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Pink flamingos captured in a Russellville Park hallway for Crazy Tuesday theme: A Crazy Macro/Close-Up.
HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday
Parked near Coconut Island and Lili'uokalani Park & Gardens
Info: Coconut Island, or Moku Ola is a small island in Hilo Bay, just offshore from Lili'uokalani Park and Gardens, in Hilo, off the island of Hawaii [Big Island].
Listening to Merges & Kaelin Ellis - cool v2 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUL9a1NLOI&ab_channel=Merges...
House sparrow (Passer domesticus) female perched on a branch with an open beak to cool itself on a hot day.
Samica wróbla domowego (Passer domesticus) siedząca na gałęzi z otwartym dziobem aby się ochłodzić w gorącym dniu.
Ventured down the coast for a few days this week, Dovercourt is a grand total of 24 miles from home and I think that's as far as we're going to get this year in terms of a summer holiday!
The traditional view of the Low Lighthouse is normally a sunrise shot with it being on the East coast but it also makes an interesting subject during the day. We've had a few very hot sunny days here this week- it was all blue hazy skies so not a lot in the way of photographic opportunities, but it was lovely to see people enjoying the beach and cooling off in the sea. I love the sparkles on the sea on a bright sunny day.
(I THINK I got permission from the pretty girl in the pink swimsuit to photograph them. I was some distance away but we had a vague waving/pointing at the camera/distant thumbs up kind of exchange. I was pleased to see when I zoomed in she is looking straight at me and smiling :) )
Happy Weekend everyone!
With the temperature not yet reaching 0°C, 87002 Royal Sovereign sparks its way north through Lichfield just after sunrise with 1Z86 London Euston to Edinburgh Waverley, The Capital Scot.
This powerplant near Weisweiler in Germany burns brown coal (lignite) from a nearby open pit in order to generate electricity. Every year about 18 million tons lignite are being burned, producing 14,5 million tons (2021) of CO2, contributing significantly to climate change (source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_Weisweiler).
In Explore July 30, 2024
It's brutally hot today so let's cool off with something from February on a brutal day at the opposite end of the temperature spectrum!
Four hours after leaving North Conway the Conway Scenic Railroad's plow train has won the battle as they punch thru the deep rock cut at the Gateway with ex Lamoille Valley (originally Central Vermont) Russell snowplow 4211 leading the way. They are at MP 84.5 (as measured from Portland) on the old Maine Central Mountain Subdivision and when they reach 1900 ft elevation at the summit of the line at Crawford Notch depot just a half mile ahead they will have climbed some 1400 ft in the 25 miles since leaving North Conway on a grade of up to 2.2%.
CSRR GP38s 255 and 252 providing the horsepower are right at home here having been built in November 1966 for the Maine Central Railroad as part of an order of 13 of the model which were the first batch of second generation diesel locomotives purchased by the road. 255 came to Conway Scenic in 2022 and still wears her Vermont Rail System red paint from her nearly two decade second career as Clarendon & Pittsford 203 after having being sold by MEC successor Guilford Transportation in the early 1990s. 252 meanwhile was the last one in service on successor Guilford Transportation, lasting more than three decades, and having seen her other dozen siblings retired and scrapped or sold. She came to Conway Scenic in March 2010 along with GP35 216 in a trade with Pan Am Railways for FP9s 6505 and 6516 that would become Pan Am's OCS power.
Crawford Notch State Park
Harts Location, New Hampshire
Monday February 17, 2025
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Ozzie, male Bald Eagle takes a drink before joining Harriet at the nest
It has been 1 month since his passing - RIP, always fly free
(image taken February 2015)
Ft. Myers, FL
I was really happy to discover this litte Coastal Waterfall in the land of the Bunurong People.
This image was taken on my second trip there that timed it better with tides and morning light.
I thought I would upload this very cool flower for my friends ... especially the ones that love flowers :D I have tons of images in my archives and I just never get to them.
Have a nice day everyone! ~This is Best Viewed Large!~
Another king penguin picture from Grytviken, South Georgia. A number of these birds were clustered together in the shallow water that was flowing out over the stone beach from a small creek. They seem to like doing that sort of thing. I've seen photos where there are thousands lining a river of snow and glacier melt. Birds have a system of countercurrent heat exchange in their legs that helps keep them warm in cold weather. I wonder if it works in reverse to help the penguins cool off. It cool for the humans, but perhaps that was not the case for the blubber rich kings. I was not able to find out if it does indeed work both ways, but it seems possible.
Just a couple of women walking on the beach on a cloudy day at my favorite place on the California coast, Pescadero State Beach.
Lightnings are so cool! It reminds us, that whatever we do, it is nothing compared to force of nature. To capture one in the frame, that's always a lot of fun. I like the purple light that comes with it.
The flower is from my garden and the natural piece of aquamarine it's leaning on is from my mineral collection. It feels like another world now, but the company I worked for used to give long service awards and when I reached the 20 year milestone I was allowed to choose a gift for myself rather than something from the limited selection of 'corporate' gifts that were shipped over from America, as had always been the case until that year. I chose this aquamarine stone, thinking I would have it made into a piece of jewellery. As you can see, I never did. In the end I decided I liked it just the way it was. It brings back lots of memories of people and places. :)
For this week's Smile on Saturday group theme, Gemstones.