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Still more remains of Rome's presence from the Atlantic to Persia and Scotland to North Africa.

Pictures of fires, building fires, forest fires, brush fires...

In the middle of October Metro Detroit's third large fire in 5 months broke out in a former factory/warehouse a few miles west of downtown Detroit. The fire was so intense it could be seen as far as Jackson, Michigan, 70 miles west and Cedar Point, Ohio, 50 or 60 miles east.

In late June one of automotive histories oldest factories went up in flames. What had been the Studebaker factory and eventually a warehouse and meat market burned completely to the ground in what some call the "Cradle of the Automobile", where some of the first great auto factories were built.

The straits at the heart of the Great Lakes on which is located the cities of Detroit, Michigan and Windsor Ontario. Today a trip along it ranges from wild meadows and swamps to skyscrapers and neighborhoods and to some of the largest industrial complexes ever built.

This theme is just a grouping of the photos I have taken that I seem to like the most grouped in no specific order.

Although there are many "great" lakes in the world this theme is intended represent photos of, or associated with, the 5 Great Lakes at the heart of North America: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario. Together they create an inland sea of nearly a quarter million square kilometers. They can be calm one hour and ferocious, whipped by hurricane force storms the next, always creating a different environment.

The Field of Miracles is the literal translation for one of the finest complex of buildings in the world. Many people go to Pisa thinking they will see only a leaning tower but they find much more. A magnificent church, an acoustically perfect baptistery, a beautiful cemetery and a tower on the side.

Now that all four buildings are represented on TE I thought it would be nice to have a collection of views of this beautiful complex.