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Firewood from fallen trees litters the trackside as NG/G16 129 exits the temporary speed restriction at Landslide beneath sunny autumn skies with a train to Gembrook.
Fontaine Médicis, Jardin du Luxembourg
Paris, September 2025
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This black vulture is lower than their usual altitude of close to 1000 feet. Vultures don’t get much respect but the world would be a much smellier and messier place without them.
Just outside Tunnel 2 at Plainview, Colorado, a wreck occurred on the Moffat Road in spring of 1972. Because locomotives were involved, wreck outfits from both Denver and Grand Junction were quickly called to the scene. Former D&SL 120-ton derrick 029 and D&RGW Bucyrus-Erie 250-ton “big hook” 028 from Grand Junction (nicknamed “Samson de Grande”) work in unison to lift Rio Grande GP35 No. 3043 back onto the rails. GP7 No. 5101 and a Great Northern boxcar are still left to be rescued on the rocky slope below. The action, of course, takes place on my N scale (1/160 scale) Moffat Road model railroad.
A glorious weekend for the garden! Sunny and temps in
the low 60's...everyone pitched in to help, well, except Paris, obviously!
We really had fun...I always hope a little of the joy of gardening will rub
off on the kids... I hope so anyway. We got a lot done!
I feel much better having the garden trimmed and cleaned out a little...
I like it kept tidy!
The clean up woman will wipe his blues away
She'll give him plenty lovin' 24 hours a day
The clean up woman, she'll sweep him off his feet
She's the one who'll take him in when you dump him in the street
So take a tip, you better get hip
To the clean up woman 'cause she's tough
I mean, she really cleans up...
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An awesome neon sign on Rt 66 in Tucumcari that you'd never notice during the daytime...
Boulevard Cleaners and Laundromat
405 E Rte 66 Blvd,
Tucumcari, NM
Leica M6 TTL
Leica Summicron 35mm f/2 IV "King of Bokeh"
Kodak Portra 160
Tetenal Colortec C-41
Scan from negative film
Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia floridana)
Photography and birding came in to my life together and almost on a whim. Learning about birds, and consequently the habitats they are in, has profoundly changed my life and opened my eyes to the consequences to wildlife of the ever increasing advancement of the human footprint.
This owl was another learning experience for me both in terms of increasing my knowledge of the species and the human/wildlife connection. His burrow is in a highly populated area of Florida, surrounded by houses and busy streets. While observing the owl, much to my horror, one of his neighbors opened the front door and out trots a Golden Retriever roaming free; unleashed. Of course the dog comes right over to where this owl and his family of owlets are. All the babies go scurrying back into the burrow but interestingly the two adults stayed put. Then the dog comes over and checks out my friend and me; sniffs around in the field a little more then finds a nice spot to do his "deed". Once that is done, he trots on back to his house.
I'm not thinking nice things at this point. I was a dog owner and was taught to clean up after my dog; not leave a pile of crap lying around to be stepped in. Plus I'm worried about the dog harming the poor owls.
If you've stuck with me this far, here is where the learning part comes in. This owl is actually thankful to have that dog as his neighbor and thankful that the owner doesn't clean up after it. One of this owl's feeding techniques is to carry dung back to its burrow which then attracts dung beetles that it will eat.
I didn't know what was in the owl's talons at the time I took this shot, but this is a shot of the owl carrying back a nice Golden Retriever dung ball. One wise owl.
Looked like a dead skunk (not sure if the leftovers of a coyote meal or road kill though this road has very little traffic)
our group CMAS used to organize annual cleanup drives to assist clean our environment (including underwater). here are some images of stuffs one can see underwater
The village street crew has a tough job. They have to maintain the streets for both snowmachines and wheeled vehicles.
This means keeping the snow at a depth that is safe for traction, turning and braking for all vehicles.
First a blade, then a plow, then remove the excess. Good on 'em.
This wreck occurred on the Boonton line just off Interstate 80 and east of Port Morris and Lake Hopatcong.The road going under the tracks near the wreck site was called Shippenport Road. Some of the cars that were involved in the wreck were carrying rock salt and plastic pellets and their contents were all over the place.I did not manage to get the number of the crane involved with the cleanup but did notice that insulator on the boom which I never saw on Erie side cranes.Hulcher Railroad Services assisted in the cleanup also. 02-13-1974 Howard Kent Jr.photo.