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Common Grackle - Mooresville, North Carolina
Bird Species (# 181) that I photographed and placed on my Flickr Photostream. Overall goal is 1000
The Palace of Culture is found in the centre of the city, on Lenin Square, with the Ferris wheel is situated to the rear of the building and is one of the popular destinations when you visit Pripyat.
Palaces of Culture were large community centers established during the Soviet era with over 130 thousand of them existing in the Soviet Union by 1988. The name of this one “Energetik” is a play on words as it means both “energetic” (as in lively) and “power plant worker”.
These meeting places were designed as a place for people to enjoy a range of recreational and artistic activities all under the banner, of political propaganda. Pripyat’s Palace of Culture includes what’s left of a cinema, theatre, library, gymnasium, swimming pool, boxing/wrestling ring, dancing and meeting halls.
A 35 man (plus guides) trip to the Ukraine exploring Chernobyl, the village, Duga 3, Pripyat and Kiev including Maidan (Independence Square) and observing the peaceful protests underway.
Some new faces, some old, made new friends and generally we were in our elements.
Rhetorical question but did we have a blast? You bet!
Amazing group, top guys. Till the next time!
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today I took my 3 cousins to play in the garden the weather wasn't perfect though =p just for a change I took this shot for my angle <3 taken originally in B/W tone & I tried to edit it bs this time I prefer the original I loved her expression here it tells so much . Masha'llah & god bless you my tota <3
No edit
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Lens : Canon 18-55 mm
Focal Lenght : 55 mm
F-stop : f/8
Exposure time : 1/125 Sec
Iso Speed : 100
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Hope 2015 is off to a great start for you and the people you love. So far so good here.
I've done some thinking about goals for this year. All i really want to do are
1. Do 20 push up on my smiley muscles every morning
2. Invest time in myself and the people i love
3. Turn criticism to my own advantage
4. Be Mindfulness and kindfulness
5. Work on my meditation at least twice a week
6. Milk on my emotions with acknowledge, forgives, learn and laugh
7. Be as open as possible to what comes
8. Love my people with everything i've got each and every moment
And understanding that sometimes happiness is not something i do, but just the way i change the way i look at life.
Life is a wonderful thing. It really is.
I hope your year is full of peace, love, laughter, and great adventure.
Love to you and yours.
A Vanarama National League football inthe back of the net at Victoria Park, Hartlepool on Saturday 2nd December 2017. (Credit: Mark Fletcher |Shutter Press)
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This photo is so special to me that I actually used a vacation day and took off from work just to get it. Kind of crazy I know, since it's not the most amazing of images, but one that has long been on my New England bucket list!
This is a place I first learned about decades ago when I purchased Scott Hartley's "Guilford: Five Years of Change." I was a young fan then new to railroading and eager to learn. While I already knew of the mighty Hoosac, this other long tunnel mentioned and shown on the last page of that book was heretofore unheard of to me and quite mysterious. Back in the 90s I made a trip to see it, but never saw a train...and filed it away as a a must have someday.
So what is this place you ask? This is the Terryville Tunnel and we are at the west portal of the nearly 7/10th's of a mile long bore on Pan Am's Waterbury Branch. This is a section of trackage that was not one of Pan Am's historic predecessors, but rather is former New Haven. When Conrail, the NH's successor in Connecticut, was looking to divest unprofitable lines during the Stanley Crane era the Boston and Maine acquired this trackage in 1982 from Berlin to Waterbury (and trackage rights down from Springfield to reach it from their own property). They acquired other former NH and B&A lines at that time as well but most have since been abandoned or sold to other operators, but this one has proven valuable enough to survive through the Guilford and Pan Am eras.
Historically this route was known as the Highland Line owing to it's rather hill and dale twisting route west from Hartford through New Britain, Plainville, and Bristol on to Waterbury and a connection with the Naugatuck Line. But going back further this was the route of the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad. Construction began in Hartford in 1847 and by 1855 a through route across southern New England from Providence to Waterbury was open.
The HP&F ultimately became part of the New York and New England system in 1878. In 1882 the line west of Waterbury to Fishkill landing on the Hudson finally was completed and a decade later an even more important branch from Hopewell Junction to a connection with the Central New England Railroad's Poughkeepsie bridge was completed. In 1898 the New Haven leased the NY&NE where it would remain into the modern era. The extension from Danbury to the Poughkeepsie Bridge would be the only heavy haul mainline in modern times, and the rest of the system was relegated to secondary status owing largely to the rough terrain from which it gained the Highland moniker.
And that brings us to the tunnel. The route was still important enough in the early 20th century to warrant this massive investment. Construction of the tunnel through Sylvan Hill in Plymouth began in 1906 but wasn't completed until nearly 5 years later to eliminate the steep grades and horseshoe curves at Terryville. Ironically more than a century later those grades rain known as the Terryville Loop Track which is a long industrial lead with several important shippers.
This route hosted a thru Boston to Waterbury train until 1955 when the Midland Divison line was severed at Putnam. Local passenger service from Hartford to Waterbury lasted until about 1960 but since then it has been freight only under the aegis of the NH, PC, CR, B&M, and Pan Am.
And this bit of passenger history leads me to a personal story. My Dad has told me often how he remembers as a young child boarding a train with my Grandmother in Blackstone, MA to travel to Waterbury to visit relatives. Given his age and when the line was severed he would have had to have been 6 or younger and undoubtedly road in an Osgood Bradley coach pulled by one of my favorite model of diesels, the Alco DL109, sadly none of which survive. It's hard to imagine my young father peering out the window as they emerged from the darkness at this very spot some 65 or more years ago....
Anyway, as for the present, this is Pan Am local PL-1 creeping west thru the bore approaching MP 16 on the road's Waterbury Branch. Trailing a pair of B40-8s they have 30 empty c&d gons for handoff to the Naugatuck Railroad and one car of their own to spot.
Plymouth, Connecticut
Thursday July 16, 2020
Today will be my weekly semi-formal day so I will do a double upload for my two different takes on this outfit. To reiterate what I have explained before, my goal with these semi-formal outfits is to be dressed nicely in at least a shirt and neckwear all day. If I do not work, I can still be nicely dressed but with more comfortable items of clothing such as jeans and oxfords that would be more appropriate for a day spent doing chores and relaxing, but still dressed in something proper.
Today the weather is bad so the first thing I have done is necktie myself with this cozy and comfortable sweater. Instead of jeans, which is my plan with my semi-formal outfits, I am going to stick with trousers and my usual high heels because shortly I will go to the bakery and purchase some bread and buns. Once I get home I will make myself breakfast and coffee, followed by checking my morning emails and catching up on the news.
After that I will tidy up my breakfast mess and do some general chores around the house, then watch a documentary on tv if I have the time. I have noticed that I tend to slouch sometimes when I eat or watch tv normally, but even having on a semi-formal outfit helps me sit more ladylike and I have come to appreciate that I have that encouragement to better my posture even when I am not wearing fully formal clothing. To me it is just one of those matters of personal pride to act with a higher standard for no other reason than self-respect. If I can achieve that with a comfortable sweater in addition to a nice collar and tie then all the better.
Before work today I will stop for lunch at my parents' house. I will change my outfit slightly for that by exchanging my sweater for my jacket. I like how these semi-formal outfits will be so versatile that I can simply change jeans for a skirt or a sweater for a jacket and I go from simply looking nice and proper to being dressed appropriately for work.
I have discussed expanding my wardrobe to more formal outfits in the future, but I also intend to expand it into this style as well. For now I will dress like this once a week, but I hope to increase that in the future as my schedule permits.
...I'm back!
Questa meta certo non è invitante
eppure chissà come mai non faccio che essere attratto
da essa...
(This goal.. well it's not so appealing
and yet, dunno why, I continue to be captured
by it...)
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