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As per Ms. Abitibi's suggestion, I cropped this picture to keep it tight on the chinese lanterns found in the Eaton Centre in Toronto.
Although it's now Nutrien Ag Solutions this facility is known as "Crop Pro" to the older employees on the Carolina Coastal (CLNA). This stalwart customer on the Belhaven Branch was formerly Crop Production Services, hence the old name still used.
While the facility has kept the branch going for years, Nutrien is just about to open a much larger facility in Bishops Cross, NC (just north of Pantego). Train 119 is actually pulling loads from Crop Pro and taking them to the new facility in this photo, leading me to believe this smaller old facility won't do much in the near future.
Thankfully, unlike many stories of closing industries, Nutrien's growth will be good for the Belhaven Branch and may even see daily runs from Pinetown once at full production.
I saw this alien spacecraft hovering over a field of wheat in rural Nottinghamshire...
it stayed there just long enough for me to sketch it making crop circles, then it suddenly disappeared in a blinding flash
Many raindrops from this honeysuckle plant, but I chose this one and cropped it...for your enjoyment.
if you ask me this scene is perfect
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"top crop" pics are (re)posted in no particular order, 33 in total, I tried top 10 and there's no way I could restrict myself to 10, top 20 didn't work either, 33 made the cut (paddle up/down stream for more), I'll re-post 3 a day before the New Year
Sweet Chestnut is a favourite tree for coppicing in traditionally managed English woodlands. It is usually cut at the base every 12 years or so, and on every rotation a healthy tree will continue to produce a crop of thick sturdy and straight poles.
Coppiced chestnut is tough, durable and weather proof, containing natural tannins. Because of that it has been used for centuries to make fencing posts and stakes and in all kinds of outdoor contsruction work. If smaller fencing rails are required it splits nice and evenly down the grain and you can get several rails out of a single pole. I have actually watched this being done by skilled woodland craftsmen using a simple iron billhook.
Day # 47
13 miles
Took a rode to the north west of Idaho Falls...paid off handsomely....I've been wanting to capture a crop duster...this 90 day rural farm series wouldn't be complete without it!
'Tis a mystery to me why these circles are there but somehow I suspect that no aliens were involved... :-)
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leather wood wedges - madewell
patchwork denim shorts - thrifted
1990's floral crop top - thrifted
red grosgrain ribbon - gift
"top crop" pics are uploaded in no particular order, 33 in total, I tried top 10 and there's no way I could restrict myself to 10, top 20 didn't work either, 33 made the cut (paddle up/down stream for more), I'll re-upload 3 a day before the New Year
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that one got probably most exuberant praise from the comments and I guess I can see why, strangely again I do like it but probably not as much as commenters did, it just goes to show ... show what? ... you know, it goes to show something or other ...
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There was this old(ish) Soviet comedy movie, where 3 friends have a tradition of going to a sauna every New Year's eve. On this occasion, they had a few too many shots of vodka after the sauna and sent one of the guys (wrong guy) to a wrong city on a wrong flight... All sorts of hilarity ensue, all ends up with a heart warming love story. The movie Is a masterpiece. It is being screened and watched every year around New Year's eve for like 40 years now. It is a Russian reply to Love Actually. Only it's been out 20 years earlier so LA would be Brits' reply to it.
But I digress. I broke my wrist last year just before Christmas so I thought "that sounds like a good Xmas tradition, why not make it an annual affair?" And I did. That's my going to sauna annual gig now.
Now in a cast and a man of enforced leisure I am picking my top shots of the year.
The exercise has demonstrated to me 2 things:
- it's been a good year. In photographic terms. I ended up with 33 shots which I am determined to keep in the winners' bunch, none of them I want to dismiss. 33 photos I really like from one year is a very good crop in my book. It's 10% of good stuff out of all shots. I wouldn't ask for more.
- I have to renew "photo a day" business. I have PaD to thank for the shots I got. The discipline and relentless photoing of PaD inevitably produce good shots. If it wasn't for PaD I wouldn't have most of the shots in my top crop bunch. And who am I to rob humankind of great photos? I am in no position to do such a thing. So I have to start PaD for the sake of humanity.
i was looking to create the sort of patterns you see in crop circles...more oil on water experiments...
This crop duster was spraying the cotton fields in Lee County, AR while I was travelling down highway US79.
The hay bales, like most other things, remind me of food. Every time I see them, I get visions of delicious swiss rolls dancing in my head.
The only better vision than swiss rolls (with the possible exception of those visions that are better) are visions of swiss rolls covered in whipped cream!
Pavlov should have experimented on me rather than animals.