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Frankenstein Castle (1252)
There is much historical evidence to suggest that Mary Shelley's world-famous novel "Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus" actually originated at Frankenstein Castle.
An engineering masterpiece for its time, the Last Chance Canal was completed in the early 1900s to divert water from the Bear River to Gentile Valley.
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Here we have a couple of shots of a rather soggy Stonechat. These are somewhat larger files than usual because I was able to get closer to the bird. I was in the garage trying to tidy the mess that I seem to have a gift for creating. I had my camera beside me in the off chance that an opportunity would present itself. In the event, this bird appeared and made several forays into the undergrowth, each time returning to the same post. Although the garage window was filthy, I still managed to get a good number of sharp images.
I was visioning this shot for a long time and yesterday was the perfect chance for that.
A burning sky with the Embarcadero lights and the TransAmerica building lit up.
Like a perfect storm, but pleasing.
Happy Holidays!
Excerpt from www.flamboroughtoday.com/spotlight/waterdown-village-welc...:
A highlight of fall in Waterdown Village is the annual Scarecrow Walk, starting in this eighth year on October 11 and running right until Hallowe’en.
“Once again, our local businesses and community partners will display uniquely decorated scarecrows, animating our streetscape and giving people of all ages more than 130 reasons to Walk Waterdown,” exclaimed Waterdown Village BIA Board of Management Chair, Amanda Groves.
She added, “The Scarecrow Walk has fast become a signature event for the community. Clues featuring mugshots of favourite monsters will be placed on 20 randomly selected scarecrows for scavengers to find for a chance to win shopping spree prizes. You can discover new businesses, take selfies with your favourite scarecrow entries, and test your detective skills to find all 130+ scarecrows and all 20 clues, for a wonderful day out for the whole family.”
There looked to be no chance as I set off in the rain for Lockington for the retimed 50s on 19/05/15 but luckily the sun broke through and a good sunny/squiffy gap opened out and 6Z08 1022 Boston Docks-Washwood Heath with 50017 & 50007 was duly in the bag!
Very kind, very smart and oh so very cuddly...a Chance encounter :-)
I'd say Chance is with me ;-)
She's a very good Chance to take...
Chance and I share a love - a love for Ms Katie Parx. Chance is her eldest daughter, I am one of Katie's girlfriends.
We both love her dearly.
We take care of Katie Parx's family while she is gone, but there is no one left to take care of us, so we decided to take care of each other.
Chance is sweet, kind, intelligent and...caring...
I try to mirror that.
I love learning about her...and learning FROM her...
We feel lost without our shared Katie, so THIS Katie takes a Chance and carries on. We will care for each other so we can care for the others.
Ms Katie Parx? We miss you. We love you. We also understand why you are gone. We are okay and are making sure we and your family will be for when you come home...for you and I know there is a Good Chance :-)
With true love for our girl...
- Chance and Katherine
xoxo
Chance encounter few weeks ago. As I was walking around on a public trail, noticed a few scattered bird droppings. I looked up, and say this beauty right above. Northern Hawk-Owl stayed for a few days and then moved on.
Big John D. and the Corn Husker cozy up on the Calumet River in South Chicago. That's a big rock candy mountain in the background.
Took this on my way over to a mates last night, regretting not going to the coast (this is the Onehunga Harbour) but hey glad at least I got to see this sunset,. These 5 poles get to see some interesting sky and sea action.
Finally get an upload before 10pm for once too, gee its been hard making time for anything lately.,
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Shot: 8secs f8 21mm ISO100 ND4stop GND0.9 - Saturation by nature :-)
Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand, Aotearoa
There had to be a lot of evaluations going on in her head: what is the chance of catching that prey. 5 seconds later she went after the prey
"Take a Chance on Me" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA, released in January 1978 as the second single from their fifth studio album ABBA: The Album. Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad share the lead vocals. It reached the top ten in both the UK and US.
The working title of "Take a Chance on Me" was "Billy Boy". Written and recorded in 1977 by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, the song was one of ABBA's first singles in which their manager Stig Anderson did not assist with writing the lyrics, confirming Andersson and Ulvaeus as a songwriting partnership.
The song's origins sprang from Ulvaeus, a keen runner, who would repeat a "tck-a-ch"-style rhythm to pace himself. This evolved into "take-a-chance" and the eventual lyrics. Roger Palm, the drummer on the track, described the song as "ABBA at their most energetic and forceful".
"Take a Chance on Me" proved to be one of ABBA's most successful chart hits, becoming the group's seventh UK #1 (and third consecutive chart-topper in the country after "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "The Name of the Game"). It was also ABBA's final #1 in the UK of the 1970s, and gives the group the distinction of being the act with the most chart-topping singles of the 1970s in the UK.
This week I got a chance before rebuild our office to paint something in it.
Check the video from the nightparty with my homies Tatlin and Bikebear:
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Sometimes you need to take a chance. I saw blue flowers from the road. I decided that I needed to find out what they were, so I parked. I made my way through tick-infested tall grasses (trying out a new tick repellant that did turn out to be somewhat more effective that last week's tick repellent...that was not at all effective and had me still finding ticks in my car for three days. YUCK!) As I got closer to the blue flowers, I started sinking into mud. But, it turned out to be a field full of wild irises. So, of course, I had to pick some, all the while remembering that it was around this time last year that I had my "trespassing incident" which resulted from just this.... picking flowers. This time it was OK. I was not (as far as I know) on someone's private property. My handful of wild irises became another window prop... and I think that now, I have a set of four different types of flowers photographed in this same window (am I in a rut?! LOL!) and I may have them printed some day.
And as always, I have learned... I learned that doing something you love makes the bad feelings, anxiety and stress take a temporary leave of absence... That when someone insists on helping you, sometimes you can let them... That if you can find a way to do something that you really want to do...you should do it, rather than regret not doing it... that sometimes you have to live through something yourself to understand it ...that sometimes you need to stop looking for something to find out that it is right in front of you. And that sometimes, when you are willing to take the chance... and brave the mud and ticks... there is something amazing.... like a field full of wild irises waiting for you. And how cool is that?!!
Collecting slides over the last 2.5 years or so has been an unexpectedly rewarding project. It has provided me with so much extra knowledge for my interest in local operations and for my model railroading, it has allowed me to revisit old memories, and it's just been really great.
I recently had another chance to revisit an event I never forgot about;
On Saturday August 10th 2002, I was in Brunswick with my grandma and grandpa watching trains that evening. We got a pizza and tailgated in the parking lot. I had just turned 14 and Brunswick was like a railfan mecca to me.
Towards the end of the evening, maybe around 930pm, a set of three engines consisting of a CSX C30-7, an exCR C36-7, and exCR SD60I #8750 backed out from the yard, across Maple Ave, and tied onto a set of orange ballast cars that had been sitting under the over pass. I think the cars had been sitting on either track 34 or the runaround. Shortly after, the CPL dwarf showed a medium clear from 4-runner to number two, and the ballast train pulled out of Brunswick. I remember seeing the glow inside the cab of 8750 from the computer screens. I want to say they called themselves W055 on the radio.
My grandmother (of all people) said "I bet we can beat them to Washington Grove" (near there house, where the train would pass eventually). Both myself and my grandpa told her there is no way we would beat the train; the trackage had a much shorter distance to cover to get to Washington Grove than we did. We'd be taking 340 out of Brunswick all the way to Frederick to meet I-270 south. Then we'd have to exit, and take some local streets to finally be trackside.
My grandmother, her lead foot, and us in tow flew down the highway in their 2000 Town and Country van. I had my scanner still on, but we were too far from the tracks to hear the train calling signals.
We crossed the grade crossing at Washington Grove, and sure enough there was a clear on #2 track at the Derwood Dip signal. By the time we turned into the gravel lot at the MARC station, the gates were going down behind us, and the bright lights of the eastbound were ripping into view in front of us. I remember throwing open my door as the train screamed by at track speed or close to it.
My grandmother was delighted in asserting her victory over beating the train from Brunswick to Washington Grove that night. We all had a good time, and she still talks about it to this day.
Fast forward almost 20 years to the day later, and I find a slide of that exact same train from the next day, Sunday 8-11-02. The train is seen tied down at Doswell Va on #4 track in the yard. The train was likely empty or mostly empty, and is staging at Doswell until a C&O crew would take it over the Piedmont Sub to Verdon for another load of ballast. My jaw hit the floor when I saw this slide while scrolling on ebay. Once again as life came full circle for me, I saw this slide while sitting on my own freight train stopped at the signal in Bayview. Dreams do come true I guess.
Objectively, the slide is nothing special; the train is stopped, headlights off....far track side, bottom of the wheels cut off....a little wonky on the composition...but to me, it's now one of my favorite slides.
Paul Carpenito photo, JL Sessa collection.
My daughter's dog Chance playing in the lake a couple years ago. I added a texture just for fun.
Cris Buscaglia Lenz Texture No.32
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Chance and I have become amazing friends. For AGES I have wanted to step out on friend date with her and FINALLY we got to!
We went to Fogbound because the music is good, the dance machines always updated and the place crowded enough that nobody knows us.
She wore the sweetest dress, so I wore the swankiest slacks and we just danced the night away.
Both of us have had experiences there with people who later didn't do right by either of us, so us, together there, rewrote over allll the bad as we made some good memories together.
Also I got to dip her. A lot ;-)
Je t'aime ma ami belle!
- O'Katie xoxo
!!نلتقي لكن من بعيد
اشعة و غيوم
تفصل بيننا
..
شمس تلتهب
ممنوع الاقتراب منها
..
و طائرة
ان لم تتداركها
ستتخطاك
و لن تلحق بها !
....
I'm ending the year with a slight reworking of one of my favourite photos taken back in the Summer. This spiral stair can be found in the Bankside Citizen M hotel, for this version I've cloned away a steel support to make the image more abstract.
Click here to see more of my favourite images taken this year : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157663553948336
From the Hotels website : 'citizenM is a new breed of hotel now in Amsterdam, Glasgow and London, and coming soon to New York, Paris, and a city near you. citizenM welcomes the mobile citizens of the world - the suits, weekenders, explorers, affair-havers and fashion-grabbers. To put it another way: anyone who travels frequently and loves affordable luxury. Chances are, that means you.'
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I decided to post a distant shot of this beautiful Great Gray Owl, seen yesterday when I made the long drive NW of Calgary. I did take closer photos, but haven't had a chance to go through them yet. Also, I really liked the trees where the owl landed, so would not have cropped this image anyway.
My alarms were set for 5:30 yesterday morning, 28 February 2016, and I was full of hope that for once, I would actually get out of the house good and early. I have such a problem getting myself out very early when I go off for a drive by myself. I think it was something like 8:30 am by the time I dragged myself off the computer and out the front door. To my horror, I discovered that my car door locks had frozen shut and my car was totally covered in a thick layer of extremely stubborn ice, that took me a long time to remove. Half an hour or so later, I was finally ready to start on my trip.
It had been quite a long time since I saw my last Great Gray Owl. Some of my most recent sightings had been one that was in Fish Creek Park in Calgary for a while and my last photos of it were taken on 18 February 2014. There was also a Great Gray at Griffith Woods, Calgary, and some of my photos were taken on 10 February 2014. Saw another owl on our May Species Count out of the city on 25 May 2014. Many of my 'best' sightings and photos of Great Grays were taken NW of Calgary, the last dates being 28 March 2013 and 5 May 2013. After 25 May 2014 .... nothing! So, seeing one yesterday was such a thrill. No matter how many times I see one of these owls and no matter how many hundreds/thousands of photos I've taken, each owl is as exciting as the very first.
When I first reached my approximate destination yesterday morrning, I could see two or three cars way down the road, pulled over at the edge of the road. Often a good sign : ) Sure enough, friends had found an owl. It was on a distant barbed-wire fence post at first, then dove into the snow to try and catch a Meadow Vole. It then flew off into the trees with it and didn't return. After a while, I drove some of the other roads in the area and later drove back to where the owl had been. Amazingly, it was in a distant tree, from where it hunted, moving to a different tree each time it made an unsuccesful dive. Eventually, it did catch a Vole. I left after a while, feeling that it was time to leave the owl 'in peace', and also knowing it was time for me to make the long drive home - approximately 246 km round trip. I think the excitement plus the long drive (on less than three hours' sleep) totally wore me out and I've felt too tired to even write descriptions for today's 'daily three' photos until this evening.
A good thing I went yesterday, as we had fog, a bit of snow and hoarfrost and very slick roads overnight till this afternoon, apparently. There were 234 reported accidents in the city during those hours, none with life-threatening injuries. So glad I didn't have to go out today.
Dreaming of Summer - As much as I like winter, I am ready for some summer hiking in my shorts!! The Loch Vale in Rocky Mountain National Park. Beautiful hike up to this lake. Can't wait for the snow to all melt away for another chance to shoot this scene!!
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The seasons have changed once again here at Seasonal Chances. Come enjoy the fall colors as you look for the need to have Gacha
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- www.kevin-palmer.com - Near Last Chance, Colorado, this storm started showing better structure just before it dropped the first tornado.