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Spotted on my way to an appointment: three white-faced herons, not small birds and not something seen every day that you see a power pole.
Knowing my destiny, are these the herons of doom?
Something a bit different from my usual landscapes. I have been playing around with some still life shots of a lovely bunch of flowers.
Truck Thursday
The air is filled with tree pollen in this photo. These guys just finished paving the road.
The 4th Generation of Ford’s F pickup trucks spanned model years 1961-66. New for the generation was the ‘integrated pickup’ design in which the bed was welded directly onto the cab. This was intended to save assembly steps in the factory and to replace the ‘Styleside’ bed of the previous generation in which the two parts were mounted separately on the vehicle frame.
However, truck buyers weren’t completely sold on the idea for various reasons having to do with ride and durability of the design. To satisfy potential Ford buyers who wanted the conventional configuration in which the cab and bed weren’t directly attached together, they then offered a combination of a Gen 4 cab mismatched with the Gen 3 box for a couple of model years! By the middle of 1963, Ford finally offered a separate Gen 4 Styleside box that matched the style of the Gen 4 cab.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_F-Series_(fourth_generation)
Happy Truck Thursday!
The Semaphore Tower is located on Chatley Heath. The Tower was once part of a chain which was used to pass messages between the Admiralty in Whitehall and the Royal Naval Dockyard in Portsmouth , sort of a very early telegraph system using line of sight tower sending messages in Semaphore instead of wires . It was built in 1822 and is now the only restored surviving tower in a line of signalling stations that stretched from London to Portsmouth. The Tower is open to the public once a month between March and September - not sure since Covid though .
HTT folks
We were sitting in traffic and I noticed bubbles
floating around the area. Scanned the scene looking
for a source. This is what I found!
I’ve counted 172 utility poles, 14 of them numbered at the top (front and back) and spaced about every 0.5 miles (0.8 km), on a 5.6-mile (9.0-km) stretch of secondary roadway (the Galien-Buchanan Road) in southern Berrien County, Michigan. The numbers, black on a yellow background, range from 17 (at the west end) to 30 (at the east end). I assume this numbering system means something to maintenance crews.
Offered for model years 2003-2006. It was an all wheel drive utility vehicle with an open bed in the back.
At first I couldn't quite recall the vehicle. But in researching I came to realize that when these were new they were most often painted in 2 contrasting colors.
Happy Telegraph Tuesday!
This hilltop graveyard serves the villages of Arthurstown & Ballyhack. I was trying to find the graves of some sailors who perished when the American sailing ship Alfred D. Snow foundered on rocks near Loftus Hall in 1888 with the loss of 29 crewmen. The body of the ship's captain W.H. Wilby was washed ashore in Arthurstown & several of the men were buried in Ballyhack graveyard. Sadly I couldn't find their graves but I will go back to look again.
This article inspired my visit www.independent.ie/regionals/newrossstandard/news/snow-sh... Capt. Wilby's great-granddaughter came over to Ireland from Maine recently for the ceremony & there is a fine commemoration plaque at the graveyard entrance (see next photo)
For 117 Pictures in 2017 #27 Cross, various crosses in this photo
1982 Reliant Scimitar GTE.
Fitted with a 2900cc engine according to the DVLA (probably the larger Cologne V6 from the Scorpio).
If you weigh 200 Lbs on earth ,you'll be only 76 pounds on Mars.. You're not overweight , you're just not on the right planet.
I love their cartoons on the side if you view large.