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Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)in a snag on the peninsula of Munson Pond, Kelowna, BC.
"And I've been watching you, too!"
The friendly puffins are tireless fishing. With very fast flight and strong wind, they have to maneuver very quickly to land successfully and bring the prize back to their nest.
This is the approach to Baring elevator, the subject of the first image in this series. Aside from the elevator, there is not much to see except the road and the remains of the town on the right. The Baring elevator was built by the Maple Leaf Milling Company in 1909 and it was closed and abandoned in the early 60s when the railway line was closed.
Baring, Saskatchewan, Canada.
If you'd like to read about my recent winter trip to Saskatchewan, you're welcome to check out my blog post about it.
At one time, grain elevators could be found every 8 to 10 miles along every railway line in western Canada. That allowed most farmers to make a round trip to an elevator to deliver and sell their grain with a horse and wagon in one day. From that elevator the grain would be shipped to ports on the Great Lakes or the west coast, across Canada and around the world. Grain elevators started appearing across the Prairies in the late 19th century, and the number of grain elevators peaked in 1938, when there were nearly 6,000 primary (country) elevators in the Prairie provinces. Many factors led to the decline of the primary elevator: the Depression, increased mechanization, improved roads for transportation, rural depopulation, the closing of branch lines of the railway and the buying out or merging of the grain companies and the building of large, concrete grain terminals. In 2023 there were only around 400 country elevators left in Saskatchewan and only about 100 are still in use. Many of the old, wooden elevators have been destroyed – burned down, struck by lightning, demolished - but some of them still remain - weathered but beautiful and stalwart.
Sources: Dommasch, H. (1986) Prairie Giants. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books and Farrell, I. (2023) Reflections on Wooden Grain Elevators. heritagesask.ca/news/reflections-on-wooden-grain-elevators
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A 3 image panorama as we were first approaching Sedoan near Oak Creek at the visitors center before we started our 'Pink Jeep Tour'.
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YAY, finally a little bit of nice cloud cover - it has been quite cloudless around here for a long time now, and of course the clouds came yesterday morning with a beautiful sunrise - I was totally unprepared, so just had to enjoy it from our bed. ;-)
Decided to get out this morning, hoping they would still be around. I was not dissapointed, a nice little storm was approaching the coast line - so were able to get a few long exposures before the clouds dumped their payload. Got drenched running back to the car, but never mind, the clouds are back!
After the storm had passed I went back down to the rocks - but the camera did not want to turn on!!! Arrgh - packed everything back up again and were just enjoying the sunrise.
Not sure what happend, but the camera turned back on when I got home. phew.
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With the light onto the former Wabash at Bement, NS D36 is heading into the home stretch as the local from Bloomington rolls closer to Decatur.
North of Bement, IL
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This image was taken last year at Botallack Mines in Cornwall and depicts the mist rolling in towards Botallack.
I believe this was my second visit to Botallack and had originally planned to do what most do when they visit -capture a sunset. Once the mist rolled in, I knew I had to shelf those plans. It made for an interesting drive back as this was much like after the first visit when the drive back was covered in mist.
Unlike the recent posts, this image is a newly edited image.
September 29, 2011: Approaching Storm in Silverjack Wilderness area of the Uncompahgre National Forest, Colorado
158960 approaches Abbotswood Junction with 1V94 Brighton to Great Malvern, running some 26 minutes late the unit would be turned round at Worcester Foregate Street and rattling back over the junction in under an hour.
A very windy and wet evening down La Corbiere Lighthouse... I took a right battering from the sea spray!
Olympus OM4, Ektachrome EB100, digitised by photographing the original 35mm slide on a light table using a 12mm extension tube; tethered capture and digital processing in Lightroom.
"Grassholm (Welsh: Gwales or Ynys Gwales) is a small uninhabited island situated 13 kilometres off the southwestern Pembrokeshire coast in Wales, lying west of Skomer. It is the westernmost point in Wales other than the isolated rocks on which the Smalls Lighthouse stands. Grassholm is known for its huge colony of northern gannets; the island has been owned since 1947 by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and is one of its oldest reserves.
Grassholm National Nature Reserve is the third most important site for gannets in the world, after two sites in Scotland: St Kilda and Bass Rock. It serves as a breeding site for 39,000 pairs of the birds, and supports around 10 percent of the world population. The turbulent sea around Grassholm is a good feeding area for porpoises and bottlenose dolphins." (Wikipedia, edited)
Abelha denominada Jataí, tem em média 3 a 4 mm no máximo, social, normalmente dócil, melífera, com mel de ótima qualidade, porem pouco aproveitado já que a produção não excede em muito o consumo própio da colmeia.
This location is something of a classic on the Moffat, as the Zephyr wraps around the tight curve on the approach to Tunnel 29, the shortest tunnel in the Tunnel District at only 75 feet in length. My dad has a shot of the Rio Grande Zephyr, with DRGW 5771 leading, from roughly this same perspective. Note the slight discoloration in the rock by the final Superliner, This used to be Tunnel 28, but was daylights decades ago due to cave-ins.
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Continuing south from MP 912 with the SCFE Cane 1 chase, I’d pull up to Palmdale, FL for the next photo spot at the small double-tracked wooden trestle by the Fisheating Creek Outpost park grounds. Not long after arriving, #USSC6324 eases its loaded train over the trestle while making a whole lotta noise for the adjacent grade crossing by the park entrance. The engineer has slowed his train down to 25 MPH to pass the “Over L W Timber Switch” .7 miles south at Harrisburg, located at MP 918.70. There, the original Haines City Branch alignment diverges to the east onto the former Moore Haven & Clewiston Railway right-of-way, now part of the SCFE Sebring Subdivision.
As previously mentioned, the trackage between Sebring and Harrisburg was laid down by the Atlantic Coast Line as part of an extension of their Haines City Branch south to Ortona between 1916 and 1918. Palmdale itself hosted a small yard and mixed-use depot—located half a mile north from the trestle framed above—that lasted until Seaboard Coast Line’s tenure of the line… The yard was downsized to its current form as the 3,250 ft “Palmdale” siding while the depot experienced a less favorable fate, disappearing sometime in the late 1980’s—the last known photos of its existence date back to 1982 [available at floridamemory.com].
Coordinates for the depot’s site are at 26.944974, -81.317053. All that remains of the infrastructure there is the depot’s relay box and a small wooden shed, its intended purpose I’m not sure of.
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Palmdale, FL
SCFE Sebring Subdivision
Date: 02/21/2024 | 13:33
ID: SCFE Cane 1
Type: Loaded Cane
Direction: Eastbound
Car Count: 25
1. USSC SD40T-2 #6324
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The afternoon yesterday had a typical London rainshower. But it cleared up just before sunset to reveal magnificent clouds. I crisscrossed the Thames River many times to find the right light. After the sun dipped below the horizon, the light finally fell behind Westminster with a delicate palette.
Read the rest here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
I loved the bluey grey of the approaching storm clouds against the yellow of the field. It was a different scene about 30 minutes later with heavy rain, thunder & lightning. I was going to camp, but decided to book a room at the Nindigully Pub. Thallon, Queensland, Australia.
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Well, more like "Approaching light rain shower" - but that wouldn't be half as dramatic!
Tenby Harbour, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
A snowberry clearwing moth approaches a single blue dicks blossom in a meadow at Auburn, California. The clearwing moths are also called hummingbird moths for their rapid wing-rate, circular wing motion and the fact that they can fly in reverse like hummingbirds. This variety is "disguised" as a bumblebee, which tends to keep predators at a distance.
Snowberry clearwing moth: Hemaris diffinis; Blue Dicks: Dichelostemma capitatum
VIA 907 has just crossed over the Delisle river as VIA 624 approaches Coteau Jct, where the train will leave VIA Rail's Alexandria Sub and continue to Montreal on CN's Kingston Sub.
Olympus OM1, Kodachrome 64, digitised by photographing the original 35mm slide on a light pad using a 12mm extension tube. Tethered capture and development in Lightroom.
Eldgjá is the largest volcanic canyon in the world, approx. 40 km long, 270 m deep and 600 m wide at its greatest. (Wikipedia)
A branch of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge passes through here; the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate are separating from each other. To the left, America, to the right, Europe.
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Tromsø main street (Storgata) at 0930 in the morning, 20th of December. The sun is at its lowest these days and is not to be seen above the horizon in still one more month. Some ware deliveries are taking place. Except from that the streets are quiet at this time of the day.
Eva Air A321 approaching 07L at HKG with Gudetama special livery. Gudetama is basically a lazy egg.
Another of the popular Sanrio family of characters
On the fourth day of my Markha Valley trek in Hemis National Park, we left our camp at Skyu (3,370 m, 11,056 ft.) and walked southeastward some 12 km (7.5 mi.) along the Markha Chu (Markha River) to Sara (3,590 m, 11,778 ft,), where we stopped for lunch, and then continued southeastward along the Markha Chu some 9 km (5.6 mi.) to camp at Markha (3,760 m, 12,336 ft.). The ruins of the Markha Fortress are seen here looking southeast from 0.15 km (0.1 mi.) north-northwest of our Markha campsite. Chortens at the Markha Gompa are seen at left in sunshine.