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It had somehow been 9 years since my last visit to the Pee Dee River Railway and to say I was long overdue for a return visit was an understatement. Glad it worked out for a last stop on my fall getaway, and with chamber of commerce skies to go with it in sharp contrast to the weather on my visit in 2013.
Here at McColl, the morning fog has just burned off as PD25 picks up a short cut from the CSX interchange. It was a bit of a disappointment for them to be using the old scheme pair of GP16s instead of the two recently painted in the sharp blue and silver of parent road Aberdeen & Rockfish, but they're still GP16s and there's always a reason to come back!
22.05.2020
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This shot at Pella Crossing beside the trail shows the shore and water's edge of the pond on the east side of the park off North 75th. It comes from another trip out to Pella Crossing ponds open space park. (Pella is an ancient city located in Central Macedonia, Greece, best known as the historical capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedon - Wiki. Were Greek scholars among early settlers at the Pella river crossing? sheesh - what's in a name?) I doubt there was any connection whatsoever.
Boy it looks like this is a stay-out-of-the-water park setting! That's right, as always - ashes to ashes, dust to dust, dig a gravel pit and fill 'er up. It's nice to know that we can ignore the environment forever. It looks like the environment is working on rebuilding natural siltation itself. Even the water is growing on its own. Mankind rips away and the environment does its best to refill the void. This is now the St. Vrain to include the proposed recycling center. How to chose life and a living, breathing environment?
I found a good day for my circuit of the East Side Trail at Pella although it looks like there are no clouds on that June day. I blazed away when I find possible shots, even shots like this one. Anyway, here it is.
Me, at the landing zone of a property that used Treasure Quest tokens to collect for free Lindens.
There are a variety of groups you can join in Second Life to make money, however, not all games require a group membership and are available to anyone. I think of the games offered as the current version of "camping," where residents used to stay in a designated area or on a chair in location for a period of time before they could earn some Lindens. Sometimes, camping residents might have to perform a service like scrub a floor, etc.
Property owners purchase the items that distribute Linden money in order to attract visitor traffic to their properties or businesses. The number of visitors is then used to rank these properties in terms of popularity when people use keywords to search for places in Second Life that match keywords in the description of the location.
For me, collecting money through these games helps provide me with an income that I can use in turn to not only buy goods and supplies for myself, but also to use for tipping entertainers and businesses...spreading around the wealth, as they say. Second Life definitely has a diverse economy to support!
Has anyone else noticed that many of Lego's Collectable Minifigures seem to be rip-offs of Disney characters? There are arguably many other collectable minifigures that were inspired by Disney, but these four are the ones that have the most uncanny resemblance to characters from Disney movies.
It is very pleasant sometimes to walk in nature through unknown places and take nice photos. By the way, and the photo was taken on Helios 44 (58mm with a 2.8 aperture)
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Locomotive No. 1410, a Vulcan 2-6-0 (works no.2573 built in 1916), prepares to move loaded cane cars out of one of the loading points from the Cuba Libre (306) sugar mill, Matanzas Province, on March 6th 1999.
A collection of railroad memorabilia located just west of Horicon, WI. The owner has impeccable taste!
22.05.2020
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Grace: Taken by Megan.
Again, as the sunshine was too beautiful to ignore we carried lots of empty jars down to a near photo spot - and we're quite pleased with the results! We'll be uploading more in the next few days :)
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View your artistic mission into photography as an epic odyssey of heroic poetry! Take it from Homer in Homer's Odyssey: "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them. " --Samuel Butler Translation of Homer's Odyssey
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Welcome to another installment of "Collecting with Bill"; we're glad to have you here with us today.
In the world of stamp collecting, there are many different items that are stamp-related. Today we have an "FDC" - First Day Cover. FDC's come in many different fashions and cover a wide range of topics. FDC's typically feature a cancelled stamp on an envelope. The envelopes often have a "cachet", which is an image or artistic feature pertaining to the issued stamp. The stamp is cancelled on the day it was made available to the public. The FDC highlights the newly issued stamp and provides a marker in history of when the stamp was first issued. Plus, they're another fun thing to collect!
This FDC displays a stamp issued in Bolivia on 31 Jan 1991; the cachet on this envelope depicts a Spectacled Bear - a/k/a Andean Bear - and its cub.
It's especially meaningful to me on a personal level. I am blessed with a truly amazing son - he's 16 now - and the cachet reminds me very much of one particular night I had with him. He was around 2 or 3 I suppose; me and my wife would take turns reading a book to (and with) him when it was time for him to go to sleep. (Disclaimer: She did it much more than I did. It took me quite a long time for me to adjust to the role of having a son. Bless her heart.) Anyway, I was reading a book to him that I previously considered way too "touchy feely" for me to indulge in....straight-up male ego. I had a great time that night and he enjoyed the experience quite a bit. He was familiar with the book, so he knew all the features, twists and turns. Surely enough, off to sleep he went when we finished the book.
This is but one example of the multitude of things that I find appealing about stamp collecting. And, to an extent, an example of something I enjoy about Flickr. In general terms, I'm less than thrilled about social media. The only other platform I am a part of is stamp-related; I don't expect that to change much if at all. There was a time when I HAD TO rack up 100 faves and 25 comments...I'm just in a different part of the same room I guess.