– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – St. Mary’s City Ordinary In 1634, 140 colonists led by Leonard Calvert sailed across the Atlantic on two ships and started a colony on the edge of the New World. The village they called St. Mary’s City became fourth permanent settlement in British North America and the first capital of Maryland. Historic St....
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Common Bee Balm (Monarda didyma) Common Bee Balm (Monarda didyma) or Oswega Tea, as it is also known, is a member of the Lamiaceae or Mint family. It is a perennial that grows from 2- to 5-feet tall. The leaves are thin, ovate to lance shaped, from 3- to 6-inches in length. The flower heads grow at the end of...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Drum Point Lighthouse The American taxpayers have known few such bargains as the hexagonal, cottage-type Drum Point Lighthouse, which cost only $5,000 to build. It is a white hexagonal cottage of 1½ stories sheathed in clapboard siding and covered with a seamed metal roof painted sienna red. The main...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Star Ferry Hong Kong Last week we visited the Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower on the southern shore of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. The only way to get from Hong Kong to Kowloon is via the Star Ferry. The Star Ferry Company began in 1898 when businessman Sir Catchick Paul Chater bought all the boats from...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Everlasting Pea (Lathyrus latifolius) The wildflower Everlasting Pea (Lathyrus latifolius) is a member of the Fabaceae or Bean family. It is closely related to, although not as showy and perfumed as, the better known domestic Sweet Pea (Lathyrus odoratus). The resemblance is that close that in some parts of...
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Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower The Clock Tower is located on the southern shore of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. It is the only remnant of the original site of the former Kowloon Station on the Kowloon-Canton Railway. Officially named Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower, it is usually referred to as the Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower because of its location. The...
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