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Lyrics from „The day begins“, The Moody Blues:
Cold hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colours from our sight.
Red is grey and yellow white,
But we decide which is right,
And which is an illusion.
Pinprick holes in a colourless sky,
Let insipid figures of light pass by,
The mighty light of ten thousand suns,
Challenges infinity and is soon gone.
Night time, to some a brief interlude,
To others the fear of solitude.
Brave Helios wake up your steeds,
Bring the warmth the countryside needs.
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Gehakkelde aurelia
In Nederland was de soort aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw een vrij algemene vlinder. Daarna nam het voorkomen af, zodat het dier in 1925 zeldzaam was en in het noorden in het geheel niet meer werd waargenomen. In de dertig jaar daarna namen de aantallen toe, om vervolgens in de jaren zestig weer af te nemen totdat de soort alleen nog in Limburg en Noord-Brabant werd waargenomen. De eerste helft van de jaren zeventig bracht weer een korte opleving. Sinds de jaren tachtig van de twintigste eeuw breidt het verspreidingsgebied van de gehakkelde aurelia zich snel noordwaarts uit. Inmiddels is Nederland vrijwel geheel gekoloniseerd en is de gehakkelde aurelia een algemene standvlinder.
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Chopped aurelia.
In the Netherlands, the species was a fairly common butterfly at the beginning of the twentieth century. Thereafter, the occurrence decreased, so that in 1925 the animal was rare and was not seen at all in the north. In the following thirty years the numbers increased, and then decreased again in the 1960s until the species was only observed in Limburg and North Brabant. The first half of the 1970s brought another brief revival. Since the eighties of the twentieth century, the distribution area of the chopped aurelia has been expanding rapidly northwards. The Netherlands has now been almost completely colonized and the hackled aurelia is a common butterfly.
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the creation of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Currently, it is a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest end of Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.
World's first steam powered clock
Historic Gastown
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
The insides of this clock is where the magic begins....
Built in 1977. Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 to solve the issue of a steam vent in a popular sidewalk for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver. Owned by the City of Vancouver, BC Canada
The steam clock's plaque reads:
THE GASTOWN STEAM CLOCK
Designed and built by
Raymond L. Saunders
Horologist
The world's first steam powered clock has been created for the enjoyment of everyone. The live steam winds the weights and blows the whistles. Every 4.5 minutes one steel weight will travel by steam power to the top of the clock. The gravity driven "falling ball" drive was 'engineered' by Douglas L. Smith. Each quarter hour the clock will sound the Westminster Chimes. The large whistle will sound once on the hour. The steam is supplied by the underground system of Central Heat Distributor's Limited. The component parts cost $42,000 and the clock weighs over two tons.
A few years ago the clock was refit and is not entirely steam powered. It also has three small electric motors to help operate two internal fans, one of which blows the steam out the top, and another that controls the valves that play the tunes on the five steam whistles mounted atop the clock case.
The large central whistle, which was taken off the CPR steam tug Naramata, counts off the full hours while the four auxiliary whistles chime the Westminster Quarters every quarter hour. The number of chimes matches the number of quarter hours that have passed.
Wikipedia and various other online sites.
*Please note : Information has not been verified accurate.
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Our boat anchors at Ponta do Cururu in Alter do Chão, Santarém, Pará as we embark on the Vivência Tapajós photo expedition.
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Quite a large number of people with their augers setting up for the ice fishing season on the Red River.
Good riddance to 2021, the worst year of my lifetime. I wish 2022 is a happier year for everyone. Stay safe and healthy.
As we wait for the lunchtime concert to begin in Chichester Cathedral, Ray keeps the seats whilst I have a little look around with my camera.
On Tuesday I came across Andrea and David in the audience. We had met them on a previous visit when they agreed to a portrait for my strangers' project.
Andrea was wearing a winter hat and had previously told me she has quite a collection. I asked for a portrait; she agreed.
thank you for your visits to my photostream, any faves and comments
We all start as strangers......
This is among the first bouquets available for sale at Wright-Locke Farm. The flower crew tends to a great variety of plants, and designs lovely bouquets.
Raeren - Al sinds begin 2020 rijdt de Oostenrijkse ÖBB met haar NightJet naar Brussel. In den beginne reed de internationale slaaptrein tweemaal per week naar Wenen en Innsbruck. Met de start van dienstregeling 2021 werd het treinaanbod uitgebreid naar driemaal wekelijks, waarbij het treindeel naar Innsbruck werd geschrapt. Hiermee kwam het aantal rijtuigen op de verbinding naar Wenen op vier stuks te liggen. De kortste reguliere NightJet van het netwerk!
Met de wisseling van de dienstregeling medio december 2020 werd de NightJet-verbinding met Amsterdam een feit, en verplaatste de verbinding Brussel-Innsbruck naar Amsterdam-Innsbruck. Het resterende deel vanuit België wordt sindsdien in Köln-West aan de rijtuigen uit Amsterdam gekoppeld. Gedurende de drie jaar die volgen zal de trein blijven rijden volgens dit schema. In december 2023 zal daar weer verandering in komen, en zal de bovenstaande foto niet meer gemaakt kunnen worden met de trein geheel in beeld.
Vanaf dan zal ÖBB een nieuwe verbinding in het leven roepen, en wel die naar Berlin! Vanuit zowel Brussel als Paris zullen er dagdagelijkse verbindingen komen die elkaar in Mannheim tegen gaan komen. De Belgische rijtuigen maken dus een flinke omweg op hun reis van Brussel naar Berlin. En dat met de concurrent European Sleeper op dezelfde verbinding...
Enfin, het bovenstaande is nog zeker niet het geval, en nadat een eerdere poging een paar weken eerder door bewolking niet eens werd overwogen trokken we dan toch weer naar de fraaie stek nabij Hergenrath. Met het naderende verlengen van de trein zal dit de laatste zomer zijn dat de trein in zijn volledigheid in het fraaie ochtendlicht gefotografeerd kan worden. Met loc 1852 voorop is NightJet 50490 - In België bekend als NJ 424 - te zien op de Hammerbrücke, als deze met een ruime -5 (!) onderweg is naar Liège-Guillemins en Brussel-Zuid. Een geslaagde eerste foto van een heerlijk apart reisje!
Autumn according to the meteorological calendar begins in September and ends in November. In the astronomical calendar, the beginning of autumn is marked by the autumn equinox which occurs around the 22 September.
During the autumn equinox the sun shines directly on the equator and day and night around the globe are of almost equal length - a day and night of roughly 12 hours each.