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Tug boat

Road town. Tortola, BVI

33841 the first bus in Go North West livery finally entered service but I missed the first day and almost the second. Luckily patience paid off followed by a quick dash to obtain a photo that in a few months will mean absolutely nothing when the street of Manchester are full of buses in this livery. Corporation Street Manchester 18.06.2019

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Olympus OM2

France is the birthplace of the tram-renaissance that has been sweeping around Europe since 1990. One of the best examples of the modern tram systems that have been build since then is located in Strasbourg.

Autumn colour has started to come through above Spark Bridge in the Crake Valley of the South Lakes. It was a bright day an the perfect excuse for a short afternoon wander up the valley sides.

Paid a visit to Barrow Hill Roundhose (2nd March 2024) and managed this "selfie" of yours truly in the driver’s seat of a Deltic. A couple of things I noticed was how non ergonomic it all seemed and how poor the forward view actually is. If I raise the seat any higher to improve the view, I was bumping my head on the ceiling, lower the seat and the forward view gets even worse. But I suppose it was a vast improvement in comfort etc to a Gresley Pacific.

I have actually had a cab ride on a Deltic on the main line. April 1972 myself and a couple of friends had a guided tour of Haymarket MPD before heading south and home after a week touring Scotland. Our "guide" turned out to be the driver of our train south from Edinburgh to Grantham and he gave us "a lift" from Haymarket MPD into Waverley on the train locomotive, Deltic D9019, those were the days. And even at 20mph they are noisy with those two eighteen cylinder Napier Deltic engines thumping away the other side of the bulkhead.

The second in a series of the Priday plume slabs and specimens I purchased from a dealer at the Prineville Pow Wow gem show this year.

66112 heads south down the Erewash Valley approaching Toton with 6V29, 14:58 Attercliffe – Cardiff Tidal loaded scrap metal, 2nd July 2016.

Stabled at Derby on the 2nd December 2016 is GBRf 20905.

Locomotive History

20905 was originally D8325 and was built by English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry. It entered traffic February 1968 initially allocated to Polmadie transferring quickly Eastfield and then to Edinburgh Haymarket in May 1969 for Fife coal traffic. Renumbered 20225 under the 1973 TOPS renumbering scheme its next transfer was nineteen years later when it left Scotland for Immingham in May 1988. Soon after arriving at Immingham it was withdrawn and was one of six class 20 locomotives sold to Hunslet-Barclay for weedkilling duties and renumbered 20905. It was used on these duties from 1989 – 1998 when the weedkilling contract passed to DRS and 20905 became part of the DRS fleet. In February 2005 it was sold to HNRC and has since moved on to GBRf.

This set is named after Edouard Lock (hope I wrote it correct) danse company La La La Human Steps and was inspired by their ballet Amelia (on YouTube).

After bagging 134, 132, 745 and T27 up north without having to venture too far, I figured that was it for the S Line for the day. Temps were already in the 90's and that didn't help either. Pulling back into Newport I once again caught up with the leader of the pack, 134, due to the "new" speed limit of 25mph on the line. It makes catching them easier but at the same time it is agonizing to see this stuff moving that slow. I figured what the hell, I will follow them down to Asheville. I let 134 go (because of the lack of desire to shoot the yellow thing on the point) and waited 30 minutes for 132 to show. I wasn't overly happy with the shot I got of him here at the bridge on Monday so I tried again with this one.

PENTAX67 smc P67 105mm F2.4 RVPF

IP281

1. Eggs

2. Something metal and reflective

3. Somewhat desaturated

A shot of the ferals we help feed. 2 kittens waiting their turn at the food bowl

The Lacey theater hasbeen repurposed as the Ice Museum what is missing is the Polaris Building in the Background

This is a revised copy of one of the first photos I uploaded to Flickr, 2 years ago today!! It has 42 views and 0 comments! Hardly an auspicious start to Flickr life LOL The original photo is below...

Explored Jan 4, 2012 #2 Thanks everyone.

F A C E B O O K

head of a man

2nd Century AD

marble

Musée des beaux-arts de ville de Paris

Petit Palais

Paris

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12月12日で2周年を迎えました❤

いつも傍にいてくれる彼に感謝(*´ω｀*)

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補いあえる2人でいられますように・・・☆

It celebrated its second anniversary in December 12❤

I thank him for me and is always by my side.

Be first, and so will be staying together forever in the future...❤

So.... yep, I got a 2nd DD.

For a while, I had DD and Yuki. Then I decided I didn't need two girls that were so similar. I got rid of Yuki. But, I still wasn't paying any attention to DD.

So...she went on her way.

But, when one came up at a good price... for some reason, I couldn't resist.

So, we'll see how she does here this time around.

I decided I'll keep the same name for her... (sad, I know, but I'm bad at thinking up names)

So, she's Dainty June.

Gorgeous dress and headband are by Kate (moofala1) -- thanks Kate! We just LOVE all the sets!

The palm trees at Hayle look a little battle worn in June 2020. 802015 arrives with a Paddington service on 2nd June 2020.

L.J. Herman's 2nd Hand Shop, East Windsor, NJ

2009

PENTAX67 smc P67 90mm F2.8 RDPIII

Kananaskis, Alberta.

My original idea was to get something like this when the lights were on at night, but the autofocus works very poorly in the dark. This was the only shot that was focused.

See where this picture was taken. [?]

The 2nd early morning line up as annotated intersected by the telephone lines across the courtyard. Took another shot 10 mins later much wider angle with sunrise glow but Mercury eluded me behind a tree! Tomorrow is another day as they say.

Leica M10-D + Leitz Summicron 1:2/50mm 2nd