to use it and to take pictures in Raleigh. There I bought a cheap enlarger, and discovered that one drug store handled inexpensive paper and chemicals. I set up a dark room in my basement. Three years long I took pictures and developed and printed. Then about spring of 1973 I began to really work on my dissertation and neglected my dark room. I needed to renew my passport in spring of 1974 and I discovered that I was not really able to judge exposures and such. When we moved to Lübeck Mary set up a dark room, but I did not do any dark room work. Only later in Kreuzberg 1987 or so, did I start again. This had the unfortunate light switch on the outside. Fabian and Helen found it immensely funny to turn on the light while I was working in the cramped dark room. More than once, I stepped into a tray with developer or fixer. This room was six meters long and one and a half meters wide!
Black and white photos somehow do not have the same "look" on a screen which they have on the proper grade paper developed with an appropriate developer. Nevertheless, they do look interesting and one pays attention to things one does not see in a color photo. I miss the dark room, and soon will have it up and running again. Note this was written in 2005 or so I guess, and I had set it up, then made a picture or so, then forgot it, etc. I doubt that I will ever use it again, but maybe .... tkl 2012
Fort Macon near Morehead City, NC -- Photo ca. 1989. I used a 35 mm lens -- for my camera this is indeed a wide angle lens. |
Akashi fish market, about 1998. They look almost like flags waving in the wind. |
During the hanami in Shukugawa where I lived in Japan, the two kids were obviously divided over who is to be first in the battle to get the ice. |
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Seerose / Waterlily 2002. As lovely as this plant was, in the end, I ripped it out of the pond, as it was about to completly fill the pond. |
Dragon in Suma 2000. Suma is a town west of Kobe, and the location of Sumadera, the temple famous for being mentioned in the Genjimonogatari. |
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Gorlitzer Bahnhof, Kreuzberg SO 36, Sept.1989. These were put up by some "independent" artists. After a period of patient waiting the Stadträtin für Bauwesen" had Käferman and Silbervolgel torn down. Also see this article. I have no idea how stable they were and such questions of safety were not topmost in my interest. These things were inherently funny. |
The last independent gas station in Berlin SO 36, Sept. 1989. This was a splendid day, Sunday and I took several lovely photos on this day. The mild weather continued until mid November -- I might add thank God, as the conditions after the wall came down as we say, were coupled with long waits in line for the poor folks from the East. |
Blue on blue in blue A very strange building in South France. I could not see that it was really used. It was in the middle of a big field. |
Kreuzspinne, Kattinger Watt, 1990. This is our most common, or at lest present spider. I somehow seem to like them and photograph them a lot. But what to do with hundreds of pictures of a spider? |
Münster Bad Doberan |