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[fontoponto]

Just a pic from my city, from the actual street I live in, about 81,5 years ago, when World War II ended and Eindhoven region was liberated by the US 101st Airborne Division and the Second British Army. With what's going on these days in the world, I wanted to show what actual liberation looks like.

Coming from a country of the wrong side of history, my home town was not liberated but annihilated by 98%. I think it's nice to see larger cities that still have their old buildings standing strong.
Obviously mankind will never learn from their mistakes.
Sorry for OT...

 

[PapaBear]

Man, as a dude with 6 herniations and a nearly non-existent L5-S1, I'm so happy for you!
Take your time with the recovery. Feeling better is great but give it all the healing time it needs. I learned that the hard way with my second rotator cuff surgery.
Pace the PT when you get to it but don't slack. Hope many better days are ahead for ya.

Yeah I lost my L5-S1 back in 2012 had a microdiscectomy done after I fractured the disc in a fall.

 

[tegendemuur]

Coming from a country of the wrong side of history, my home town was not liberated but annihilated by 98%. I think it's nice to see larger cities that still have their old buildings standing strong.
Obviously mankind will never learn from their mistakes.
Sorry for OT...

Well, Nazis are Nazis, so a few days later it looked like this...



But that was beside the point I tried to make.

What is your home town? I'll never let a chance to learn something pass. Especially history. It helps in making sense of today's troubles. Not that there's a solution towards peace to be found; just peace of mind. Humans as a whole will never move foward. People are cool though.

It's how you end up with statues like this one... "This statue is a tribute to him and all who do good in evil times.”

"In the autumn of 1944, as World War II raged across Europe, a moment of extraordinary humanity occurred in the Dutch village of Goirle. On 6 October 1944, just three days after his eighteenth birthday, Karl-Heinz Rosch saved two Dutch kids from certain death. Yet, this act of courage would remain largely unknown for more than sixty years because Rosch was a German soldier in the Wehrmacht—an enemy in an occupied land."

The Heroic Deed That Earned Karl-Heinz Rosch a Statue

www.amusingplanet.com

 

[tegendemuur]

Looking around for four tree species for cuttings, for penjing / bonsai, and found my Little Louisiana (bald cypress).

I grew up here, and a whole lot of misbehaving during my teens took place here. These were here way long before me, and just now I really noticed them.

Frank Relle's Photos Revel in Louisiana's Otherworldly Swampland

The New Orleans-based photographer captures the swamps of Louisiana, watched over by bald cypress trees draped in swathes of Spanish moss.

www.thisiscolossal.com

Yeah, if I ever visit the US, it will be Louisiana. The movie Angel Heart was the initial cause of this. Then came the cajun food. And blues. And the swamps.

 

[jimilee]

Very nice. Looks like a nice place to do good and bad things.

 

[PapaBear]

Man, as a dude with 6 herniations and a nearly non-existent L5-S1, I'm so happy for you!
Take your time with the recovery. Feeling better is great but give it all the healing time it needs. I learned that the hard way with my second rotator cuff surgery.
Pace the PT when you get to it but don't slack. Hope many better days are ahead for ya.

I've been trying my best to behave especially since the PT at the hospital told my son she could see right off I was going to be an overdoer, I think that has helped me some, but I've paid the price a few times.

 

[jwin615]

I've been trying my best to behave especially since the PT at the hospital told my son she could see right off I was going to be an overdoer, I think that has helped me some, but I've paid the price a few times.

All ya got is time papabear.

And sorry bout the white washers.

 

[jessenator]

This is from two years ago. No idea how it ended up this close to present day in my photos app…

That was a terrible time, but this trip with family was about the only silver lining. Tubing in April… definitely couldn't happen this year with our abysmal snow pack

 

[PapaBear]

All ya got is time papabear.
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And sorry bout the white washers.

No worry about the white washers what I had to recover was only a small fraction relative to the full content