3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

Noah's Ark upside down. I think someone made a similar comment about another building on this site somewhere, but it absolutely puts me in mind of a large wooden boat.

Absolutely phenomenal - I agree! The architecture is stunning but the angle of the shot pulls you up and up and up.

Une belle ange!

I can almost feel the texture . . . . Very nice!

This is another thing I always am blown away by - the amount of hand-eye coordination it would take to carve not just one but hundreds or thousands of intricate details in marble or stone. If you have a large slab you are using for a single piece all it would take would be one little bump at the very end to ruin the piece. I can't even imagine that sort of patience.

Oh Jeebers, I like this even better than the previous cherub pic! This reminds me of Jean Cocteau's La Belle et La Bete!

Jeebers, I feel small! How high up do these rooms go? I love imagining the people constructing these all those years ago with just scaffolding, "crude tools", and manual labor. That must have been a real bitch, but the product was so magnificent.

You caught it perfectly! The lighting is incredible and I love the angle you used - makes it very mysterious.

Such exquisite work - thank you for the fine detail!

This is just sad to think of all this beauty lost.

Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper!

Man, I hate those new water towers. One day about 10 years ago at one of the places I worked a painter fell off one just like this and was killed. It was horrible. Wasn't wearing his safety equipment. The nurse on our unit was the one who arrived first and he had fallen from the top of the tower all the way down onto the parking lot. She was past shook up when she returned, as you can imagine. It was especially sad because the facility was in the last steps of closing and within two years everyone had moved out and now the place sits abandoned.

It has a nicely painted water tower, though. :-(.

Poseys - the best restraints out there! We still use them - almost exclusively for stabilizing limbs after injuries but infrequently on people who are severely self-abusive (beat their heads until they are bloody, try to pull their eyes out, things like that). If someone has just had an operation and tries to pull out all the equipment and such that keeps them alive (IV lines, catheters, feeding tubes, oxygen, etc.) we go through the necessary hoops for short-term posey restraints. Lots of paperwork, consents, human rights committees, monitoring, hourly documenting, etc., but they buy time for the person to mend. Otherwise the equipment is pulled off/out as soon as the person wakes up and then they have a significantly increased chance of death or permanent injury.

Those Mental Measurements Yearbooks by Buros are what we psychologists use to check the statistical properties of the tests we use - reliability, validity, sample size, power, etc. Very handy if you ever have to go to court. :-)

Stunning lighting on the lower landing - makes you want to see what's down there!

No one appreciates wire mesh over an old radiator until they've been pushed into or fallen onto one. ;-)