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This was taken last month. Seen here during civil twilight and only partially eclipsed. Shot w good friend Joshua Crites. Two frames taken 1 second apart and focus stacked for optimal viewing.
From Left edge tiny Comet Catalina, Venus, Mars, Moon Jupiter top Right. If you zoom in 100% there is tiny star on the left of Venus that is Comet Catalina
After finishing up their work at Tri City and leaving the two classic GP18s behind there New Hampshire Northcoast Railroad train D8 from Ossipee to Dover is highballing south behind GP38-2s NHN 3825 (blt. Sept. 1978 as CR 8244), leased FURX 5509 (blt. Mar. 1970 as high nosed straight GP38 SOU 2801) and NHN 3823 (blt. Sept. 1978 as CR 8242). They are approaching the Old Milton Road crossing as they roll thru the colorful the marshland surrounding Heath Brook near MP 81.8 on the former Boston and Maine Railroad's Conway Branch.
For those who are less familiar with this route here is a concise history excerpted from a June 2004 report to the NH State Legislature by the state DOT's Bureau of Rail and Transit on the feasibility of reopening the line to service all the way to Conway.
'Several railroad histories describe the formation and construction of the Conway Branch rail line, most recently The Rail Lines of Northern New England (Robert M. Lindsell, Branch Line Press, 2000). After several attempts to form railroad companies and construct the southern segments of this line, the Portsmouth, Great Falls, and Conway Railroad was chartered in 1865. Construction of the line was completed to West Ossipee in 1871 and to North Conway in 1872.
Initially, the line initiated at Jewett in Maine, through Salmon Falls to Somersworth. This
alignment was replaced by the current line from Rollinsford to Somersworth. Passenger service from Boston to the new North Conway station began in 1872. A connection with the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad (later Maine Central’s Mountain Division) at Intervale was made in 1875.
The Portsmouth, Great Falls and Conway was part of the Eastern Railroad, which merged with the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1890. The railroad served manufacturing plants in several communities and lumber mills and sand and gravel operations in the Conway area. Freight service north of Ossipee ended in 1972. During the 1980s, the Boston Sand & Gravel Co. initiated service on the line for its subsidiary, Ossipee Aggregates by a new railroad, the New Hampshire Northcoast. This included the purchase of the line from Rochester to Ossipee and a major rehabilitation project that was partly funded by the state of New Hampshire through capital budget appropriations, federal Local Rail Freight Assistance funds, and the state’s revolving loan program for short line railroads. In 1994, the New Hampshire Northcoast purchased the balance of the line from Rollinsford to Rochester from the B&M.
The rehabilitation of the Conway Branch to Ossipee was a major undertaking, involving a large investment by the New Hampshire Northcoast and expenditure of $989,000 in state capital budget funds, $656,000 in LRFA funds (with railroad matching funds), and $606,000 in revolving loan funds now being repaid by the railroad. The railroad’s ability to handle heavy loads of sand and gravel has removed approximately 30,000 trucks per year from the highway system between Ossipee and Boston.
The Boston and Maine and its predecessors operated passenger service on the Conway Branch from 1872 to 1961. The Interstate Commerce Commission approved abandonment of the line from Mt. Whittier (West Ossipee) to Intervale in 1972. Abandonment, a process now handled by the federal Surface Transportation Board, the successor to the ICC, relieves a railroad of its obligation to provide freight service to a shipper. In 1974, the railroad corridor within the town of Conway was sold to the Conway Scenic Railroad.
Efforts to preserve the Conway Branch as a railroad corridor have included the purchase of most of the line within the town of Madison by the town in 1987, and its subsequent sale to the state in 1995. The state of New Hampshire purchased the balance of the line owned by the Boston & Maine in 2001. Today, the New Hampshire Northcoast owns the railroad corridor from its junction with the B&M main line in Rollinsford to Route 28 in Ossipee, the state owns it from that point to the Albany-Conway town line, and the Conway Scenic owns the balance of the corridor in the town of Conway to Intervale.'
Rochester, New Hampshire
Wednesday October 8, 2025
In order to create an authentically powerful life, you need to align your personality with your soul. ~ GZ and there it was..few years later and the alignment has happened in front of my eyes. Just like that..
The sun rises over the distant peaks of the Lake District lighting up the clouds above in an array of beautiful colours, on a calm morning at the Point of Ayre. Captured with my telephoto lens, the alignment with Winkie Lighthouse only really works for a few short weeks each year. A wonderful way to start the day 👌
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Self portrait in one of the car parks of the University of Tasmania.
I love these trees - at night the dominance of the bright light is hard to adjust to - I took a few different angles and found that flaring and rotten exposure were big issues. Then I thought i'd work with the flare and while I was setting up a man walked through the frame. I thought - yep this shot needs a peron in it, so self timer on and in I walked.
"For beautiful eyes,
look for the good in others;
for beautiful lips,
speak only words of kindness;
and for poise,
walk with the knowledge
that you are never alone. "
~Audrey Hepburn~
It's Sliders Sunday!
... and what could be more fun that playing with a pic from my daughter, modeling her mask which I sent off earlier this week to thank her for some hard to find items she had shipped to me via the internet!
She actually would LOVE to be a professional personal shopper, which is something she didn't get from me! So I'm thrilled this is a win win for both of us!
The crescent moon finds a gap in the clouds as a magnificent sunset lights up over the darkly looming heights of the dunes, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. My youngest son requested a trip to the Dunes in a rented RV for his birthday present a couple of years ago when this photo was made. Bless him for having the prescience to get us all here for this moment.
Back to the current day, a number of wildfires are roiling the typically blue Colorado skies with smoke that is almost as pretty at sunset as the clouds you see here. The downside, of course, is the loss of forest, life, and livelihood. Today the humidity finally increased and it began to rain in some small measure. After the latest conflagration leaped over the Continental Divide, perhaps the forest on the eastern side of Rocky Mountain National Park will not burn too severely, but who can be sure. It is troubling to know that years like this are but the harbinger of what is to come if we do not act quickly to reduce our economic dependence on fossil fuels. Forests have a hard time absorbing carbon from the atmosphere when they are incinerated and become a source of carbon themselves.
Low Fog Sunset at Golden Gate Bridge, taken from small airplane.
The sunset burn w/low fog was predicted by Yiupai sunrise/sunset forecast service.
I was not overly hopeful of taking a decent shot of the Sturgeon Full Moon (Supermoon) a few days ago. I had pinpointed a good spot on a hill 2.5 miles away, to photograph the National Wallace Monument at 600mm, but not a place I had ever visited before. However as the bright red moon made an appearance we were standing on exactly the right spot.
"Placating replies to curious eyes
Deepen no oceans, broaden no one’s sky.
With frontiers belittled, invention dies.
Life is shared mystery, let us ally.”~N. Parkison
Sunrise against the massive Ship's Prow at 12,000ft, Chasm Lake, Colorado.
Not nearly as exciting or as rare as the alignments at Salk Institute or Scripps Pier but way less stressful !
Last night was amazingly clear showing the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn in alignment high up in the night sky. This is a montage of 2 photos - one of the moon which was very bright and the 2 planets in the correct positions as seen last night.
The crescent moon rising after sunset at The Bungle Bungles (or more correctly, Purnululu National Park) was the perfect way to cap off a day of exploring the amazing rock formations that are found in this remote part of Australia.
I discovered by accident that over the past few days many of my contacts images have not been appearing in my feed, so apologies to those of you I've missed. I'm trying to back track as I can.