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Thursday, 9 January 2020: temperature is -15C (windchill -24C), We are in for a dangerous deep freeze this weekend and next week, down as low as -27C in the daytime (windchill -37C). Sunrise at 8:37 am and sunset at 4:50 pm today.

It's back to posting photos taken on 29 December 2019, during the annual Audubon Cochrane Wildlife Reserve Christmas Bird Count. The bright red of this old barn is more than welcome in this winter weather. Thank goodness it wasn't bitterly cold for the Christmas Counts.

The area that my small group of four people, in one car, covered was N of Cochrane and E of Highway 22, very roughly across from the Water Valley area. Though the word 'Reserve' is in the name, this count area was like most others, driving all the country backroads and calling in at several farms/ranches.

One of my absolute favourite things to photograph on this annual Count are the Llamas at one of the farms. This farmer had about eight of these large, amusing animals, and they are always one of the highlights of this Count for me. However, when we called in this time, we were told that some had died and only three were left. Only one of them was in a place where I could get a photo - the other two were busy feeding with the cows. Most of the animals were given to the farmer by other farmers who no longer wanted them. I think the first time I photographed the Llamas at this farm was on 30 December 2007.

Another of my favourite farms to stop at belongs to a young, hard-working family. They have an Anatolian Shepherd which is an amazing dog with the owner's young children. These enthusiastic landowners work so hard in the area of native plants, growing various species in their greenhouses. Last year, Steven Tannas was excited to show us some of his new additions, too - pigs and sheep. I love pigs, but was totally unprepared to see pigs that were covered in curly hair! These pigs are called Mangalitsa pigs (also called Mangalica or Mangalitza) - some are Swallow-bellied Mangalica (black and blonde) and others are Red Mangalica (reddish-brown). They are fed left-over, expired grocery store vegetables, so they eat extremely well. There were a number of piglets, too, but old enough to have lost their stripes. Unfortunately, the family was not home when we stopped by this year.

Steven runs Tannas Conservation Services Ltd.. One of their projects is the rough fescue (native grass) restoration project, which has been very successful over the past 7+ years. Check the links below to discover all the other things that Steven's work involves:

www.tannasenvironmental.com/about-us/our-history.html

www.tannasenvironmental.com/

www.nativeplantproducer-esrs.com/About-Us.htm

A nearby farm, which is also included in our area, has two beautiful old, red barns and I was longing to see these again. I always hope that someone will be home, so that I can ask permission to get out of the car and take a few photos. We were in luck this time and the owners were happy enough to let me photograph their two barns. I think one was built in the 1930s and the other in the 1940s. The oldest one was a hog barn and the larger, closer one was a dairy barn. Have to remember that this IS a bird count, not a barn count, so I feel very lucky to get any photos of any barns : )

The weather was beautiful, with the temperature between -1C and 3C, and no wind. There was quite a bit of snow on the ground.

A huge thank-you to the various landowners who were kind enough to allow us to wander round their farmyards. These visits make our day so much more interesting and rewarding! So many delightful people. One of our stops is especially welcoming each year - with coffee and cookies ready waiting, not to mention the use of a washroom, which is always greatly appreciated,

Thank you, Jim, for being willing to drive the four of us all day. Without drivers, these counts just would not be able to take place, so it is appreciated so much. Glad your car only ended half way in a ditch on this count, unlike the experience we had on the High River Count on 17 December : )

Wins a BEST OF BEIGE-WITH-DARK-RED-TRIM architecture award and a BEST OF 20TH CENTURY BLURRINESS award.

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In Lorain, Ohio, on July 8th, 2018, on the east side of Broadway (Ohio State Route 57) between West 16th Street and Elyria Avenue.

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A back view of an older building on the Boardwalk, Atlantic City New Jersey in the early evening.

Ah the charm of painted brickwork.

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In downtown Lima, Ohio, on January 1st, 2017, on the east side of North Elizabeth Street (Ohio Route 65), south of West High Street.

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Row of windows on a nold building in Port Orchard, WA. Photographed with a Kodak Brownie Starmite using ReraPan 100 127 Roll Film. The film was developed in Beerenol (Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer).

this I consider my lucky find... better on black, press L :)

BSSR-House, Huib van Wijk, architect.

A manifesto of contemporary architecture. The villa is representative of modern architecture and is an example of the International style. The long horizontal windows, providing illumination and ventilation. BSSR House uses timber horizontal ribbon windows. The set-back position of the glass in the timber frame allowed the façade to be seen as a series of parallel planes.

All of the solid wood in this 450 square-foot home is either 'Forest Stewardship Council-certified' or 'reclaimed', which includes window- and doorframes, cabinets, bookshelves and sliding(doors).

Original title of work: MINIMUM TO THE M@X
Location: Park Hoogveld, Parkstad Heerlen, Zuid-Limburg, the Netherlands
Design period: 2008 - 2009
Construction period: 2009 - 2010
Architect: Huib van Wijk, Hoensbroek
Client: BSSR family, Parkstad Heerlen
Construction: Louis Cordewener, Landgraaf
Contractor: Veltstra's Bouwbedrijf, Vaesrade
Site area: 1000 mq
Total floor area: 450 mq

www.flickr.com/photos/55176801@N02/sets/72157625373026635/

Villa Savoye/Villa les Heures Claires, 1931. Le Corbusier, architect.

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was born at La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Swiss Jura, in 1887; he died in France, at Cap Martin, on the French Côte d’Azur, in 1965.
Early in his career his work met with some resistance owing to its alleged «revolutionary» nature and the radical look it acquired from its «purist» experiments; in time , however, it won the recognition it deserved and it is still widely admired. His message is still being assimilated by an ever increasing number of people in the profession, but his far-out avant-garde attitudes should be interpreted with due consideration for the use of rational systems in his planning method, evidenced by extremely simple modules and formes based on the functional logic.
«Functionalism tending not so much to an exaltation of the mechanical function at the expense of the symbolic, as to the rejection of symbol that he now considers outmoded and insignificant and the restoration of the pratical function as a symbol of new values»(¹)
In his activities as town-planner, architect and designer, his method of research continued to develop, at times going to the opposite extremes of a rich plastic idiom.
Instances of this are:
Unité d’Habitation, Marseille (1946-52);
the Chapel at Ronchamp (1950-55);
the Dominican Monastery «La Tourette» (1951-56);
the Centre of Zurich (1964-65)
the Hospital in Venice (1965).
Much the same commitment will be found in the furniture of the Equipement intérieur de l’habitation (tables, chairs, armchairs, sofas) designed for the Salon d’Automne, 1928, with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand and “Casiers Standard”, system of container units designed for the Pavillon of the Esprit Nouveau, 1925, with Pierre Jeanneret.
Cassina reproposes this furniture considered “up-to-date”; its clear and essential “form” is highly adaptable to change in time and in environment, constantly providing new significance.
(¹) G.C.Argan, Arte Figurativa in the Enciclopedia Universale dell’arte, vol. 1, col. 760

This is the exterior of the Foy building. It has a light color on the outside which helps with the heat gain. Also has windows around the top which provides natural light so artificial light is not needed. The building also has larges trees around it to help with shading.

Richland County, WI.

Yamhill Co., Oregon

Windows of a Boeing 737

Deplaning from our M80 flight from Dallas to Burbank