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LONDON - MARCH 8: People, blurred by long exposure, commuting in a symmetrical tunnel in the London underground. London, UK, March 8, 2013.
Electronic signs on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge warn commuters of the lane closures on State Route 16 for Saturday and Sunday (Jan. 4-5) during the early morning commute Friday Jan. 3, 2013. David Montesino/Staff photographer
Irish Rail class 29000 DMU number 29008 approaching Matt Goff bridge opposite the Intel plant in Leixlip, Co. Kildare on its way to Dublin Connolly with an evening Arrow Commuter train from Maynooth. The water way running next to the tracks is the Royal Canal.
The stretch of line is now part of Irish Rail's mainline from Dublin Connolly to Sligo, but it was originally built by the MGWR (Midland Great Western Railway) as part of their mainline to Galway. The MGWR bought the Royal Canal and laid their track next to for almost the entire stretch from Dublin to Mullingar. Because the line follows the canal so closely, it has a lot of quite sharp turns in it. Here we see one such turn between Deey Bridge (and the 13th lock of the Royal Canal) and the new Matt Goff Bridge in Leixlip, Co. Kildare.
Stormy Weather- Ella Fitzgerald
I thought I saw clouds ahead. At least the brief summer storm livens up the journey, as does this Thunderbirds style building. It is Lancaster South, known to all but it's owners as Forton Services. It was built in the year I was born and as a child it always filled me with wonder and delight, a futuristic dream in the middle of rural Lancashire. I'm not the only one who loves this building, it was added to the official protected list a couple of years ago. Originally a restaurant, it closed when it failed fire safety regulations 25 years ago. There isn't a proper fire escape route except jumping or driving off in your flying car. Bit of a design faux pas that, but back in 1965 flying cars were expected to be only a year or two away.
A couple looks on as a jeepney makes it way through the flooded street in Manila August 15, 2007. Severe rains drenched Manila and the northern Philippines on Wednesday as Typhoon Sepat moved across northeast of the archipelago.
Phone, cards, transit passes, cash, to-do notebook, first aid kit, wind layer, lightweight backup layer.
Back door opens and the song opens with a crescendo
of cold air, dying down as temperatures mix.
Bike Shed opens and a second instrument joins in,
Sha-Shink, Sha-Shink
Adding a circular layer of rhythm.
Heart pumps faster and heats up the melody, with a beat so low it's felt in my
chest, not heard.
I feel the song in my fingertips tingling. I hear the song in the wind, icing
my cheeks.
First stoplight and the quiet chorus of rejuvination fills in.
Winds recede and cheeks warm up. Gloved hands are nestled under
arms. Legs Rest.
Green Light and Sha-Shink, Sha-Shink, the rhythm repeats and heart-bass warms
up the backbeat again. The heat of the melody rises and rises until cheeks
are bright against the breeze. Fingers limber up against the odds.
Sha-Shink, Sha-Shink
The groove is on now.
And, just when I'm ready for one more verse, I've arrive and the silence of
indoor space returns, and the instruments of winter commuting fade away.