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66430 rolls through the Grampian countryside as it approaches Balsporran crossing on the run up Drumochter with 4D47 1337 Inverness to Coatbridge empty Tesco service on 3rd July 2025.
The big grey sky is something around these parts was something I was very used to when I was climbing Munros many years ago!
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On the way back from the mountains some weeks ago, we stopped at Maihaugen.
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Maihaugen is a large open air museum in Lillehammer with close to 200 buildings. This old lady talked about old times and served home made butter, it was very good :))
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The Union Pacific "Southern Pacific" heritage engine, honoring the fallen railroad, once again makes a round into the Chicago area. It's heading eastward past the endangered searchlight signals at Cortland, IL.
So I'm back...after a hiatus of almost 7 years (didn't realise it has been this loooooong).
Hello everyone, hope all of you are doing great!
Hoping my second innings on Flickr will be as enjoyable as the first one. And hopefully some of you remember me :)
You won't find these guys hanging around Arizona and Florida as we did this winter, so although there is still snow on the ground up here, it is good to be "back home".
Franklin, PA. August 2016.
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For Blythe a Day
Beauty and the Beast
November 18, 2019
Red cabinet: made by me from a cardboard box
Fireplace: made by me - wooden frame, egg carton "rocks," real grout
Bread: made by me from air dry clay
Books: made by me
Red dishes: made by me - printed images glued on cardboard
Table, rocker, Belle's basket, small side table ottoman: flea market find
Chair: flea market - repainted
Walls: Christmas gift boxes, painted, wood trim added
Floor & ceiling: scrapbook paper
No reference to this song by Ms Winehouse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1evzhSast8
Even though that's what sparked the idea for this picture.
Looking back to a gorgeous summer's day a few years ago. How lovely it would be to be out and about once more.
Stay Safe and Well
After a very long time the first picture I posted on the day I shot it;)
Technical: Handheld, f/8, 1/500s, ISO100, 50mm, editing with Aperture.
back to blogging
Model . Photography : Tyler Barineaux
*I won the L'Accessoires November Flickr Contest with this picture - wooooooot! :D*
Today's the forty-fifth anniversary of our wedding. Just as we woke up to a fresh coating of snow that day, we're expecting a few inches today.
A friend had volunteered to be our wedding photographer, but trouble with his equipment prevented him from getting any photos at all. Here's one, taken by my aunt. I scanned it long ago, but gave it a fresh edit for today.
Our plan has been to spend the day at the zoo, but the incoming snow may cause the zoo to close. Maybe we'll go out to eat instead.
1772. Dangerously close to the Diamond Shoals off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, the sloop Thunderbolt, battered by a fierce storm and rough sea, catches fire from an overturned cook stove. All aboard scrambled to put out the flames while trying to keep from being tossed overboard. The shoals, sand dunes just below the water’s surface, reach out some 18 miles past Hatteras Point. Hundreds of ships have run aground here, miles from shore, to be pulverized by the relentless waves... and often, all aboard drown.
On this day, a terrified 17-year-old orphaned boy from St. Croix, on his way to an American education, is among those fighting to save the ship... he is Alexander Hamilton, who would get that education and become the first U. S. Secretary of the Treasury under President George Washington. Resting against the rails of the saved ship, he watches as the shoals recede away... and vows to do something so that others would not know such fear.
There was a reason ships were drawn near the shoals... wind-driven ships also relied on ocean current, which at times can move better than 40 mph. The Labrador Current sweeps down from the north and hugs this coast to about two miles off the beach. Beyond that is the Gulf Stream that moves up from the south toward the upper tier states. Often, it was faster for ships coming to Boston or New York from Europe to work their way south to catch the Gulf Stream than it was to come straight across the Atlantic. Even back in the day, folks in the shipping business knew that time is money. The confluence of the cold Labrador Current and the warm Gulf Stream also set up perfect conditions for violent storms and ocean swells. Add to that the shoals, which extended beyond sight of land amid that confluence, and many an unwary ship’s captain left “money” to shift among the sands of these underwater dunes. Only jetsam and flotsam found on the beaches along the Outer Banks gave evidence of the fate of the ship.
As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton finally has the power to make good on his vows, and the U. S. Lighthouse Service, and eventually the U. S. Coast Guard fall under the auspices of the Treasury Department. The first lighthouses along the east coast were functional, if just barely, and were not constructed to the exacting standards you see here... there’s something to be said of building your house on shifting sand, as many of the early lighthouses here in North Carolina toppled shortly after construction. Under the supervision of Dexter Stetson, Hatteras Lighthouse rose up 210 feet from a foundation of granite, rubble, and entire lengths of pine pushed to the bedrock... and stayed up, as it has since 1870. With a focal plane at 187 feet, its light could be seen for 28 miles, well before a ship reached the shoals at night. Its conical tower is painted in black and white spirals to make it distinctive from other local lighthouses.
After his success at Hatteras, Stetson turned his attention to Bodie Island. The name of the island is in contention, largely due to revisionist historians... the name is pronounced “body” and is likely an archaic form of that word. Legend has it the name comes because of bodies washing ashore after some ship found its resting place in the of the Graveyard of the Atlantic. According to some historians, however, the name comes from a family that once lived here, though that has never been proven... the legend may not be so legendary, as such things did happen. A lighthouse would save lives here too.
There were two lighthouses located here before the one you see here. The first one leaned toward the sea shortly after it was built. That was in the day before electrical power, so the lighthouse had to be tended to every day... could you imagine having to climb up a structure so unstable that it might topple any second, at least twice a day? Me neither. It failed and was replaced, but Confederate troops blew the second one up in 1861 during a series of skirmishes as Yankee troops descended on Fort Fisher. The third installment of Bodie Island Lighthouse projected light from its first order Fresnel lens for the first time in 1872. At a height of 165 feet, its beam can still be seen 21 miles out to sea.
Though built on a land that shifts with the wind and tide, Bodie Island Lighthouse has withstood hurricanes, nor’easters, floods, lightning, heat, and humidity, but 148 years of such conditions had taken its toll. After much determination, restoration of the lighthouse began in 2010. The last of the project was the installation of the refurbished Fresnel lens... after a re-lighting ceremony, the lighthouse was returned to service April 18, 2013. Seen here in morning light 11 years since, Bodie Island Lighthouse is still every bit the historical standout with its alternating bands of black and white.
Weather in the last week flooded roads and breached dune berms in the area… lucky me. It also provided unusual circumstances for me to shoot the lighthouse, magnificent as it has been for 152 years.
Just got back from a glorioulsly sunny week in Venice which was a double celebration - a belated one for my 50th birthday and helping a friend celebrate hers.