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Seems there was this crazy movie I bet only 10 people in the world watched...
Plot: Three space women land on Earth in search of sexual energy to fuel their spaceship and get back home. They befriend a lonely farmboy who helps them on their plight, all while evading their mortal enemies, the Scrotes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg
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Aramus guarauna has no close relatives in the animal kingdom. It appears to be related to the Cranes and the Rails, but a part of neither family.
The limpkin is a long-legged species of waterbird that has dark brown feathers with streaks of white on the head and neck and absent on the rest of the body. Limpkins can grow up to 28 inches (71.1 centimeters) long, with a 42 inch (106.7 centimeters) wingspan, and weigh up to 46 ounces (1,304 grams) (The Cornell Lab of Ornithology 2011). White blotches and triangular marks can be found on the neck and upper body. The key physical feature of the limpkin is their down-curved bill, which is used to feed on their primary prey, apple snails, but they will also eat insects, worms, and mussels. Limpkins are also known for their resounding calls, which are characterized as a high pitched “Kree-ow, Kra-ow” sound.
The limpkin inhabits shallows along rivers, streams, lakes, and in marshes, swamps and sloughs in Florida. In the U.S., the Limpkin is found only in Florida and southeastern Georgia. Limpkins are fairly widespread in peninsular Florida, but rarer in the Panhandle and Keys. Outside of the U.S., they are found in the Caribbean, Central America, and most of South America east of the Andes Mountains.
I found this one in Osceola County, Florida.
The limpkin, also called carrao, courlan, and crying bird, is a bird that looks like a large rail, but is skeletally closer to cranes.
The limpkin is a long-legged species of waterbird that has dark brown feathers with streaks of white on the head and neck and absent on the rest of the body. Limpkins can grow up to 28 inches (71.1 centimeters) long, with a 42 inch (106.7 centimeters) wingspan, and weigh up to 46 ounces (1,304 grams). White blotches and triangular marks can be found on the neck and upper body. The key physical feature of the limpkin is their down-curved bill, which is used to feed on their primary prey, apple snails. Limpkins are also known for their resounding calls, which are characterized as a high pitched “Kree-ow, Kra-ow” sound.
Limpkins feed primarily on apple snails, but they will also eat insects, worms, and mussels.Limpkins will walk in shallow waters searching for apple snails and utilize their down-curved bills to get the snail out of its shell.
I founed this one in Lake Kissimmee at Joe Overstreet Landing. Osceola County, Florida.
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Successful short night with Messier 106 and some other around
Messier 106 (also known as NGC 4258) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth. M106 contains an active nucleus classified as a Type 2 Seyfert, and the presence of a central supermassive black hole has been demonstrated from radio-wavelength observations of the rotation of a disk of molecular gas orbiting within the inner light-year around the black hole.[8] NGC 4217 is a possible companion galaxy of Messier 106.[7](Wikipedia)
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This is Leatherhead Town Bridge at the bottom of Bridge Street and is part of the Leatherhead Heritage Trail . Just off shot to the left is the Running Horse pub , a very old pub indeed --
The story of The Running Horse dates back to 1403, when the pub was built on land belonging to the church.
Known once as Rummyings House, it served 'noppy ale' by the infamous Elynour Rummyng, who featured in a poem 'The Tunnying of Elynour Rummying' by John Skelton, Henry VIII's Poet Laureate. Verses are still displayed on the pub’s walls.
Legend has it that Elizabeth I once spent a night at The Running Horse when floods made it impossible to cross the River Mole.
For more historic information on The Running Horse, take a look at the pub's Wikipedia page .
Some info taken from Historic England's webpage on the details of the bridge -----
LEATHERHEAD BRIDGE STREET TQ 1656 SW 11/106 7.9.51 Leatherhead Bridge GV II
Public road bridge over River Mole. Probably later medieval, rebuilt and enlarged in 1782-3 by George Gwilt (the county surveyor), and dated 1784 on south side. Red brick in Flemish bond, with some dressings of Portland stone. It is a long low structure of 14 segmental arches on low piers with triangular cutwaters which have semi-pyramidal tops of dressed stone, a roundel in each spandrel, a moulded stone band, and a high brick parapet to the south side with flat stone coping secured by wrought-iron cramps, incorporating 4 semicircular refuges; and in the centre of the outer side a stone plaque lettered "BUILT 1784". Lighting now replaced with reproduction windsor lighting. Parapets rebuilt in 1988.
Listing NGR: TQ1631356299
At 12:56 Amtrak Train 684 departs from the Portland Transportation Center right on time behind an NPCU "Cabbage" rebuilt from an F40PH. In just a couple hours they'll be pulling into North Station in Boston.
Locomotives: AMTK 90220, AMTK 106
7-9-06
Portland, ME
With two Le Mans wins, dozens of grand prix victories, five Targa Florios, a Manufacturers’ Championship, and the build of some of the pre-war period’s most celebrated sports and luxury automobiles to its credit, it is no wonder that the Bugatti marque is regularly honored at world-class concours d’elegance and museums. The Molsheim, France-based brand is so esteemed that a commemoration of its 100th anniversary was never in doubt. So when the occasion arrived in 2009, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance duly pronounced Bugatti’s centenary as one of the event’s guiding themes.
This opportunity was not lost on Bugatti Automobiles SaS, the modern successor to Ettore Bugatti’s original Alsatian concern. The company’s signature product, the 1,001-horsepower Veyron 16.4, had spent years in careful development by the VW Group’s specialized engineers, and was received with justifiable acclaim by journalists and enthusiasts alike upon its 2005 introduction, redefining the benchmark for the modern hypercar in the process.
The Veyron was capable of accelerating from 0 to 62 mph in just 2.46 seconds, en route to a top speed just over 408 km/h (nearly 254 mph). Built around a magnificent mid-mounted, quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W-16 engine with four valves per cylinder and a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, it astonished the world with its surefootedness even at the most extreme speeds, enabled by a full-time Haldex all-wheel-drive system. The stopping power was stunning, as the Veyron was anchored by massive carbon-ceramic disc brakes with 15.7-inch discs and eight-piston, four-pad calipers up front, while 15-inch discs with six-piston, two-pad calipers were mounted at the rear. The alloy wheels, respectively 20 and 21 inches at the front and rear, were shod with special Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 PAX run-flat tires engineered specifically for the Veyron.
Three different drive modes governed the dizzying array of technology: a Normal mode, at which the ride height was 4.9 inches; a Handling mode that deployed the rear spoiler and lowered ride height to 3.15 inches; and a special, key-activated High-Speed mode that dropped ride height to 2.56 inches in front and 2.75 at the rear, while changing the spoiler position. Even the car’s ancillary systems, including no fewer than 10 radiators, were marvels of automotive engineering conceived to perform under the most demanding circumstances.
All of this was encased within an intricately hand-crafted structure, actually shorter in overall length than a modern Porsche 911, though riding on a longer 106.7-inch wheelbase, while being noticeably lower and wider than the benchmark German sports car of the day. It was instantly and definitively recognizable as the pinnacle product that it aspired to be—the modern Bugatti, a sporting speed machine that looked and performed like absolutely nothing else on the road.
I miss fall already can't we please have more?! But I sure made the most of those few fleeting weeks this year so as I fill out my albums here's just one more simple keeper from this spot on a nice easy short morning chase with a couple good friends.
New England Central Railroad train 611 (Brattleboro to Palmer turn that forwards the connecting 323/324 road freight traffic) is approaching the Upper Farms Rd. crossing at about MP 106.7 on NECR's Palmer Sub, the former Central Vermont Railway mainline. In the lead is NECR 3474 a rebuilt SD40M-2 that began life as an SD45 (and still wears the classic flared car body) blt. Jan. 1969 for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy as their number 523.
The bucolic farm country in the northern Pioneer Valley is made up of some of the prettiest little towns in the commonwealth. And there is no better time to enjoy it out here than on a picture perfect autumn day when the trees are seemingly on fire with the brilliant fall colors that the New England region is renowned for.
Northfield, Massachusetts
Thursday October 20, 2022
Russian billionaire Oleg Burlakov´s sailing super yacht Black Pearl passed by tonight just before sunset. Here you can read more about this 106.7 meter ship:
“Matter rather than Forms should be the object of our attention . . . for Forms are figments of the human mind.”
-Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning.
“Thus, it was not only Greek words of which [Plato] was to alter the meanings, nor only Greek and Latin words. Love and good, for instance, are neither Greek nor Latin, and beauty is only Latin remotely, yet the spirit of Plato really works more amply in them, and in a hundred others bearing on the presence or absence of these qualities, than it does in such specifically Platonic terms as idea and dialectic. Let us try and trace the origin of some of the meanings which are commonly attached to the word love. As in the Mysteries, so at the heart of early Greek philosophy lay two fundamental assumptions. One was that an inner meaning lay hid behind external phenomena. Out of this Plato’s lucid mind brought to the surface of Europe’s consciousness the stupendous conception that all matter is but an imperfect copy of spiritual ‘types’ or ‘ideas’—eternal principles which, so far from being abstractions, are the only real Beings, which were in their place before matter came into existence, and which will remain after it has passed away. The other assumption concerned the attainment by man of immortality. The two were complementary. Just as it was only the immortal part of man which could get into touch with the eternal secret behind the changing forms of Nature, so also it was only by striving to contemplate that eternal that man could develop the eternal part of himself and put on incorruption. There remained the question of how to rise from the contemplation of the transient to the contemplation of the eternal, and, for answer, Plato and Socrates evolved that other great conception—perhaps even more far-reaching in its historical effects—that love for a sensual and temporal object is capable of gradual metamorphosis into love for the invisible and eternal. It is not only in the New Testament and the Prayer Book, in the Divine Comedy, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and all great Romantic poetry that the results of this thinking are to be seen.”
-Owen Barfield, History in English Words, 106–7.
/******
I desired deep,
one led the way…
by invisible hand…
I grasp…
and she gently…
guided me….
beyond my senses…
beyond space and time…
before thought…
before articulating…
before feeling.
-rc
14 arches that is -
Shot taken for Saturday Self Challenge 09/10/2021 -----
Repetition .
The design of the bridge has 14 arches repeating for the whole span , trouble is whichever side of the river and whichever side of the bridge I stood , I could not get all of the arches in one shot - mainly due to foliage ! At one corner I might have got a few more in but with the river running high like it is and the steep bank with nothing to hold onto - no chance , even for SSC !!
This is Leatherhead Town Bridge at the bottom of Bridge Street and is part of the Leatherhead Heritage Trail . Just off shot to the left is the Running Horse pub , a very old pub indeed --
The story of The Running Horse dates back to 1403, when the pub was built on land belonging to the church.
Known once as Rummyings House, it served 'noppy ale' by the infamous Elynour Rummyng, who featured in a poem 'The Tunnying of Elynour Rummying' by John Skelton, Henry VIII's Poet Laureate. Verses are still displayed on the pub’s walls.
Legend has it that Elizabeth I once spent a night at The Running Horse when floods made it impossible to cross the River Mole.
For more historic information on The Running Horse, take a look at the pub's Wikipedia page .
Some info taken from Historic England's webpage on the details of the bridge -----
LEATHERHEAD BRIDGE STREET TQ 1656 SW 11/106 7.9.51 Leatherhead Bridge GV II
Public road bridge over River Mole. Probably later medieval, rebuilt and enlarged in 1782-3 by George Gwilt (the county surveyor), and dated 1784 on south side. Red brick in Flemish bond, with some dressings of Portland stone. It is a long low structure of 14 segmental arches on low piers with triangular cutwaters which have semi-pyramidal tops of dressed stone, a roundel in each spandrel, a moulded stone band, and a high brick parapet to the south side with flat stone coping secured by wrought-iron cramps, incorporating 4 semicircular refuges; and in the centre of the outer side a stone plaque lettered "BUILT 1784". Lighting now replaced with reproduction windsor lighting. Parapets rebuilt in 1988.
Listing NGR: TQ1631356299
For Sight & Sound here is an Ice Bridge , Yes !!
Oil stick and graphite powder on Arches paper, 52 x 42 inches (132.1 x 106.7 cm)
website: pamelaspeight.com/
"Unacknowledged" is one of is a series of eight oil stick and graphite powder drawings titled "Alterity", a philosophical term meaning “otherness”. It refers to the principle of exchanging one's own perspective for that of the other.
Each of the Alterity drawings' main character is a dog. Dogs are perhaps our closest companions in the animal realm. They symbolize a wildness that, regardless of the degree of their domestication, they have to some extent retained of their original, "untamed" nature. The drawings are also populated with additional animal and human forms. There are other elements present too, such as weather (rain), bodies of water, chromosome X-shapes and dotted lines. Each image also contains a word or a line of text that relates to an awareness, or lack thereof, of our intrinsic relationship with animals and, more broadly, the environment as a whole.
Human relationships with animals are complex and varied. We often view them through our own lens, as though they exist in relation to our needs or compete with us for space and resources. Like them, we began in "wilderness", but we humans have evolved into animals that are for the most part detached from cycles in nature. Many of us feel this loss acutely and strive to re-enter this wilderness. Is it possible to co-exist with animals and see them as part of ourselves, yet honor them as unique and mysterious others?
Osaka Castle Park, Osaka, Japan.
Osaka Castle Park features Osaka Castle, Nishinomaru Garden, Plum Grove and Osaka Castle Hall. Osaka Castle Park is very popular recreation place for the people of Osaka.
Osaka Castle Park was opened in 1931 to coincide with the reconstruction of the Osaka Castle tower. Osaka Castle Park, located in Chuo-ku Osaka, covers an area of 106.7 hectare. The Nishinomaru Garden features around 600 cherry trees, including someiyoshino (the most popular variety of sakura (cherry blossom) in Japan) and around 95 kinds of Japanese apricot flowers. In total 1250 trees bloom in the Ume Grove, and in Omoide-no-mori (Grove of Remembrance).
For video, please visit youtu.be/oaDJJl8V4WQ
Pauahi Crater is approximately 1800-2000 ft. (548.6-610 meters) long, 300-500 ft. (90-106.7 meters) deep and 300 ft. (90 meters) wide. Pauahi means "destroyed by fire" in Hawaiian. In November of 1973 there was an eruption that lasted 31 days, creating the present crater floor. This eruption also opened a fissure east of the crater towards Puʻuhululu. This fissure eruption became a phase of the 1969-1974 Mauna Ulu eruptions. The last eruption of Pauahi occurred in 1979 for 16 days.
The Hell Gate Bridge, originally the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge or the East River Arch Bridge, is a 1,017-foot (310 m) steel through arch railroad bridge in New York City. Originally built for four tracks, the bridge currently carries two tracks of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and one freight track across the Hell Gate, a strait of the East River, between Astoria in Queens and Randalls and Wards Islands in Manhattan.
The arch across the Hell Gate is the largest of three bridges that form the Hell Gate railroad viaduct. An inverted bowstring truss bridge with four 300-foot (91.4 m) spans crosses the Little Hell Gate, a former strait that is now filled in, and a 350-foot (106.7 m) fixed truss bridge crosses the Bronx Kill, a strait now narrowed by fill. Together with approaches, the bridges are more than 17,000 feet (3.2 mi; 5.2 km) long. The designs of the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle, England and the Sydney Harbour Bridge in New South Wales, Australia were derived from the Hell Gate Bridge.
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Run Day / Social Distancing Day 84, 06/07/2020, Randall's Island Park, NY
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Osaka Castle Park, Osaka, Japan.
Osaka Castle Park features Osaka Castle, Nishinomaru Garden, Plum Grove and Osaka Castle Hall. Osaka Castle Park is very popular recreation place for the people of Osaka.
Osaka Castle Park was opened in 1931 to coincide with the reconstruction of the Osaka Castle tower. Osaka Castle Park, located in Chuo-ku Osaka, covers an area of 106.7 hectare. The Nishinomaru Garden features around 600 cherry trees, including someiyoshino (the most popular variety of sakura (cherry blossom) in Japan) and around 95 kinds of Japanese apricot flowers. In total 1250 trees bloom in the Ume Grove, and in Omoide-no-mori (Grove of Remembrance).
For video, please visit youtu.be/oaDJJl8V4WQ
The Hollywood Sign (originally the Hollywoodland Sign) is an American landmark and cultural icon overlooking Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It is situated on Mount Lee, in the Beachwood Canyon area of the Santa Monica Mountains. Spelling out the word Hollywood in 45 ft (13.7 m)-tall white capital letters and 350 feet (106.7 m) long,it was originally created in 1923 as a temporary advertisement for a local real estate development, but due to increasing recognition the sign was left up, and replaced in 1978 with a more durable all-steel structure.
El primer tren fotografiado esta mañana fue éste que venía con una 289.1 bastante limpia (apenas unos pequeños grafitis en los laterales) con una composición de Faoos para carbón vacíos procedente de la centra térmica de Andorra, para volver a cargar en el puerto de Tarragona.
Primera vez que fotografio una 289.1 y con esta decoración me sabe como haber pillado simplemente un par de japonesas acopladas, sin sus colores verdes característicos con los que completaban toda su esencia.
Nº 82580 (MRM) Samper de Calanda > Tarragona - Clasificación.
Black Pearl is a sailing yacht launched in 2016, which is 106.7 meters (350.1 ft) in length.It has three DynaRig masts supporting a sail area of 2,900 square meters (31,215 sq ft).The yacht was known during its build process originally as Oceanco Y712 and thereafter as "Project Solar". The hull is steel, the superstructure aluminum, and the masts carbon fiber
Sailing yacht Black Pearl (Oceanico)
Inspired by the 88 m (289 ft) Maltese Falcon, the intention behind the project was to push the boundaries of the DynaRig system and demonstrate the potential for larger DynaRig-equipped vessels.
The creation of the yacht, then known as "Project Solar", began on 7 July 2010 when Ken Freivokh was contracted to handle styling and design on the project. Given their involvement with Maltese Falcon, Freivokh introduced Dykstra Naval Architects to the project and the team were able to advance the DynaRig system and to improve performance through changes both to mast shape and installation.The 96 m (315 ft) preliminary concept that resulted was codenamed "Nautilus"
Freivokh then commissioned Devonport Yachts (Pendennis Shipyards) to undertake technical studies to complete the tendering package. The tendering process began in June 2011 and included seven shipyards worldwide.
By November 2011 Freivokh had extended the design from 96 m to 100 m (328 ft) and a scale model was produced. Dutch builders Oceanco were selected from the tendering process to construct the yacht at their Rotterdam (The Netherlands) shipyard.
The design and details of the yacht developed continuously during the build process, with the owner having a direct input on many aspects of the final design. The final design had the yacht at 106.8 m,and the yacht, built under the name Y712, was then named Black Pearl.
The overall yacht design was done by Ken Freivokh, Gerard Villate, Nigel Gee, and Nuvolari Lenard, with others.The yacht was constructed at Oceanco, a shipyard in Alblasserdam, the Netherlands and launched in September 2016.
It was delivered in early 2018 to the customer, after it had undergone sea trials.(Wikipedia)
Rebuilt from a CN GP40-2LW, an MBTA GP40MC has its train slipping out of the station northbound. On the next track over is Amtrak Train 685, the "Downeaster" that my friend Kevin Farlow and I were about to board for the trip back up to Portland, ME, where I vacationed that summer with him and his family.
There are parts of that trip that I'll never forget, not the least being the cab ride we got on the 106 to the right. We were invited up to the engine almost before the markers cleared the platform and and rode all the way to Portland on the head end. The engineer was a Boston & Maine old head with about a month to go before retirement and let us both get some time at the throttle as we blasted up the god awful Guilford/Pan Am track.
Locomotives: MBTA 1122, AMTK 106
7-10-06
Boston, MA
New England Central Railroad train 611 (Brattleboro to Palmer turn that forwards the connecting 323/324 road freight traffic) is approaching the Upper Farms Rd. crossing at about MP 106.7 on NECR's Palmer Sub, the former Central Vermont Railway mainline. In the lead is NECR 3474 a rebuilt SD40M-2 that began life as an SD45 (and still wears the classic flared car body) blt. Jan. 1969 for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy as their number 523.
The bucolic farm country in the northern Pioneer Valley is made up of some of the prettiest little towns in the commonwealth. And there is no better time to enjoy it out here than on a picture perfect autumn day when the trees are seemingly on fire with the brilliant fall colors that the New England region is renowned for.
Northfield, Massachusetts
Thursday October 20, 2022
John William Waterhouse, Entering Cupid's Garden, 1903
68.5 x 106.7 cm
Oil on Canvas
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire, UK
Osaka Castle Park, Osaka, Japan.
Osaka Castle Park features Osaka Castle, Nishinomaru Garden, Plum Grove and Osaka Castle Hall. Osaka Castle Park is very popular recreation place for the people of Osaka.
Osaka Castle Park was opened in 1931 to coincide with the reconstruction of the Osaka Castle tower. Osaka Castle Park, located in Chuo-ku Osaka, covers an area of 106.7 hectare. The Nishinomaru Garden features around 600 cherry trees, including someiyoshino (the most popular variety of sakura (cherry blossom) in Japan) and around 95 kinds of Japanese apricot flowers. In total 1250 trees bloom in the Ume Grove, and in Omoide-no-mori (Grove of Remembrance).
For video, please visit youtu.be/oaDJJl8V4WQ
Supporting KBPI Fundraiser for the Victims devastated by the Colorado Fires of 2012. The World Famous Johnsons were the first original rock band to play Denver's new venue the Grizzly Rock!
Horse Riders at Weymouth Beach take in the view of the Black Pearl.
The Black Pearl is a sailing yacht launched in 2016, which is 106.7 meters in length.
It has three masts supporting a sail area of 2,900 square meters.
The hull is steel, the superstructure aluminium, and the masts carbon fibre.
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Osaka Castle Park, Osaka, Japan.
Osaka Castle Park features Osaka Castle, Nishinomaru Garden, Plum Grove and Osaka Castle Hall. Osaka Castle Park is very popular recreation place for the people of Osaka.
Osaka Castle Park was opened in 1931 to coincide with the reconstruction of the Osaka Castle tower. Osaka Castle Park, located in Chuo-ku Osaka, covers an area of 106.7 hectare. The Nishinomaru Garden features around 600 cherry trees, including someiyoshino (the most popular variety of sakura (cherry blossom) in Japan) and around 95 kinds of Japanese apricot flowers. In total 1250 trees bloom in the Ume Grove, and in Omoide-no-mori (Grove of Remembrance).
For video, please visit youtu.be/oaDJJl8V4WQ
Tower MX marks the fifth (depending on how you count it up) and final crossing between the Milwaukee Road and Chicago and North Western routes between Chicago and Madison. Resting in the shadow of the Wisconsin State Capitol and seemingly floating in Lake Monona, the photo angles are bountiful. This particular angle has been on my bucket list for quite some time. Fortunately, an extra grain train, a set back relief crew, additional power, and brake problems allowed the light to swing south. This gave an uncommon opportunity to shoot an afternoon eastbound on the north side of the Madison Sub causeway.
Tower MX is approximately located at milepost 137 on the CNW side (track receding into the distance). Coincidentally, Tower MX is approximately located at milepost 138 on the Milwaukee Road side (track the train is on). However, the CNW side is referenced on the older route via Caledonia and Beloit versus the newer route via Janesville. Thus, there exists an equation at Evansville; 106.7 = 115.9. So in the end, the CNW was about 10 miles shorter than the Milwaukee. Following the rails behind me for about another 42 miles will put you right about the location of the LPS15 shot I posted earlier.
Osaka Castle Park, Osaka, Japan.
Osaka Castle Park features Osaka Castle, Nishinomaru Garden, Plum Grove and Osaka Castle Hall. Osaka Castle Park is very popular recreation place for the people of Osaka.
Osaka Castle Park was opened in 1931 to coincide with the reconstruction of the Osaka Castle tower. Osaka Castle Park, located in Chuo-ku Osaka, covers an area of 106.7 hectare. The Nishinomaru Garden features around 600 cherry trees, including someiyoshino (the most popular variety of sakura (cherry blossom) in Japan) and around 95 kinds of Japanese apricot flowers. In total 1250 trees bloom in the Ume Grove, and in Omoide-no-mori (Grove of Remembrance).
For video, please visit youtu.be/oaDJJl8V4WQ
I went to Carholme Road to look for a 107 that I never found, so I guess I missed it. Given services along this road aren't particularly great (only the 100, 106/7 and 777) I didn't think I'd see anything interesting without waiting ages, but lo and behold a driver trainer came along within a few minutes.
Passing the tyre centre, which I keep seeing adverts for, on 24.1.23 is Dart 34461.
Nerodia fasciata pictiventris - A non-venomous snake commonly found in peninsular Florida. It was sunning by the pond when I startled it.
"Adults average from 24-42 inches (61-106.7 cm). The record is 62.5 inches (158.8 cm). Stout bodied snake with broad black, brown, or red crossbands over most of body. The lighter narrower bands are tan, gray, or reddish and may contain a dark spot on the side. The light bands may be broken by a black strip down the middle of the back. Crossbands may be obscured as snake darkens with age. Belly is creamy yellow with wormlike red or black markings. Scales are keeled and there are 23-27 dorsal scale rows at midbody. The pupil is round. A dark stripe extends from the eye to the angle of the jaw. Juveniles have very clear red or black crossbands on light background."
From the UFL article: www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herpetology/fl-snakes/list/nerodia-fasc...
Entered in TMI's Reptiles and Amphibians Contest: www.flickr.com/groups/impressionists/discuss/721576513137...
Osaka Castle Park, Osaka, Japan.
Osaka Castle Park features Osaka Castle, Nishinomaru Garden, Plum Grove and Osaka Castle Hall. Osaka Castle Park is very popular recreation place for the people of Osaka.
Osaka Castle Park was opened in 1931 to coincide with the reconstruction of the Osaka Castle tower. Osaka Castle Park, located in Chuo-ku Osaka, covers an area of 106.7 hectare. The Nishinomaru Garden features around 600 cherry trees, including someiyoshino (the most popular variety of sakura (cherry blossom) in Japan) and around 95 kinds of Japanese apricot flowers. In total 1250 trees bloom in the Ume Grove, and in Omoide-no-mori (Grove of Remembrance).
For video, please visit youtu.be/oaDJJl8V4WQ
The Quart Pot Creek Rail Bridge was constructed in 1886 as part of the former Brisbane-Sydney interstate rail link. Quart Pot Creek Rail Bridge is a heritage-listed railway bridge at Quart Pot Creek, Stanthorpe, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It is also known as the Red Bridge. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. (Why it's called Red Bridge is not mentioned, perhaps it was once painted in the rust reducing red oxide paint).
The major impetus to development in Stanthorpe occurred in 1872 with the start of the practice of alluvial tin mining after discoveries of the valuable metal in the area in the mid 1850s. Stanthorpe became the collective name for two townships (“Quart Pot Creek” and “Stannum”) that grew as a result of the mining boom and became the only centre on the pastoral Darling Downs to develop with mining based revenue.
The Quart Pot Creek Rail Bridge forms part of the Southern railway line (Toowoomba - Warwick- Wallangarra). The line reached Warwick in 1871 and was extended to Stanthorpe to serve the tin industry in 1881. The railway was then extended to the border with New South Wales. The Quart Pot Creek Bridge was built as part of this extension. The original plans were drawn in 1880 and the contract plans were drawn up in 1884. The line opened for traffic between Stanthorpe and Wallangarra, the change of gauge border station, on 4 February 1887. Interstate rail services commenced on 16 January 1888, linking Brisbane with Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Plans to strengthen the 50-foot (15 m) girder spans had first been drawn up in 1904 to permit the operation of heavier locomotives on the Sydney Mail and work began on the Warwick-Wallangarra section in 1910. The No.7 span was braced in 1913 to further accommodate 12-ton axle loads.
The Quart Pot Creek Rail Bridge comprises 7 50-foot (15 m) spans of 3 rivetted deck type metal double lattice girders supported on six concrete piers and two abutments. It has a total length of 106.7 metres (350 ft). The centre girders, the pier tops and bedplates have been altered. The No.7 span has been braced. The bridge carries a single 1.076 metre (3 ft 6 in) gauge railway. The railway was once an important mainline, then a secondary line but regular services of any type except preserved steam trains from Southern Downs Steam Railway at Warwick have been suspended.
A plaque has been added to the bridge to outline its historical significance.
The second bridge in the foreground is a more recent addition, being on a cycle path.
The Hell Gate Bridge, originally the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge or the East River Arch Bridge, is a 1,017-foot (310 m) steel through arch railroad bridge in New York City. The bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and one freight track across the Hell Gate, a strait of the East River, between Astoria in Queens, and Randalls and Wards Islands in Manhattan.
The arch across the Hell Gate is the largest of three bridges that form the Hell Gate railroad viaduct. An inverted bowstring truss bridge with four 300-foot (91.4 m) spans crosses the Little Hell Gate, a former strait that is now filled in, and a 350-foot (106.7 m) fixed truss bridge crosses the Bronx Kill, a strait now narrowed by fill. Together with approaches, the bridges are more than 17,000 feet (3.2 mi; 5.2 km) long.
The designs of the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle, England and the Sydney Harbour Bridge in New South Wales, Australia were derived from the Hell Gate Bridge.
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