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We were digging ourselves out before the sun came up. Stu will get the snowblower out later and finish the front.
The Batten Kill is a truly a time warp, and if you're lucky enough to spend anytime along the line when they are operating you will feel like you have been transported back a half century or more.
Here is one such example. No ditch lights, ptc antennas, high viz vests or any other signatures of modern railroading are visible. Here is an Alco RS3 blt. in Sept 1952 on home rails paused beside a 1909 built ex Delaware and Hudson passenger station. This is MP A136.9 on the old D&H Washington Branch and BKRR 4116 has paused just north of the Main Street crossing so engineer and railroad president and owner Bill Taber seen here could get down with shovel in hand to help clear some ice and snow before pushing through a four foot high berm as he and his hardy little crew work to open the railroad after the epic three feet of snow that was dumped on Washington County and much of the northeast.
Cambridge, New York
Saturday December 19, 2020
This is from back in the day when there was plenty of activity down in the open cast pit at Fuxin. But the bucket shovels were searching for seams of coal that were already running out.
I detect there is a narrow gauge electric line at the top of the picture. I guess that’s the track running to the depot on the south side of the pit, but how did it fit in with the grand scheme of things.
The big electric loco was bringing the coal up to the rim for use in the local power station.
Fuxin open cast coal mine, Liaoning Province, China.
September 2004. © David Hill.
I just thought this was a pretty picture worth taking, but I am always digging deeper for geologic explanations.
The rocks in the foreground are pre-Cambrian granite dated at 1.6 billion years and are part of a batholith that covers the region immediately east of the Sawatch Range and upper Arkansas Valley in central Colorado. The highly eroded Buffalo Peaks, in the background, was volcanically active 28 million years ago.
My primary source for Colorado geology is the book "Messages In Stone: Colorado's Colorful Geology." (Colorado Geological Survey, Second edition revised by Vincent Matthews, Ph.D.)
After yet another lake effect snow streamer settled over us last night, digging out has become a daily requirement. This view is looking out the back of our house down the street just as dawn was breaking. There hasn't been a snowplow here for several days now - they're too busy trying to keep up with clearing the main thoroughfares. When they do finally get here it's going to leave quite a pile of snow at the end of the driveway. Many of the county roads are closed altogether.
Ugh. I am sick. I have taken lots of pills but none of them are working. Speaking of work -- it's all craps and fans there... loving that. I should be resting but I'm e-mailing and calling and ftping and editing and paperworking and UGH. HBW.
Oh and if anyone knows what this tree is please do let me know. It smells so lovely and has the most beautiful blossoms well into September now.
Figured it out -- it's a Clarodendron or Harlequin Glorybower.
The bee is going for all she's got to get to that sweet nectar at the bottom of this petunia getting covered in pollen.
This is a photo my son in Utah, USA, sent me yesterday. They're on their 5th day of snow. He's a Californian
by birth and doesn't take kindly to shoveling snow.
We're rejoicing here because we got our first measurable rain since last Feb. over the last three days. Several inches which is how we measure. Oh happy day! I've loved being a couch potato with no guilt for not getting Benni out. It's sunny now so I'd better get going.
I still haven't finished digging through my New Zealand folders. I am *very* slow when it comes to processing photos. Scratch that actually, I am very slow when it comes to doing anything.
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Remastered 11.18.19 images from the La Jolla Beach project. Please see the essay in that album for details
The Dredger at Wells Next the sea digging the channel but not looking for gold. The Sheringham Shoal Windfarm can be seen in the distance.
Even though the tree had blown down over the winter, this Great Spotted Woodpecker was still going to create a nest hole. One to keep an eye on, if this is a nest site.
I am still recuperating from flu so I had no chance of going out to shoot. Instead, I was once again digging in my archives to check whether there’s something worth posting. So here it is, The Arts Science Museum shot with my old & not so wide 17-40mm f/4L USM lens. I hope you enjoyed your weekend Flickr friends!
***Canon EOS 7D ӏ Canon EF17-40mm f/4L USM, 17mm ӏ Manual exposure at f/22, 30s, ISO 100 ӏ Tripod mounted with remote cable release