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Collection of beautiful orchids, grown in Bao Son Paradise - A theme park located in An Khanh commune, Hoai Duc district, Southwest Hanoi.
I mentioned in my photograph titled "Integration - 1" that the Fabian Way Park & Ride service in Swansea, operated by First Cymru under contract to the City & County of Swansea, was amalgamated into First Cymru's Service 8 (Bay Campus-City Centre-Singleton Campus & Hospital-Sketty Park-Hendrefoilan Student Village) from 17th June.
Wright Eclipse Gemini-bodied Volvo B7TL 37170, is therefore seen leaving the Fabian Way site when heading for the Bay Campus during the first week of the new arrangements.
Pictures from the 2024 Weapons School Integration Training (WSINT) at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas
Doors for hood. See what I did there???
Finally made a serious attempt at using the good old door pieces for their thin profile - as mudguards of course. My personal standard is to keep the body strictly 4-wide, and let me tell you the whole thing was far from easy! Couldn't find a good way of plugging those antistuds, so just left them. Though I somehow managed to integrate a dashboard (printed tile), as seen in the 3D view.
Facing northwestward on a beautiful summer's day in the Old Dominion. What a magnificently scenic, botanical, and geological state this is.
I found this characteristic example of a Table Mountain Pine (Pinus pungens) and some of its siblings inhabiting an outcrop of metabasalt (metamorphosed basalt) of the Upper Neoproterozoic Catoctin Formation. I'll focus on that rock unit, as exposed here and at the Greenstone Overlook, in separate photos and descriptions.
The Table Mountain Pine is found in the mountains of the Eastern US, from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Its fairly linear, montane distribution makes it one of the more exotic tree species for a Midwestern botanist to find.
Part 4 of this series offers a close-up of this species's needles and cones.
You'll find the other photos and descriptions of this series in my Integrative Natural History of the Blue Ridge Province album.
Pretzel, our youngest resident cat, instantly got on with the kittens. In fact, he couldn't wait to start interacting with them and tried to break into the room where they were held in 'quarantine' after we initially took them in.
More on trapping and integrating the feral brothers is available here: makedoandmendnovice.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-sudden-influx-...
Due to funding constraints, the City & County of Swansea has had to look at a different model for providing its two remaining Park & Ride services. Therefore, from 17th June, the two bespoke services operated by First Cymru under contract have been amalgamated into the company's parallel commercial services.. Thus the former 501 covering Landore is now merged into Service 34 (Neath-Skewen-Llansamlet-Enterprise Park-Swansea City Centre) and the former 502 serving Fabian Way is now covered by Service 8 (Bay Campus-City Centre-Singleton Campus & Hospital-Sketty Park-Hendrefoilan Student Village).
Alexander Dennis E30D 67433 is one a pair that have covered the Landore service for the last five and a half years, and carry a two-tone green contract livery. These have been de-branded and re-allocated from Swansea Ravenhill depot to Port Talbot to temporarily cover Service 34 alongside the two-tone blue pair from the Fabian Way service.
My mid June 2019 shot of her in her new role was taken on Phoenix Way in Swansea Enterprise Park.
The Orbital ATK Antares rocket is rolled from the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) to launch Pad-0A, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Orbital ATK’s sixth contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver over 5,100 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
A small zone in Wan Chai with (presumably) perfect Feng Shui.
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Sandhill Cranes, Canada Geese, and Mallards share a cramped wetlands space in northwest Oregon.
Just got a new computer, a Dell XPS 15. The display is much more vivid so here's hoping the images look okay on others' systems...
Due to funding constraints, the City & County of Swansea has had to look at a different model for providing its two remaining Park & Ride services. Therefore, from 17th June, the two bespoke services operated by First Cymru under contract have been amalgamated into the company's parallel commercial services.. Thus the former 501 covering Landore is now merged into Service 34 (Neath-Skewen-Llansamlet-Enterprise Park-Swansea City Centre) and the former 502 serving Fabian Way is now covered by Service 8 (Bay Campus-City Centre-Singleton Campus & Hospital-Sketty Park-Hendrefoilan Student Village).
The five Alexander Dennis E20D MMCs (67091-5) bought for Swansea UniBus work have now transferred from Swansea Ravenhill to Port Talbot depot. These are the intended vehicles for Service 34. and the batch is in the process of receiving the red, maroon and orange fleet livery.
Recently de-branded 67091 is captured using the Bus Only link from the Landore Park & Ride site when returning to the City Centre in early 2019.
Leica M2
Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 II
Fomapan 100
Ars Imago FD 1+39
6 min 30 sec 20°C
Scan from negative film
NGC2070, the Tarantula nebula, is the most active starburst region known in the Local Group of galaxies. A jewel of the southern skies, this nebula is located on the rim of the LMC (Large magellanic cloud) in the constellation of Dorado.
Post processing was a combination of PixInsight and Photoshop. I'm still new to PixInsight and had to wrap up some final touches in PS. Whilst integration in PI - it said the image contained 55543 stars. The large amount of stars made processing a difficult task - as the LMC edge comes into the left of the frame with a ton of stars.
Imaging setup
Canon60Da
15min. 15x60sec exposures
62min. 31x120sec exposures
Total: 77minutes
ISO 1600
10x Darks
16x Flats
Officina Stellare HiperAPO105
Celestron CGem DX
Guided with PHD, SSAG 50mm Orion Guide Scope
Image acquisition : Nebulosity
Processing: PixInsight & Photoshop
Location: Sutherland, South Africa
Date: 11 May 2013
The central island in the Greenstone Overlook's parking area contains an excellent exposure of one of the Blue Ridge's most extensive and interesting rock units, the Catoctin Formation.
The term greenstone is a somewhat informal name for what most geologists now prefer to call metabasalt. But the former moniker is certainly applicable here, where a low, tilting ledge of what I take to be bedrock has an unusual and lovely tint.
Whatever you prefer to call it, this rock was basalt—a mafic, extrusive igneous type—that was subsequently metamorphosed. In the process of transformation its predominantly black-toned mineral content was altered to include such green constituents as epidote, actinolite, and chlorite.
Atop the ledge sits an eye-catching example of what is often called a "balancing rock." This is a very hefty boulder, presumably Catoctin too, that after being detached by weathering or erosion slumped downhill to this spot a very long time ago. Either that, or some megamuscular Civilian Conservation Corps workers, in a Depression-era prank not recorded, hoisted it up here for decorative effect. And, also in the realm of alternative history, I'm tempted to start a meme about Ancient Astronauts or perhaps some far-wandering Phoenicians doing the heavy lifting.
Were this feature located farther north, in New England, I'd hypothesize in yet another direction, and guess that a melting Pleistocene ice sheet had delivered it to this precarious perch instead. At any rate, one day the big rock will lose its balance at last and continue its journey downslope.
And regarding the Catoctin Formation itself. Being metamorphic, it has two ages of note. The first, the latter part of the Neoproterozoic era, marks the time when this deposit was erupted in great sheets of lava that spread over both land and water. This was the time of the breakup of the supercontinent Pannotia, triggered in part by a hot spot fed by a mantle plume.
So the Catoctin is most likely the remains of an immense flood-basalt event. As such, it's the younger equivalent of the gigantic eruption that took place in the Lake Superior region half a billion years earlier.
The second benchmark in the Catoctin's history is the late Paleozoic era (and for the most part the Mississippian / Lower Carboniferous subperiod). It was then that the metamorphism took place, during major tectonic activity some Eastern-US geologists now attribute to an orogeny they call the Neoacadian.
In any event, this deformation that turned the Catoctin rock a handsome green occurred well before the Alleghenian mountain-building episode that marked the formation of the next supercontinent, Pangaea.
To dive into this ancient flood-basalt lava a little more deeply, see the other photos and descriptions of this series in my Natural History: Virginia album.
GT
Nature and humans seek to occupy the same space!
A Victorian box-shaped wrought iron gate-post and a tree compete for territory on Pittville Lawn in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Sadly both lost the battle!
This image was taken at Northrop Grumman. The optical portion of the telescope is complete, seen here, and is being prepared for integration onto the spacecraft element. Currently the spacecraft element which includes Webb’s enormous sunshield is in testing.
Image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
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Have a crooked Friday! :) Shot from Jersey City, NJ.
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