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A classic early summer landscape of the Julian Alps. The melting snow brings large amounts of water that funnel and then create these beautiful waterfalls. The flowers and the dense vegetation of a very lively green create a fascinating contrast.
Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations
project with a tribute to climate and in the hope that we take climate change seriously and start to do something about it.
The shift to a cleaner energy economy won't happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.
Barack Obama
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.
Bill McKibben
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
Bill Nye
The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.
Christian de Duve
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Nice representation of the coming change of season. Summer on the left, autumn on the right. Sylvia Hotel, Vancouver.
Woke up to a white world with closed roads. We had an unusual 8-10 inches of snow in Alabama. A February record.
So I went outside to take pictures and get some nice Vitamin D to fight this stupid cold and the Jerks that live behind us are burning their leaves and the smoke is coming right into our yard :( Sucks so much they can do that here.
So this was it, One miserable picture ;) I can't bring myself to change her out of this awesome outfit, it just suits her so much <3
Happy Sunday Guys!
"If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies." ~Anonymous~
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail enjoying a zinnia in the garden.
Adirondack chair on the grounds of Wave Hill. With rain falling and the snow melting, even the chair can't wait for Spring to arrive.
Three days after Christmas 1972, Santa Fe F45 5927 on a westbound freight stops at Seligman, Arizona, for a crew change during a brief snow squall. Photo by Joe McMillan.
Pitt Meadows, BC Canada
Located on the north side of Pitt Meadows, Grant Narrows Park is a wilderness area and wildlife habitat with a large patch of protected marshland. The marsh and surrounding wetlands are reportedly home to more than 200 species of birds and waterfowl. The main trail starts out as a wide gravel walkway with water on each side, then changes course and becomes a narrow and wooded muddy path dotted with cattails, pond weeds and blackberry bushes.
There are countless opportunities anywhere along the trail system to view wildlife and the wide variety of vegetation and plants in the marsh. Along the way, you're likely to come upon trumpeter swans, herons, beaver dams and flocks of fire-engine-red hummingbirds. For the best views, climb one of the wooden observation towers.
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I wonder how this juvenile Red-winged Blackbird is doing, whether that growth on its beak was a symptom of something wrong with it or not.
San Miniato al Monte is a basilica in Florence, central Italy, standing atop one of the highest points in the city. It has been described as one of the finest Romanesque structures in Tuscany and one of the most scenic churches in Italy. There is an adjoining Olivetan monastery, seen to the right of the basilica when ascending the stairs.
St. Miniato or Minas was an Armenian prince serving in the Roman army under Emperor Decius. He was denounced as a Christian after becoming a hermit and was brought before the Emperor who was camped outside the gates of Florence. The Emperor ordered him to be thrown to beasts in the Amphitheatre where a panther was called upon him but refused to devour him. Beheaded in the presence of the Emperor, he is alleged to have picked up his head, crossed the Arno and walked up the hill of Mons Fiorentinus to his hermitage. A shrine was later erected at this spot and there was a chapel there by the 8th century. Construction of the present church was begun in 1013 by Bishop Alibrando and it was endowed by the Emperor Henry II. The adjoining monastery began as a Benedictine community, then passed to the Cluniacs and then in 1373 to the Olivetans, who still run it. The monks make famous liqueurs, honey and herbal teas, which they sell from a shop next to the church.
The interior exhibits the early feature of a choir raised on a platform above the large crypt. It has changed little since it was first built. The patterned pavement dates from 1207. The centre of the nave is dominated by the beautiful freestanding Cappella del Crocefisso (Chapel of the Crucifix), designed by Michelozzo in 1448. It originally housed the miraculous crucifix now in Santa Trìnita and is decorated with panels long thought to be painted by Agnolo Gaddi. The terracotta decoration of the vault is by Luca della Robbia.
The crypt is the oldest part of the church and the high altar supposedly contains the bones of St Minias himself (although there is evidence that these were removed to Metz before the church was even built). In the vaults are frescoes by Taddeo Gaddi.
The raised choir and presbytery contain a magnificent Romanesque pulpit and screen made in 1207. The apse is dominated by a great mosaic of Christ between the Virgin and St Minias on its vaulted ceiling dating from 1297; the same subject is depicted on the façade of the church and is probably by the same unknown artist. The crucifix above the high altar is attributed to Luca della Robbia. The sacristy is decorated with a great fresco cycle on the Life of St Benedict by Spinello Aretino (1387).
Point Lynas from the coastal path close to Porth Amlwch, this was a quick exercise walk which took me a total of 15Km. It's nice to watch the season changing and the heather is beginning to colour nicely now. The vibrant greens of early summer giving way to the more muted yellow tones of mid summer.The weather stayed dry until I was just a few Km from the car.. but the warm breeze dried my wet gear before I got there. Taken using my little micro four thirds camera which is an ideal walking setup.
A Great Gray Owl spots or hears movement under the snow and quickly changes focus and direction in the hunt for voles.
Normally, BNSF's Longmont Switch power has been a pair of SD70MACs. However, the crew was notified by the trainmaster to swap power with the Buck Local as the Buck Local needed their SD70MACs to bring cars up from Denver later in the day. So for one day, ex-Burlington Northern GP39-2 No. 2700 and BNSF GP39-3 No. 2618 can be seen powering the Longmont Switch north up Atwood Street in Longmont, Colorado on February 18, 2021
“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”― Peter Hamilton
Spent Saturday morning playing in the rain enjoying some gorgeous waterfalls and looking for fall colors. Wahclella falls is one of my favorites and still impresses me each time I visit. Color is the gorge is not quit at its prime, but beautiful none the less!
Happy Monday my friends and thanks for looking!
After setting up on the sunny side of the tracks at Shawsville, I decided to change course as storm clouds built up. This allowed a few of us to shoot the cemetery fence without people in the way.
Just wanted to drop in to say hi and explain why you haven't been seeing any comments from me for a while.
Some of you already know this, but I am sure some missed it. When we arrived home from vacation there was a summons from the court, waiting for us, stating that the mother of our granddaughter, 11 year old Bethany, (who we have had since birth and official custody of since 2005), is suing us for full custody of her. As grandparents, it does not look good for us. Anyway, this is very heavy on my mind and I am finding it almost impossible to concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes. My heart just isn't into anything other than this ... not to mention appointments with attorneys, case workers and the such. So I am just not capable of doing this right now. I hope you all understand and do not drop me from your contacts.
The hearing is this Tuesday. To those of you that pray I ask that you pray for all of us involved. Pray that the judge makes the right decision for Bethany, whatever that may be. Really I am not even sure right now what that is. Pray that whatever the decision, it will have no adverse effect on the rest of Bethany's life. And please pray that ALL of us find the strength to accept his decision and be at peace with it.
Thank you,
Chris
Canadian Pacific train 284 was passing underneath the B12 signal bridge at Edgington in Franklin Park in 2003.
CEFX SD9043MAC 121 was sold to Norfolk Southern and rebuilt into SD70ACU 7333.
The Indiana Harbor Belt tracks in the foreground have since been removed and relocated to the east as part of the Grand Avenue underpass project.
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Welcome one and all to the magnificent mysterious and often fantastical tour of the mind belonging to me... Today I am wanting to talk a little about change, and as this is a place for me to talk about, what ever I want... because it is my blog, and not yours... this is what we will be rambling around this afternoon.
I have realized recently that no matter how much you may want to please other people, eventually changing who you are will leave you miserable and ultimately hurt other people...Find the full rambles and credits @ Corbans Cabinet of Curiosities
Eastern Sierra, California
A snowy Carson Peak looms over the colorful aspens in the lower Rush Creek drainage. An early winter storm had dropped snow on the higher elevations the night before.
Explored October 13, 2021
Don't solve the problem,
when danger is better.
Far away where you stock them
In cages that tether
And all the bridges you've burned,
leave you trapped off at all sides.
And now the tables do turn,
and it's all gone, what's left for you.
And when the sky is falling,
don't look outside the window.
Step back and hear I'm calling.
Give up, don't take the fast road.
It's just your doubt that binds you.
Just drop those thoughts behind you now.
Change your mind.
You let go too soon.
Don't run away,
Stop feeling fine.
It's better than your worst, your worst day.
No words to say, I'll give you mine,
and pocket all the hurt, and just stay.
Don't run away.
It's better than your worst, your worst day.
Sit down, you're sinking,
there's no one to watch you.
Skip town, you're thinking,
there's no one to stop you.
Don't run away.
I'll change your mind.
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Models: 7amood And Ya7ya =D
Nature changes now. For some beings it is cold, while some enjoy this low temperatures and moist environments. We are all important, somehow...
Schneider Componar 50 mm, natural light, 340 images stacked in ZS.
You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vacancy
Love don't live here anymore
When you lived inside of me
There was nothin' I could conceive
That you wouldn't do for me
Trouble seemed so far away
You changed that right away, baby
You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vacancy
Love don't live here anymore
Just emptiness and memories
Of what we had before you went away
Found another place to stay, another home
You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vacancy, babe
Love don't live here anymore
In the windows of my eyes
Everyone can see the loneliness inside me
Why'd you have to go away?
Don't you know I miss you so and need your love?
You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vacancy
Love don't live here anymore!
You abandoned me
Love don't live here anymore
Just a vacancy, babe
Love don't live here anymore, no, no, no
You abandoned me
Love don't live here, live here, no, no
Welcome to my word for 2019. How and what are you going to change this year? Your style, attitude, bad habits? Be the change you want to see in the world.
The last several days have been ones of significant change in the countryside around our town. Just last week, this bean field was a dark green; this morning, it shows the change of the season as it has yellowed and will soon begin the drying process that will result in harvest next month.
Many trees are already showing reds, yellows, and golds as they begin the ever-hastening lurch toward full fall colors.
The habits of wildlife are in full change mode as well. Deer are largely absent as they can read in the Star Tribune that bow season starts this Saturday, followed by other opportunities for them to be shot by two-legged pursuers.
Waterfowl are doing practice runs for migration as they fly high overhead from one body of water to another. Small songbirds are gorging themselves on seeds and berries as they load up for the trip south.
I even noted an old photographer headed to Shalom, our great thrift store, to update his autumn wardrobe, where he will splurge and buy the latest warm fashions for $3 each, which will look an awful lot like his last year's fashion.
If you like the change of seasons in Minnesota, this is a good time. If you find yourself dreading the coming winter, I already like you.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)