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"Tanni Ille" - no water. People occupying villages on the east coast of sri lanka, face great difficulties in getting water. After Tsunami destroyed the coast, people moved inland to seek refugee there. Whole villages gather to dig wells, unfortunately many times they're unsuccessful and their women have to walk, every day, to bring water from other villages where people are fortunate enough to have it. taken somewhere in 2005
Ooops! The city plowed my neighbor's driveway shut - literally! What you see here is a pile of compacted snow, dumped right smack into the approach of my neighbor's driveway.
It's a good thing I'd cleared my drive earlier or I'd probably had a worse mess to deal with. As it was, my apron was 1/2 filled in to height of the shovel, but it was loose and movable. Val's driveway, on the other hand, was 4 feet high and so compressed I could stand on it (and I'm no lightweight)!
If I have the energy, I'll clear Val's apron after I get mine done, but a lot of times, I haven't got that energy until I've had time to rest. I knocked on Val's door last night to tell her, but there was no answer, so I'm not even sure she knows the city plowed her in!
The guy who plows us out never showed up, so I shoveled my side, and shoveled out apron twice, but Val never got plowed (same guy). It didn't matter with this mess as he'd never gotten through that pile with his pickup truck pusher blade anyway.
I called DPW and reported the problem. And told them, "Yes, I understand, the crews are tired, working too long and that this was probably an innocent mistake, but would they please fix it as soon as possible. Thank you." The answering service said they'd let someone know. When I looked out at 10 or 11 pm, the driveway was clear; I never saw or heard them. (And the pile to the left was TWICE as high as the pile to the left of my apron!)
Kudos to the city crews for showing up and fixing this as quick as they did!
It's an on-going problem - we deal with this every winter - due to the driveways sitting at the end of North Street where the plows like to U-turn, dumping excessive snow into our driveways. (You can just make out the curving trail for snow from the U-turn at lower right of this photo.)
July 16, 2010 - Port St. Joe, FL: The task of excavating eggs gets more and more difficult the further you have to lean into the nest because you must carefully balance yourself so you don't fall into the nest!
Photo by Jennifer Strickland, USFWS.
Asian girl (2-4) playing on the beach, digging sand.
Baler, Aurora
2012
Submitted for consideration to Getty Images Flickr Collection.
Have a great day everyone!
James Spencer has a bit of powder on his nose after chomping into a lemon-curd doughnut. DC Strokes Rowing Club, Boat Put Away Day. Anacostia Community Boathouse, Washington, DC.
Lit with a hand-held Speedlight SB-600, which brought balance to the grey sweater and the cloudy grey sky. The sun was behind the subject.
digging of land for making of multipurpose disaster shelter in a village is Cuddalore district of Tamilnadu
day 193 - 08.04.07
Went out with ellen for her birthday
rolled in to bed at 5am
gotta love that girl
A whole yard of weeds and the boys were, as usual, side-by-side.
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I have no idea what Toby was thinking. He is normally not a digger, but he was determined to get to the root of that tuft of grass. Paws were going. Dirt was flying.
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Was my 3 days away from Flickr too much? I agree! I am so sorry! I am not trying to avoid my Flickr friends or anything! I am just KNEE deep into doing research for new glass! Not just any glass, a telescope for astrophotography! OH, I am on pins and needles! All I need now is the cash, I have the glass all ready picked out! UGH, why do these hobbies need to be so expensive!
Any way, here is an older image, way down deep in the archive! Because I am no longer doing the 365, I can get away with it with out feeling like I have failed! (Lets not point out all the archive images I resorted to during my 365 for various reasons!) This was one of those sunsets where EVERY image that came home was nice enough for posting! I came home with a TUN of usable images because the sunset was that amazing! So, I have a lot from that night that is not posted. Some of you, who have been around me for a while, have seen some of them. And some of you who have my calendar, have seen a seascape almost like this! Came from the same spot and the same sunset! This image, just a bit different! If you like this, then you will like my calendar, I still have a few, even though its February already! :D
Geek talk:
If I am not mistaken, I did use the B+W ND106. However, I know with out a shadow of a doubt, that I DID use the Cokin hard grad filter for this! I know that by the color of the clouds. I hope to see a sunset like this someday where I will be able to do this with out the color cast filters! :D
Please, enjoy!
Three volunteers in green dig out potatoes of a garden.
On a foggy, chilly Saturday, volunteers gathered at Yaquina Head to pick up trash, harvest potatoes, and clear grass from sensitive habitat for National Public Lands Day!
Stacia Bartrom
The neighborhood gathers to dig free of the snow. (Bigger.) Snow blowers aren't really as helpful as you might think when you have over twenty inches of heavy snow on the ground! Folks gathered to help clear the walks and driveways of those who had gotten a late start, or of course for people who were unable to do any clearing.
One of the neighbors across the street is about our age, and none of us had seen snow like this since we were kids. That said, we all wondered where the kids who used to shovel walks & driveways were. Playing video games inside, I suppose.
He told us he'd called the electric company about the electricity; they told him not to expect the return of power until the twelfth (Friday!). Eeek! Fortunately, not long after that a truck from the electric company drove by and of course stopped to talk with everyone (we were all out, believe me). He laughed and said power would be up within half an hour or so; a transformer had blown the night before (Zach saw it happen while walking home). Clearly, that wasn't the last to give in!
Sure enough, the power returned a while later. One neighbor's wife came running outside, cheering, "The power is back! The power is back!" Relief! We were concerned about getting our heat back more than anything else. (I had earlier joked to Dad on the phone that if it got too bad, we could bury our food in the snow between our home and our neighbors'.) We are still not sure how long the power had been off, but it was at least eight or so hours.
Of course, since I am from Michigan, everyone seems to think this is "my kind of weather", and that Michigan is *always* covered in a foot or more of snow, even in summer.
Trust me, neither of these assumptions is true. However, I mostly try to be nice about it.
Though the snow is quite fun to play in, and it is exciting to see such a great deal of it. I'll give them that much...
The Battle of Mill Springs was the second largest battle to take place in Kentucky during the Civil War and the first significant Union victory in the western theater. In addition, the battle marked the death of Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer, who was the first general to die in the Civil War. The battle highly contributed to the outcome of the war as the main Confederate defensive line that was anchored in eastern Kentucky was broken so that the Union army could move through Kentucky and into Tennessee for the major battles at Fort Donelson and Shiloh. (more at the Mill Springs Battlefield website)
These memorial grave markers were erected near the location of one of the mass graves on the battlefield.
(I'm digging through the archives until I can take a road trip.)