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No better spot on the railroad to show off 5 locomotives on the head end of SAHW than Tulip Trestle.
with orange geum
a walk along Centenary Border at Hilliers Arboretum
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66761 stands at the Arcow quarry. This should have formed the 6M38 11.25 Arcow Quarry to Bredbury Tilcon, but the driver was ill and the train didn't leave until the following day. Looking at all those young trees planted I doubt if this shot will be on in a few years time.
with beautiful flowers from my garden...
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Filling in for a sideline Maryland & Delaware DeWitt Geep was this Black River & Western SW1200, a former New Haven RR unit. Here the crew is building their train to head west on this former Pennsylvania RR line that once dead ended at Chestertown.
Flanked by a S-Bahn bridge and the Billhorner Röhrendamm, the former Brandshof filling station is located in an industrial area in Hamburg's Rothenburgsort district.
with beautiful flowers from my garden...
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“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
-William Shakespeare
Over the past few days, I finished booking my probably, possibly, maybe but most likely ever in my life last hurrah trip to Alaska. I honestly thought I would be deeply saddened by this realization. But understanding the blessings received by being stationed there with my bride for two years in the 1980’s might have been enough. However, that two-year taste of Alaska left us with a deep-seated desire to return. In 2019 we were blessed to do so with friends, an adventure of a lifetime that had me saying goodbye forever to my dream home away from home state for the last time as our plane departed Anchorage.
Arriving back in Indiana, I excitingly started downloading the thousands of photos captured from my cameras to my Mac for editing. They were still downloading when we departed for a family gathering, and like a fool, I thought they would just keep downloading while we were gone. My Mac went into sleep mode after a while and cut off the final 250-300 images. Like an even bigger fool, when I returned, I unplugged my camera from the Mac and deleted the files on the camera. Then like an even bigger, XXXXL fool, I reformatted the SD card making the images lost forever.
When my mistake was realized, I could have cried as I knew of the sunrises and sets, animals, land and seascapes and most importantly family shots that were lost by my pure ignorance. As I sat and stared in disbelief at my computer screen, my bride walked past, noticed my extended lower lip that a bird could land on and asked what was wrong. Once informed, her direct from her lips to my heart response was simply “Then you’ll need to go back.” Her compassion and support of my DNA imbedded wonder lust overwhelmed me. The Mrs. telling me that I had to go back to Alaska instantly became my “Love language!”
Savings began and five years later in 2024 my sons and I were having the father/son trip of a lifetime! Photos and memories were made that eclipsed those lost in 2019. When my sons and I arrived at the Anchorage airport for their flight home and my flight to Nome, I assumed that in five days I would be back in Anchorage happily boarding a flight home, waving goodbye to Alaska for one last time.
In my first full day of my dreamt about time in Nome to photograph musk ox, I developed a severe double ear infection. The next four days was spent in a hotel room alone with really bad for you food and even worse television. I was blessed to get the musk ox shots I so deeply desired and had an amazing photo session with a red fox. But easily 80% of what and where I had planned to go see and photograph was forfeited. I drug my ailing carcass up the stairs for my flight from Nome to Anchorage and then home thinking…screw you Alaska!
Once home and healing from the ruptured eardrum experienced in flight, I started downloading the photos taken. The blessing granted far, far outweighed any regrets of the lost days and opportunities now represented by the name of Nome.
What I had always longed for but didn’t see coming was the birth of a desire, fully supported by all concerned, yearly father-sons’ trip. Some will be big, some much smaller with all laser focused on the main thing…time and adventure, together.
So, this year’s trip will be the last one for this kid to Alaska. With a different focus on the arctic, caribou, catching salmon and arctic grayling, moose and of course…bears. Like last year, when the boys head home to get back to their business (Dattilo Sign & Design…shameless plug) I will fly back to Nome. I have booked the same room and have requested the same rental car. I have pretty good odds of getting it since there are only six rental cars in Nome. I will double up on vitamins and Tylenol and protect my ears from the wind.
My hope…my prayer is to sit in the company of this fellow and his ladies just one more time. Every photo, smell, sight and taste granted by God after that will be bonus blessings to fill the unfulfilled.
Bull musk ox photo taken on 29 July, 2024 between Nome and Teller Alaska.
We had a good day at the NZ Trotting cup. So lucky the weather stayed fine but it was really cold.
Addington Raceway Christchurch November 10, 2020 New Zealand
Here is a link to the days events: i.stuff.co.nz/sport/racing/123353274/new-zealand-trotting...
A male Evening Grosbeak sits on the edge of the feeder tray to fill up during a short visit on his migration north.-DSC_2927
wasp (European paper wasp /Polistes dominula) drinking on a leaf
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After a lovely lunch at the Twice Brewed inn that filled the hunger gap, Carla and I walked along to the tree to work of the sausage and mash. I was glad I was carrying my little Olympus with me that sky was too good to miss. Talk about filling the gap was there ever a better placement of a sycamore tree.
I've wanted to visit the stunning McLean Falls in the Catlins for a long time and I finally got there last month during a 3 week road trip around the South Island. One of the joys of winter travel is that there's plenty of water and the falls were bucketing down beautifully. Meanwhile I got to fill in another tick on my bucket list.
This little boy was the last to eclose this morning, so he refused to take off with the two other boys...
I left him outside, but no sun and then it started to rain... he's spending the night and I offered him a delicious soup of honey and water... he drank up... and they say that a Monarch will not eat for 24 hours after they eclose... not true!!!
Having a bit of fun today with the wimberley plamp, had for some time, never used it, but now I have issues, it is so helpful.
The distant mountain shadows helped to make this image work. Mid ground coolers seemed to fill those far away shadows with a multitude of colours. And of course, the blue framed it all well. As if someone had placed a log for me, the foreground was now in place and left me wondering about parallel lines.
Do they meet I thought? And as we know, yes they do on a sphere, as our own planet proves.
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