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The wagons are all lined up and waiting to be filled when the crops are harvested later in the summer. This pleasant rural scene is in Southwestern Ontario between Thedford and Arkona. I took the photo on June 25, 2018 while passing through the area.
I have geotagged the photo for anyone interested in the location.
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one of my first "fresh modern" quilts. I used an Arcadia Honey Bun and used the pattern idea from Camille Roskelley's blog.
I also had my first try at free motion quilting here. I like the result!
Weekly Theme Challenge ~ Fill The Frame
A new Hydrangea in my garden flowering for the first time.
Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to look at my photo. All comments and Faves are very much appreciated
Ha ha! It has finally uploaded! Flickr came back online today, though the app is still not working for me, but functionality has been a bit patchy. Anyway, the picture has uploaded, I'll see if I can get a description and tags to stick!
I went for filling the frame with yellow. Yellow leaves and this small friend waiting for a meal to fall into its trap. The camouflage of these spiders is so good, often you don't realise they have caught what you're taking a picture of until you look at the picture on a giant screen later.
McCloud Railway 2-6-2 No. 25, enjoys liquid refreshment from a fire hydrant on the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad in Garibaldi, Oregon on July 5, 2022. The stylish "Prairie" type was built by the American Locomotive Company in 1925.
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NAF El Centro 2013 - 2013.02.07
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.... that wants to be filled and can not...
Si tu franchis le seuil de ma maison
Je t'offrirai
De partager mon pain
Pétri de bon grain
Récolté sur ma terre.
Je t'offrirai
De partager mon vin
Soutiré de la vigne
Plantée jadis par mon père.
Je te demanderai
De lever ton verre
A notre santé.
Je t'offrirai un toit
Pour te protéger de l'hiver
Grelottant sous la bise
Qui ravine les terres mortes.
Je te demanderai
De refermer la porte
Sur ton passé.
Je t'installerai
Devant un bon feu
Ouvert dans la cheminée.
La soupe pendra à la crémaillère.
Je te demanderai
De partager le peu
Que je possède.
Je te demanderai
De me donner la foi
De me donner la joie
Qui fait du pauvre un roi...
Lorsqu'elle est partagée.
Je te supplierai
De ne pas me quitter...
Jamais!
Cyrilla Delaunoit
If you cross the threshold of my house
I will offer you
To share my bread
Kneaded of good grain
Harvested on my land.
I will offer you
To share my wine
Extracted from the vine
Once planted by my father.
I will ask you
To raise your glass
To our health.
I will offer you a roof
To protect you from the winter
Shivering under the wind
Furrowing the dead lands.
I will ask you
To close the door
On your past.
I'll set you up
In front of a good fire
Open in the fireplace.
The soup hanging on the pot-hook.
I will ask you
To share the little
That I own.
I will ask you
To give me faith
To give me joy
Who makes the poor into a king ...
When shared.
I will beg you
Not to leave me ...
Never!
Cyrilla Delaunoit
In Memoria for CURLY CAROLINE (Caroline Fraser Beetham) 11/66-9/16
From her husband Andrew I learned that Caro died last September from a cancer she was carrying in her for many years. I met her when as a young woman she joined a holiday tour of the Alliance Française Exeter & Dartington (UK) and already in the train ride I realised that Caroline wasn’t just ‘another girl’. She blazed through the week with boundless energy, shiny eyes, an incredible smile, a head full of bouncing curls (I started – right at the beginning of the holiday, to give every participant not only his/her name but a ‘description’ of the person so that we would be able to learn all the names asap – and of course SHE had to be Curly Caroline!).
Caro wasn’t taking a French course with the AF, her mum did – but I thought it fitting to dedicate a French poem to her and our deepest feelings go to her wonderful and caring husband Andrew, her family whom we loved very much and sadly lost contact with, and all her friends.
The tulip of my picture is a ‘bought’ one – What I love about tulips is that they are so unpredictable. I often buy 3 bunches of different types and put them all together. The mauve ones usually open first although they have the closest heads when I buy them. Those with thick stems grow ‘wildly’ and within 2-3 days they all hang like trapeze artists all over the rim of the vase and in any direction they like. They change colour and structure, some curl their petals up, others dry out, yet others throw them off with reckless abandon… When I took this photo (amongst many others), I didn’t realise that in the back light the pistils of the inner side of this bloom would show up like a slightly open hand, holding a -shaped shadow. I tampered the heart ever so slightly to bring it out a tad more and I thought, it perfectly symbolizes this beautiful woman with a great heart and a loving character who knew that she wouldn’t live to an old age, and went to live every day in the knowledge that she ought to make the best out of it. She kept chickens and pets from animal shelters, she moved to a remote place in Scotland to help create and open a highly specialised bookshop, selling fishing books all over the world, receiving visitors from everywhere on the hunt for ‘that’ special book, map or print. She filled their home with happiness and love, everybody adored her, she made her Christmas cards herself, they were funny and totally collectable, and she made her husband a happy man although they knew that children were not ‘allowed’… And now she is gone forever. She leaves a great void in the shape of a place deep within us that wants to be filled and yet can not.
RIP Caroline
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We have several Gardenia bushes outside our door and they are all filling up with their aromatic blooms. Quite a sight to see.
When we moved here mother dug up these bushes at our old home and planted them here. She transplanted a lot of plants and flowers but these Gardenia were probably her favorite. They fill us with lots of memories, too. 😊
Camera: Zenza Bronica C
Lens: 75mm Nikkor f2.8
Film: Fuji Neopan Acros 100
Developer: Xtol
Scanner: Epson V600
Photoshop: Curves, Healing Brush (spotting)
Cropping: None
The Menindee Lakes is a natural series of lakes that fill with water when the Darling-Baaka River floods. In the 1960s, a series of engineering projects augmented the Menindee Lakes, allowing water to be directed into the lakes and held back or released. This ensured a reliable water supply for the city of Broken Hill, the township of Menindee and secure supply of water for the Lower Darling River and supply to South Australia.
The Menindee Lakes system provides important habitat, nursery and recruitment for native fish, such as the Murray Cod and Golden Perch. It is important habitat for a huge variety of native and migratory bird species. The Menindee Lakes system is vital to the communities of the Far West, providing recreation and amenity, as well as attracting tourism, recreational fishing, horticulture and viticulture.
The Darling-Baaka River is central to the cultural, spiritual and economic lives of the Barkindji people.
The health of the Menindee Lakes and the Darling-Baaka River are intimately linked. The lakes fill from the Darling-Baaka River and water stored in the Menindee Lakes keeps the Lower Darling flowing during dry times. The Great Darling Anabranch is a series of ephemeral creeks, billabongs and lakes that wind their way to the Murray River to the west of the main Darling-Baaka River Channel.
Irrigation expands:
There has been a rapid expansion of irrigation along the rivers in the Northern Basin of the Murray Darling Basin, particularly cotton. Irrigation of cotton has expanded by 4,000% since the 1970s. In 1971 Australia grew 81,000 bales of cotton. By 2012 Australia grew 5.3 million bales. Irrigation dams - Wee Waa
Much of the cotton is grown along the rivers of the Murray Darling in very large irrigation enterprises, with most of the cotton grown on tributaries of the Darling-Baaka River.
Large private storages were built to hold water and other structures were built to capture flood waters. Water licences and water sharing plans allow irrigators to suck huge quantities from the tributaries of the Darling-Baaka even when flows are modest.
The result has been that low and medium flows have virtually stopped flowing down the Darling-Baaka River. Only the largest floods that cannot be captured upstream, or specially protected environmental flows, now make it down to the Menindee Lakes and Lower Darling-Baaka River.
An easy target?
After the Millennium Drought exposed just how over-allocated the river systems of the Murray-Darling Basin were, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was agreed between the Commonwealth and the states. The Plan aimed to make the Murray-Darling Basin system more sustainable by returning more water to the rivers through buying back water licences and other measures to recover water for the environment.
Menindee Slogan Bus:
The irrigation industry views the water flowing into the Menindee Lakes as wasteful and unproductive (not growing crops). They would prefer water to be taken from the Menindee Lakes to meet the targets under the Basin Plan rather than for the irrigation industry to be compelled to use less water. The industry points to the volume of water that evaporates from the Menindee Lakes each year as a key reason to reduce the amount of water flowing into and being stored in the lakes. The amount of water that evaporates from shallow private storages in equally hot and dry climates is rarely mentioned.
Scientists and environmentalists view the water that flows down our rivers, fills wetland and billabongs, and spills over floodplains as highly productive for nature and vital for sustaining complex ecosystems that have evolved over eons. These flows are also vital for replenishing underground aquifers and for sustaining downstream communities and Indigenous cultures.
Some politicians view the Menindee Lakes as an easy target. The population around Menindee is sparse, without much economic or political clout. The birds, fish and wildlife can not vote, lobby or protest. Taking water from the Menindee Lakes system is seen as politically easier than seeking to recover water from loud, well-connected and politically savvy irrigators. The location of the Menindee Lakes in a remote part of NSW that is out of sight and out of mind for many citizens located on the eastern seaboard also makes it hard for the issue to gain political traction.
A plan to decommission the Menindee Lakes:
After the Menindee Lakes filled from a major flood event in Queensland and NSW 2012, they were rapidly emptied by the Murray Darling Basin Authority and the NSW Government. Usually the lakes would hold water for many years after they filled, but by 2014 they were emptied. As a consequence, Broken Hill was in danger of running out of water and the government announced a plan to drill bores to supply the city with low-quality bore water. Locals were outraged at this plan and were concerned that the Menindee Lakes had been deliberately drained so quickly as part of a plan to justify the decommissioning of the lakes.RIP Menindee Lakes
Another flood filled the Menindee Lakes in late 2016, but again they were rapidly drained, almost inexplicably into a flooding river. By then end of 2017 they were again dry just as drought started to bite and Broken Hill was facing another artificial water shortage.
Flush with cash from privatising the electricity networks, the NSW Government spent $500 million building a 270 kilometres water pipeline from the Murray River at Wentworth to Broken Hill. This ended the city’s reliance on the Darling-Baaka River and Menindee Lakes for water supply. Cotton Australia applauded the construction of the pipeline saying in their Annual Report, "The pipeline is a win for the community, the environment and irrigating farmers, and a solution Cotton Australia and its allies have long lobbied for." Meanwhile the local community was concerned that the pipeline would allow the NSW Government to decommission the Menindee Lakes without worrying about Broken Hill's water supply.
Sure enough, plans to reconfigure the Menindee Lakes are back on the table as a project to 'recover water from the environment' under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan's Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism. The NSW Government wants to save up to 100 gigalitres of water each year by reducing the volume water stored in Menindee Lakes by up to 80%. A range of proposals have been put forward for consultation.
The Darling River Action Group has labelled the plans as 'ecological genocide.' They strongly oppose the huge reduction in habitat that will occur if reconfiguration plans go ahead. They worry that changing the times between and length of inundation in the lakes will have a major impact on fish breeding and birdlife. The Barkindji native title holders are also strongly opposed to the plans, with significant concerns about the impact on their culture, community, environment and sacred sites.
Fish kills and dry rivers and lakes:
Fish Kill Menindee In the teeth severe drought, predictions of environmental catastrophe on the Darling River came true as millions of fish floated dead on the surface. Hot weather and a lack of flows led to a blue-green algae bloom that stripped the water of oxygen when it died, suffocating many millions of fish along a length of the Darling-Baaka River. Images of giant Murray Cod many decades old floating on the surface of a stagnant, bright green river shocked Australians. If water had been stored in the Menindee Lakes, a flow of water in the Darling-Baaka River could have been maintained and millions of fish and other creatures would have survived. It was noted that the very large mature Murray Cod that had died would have survived numerous previous droughts, so what had changed?
A report by the Australian Academy of Science concluded:
The conditions leading to this event are an interaction between a severe (but not unprecedented) drought and, more significantly, excess upstream diversion of water for irrigation. Prior releases of water from Menindee Lakes contributed to lack of local reserves.
A small flow in mid-2019 led to a partial revival of the Darling-Baaka River and water in the upper lakes of the Menindee Lakes system. However, the Menindee Lakes and Darling-Baaka River face three major threats:
1) The proposed re-configuration of the Menindee Lakes system;
2) The continuing overallocation of water extraction licences in the Northern Basin of the Murray-Darling system;
3) The extent and proposed licencing of floodplain harvesting, which is capturing huge quantities of water before it can even reach the waterways of the Darling-Baaka River.
Source: Save Menindee Lakes (www.savemenindeelakes.org.au/the_history)
Luna has just stepped into the life of my friends David & Eva. Wish them a more joy filled days ahead.
Strobist Info:
- 1 x Alien Bees B800 into Photoflex 5' Octodome Key, camera right, 1/2 power
- 1 x Alien Bees B800 into Photoflex 36"x48" Litedome Q39 softbox Fill, camera rear, 1/8 power
- 1 x Alien Bees B400 into 48" Black/White Umbrella, background left, full power
- 1 x Alien Bees B800 into 48" Black/White Umbrella, background left, full power
- triggered with CyberSync CST & 1 x CyberSync CSRB+ (attached to rear Fill strobe/softbox)
On a rain-filled afternoon of September 28, 2014, Montana Rail Link SD45 (SD45M) No. 351 hustles a westbound BNSF freight along the Yellowstone River at Elton, Montana. The locomotive exudes muscle in her profile, and labeling it as such isn’t much of a stretch. Built by EMD for Great Northern as No. 415 in April 1967, she is a former roster mate to more famous Great Northern No. 400 christened “Hustle Muscle” that was EMD’s first 3,600 h.p. locomotive. Preservation for No. 400 came in the form of the GN Railway Historical Society and Minnesota Transportation Museum. But on a cold day in Big Sky Country, as rainwater streaks down the sides of a nearly 50-year-old machine, the fate of one of her sisters is unknown and will likely be decided soon.
It's cold, already snowing in October in the tops of these mountains, and I am driving carefully, exhilarated. Your hand is wrapped around my thigh, and you are amazed by my ability to drive on the "wrong" side of the road, in the mountains so much higher than you know, in snow, in such lovely, fiery nature, but you do not love these mountains like I do.
You are here because you love me.
Because I have bribed you with promises of duvets and fireplaces and soaring views, with patches of sunlight on the bedsheets, where we can curl together until we are molded by the mattress into one curve.
I have promised to make you grits and real bacon and sweet tea (which I don't know how to make) if you will disappear into these ridges of mountain with me, into these technicolor timber rows that you have only seen in movies and greeting cards, these smoky mountains that are a piece of my heart's home.
And I will love you forever, my darling, my heart, because you are here in the snow in October, in a country you've never seen or wanted to know, with me, on a winding, wheeling, gravely mountain road,
and you are loving me,
and you, with these mountains,
fill my trembling soul.
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Flakey and buttery hand pies filled with a yummy apple and cinnamon filling. Baked, styled, photographed and edited by me.
Brad and Steph are awaiting the arrival of their third daughter. Should be any day now....
Strobist with Pentax 360 FGZ with silver umbrella to upper right. Natural light through textured glass from the left. Triggered with Cactus V2s.
Blogged: www.scotthawker.com/blog/ladyhawker/2008/02/02/Have-strob...
Headlight Beetle - Pyrearinus termitilluminans (bioluminescent larvae in termite mound)
No fill light used here, so it is just the light from the larvae on the mound.
The old station at Fines-Olula is a fascinating place to wander around although it is in very poor condition after years of neglect. Yet, surprisingly it survived when a nearby road was completely rebuilt and originally threatened to engulf the site
Q22#: What's your nickname?
A22#: Yan yan, Pen Ah, Penani, Pen Ah Wong, Lenny, Pen pen puni puni. I have the weirdest nickname.
I look like a giant. Haha. I almost can't recognise myself.
Anyyyywayyyy, I planned to go jogging this morning but it didn't happen. How sad ):
I had the most fun Physic class yesterday. I laughed till my stomach ache and cry.
Doing a few tags.
Five things that make you happy.
Spending quality time with family and friends, the feeling of completing something, waking up early in the morning, able to help my family, friends and the community, getting flickr and snail mail.
Four of your favourite foods.
Noodles, noodles, noodles, noodles.
Three of your favourite movies.
The Classic, Taipei Exchanges, Hear Me.
Two places you'd love to visit.
India and Europe. Actually, I would love to travel the whole world.
One of your favourite memories.
Eating ice cream when I was shivering in Japan.
10 places I want to visit before I die.
1. India!
2. JAPAN AGAIN <3
3. Vietnam.
4. Nepal.
5. Africa.
6. Europe.
7. Taiwannnn.
8. The museum.
9. Every part of Malaysia.
10. A place filled with gorgeous people - Mystic Falls.
Do you make good grades? (:
Favourite colours?I can't choose. I love colours
Do you like swimming?I can't swim.
Do you want to get married later on life?Oh yes!
Do you get mad easily?It depends.
Any phobias?Crossing the road.
Do you bite your nails?Nope.
Have you ever had a near death experience?I think so.
These are beautiful. Very beautiful.
EXPLORED :O Thank you guys.
DRS Class 66/4 No. 66427 sits in the loader at Peak Forest Cemex on 15th April 2021. The main line runs into the cutting on the left towards Dove Holes Tunnel.
2021 represents a significant milestone in the history of the Phoenix Railway-Photographic Circle with the celebration of our 50th anniversary. Phoenix was set up in spring 1971 and was created to promote an alternative approach to railway photography. Why not take a look at the PRPC web site at www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html.
@Strobist: One SB-600 set to 1/1 reflected in a white transparent Umbrella ...some fill light should be reflected from the ceiling.
"Dutiful little girls go to paradize,
the other girls go where they want !"
Marseille, devant le O3G, rue St Pierre