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Rishikesh, also known as Hrishikesh, is a city governed by Rishikesh Municipal Corporation (since October 2017), and a tehsil in Dehradun district of the Indian state Uttarakhand. Located in the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India, it is known as the "Gateway to the Garhwal Himalayas" and "Yoga Capital of the World". It lies approximately 25 km (16 mi) north of the city Haridwar and 43 km (27 mi) southeast of the state capital Dehradun.
As it turned out, -30 degree (°C) weather is not so good for outdoor walking, but quite interesting for the shapes of industrial smoke
As I was processing this image, this song popped into my head. Happily singing away, I realized I had forgotten, or maybe never really known, all of the words. So I looked them up and decided to share. Read over the lyrics and I bet you at least start humming.
Thank you everyone. This made Explore!!
Cheers......
Take Me Home Country Roads
(John Denver-Bill Danoff-Taffy Nivert)
Almost heaven West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
LIfe is older older than the trees
Younger than the mountain blowing like a breeze
Country roads take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain mama
Take me home country roads
All my mem'ries gather round her
Miner's lady stranger to blue skies
Dark and dusty painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine teardrop in my eye
Country roads take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain mama
Take me home country roads
I hear her voice in the morin' as she calls me
The radio reminds of my home far away
Driving down theroad I get a feeling that I should have been
Home yesterday, yesterday
Country roads take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia mountain mama
Take me home country roads
As VIA 71 departs with a wave, M39491 13 slips in behind them with CN 3106,, EMDX 7235, CN 2904, CN 3124, CN 3803, and 173 cars.
As I post these photos from earlier this evening, there are some violent storms moving through, hopefully everyone including these warblers are hunkered down for the night!
Veterans Park, Richfield MN
"But, ah! the gallant Autumn sun
Will soon the world array,
And dress me in the tints he knows
Will make me gay again."
(from "As summer into autumn slips" by Emily Dickinson)
General Coffee State Park
Coffee County, Georgia USA
[1073-D7100-Neo]
© 2023 Mike McCall
As I got towards the top of the highest dune I crested it and was treated to this view looking out over the whole dune field with that wonderful late afternoon light.
As the BomBardo group finished, this new group, Pulse of the Place, moved into the spot, and briefly there was a nice overlap with both groups playing together to the delight of the crowds.
As the saying goes timing is everything. As I watched this show develop I was hoping for a train before all the color disappeared. Fortunately it all worked as a short train appeared at the right moment.
As the sun sets over the Utah Canyonlands, the sky ignites with a breathtaking display of colors that paints the horizon in a fiery glow. With every passing moment, the rugged beauty of the park transforms into an otherworldly landscape, leaving you spellbound by the power and grandeur of nature.
Cataluña, Spain
(Gyps fulvus)
The griffon vulture is a large bird of prey with a wingspan of 2.60 m and a weight of around 9 kg. The pair, formed for life, nests on cliffs. In the morning, as soon as updrafts allow them to fly with less effort, they set off in groups in search of food, covering distances of up to several hundred kilometers. They feed on the soft flesh on the carcasses of dead animals, mainly domestic ones, as wild ones are becoming increasingly rare.
Reintroduction programs halted their disappearance from almost all of Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. They come in large numbers to feeding areas in France and Spain.
Le vautour fauve est un grand rapace de 2m60 d'envergure pesant environ 9 Kg. Le couple, formé à vie, niche dans des falaises. Le matin, dès que des courants ascendants leurs permettent de voler avec un moindre effort, ils partent en groupe à la recherche de nourriture, parcourant jusqu'à plusieurs centaines de kilomètres. Ils se nourrissent de chairs molles sur les carcasses d'animaux morts, principalement domestiques car les sauvages sont de moins en moins nombreux.
Des programmes de réintroduction ont permis d'enrayer leur disparition de presque toute l'Europe au début du XXème siècle. Sur les aires de nourrissage organisées en France et en Espagne, ils viennent en grand nombre.
As promised, some more photos of Melissa and Amanda from Sunday. Here are a few more. I wanted to capture how beautiful their relationship is. I have so many more to edit. I think I will do several a night until I have a collection that feels complete. The girls are simply...well...breathtakingly gorgeous.
As many of you know each year I set myself a goal of knitting a hat a week with the end result of the 52 hats being donated to to our homeless citizens. I have made a decent start on this years batch but find myself wondering if I will actually be able to meet my goal this time around. I am finding it harder and harder to come by yarn in the shops. Last week I went out to pick some up and came home with only two skeins. Hopefully as the year goes on the supply chain will open up and it won't be such a challenge to get supplies.
As I knelt low in the field this roe buck looked in my direction but couldn't see me clearly with the result she kept on grazing.
As the sun gives way to the night, the lighthouse takes over as the beacon of light on Bodie Island.
As I was walking around the rose garden I almost ran in to this spider, made me think he was trying to string me along. :)
As I had to wait my turn to get into Woburn, due to the car in front of me wanting to pay with a credit card and the card reader playing up, I watched this stag sitting under the tree about 30 feet away. He occasionally gave a 'call' and tossed his head, but remained under his tree. You can see he has already broken some of his antlers, and they are draped with debris.
My winter series is slowly coming together! The photographs I took with Jessie Harbron are amazing! This picture is a good pre-view of what is to come !
Model: Jess Harbron
As soon as I saw Tigger in the Winnie the Pooh set, I knew I had to make him bounce. I soon realised that to make this happen would require Tigger to be on something elevated. So, the next logical thought was to build his treehouse around the technic contraption.
I tried to follow the style of the Winnie the Pooh set so that they could be displayed together. However, I ended up needing the leaves from Winnie's tree, leaving it a little bare!
Dodgy video uploaded here:
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Veigas (As Veigas en eonaviego) es una aldea y una parroquia del concejo asturiano de Taramundi, en España.
En sus 23,25 km² habitan un total de 84 personas (sadei 2008).
A fecha de febrero de 2006 la aldea de Veigas se encuentra deshabitada. Se halla a unos 400 metros sobre el nivel del mar, a 7 km de la capital del concejo. En ella destaca su iglesia del siglo XVII, dedicada a Santa MarÃa de las Nieves.
En el norte de la parroquia se encuentra el conjunto etnográfico de Teixois, en el pequeño pueblo del mismo nombre.
For a change I thought I would avoid the coast and Dartmoor for my evening trip out. During the Summer months I always see wonderful golden fields dotted around the countryside, however they're not quite there yet, but I quite like the green to gold transition in this shot.
I should add that the image is in focus, however it does look like parts are out of focus. It is in fact where the wind was gusting and blowing the crop around.
As the population grows, the availability of water decreases. There are a number of ways to save water, and they all start with you.
Built as Baltimore and Ohio GP40 3710 in 1969, MK rebuild GP39H-2 74 was traversing its home rails at Elkridge, Maryland with a Baltimore-bound commuter train.
At one time, commuter trains stopped at Elkridge but MARC discontinued its use and built a new station a little further west down the line in Dorsey many years ago.
There once was also an underpass for pedestrians that helped keep commuters safe from train traffic. The underpass was closed and boarded up leaving everyone to fend for themselves.
The useless remains of those steps can be seen on either side of the train.
As promised, a shot of Sheik's side, to show the braid I did. It's really just a piece of e-tape rolled into a cylinder, with a tab left to stick it to the head.
1944 Douglas Invader A-26B NL99420 N99420 Served with the USAF as 44-34104 Silver Dragon
Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2022
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Angry Cloud Monster Glares As White Lightning Whiplashes Sky Over Tampa Bay Turning Black Night Blue - IMRANâ„¢
Look closely. Doesn't that look like a cloud monster with two angry eyes, his face split by the lightning outlining his opening mouth....! Kennedy and I had been on the dock of my blessed home when I did the livestream of an impending thunder and lightning storm that was looming over Tampa Bay like a gigantic invading spaceship from the movie Independence Day. I showed many lightning strikes in the livestream but a streaming app on a smartphone is not geared to capture lightning, which just bathes a video frame in a whitewash effect. I knew a second storm was coming soon. So, this time I went out, later in the night, and climbed on the wall of my swimming pool deck. Distant lightning was flashing beyond downtown Tampa. I clicked a few shots. But I had chosen a 20mm Nikkor lens on my awesome Nikon D850 because I wanted a sky-spanning lightning flash, not a zoomed-in view of a distant strike. And sure enough my patience paid off. This is literally one half of a massive lightning flash that went from south of St. Petersburg to way east beyond Tampa. It was also one-third of the view of the three flashes which filled the sky like a white hot cobweb. During my vigil on the wall, Kennedy, my amazing German Shepherd, patiently sat by the pool keeping an eye on me.
© 2019-2020 IMRAN™
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© 2019 IMRAN™
Livestream link: www.facebook.com/IMRAN.TV/videos/10157627906271155/
As stated in the previous shot in the stream, the entire train that this southbound brought down from Oakfield was to be dropped in Millinocket proper for the CMQ. After putting the train away in two tracks in the yard, the crew of the second 910 of the day got a clearance to head south to Brownville Junction. The snow was still lightly falling as the EMD trio rumbled light across North/South Twin Lake, capping off an excellent chase of these guys from Oakfield. I've only had success here one other time, and that was last year in quite similar conditions.
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before the bay of palma awakens, the day murmurs its arrival through the whispers of dawn. clouds part like curtains unveiling a stage, rays of light cascade, each a gentle touch on the slumbering sea. the silhouette of the distant mountains stands as the eternal audience, witnessing the slow brightening of the world. it’s a serene symphony where each element plays its part in harmony, the sea reflecting the sky’s moody hues, the land a dark contrast to the awakening sky. in this quiet hour, time pauses, allowing the earth to inhale the promise of a new day, a subtle interlude before life resumes its pace.
Amo foto! Amo música!
Sempre quis conciliar as duas, quase não consigo, mas...acontece que ouvindo a música abaixo descrita, fiquei em dúvida quanto a uma palavra, então....procurei a letra no Vagalume para entender melhor, o que eu entendia Cris, na realidade era Gris...
mama mia, o que é Gris? Fui no Priberam e encontrei azul acinzentado, então...por que não brincar um pouquinho no Picasa e transformar uma fotinho minha tirada há um tempinho atrás, numa fotiho de uma tarde Gris??? e então...gostaram??? conseguà aplicar uma linda música em uma linda foto??? hehehehehe
Ana Carolina - Uma Louca Tempestade
Ana Carolina
Eu quero uma lua plena
Eu quero sentir a noite
Eu quero olhar as luzes,
que teus olhos não me têm deixado ver
Agora eu vou viver
Eu quero sair de manhã
Eu quero seguir a estrela
Eu quero sentir o vento
pela pele um pensamento me fará
Uma louca tempestade
Eu quero ser uma tarde gris
Quero que a chuva corra sobre o rio
O rio que por ruas corre em mim
As águas que me querem levar tão longe
Tão longe que me façam esquecer de ti
Eu quero partir de manhã
Eu quero seguir a estrela
Eu quero sentir o vento
pela pele um pensamento me fará
Uma louca tempestade
Eu quero uma lua plena
Eu quero sentir a noite
Eu quero olhar as luzes,
que teus olhos não me têm deixado ver
Agora eu vou viver
Eu quero ser uma tarde gris
Quero que a chuva corra sobre o rio
O rio que por ruas corre em mim
As águas que me querem levar tão longe
Eu quero ser uma tarde gris
Quero que a chuva corra sobre o rio
O rio que por ruas corre em mim
As águas que me querem levar tão longe
Tão longe que me façam esquecer de ti
As I was heading home I noticed this Ferruginous Hawk on a power pole, I got out of my car took a picture and he flew off landing on this tree. As I positioned myself and began taking shots of him he did what we all hope for...lifted up in flight and flew past me instead of away from me...this 'made my day'!
As always I didnt have the right lens with me on this occasion but Im happy with how they came out for sure.
Istanbul, Turkey
As I'm treating this more of a travel blog it's only fair I show warts and all. The tell tale signs were evident from the first view of the mosque on the Sunday night. A dismantled minuet in scaffolding, timber framing around the dome and other areas...
With four major tourist attractions in close proximity to each other you can only beat the queues to one of them. After 9am expect queues at all four. We opted for the Blue Mosque as it's free to enter and best visited, like all functioning mosques, outside of prayer time. Clearly its undergoing major renovation work on the exterior at the moment, but I hadn't anticipated the same on the inside. A framework of steel girders supporting an upper floor are clad to look like marble columns fill the centre directly underneath the main dome... this is about as much as you can see inside.
However, I know what you're all thinking... he got in first! On the contrary, if it wasn't for the barriers running across you'd see the other several hundred disappointed tourists milling about the small viewing section behind me. But let's keep things on a positive keel, I was impressed with the quality of the carpet, richly luxurious and expensive - my feet told me that just from the plushness. Contemplating all the thousands of feet that must have stood on it during prayer time, it felt underfoot that it had just been laid for the first time.
One thing Mrs R noticed was the regimented design with distinct lines running parallel to each other every few feet apart... can anyone enlighten us as to whether this is intentional to allow the congregation to line up at prayer time or just a generic pattern?
When on holiday I am always on the look out for something a little different. A little research showed that immediately next to the civil airport in Riga was the Riga Air Museum. To some this may look like a scrapyard however its content is such that it most certainly is a museum. The vast array which is apparently the largest collection of Soviet military aircraft outside of Russia seems to be slowly rusting away.
This particular Mig - 25RBS won't rust as it is built of aluminium. With a top speed of Mach 3 it really made a statement and established a significant number of speed, altitude and climbing records.
One part of me was excited at seeing such an exotic collection of 1950/60/70's technology whilst I also had an ever present shiver running down my spine as I considered the reasons for their existence. It has to be said that during the cold war both the east and the west accumulated huge arsenals of ever increasing power.
My recommendations are that if you are prepared to part with 7 Euros and have a flight booked out of Riga, do get yourself to the airport an hour early. On my visit I almost walked away from the locked entrance gate until I noticed a small sign with instructions to buzz for help. The proprietor didn't speak much English, but as long as I paid up he was happy to let me in and for me to take photos. I also had the museum to myself so you didn't have issues with too many people getting in the way of my pictures.
As the old legend says, there were three brothers - Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv and their sister Lybid…They founded the medieval city in the name of their eldest brother and named the city Kyiv, which eventually became the capital of Kievan Rus' and present-day Ukraine.
This monument was opened in May 2017.
The founders of Kyiv are depicted as small children. The composition consists of four bronze figurines of babies. Three boys - Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv are playing with paper ships on the stylized map of Kyiv, which is the basis of the composition.
There is a hidden symbolism in the paper boats that the three brothers launch on the Dnipro. According to the author Volodymyr Zhuravel: “A ship is a symbol of the soul. Everyone has their own ship. Someone holds it, someone lets it go, and someone has already let it go."
Kyi’s figure looks the tallest - his hands are raised up. Shchek is carefully looking at the boat in his hands. Khoryv is launching his boat on the Dnipro. The figure of the little girl - sister Lybid, can not be noticed right away. She is sitting a little to the side on a bronze bench, watching her brothers.