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OMGOSH ! If you love pumpkin you will love this dip! Its like eating the middle out of a pumpkin pie( yes I also love the crust ) but this is Amazing if your a pumpkin lover! I have to thank a fellow baker friend of mine for sharing this wonderful recipe!
Pumpkin pie Dip...
1 (8 oz) Pk Cream cheese, softened
2 Cups powdered Sugar
1(15 oz) Can Pumpkin pie filling (not raw pumpkin) buy the one with spices added!
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½-1 tsp ground ginger
Pinch of nutmeg
Serve with.
Apple slices. Ginger snaps
Mix cream cheese, powdered sugar, and pumpkin pie filling, add spices cover and chill 8 hrs. Add a dab of whipped cream on top!
Serve with apple slices, ginger snaps
As the sun drops into the water of the English Channel, colours gone wild.
a little use of the Saturation Button
Strobist:
YN560II in a grid on a lightstand camera left, slightly above 1/2 power. Triggered in slave mode with a Wein Sync-Link mounted on my Fuji X100s.
I positioned the couple on the lip of the 18th green at the country club and got low to put them in empty space in the sky between groups of pine trees.
Skinny Dips: 60 Recipes for Dips, Spreads, Chips, and Salsas on the Lighter Side of Delicious
by Diane Morgan
Published by Chronicle Books
I wish these were the actual wrappers of the candy pictured, as I would love the actual wrappers (especially the Fun Dip one), but until I find those, I DID find this very cool vintage magnet set that looks like the wrappers themselves...
This iceberg has been dipped during his existance. The left smooth side has been previously under water.
Atlantic ocean, Antarctica
At Hemkund Sahib, the water of the lake is referred to as Amrit Jal. Most of the devotees enter the frigid water slowly, utter a prayer, then take a series of brisk dips.
GLLX 3001, MQT 2007 and GLLX 3002 haul a large turn train north through the Ramona Dip at a blistering 10mph. This was the year that we were busier than ever, G&W took over and most the railroad was slow orders. Oh the memories.
Experimenting with what might become the next Double Dip camera - more tricky to mod so it might take a while before I can release it.
Meanwhile I have about 10 original Double Dip blanks waiting to be modded.
This different blank camera seems slightly less blurry in the corners, and the viewfinder is more accurate. On the down-side the double exposure mechanism isn't as simple as the pull-cord on v1.
Double Dip 2.0 + Fuji Superia 400
Strobist info. SB-800 with a lastolite Ezy-Box. Fired using CLS with a sb-900 on camera as master. Ambient underexposed a bit.
On Saturday 7th September 1974 I should have been at work rather than attending the Swindon Works open day. In the elaborate internal jargon of the Bristol Omnibus Co., not turning up for work was known as "dipping". Failing to turn up took various forms: there was sickness, fake sickness or simply oversleeping. "Dipping" was an all-embracing term that covered all these eventualities. My intention had been to telephone the depot to say that I was unwell. Accordingly I had got up at 5am to let them know before my starting time. In those days there was no telephone in the house and I walked to the kiosk on the corner. But I couldn't get through. If you failed to let them know at least an hour in advance it became a disciplinary matter. Oh well. Another black mark to add to my tally. Such was the shortage of staff in those days that you were virtually unsackable. From time to time I would find in my "pidgeon hole" a "chitty" notifying me of an appointment with the District Traffic Superintendant. "Re: Shorts" was added in ballpoint pen under the printed information. "Shorts" was my customary offence. It meant that the takings I had paid in were less than the requisite amount. The rule was that day-to-day discrepancies were OK ...within reason... but that the total must tally by the end of the working week. However, the depot cash clerks didn't like it as it made extra work for them, and it was...
But I digress. There is something of the abbatoir or dissecting room about scenes like this. Here we see a line of cabs from scrapped Class 52 locomotives. From the camera they had belonged to: D1000 WESTERN ENTERPRISE, D1024 WESTERN HUNTSMAN, D1060 WESTERN DOMINION, D1060 again and D1000 again. Visitors were allowed to take away any components they could remove. I saw people walking away with cab doors from "Westerns" and "Warships". Back at Temple Meads that afternoon I saw a youth, holding a rev counter or speedometer, being led through a side door by a sceptical officer of the British Transport Police.
After I had got home a pal, also an employee of the Bristol Omnibus Co., called at the house. He and some mates were going to drive up to London next day to try to get around as many of the sheds as possible. Did I want to come? I had to work, I told him. They planned to get around Willesden, Old Oak, Cricklewood, Finsbury Park and Stratford. "Weeeell ...I suppose I could dip..."
From the days when I used to be able to climb up mountains : )
Sigh, it's back to dipping into my photo archives. I am hibernating for a few days, at least, thanks to the unwelcome arrival of 'winter' snow. If I wrote a description under a previously posted photo taken the same outing, I will add it to the five images uploaded today, 26 October 2023.
"This was one of the views from the lower plateau of Plateau Mountain, after we had hiked up from the closed gate. It was taken on 28 September 2016, on our first 'recent' trip - the second visit was just one week later, on 5 October 2016, during which we were able to get up to the top plateau (with permission). On our second trip, we were trudging through snow and dense, low cloud on the very top of Plateau Mountain. What a difference a week makes.
I have been lucky enough to visit this special area several times in the past, but wondered if I would ever be able to get back to one of my absolute favourite places. There are two gates across this road - the lower one always seems to be open, but the second, higher gate is always kept locked. This means a long hike up a gravel road to get to the first plateau area, and then a further hike to get to the very top (which we didn't do).
Took me a while to make up my mind whether to go on this trip, as I wasn't sure if I'd be able to manage it - my body just can't do anything uphill, even just a very slight incline. Also, I had read someone's old report, saying that, up till the day they went, a female Grizzly and her two cubs had been hanging out there for 10 days! They didn't see the bears, but noticed all the many places where the bears had pushed over rocks and ripped up the ground to look for plant roots, etc.. On our hike, there were so many digging sights and these were still unnerving enough! We also saw several bear paw prints in the gravel along this road. My main concern was that I would have to fall back and let my friends continue. The thought of being by myself and seeing a family of Grizzlies had been enough to keep me awake part of the previous night and I even broke into a sweat worrying about it, lol. However, I have very thoughtful friends, and we stayed pretty much together.
These friends were there to look for plants, mosses, lichens and liverworts - plus anything else of interest - so they don't walk at a fast pace and are always stopping to look at something. This suits my ability perfectly. We were, of course, too late for wildflowers, though there were a lot of False Dandelions in bloom. We also came across a number of fungi, most of them the same kind of very small, brown fungus. We did see one or two other kinds that were worth photographing.
Because of stopping so often, we ran out of time to continue hiking this road as far as the very top, flat plateau - I would have had to stay behind if they had gone further. The lower plateau is where most of my visits have taken place, but I think I have been right to the very top twice, maybe three times, before. Almost every visit other years had been in the month of July. Actually, the middle part of the hike was over ground that was very similar to the very top plateau, including some permafrost 'boils'.
Birds seen on this trip included a tiny Wren, a few small flocks of unidentified birds flying fast, and a falcon (Prairie falcon?).
"This nearly flat high-elevation plateau is recognized for several unique features. There is an internationally recognized ice cave with ice crystals, curls, sheets and pillars (ice crystals are so fragile that a temperature increase of one degree Celsius can cause melting). The periglacial features (known as "patterned ground") in the reserve include active permafrost, sorted stone circles, polygons, steps and frost boils. The area also contains critical winter range for bighorn sheep." From www.albertaparks.ca/plateau-mountain.aspx
There are no public roads in Plateau Mountain Ecological Reserve; the road to the mountain top is leased by Husky Oil; to prevent vandalism to natural gas production facilities and to lessen impact on the area's natural features, access is controlled by the locked gate; travel in the reserve is by foot only; there are no facilities on site and overnight camping and open fires are prohibited."
www.albertaparks.ca/media/2741526/plateau_mtn_mgmt_plan.pdf
Thanks so much, Sandy, for organizing this wonderful trip and getting us out there! Not sure, but I think the last time I was out there was in August 2012. Major flood damage had kept the roads closed after that, so it was very exciting to know that someone else had discovered that the roads were now OK for travel. We were so lucky with the weather and only had a few raindrops. Rather chilly, but it was almost October, so it was hardly surprising. I think the temperature was between 2C and 4C, approximately. I was wearing thermal underwear, jeans, two fleece jackets and my thick winter jacket, and my winter boots!
Many thanks, too, to Ken, for the ride from and back to Calgary - much appreciated! A long drive, but through such beautiful scenery."
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I'm not much for Photoshop really, though I don't necessarily consider creating a black 10 pixel division and laying two photos adjacent to each other much of a "Photoshop," if at all. Regardless, this is my first "diptych," or two photos joined together on an end (historically, hinged).
I got the idea when I came across two photos in particular that I didn't really feel I could do anything with on their own. A couple simple 2:1 crops and a black 10 pixel divider later and I feel I have something that fell together quite nicely.
Let me know what you think.
My aunt was just about to take a dip in the water today since it has been so hot. Decided to try my hand at papparazzi but she didn't like that too much. Now it is my turn to run naked in the water.....hopefully no one else is lurking in the woods with a camera :)
Mid-month, I shared an update on life as a public post on my Patreon, including the news that I will visit family and friends in Australia during June.
I'll arrive in Brisbane late on 4 June to stay four nights with my Uncle and his partner. I hope to catch up with a few folks, but meetings will likely be limited, given how little time I'll be in town.
I'll fly to Devonport in Tasmania via Melbourne on 8 June, staying for two weeks with Dad in Ulverstone. While I'm there, Rob and Pete will visit so we can have something of a gathering to celebrate Mum's life and scatter her ashes. I've also got at least two friends to catch up with in Tasmania.
On 22 June, I'll fly to Melbourne for about a week to catch up with Rob and Pete again, as well as hopefully several friends.
The final leg of my Australian tour will take me to Perth on 28 June for a well-overdue reunion with my Uncle, Aunt, cousins and their families. It will be a flying stop before I catch my first direct flight from Perth to London on 30 June.
I'm incredibly behind on contacting friends in Aus about meet-ups, so if you're reading this and you're there, especially in any of those cities, but haven't heard from me about catching up, please don't be offended. Feel free to DM me or comment here if you'd like to catch up while I'm in town.
I hope to have a chance to message people during my flights from London to Brisbane, as apparently, Emirates Skywards members get unlimited free messaging inflight.
Read the rest of that update which I've been lax in sharing.