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As a precursor to the rebuilt Tunnel Motors, Missabe tested this pair of SD40-3 units supplied by Helm Financial (HLCX). They were equipped with Woodward Governor's CLC (Complete Locomotive Control) computerized operating system.
As we hurtle towards the end of term I thought that it was timely to remind everyone that I do, in fact, live in Phuket rather than all the other far flung places that I've been showing you pictures of. This reservoir is a regular haunt for me as I both hike and cycle there regularly. This was a rare sunny day in the midst of the rainy season
Isaiah 1:18: “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.”
It is a balmy -20 degrees celsius and the mercury continues to drop as day turns to night. Here, the cold, winter sun is bursting in through the engineer's window on GMTX GP38-2 2279 as CN train no. 568 trundles through snow-laden fields near Shakespeare, ON.
All life, as if an endless moment...
Seasons change after season.
This whole wonderful world was in white,
Then suddenly it becomes green again...
Where is the line, the one beyond which this life is?
Where is sensuality, and where is rationality?
Where is what we call MIRAGES,
And where is the inexorable reality?
And the world - it is as if woven from problems,
The mysteries in it are sometimes inexplicable,
But we live in it for some reason, why?
Everything in this world is so inexplicable...
We want it to be simple, why?
To understand everything that we do not understand?
So that no one understands
Everything that we feel and everything that we know?
What are we striving for, what do we want to understand?
First we create, and then we destroy again,
We are so used to losing so much,
That our souls become hardened from losses.
We are used to life, and it is only a moment!
I just started living, and life is already coming to an end,
And this world remains a fairy tale
A mystery, once unsolved...
“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Another from yesterday mornings little hike with the pup it was great to get out again even if only for about 20 minutes.
Glad we went cause we;re back into the deep freeze here until next week now.
Was really hoping to get a good sunburst from this but as you can see I didn;t quite get that.
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Looks better when you hit L
I love Nuthatches especially as they are a fairly recent addition to Scotland's birdlife. About 50 years ago they had a tiny foothold in the Borders but in the last thirty years or so they have expanded considerably spreading north and west quickly. The prime driver in this is the increase and popularity of bird feeding and Nuthatches can't resist a peanut. A pair were dominating the feeders today and cleaned out the peanuts. This is a female with light chestnut undertail coverts and a grey, rather than strong black, stripe through the eye.
As Santa, I Get A Lot Of Letters Wanting To Know What My Favorite Sexual Position Is?
My Favorite Sexual Position Is Any One That Doesn't Involve Pepper Spray Or Tasers.
I live in a world, where its easy to get lost in thoughts, overwhelmed by the fantasy and drowning in the possibilities. Yup
i stay living in a fantasy, and your the only one willing to take me as I am,yup your the only one that fits me perfectly..........
Spending as much time as I can at my favorite place, I watched the seabirds flee, I knew something was up, then this gigantic juvenile flew in front of me, over and around my head. The sun was setting. She gave me a lovely silhouette.
This one is younger than the two we saw on Sunday.
Be well dear Flickr friends!!!!
As I crawl through the sand and lay on my stomach to capture this shot and others. Mersea Island is having a surge tide. If your not aware there is one road on and off. If the strood ( the rd on and off ) gets covered by sea you can have a two hour wait to get back across. After I finished photographing everything that moved, I realised that high tide was at 1.30pm and it was 12.45pm. I was stuck on mersea til the tide had subsided 3pm. Think I got some ok shots though!
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As one of the warmest Christmas seasons on record, snow seems like a long way away - and blue skies too, as the weather continues to be wet and windy, so no nice walkies today! A suitable time to trawl through the photo archives.
This was shot a few years ago, at the Hairy Loch, Isle of Skye - back when there were still trees on the hillside below the mountains.
Also known as the snake bird or water turkey, the anhinga is a year-round resident of Florida. It is also found from coastal sections of South Carolina westward to Texas and Mexico, and even south to Argentina.
Like cormorants, anhingas do not have oil glands for waterproofing their feathers and the feathers get wet when they are swimming.
You can often spot the anhinga perched on a branch with wings outstretched, drying feathers. They feed on small fish, shrimp, amphibians, crayfish and young alligators and snakes. The fact that their feathers are less water resistant than other birds helps them to swim underwater, where they often spear fish with their long neck and sharp beak. They surface in order to flip their catch into their mouth for consumption.
Mating generally occurs in February with egg-laying occurring throughout the spring and early summer. Nests are built in shoreline trees 15 to 20 feet high.
I found this one along Peavine Road in Osceola County, Florida.
As the name suggests, the Marsh Harrier lives in wetland habitats. They are a success story now after being extinct in Britain in the 19th Century. Since the first pairs bred in 1971 in Suffolk they have increased very well indeed, as has the wetland management on which they depend. It is now a regular sight to see these wonderful large harriers hunting over our marshes. I photographed this one locally, something that I would not have thought possible only 30 years ago.
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As the night winds sing and temperature starts to drop, many hydrangeas have changed colour. This one is one of the few Endless Summer Hydrangeas which manage to keep their beautiful pink, among others with shades of mauve and blue. My gardener said it was because I have not spread my coffee grounds out evenly and therefore the soil varies in pH levels. Suits me very well.
As part of the courtship both swans were side by side dipping their heads into the water, first one and then the other, this would go on for a while and then the dipping would become synchronised, after which they would then commence with mating.
I was lucky enough to witness this pair mate three times last year. They managed to have five cygnets but lost two very early on. The three remaining survived and only left the lake at the beginning of March this year.
Valeria is already sitting on a newly built nest on the end of an island. Im looking forward to seeing what they have this year.
As I was going through last years photos, there are a lot of them I would still like to share.
This one was in the close proximity to Bryce Canyon.
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As many of you know, Camille always accompanies Otis when I let him go outside. Her deadpan look here (upper righthand corner) cracks me up.
As I briefly stopped for a distant photo of this Barred Owl I noticed lots of signs of voles in the surrounding field grass.
Thank you for viewing
as small as a world
and as large as alone
for whatever we lose
(like a you or a me)
its always our selves
we find in the sea...
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from a distance, i can still see you...
As we were making our way home through the Forest on Friday we spotted a large herd of cows in a stream. Whist the rest of the herd were crossing, these two just seemed to be having a moment. This is a really popular tourist spot in Brockenhurst where people sit at the side of the stream. It gets really crowded with children paddling in the water so locally it is known as "Brockenhurst Beach". I am not sure I would let any of my family paddle in there knowing what the cows sometimes use it as -lol
As promised, I grabbed my easel and paints and headed up to Nova Scotia to capture the colors and character of the harbor towns on the North Atlantic. A beautiful sunny and calm day provided the perfect canvas for today's Street View scene.
Water color rendition of a Google Earth Street View
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For my new Flickr friends,
I love to investigate the world via Google Street View, and occasionally I set up my watercolor easel (figuratively) and create a Plein Air painting of a scene. I use the digital art program called DAP to create these paintings. I try to find places that are not so well known, and today's painting is definitely not well known.
"So much earth, so little time"
As with my scenes, sometimes new characters get birthed -- in this case, two new ones first born from death, its seems.
They don't have names yet (though I like Ceiloo for her), but wanted to share the process cause I thought it looked cool.
As normality descends on our household ( children return to school today) so I thought I’d go back to ‘normal’ on Flickr!
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Bridgewater Canal, Worsley
As picturesque as Worsley is there are very few vantage points to capture something new. You have the towpath on the left or this viewpoint from the iron footbridge. But you can always rely on someone to walk the towpath to add a focal point and the wider than normal narrowboat is one of the pleasure cruisers that operates between Worsley and Castlefield is a bonus.
Must say, it seems a little early in the season for pleasure trips unless this is a winter special!
Here is a scene from a recent rehearsal play called Ladykillers which was originally a British Black Comedy. The cast in this play were brilliant as as there were twists and turns in the storyline. I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to get some shoots of the play.
As he Walked the Halls of the Labryrinth Sanctum he was soon joined by one of his more faithful companions..A Three headed hound..A Cerberus he simply named Thrice. He was not as gigantic as the hounds that guarded realms..He was large mind you but a more stout hound ..The mage smiled and patted his heads one by one..then conjured a piece of meat..a hamhock..one of his favorite treats..A memory flashed as he fed each of Thrice's heads..How he found the beast..injured and then took him in..scared..vicious..he would lunge and lash at the mage..all trying not to harm or hurt the beast..when he found at one point ..the hound was obviously mistreated..abused..scared ..so with a desperate move The mage conjured a spell and created meat for him..offering the treat slowly..it snapped..and tried to fight if off each others heads..then the mage formed two more..for each maw..they ate and devoured..one after the other..until he could conjure no more..physically tired and his magic aura depleted..he knelt thinking it was going to be a fight..but then the beast came..and rested his heads one by one as a sign he trusted his new friend and soon to be master..the memory faded as he walked with him "You will meet the new apprentices..they will tend to you..and you will guard them..but do go easy..they cannot yet conjure your treats yet.."
"To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June." Jean Paul Sartre
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As I was hiking yesterday getting some exercise outside the house came upon these pretty lovely flowers there in the side of a hill of grass ... with that pretty late day sunlight hitting them.
Comps as in composites (family of plant- Asteraceae, formerly Compositae), not compositions. Now that our summer has turned hot and smoky with many plants withering, it is time to look back at flowers from mid-summer. On the left is Blanketflower (Gaillardia aristata), which occurs throughout western North America. Note the several insect visitors among its petals. On the right is a Fleabane Daisy (Erigeron spp, one of the 44 species that occur in Colorado).