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Suddenly I realise that smile is good, I mean smile is really good.
After the shooting, I asked Momo " Are you always so happy with the smiling on your face?"
"No". she told me.
I suppose so. I am always unhappy. I think sadly, I talk sadly, I imagine sadly. but why shouldn't I be happy? even just a fake happy smiling on the face, would that make the world a little better?
Bears the hardness of life with dignity and grace.
Julia is out
Oskar, next week (I hope so)
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This is one of two birds in the city parks in downtown Sacramento this winter. It is at best a rarity on the Central Valley floor in winter. This bird was located at the Odd Fellows Cemetery on 23 December and has been seen daily since. It has found a fruiting juniper tree as its current winter home.
There is a second railroad in the Pittston area that interchanges with the RBMN. In business since 1994 the Luzerne and Susquehanna operates 60 miles of assorted bits of cast of scraps of once important class 1 routes that once served the Scranton Wilkes-Barre area. The valley was placed with a nearly incomprehensible web of rails at one time that generated carloads and revenue to boggle the mind. But now so little remains and what does is but a shadow of itself. In fact the trackage beneath this unit that sits stationary, blue flagged, and tied down was once the LV's mainline into Wilkes-Barre.
LS 1751 itself is an EMD GP9 blt. Oct. 1959 ad Pennsylvania Railroad 7242. The venerable geep is now the property of RJ Corman Railroad group which bought the L&S in August 2020. One wonders if 1751 will survive and trade her somber LS black for brilliant Corman crimson. I guess we'll just have to wait and see...
Pittston, Pennsylvania
Sunday June 20, 2021
I was drinking some Pfanner 100% Südtiroler Apfelsaft and was looking so funny in my Life is crap mug that I wanted to share with you..
Check out the B&W version.. looks so pretty!
March is here and in my mind that means spring. This shot was taken June but gave me the feeling I was looking for today. Taken in Grand Teton National Park. My favorite place on Earth.
Autumn at Stourhead ... this is something I've wanted to photograph since I moved to Wiltshire. I got up early and travelled to deepest West Wiltshire, hoping that if I arrived for the opening of the gardens, it'd just be me and the trees ... no such luck! It was me and the trees and about a hundred other photographers, all wanting to capture those autumn colours.
Oh well. I still had fun!
Sony α7 II
Tokina 20-35mm lens
The tide is out and the bottom of Turnagain Arm looks much like the surface of the moon IMO. In the background is the snow bedecked Kenai Mountains. If you look closely you can see DP units cut in ahead of the empties.
Chipping Warden is a small village, but the size of St Peter and Paul's Church and that substantial stepped base of the market cross tell of a different past (chipping is a derivation of cheap and where the word 'market' comes from).
By the reign of Henry III, the market here was highly successful; too much so, for in 1227 the King, at the request of Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, in whose diocese nearby Banbury lay, withdrew the privilege of the market as it was proving an important rival to that of Banbury, threatening his substantial revenue from its tolls.
A year later the king changed his mind and the charter was granted again. It was last mentioned in 1362 but never again rivalled that of Banbury, 6 miles away.
Banbury is now a substantial market town at the centre of ancient routes and drovers roads, and Chipping Warden a sleepy village of a few hundred people.
(Although now a stones throw from HS2 and it's massive construction works on the edge of the village)
Finally the end of the hot walk from Middleton Cheney and about a mile down the drive from the village of Edgcote.
I had intended to take a footsore bus back to Banbury (then another mile's walk uphill to home!) but luckily my partner's timing meant he could meet me...so off to wait in The Griffen and a well earned pint.
( A cheat of a picture as this is from the previous spring, hence the greenery! On this walk, the stone and what passed for grass were all the same colour and didn't make for a great image.)
I"m so excited my manchitas is back! Yesterday he appears in my feeder I just can't believe how much I love this bird, every year he remember me and fly from winter migration to my back yard this is the 3rd year!. Also his picture is in one of the birds magazine here in USA happy to everyone know about him trough my camera he is so special and famous now :)
Maybe it is seaweed salad before the fish entree. The mate will be pretty angry if this bird returns thinking this is dinner.
I finally got a photo of an osprey dropping in for the kill and it was after a pile of seaweed. It picked it up and flew out of sight. I assume it was nesting material.
Red Foxes provide such a pleasurable splash of color amid the otherwise relatively monochromatic landscape of winter. I've been watching the fox population up here for decades and it's interesting the way that every five years or so, the fox community undergoes a shift in color .... For a few years, they will all be Red, as now. In some years, you begin to see numerous foxes with coats of many colors, a sort of calico of black, red and white .... Then for a number of years you see only black foxes.
This, at first look, seems like maybe it would be simple genetic drift within the population, but it appears to be cyclical and therefore one might suspect some variable influence within the environment.
This year, fox and lynx populations are low, an effect of an extremely low ebb in the amount of snowshoe hares available for dinner.
Interestingly, and this is an established fact, albeit one which has never been adequately explained ..... The abundance of rabbits in the northland follows a regular rise and fall, more of a boom and crash, which is closely correlated with the 11 year cycle of sunspot activity. This year, along with a nearly total lack of magnetic storms on the 90 million mile distant sun, we have almost no snowshoe hares ... they are rare.
At other times, during solar maximum, they are virtually everywhere .... At those times, in the course of a drive along the Alaska Highway, you will see literally hundreds of rabbits. Now, virtually none.
The view we see when heading into Tacoma, WA when coming south from Seattle. SO much potential here for sweet morning light or crazy good sunsets behind the Tacoma Dome. This sunset was just okay but the blend of lights during the blue hour worked out. I used the Breakthrough Photography 3 stop "Dark PL" that is an ND and polarizer all built into one which is cool.
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This red disk-shaped phenomenon, is another member of the TLEs (Transient Luminous Events, happening in the middle and upper atmosphere, above thunderstorms) family and is called sprite halo. Under it, there is a group of, relatively small, sprites. Sprite halo is short-lived (some ms) and its color comes from the same physical process as in red sprites (de-excitation of 1st positive group of mol. nitrogen). Halos appear close to sprite tops (alt. ~80-85 km), over active thunderstorms, like sprites. Sprite halos are usually triggered by -CGs, in contrast to sprites which are related to +CGs (99%). There is also a faint stripe of high clouds in front of the halo. The yellow light is a distant ship.
The event happened over the thunderstorms south of Crete (on the east side of the Medicane on 28/10) as seen from S. Attica during the night of Oct. 28, 2021. Faint parent lightning flash at the bottom, behind a cloud layer, can be seen as well. I've used a Sigma 85 mm lens at f/1.4, for 1/4'' with 51.2k iso. More about the Greek Team chasing red sprites and TLEs in general: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2019/05/tles-greek-archive-of...
What is a red sprite? Info here: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2017/04/red-sprite.html
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Unryu paper is also known as mulberry paper. Unryu is lightweight and translucent enough for light to shine through it highlighting the fibers that are embued in it. I fell back on the two origami creatures I know how to fold to highlight the fibers.
For February Alphabet Fun Month.
Note: This is a reupload due to some sync errors in Adobe Lightroom Classic which unfortunately caused some photos that were uploaded previously to be deleted as well.
With Tanjong Pagar Railway Station being open during a public holiday, I took the opportunity to take as many photos as I could before its original look is soon lost to redevelopment. That also meant a lot of people at the station that day, so that meant some form of creativity was needed to make the best of every limited space.
I know that I am a bit late to the party, but here is my take of the close encounter of Mars with the Pleiades open cluster.
I would have loved to shoot this as a deepscape from a dark sky location with some nice landscape in the foreground, but first I was clouded out and when it finally cleared, I had to fly the other day and was only able to shoot from my light polluted backyard.
Sometimes, you have to take what you can, even if it means to shoot a reflection nebula under a bortle 5 sky. Hope I will have better conditions in 17 years, when this encounter will happen again.
EXIF
Canon EOS 7D mkii
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8
Skywatcher AZ-GTI
Controlled with ASIair
120 x 30s + 60 x 15s @ ISO800 @ 200mm f/2.8
Canon EOS 7D Mark II
EF600mm f/4L IS USM +1.4x III
The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as the European starling, or in the British Isles just the starling, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae. It is about 20 cm (8 in) long and has glossy black plumage with a metallic sheen, which is speckled with white at some times of year. The legs are pink and the bill is black in winter and yellow in summer; young birds have browner plumage than the adults. It is a noisy bird, especially in communal roosts and other gregarious situations, with an unmusical but varied song. Its gift for mimicry has been noted in literature including the Mabinogion and the works of Pliny the Elder and William Shakespeare.
The common starling has about a dozen subspecies breeding in open habitats across its native range in temperate Europe and western Asia, and it has been introduced to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, the Falkland Islands, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, South Africa and Fiji. This bird is resident in southern and western Europe and southwestern Asia, while northeastern populations migrate south and west in winter within the breeding range and also further south to Iberia and North Africa. The common starling builds an untidy nest in a natural or artificial cavity in which four or five glossy, pale blue eggs are laid. These take two weeks to hatch and the young remain in the nest for another three weeks. There are normally one or two breeding attempts each year. This species is omnivorous, taking a wide range of invertebrates, as well as seeds and fruit. It is hunted by various mammals and birds of prey, and is host to a range of external and internal parasites.
Large flocks typical of this species can be beneficial to agriculture by controlling invertebrate pests; however, starlings can also be pests themselves when they feed on fruit and sprouting crops. Common starlings may also be a nuisance through the noise and mess caused by their large urban roosts. Introduced populations in particular have been subjected to a range of controls, including culling, but these have had limited success except in preventing the colonisation of Western Australia. The species has declined in numbers in parts of northern and western Europe since the 1980s due to fewer grassland invertebrates being available as food for growing chicks. Despite this, its huge global population is not thought to be declining significantly, so the common starling is classified as being of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The common starling is 19–23 cm (7.5–9.1 in) long, with a wingspan of 31–44 cm (12–17 in) and a weight of 58–101 g (2.0–3.6 oz). Among standard measurements, the wing chord is 11.8 to 13.8 cm (4.6 to 5.4 in), the tail is 5.8 to 6.8 cm (2.3 to 2.7 in), the culmen is 2.5 to 3.2 cm (0.98 to 1.26 in) and the tarsus is 2.7 to 3.2 cm The plumage is iridescent black, glossed purple or green, and spangled with white, especially in winter. The underparts of adult male common starlings are less spotted than those of adult females at a given time of year. The throat feathers of males are long and loose and are used in display while those of females are smaller and more pointed. The legs are stout and pinkish- or greyish-red. The bill is narrow and conical with a sharp tip; in the winter it is brownish-black but in summer, females have lemon yellow beaks while males have yellow bills with blue-grey bases. Moulting occurs once a year- in late summer after the breeding season has finished; the fresh feathers are prominently tipped white (breast feathers) or buff (wing and back feathers), which gives the bird a speckled appearance. The reduction in the spotting in the breeding season is achieved through the white feather tips largely wearing off. Juveniles are grey-brown and by their first winter resemble adults though often retaining some brown juvenile feathering, especially on the head. They can usually be sexed by the colour of the irises, rich brown in males, mouse-brown or grey in females. Estimating the contrast between an iris and the central always-dark pupil is 97% accurate in determining sex, rising to 98% if the length of the throat feathers is also considered. The common starling is mid-sized by both starling standards and passerine standards. It is readily distinguished from other mid-sized passerines, such as thrushes, icterids or small corvids, by its relatively short tail, sharp, blade-like bill, round-bellied shape and strong, sizeable (and rufous-coloured) legs. In flight, its strongly pointed wings and dark colouration are distinctive, while on the ground its strange, somewhat waddling gait is also characteristic. The colouring and build usually distinguish this bird from other starlings, although the closely related spotless starling may be physically distinguished by the lack of iridescent spots in adult breeding plumage.
Like most terrestrial starlings the common starling moves by walking or running, rather than hopping. Their flight is quite strong and direct; their triangular-shaped wings beat very rapidly, and periodically the birds glide for a short way without losing much height before resuming powered flight. When in a flock, the birds take off almost simultaneously, wheel and turn in unison, form a compact mass or trail off into a wispy stream, bunch up again and land in a coordinated fashion. Common starling on migration can fly at 60–80 km/h (37–50 mph) and cover up to 1,000–1,500 km (620–930 mi).
Several terrestrial starlings, including those in the genus Sturnus, have adaptations of the skull and muscles that help with feeding by probing. This adaptation is most strongly developed in the common starling (along with the spotless and white-cheeked starlings), where the protractor muscles responsible for opening the jaw are enlarged and the skull is narrow, allowing the eye to be moved forward to peer down the length of the bill. This technique involves inserting the bill into the ground and opening it as a way of searching for hidden food items. Common starlings have the physical traits that enable them to use this feeding technique, which has undoubtedly helped the species spread far and wide.
In Iberia, the western Mediterranean and northwest Africa, the common starling may be confused with the closely related spotless starling, the plumage of which, as its name implies, has a more uniform colour. At close range it can be seen that the latter has longer throat feathers, a fact particularly noticeable when it sings.
The common starling is a noisy bird. Its song consists of a wide variety of both melodic and mechanical-sounding noises as part of a ritual succession of sounds. The male is the main songster and engages in bouts of song lasting for a minute or more. Each of these typically includes four varieties of song type, which follow each other in a regular order without pause. The bout starts with a series of pure-tone whistles and these are followed by the main part of the song, a number of variable sequences that often incorporate snatches of song mimicked from other species of bird and various naturally occurring or man-made noises. The structure and simplicity of the sound mimicked is of greater importance than the frequency with which it occurs. Each sound clip is repeated several times before the bird moves on to the next. After this variable section comes a number of types of repeated clicks followed by a final burst of high-frequency song, again formed of several types. Each bird has its own repertoire with more proficient birds having a range of up to 35 variable song types and as many as 14 types of clicks.
Made with a macro filter on the 50mm. Don't like it much, ordered a extension tube, let's see if it makes it a bit better.
“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.” -Richard Evans
Never let the darkness extinguish your light. As long as you keep your inner flame alive, the sun will find its way to you again.
Notebook from Wildlight and Wonder (Etsy), bandana from Wayfaring Wolves (Etsy).
This is an image I took last week from Picture Lake of Mount Shukasan at Mount Baker. The colors were amazing for this time of year and I apologize for posting an image that I am sure most people have but I had never been able to time the fall colors right until this year.
Right after I took this image I reached to grap a polarizeer out of my bag and as I let go of my tripod and camera it tipped over into the lake and completely submerged under the water. I grabbed it out of the water totally soaked and obviously the camera would not even start. So I went home took everything out and dried it for the last couple of days. Lucky for me the camera came back alive but in the meantime i went and bought another Canon 5D MK2 on the credit card because it looked like it was done for - anyways I was lucky !!!!!
I got the candid shot here in the Lodge House at the Gathering Place and seems she is holding the guy that is a blur. I liked the candid alignment so sharing it.
Lake Shirakawa, submerged forests
白川湖水没林
This is the view from the road a little above. It really looks like a forest in the water, which is an interesting sight.
ちょっと上の道路から見た景色です。本当に水の中に林があるみたいで面白い景観です。
Iidecho, Yamagata pref, Japan
This is my favorite swamp to shoot along Gardner Rd. in Monroe.
Converted in PS and duplicated Ilford BW film. View in lightbox.
M81 is also known as Bode's Galaxy and is consider a grand design spiral galaxy meaning it has well defined spiral arms. M82 also known as the Cigar Galaxy is a starburst galaxy that has a core one hundred times more luminous than the Milky Way's core. The starburst activity is thought to be due to gravitational interaction with M81. NGC3077 is a small disrupted elliptical galaxy also being acted upon by M81's gravitational forces.
Captured from my remote observatory in Taxahaw, SC and made up of 240 sec exposures using Red, Green and Blue filters and 600 second exposures using a narrowband Hydrogen Alpha filter. for a total of 18 hours of total integration time.
Equipment:
Explore Scientific 127mm APO Triplet refractor
ZWO ASI1600mm Pro monochrome camera
ZWO 7 position filter wheel
Astrodon R,G,B and Ha filters
Orion Atlas Pro AZ/EQ-G mount
Taking a moment to reflect on one's life is important. Things that seem important often aren't. Prayer. Take the time to do it. We don't have all the answers. When you take the time to reflect, you can focus on the issues to give to God and leave your worries in His hands.
Yup, it really is THAT blue! And the views are amazing.
Crater Lake (near Bend, Oregon) - famous for its deep blue color and water clarity. The lake partly fills a nearly 2,148-foot (655 m)-deep caldera that was formed around 7,700 (± 150) years ago by the collapse of the volcano Mount Mazama. There are no rivers flowing into or out of the lake; the evaporation is compensated for by rain and snowfall at a rate such that the total amount of water is replaced every 250 years. With a depth of 1,949 feet (594 m), the lake is the deepest in the United States. In the world, it ranks tenth for maximum depth, and third for mean (average) depth.
i just got this violin, but it belonged to my great great uncle in the very early 1900s and is about 100 yrs old!
Variegated Squirrel emerging from the forest.
Extra points if you can name the film from which my title comes (put me off visiting the licence for life).
Taken at Bosque de Paz, Costa Rica.
Expired/Discontinued Kodak Professional T400 CN Film (Process C-41)/Canonet QL-17 G-III
Well friends, the Canonet QL-17 G-III I purchased as a gift for my sister came back from Camera Techs looking almost as good as new.
Chuck, the technician that worked on this camera did an amazing job. Whatever old foam was left on the camera had turned--with the years and lack of use-- into a black sticky tar that threatened with dislodging and spreading around the guts of the camera, lens, etc.
Prior to taking the Canonet in, I tried to remove as much of the gooey matter as possible with a paper towel wrapped index finger, loaded a roll and shot it to see how much light was leaking through. You can see the shots on this Canonet set (about 7 shots prior to this one). It was really bad.
In any case, this is the first roll shot post-repair. Tested at all speeds and apertures for the past two days (this photo was taken around 11am this morning, on my way to Matt's at the Market for lunch with friends) and developed about an hour ago at Rite-Aid in White Center. All photos, ALL 24 frames came out.
Tomorrow the camera will be sent--along with a brand new Domke Gripper strap I got at Glazer's and a rubberized hooded UV filter (found on eBay, to double up as lens protection)--to my sister all the way to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Before I send the camera to Giselle I'll take a photo of the foam job to share with fellow Canonet lovers and anyone here in Seattle who's been thinking of replacing the foam on a vintage camera such as this one. It is fantastic what skilled hands can do with great little cameras that have been abandoned and forgotten for years and deserve to be used and enjoyed.
Gissy, get ready. You are going to love your camera. ;D
Made Flickr's Explore on Sept 27, 2007!
Highest Position: 118/500
Alfie's scared of everything, but everything piques his curiosity. I had my bf's point & shoot in his cage trying to snap a few shots, but he got scared and ran in his lil tube. Within a few seconds, he poked his head out and came out to sniff the camera.
UPDATE 2007.10.03: I am beyond amazed at how popular this photo is! When I uploaded it, I was sure people would think... "oh, it's just another hamster picture." To my surprise, it replaced my top Interestingness photo - Cherry Blossom - which has been #1 ever since i uploaded it 7 months ago!
The Milwaukee Pierhead Light is an active lighthouse located in the Milwaukee harbor, just south of downtown. This aid to navigation is a 'sister' of the Kenosha North Pier Light. The station was established in 1872. It is west of the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, and is near the outflow of the Milwaukee River—not far east of where that river converged with the Kinnickinnic River—into the Milwaukee Harbor and Lake Michigan. This light has a round steel tower with a round gallery and a ten-sided lantern. In 1926, the original 4th Order Fresnel lens was transferred to the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, and that lens is now displayed at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The Fifth Order Fresnel lens—installed in 1926—was removed in 2005. The tower is newly painted circa 2007. The 5th Order lens is said to be on display also at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. According to one source: "The original lantern room had helical bar windows and is believed to [be] the one presently on the Breakwater Light." This is corroborated by the report that the Breakwater Light has a "round cast iron lantern room [that] features helical astragal" in the lantern. A Submarine cable runs from this light to the Milwaukee Breakwater Light, upon which a lighted danger warning is displayed. The light was recently painted, circa 2007. From 1872 until 1926, the light had its own keepers. Thereafter, this light, like all of the lights in the harbor, was serviced by the resident Lighthouse keepers who were stationed at the neighboring North Point Light Station until it was automated. The light was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2012.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Pierhead_Light
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, rocks and safe entries to harbors; they also assist in aerial navigation. Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and use of electronic navigational systems.
The Brown Wood Owl is a resident breeder in south Asia from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka east to western Indonesia and south China. This owl is medium large (45-57 cm), with upperparts uniformly dark brown, with faint white spotting on the shoulders.
The Brown Wood Owl is a shy, nocturnal bird. During the daytime it roosts in a dark, densely foliaged tree. If disturbed, it will compress itself into a shape resembling a stub of wood, while watching through half-closed eyes. If this fails, it will fly off silently.
This owl feeds on small mammals such as rats, mice and shrews. It will also take small birds, frogs and reptiles.
This example is 18-month-old Wicket who resides at the Secret Owl Garden in Pembrokeshire.
Thanks for your visit… Any comment you make on my photograph is greatly appreciated and encouraging! But please do not use this image without permission.
Built for a 30 minute LUG speed-build, where the theme was anything ‘Easter’. I decided to build the empty tomb, which is something I’ve wanted to try my hand at for a while now. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, considering the time restraints.
#LEGOEaster
John - Rochester LEGO Users Group
...the second glass is as strong as love,
the third glass is as gentle as death.
(famous proverb)
Magic-mystery tea-time. Marrakech, Morocco, January 2011.
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Oxburgh Hall is a moated country house in Oxborough, Norfolk, England, today in the hands of the National Trust. Built around 1482 by Sir Edmund Bedingfeld, Oxburgh has always been a family home, not a fortress. The manor of Oxborough came to the Bedingfeld family by marriage before 1446, and the house has been continuously inhabited by them since their construction of it in 1482, the date of Edward Bedingfeld's licence to crenellate. A fine example of a late medieval, inward-facing great house, Oxburgh stands within a square moat about 75 metres on each side, and was originally enclosed; the hall range facing the gatehouse was pulled down in 1772 for Sir Richard Bedingfeld, providing a more open U-shaped house, with the open end of the U facing south. The entrance, reached by a three-arched bridge on the north side, is dramatised by a grand fortified gatehouse, evoking the owner's power and prestige, though as fortification its value is largely symbolic; it is flanked by tall polygonal towers rising in seven tiers, with symmetrical wings extending either side that reveal nothing on the exterior of their differing internal arrangements. About 1835 the open end of the U was filled in with a picturesque, by no means archaeologically correct range that recreated the central courtyard. Other Victorian additions include the Flemish-style stepped gables, the massive southeast tower, the oriel windows overhanging the moat (illustration, left) and terracotta chimneys. Four towers were added to the walled kitchen garden. The hall is well known for its priest hole. Due to the Catholic faith of the Bedingfeld family, a Catholic priest may have had to hide within the small disguised room in the event of a raid. The room is reached via a trapdoor, which when closed blends in with the tiled floor. Unlike many similar priest holes, the one at Oxburgh is open to visitors. The hall is also notable for the Oxburgh Hangings, needlework hangings by Mary, Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick. Mary worked on these while imprisoned in England, in the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury. The estate has a number of woodland walks, including a 'Woodland Explorer' trail. Oxburgh Hall is a popular location for film and television series, including brief appearances in the Dad's Army episode "Museum Piece", and later in You Rang, M'Lord?. It was the major setting for the 1994 television dramatisation of Love on a Branch Line, a novel by John Hadfield. It is a Grade I listed building, the highest-level designation.
This is a sunset on Garland Pond located in the central Maine Highlands town of Garland in Penobscot County. Please also visit: www.acadiamagic.com/.
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Is not always very clear
(Dedicated to Jordan B Jones, who suggested that a neurotransplant version of photoshop could be the next big thing in art)
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