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A happy honeybee (Apis mellifera) on a pretty purple thistle.
And another, unknown critter at about 1:00 o'clock. Likely a hoverfly.
Photographed in the Yolo Bypass.
This photo is one of a series taken on our excursion to Pulau Ketam, or Crab Island, located off the west coast of Malaysia leaving from Port Klang. Most islanders live in homes built on stilts with their boats docked near their place of residence. Access used to be via boardwalks within the village but now most the boardwalks have been replaced with concrete walkways and the vehicle of choice seems to be small motor scooters. I visited there back in the 1960's. Then, it was a different place, less commercialized and few outsiders.
Many of the Subdivisions in East Lake Woodlands have Spray Fountains, which aerate the water in the Retention Ponds throughout the Communities in the Woodlands.
These Aeration Fountains prevent the Water in the various Retention Ponds within East Lake Woodlands from stagnating. The individual Retention Ponds (themselves) assure a consistent water level since they are all interconnected with Concrete Pipes that tunnel beneath the streets in the Master Community and a Canal through Oldsmar (aka: Lake Tarpon Outfall Canal), channels the drainage water into Tampa Bay.
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Thornton Quarry is one of the largest aggregate quarries in the world, located in Thornton, Illinois just south of Chicago. The quarry is 1.5 miles (2.5 km) long, 0.5 miles (1 km) wide, and 450 feet (137.16 m) deep at its deepest point. Gallagher Asphalt Corporation has been operating on the grounds of the quarry since 1928. A dryland dike carries Interstate 80/Interstate 294/Tri-State Tollway over the quarry.
So many times we've been driving home from somewhere and looked up to see people up here walking or on bikes and wondered what was up there.
Now we know.
This, in my opinion, is one of the best views in Albuquerque.
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Bike Rides 2019
January 16: Albuquerque's North Diversion Channel
This photo is one of a series taken on our excursion to Pulau Ketam, or Crab Island, located off the west coast of Malaysia leaving from Port Klang. Most islanders live in homes built on stilts with their boats docked near their place of residence. Access used to be via boardwalks within the village but now most the boardwalks have been replaced with concrete walkways and the vehicle of choice seems to be small motor scooters. I visited there back in the 1960's. Then, it was a different place, less commercialized and few outsiders.
This photo is one of a series taken on our excursion to Pulau Ketam, or Crab Island, located off the west coast of Malaysia leaving from Port Klang. Most islanders live in homes built on stilts with their boats docked near their place of residence. Access used to be via boardwalks within the village but now most the boardwalks have been replaced with concrete walkways and the vehicle of choice seems to be small motor scooters. This picture is of one of the two Chinese temples on the island.
Span: Complejo hidroeléctrico Futaleufú.
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Engl: Futaleufú Hydroelectric Complex.
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This photo is one of a series taken on our excursion to Pulau Ketam, or Crab Island, located off the west coast of Malaysia leaving from Port Klang. Most islanders live in homes built on stilts with their boats docked near their place of residence. Access used to be via boardwalks within the village but now most the boardwalks have been replaced with concrete walkways and the vehicle of choice seems to be small motor scooters. I visited there back in the 1960's. Then, it was a different place, less commercialized and few outsiders.
This photo is one of a series taken on our excursion to Pulau Ketam, or Crab Island, located off the west coast of Malaysia leaving from Port Klang. Most islanders live in homes built on stilts with their boats docked near their place of residence. Access used to be via boardwalks within the village but now most the boardwalks have been replaced with concrete walkways and the vehicle of choice seems to be small motor scooters. I visited there back in the 1960's. Then, it was a different place, less commercialized and few outsiders.
The flood gates have opened... Literally.
Yesterday the gates on the weirs of the American/Sacramento river was opened to drop the level after our recent "Pineapple Express" rains. the ducks in the bypass seem happy.
This photo is one of a series taken on our excursion to Pulau Ketam, or Crab Island, located off the west coast of Malaysia leaving from Port Klang. Most islanders live in homes built on stilts with their boats docked near their place of residence.
Span: Complejo hidroeléctrico Futaleufú.
Clic 2x para máx' ampliacion.
Engl: Futaleufú Hydroelectric Complex.
Click 2x for maximum enlargment.
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico 2:57pm
The stair-like gradations on the spillway are said to be intended to dissipate energy if water ever flows over them... which is unlikely to occur. This dam and spillway are essentially waterless except for unassuming channels and culverts you might not even notice around the huge installation, that divert runoff when it does occur so it ultimately flows into the Rio Grande River.
So, much of the property is devoted to trails and R Creation Recreation, such as a soccer field in one of the dam's recessed basins.
The pyramidal frustum structure features the logo of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority ("AMAFCA"), which owns and maintains Kinney Dam and similar flood diversion installations around 'Burque. The logo's three-cloud styling is derived from ancient Pueblo and Navajo (regional native tribes) symbols for rain.
Albuquerque Mayor Harry Kinney (1974-77 and 1981-1985) played major roles in acquiring for the City the former Elena Gallegos Land Grant acreage where this namesake dam is situated.
Kinderdijk Windmills is a village about 9 miles from Rotterdam, a historic UNESCO World Heritage Site with its network of windmills and ingenious flood-management devices. The eight mills that survive in this area (there were more than 150) were all built in 1738. They are bonnet mills (only the top section revolves from the wind), built from brick and with large sails that come within one foot of the ground and thus are nicknamed “ground sailors.” They are used to pump water from the polders using internal or external scoops into reservoirs on two levels.
Sunset over Ottertail Lake. Ottertail Lake was created in 1957 by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests (Ontario Ministry Natural Resources), when it built a five sluice gate masonry water control dam on the Thessalon River at the village of Rydal Bank, Plummer Additional Township. Rydal Bank is 10 kilometers / 6 miles north of the town of Bruce Mines, on Highway 638. Plummer Additional Township population, 2011 census, was 650.
A Lee Seven5 0.6 ND (2 stop) Soft Grad was used to balance the exposure and retain cloud detail / colour. Processing alchemy with Nik Dfine 2, (noise reduction), Viveza (dodge and burn), and Color Efex: detail extractor, brilliance / warmth filter, sunlight filter, and darken/ lighten centre filter). Finished with Apple Aperture.
I went to the Nimbus Dam in Folsom California to see if there was any water being released after all of this rain. Most of the flood gates were open, but not all.
On a January approach to Portland International Airport (PDX), Bonneville Dam was clearly visible below as it zigzagged its way across the Columbia River.
Constructed against a background of criticism and cost overruns, the depression era dam has proven the value of public works projects many times over. We are indebted to the visionaries who foresaw its importance and value.
The setting sun illuminates a water control dam on the Thessalon River, in the village of Rydal Bank, Plummer Additional Township (2011 census population 650). The five sluice gate masonry dam was built in 1957 and is maintained by Ontario’s Ministry Natural Resources. The resultant lake / reservoir is called Ottertail Lake. Rydal Bank is 10 kilometers / 6 miles north of the town of Bruce Mines, on Highway 638.
A Lee Seven5 0.6 ND (2 stop) Soft Grad was used to balance the exposure and retain cloud detail; a Lee 'Little Stopper' six stop solid neutral density filter was used to achieve a thirty second exposure. Processing alchemy with Nik Color Efex: detail extractor and brilliance / warmth filter. Finished with Apple Aperture.
Well, an irrigation canal, anyway. One called the "toe-drain canal," which sounds like a medical device. Located at the East (West Sacramento) end of the Yolo Bypass, as seen from the Yolo Causeway.
Heron at 5 o'clock
This photo is one of a series taken on our excursion to Pulau Ketam, or Crab Island, located off the west coast of Malaysia leaving from Port Klang. Most islanders live in homes built on stilts with their boats docked near their place of residence. Access used to be via boardwalks within the village but now most the boardwalks have been replaced with concrete walkways and the vehicle of choice seems to be small motor scooters. I visited there back in the 1960's. Then, it was a different place, less commercialized and few outsiders.
The ridges along the sides of the channel are designed to slow the flow in a place where currents could get out of control and cause overtopping.
I have finally created a set (one of those things over to the right) for these shots of our arroyos.
Span: Complejo hidroeléctrico Futaleufú.
Clic 2x para máx' ampliacion.
Engl: Futaleufú Hydroelectric Complex.
Click 2x for maximum enlargment.
I went to the Nimbus Dam in Folsom California to see if there was any water being released after all of this rain. Most of the flood gates were open, but not all.
This delta was made by creating a channel from the Atchafalaya river in order to relieve the drainage system and prevent flooding to the north.
A natural garden turns to gold in the evening sunlight below and on the tiers of the Rocky Top retaining wall in southeast Albuquerque. The parched bed of the Four Hills flood-control arroyo (upper right) testifies to the shortage of rain in the neighborhood in 2025 to date.
For centuries Bath had suffered from the River Avon flooding - even the Romans had to raise the level of some of their baths complex to alleviate the problem. Flood levels are marked on the buttress of Widcombe footbridge, on buildings in Grove Street and on Norfolk Buildings.
Pulteney Weir was built In the early 1970s in its current 'V'shape, with an associated flood control gate (sluice) on the east side of the river.
It features in the recently released film of Les Misérables. Part of the scene where Inspector Javert commits suicide by jumping into the River Seine was filmed here in October 2012.