First: Disregard the "PRO" label - all it means is that I once paid for space to upload my snaps.

I practice playing music on a few instruments to varying degrees of competency and musicality. I sing in a church choir.

I also Blip

When in England I dust off my change ringing skills. I've been exploring Flickr and found a few photos of places I know but haven't snapped . . . and steam railway engines! When I was very little I would sit with a one-armed level-crossing keeper, Mr Raynor, to listen for the bells and watch the semaphore signals that gave the road to one of the new Britannias thundering up the slight incline between Witham and Kelvedon heading a passenger express bound for Norwich.

I live somewhere in Arizona, USA.

Wallow Wildfire 29 May 2011: See the firefighters' POV here: www.flickr.com/photos/apachesitgreavesnf

A note on location maps: I've pinned the photo at the approximate point from which the photo was taken; not the location of the subject.

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