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Hello my friends as I listen to shamisen music I was at some crossroads today. I didn't know what I should Paint .Then I remembered when in doubt go back to Japanese art that has a way of helping me with artist block and to help calm my nerves I dont even have to do it, but just looking at it will suffice .So all you artists out there if you feel like you have a rocket up your asses and are headed to the moon and far beyond, study Japanese art and calm yourselves down or there will be no more rockets or trips or more importantly of all no more you.Today's painting is called (The Japanese Princess Awaits) it was hard to get a good picture because of the size 24x 36 but hopefully you can grasp the essence of the painting.Until next time my friends study Japanese art your nerves will thank you, after all show me someone who can do great Japanese art and I will show you someone who can go on a beach and start to count the grains of fine sand.I'm not at that level yet I must have too much of that American culture still in me Rock,N Roll Baby.but every day I'm well aware of my nerves and I try to keep them under control for if I let go I'm finished. Steve. p.s. dont ask me what the japanese looking words to the right mean I just made up some that look Japanese, but then again they say if you give a monkey a keyboard he will soon be typing words.
Abellio ScotRail Class 170, 170401 arriving into Gorebridge, working 2T74 1051 to Tweedbank, service had started at Edinburgh Waverley, taken 13th March 2019
I promise this does count as a train photo, and there really is one in here...in fact if you look close you can see the entire train from lead ACS64 to trailing Amfleet.
Amtrak Region train 173 for Washington is crossing the 1394 ft long double track bridge over the Thames River from Groton to New London at about MP 124.3 on the New Haven Line main. The four Parker thru truss approach spans date from the New Haven's 1919 construction of a new bridge across the river. They are cruising right across the middle of the new 105 ft wide vertical lift span built in 2008 to replace the 1919 era Strauss heel-trunnion Warren through-truss bascule draw span.
It's that lift span that has made this interesting image possible. Dominating the foreground with her gilt figurehead twinkling on her prow is the Barque Eagle, the 295 ft. long flagship of the United States Coast Guard which along with the USS Constitution, is one of only two commissioned sailing vessels in the United States military today.
New London is the home of the US Coast Guard Academy and every cadet who attends the Academy as well candidates from the Officer Candidate School will spend a minimum of six weeks on board Eagle whose primary mission is training. Historically she berthed up River directly in front of the Academy but she now ties up here beside Fort Trumbull State Park while in home port. I suppose this is suitable as this 19th century fortification out of sight behind me served in later life as rhe original site of the US Coast Guard Academy from its founding in 1915 until moving to its current campus in 1932.
But, that history is not why she berths here, rather we have Amtrak to thank for that. Though the new lift bridge was specifically designed to clear the Eagle's masts, they came up short and for her to clear seamen have to climb the masts and remove some some components from the top as the young seaman I spoke with explained. For that reason she rarely travels up past the bridges anymore and now calls this dock home, though I understand she will be moving to city pier downtown directly behind the Amtrak station in the coming years.
As for that Eagle on her prow? Well you might not know but that is actually a Nazi eagle and the medallion in her talons now bearing the Coast Guard crest was originally adorned with a swastika! You see the Eagle is actually a spoil of war having been built at at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany in 1936 as as the flagship of the Kriegsmarine sail training fleet. Originally named Horst Wessell, Rudolf Hess gave the speech at her launch in the presence of Adolf Hitler! At the end of WWII the US acquired her when the allies were apportioning the war materials of the Reich and sailed her across the Atlantic with her German crew now under US command.
I HIGHLY recommend this fascinating read if you are interested in learning more and some great stories: www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33543706.amp
And the USCG's official site is great especially if you'd like to see her with her three masts at full sail as they publish her schedule here: www.uscga.edu/eagle-schedule/
And above the rail bridge is the massive Goldstar Memorial Bridge carrying 11 lanes of Interstate 95 134 ft over the river on twin 6000 ft spans (blt. 1943 and 1973) that make up the largest bridge in the state.
New London, Connecticut
Friday March 4, 2022
My new doll has arriv... oh wait xD My cousin's dog is so adorable and photogenic. I want one too! =(
Merry christmas!
#5: As of 10/8/17, under Flickr's popularity rankings of my 500+ pics, this is listed as #5 in "interestingness."
I've been engaging in some short, private crossdressing opportunities at home recently, after acquiring and trying out some new clothes, shoes, and accessories. This is the 66th pic posted from this recent CD activity, and taken just a few weeks ago.
As usual, I really enjoy color-coordinating attractive/sexy/cute outfits, and this one features a spaghetti-strap low-cut tan velvet dress with pink lace, topped with a blush-pink open cardigan, and accompanied by pink suede high heel booties (not seen here), and a complementary belt, purse, tights, and jewelry.
More about this and other new 2017 pics was written up recently in a descriptive Update provided in my profile or "About" page here on Flickr. It details some choices made for these 2017 pics.
Let me know your thoughts... :-)
The churchyard filled with deathcold snow that silenced even the cries of lost souls. And the stillness glowed with an iridescent aura. Peace fell with the snow.
It annoys me a bit that I can't be as beautiful and sexy as some of the fabulous trans girls I put in my posts with their pert little breasts and tight little bums. Of course I tell myself if I take that bike ride or refrain from eating an extra chocolate buscuit I might in a few months helped along by my hormones be just like them. I think the real truth is they were usually very young fresh and newly transgendered with budding breasts and healthy sexual appetites. Well I don't do so badly there in some respects but of course I might not feel old but I'm a bit too matured and crusty to pass myself of as a fresh and innocent teenager lol. However like football players I think a lot of those girls have a short time in the limelight making money which might explain why some at least spoil what they've got by being encouraged to to extend it with what are for me at least ugly enhancements and modifications. Then there are pimps and drugs and killers on the streets so unlike Jojo who can just play at it for them it's a hard life and I just hope some manage to save up enough money from doing porn to buy a nice little earner, that hair-dressing salon or corner bar. Indeed some of the girls nearing retirement go into management and production and no doubt some because they have that special gift and beauty find husbands but I doubt Jojo will not be that lucky staying lumbered with her swirling pond of blow-job mimicking goldfish.
as it wends towards Putney with the Belmond 'British Pullman' on it's 'Dinner time' circular run from London Victoria 3/2/2018
As a change from the sea birds (I have plenty more) some Five-spot Burnet Moths and Soldier Beetles. Seen behind the dunes at Beadnell Bay.
As I *slowly* improve my indoor photography, I took a moment to re-shoot all 17 of my buildings, in small groups as well as en masse.
Hadley really does not want to go to France, so I don’t expect a trip to the Eiffel Tower is in the cards for me. So a Texas cell tower, and a Photoshop overlay will have to suffice! But my sister and I did book,a cruise for September from Galveston. I have qualms, but we will see.
ODC: inspired by the Eiffel Tower
As a judge would say 'Someone else's art'. So I waited for a passer by to add my own artwork. I did wait for her to get to the centre of the frame and I was fortunate that she took an interest in the bike, always good in a photo.
Stone Mill across the street in 1763 (now known as the Hunterdon Art Museum)
Ralph Hunt built the earliest section of this Mill to process wool sometime around 1810. His wool business failed, however, thanks to a permanent downturn in the market for domestic cloth. By 1820 Ralph confessed to the Census that “the establishment has been doing very little for two or three years past. The demand for sale of the cloths and sattinets are very dull…a few of the farmers get their wool manufactured, but from the low prices of foreign cloths.” Things did not improve and Ralph lost all of the family’s property, more than 400 acres and mills on both sides of the river. He defaulted on his mortgage, and the Taylor family took ownership.
The Red Mill in Operation: 1810 - 1928
From 1828 to 1834 John Bray and John B. Taylor took over running the Woolen Mill. The Taylors, now the dominant merchant family, changed the name of the town from Hunt’s Mills to Clinton, after the popular New York governor DeWitt Clinton. Bray and Taylor continued in the woolen business but they also diversified by grinding feed, flour and stone plaister, as well as by selling chestnut wood for rails. They even opened a dry goods establishment which carried everything from china to sheet iron. But Bray and Taylor also failed in their business, selling it for three quarters of its purchase price.
John W. Snyder, the new owner, refitted the Mill for grist and ceased wool production. But he too quickly fell into debt, and lost the property in 1842. After a swift series of owners, the Easton Bank split the site into a mill and a quarry. In 1847 the Mill was sold to John F. Stiger and John A. Young, who used it to grind flour and grist. In 1868 Young sold his part of the business to his partner, John Stiger, who continued to operate it as a grist mill.
In 1871 Stiger sold the mill and it again changed hands several times before it was purchased by Philip Gulick in 1873. Gulick ground grist on the third and fourth floors of the mill and produced peach baskets in the first level. In 1892 Gulick set up The Clinton Illuminating and Water Co. on the second floor of the mill. It provided electricity for Clinton’s street lamps. Gulick died in 1901 and his widow rented the Mill to Elmer and Chester Tomson and in 1905 they purchased it outright.
Chester changed the mill’s operation to grist to graphite and for a short time the mill became known as the “Black Mill.” The greasy black dust was wildly unpopular in town, and after a public outcry he turned to grinding talc and the Mill was soon dubbed the “White Mill.”
Built as MV154 in 1944 at Southampton, delivered to 6MU the same year. In September 1944 the Spitfire was shipped to Australia where she arrived at the end of November and was stored. In 1948, MV154 was assembled and used for some system testing. In 1961 the rare fighter was sold to “Titus” Oates who wanted to bring her back to airworthy condition. The plan failed and the MkVIIIc was sold to Sid Marshall who stored the airplane in his museum. Robs Lamplough acquired her in 1979 and brought her back to Great Britain. After 15 years of restoration, this Spitfire took the skies over Filton on 28th May 1994. In 2010 G-BKMI was sold to MeierMotors based at the former military airfield Bremgarten in the South of Germany. Following restoration work, the MkVIIIc was registered in Germany as D-FEUR. She was the first Spitfire registered in Germany since the end of WWII. This aircraft is operated by MaxAlpha Aviation Gmbh, also based in Eschbach, Bremgarten airfield.
As I stood watching the sun setting in the distance what I thought was a contrail appearing in the sky above me got my immediate attention as I watched the light on the end of the long trail of smoke plummeting down as if it was going to crash land !!! I have no idea what this is so over to you my learned Flickr friends and I hope that someone can tell me what I saw in the evening sky ?? ...... Reg has suggested a meteorite which did cross my mind :) :)
I have put a close up in the comments below so you can see it more clearly.
As I mentioned, the Enviro 400 Scania is an extra working which commences at Kiddier Avenue for Christ the King school to take pressure off the service car which commences at Gleneagles Drive a few minutes away.
993 overtakes 633 to even the number of kids out between this stop and the next one at Rolleston Drive Shops both on 59s to Nottingham via Daybrook and Sherwood.
UP 1822 is a regular unit on the west end of Global 3, seen here slugging double stacks back and forth, assembling and disassembling the numerous intermodal trains that pass through and terminate at this facility.
As we set off for our first trek on the boundary of the Daroji Bear Sanctuary, we came across this juvenile Shikra feeding on a lizard. What more could I have asked for?
A slightly challenging shot due to the bird's perch (quite a few twigs in the foreground) and the fact that the bird itself was moving quite vigorously while swallowing the lizard.
I've blogged about this trip here. Please let me know your comments.
Your veil of the saffron colour makes my eyes drunk.
The jasmine wreath that you wove me thrills to my heart like praise.
It is a game of giving and withholding, revealing and screening again;
Some smiles and some little shyness, and some sweet useless struggles.
Rabindranath Tagore Nobel Laureate Indian Poet ( 1861-1941)
Having terminated at Knottingley Station 144003 runs to England Lane, Knottingley as 5F80 and at 16.35 on the 6th August 2015 is seen crossing over to return to the station to form 2F80, the 16.53 to Wakefield Kirkgate.
"As I look straight into the eye of hell,"....at least that is what I was thinking when I shot this.
As Alfie hits her pensioning years she still know how to get up on the fence, but i had to help her get down as it had been a while
Exmoor is loosely defined as an area of hilly open moorland in west Somerset and north Devon in South West England, named after the River Exe, the source of which is situated in the centre of the area, 2 miles NW of Simonsbath. The moor has given its name to a National Park, which includes the Brendon Hills, the East Lyn Valley, the Vale of Porlock and 55 kilometres (34 mi) of the Bristol Channel coast. The highest point on Exmoor is Dunkery Beacon; at 519 metres (1,703 ft) it is also the highest point in Somerset. The total area of the Exmoor National Park is 692.8 square kilometres (267.5 sq mi), of which 71% is in Somerset and 29% in Devon.
Exmoor was designated a National Park in 1954, under the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act. The Exmoor National Park is primarily an upland area with a dispersed population living mainly in small villages and hamlets. The largest settlements are Porlock, Dulverton, Lynton, and Lynmouth, which together contain almost 40% of the park's population. Lynton and Lynmouth are combined into one parish and are connected by the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway.
Exmoor has 55 kilometres (34 mi) of coastline, including the highest sea cliffs in England, which reach a height of 314 metres (1,030 ft) at Culbone Hill. However, the crest of this coastal ridge of hills is more than 1.6 km (0.99 mi) from the sea. If a cliff is defined as having a slope greater than 60 degrees, the highest sea cliff on mainland Britain is Great Hangman near Combe Martin at 318 metres (1,043 ft) high, with a cliff face of 250 metres (820 ft). Its sister cliff is the 250 metres (820 ft) Little Hangman, which marks the edge of Exmoor.
The scenery of rocky headlands, ravines, waterfalls and towering cliffs gained the Exmoor coast recognition as a heritage coast in 1991. With its huge waterfalls and caves, this dramatic coastline has become an adventure playground for both climbers and explorers. The cliffs provide one of the longest and most isolated seacliff traverses in the UK. The South West Coast Path, at 1,014 kilometres (630 mi) the longest National Trail in England and Wales, starts at Minehead and runs along all of Exmoor's coast. There are small harbours at Lynmouth, Porlock Weir and Combe Martin. Once crucial to coastal trade, the harbours are now primarily used for pleasure; individually owned sail boats and non-commercial fishing boats are often found in the harbours. The Valley of the Rocks beyond Lynton is a deep dry valley that runs parallel to the nearby sea and is capped on the seaward side by large rocks and Sexton's Burrows forms a natural breakwater to the Harbour of Watermouth Bay on the coast.
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After a few days visit, I have to say that Exmoor national park is a hidden gem on the western coast of England. Stunning scenery and picturesque villages create a lovely combination of a peaceful place that is really worth visiting.
There are a lot of trails in the national park, both on the coast and in the hilly interior - and we of course tried a few of those.
As a child, I always used to refer to these bundles of hay, that have been stacked together, as Wigwams...Keeping a look out for the Indians that lived inside them, is another story :D ....