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The Walhalla
is a hall of fame that honours laudable and distinguished people in German history – "politicians, sovereigns, scientists and artists of the German tongue";
Built decades before the foundation of the modern German state in 1871 and the formation of a modern German identity, "German" was initially understood as "Germanic", and included ancient Germanic (Gothic, Vandal, Lombardic, Anglo-Saxon) as well as medieval Dutch, Swedish and Russian figures.
The hall is a neo-classical building above the Danube River, in Donaustauf, east of Regensburg in Bavaria.
@Wikipedia
This shot was taken back in June, during a woodland drinking-pool stakeout, in Hungary.
Our target species for the day was the Hawfinch, though a number of other birds also put in an appearance.
One of these visitors, I'm pleased to say, was this Nightingale & this was a first time sighting for me.
I can remember hearing their song on late night dog-walks around our village, but that was over a decade ago now. Nothing since then, sadly.
I will do anything to avoid speaking on the phone :-)
Debora Robertson, "It's not just millennials: the rise of the midlife phone-phobe," Telegraph.co.uk, 2018
HBW! it appears i have plenty of company who also prefer to avoid the phone
cornus, cornelian cherry dogwood, 'Spring Glow', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
St Lawrence Hall - Toronto Ontario - Canada - Clock Tower
St. Lawrence Hall is a meeting hall in Toronto, Ontario, located at the corner of King Street East and Jarvis Street. It was created to be Toronto's public meeting hall home to public gatherings, concerts, and exhibitions. Its main feature was a thousand-seat amphitheater. For decades the hall was the centre of Toronto's social life, before larger venues took over much of this business. Today the hall continues as a venue for events including weddings, conferences, and art shows. 187
The Taxman. He expresses his psychosis by taxing everything he sees. And what he doesn't see too, why not? He tramples contracts that took decades to be signed, tramples imaginary enemies. He taxes the present, the past and the future. They say he taxed his own mother for giving birth to him. But there is something he will never be able to tax: Love. Because no matter how hard Mr. Taxman tries, we will always find an original way to love. And the good news is that love can heal you, Mr. Taxman. But first you will cry a lot for thrown having so many opportunities in the trash. For having been a thorn in the way of humanity. For having been a pain in the ass.
Sting - If it's Love - youtu.be/nFLfKN32oho?si=TxS-gIqyZk9DuGZ1
Some people say that this full moon is the last full moon of the decade. However, there are those that argue that it occurred last December 2019. (See my post in the comments) At any rate, it's also known as the Cold Moon or the Long Night Moon. I caught it on Monday night just before it was actually full surrounded by puffs of pink clouds at sunset.
2010-2019 resulted in some great adventures and photographs. I am going to steal some formatting from Brian Plant and share a few from the archives that have not been previously posted.
While we rarely saw the sun on our second consecutive week long traincation to Colorado the fall color was nothing short of spectacular. The cloudy days allowed for some different angles at more common locations such as HPVODEN seen here quickly approaching the siding at Yarmony just east of Bond.
Following an absence of almost 10 years, Aurizon (or when they last ran as QR National), have returned to the Southern Highlands and the NSW Riverina with a bulk grain train, operating to and from Port Kembla.
Here 6002, ACD6046 and 6001 approach Calwalla, with late running empty Aurizon grain 9357 from Port Kembla to West Wyalong to load.
Saturday 11th February 2023
For decades the harbour has been an area of workers, industry and trade. But after the Mannesmann company had discontinued its tube production in Düsseldorf, parts of the central harbour lost their reason for being (another harbour is in Düsseldorf-Reisholz). As a result the eastern part of the harbour started to be redeveloped.
The background is simply our backyard, leading to the pond.
Please enjoy the floral details in Large. Thank you so much for your visit!
For the last decade I have driven past this barn scores of times. I have photographed it during sunrises, sunsets and during all four seasons. This week when I ventured out I was surprised to see it was in the process of getting demolished. It will not be replaced by anything that is akin to what it once was and it illustrated again to me how America is losing irreplaceable landmarks of our agricultural past.
It made me think about the landmarks in my life that are no longer present. My first awakening to the uncertainty of life was when my grandparents passed on. As a youngster I thought they would always be around. Then the parade lengthened as aunts and uncles joined the eternal crowd followed by my parents. Now after seven and a half decades the final path has been joined by my siblings. Each passing of a personal landmark has emphasized the brevity of life but especially the last one.
The previous posted shot is the one which i captured immediately after the sun broke out on, the first dawn of a new decade, starting 1st Jan 2010. I didnt plan to capture any more shots, however, when i saw the reflections of the sun in the water i captured this shot, and couldnt stop posting it here. Hope you folks like it.
Experimenting with black and white photos.
We had some rain today, the sky was overcast with low light when I captured this flower.
Uploaded for the theme "Black and White" in The Flickr Lounge .
Critique is welcomed.
Thank you all very much for your visits, favs and comments.
Starting my 100x project with one of my favourite photo subjects. Seagulls. We saw the start of 2020 at the beach, so it seems a good place to start my project.
100x photos I’m happy to post, a photo journal of my year
A Libythea celtis seen sunning itself this afternoon in Korea - it looks like it saw out the last decade too!
Decades ago when I was a teenager, I went to a Remembrance Day ceremony honouring veterans and the dead from the World Wars. As people were bowing their heads at the playing of the last post this man was moved to tears.
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Glaciers of the Bolivian Andes represent an important water resource for Andean cities and mountain communities, yet relatively little work has assessed changes in
their extent over recent decades. In many mountain regions,
glacier recession has been accompanied by the development of proglacial lakes, which can pose a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) hazard. However, no studies have assessed the development of such lakes in Bolivia despite recent GLOF incidents here. Our mapping from satellite imagery reveals an overall areal shrinkage of 228.1 ± 22.8 km2
(43.1 %) across the Bolivian Cordillera Oriental between
1986 and 2014. Shrinkage was greatest in the Tres Cruces
region (47.3 %), followed by the Cordillera Apolobamba
(43.1 %) and Cordillera Real (41.9 %). A growing number
of proglacial lakes have developed as glaciers have receded,
in accordance with trends in most other deglaciating mountain ranges, although the number of ice-contact lakes has decreased.
Source: Simon J. Cook Ioannis Kougkoulos, Laura A. Edwards, Jason Dortch, and Dirk Hoffmann change and glacial lake outburst flood riskin the Bolivian Andes
2010-2019 resulted in some great adventures and photographs. I am going to steal some formatting from Brian Plant and share a few from the archives that have not been previously posted.
Often times most of the "fails" end up sitting on the harddrive forever but this seemed like a fun one to share. We were pretty excited to hear the ECO set call the dispatcher and request some railroad back to Conway. We were not so excited to see lite power come around the corner. At least it provides a nice unobstructed view of the now removed signal bridge?
HEHEHEHEH - always good to see where we started and where we are now. 10 years ago, and this isn't what I looked like when I started here in SL that's even a bigger difference.
Under decades of overgrown vegetation, the landowner finally decided to clear around this old home.
It's only one hundred feet off the road that I travel several times per week, but I never knew it was there. Hiding in plain sight.
Decades back, we landed on the moon and came back.
This time, NASA is going to go there again ... but stays. :)
Say 2024?
2012 A Decade Later:
Digging through the archives takes us back to a decade ago last week - April 7, 2012. The pride of the W&LE fleet leads 5 corporate painted locomotives and train 213 through Southview on a spring afternoon.
For decades the harbour has been an area of workers, industry and trade. But after the Mannesmann company had discontinued its tube production in Düsseldorf, parts of the central harbour lost their reason for being (another harbour is in Düsseldorf-Reisholz). As a result the eastern part of the harbour started to be redeveloped.
A decade ago on the Lancaster & Chester Railway you could still find SW900s on the railroad, and nothing but 4 axles. The entire roster was painted in their well-known-locally baby blue paint scheme, as trains spent their days going back and forth between Chester, Lancaster, Kershaw and everywhere in between.
Today, the L&C is very different. Half of the line has been upgraded to handle 6 axles, and the other half of the line should be upgraded sometime in the short term future. They have been adding traffic left and right, and are busier than ever. G&O, the L&C's parent company, has stopped painting engines blue and is putting everything in corporate black. 9 years ago it was GP38s and SW900s. Today you can find SD60Ms, SD40-2s, and even a D8-40C.
But not everything has changed, and you can still find scenes like the one here. L&C #2866, a very rare high hood GP38AC, leads train 14 past the depot at Heath Springs, SC on their way towards Lancaster on the morning of 2/15/21. The railroad does still have 3 blue GPs on the roster, but at this point their days are likely numbered.
I saw these funny shaped glass bricks on the side of a building, and instantly thought "Minecraft Pants"!
Minecraft is a 3D-block game that involves mining and crafting. It swept the world about a decade ago and is still going strong. As the mother of an avid player, years ago I was forced to play this game!
Experimenting with black and white photos.
We had some rain today, the sky was overcast with low light when I captured this flower.
Uploaded for the theme "Black and White" in The Flickr Lounge .
Critique is welcomed.
Thank you all very much for your visits, favs and comments.
Another decade has come and gone as quickly as it began. As we enter a new year as photographers we appreciate where we've been and what we've witnessed, and thanks to photographs we can look back like yesterday to see what's gone, giving purpose to what at times can be called a silly hobby. Not all things last forever but the photos and memories remain. Garwood, West Virginia, late September 2015.
2020 is here! Wishing the best to all. This marks 10 years that I have been on Flickr, and one of the best things has been coming to know so many, enjoying your work and thinking of you as real friends.
Caught during a preening session. At the Pool (apparently the first sighting in a decade), Central Park, New York