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Both shots were taken at the National Botanic Gardens of Wales yesterday. I had a great day just walking around trying to get some "arty" shots! Hope you like them!! HMBT
The Lake Express Ferry heading out of Muskegon Port and over to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The view from the Park encompasses both the South Pierhead Light and the South Breakwater Light. Adding two more West Michigan lighthouses to my goal of photographing all 20. I'm up to 16 now, need another trip to the Michigan northwest.
...and finally a proper trip out with my newly acquired Z8, well I have had it since early June, just too busy with work to get out.
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With both of the blue Horizon motors on the point, the Rocky Mountaineer heads west at the west switch of the siding at Crescent. The result of a meet with a freight train longer than the siding, both the Mountaineer and the Zephyr would line up right behind each other to allow the freight train to pull around. Once in the clear, both passenger trains would depart the siding back to back to continue west.
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The genus Pan consists of two extant species: the common chimpanzee and the bonobo. Taxonomically, these two ape species are collectively termed panins; however, both species are more commonly referred to collectively using the generalized term chimpanzees, or chimps. Together with humans, gorillas, and orangutans they are part of the family Hominidae (the great apes, or hominids). Native to sub-Saharan Africa, common chimpanzees and bonobos are currently both found in the Congo jungle, while only the common chimpanzee is also found further north in West Africa. Both species are listed as endangered. Chimpanzees and bonobos are equally humanity's closest living relatives. As such, they are among the largest-brained and most intelligent primates: they use a variety of sophisticated tools and construct elaborate sleeping nests each night from branches and foliage. Their learning abilities have been extensively studied. 60741
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Rare and endangered birds found only in a few places across the country. Sightings are prized by bird lovers and photographers. They behave like terns both in flight and roosting behaviour, but are larger around 40-45 cms. These birds are mainly found in rivers and estuaries and are impossible to miss due to their bright orange, white and black colors.
The distinctive feature is the bill, with a long lower mandible and a short upper mandible. The birds skim on the water with their beaks open and grab fish, shrimp and other crustaceans and larvae. They are a delight to watch and we were lucky to sight around 300+ of them and spent an hour on the mossy wet ground shooting them. This was one of the largest concentrations of the bird.
Habitat degradation such as fishing, transportation, irrigation schemes etc.. are the main reason for their endangered status. The colonies lie in the sandbars of the rivers on the estuaries making them very hard to protect as well. Feral dogs, crows and other predators are known to decimate breeding colonies.
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Common Yellowthroats spend much of their time skulking low to the ground in dense thickets and fields, searching for small insects and spiders. Males sing a very distinctive, rolling wichety-wichety-wichety song, and both sexes give a full-sounding chuck note that is easy to learn.
IMPORTANT: for non-pro users who read the info on a computer, just enlarge your screen to 120% (or more), then the full text will appear below the photo with a white background - which makes reading so much easier.
The color version of the photo above is here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO:
So far there's only been one photo in my gallery that hasn't been taken in my garden ('The Flame Rider', captured in the Maggia Valley: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/53563448847/in/datepo... ) - which makes the image above the second time I've "strayed from the path" (although not very far, since the photo was taken only approximately 500 meters from my house).
Overall, I'll stick to my "only-garden rule", but every once in a while I'll show you a little bit of the landscape around my village, because I think it will give you a better sense of just how fascinating this region is, and also of its history.
The title I chose for the photo may seem cheesy, and it's certainly not very original, but I couldn't think of another one, because it's an honest reflection of what I felt when I took it: a profound sense of peace - although if you make it to the end of this text you'll realize my relationship with that word is a bit more complicated.
I got up early that day; it was a beautiful spring morning, and there was still a bit of mist in the valley below my village which I hoped would make for a few nice mood shots, so I quickly grabbed my camera and went down there before the rising sun could dissolve the magical layer on the scenery.
Most human activity hadn't started yet, and I was engulfed in the sounds of the forest as I was walking the narrow trail along the horse pasture; it seemed every little creature around me wanted to make its presence known to potential mates (or rivals) in a myriad of sounds and voices and noises (in case you're interested, here's a taste of what I usually wake up to in spring, but you best use headphones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfoCTqdAVCE )
Strolling through such an idyllic landscape next to grazing horses and surrounded by birdsong and beautiful trees, I guess it's kind of obvious one would feel the way I described above and choose the title I did, but as I looked at the old stone buildings - the cattle shelter you can see in the foreground and the stable further up ahead on the right - I also realized how fortunate I was.
It's hard to imagine now, because Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world today, but the men and women who had carried these stones and constructed the walls of these buildings were among the poorest in Europe. The hardships the people in some of the remote and little developed valleys in Ticino endured only a few generations ago are unimaginable to most folks living in my country today.
It wasn't uncommon that people had to sell their own kids as child slaves - the girls had to work in factories or in rice fields, the boys as "living chimney brushes" in northern Italy - just because there wasn't enough food to support the whole family through the harsh Ticino winters.
If you wonder why contemporary Swiss historians speak of "slaves" as opposed to child laborers, it's because that's what many of them actually were: auctioned off for a negotiable prize at the local market, once sold, these kids were not payed and in many cases not even fed by their masters (they had to beg for food in the streets or steal it).
Translated from German Wikipedia: ...The Piazza grande in Locarno, where the Locarno Film Festival is held today, was one of the places where orphans, foundlings and children from poor families were auctioned off. The boys were sold as chimney sweeps, the girls ended up in the textile industry, in tobacco processing in Brissago or in the rice fields of Novara, which was also extremely hard work: the girls had to stand bent over in the water for twelve to fourteen hours in all weathers. The last verse of the Italian folk song 'Amore mio non piangere' reads: โMamma, papร , non piangere, se sono consumata, รจ stata la risaia che mi ha rovinataโ (Mom, dad, don't cry when I'm used up, it was the rice field that destroyed me.)... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaminfegerkinder
The conditions for the chimney sweeps - usually boys between the age of 8 and 12 (or younger, because they had to be small enough to be able to crawl into the chimneys) - were so catastrophic that many of them didn't survive; they died of starvation, cold or soot in their lungs - as well as of work-related accidents like breaking their necks when they fell, or suffocatig if they got stuck in inside a chimney. This practice of "child slavery" went on as late as the 1950s (there's a very short article in English on the topic here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spazzacamini and a more in depth account for German speakers in this brief clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gda8vZp_zsc ).
Now I don't know if the people who built the old stone houses along my path had to sell any of their kids, but looking at the remnants of their (not so distant) era I felt an immense sense of gratitude that I was born at a time of prosperity - and peace - in my region, my country and my home. Because none of it was my doing: it was simple luck that decided when and where I came into this world.
It also made me think of my own family. Both of my grandparents on my father's side grew up in Ticino (they were both born in 1900), but while they eventually left Switzerland's poorest region to live in its richest, the Kanton of Zurich, my grandfather's parents relocated to northern Italy in the 1920s and unfortunately were still there when WWII broke out.
They lost everything during the war, and it was their youngest daughter - whom I only knew as "Zia" which means "aunt" in Italian - who earned a little money to support herself and my great-grandparents by giving piano lessons to high-ranking Nazi officers and their kids (this was towards the end of the war when German forces had occupied Italy).
I never knew that about her; Zia only very rarely spoke of the war, but one time when I visited her when she was already over a 100 years old (she died at close to 104), I asked her how they had managed to survive, and she told me that she went to the local prefecture nearly every day to teach piano. "And on the way there would be the dangling ones" she said, with a shudder.
I didn't get what she meant, so she explained. Visiting the city center where the high ranking military resided meant she had to walk underneath the executed men and women who were hanging from the lantern posts along the road (these executions - often of civilians - were the Germans' retaliations for attacks by the Italian partisans).
I never forgot her words - nor could I shake the look on her face as she re-lived this memory. And I still can't grasp it; my house in Ticino is only 60 meters from the Italian border, and the idea that there was a brutal war going on three houses down the road from where I live now in Zia's lifetime strikes me as completely surreal.
So, back to my title for the photo above. "Peace". It's such a simple, short word, isn't it? And we use it - or its cousin "peaceful" - quite often when we mean nice and quiet or stress-free. But if I'm honest I don't think I know what it means. My grandaunt Zia did, but I can't know. And I honestly hope I never will.
I'm sorry I led you down such a dark road; I usually intend to make people smile with the anecdotes that go with my photos, but this one demanded a different approach (I guess with this latest image I've strayed from the path in more than one sense, and I hope you'll forgive me).
Ticino today is the region with the second highest average life expectancy in Europe (85.2 years), and "The Human Development Index" of 0.961 in 2021 was one of the highest found anywhere in the world, and northern Italy isn't far behind. But my neighbors, many of whom are now in their 90s, remember well it wasn't always so.
That a region so poor it must have felt like purgatory to many of its inhabitants could turn into something as close to paradise on Earth as I can imagine in a person's lifetime should make us all very hopeful. But, and this is the sad part, it also works the other way 'round. And I believe we'd do well to remember that, too.
To all of you - with my usual tardiness but from the bottom of my heart - a happy, healthy, hopeful 2025 and beyond.
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"Buitenmolen"te Zevenaar The Netherlands
Tot 1866 bleef de molen in beheer als domeingoed (bezit van de landsheer). In dat jaar werd de molen verkocht aan de toenmalige pachter Jac. van Grinten. Diens erven verkochten het in 1879 aan de molenaarsknecht Johannes Gerritsen.
Toen Gerritsen eind 1928 overging op elektrisch malen, leek het met de Buitenmolen gedaan: op 21 november dat jaar zette hij beide roeden te koop. Omstreeks 1930 werden roeden en staart afgenomen en de romp leeggehaald: zo werd de molen een motormaalderij.
Nadat deze in 1955 was stilgelegd, bleef de romp, met daarop een - lege- kap, gespaard. In 1958 werd de molen verkocht aan F.Th. Korthaus, die op zijn beurt de molen in 1966 verkocht aan de gemeente Zevenaar.
In 1969 en 1970 werd de molen gereconstrueerd. Gekozen werd toen voor een echte houten as, evenwel met ijzeren roeden. Beide roeden kregen Oud-Hollandse ophekking met zeilen.
Na ruim 30 jaar, 2002, heeft men bovenas, roeden en voorkeuvelens vervangen.
In de praktijk draait deze molen vrijwel dagelijks.
Technische bijzonderheden:
Het kruiwerk van deze molen is opvallend: het wordt via tandkransen en gaffelwielen bediend. Met de hand betekent รฉรฉn meter touw inpalmen dat de kap รฉรฉn centimeter verschuift. Niet onlogisch heeft men daarom op een zeker moment een elektromotor gemonteerd! Kettingkruien (vanaf de belt, d.m.v. een rondgaande ketting) is evenwel ook mogelijk.
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Until 1866 the mill remained managed as a domaine (owned by the lord). In that year the mill was sold to the then tenant Jac. van Grinten. His heirs sold it in 1879 to the miller's servant Johannes Gerritsen.
When Gerritsen switched to electric milling at the end of 1928, the Buitenmolen seemed to be over: on November 21 that year he put both rods up for sale. Around 1930, the rods and tail were removed and the hull was emptied: the mill became a motor mill.
After it was shut down in 1955, the hull, with an empty hood on top, was spared. In 1958 the mill was sold to F.Th. Korthaus, who in turn sold the mill to the municipality of Zevenaar in 1966.
The mill was reconstructed in 1969 and 1970. A real wooden axle was then chosen, but with iron rods. Both rods were fitted with old Dutch fencing with sails.
After more than 30 years, in 2002, the top axle, rods and front gate lens were replaced.
In practice, this mill runs almost every day.
Technical details:
The wheel gear of this mill is striking: it is operated via gear rings and clevis wheels. By hand, using one meter of rope means that the hood shifts one centimeter. It is therefore not illogical that an electric motor was installed at a certain point! Chain crossing (from the belt, by means of a rotating chain) is also possible.
Both are translated books
1 - Marx a la plage - Le Capital dans un transat, ,Jean Numa Ducange
2. Let Nietzsche be yr Shrink . Author is a Korean
The first book is written by a French writer. He tried to make Marx ideas easy to understand thus the name Marx at the beach. Marxism was not in our sch syllabus & given the status of Satan's by the gov & many conservatives. IMHO this is a bad policy. It is just like taking photo with only one POV....
A pair of recently repainted Delaware & Hudson GP38-2s idle in Conrail's Oak Island Yard after bringing DH 266 east earlier in the day. They would return west in the evening with a rested crew as DH 267. In the sky above, a Scandinavian Airlines flight is on final approach to Newark Airport. Both of these units have undoubtedly spent a lot of time in this former Lehigh Valley yard, both when built new for the LV and later when working for D&H/CP Rail.
DH 7304 GP38-2 (ex-LV 315)
DH 7303 GP38-2 (ex-LV 317)
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Little Pied Cormorant
Scientific Name: Microcarbo melanoleucos
Description: The Little Pied Cormorant is one of the most common of Australia's waterbirds, occurring on water bodies of almost any size. It is entirely black above and white below. The face is dusky and, in adult birds, the white of the underside extends to above the eye. Immature birds resemble the adults except there is no white above the eye.
Similar species: The Little Pied Cormorant resembles the Pied Cormorant,Phalacrocorax varius, but is easily distinguished by its smaller size and proportionately shorter bill The Pied Cormorant also has an orange-yellow face patch and black thighs.
Distribution: The Little Pied Cormorant is found throughout Australia.
Habitat: The Little Pied Cormorant is at home in either fresh or salt water. It is often seen in large flocks on open waterways and on the coast, especially where large numbers of fish are present. On inland streams and dams, however, it is often solitary. The Little Pied Cormorant mixes readily with the similar sized Little Black Cormorant, P. sulcirostris.
Feeding: Little Pied Cormorants feed on a wide variety of aquatic animals, from insects to fish. On inland streams and dams they turn to their most favoured food: yabbies (freshwater crayfish). These are caught by deep underwater dives with both feet kicking outward in unison. Other crustaceans are also taken, with shrimps being a large part of their diet in winter months.
Breeding: Little Pied Cormorants breed either in colonies or, less commonly, in single pairs. The nest is a flat platform of sticks, lined with green leaves and is usually placed in a tree. Both adults share in egg incubation and care of the young.
Minimum Size: 50cm
Maximum Size: 66cm
Average size: 58cm
Clutch Size: 3 to 4
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)
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Anaklia (Georgian: แแแแแแแ) is a town and seaside resort in western Georgia. It is located in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, at the place where the Enguri River flows into the Black Sea.
The earliest settlement on Anaklia's territory dates back to the mid-Bronze Age and is typical to the Colchian culture. It is the Classical Heraclea of Colchis, Anaclia of later authors, and Anarghia of Archangelo Lamberti and Jean Chardin (both the 17th-century travelers). After the fragmentation of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 15th century, it was an important fortified town, sea port and fishing station within the Principality of Mingrelia. In 1723, the town was captured by the Ottoman Empire and converted into its maritime outpost and slave-trading locale. Western Georgian kingdom of Imereti regained control over Anaklia in 1770, seizing the opportunity of Ottoman Empire being at war with Russia (Russo-Turkish War (1768โ1774)). Solomon I, the king of Imereti, was supposed to be supported in this endeavor by a small Russian contingent under General Totleben, but the Russian troops retreated before a clash against the Turks.
In 1802, Kelesh-Bey Sharvashidze, the pro-Turkish ruler of the neighboring Principality of Abkhazia, capitalized on the internecine feuds in Mingrelia, and forced Prince Grigol Dadiani of Mingrelia into surrendering Anaklia, taking Grigolโs son and heir, Levan, as a hostage. When Mingrelia accepted the Russian protectorate in 1803, the Russian commander in Georgia, Prince Tsitsianov, demanded that Kelesh-Bey release Levan. On his refusal, Tsitsianov sent Major General Ion Rykgof into Abkhazia. In March 1805, the Russians took hold of Anaklia and threatened to march against Sukhum-Kaleh, forcing the Abkhazian prince to release Dadiani. The capture of Anaklia drew an Ottoman protest, however, and Tsitsianov hastened to disavow his subordinate and even apologize for his action, removing a Russian garrison from Anaklia. However, the incident added to an increasing tension between the two empires. When the next Russo-Turkish War broke out in 1806, the Russian forces restored Redoubt Kali and Anaklia to the Mingrelian prince Levan who would later relinquish the control of these forts to the Russian administration. (See Russian conquest of the Caucasus#Black Sea Coast.) In the 1850s, Anaklia was a small but strongly fortified seaport, which had a custom-house and carried on a considerable trade with Turkey.
Subsequently, the importance of the Anaklia port significantly reduced, but it remained a minor Black Sea Fleet base in the Soviet times.
After the War in Abkhazia (1992โ93), a Russian peacekeeping post was opened at Anaklia in 1994. In 2006, the Ministry of Defense of Georgia reported numerous damages inflicted by the Russian soldiers upon the 17th-century fortress of Anaklia and accused the peacekeepers of installing latrines and baths within the walls of the fort. Following a series of protests by the Georgians, the Russian military post was withdrawn in July 2007.
A monument has been erected in Anaklia on May 21, 2012, commemorating Russia's expulsion of the Circassian people from the region following the conclusion of the Caucasian War in the 1860s. The May 21 date was chosen to coincide with the day on which the Circassian people themselves commemorate the expulsion, which the Georgian government has recognized as an act of genocide. The monument was designed by Khusen Kochesokov, a sculptor from the North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria.
The Jackson & Lansing's JL1 job is making a rare weekend morning run down to Jackson on a beautiful August morning with both of the engines that are in their sharp new paint. Rives Junction, MI 8/19/2023
George and I both love Sadie and appreciate that she is a good girl but we don't completely understand her. Her energy level varies between not wanting to get off the couch to doing happy dances during an hour-long walk. She is pretty good with the cats. She loves smelling them (especially under their tails). Jimmy lets Sadie sniff to her heart's content - Mack and Ella aren't that comfortable with Sadie yet but they aren't afraid of her.
So this is our good Sadie Girl... one month and three days post her final heartworm treatment.
Recentemente il "toro" di Fuorimuro, la quarte E190 acquistata da Inrail, รจ tornata ad occuparsi dei convogli dell'operatore ligure accanto ad una E484 noleggiata dalle SBB.
Nella foto la vediamo sfilare presso Redavalle al traino di un insolitamente puntuale Castelguelfo-Miramas diretto verso i Giovi. (2/4/15)
In the last month Fuorimuro has restarted to use its E190 on the Giovi pass freight relations.
More often used by Inrail in the eastern part on the country the unit .314 is now back in Liguria heading both the "Rivalta Shuttle" from Voltri and the international freight from Miramas to Castelguelfo.
Here it is running in Redavalle, on the Piacenza-Alessandria main line pulling the mixed train to the French border. (2/4/15)
This is Atticus, a male Regal Jumping Spider. We got him at the same time as Lucy, the female that I posted a photo of about a week ago. Atticus took a little longer to get acclimated to his new home. So, I waited longer to take photos of him. I wanted to ensure that I didn't frighten him any more than he already was. When I photographed him today, he was calm, curious, and full of charisma.
This species is found in the southeastern U.S., the Greater Antilles, and the Bahamas, but is most common in peninsular Florida. Atticus and Lucy were both captive bred by a professional breeder located here in the Eastern United States.
I have phtographed before the two Hadashville buildings posted today but I liked the backlight of this one and the view I had of the other in this light. The buidlings have something in common besides location: both have fake brick exteriors. This has insulbrick, whereas the other has metal cladding that looks like brick.
It's sale time! If you haven't swept in and grabbed up Sugar just yet, now's your chance. Both basic packs are no on sale in store for 99L each.
Rigged for Legacy, INITHIUM, Maitreya and Belleza, these fun heels come with 6 mix and match colors in each pack.
Sale lasts until July 2nd.
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I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all
Joni Mitchell
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cBf0olE9Yc
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.
Length (both species) : about 19 cm (7 inches)
For Little Ringed Plover, please see : www.flickr.com/photos/110648625@N05/54312197434/in/datepo...
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