Trees in winter

With the arrival of winter, and often at the end of autumn, a new problem arises with trees. This specific "winter" problem is associated with the accumulation of wet snow and the formation of frost on the branches and trunks of trees. "Freezing rains" - phenomena occur under certain combinations of weather conditions: sleet, wind, fog, sudden changes in temperature with a "transition through 0 degrees". Such a significant load on the branches and trunks of trees can lead to emergency situations:

1. Breaking off and collapse of large branches. Typical for poplar, aspen, willow, linden, oak. To a lesser extent for pines and elms.

2. Breaking the forks of co-dominant trunks. Most often found in the above tree species with V-shaped forks. Less typical for U-shaped forks of birch and spruce.

3. Bending under the weight of snow and ice, with possible breaking of the trunks of inclined trees.

I found the trees without obvious problems :)

Both vessels loading at Garrucha Port.

Both are Bulk Carriers loading with Gypsum mined locally at Sorbas. It is delivered to the port by fleets of articulated tipper lorries.

Millions of tonnes of Gypsum are exported annually.

There are always two bulk carriers loading.

They are loading logs on this barge. They start on one end and work their way back.

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Macro Mondays is a weekly theme-based challenge group. This week's challenge was "Forks."

The antique cocktail forks measure at just under the 3" maximum. Many gherkins were eaten in the making of this image! ):0 Happy Macro Mondays! HMM!

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Loads of steamy taconite pellets head south of Iron Junction under the RT 37 overpass on a clear Winter day in February, 2018

One busy bee!!!

Still canning green beans!

I love watching chipmunks gathering the food and packing it to the full capacity of their cheeks :) This one was no exception ;))

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Northbound near Hendricks, West Virginia we find coal loads on the Western Maryland behind F7A 232 heading for the famed Blackwater Canyon grade climbing to Thomas - May 21, 1976.

Taos, New Mexico

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A feature if Iceland is the amount of ice that is visible. It creates many interesting patterns and is of different colours too.

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The classic laker Arthur M. Anderson is finishing taking on a load of ore for Indiana Harbor and will soon clear the dock and make their way out to Lake Superior. Duluth, MN 6/30/2023

Late evening golden sun on a series of cantilever supports holding up some air-conditioning units.

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Retired tanker truck on display on a centennial farm outside Milledgeville, IL.

This scene last winter...

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Have a great truck Thursday all!

Yet another picture of my DIY square aperture experiment. Since the square bokeh looks pretty nervous I've tried to frame the marguerite with the darker and smoother part of the bokeh. I've chosen this title since images often look pixelated while being loaded, where the bokeh-squares look to me like big pixels. Hope you like it! HBW!

My friends...I can't believe how long it has been, nearly eight weeks and truthfully, I still don't have my desktop back yet. I purchased a laptop and have determined to load up my photo software because I could not stand being away any more.

And with all that said, I head out tomorrow mornning at 3 am for Glorieta, New Mexico for a conference.

Anyway, I hope to be around more often and will work to get back into the swing of the Flickr thing. Although I have to figure out this new home page thing.

Blessings!

Oh, you like my new MACRO lens?

During my 2017 visit back home to Colorado I had some time to spend along the Jointline. It had been a number of years since I had visited and I definitely noticed some changes. Such as this bridge across the tracks in Sedalia, a nice addition for sure. BNSF coal loads climb towards the summit of the Palmer Divide at Palmer Lake. The SD70Ace was a nice bonus.

CN SD40-2W 5349 leads limestone loads to Minntac North through Keenan, MN.

Cannons along the walls at Berkeley castle, Gloucestershire, trespasser's beware!!

GWR 2857 accelerates along the River Severn at Hampton Load.

BLOL 7591 (ex NP GP9) & BLOL 7504 (original IC GP9, now a GP10) loading grain cars for the CN up in Charolette, IL. This was back in 2017 when it seemed to be easier to catch matching set of Bloomer power & catch bigger trains. Still to this day, I love shooting these guys.

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for the larger the load,

the greater will be the profit upon profit."

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R276 runs around its empties at Leatherwood prior to loading.

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Community park Graz-Eggenberg and the loading area for the Billa Plus supermarket.

Yongnian Rd., Shanghai

This is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Shanghai and is in the process of being demolished.

A pair of 4300 AC44C6M rebuilds are backing up a coal train to finish loading at Dan’s Branch Mine in Eckman, WV just off of the Pokey main.

2-4-2023

Still hungry for some trains, we continued to Zeebrugge, hoping to still catch the HSL car train to Germany. We were late though, but there were still some class 66 locos roaming around. We caught RTBC's PB 14 with a car train at the north end of the Pelikaan yard.

BRLL 266 065 (RTBC PB 14) Zeebrugge Bundel Pelikaan 08.12.2021

This tree perched on the edge of the sandstone cliffs at Roslin Glen decides to shed some of its snow into the Esk as the sun beats down from the other side. The backlight on the snow gives the oak a coral effect. For a minutes or so all the trees were getting in on the act here dropping their snow into the river.