HAGAKI: Postcards: May 2008

Saturday, May 24, 2008

A cable car passes above the crookedest street. Red brick and colorful flowers highlight this beautiful landmark in San Francisco.

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View of Harborplace and the downtown skyline of the nation's seventh largest city. Completed in July, 1980, Harborplace's two pavilions house a wide variety of retail and food businesses, overlooking the revitalized Inner Harbor area. The 40-story U.S.F. & G. Building (left) and the I.B.M. Building (center) provide modernistic backdrops. Also visible are the clipper ship replica "Pride of Baltimore" moored beside the pavilion on the right and the yacht "Maryland Lady."

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Annapolis Harbor

Two hundred years ago, sailors from every colony gathered in Annapolis, trading tales of the sea. Today, one can still watch a multitude of sailboats slip into the historic harbor. Annapolis is Maryland's state capital, an American sailing capital, and home of the U.S. Naval Academy.

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Canada Geese in Maryland

These Canada Geese, photographed off the southeastern shore of Kent Narrows on Maryland's Eastern Shore, are migrating from Canada to North Carolina. Wildlife flock to this area, rich in what ecologists call "edge habitats," the seams where land and water, marsh and field, woods and clearing knit together.

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Beautiful Sunset

BEAUTIFUL SUNSET

on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland

Sailing yachts docked and anchored on one of the numberless creeks and rivers that flow into both sides of the Chesapeake, one of world's greatest boating and fishing regions.

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The "Maryland Dove"

A replica of Lord Baltimore's pinnace "Dove" which accompanied the "Ark" on the first colonization voyage to Maryland in 1634. The "Maryland Dove" is a permanent exhibit at Old St. Mary's City, site of Maryland's first capital, and now a living history museum.

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The National Aquarium in Baltimore

Baltimore, Maryland

Located on Pier 3, Pratt Street, in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, the Aquarium, opened August 8, 1981, houses over 5,000 specimens of aquatic life in over 1,000,000 gallons of salt and fresh water. The soaring 64-foot glass pyramid atop the building contains a tropical fish forest with birds and small animals.

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Washington Monument and Mt. Vernon Place

Baltimore, Maryland

The first Washington Monument to be begun and the first of importance to be completed. Walters Art Gallery is in the left foreground, and the Mt. Vernon Places Church and Peabody Institude to the right of the Monument are other important landmarks visible.

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USF Constellation and the National Aquarium in Baltimore

Baltimore, Maryland

Launched in Baltimore September 7, 1791, the historic frigate Constellation, oldest and most illustrious ship of the U.S. Navy, is now the centerpiece of the Baltimore Inner Harbor complex. The Aquarium houses over 5,000 specimens of aquatic life in over 1,000,000 gallons of salt and fresh water. The soaring 64-foot glass pyramid atop the building contains a tropical rain forest with birds and small animals.

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