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Don't let the warm light fool you. There was a very chilly breeze blowing when I photographed this image on Big Yellow Mountain. In fact the trail that I hiked from was frozen solid from the night before. That's Little Hump Mountain in the distance.
Landscape Composition; Crawford Park; Rye Brook, New York; John Mayer: youtu.be/fBNwW6rOTrQ
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I'm almost there and things are becoming clearer now. The trees are even more lovely at this distance and the plant itself has become a beacon of light. My hands are sweaty and I tremble with anticipation. I can barely hold the camera still. Thank goodness for image stabilization. Thank goodness for wild and crazy imaginations.
Tomorrow: Arrival: The Blue Collar Cathedral
Port of Redwood City California
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A mature and leafless Ash tree silhouetted against a deep blue late autumn sky
A curtain of bare trees backstops muted but still colourful aspens along frosty shoreline of a slightly foggy pond; Elk Island National Park, AB.
The Franklin Cemetery is about a quarter mile (0.4km) due north of the remains of the stone house. Although I don't know much about the cemetery, it appears to have been neglected for many years. Someone has salvaged five of the headstones and enclosed them in a small fenced-in area about the size of a burial plot. Two of the headstones were of veterans, one was of a five-year old boy that died in 1865, and the remaining stones were difficult to read. The fence and the flags are reasonably new.
There are several groups of depressions at regularly spaced intervals throughout the plot (some of these are visible on satellite images). The cemetery is on the crest of a hill and is surrounded by office development. I purposely framed the picture like this to keep all such buildings out of the image.
Picher, OK, was a mining town in the northeast corner of Oklahoma, and the area around it was a major producer of lead and zinc in the first half of the 20th Century. At its peak, more that 14,000 men worked the mines in the area, and 4,000 more in mining-related services. Eventually, the mines played out and the last one closed in the late 1960s, leading many people to move away from Picher.
The result of this activity was huge piles of mine waste (chat) in various places in and around Picher. Although not economically viable, the chat piles still had trace amounts of lead in them, and the wind would stir up fine dust particles which the townspeople would inhale. Contaminated water turned the local creek red, and sinkholes began to appear as the abandoned mines collapsed.
In 1983, the Environmental Protection Agency declared a 40-mile (104km) square area around Picher one of the most contaminated areas in the United States. A study in the mid 1990s showed about a third of the children in Picher had elevated levels of lead in their blood. The federal government began buyouts of the remaining residents in 2005, but not all took the offer. In 2008, an EF-4 tornado cut a path through the remainder of the town killing 7 people and destroying many houses; none were rebuilt. In 2009, Picher disincorporated and the school district dissolved, making it a modern-day ghost town. More wildlife than people now inhabit the area, but Picher’s legacy remains. Early in 2015, more than 1,000 migratory birds were found dead in Picher; the cause was thought to be zinc poisoning.
kind of a summary of our winter so far ...
we've had it in steps : \
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