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Great blue herons don't mate for life, but they do have elaborate courtship rituals that help pairs form strong bonds. Their mating displays include bill snapping, neck stretching, moaning calls, preening, circular flights, twig shaking, twig exchanging, crest raising and even bill duels. Scuffles over females are common, but never end in death. Once their complex dance is finished, the male and the female heron will have the strong bond necessary to raise their hatchlings together.
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I couldn't resist enhancing his muscles in editing when I saw the pose and tough guy expression he gave me.
Another dormant pub. My local as well. Nice atmosphere, great beer and food plus a spacious garden at the rear. Soon I hope!!
We have finally seen some snow in southern Wisconsin, making it look and feel a little more like winter. Here on the north side of Watertown, Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder kicks up the powder a little after just crossing over from 2 main to the single track main at Watertown West.
Amtrak 8
AMTK 130,140,133
Watertown, WI.
January 23, 2022
Yes...I know it's another Goldfinch....but how could I refuse to take her portrait when she'd been so industrious,and posed Soooo close to me, and, with a gorse bush as her back drop....Delightful...!
Worth viewing large...she deserves it after all her hard work, thanks.
Osprey Everglades.
No post-processing done to photo. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
Number 7, The Empire Builder heads westward on the Glasgow Sub with a couple of extra motors. On this trip west, the train was terminated at Glasgow Montana due to avalanche related issues on Marias Pass. The eastbound Empire Builder, #8 picked up the cars and power at Glasgow, and brought the whole consist eastward, with the ultimate destination of Chicago. Passenger service across the northern transcon is currently suspended until the avalanche dangers have passed on Marias.
Netherlands, Noord Holland, IJmuiden, Noordersluis (Northern lock), Dyna Pure wood chip bulk carrier (slightly cut from T&B)
While watching the Dyna Pure wood chip carrier (build in 2006,
210 x 32m, DWT 54 kT) passing the locks, Boz Scaggs' song Dinah Flow entered my mind and after that, ofcourse, the suavely funky opening bars of Lowdown (the You Tube link is to a 2004 life version of the song). And thru the processing of this pic of the ship I got the feeling hat the engineering department of the ship’s builder must have had a certain ironic affinity with the early 20th century supramist painter & sculpturist Kadinsky.
This is number 11 of the IJmuiden album and 1185 of Minimalism & explicit graphism.
The previous day's eastbound Empire Builder rolled through about an hour ahead of this Christmas day scheduled eastbound Builder. Nothing special about this train other than it's Christmas day passengers traveling by rail, as it should be.
Amtrak Number 8
AMTK 165,19,154
Watertown, WI.
December 25, 2021
I've made a little decorative birdhouse that's hanging near the front door of my house that's been popular over the years.
-A few years ago, some chickadees checked it out a lot, but didn't move in.
-The next year it got invaded by yellow-jackets.
-This year it has attracted a pair of Bewick's wrens.
Of course the houses I've built specifically for wrens, in ideal locations/heights/etc. so far have had no visitors.
It's a gorgeous day upon the grassy knoll, as Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder races along just east of their Columbus station stop, running only twenty minutes behind today.
Amtrak Number 8
AMTK 130,52
Columbus, WI.
June 4, 2021
The previous day, Amtrak zipped through town missing the 5 car Seattle section of the train. That section (led by AMTK 307) smashed a tree west of Spokane and was towed back to Seattle and added to the next day's train. (307 was left behind)
Led by 3 differently painted Amtrak locomotives, an unusually big 14-car Empire Builder flies through town with temperatures just barely hitting +10.
Of course, in 2022, I would have much rather shot AMTK 301 ("Day 1") leading. But I feel like in several years when the GEs are gone or hard to find I'll feel differently about catching a bloody Genesis 45 leading.
Winds kept the Becker plant steam away from the sun but also chilled the bones stepping outside to get the shot.
AMTK 45
AMTK 301
AMTK 303
Years ago, before double track, there was a tree that blocked the billboard and was a better photo prop. Granted the billboard has changed recently, but I still miss the tree.
The Empire Builder at MP 322, cruising along the Mississippi River at track speed on a beautiful day.
View of Onofrio's spring water fountain built in 1438 & decorated with ornate, carved-stone masks. This small domed building has provided water to Dubrovnik residents and visitors for almost six centuries and is named after its Neapolitan master builder, Onofrio della Cava. The fountain is very easy to locate from anywhere in the town and so makes a good meeting place.
With the Church of St. Ignatius towering over Dubrovnik Old Town in the background. Taken from the wall walk.
Builder's plate for an operational 0-4-0 Porter steam locomotive built in 1889.
Shot for Our Daily Challenge :“Plate”
Foot on the pedal, never ever false metal
Engine running hotter than a boiling kettle
My job ain't a job, it's a damn good time
City to city, I'm running my rhymes
No sleep 'til Brooklyn
Second build in my Iron Builder round against Caleb (Cheesie), with the Minecraft Trident in sand green as a seed part.
The seed part was used 10 times.
Stalagtite/stalagmite design by Thorsten Bonsch.
EMD, GE, and Alco "power" are all visible in this pure Union Pacific scene.
In this older post: flic.kr/p/2mm1giY I told the story of leaving South Dakota to drive all the way back for this. And in retrospect I'm sure glad we did!
After Big Boy 4014 was all tucked in on the exhibit tracks here at Union Station the parade of trains continued unabated through town. Here are the DPUs on the hind end of loaded eastbound coal train seen on KCT Main 4 at about MP 6.8 on the East West Corridor having crossed the Missouri River on the KCT High Line bridge.
Kansas City, Missouri
Tuesday August 31, 2021
This photograph was selected for the 2017 Annual Curated Auction by The Light Factory, Center for Contemporary Photography in Charlotte, NC.
On a cold and clear Thanksgiving Day, Amtrak train No. 8, the Empire Builder, heads east across the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, leaving the jagged mountains of Glacier National Park in its rearview mirror.
With the autumnal colors in full swing, Amtrak's westbound Empire Builder races through Oconomowoc at Worthington st, as the sun is shining it's final rays for the day.
Amtrak Number 7
Westbound Empire Builder
Oconomowoc,WI.
October 1992
The Empire Builder exits Saint Paul down an hour off the schedule. A pair of GE P42DCs make this train appear like an Empire Builder before the inception of the Siemens ALC-42s.
It's 08:54 and the Empire Builder has departed the station platform at Saint Paul Union Depot, making up roughly 50 minutes. Conditions are just right for a pleasant morning shot of the train's departure swinging around the bend underneath downtown Saint Paul approaching Division Street.
X I am no mathematician or builder all I can say is this bridge looks wonderful. I have enclosed some information on the design that I do not fully understand myself but some of you will no doubt
The Mathematical Bridge is the popular name of a wooden footbridge in the southwest of central Cambridge, United Kingdom. It bridges the River Cam about one hundred feet northwest of Silver Street Bridge and connects two parts of Queens' College. Its official name is simply the Wooden Bridge. It is a Grade II listed building.
The bridge was designed by William Etheridge, and built by James Essex in 1749. It has been rebuilt on two occasions, in 1866 and in 1905, but has kept the same overall design. Although it appears to be an arch, it is composed entirely of straight timbers built to an unusually sophisticated engineering design, hence the name.
The arrangement of timbers is a series of tangents that describe the arc of the bridge, with radial members to tie the tangents together and triangulate the structure, making it rigid and self-supporting. This type of structure, technically tangent and radial trussing, is an efficient structural use of timber, and was also used for the timber supporting arches (centring) used for building stone bridges. Analysis of the design shows that the tangent members are almost entirely under compression, while the radial timbers are almost entirely subject to tension with very little bending stress, or to put it another way, the tangent and radial elements elegantly express the forces involved in arched construction.
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