ESSO - Celebrating 111 years
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After an all day rain I was hoping for a bit of fog to add interest for this harbor scene. Unfortunately, as night fell, the fog dissipated and along with it, so did my imagined composition. Not wanting to leave with an empty memory card, I did grab a few shots of the ice breakup before it got too dark.
Every year the bean geese from Siberia come to us in the lower Rhine region of Germany for overwintering here.
Jedes Jahr kommen die Saatgänse aus Sibirien zu uns an den Niederrhein zum Überwintern.
The sunrise has barely broken over the river bluffs at the Delaware & Hudson Heritage Locomotive heads up NS Train 18E rushing west on the NS Kansas City District coming up on Maxwell. This was my first look at the D&H Unit, but they've always been one of my "secret" interests in railroading.
The D&H was just weird story all around, really. Big steam, striking paint schemes, ALCO PA's and subsidized post-Amtrak passenger service late in the game, a strange breakup and fragmentation of the lines, Guilford, what's not to be interested about? I've also spent a lot of time on a pair of GP39-2's that once belonged to them. Amazingly after decades and multiple repaints you could still make out these colors on the edges of the hood doors.
This was my first look at this unit, and aside for a glimpse or two over the years, my first look at any engine in this scheme, and it's a great looking engine.
Locomotive: NS 1080
7-15-26
Orrick, MO
The signs of the winter breakup are now long gone. Our temperature is double digit and we are enjoying the sun. Spring has sprung and we are once again out of the hibernation stage.
There is a steady drip-drip-drip falling from our cabin roof, as the sun melts the snow that remains above us. The temperature's actually reach into the low forties as a daytime high and drop down into the twenties at night. The rivers are breaking up, and the inevitable potholes that dot our roadways have appeared, keeping drivers on their toes.
Doc and I sat on our porch this morning and watched as the mature camp robbers (gray jays) grabbed mouthfuls of suet and fed their little ones. A playful ermine darted about, taking a rest every now and then - on top of our truck tires - while round about him two squirrels were feeling amorous and were running up and down the tree trunks of the large willow trees just outside of our cabin.
I am sure the bears are waking up now, and introducing their newborns to the magical world outside of their dark and musky winter dens. We will now be on the lookout for new tracks left behind in the snow to determine who our latest visitors are. Alaska is finally awakening after months of cold and darkness, and we Alaskans are rejuvenated by it and ready to take on summer and all it has to offer.
A number of weeks ago when I was in Banff, Lake Minnewanka was showing signs that spring was on it's way
A record early ice breakup due to a mild May, low ice density and thickness and a storm blowing in this afternoon.
I just wanted to preface this with the fact that I have been going through a breakup in RL and not really been okay this week, So I apologize in advance if I am unable to provide support in a timely manner.
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Hey All!
Addie and I Bring you a new gacha coming to this round of The Epiphany.
Unrigged Items include:
An Infinity Scarf, a Fall Hat, Holdable PSL Drinks, a holdable Pumpkin Spice Plushie, Mesh Ears and a Leather Purse.
Rigged Clothing Items include a Sweater Dress, Thigh High Knit Socks, A Cozy Sweater and a Suede Skirt.
We hope you enjoy this lovely fall look!
xoxo, Addie & Max.
The Epiphany Opens @ 10 PM SLT Tonight.
TAXI: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Epiphany/157/182/180
Not all of the discussion that happen on the boardwalk are good ones. This one didn't end well and the first thing that came to mind was they were planning on having a great cruise together, and then the big break up came.
Showing unmistakable and considerable signs of spring thaw, the Robertson River, flowing north out of the Alaska Range is always by it's glacial nature slow to break up.
Here it is showing first signs of spring, with glacial water upwelling to the surface, making the very dense and airless glacial ice underneath glow with turquoise color, which is typical of glaciers.
Thompson River
Kamloops, B.C.
I hadn't been right down to the shore at this part of the river in quite a while. I didn't realize how much ice was still on it. It's been warm, 10 C or higher, but it's going to take a while for all this ice to go. In the meantime, it's fun to watch little mini-icebergs floating along in the current.
The Spomenik Database was set up in 2016 by writer, history hobbyist and travel enthusiast Donald Niebyl to act as a comprehensive online resource for the most significant and notable of the abstract & modernist World War II monuments built in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from roughly 1960 to 1990 (structures commonly referred to as 'Spomeniks'), which are now, after the breakup of that country in the 1990s, scattered across the present-day regions of Croatia, Slovenia, N. Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia i Herzegovina and Montenegro.
This spomenik complex at Mostar commemorates the 810 named fallen World War II fighters from Mostar whose bodies are interred in the cemetery here; each of the fighters were members of the Partisan National Liberation Army and died fighting against the Axis Ustaše and German occupiers. Along with the 810, the bodies of hundreds of WW2 fallen Partisan fighters were interred in the staircases leading up to the top of the monument
Since the fall of Yugoslavia, as the site has fallen into disrepair, a great number of markers have been vandalized, displaced and smashed. Even engraved markers that have been recently refurbished and replaced continue to be destroyed.
About 75 square miles of ice broke up during an overnight windstorm and piled up in several places along the east shore of Bear Lake. This huge ice jam is on the Idaho side of the border and we have heard there are similar ice jams in Utah. Maybe I will find time to go there and see for myself.
I love seeing the creeks and streams opening to reveal the beautiful glacial colors of the water that have been hidden beneath the snow all winter. It is still hovering around the freezing mark each morning - but the streams are now flowing, and I am ready to go out and hit the trails.
The recent ice breakup deposited roughly 75 square miles of ice in several places along the Bear Lake shoreline in Idaho and Utah. The most spectacular place was here in Idaho where the ice stretches for miles.