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Posing with Mr. Pumpkin. As perhaps the most talented actor among us we call him Mr. out of respect .....
A CSX ST70AH leads CP 689 thru downtown Milwaukee on the C&M Subdivision at Greves Street. The train had a nice assortment of L&N and older CSX hoppers as well.
This SD70AH is working hard to ascend the grade in Echo Canyon on its way eastward with a set of autoracks.
Trains run "reversed" (passing of the right instead of the left) on this section of the Evanston Subdivision to give the more favorable grade to trains making the eastward climb.
This beauty in the process of laying eggs in the water at the Nedre Dammen pond in Tyresta National Park is a female brown hawker (Aeshna grandis).
This species is a quite common species here, but this is the first shot I have gotten of one. Like all hawkers, they do everything on the wing and rarely stop and perch anywhere.
I was actually flat on my stomach trying to get a good shot of a water strider with parasites when she swooped in and landed on the tree branch in the water in front of me. I managed to take two shots before she was off again.
The larvae will then spend two, three or four seasons underwater before emerging to spend a summer as adults hoping to repeat the process.