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Gold Coast Glamour

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A part of a 160 acre property, this enchanting garden is a part of the former estate belonging to John Shaffer Phipps an heir to a US Steel fortune, now better known as Old Westbury Gardens. Together with Westbury House, a Charles II style mansion, it was completed in 1906 and now open to the public and is located in Old Westbury in Nassau County on Long Island, New York.
The property has been used as a film location for many movies including Love Story way back in 1970 and more recently The Manchurian Candidate and American Gangster.
I picked this photo for the blog today also to wish the lady by the fountain, my beautiful and ever tolerant wife Julie, a very happy birthday!

Hotel Del Coronado

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Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego, CA

Hotel Del Coronado San Diego, CA

Just wandering around the Hotel Del in 99 degree weather. Everyone but me seemed to be out on the beach or in the water. Everyone save for the employees setting up for a wedding.

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Fog blankets Golden Gate BridgeGolden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, October 2014, 6:18PM

Shot from the Municipal Pier at Aquatic Park with its sweeping views of Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Temple Of The Tooth

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Temple of the Tooth, Kandy – Sri Lanka

The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic or Sri Dalada Maligawa in my mother tongue Sinhalese, is a sacred Buddhist Shrine situated in the city of Kandy in Sri Lanka, a World Heritage Site.
The octagonal building, the main focus here and the surrounding structures have history dating back to the early 1500’s and as much as it has been a site of religious worship it was also home to the last Kings of Sri Lanka before the British finally managed to do what the Portuguese and the Dutch failed to do by overthrowing the Kingdom of Kandy and ruling the entire Island by 1817.
(For those of you who read this far I’d also state a minor fact that Kandy was also the city of my birth so it holds a special place in my heart.)