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© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Looking a little camera-shy and like she wants to curl up and away from the lens, the resulting shot really speaks to me - enjoy!
On the morning of July 31, 1996, a Southern Pacific coal train climbs through the Crater Loops at Crater, Colorado on the Craig Branch. Five SP GE AC4400CWs power the train, with two on the point, two mid-train, and one following up on the rear of the train. In the middle background, the line climbing through Volcano can be seen on the side of the mountains, where this train will be working in another five track-miles or so.
curling birch bark close up with pleasing bokeh
paper birch (Betula papyrifera - Betulaceae)
Eagle River, Vilas County, Wisconsin
AP210160m
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my review of this lens: www.aarondesigns.org/Fujinon55mmf22Review/
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Here's another from a mini three spot chase of CN train U716, an empty ore train headed back north to UTAC's Fairlane plant to load pellets and turn back to Proctor. The all EMD consist consisting of CN SD40-2W 5349 and repainted DMIR 'tunnel motors' 404 and 405 is rounding the curve at Burnett about to cross Center Line Road at MP 26 on CN's North Division Missabe Sub mainline. Modern day CN's designation for this route pays homage to the historic former Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railroad which was incorporated in 1891, ran its first train in 1892 and built into Duluth proper in 1893. In 1938 the road was merged into the Duluth and Iron Range both long owned by US Steel to officially create the legendary Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway.
With the influx of rebuilt straight air equipped GEs to the Iron Range scenes like this are now nothing but a memory....
Unincorporated Burnett
Industrial Township
St. Louis County, Minnesota
Sunday September 15, 2024
I apologize for being away for a few days. You know life. It sometimes gets in the way. Been a busy bee trying to clean up around the house and such.
Hope everyone has a great week. Hugs to all!
Pic by Tonic
My Mary of the curling hair, The laughing teeth, and bashful air,
Our bridal morn is dawning fair,
With blushes in the skies.
Go! my dear girl; go with strength and fortitude My love! my pearl! My own dear girl! My mountain maid arise!
Wake, linnet of the osier grove!
Wake, trembling, stainless, virgin dove!
Wake, nestling of a parent's love!
Let Moran see thine eyes.
I am no stranger, proud and gay,
To win thee from thy home away,
And find thee, for a distant day,
A theme for wasting sighs.
But we were known from infancy,
Thy father's hearth was home to me,
No selfish love was mine for thee,
Unholy and unwise.
And yet, (to see what Love can do!)
Though calm my hope has burned, and true,
My cheek is pale and worn for you,
And sunken are mine eyes!
But soon my love shall be my bride,
And happy by our own fire-side,
My veins shall feel the rosy tide,
That lingering Hope denies.
My Mary of the curling hair,
The laughing teeth and bashful air,
Our bridal morn is dawning fair,
With blushes in the skies.
My love! my pearl! My own dear girl!
My mountain maid, arise!
This spot was one of, if not THE, favorites of a superlative day. This location is almost exactly the same spot where I shot the northbound hours earlier between the hamlets of Fairview and Beloit at about MP 45.5 on what was historically the thirty-seventh sub of the Milwaukee Road's Minnesota-Dakota Division in the road's last years.
Having returned while chasing the southbound loaded train back to Hawarden and Chatsworth this time we decided to climb a rolling hill and stand in the waist high grass up against the fence line for this sweeping view. The train is captured here curling through the verdant farm country along the meandering Big Sioux River parallel to County Road A54B. Commanding the heavy train are DAIR 2511, 2510, 2512 & 3021. The two leaders are EMD GP39-2s blt. Jan. 1977 and Oct. 1978 respectively as as high cabbed Kennecott Copper pit motors KCC 786 and 798. The third unit is and EMd GP50 blt. Jul. 1980 as CNW 5079 and the trailing unit is an EMD SD40-2 blt. Oct. 1978 as CP 5904.
To learn a bit more check out my first post of this great day here: flic.kr/p/2mmzSW3
Sioux County, Iowa
Monday August 30, 2021
You are probably familiar with the sport of curling, where the object is to slide a heavy stone on ice, trying to get it to stop on a target. Cowboy curling is a sport for kids that we saw at the skijoring event at Garden City, Utah. The child sits in a tube and holds onto a rope pulled by a horse. When she (or he) gets to the target she lets go of the rope and tries to stop on the target. I saw one kid who liked being pulled by the horse so much he wouldn't let go at all.
Three original bought new GP40-2s dressed in matching modern paint lead train 120S with a long string of COFC cars headed from Anchorage toward Whittier and a date with yet another Alaska Marine Lines barge up from Seattle. They are swinging around a bend on a shelf above the parallel Seward Highway at about MP 72.5 on the Alaska Railroad mainline. In less than eight miles they'll reach CP F120 and the switch at the north leg of the wye for the CTC controlled Whittier Branch for the dozen mile run to the port town on Prince William Sound. Of that 12 miles more than 25% of that trip will be underground as they pass through nearly 3.5 miles of tunnels beneath the peaks and glaciers of the coastal mountains.
South of Girdwood, Alaska
Thursday March 3, 2016
I always think of curling stones when I see geese like this.
They probably weigh about the same too.
(Actually, geese are more like 20lbs.)
A curling stone weighs 44lbs!
A quick shot of one of the chickadees checking out my tree today; the focus on the head isn't as sharp as I would have liked but the details on the wings and the sharp focus on the feathers was working for me so I couldn't resist.
Plus it's been ages since I managed a decent bird shot.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. To me it looks like she wants to curl up and hide under a duvet! A fascinating expression for this young woman part way through her new hairdo. Enjoy!
After shooting these guys at White Haven Tunnel as seen her I gave chase north and set up here for my second shot. This would have been spectacular in sun (as it was moments earleir) but alas just was not to be.
Reading and Northern's flagship freight train the NRFF (North Reading Fast Freight) that makes a turn from North Reading to Pittston Yard six days a week is curling past the partially rebuilt and reopened former CNJ Penobscot Yard on the former Lehigh Line Main acquired from Conrail in 1996.
They are at about MP LS 155.5 on the modern day RBMN Lehigh Division mainline and have climbed 800 ft in the 28 or so miles from Jim Thorpe with the grade reaching 1.17% at its steepest. Just ahead they will slide through the rock cut at Solomons Gap and begin the 23 mile or so descent from 1500 ft elevation down to about 650 ft at Pittston Yard alongside the Susquehanna River having crossed the mountain from the Delaware River watershed.
RBMN SD50 5017 (blt. Dec. 1984 as MP 5017) and SD40-2 3056 (blt. Apr. 1978 as UP 3440) are in command of the short train on Main 1 while stored units sit in a deadline on track 4 in the yard.
Mountain Top, Pennsylvania
Friday July 1, 2022
Braehead Curling Rink With eight sheets of curling ice, this secret rink is accessed via the large set of automatic doors to the right of Pizza Hut.
Flickr Lounge ~ Repetition
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Leaf-curling spiders (Phonognatha sp.) shelter in curled leaves at the centre of their webs. The leaves are tied shut with silk threads at the top and left open at the bottom. The spiders sit inside the leaf with only their legs showing, feeling for the vibrations of a captured insect. The leaf protects them from birds and other predators.
This music may set the stage, so to speak: youtu.be/Wj1bc6D-JZE
Set against the stormy-sea blue of my friend Katherine's home, these branches of this juniper (?) apparently adore this spot as they have been curling elegantly against the house for the past several years. Celandine poppies brighten the shady spaces beneath...