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Sandstone cliffs at Torrey Pines State Beach, California.
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CBC's acre of organic barley being grown in Hadley, MA. It'll be harvested in the next couple of weeks, then malted by our friends Andrea and Christian at Valley Malt! Hooray for local beer!
Conrail GP15-1 1694 was returning to Burns Harbor with Chicago Line local WDBH-11 at the Otis curve in 1998 with a trio of cars.
The "WD" portion of the symbol stood for "Wayfreight Dearborn" division. The "BH" is the terminal code of the train's origination (Burns Harbor). The symbol then carried a numeric code afterwards for the assignment code (11).
lovely to see Guðbjörg’s amazing artworks in person this afternoon — and Guðbjörg herself! congratulations on such a beautiful exhibition!
Palestra de Bruno Caetano, Diretor Superintendente do Sebrae-SP. Data: 08/02/2015. Local: São Paulo/SP.
Foto: Patrícia Cruz/A2img
Trying a night shot of the local hotel while getting some takeaway opposite ... not that I've ever been there, apart from buying grog at the drive-in. Since the BWS opened further down the road with lots of parking in front, I haven't been to the drive-in though.
Taken with iPhone 4S.
"Restored" in 2013, this old caboose now bears the familiar signs of life in an urban environment. Astute observers will note faux window treatments on the window plating.
Tilted white oak (Quercus alba) at the summit of Blue Mountain, Monroe County, along the Appalachian Trail.
Local #govdesign Day welcomed designers and design-minded public servants working in local governments to the cross-government user-centred design community. It shed a light on the great work happening on a local level and introduced people to each other and designers in central government. It was a day for, with and by designers in local government.
The event was supported by Birmingham City Council and jointly organised by the Government Digital Service’s National and UCD Communities teams.
...zipping past on a bike. Dunno if he's into video, or smash-and-grab; odd sign behind him. [Photographed in Newark Ohio]
I never posted here when I made this corn cob jelly. It was after we got 5 dozen ears for freezing and I had cobs coming out of my ears. I had never had the jelly before, but I figured it was worth a shot.
It's surprisingly good! As I cooked the cobs, the smell of corn dissipated and I really wasn't sure what it was going to taste like. It's very mild and sweet and, I think Vera hit the nail on the head- floral. You'd never know it was made from corn.
I've eaten it on cornbread, soda bread, cream scones, and toast. Delightful. I read somewhere that it's great with fried green tomatoes, but I've yet to try that. I rarely use pectin so was pleased with the delicate set this has- silky and smooth.
Elephant Parade Rotterdam will take place from September 1 until November 17 2007. Elephant Parade is an initiative of Marc and Mike Spits (father and son).
Background Elephant Parade
Elephant Parade is a world wide event created to make people aware of the fact that in Asia elephants are an endangered species. Elephant Parade supports the elephant through the sale and auction of Elephant Parade products. Additionally, we create awareness for elephants through our Elephant Parade. It's our mission to help save the elephant. A world without elephants is unimaginable but can become reality if we don't act now!
Elephant Parade is a unique art and public relations project which combines several goals. Not only does Elephant Parade support Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation but brands/companies can participate in an international oriented art and pr event which will create a big impact on a local and national level.
A limited number of national and international companies will have the possibility to ‘marry' the original copyright protected designs for their products and services on an exclusive basis.
Elephant Parade presents (pop)art in a fun and different manner. Additionally the Asian elephant gets much needed attention and financial support through our and the participant efforts.
For more info visit their website.
This dwelling, the former residence of local successful businessman Upton Vincent Knight, in the South Gippsland town of Leongatha is one of the best interwar dwellings in the Mediterranean style, not only in the town, but in the entire Shire of Woorayl, and is complemented by its original fence.
The villa is a rendered brick single storey Interwar Mediterranean style building with a multiple hipped terracotta tiled roof. It has a contiguous return verandah at a slightly flatter pitch supported by a large corner pier containing arcades at the two sides carried on short paired columns standing on tall rendered pedestals. The central of the three arches is wide with three centres, while the outer arches are semicircular. The windows are three part double hung, planted on the wall and supported by brackets. There is only one chimney, which is a plain brick double flue set at the rear of the main roof. The original fence is constructed with square rendered piers with caps and a plinth containing elaborate wrought iron panels and matching gate. Historically, it is one of a group of dwellings that demonstrate the significant phase of residential development in Leongatha that occurred in the interwar period.
The villa was constructed by J. L. Rowden in 1936 as the residence for Mr. Upton Vincent Knight (1901 – 1989), the proprietor of Knight's Garage in Bair Street Leongatha which was established in 1926. The business established then still exists today and is still in the same family by way of Upton Knight’s son-in-law.
Inter-War Mediterranean style was a regionalisation of Georgian domestic architecture. The style was introduced to Australia by the Professor of Architecture of the University of Sydney, Leslie Wilkinson (1882 - 1973) in 1918 after perceiving a similarity in temperature between temperate coastal regions of Australia and European Mediterranean environments. Practitioners in this style usually had a very wealthy clientele who wanted something a little more chic and European than the Spanish Mission style that came out of America at the same time.
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.
Henschel DHG1000BB(BB 303) diesel locomotive feat Sibinuang local passenger train from Padang to Pariaman.
A row of market stalls along the highway was selling local produce, mostly fruit and vegetables. I had been so enamored by the white mango dip at the Poring Hot Springs earlier that day that I kept mentioning that to my guide Rahman. The good chap said he will try and get me a tray of cut raw mango which is sold locally and which is accompanied by a small tub of salt. Yumm! Delicious! So while Rahman was off hunting for my rather unusual snack, I took the time to shoot this picture of one of the local stalls. (Kota Kinabalu, East Malaysia, Nov. 2013)
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.
Often on city tours we’d be passing by the local oven/bakery without any activity, but this one in Tangier was in full swing. Over the course of the holiday I’m unsure how much of the flatbread I ate but it was available on the table for every meal of every day. Great way of sopping up after a tagine or light stuffing around a salad.
ISO6400 f5.3 1/8 92mm LR