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One of the local inhabitants, at the mouth of Currumbin Creek, watching all the crazy photographers who were darting all over the place, photographing the sculptures from every conceivable angle. The local is a "Silver Gull". In the background is Surfers Paradise skyline...and the surfers are in "the alley".
The Sepik River Festival is all very informal, as local spectators and tourists mix in with the clumps of dancers, and children join in or watch on.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/invitation-to-the-dan...
On Sept. 8, 2015, inmates at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center watered, fertilized and thinned sagebrush plants.
Photos by Jeff Clark, BLM
Story by Toshio Suzuki, BLM
A sagebrush sea change from behind barbed wire
For some Americans, sagebrush is so ubiquitous it is forgotten — always in the background of the classic Westerns but somehow never looked at.
Until now.
Millions of acres of sagebrush land, managed mostly by the federal government because nobody else originally wanted it, have become a target for the largest, most ambitious habitat conservation effort in American history. The breadth of public-private, federal-local and other cross-management cooperation is so wide, even prison inmates in the West are sowing sagebrush seeds; and they are all doing this to save the greater sage grouse, a bird smaller than a turkey that has become a measuring stick for an entire disappearing ecosystem.
Before touching down at the airport in Spokane, Washington, I can see sagebrush mingling with the mostly grass fields separating the runways. I came to eastern Washington to visit the largest prison in the state, where a half-dozen inmates have mixed BLM organic materials with scientific education to generate 20,000 growing sagebrush plants in a small courtyard of their medium and minimum security facility.
There are almost two dozen different types of sagebrush ecosystems in 11 western states, between the coastal ranges of the Pacific and the Rocky Mountains. Like Spokane in eastern Washington, the areas are semi-arid, and both cold in the winter and hot in the summer.
Where there is sagebrush, the sage grouse has historically lived. The bird that the Lewis and Clark Expedition called “the Heath Cock or cock of the Plains” once numbered in the several millions, as opposed to the 200,000 estimated today.
“Have you ever heard of the sage grouse?” I asked my cab driver from the airport.
“Sage?” he replied.
“Sage grouse—it’s a bird,” I explained.
“No — it’s in Spokane?” the driver asked.
Not all Americans—especially those of us flocking towards large cities—know of the sage grouse and its distinctive mating dance that is mimicked in Native American ceremonial dance by all the tribes within the bird’s historic range.
It lives in the sagebrush sea, as it is sometimes referred to by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, an area so massive it took generations to realize it was evaporating as urbanization, ranching and energy development moved in.
The bird’s sustenance derives from the sagebrush, it hides its eggs underneath it, and every spring, if possible, it returns to the same sagebrush mating ground, or lek.
Scientists generally have agreed that as the sage grouse goes, so could go the pygmy rabbit, pronghorn elk, golden eagle, mule deer and countless other animals also reliant on the same habitat.
At Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, about 90 minutes southwest of Spokane, inmate Keven Bowen is all but totally consumed with growing healthy sagebrush root systems. Not long ago, he requested to move cells so that his small window looked out onto the 40-foot-long by 10-foot-wide greenhouse that provides shelter for the young plants.
When I spoke to him, he was using a small wooden stick to check all 20,000 of the 10-inch-long ‘cone-tainers’ for a tough soil buildup at the top that was preventing water from soaking the roots.
Thanks to Bowen’s attention, every single plant under the open-air greenhouse with a clear plastic roof was clearly thriving, each with an inch or two of growth above their black cone homes.
“They’re all taking off now,” said Bowen after telling me about the rough weather they got when sowing in late May.
Work just like this is also being done at the largest prisons in Oregon and Idaho, among others, as the successful program is expanding in only its second year.
The Applied Institute for Ecology, the nonprofit that is helping the BLM manage the growing of sagebrush, hopes to reach 10 prisons by 2016 in new states like California, Nevada and Wyoming.
The executive director for Applied Institute for Ecology, Tom Kaye, said combining nonprofit expertise with BLM public land and department of corrections labor has been a success so far.
“We’re able to complete this circle of collecting the right seed, propagating it well and putting it on the right landscape to maximize our success on habitat restoration,” said Kaye.
The five prisons combined are growing over 150,000 sagebrush plants, a figure that isn’t as impressive in quantity as it is in the quality of plant that is being created, said BLM staffers.
Peggy Olwell, who leads the BLM plant conservation program, said often times there are no large-scale growers who provide sagebrush, and if they do, it isn’t necessarily a good fit for every environment.
“Sagebrush does better when you get the local material,” said Olwell. “That’s one of the reasons we’re doing it this way.”
Everything from the amount of nutritional content and toxicity in the leaves, to when the plant flowers and the insects come are all additional factors for selecting local seed, said several BLM wildlife biologists working or assisting with the prison project.
Inmates at Coyote Ridge have a multitude of work opportunities—they make children’s toys for charity, mattresses for college dormitories and frozen burritos for the state’s school system—and most jobs earn $.35 an hour. The sagebrush program is unique, though, because it requires the completion of the prison’s conservation curriculum and it is the only job that gets inmates outside working to grow a living thing.
“Mr. Bowen and Mr. Le, they’d spend all day out here if I let ‘em — ain’t that right?” asked Tom Townsend, the towering construction and maintenance supervisor overseeing the sagebrush work crew at the expansive prison complex.
Townsend told me how he had to remove inmates from the work crew who goofed off while watering the plants, and how the work is not for everyone.
“It takes a special kind of person — they actually have to care about what they’re doing,” he added.
Prior to taking the Seeds for Success conservation course sponsored by The Sustainability in Prisons Project—a joint endeavor by Evergreen State College and Washington State Department of Corrections—inmate Hai Le was another unaware American when it came to the link between sagebrush and sage grouse.
“That’s the reason we’re doing this, to keep (greater sage grouse) off the endangered list,” Le told me, only weeks before the historic September 2015 announcement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did just that.
There are other measurements that make this program a success, but they are harder to quantify. Does growing plants help foster a more peaceful prison environment? Can caring for a living plant help nurture the rehabilitation of the incarcerated?
Almost everyone I spoke to with exposure to this program told me it was a “win-win,” “two-fold” or “mutually beneficial” effort.
But it was the inmates who articulated it the best.
Jerome Watson, a self-described Seattle city kid with no green thumb experience other than weeding his mother’s lawn as a youngster, said he felt “blessed” to have a prison job that got him literally outside what can be an intense living environment.
“It’s nice to be outside, not in the melee of everything,” he told me.
“It’s a stress-free environment,” echoed another inmate, Ronald Wisner, gesturing to the plants and canopied area, “and it trickles down to your other relationships.”
“The empathy, in taking care of the planet, is good for me, personally,” said Wisner.
Then there is Bowen, the group-promoted leader, who only wishes he could actually plant the sagebrush at their future home on BLM-managed land.
“It’ll be cool to see ‘em—like a picture or something—when they’re planted,” he said, one of the few moments he paused to look up at me while working.
And what a photograph that could be: greater sage grouse lurching about, as only they do, among the sagebrush grown by environmentalists at America’s correctional institutions.
After a hike in the forest, we stopped by the local pub in Kováry with our friends, Otto and Pavlina
Short freight train with PRR SW1200 #8539 passing through the left part of my US TT scale (1:120) layout
Fonte : Wikipedia
The group was founded in 1981 under the name Paradox by drummer Kelly David-Smith and guitarists Pete Mello and Dave Goulder, who were later joined by bassist Jason Newsted. Jason had answered a newspaper ad that Kelly had placed in the local newspaper looking for a bass player. Jason came to Phoenix with his band Gangster from Michigan on their way to California, but Gangster broke up while in Phoenix. Kelly got a call from a couple of his high school friends, Mark Vasquez and Kevin Horton, looking for some people to jam with playing covers of bands such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, MSG, and UFO. The band then morphed into "Dredlox" together with the new recruits, Jason was now the main vocalist.
Kelly saw "A.K." (Eric A. Knutson) singing "The Goodbye Girl" at his high school talent show. In 1982 they were in the same summer school class and Kelly asked Knutson if he wanted to audition. They put him on 2-week probation and he later joined the band. Due to the provisional nature of his membership, the band referred to Knutson as "the 2 weeker." Ed Carlson, from another local rival band called Exodus (not to be confused with the California Bay Area thrash metal band of the same name), also joined in 1983 after Kevin's departure from the band. The name of the band changed into The Dogz, but it didn't last long. Eventually the band renamed itself "Flotsam and Jetsam" after writing a song inspired by a chapter of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Two Towers.
The band made its live debuts in local clubs and in California and had the opportunity to play with bands such as Megadeth, Armored Saint, Alcatrazz, Malice, Exciter, Mercyful Fate, Riot, Autograph and Icon. In 1985 Mark Vasquez stepped out and 17-year-old Michael Gilbert joined the band. Flotsam and Jetsam released two demo tapes Iron Tears and Metal Shock in 1985.
They created their first video "Hammerhead" from the Metal Shock demo: "We taped it in Jason and Ed's apartment living room. We also made a live video at the infamous Bootlegger in Phoenix", (owned by Gloria Cavalera, currently married to Max Cavalera) These videos and the band's demos made a good impression on record labels. After the band contributed to the Speed Metal Hell II and Metal Massacre VII compilations, they then signed a deal with Metal Blade Records.
1986–1987: Doomsday for the Deceiver
Flotsam and Jetsam recorded their debut album Doomsday for the Deceiver in Los Angeles with producer Brian Slagel and engineer Bill Metoyer. The album was released on the 4th of July in 1986, and was the first in Kerrang!'s history to achieve the 6K rating.
Bassist Jason Newsted, who was also the band's main lyric writer, departed soon after to join Metallica, replacing their bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a bus accident. On Halloween night 1986, Jason played his last gig with Flotsam and Jetsam. The band had asked another local bassist Phil Rind of Sacred Reich to fill in Jason's place for a short time. They then hired Michael Spencer from the Sacramento band Sentinel Beast. Flotsam and Jetsam inked a deal with Metallica's then-label Elektra Records before opening for Megadeth in 1987 on the Peace Sells tour in Europe and America. After touring with Megadeth, the band played selected shows in America with Slayer, Dark Angel, Possessed, Celtic Frost, Sacred Reich and Excel.
1987–1994: No Place for Disgrace, When the Storm Comes Down and Cuatro
Michael Spencer left Flotsam and Jetsam shortly after a U.S. tour in the fall of 1987; his replacement was Troy Gregory. Their second studio album, No Place for Disgrace, was released in May 1988, and includes a cover of Elton John's hit "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" for which a music video was shot. The band toured heavily behind No Place for Disgrace throughout 1988 and 1989. They opened for King Diamond in America, and supported Megadeth, Testament and Sanctuary in Europe on the So Far, So Good... So What! tour. The band also played shows with The Crumbsuckers, Fates Warning, Destruction, Death Angel, D.R.I., Acid Reign and Kreator, and landed a billing for festivals, such as Milwaukee Metalfest, and played at Aardschokdag twice (in May 1988 and April 1989).
In 1989, Flotsam and Jetsam were signed to MCA Records and began work on their third album When the Storm Comes Down, released in May 1990. The band expected to gain recognition with this album, but it suffered from a variety of mixed reviews. Flotsam and Jetsam toured for about a year and a half in support of When the Storm Comes Down; they co-headlined a U.S. tour with Prong, and subsequently toured or played selected shows with bands such as Testament, Savatage, Exodus, Vio-Lence, Sacred Reich, Wrathchild America and a then-unknown Pantera.
Shortly after returning home, bassist Troy Gregory departed to join Prong. Holding auditions in Phoenix, the band hired Jason Ward to fill the role.
Released in 1992, Cuatro marked an evolution in style and songwriting. The band released four singles this time, two of which ("Swatting at Flies" and "Wading Through the Darkness") were shot as music videos. "Wading Through the Darkness" received regular rotation on MTV during their tours that year.
1995–1999: Drift and High
Their fifth album Drift was released in April 1995, with three singles released off of the record. Jason dedicated it to his older brother Jeff Ward, former drummer of such bands as NIN, Ministry, Revolting Cocks and Lard, who died in 1993. A long break followed the release of the album.
During Flotsam and Jetsam's tour with Megadeth and KORN, MCA and Flotsam parted ways, and Flotsam returned to their former label "Metal Blade Records".
Shortly after auditioning a new drummer, Nick Menza of Megadeth insisted that the band check out a friend of Nick's named Craig Nielsen. Nick was there for the auditioning, and Craig Nielsen was hired.
On their 1997 album High the song titles were designed with the font types/logos of famous bands like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Kiss, Van Halen, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Misfits, etc. to pay homage to those whom came before and inspired the band while it was coming up the ranks. The music was more experimental than before, and the album also featured the Lard cover song Fork Boy. Music video was released, Monster to follow-up.
Michael Gilbert and Kelly Smith left the band after the release and were replaced by guitarist Mark Simpson and drummer Craig Nielsen. With the new line-up Flotsam and Jetsam toured in Europe together with Anvil and Exciter.
1999–2002: Unnatural Selection and My God
Unnatural Selection was released in 1999 and Mark Simpson took a short break. He joined the band again in 2000 to record a new album, My God released in May 2001. At that time Eric A.K. had founded a country band, the A.K. Corral. He left the band for a short time to take a break from Metal and pursue his side project. (AK) "I had given Metal my life for a solid 15 years, I took some time to explore other musical flavors." Though Flotsam and Jetsam did not disband, there was a long break at that time. They found a new singer, James Rivera, who took over vocal duties live. Later the band felt that no one other than Eric A.K. could be their singer and Rivera left the band soon after.
2002–2006: Live In Phoenix and Dreams of Death
During 2002 and 2003 the band were active only sporadically, but Eric A.K. rejoined for live dates in the Phoenix and Los Angeles areas in 2003. Tory Edwards was a guest for this tour. A live recording of these shows was released in 2004 as a live concert DVD under the title Live in Phoenix. Signed to the Crash Music label in May 2004 and with Eric A.K. joining the band again officially, they hit the road with Overkill and Death Angel for a series of sold out concerts in Japan.
Spring 2005 Flotsam and Jetsam returned to the studio to work on their new album. The lyrics were mostly inspired by Eric's nightmares. This resulted into a concept album entitled Dreams of Death - like track 2 of No Place for Disgrace. The album was released July 2005.
2006–2011: Live In Japan, Once in a Deathtime, The Cold
The live DVD Live in Japan was released in February 2006 and shows their concert in front of hundreds of screaming Japanese fans at the Citta Club in Tokyo 2004.
Doomsday for the Deceiver was re-released in November 2006 by Metal Blade Records to celebrate the album's twentieth anniversary. This set (2 CD and DVD) includes the original recording of Doomsday and a re-mixed and re-mastered(Digitized)version and also the two Flotsam and Jetsam demos. The bonus DVD includes rare live material, an interview filmed at Kelly's High School and a photo slide-show.
In Spring 2008 Metal Mind Productions remastered and re-released the albums When the Storm Comes Down, Cuatro (including 5 bonus tracks), Drift (including 3 bonus tracks) and Dreams of Death. Unfortunately for the fans No Place for Disgrace could not be remastered due to existing legal issues between the band and their former label Elektra Records.
In March 2008 Flotsam and Jetsam toured in Europe and played at the Metalmania Festival in Poland. This show was filmed and released as DVD Once in a Deathtime in July. Midyear 2008 the band were signed to Driven Music Group, founded by former KORN guitarist Brian “Head” Welch.
After a tour in Europe with support act Neurasthenia in April 2010 Flotsam and Jetsam finished their album The Cold. It was released on September 14, 2010. It was the last album with Mark Simpson on guitar. He left the band in friendship and was replaced by returning guitarist Ed Carlson, who had quit the band in March 2010, to be replaced by Michael Gilbert.
2011–2013: Ugly Noise
Mid 2011, Craig Neilson departed the band soon after Mark Simpson's exit. Former Drummer and founder of Flotsam Kelly David Smith was asked to rejoin after a 14 years absence. The band then embarked on their newest release Ugly Noise. Flotsam would take a new turn and release and record Ugly Noise using the direct-to-fan platform, PledgeMusic. Ugly Noise was released through PledgeMusic on 12-21-12. Members on the Pledge site were the first to hear and download the recording before the public. Each Pledge purchased either a download of the new disc or a package of "exclusive items" only available through Pledge. All income from items sold went to fund the entire project.
Shortly after Flotsam inked a distribution deal with longtime friends '"Metal Blade Records" for worldwide distribution.
After tracking on Ugly Noise, Jason Ward was no longer able to commit to touring with the band any further due to his current personal commitments.
In Jan 2013, Flotsam and Jetsam jumped on board the acclaimed 70000 Tons of Metal in support of Ugly Noise. They then followed up on Testaments, Dark Roots of Thrash Tour US Package included Overkill and Australian metalers 4ARM.
During the tour, Edward Carlson started to have extreme physical pain in his lower back and numbness in his right arm. After the tour, an MRI revealed that he had bulging disks in his upper and lower back causing the dysfunction to occur. Flotsam and Jetsam then recruited guitarist Steve Conley of F5 to step in while they finished out their live commitments.
Flotsam and Jetsam also recruited Michael Spencer to rejoin the ranks in place of Jason Ward. Spencer was the first official bassist after Jason Newsted's departure to Metallica in 1986. He toured with Flotsam in 1987 to Europe on Megadeth's "Peace Sells" tour. Spencer also was a major player in the writing of classic acclaimed recording, "No Place for Disgrace" released on Elekra Records in 1988.
2013–2014: No Place For Disgrace 2014
In June 2013, the band headlined at the Warriors of Metal Festival in Columbus Ohio, then returning home, Flotsam hired manager Jeff Keller(JKM). His roster includes the likes of: UDO, Destruction, Lordi, Hirax, Primal Fear, Satan, Suicidal Angels.
In 2006, after the successful remix and master of the debut album “Doomsday for the Deceiver”, there was a lot of fan requests to have “No Place for Disgrace” follow the same process. After spending some time at the 25-year mark, the band decided to go forward with this idea. The band had some issues with the original production and definition of some of the parts played, due to the speed it was recorded at. Having had success with Ugly Noise through the PledgeMusic process, the band would be able to again gain the rights to this classic with a re-recording and some minor changes.
In the middle of 2013, Flotsam and Jetsam embarked in this monumental task of reviving some songs that, for the most part, had not been played in 20 years. All tracks (except drums) were done at the Flotsam studio with Michael Gilbert at the helm. In December, the project was finished and the re-recording of the classic album "No Place For Disgrace", was again released using PledgeMusic to finance the project.
The album, No Place For Disgrace 2014, was set to release on Feb 14th, 2014 worldwide through Metal Blade Records distribution. NPFD 2014 would feature some of Flotsam's friends from the past as guest musicians, Mark Simpson, Chris Poland, Tory Edwards.
Flotsam and Jetsam is currently ramping up for their (29 show) European tour with Sepultura, Legion of the Damned and Mortillery. The tour kicks off on Feb 7th in Bochum, Germany.
2014–present: No Place on Tour and Beyond, Flotsam and Jetsam and next album
Flotsam toured Europe 4 times in 2014 with a total of 40 shows in all.
Returning home from Europe on 8/11 the band planned to start writing for a new release in 2015. Michael Spencer and Steve Conley would be involved this time in the process. Spencer had written some material previously in 1987 that he took with him after his departure. Flotsam used at some of the archive material from Spencer.
In December 2014, drummer and founding member, Kelly Smith decided to leave the band due to unexpected family matters that required him to be home with his family. Handpicked by Smith to replace him on drums, was longtime friend and Shadows Fall drummer, Jason Bittner. In 2015, Bittner was working on the next album.
On July 6, 2017, it was announced that Flotsam and Jetsam were replacing Bittner (who had recently joined Overkill) with Ken Mary (Fifth Angel, Alice Cooper, House of Lords, TKO, Chastain, Impellitteri). They have also begun work on their thirteenth studio album, which is expected to be released in the spring of 2018.
Local group companion M33 captured from Tierra Del Sol with a big RC scope and big (4k x 4K) CCD camera.
LRGB data captured with the DSI 14 RC scope donated by Terry Arnold (family) who was a great and generous astro imager and astronomer. Terry freely shared his knowledge and enthusiasm for the difficult process of high quality astro imaging. I was lucky enough to attend a few of the astro imagers interest group meetings with Terry few years ago. He accomplished amazing narrow-band imaging from San Diego city area.
Thanks to those who skillfully setup the image collection and shared it with the SDAA group. This was a nice set of data to work with.
This was started with pre calibrated L,R,G,B integrated frames. There seemed to be a good bit longer integration time on the G data so I combined as R+0.8G+B. That appeared to result in a better color balance.
There was Ha data available, chose not to use it as the Halpha regions show well already.
Evening Rochester local L031 ties onto a handful of empty covered hoppers at Cargill Animal Nutrition in Batavia, NY about ten minutes after sunset on a damp May night.
Formerly known as Batavia Agway, and still referred to as such by railroad crews and dispatch alike, this customer is somewhat hidden along the mainline between Buffalo and Rochester. The siding to access the the customer is located on track one just west of CP 406 at QC 406.8. 406 is also the west end of Batavia Yard where interchange with the Depew, Lancaster & Western takes place three times a week. Typically L031 will drop cars for DLWR on M/W/F while Cargill is a Tu/Th switch with other days as-needed. The siding and spur has existed for at least 40 years, being listed in Conrail ZTS maps from the 1980s as Agway Feed. The procedure to work here is pretty simple. The local will tuck in the controlled siding starting at CP 402, cut away from their cars at the west end of Batavia Yard, use one of the few remaining yard tracks to run around, then shove out at 406. The shove move from the runaround point to the Cargill switch is about two miles. Some days the crew will use the caboose from Goodman Yard in Rochester as a shoving platform if it's available. On this occasion however they did not have it with them. Once the switch on the main is lined and locked normal, it's another tenth of a mile to get to the customer switch. This is where things tend to slow down for the crew even on a good night. While most of the time CSX crews can easily switch on their own terms with only a derail, locked gate, or both separating them from the customer cars, Cargill is in full control of the spur here. A blue work flag protects the start of the sour before it splits into two tracks, and only a Cargill employee may take the flag down to allow CSX to begin their work. From what I was told by Doug the engineer and his conductor Tony that night, the majority of the time they're made to wait for lengthy periods of time while trucks load/unload, or the trackmobile finishes moving empty cars back onto the interchange tracks. In fact, it's uncommon for them to even make it here in daylight most nights, making a shot here really only possible during the summer months or the rare daylight run. Seldom as it is, one of the daytime locals L033 will sometimes make a morning run out to Batavia if absolutely necessary. There was one day in August recently when they ran out to switch Cargill on L031's regular service day, and L031 still switched them again later that same day. That's pretty good customer service in this day and age of class 1s shedding their small customers.
Another factor contributing to the difficulty of the shot is the fact that the spur tracks point directly into the sun (if it were still light out when switching began). Not knowing that they needed Cargill's permission to work prior to my attempt, I aimed for a cloudy day to avoid sun interference altogether. It had pretty much rained all day around Buffalo and the surrounding towns, but stopped in time for my lengthy walk out to the siding from the nearest road crossing. Having to walk along the main was the only sketchy part about this, with the possibility of fast moving road trains spotting me and becoming concerned. Around Buffalo, the vast majority of customers are located on branches and industrials, which helps keep shooting them more low key. The only customers really located on the mainline like this would be Metalico Buffalo near 437 on track one, and 84 Lumber in Depew, although the spur is long enough and spaced away from the main that it's never been a concern in that instance. So really just Metalico is the only real mainline customer on CSX in Buffalo. By contrast, from Batavia to Syracuse most of the customers are directly located off of the mainline, with a couple having small handthrow sidings, and a couple with their own signaled sidings. Suffice to say, mainline switching has taken a little getting used to, after being pampered with industrial branches galore around home, but I like a good challenge and a walk. (That's not to say there aren't lengthy walks around Buffalo either, just not along busy mainlines.) With this being my first true encounter with L031's crew, they were very friendly guys and thankfully didn't try to shew me away. We exchanged pleasant conversation and I gained some insight into Rochester ops while waiting for Cargill to let them in. Fortunately, it was right around sunset when they finally came out to take the blue flag down, and contrary to my initial worries the sun would have never been an issue even if it had been out. With the loads still on the head end, they shoved in to pull a string of 15+ cars out, setting a few over to the siding, then stashing the rest back inside. By the time they shoved in the clear to get the elevator tower in view, it was going on ten minutes after sunset. Nothing I wasn't used to from previous experience. Incredibly I didn't think to bring either of my low light lenses with me, but was able to make it work on my wide lens being in close proximity. The rest of the elevator facility can be made out a bit between the hoppers and behind the tree line. I wish it was a little more visible, but you work with what you're given. The fact I had any light at all to work with was a blessing, and in the end I'm quite content with how this one came out. Not to mention having an engine facing east for once on a Rochester job is another major win. Fittingly 2504 has stuck around for both of my L031 triumphs this summer. All things considered, not bad for a one and done at Cargill.
My husband's union had it's annual retirement dinner celebration this weekend. This was the third year in a row they have ordered the cake from me. Congratulations brothers...I think the cake says it all!
Y322-07 is just outside the gate of the Deepwater Marine terminal in south Richmond, Va. The marine terminal is now getting cars again, albeit infrequently. Many steam engines of the SAL and C&O were cut up for scrap at the terminal, after being dragged down this very branch.
Local Products of Santorini: Dry tomatoes and capper leaves... Michalis Mpelas' shop at Akrotiri of Santorini...
Doing an experiment for my food blogging. This is one week's groceries when we just buy what we want with a focus on local stores and organic. Next week we'll set a fixed budget based on what the USDA says a family of two should be spending (which will be half of what we spent this week).
Here's what we bought this week.
Jumbo shrimp
Apples
Plums
Cilantro (fresh)
Cucumbers
Green onions
Lemon
Lime
Yellow onions
Vegetable stock
Red onions
Shallots
Pears
Bell peppers
Pie shells
White wine
Beer
Oatmeal packets
Canned black-eyed peas
Green tea
Half and Half
Canned cannellini beans
Butter
Tofu
Heavy whipping cream
Milk
Assorted flavored yogurts
Greek yogurt
Cherry tomatoes
Peanut butter
Carrots
Jicama
Kalamata olives
Bulgur
Feta cheese
Rice crackers
Mint (fresh)
Basil (fresh)
Oregano (fresh)
Italian parsley (fresh)
Fresh ziti
Shiitake mushroom
Fresh mushroom tortellini
Red Turkish lentils
Baguette
“Pain rustique” (bread)
“Pug roll” (bread)
Camembert
(Not in the photo)
Pizza dough, premade
1 dozen eggs from a local farm
Photograph by Jack Worthington (1921-2009)
From original negatives
Gift of the Evening Independent
Collection of the Massillon Museum
Nuevo bmw x1 perteciente a la policia local de Alcobendas , equipado con sistema OCR(reconocimiento óptico de caracteres)
The man in the window is the owner, along with his wife. Very nice people from Iran. They used the picture I sent them with their old sign for their Facebook page for quite a long time, even long after they changed the sign to the one in this picture. The food has a very good reputation, too.
SET 2 – Oxford Kroger, Post-Expansion
My shot of this wall blurred just a little bit in my attempt to snap it quickly, but even still you get the gist: this wall is full of local art pieces, very well done and depicting landmarks, scenes, and famous folks from both Oxford and Ole Miss, as well as two quotes from William Faulkner. Even absent the insane amount of local flair this store has, Kroger has made it a point to showcase artwork or murals in each of its new stores, like we saw back in Hernando. This almost seems to be an industry-wide thing at this point, actually, given that numerous Walmart remodels have similarly brought along murals (Southaven, Hernando, Ridgeland, etc.) as has the Horn Lake Target remodel (spoilers!). Really glad to see that sort of thing taking hold :)
(c) 2024 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
And don't worry, he's still going strong a year and a half later. Does look like an uncomfortable place to sleep, though.