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Digging for worms, Penzance
*I think this is the only time I have used a shot, straight from the camera with nothing done apart from re-sizing!
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Our maintenance crews had their work cut out for them digging out from a storm at the I-90 Ryegrass Rest Area.
Yesterday was that unusual day we get along about January some years, a day when it seems like nearly every bird we have that visits our yard decides to come visit at once. And on this day, we had a flock of ten or twelve Northern Cardinals working the feeder while the snow gently fell to the ground around them - multiple males and females alike. That's a treat in itself.
Along with the Cardinals, we had Blue Jays, House Finches, a Downy Woodpecker, a Red-bellied Woodpecker, Dark-eyed Juncos, the Carolina Wren, and a mix of Sparrows of course, all together for a period of about forty minutes. And all the while this was going on, a handful of Squirrels was playing tag among the birds in the trees out back.
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The Dinorwic quarry is a large former slate quarry, now home to the Welsh National Slate Museum, located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig in North Wales. It was the second largest slate quarry in Wales, indeed in the world, after the neighbouring Penrhyn quarry near Bethesda.
It covered more than 700 acres (283 ha) consisting of two main quarry sections with 20 galleries in each and a number of ancillary workings. Extensive internal tramway systems connected the quarries using inclines to transport slate between galleries.
Twin girls digging for treasure on the beach at sunrise
Strobist: Handheld, diffused sb700 at camera left, handheld diffused sb900 at camera right
The hummers are back!
I have been looking for them but couldn't find any for the past month. But today had a casual encounter with a few feisty ones! I was with my macro gear and wasn't prepared for a telephoto shot! This is with a 150mm with a 1.4X tele. Will be there again with my longer lens soon!
A few of the sharp ones that I could manage with my Macro tele setup!
Spc. David Mayfield, satellite communications operator and maintainer, Company A, 62nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion, digs a ditch for communication cables on Contingency Operating Base Adder.
Pachamanca is a traditional Peruvian dish based on the baking, with the aid of hot stones (the earthen oven is known as a huatia), of lamb, mutton, pork, chicken or guinea pig, marinated in spices. Other Andean produce, such as potato, green lima beans or "habas", sweet potato, and occasionally cassava, as well as ears of corn, tamale and chile, is included in the baking.
The dish is essentially made in the central Peruvian Andes in three main regions: 1) the upper Huallaga valley, in Huánuco and Pasco vicinity, where it is made with pork and seasoned with chincho, a local herb; 2) in the Mantaro valley and neighboring area around cities like Huancayo, Tarma and Jauja; they use lamb and a differenmt seasoning; and 3) in several places of Ayacucho department. In the Peruvian Amazonia, the southern and northern Andes, and the mostly desertic coast the dish is uncomon due to the lack of firewood or the type of stones needed without any content of sulphur. Meat is wrapped with banana leaves before to be put in this kind of earthen stove.
The word is made of two Quechua roots: "pacha" and "manca", meaning "earthen pot" (cooking vessel).
This important part of Peruvian cuisine, which has existed since the time of the Inca Empire, has evolved over time, and its consumption is now widespread throughout modern Peru, where regional variations have appeared in the technical process of production, but not in the ingredients or their baking.
source wikipedia
Some photos of a month long trip around Peru, we covered a lot on this trip traveling from Lima to Pisco, then the bay of Paracas with the beautiful Ballestas islands.
Then to Ica and the Oasis at Huacachina, Nasca and the amazing lines in the dessert as well as the mummy cemetery at Chauchilla. Later to Arequipa the colca canyon with its condors, and from the Colca to Puno and Lake Titicaca visiting Taquile, Amantani, and the floating islands the Uros.
The last leg of the trip included Cuzco, the Sacred Valley, the Inca Trail, Machu Picchu, and some days at a jungle lodge in Puerto Maldonado.
A fantastic trip, covering some of the best sights Peru has to offer.