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I had the most amazing experience shooting a pair of Louisiana waterthrush 3/24/2018. It was the first day of turkey season in Georgia so some roads that were previously blocked off in the logging property that doubles as a wildlife refuge were opened for the hunting season. That allowed me access to some habitat I prefer to work in Spring migration. That is where I heard the melodious song of my first Louisiana waterthrush of the season. As I was parking my pickup along the side of the dirt logging road I heard the song of my first B1ack-throated green warbler of the season as well. I gathered my gear and sauntered down the hill into the still largely denuded forest below where clear winding streams flowed. I choose an area to set up close to where I had been hearing the waterthrush. I soon realized there were two of them, and they were not behaving as competing males but rather were foraging about together. I had them down on this stream together, and the one seen is the suspected male, whom I observed singing on occasion. I have never seen a waterthrush display like this, and I wonder how many times this has been captured by camera? It is not a body posture I've ever observed before with this species. He acquired the pose slowly reminiscent of a tom turkey displaying. He maintained this pose for what seemed an eternity, but was just a few seconds. He better be careful since after all it is turkey season!
The bird maintains a menacing profile after driving off competitors for the carcass in the River at its feet. The thick strong neck is really something to see.
Established in 1880, the Taiping Lake Garden is one of the oldest garden in Malaysia. The huge lake was formerly a tin mine but was since transformed into a beautiful well used and well maintained park where flowers, birds, insects, animals and lush greenery thrive.
My Anna's that I looked after during our long cold snap have disappeared. I saw them briefly a week ago but that was it. I assume they are on a nest somewhere or maybe there is better feeding elsewhere. Blooms are starting to open on trees and shrubs in the neighborhood so maybe they are happier with that. I will still maintain my feeder for them though.
A charming Grade II listed country church in Knapwell, All Saints welcomes all with its well-maintained and tranquil setting. The 14C tower and elegant chancel, rebuilt in the 1700s, are still stunning features of this popular church for walkers and worshippers.
Pastel on newsprint
I made this shortly after I started doing art at age 56. There was no preconceived idea. I just picked up a piece of pastel and started moving my hand and arm on the paper. This is the image that resulted. When I showed it to the teacher of an art class I had just started, he said "What were you on when you did THAT?", lol! The answer: nothing. I was just following the impulses as they popped up within. I made this in the horizontal orientation. It was only after it was done and I turned it to this vertical orientation that I saw that it resembled a serpent.
At the time, and for years prior, I spent many hours each day in mantra meditation, pranayama breathing, and yoga asanas, and had experienced many moments of expanded awareness and bliss. But I knew almost nothing about kundalini or its awakening.
I now know that the Sanskrit word "kundalini" means "coiled one". In the Dharma religions, it is a primal energy, or shakti, located at the base of the spine. Different spiritual traditions teach methods of "awakening" kundalini for the purpose of reaching spiritual enlightenment. Kundalini is described as lying "coiled" at the base of the spine, represented as either a goddess or sleeping serpent waiting to be awakened. ... To me, this image reflects the creative phase of the creation/maintenance/destruction cycle.
Kundalini awakening is said to result in deep meditation, enlightenment and bliss. This awakening involves the Kundalini physically moving up the central channel to reach within the Sahasrara Chakra at the top of the head. Many systems of yoga focus on the awakening of Kundalini through meditation, pranayama breathing, the practice of asana and chanting of mantras. In physical terms, many report the Kundalini experience to be a feeling of electric current running along the spine.
—Adapted from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini
Also, " ... The Supreme Brahman is described as the swallower, devourer (attā = soul) of the universe; for just as he creates and maintains it, he destroys it also. But where does it go when it is destroyed? One answer may be that it simply vanishes. But the Upanishads are opposed to such an idea of destruction. Only the forms and shapes of the world are gone, but not the being of the world, which is the Being of the Brahman. Then what happens to the world? It is absorbed, assimilated to the Brahman. The Brahman swallows, absorbs, assimilates the world to itself."
—P.T. Raju, Structural Depths of Indian Thought, p. 420
Situated at the intersection of Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico this cemetery dates from the 1880s and located on the Westside of El Paso. One can see the border wall snaking up the mountain on left side of the photo. The black trestles cross over the Rio Grande below. The tiny white speck on the top left is the international boundary marker. These markers are evenly spaced all along the Southern border. The cross at the top of the mountain is Mt. Cristo Rey. Photographed with Canon 2K film camera with Velvia.
You are the only One Who knows me
Who sees so well what I am
You never tire sending me gifts
which I don't deserve
I do so much wrong
Am never grateful enough
I make a promise to You
which I rarely keep
Yet You forgive and let
me start afresh
You have given me all I have
All I know
I turn to You alone for help
and You're always there
You're my Creator
the Maintainer of all
The One on Whom all creation depends
Taken right from the parking lot at the end of the road to the lookout. From here it is about 1/4 mile walk to the lookout. The road to Slate Peak is the highest maintained road in the state of Washington.
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Beautifully maintained painted Victorians on St. Alphonsus Street are seen in an unexpectedly pastoral view from Kevin W. Fitzgerald Park in the Mission Hill neighborhood. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Casas victorianas bellamenta pintados y mantenidos sobra Calle San Alphonsus se ven en una vista inesperadamente pastoral desde el parque Kevin W. Fitzgerald en el barrio de Mission Hill. Boston, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos.
Ladybower Reservoir is a large Y-shaped reservoir, the lowest of three in the Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire, England. The River Ashop flows into the reservoir from the west; the River Derwent flows south, initially through Howden Reservoir, then Derwent Reservoir, and finally through Ladybower Reservoir.Ladybower was built between 1935 and 1943 by the Derwent Valley Water Board to supplement the other two reservoirs in supplying the water needs of the East Midlands. It took a further two years to fill (1945). The dam differs from the Howden Reservoir and Derwent Reservoir in that it is a clay-cored earth embankment, and not a solid masonry dam. Below the dam is a cut-off trench 180 feet (55 m) deep and 6 feet (1.8 m) wide filled with concrete, stretching 500 feet (150 m) into the hills each side, to stop water leaking round the dam. The dam wall was built by Richard Baillie and Sons, a Scottish company. The two viaducts, Ashopton and Ladybower, needed to carry the trunk roads over the reservoir were built by the London firm of Holloways, using a steel frame clad in concrete. The project was delayed when the Second World War broke out in 1939, making labour and raw materials scarce. But construction was continued due to the strategic importance of maintaining supplies. King George VI, accompanied by Queen Elizabeth, formally opened the reservoir on 25 September 1945.
Sershul Tekchen Dargyeling སེར་ཤུལ་ ཏེཀ་ ཆེན་ དར་ གྱེ་ གླིང་
Founding (1759) > Monks 1255 •Religious Sect > Geluk སེར་ཤུལ་དགོན། > ser shul dgon > Sershül Gön Sershul Tekchen Dargyeling སེར་ཤུལ་ ཏེཀ་ ཆེན་ དར་ གྱེ་ གླིང་ is an important monastery of the Gelukpa School, located 20 km west of Deongma, on the right side of the road. This is currently the largest monastery in Sershul county, with 1200-1300 monks divided into six colleges, under the guidance of the youthful but charismatic Drukpa Rinpoche. The rain retreat festival held in August is a magnificent spectacle, attracting nomad communities. The hills and grasslands around the monastery are sparse and spacious.
The complex was founded as a branch of Chunkor but soon outgrew the latter. The recently restored buildings at Sershul, which are all near the motor road, include the Tsokchen (assembly hall), the Jamkhang (Maitreya temple), the Gonkhang (protector temple), the Dewachen Lhakhang (Amitabha temple), the Mentsikhang (where Mipham Rinpoche`s tradition is maintained), the college, a Mani Wheel chapel (containing three wheels constructed by the father of the present Drukpa Rinpoche) and a small guesthouse. A new Tsongkhapa Lhakhang, resembling a giant cathedral, has been constructed below the main complex, and was due for completion and consecration on 12 December, 2008. www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
Esta postura mantenida unos segundos sólo puede querer decir una cosa, este archibebe ( Tringa totanus) sospecha de esa extraña silueta en la orilla.
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This posture maintained for a few seconds can only mean one thing, this redshank (Tringa totanus) is suspicious of that strange silhouette on the shore.
Maintained by the Sydney Heritage Fleet.
Sydney Australia.
www.shf.org.au/explore-the-fleet/our-operational-vessels/...
The White cliffs of Møn, Denmark.
One of the most beautiful places in Denmark! Discover the 100-metre white chalk cliffs from above or enjoy the view from the beach.
Few other places in the country can compete with the beauty of Møns Klint. The white chalk cliffs rise 100 metres above sea level, and the view is dramatic from the beach and the water. From the top of the cliffs you can look far out over the Baltic Sea from the beautiful beech forest. The leaves of the trees are lighter than normal because of the chalk in the ground and therefore the forest maintains its light spring colour for longer.
Møns Klint is a unique natural history site and is an absolute must-see when you get to Møn! Walk nearly 500 steps down to the beach and hunt for interesting geological finds, while enjoying the magnificent scenery, or hop on the mountain bike or hiking boots and experience the wild hilly countryside out to the cliff. In the woods and meadows, you will find interesting flora and fauna – see if you can spot the world’s fastest bird, the peregrine falcon on the white cliffs or find the delicate orchids that are unique to the area (no picking allowed!).
Zeiss Loxia 35mm 2.0, Sony A7R3.
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933, it was officially renamed Hoover Dam, for President Herbert Hoover, by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947. Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume (when it is full). The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction; nearly a million people tour the dam each year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened. As the United States developed the Southwest, the Colorado River was seen as a potential source of irrigation water. An initial attempt at diverting the river for irrigation purposes occurred in the late 1890s, when land speculator William Beatty built the Alamo Canal just north of the Mexican border; the canal dipped into Mexico before running to a desolate area Beatty named the Imperial Valley. Though water from the Imperial Canal allowed for the widespread settlement of the valley, the canal proved expensive to maintain. After a catastrophic breach that caused the Colorado River to fill the Salton Sea, the Southern Pacific Railroad spent $3 million in 1906–07 to stabilize the waterway, an amount it hoped in vain would be reimbursed by the Federal Government. Even after the waterway was stabilized, it proved unsatisfactory because of constant disputes with landowners on the Mexican side of the border. As the technology of electric power transmission improved, the Lower Colorado was considered for its hydroelectric-power potential. In 1902, the Edison Electric Company of Los Angeles surveyed the river in the hope of building a 40-foot (12 m) rock dam which could generate 10,000 horsepower (7,500 kW). However, at the time, the limit of transmission of electric power was 80 miles (130 km), and there were few customers (mostly mines) within that limit. Edison allowed land options it held on the river to lapse—including an option for what became the site of Hoover Dam. In the following years, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), known as the Reclamation Service at the time, also considered the Lower Colorado as the site for a dam. Service chief Arthur Powell Davis proposed using dynamite to collapse the walls of Boulder Canyon, 20 miles (32 km) north of the eventual dam site, into the river. The river would carry off the smaller pieces of debris, and a dam would be built incorporating the remaining rubble. In 1922, after considering it for several years, the Reclamation Service finally rejected the proposal, citing doubts about the unproven technique and questions as to whether it would in fact save money.
The progression of Conrail’s power for high speed intermodal service is seen in this photo of train Mail-9.The newest power is represented by a pair of month-old B40-8’s, followed by one of the B36-7’s that had been purchased five years prior, and a pair of GP40/GP40-2’s, which were the principal power on TV trains dating back to NYC/PRR days. Here, Mail-9 rolls west into Bethlehem through an area known as Steel City. To local railfans, this location is known as Wilt’s curve, named for local photographer Bob Wilt (and his father Harry), who frequently shot at this location, and maintained the trees and brush to keep the shot open.
Somewhat decently maintained rooms for the Village Motel. The other side of the court was more seedier looking.
There is a real mixture of well maintained and not well maintained homes along the river. Some are simply stunning.
mamiya 6MF 50mm f/4 + kodak portra 160NC. lab: the icon, los angeles, ca. scan: epson V750. exif tags: lenstagger.
Chimpanzees are more than 98% identical to humans genetically. They’re more closely related to us than they are to gorillas.
The Los Angeles Zoo is home to one of the largest chimpanzee troops of any zoo in the country. Built in 1998, the Zoo's "Chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains" habitat has been hailed by renowned primatologist Jane Goodall as one of the country’s finest chimpanzee habitats. Maintaining a healthy, diverse zoo population of chimpanzees is crucial to the survival of the species.
Unfortunately, chimpanzees are currently on the endangered species list. Populations have decreased because of foresting, hunting, commercial exportation, and collection for scientific research. Although chimpanzees are protected in 34 national parks and reserves, laws can be difficult to enforce in remote regions.
Los Angeles Zoo. California.
Friends of the Lake Lure Flowering Bridge is a community-based 501(c) 3 non-profit organization coming together to design, create and maintain a flowering pedestrian bridge across the Rocky Broad River and the walkways at both ends of the bridge for the joy and benefit of all who come our way. The bridge, completed in 1925, served as a part of the US 64/US 74-A/NC 9 highway until 2011 when a new bridge was opened to traffic. The Historic Bridge #7 was turned over to the Town of Lake Lure to allow for the creation of this unique community garden bridge, to be developed by local people to further enhance the natural beauty of the Hickory Nut Gorge for generations to come.
www.lakelurefloweringbridge.org
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www.romanticasheville.com/lake_lure_flowering_bridge.htm
Lake Lure is a town in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States. In 2010 the town population was 1,192. Lake Lure was incorporated in 1927, and acquired the lake after which it is named in 1965.
The RAMM Schuppentier HMAMAV (High Mobility Air Mobile Assault Vehicle) was designed to preform special operations and patrol missions. Built to be high speed while still maintaining an armored presence, the RAMM Schuppentier HMAMAV can carry up to 4 troops.
Maintaining good humor in the time of coronavirus, even if it's not exactly the Good Humor man!
Finding ice cream on the streets of...
Decatur, Georgia, USA.
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Seattle City Light maintains this trail through a [formerly] wonderful old forest. The fire reached the left side of this trail, which is closest to the mountainside. As a result the ceiling is more open now - but there is still a lot of green. Family members further down the trail give a sense of the size of these giant Cedar trees.
Historians and archaeologists maintain that the pagoda was built by the Mon people between the 6th and 10th centuries CE. However, according to legend, the Shwedagon Pagoda was constructed more than 2,600 years ago, making it the oldest Buddhist stupa in the world. According to tradition, Taphussa and Bhallika — two merchant brothers from the city of Balkh in what is currently Afghanistan — met the Lord Gautama Buddha during his lifetime and received eight of the Buddha's hairs. The brothers traveled to Burma and, with the help of the local ruler, King Okkalapa, found Singuttara Hill, where relics of other Buddhas preceding Gautama Buddha had been enshrined.[citation needed] When the king opened the golden casket in which the brothers had carried the hairs, incredible things happened:
“There was a tumult among men and spirits ... rays emitted by the Hairs penetrated up to the heavens above and down to hell ... the blind beheld objects ... the deaf heard sounds ... the dumb spoke distinctly ... the earth quaked ... the winds of the ocean blew ... Mount Meru shook ... lightning flashed ... gems rained down until they were knee deep ... all trees of the Himalayas, though not in season, bore blossoms and fruit.”
Florida's Turnpike, designated as unsigned State Road 91 (SR 91), is a toll road in the U.S. state of Florida, maintained by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE). Spanning approximately 309 miles (497 km) along a northwest–southeast axis, the turnpike is in two sections. The SR 91 mainline runs roughly 265 miles (426 km), from its southern terminus at an interchange with Interstate 95 (I-95) in Miami Gardens to an interchange with I-75 in Wildwood at its northern terminus. The Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike (abbreviated HEFT and designated as unsigned SR 821) continues from the southern end of the mainline for another 48 miles (77 km) to US Highway 1 (US 1) in Florida City. The slogan for the road is "The Less Stressway". The mainline opened in stages between 1957 and 1964, while the extension was completed in 1974. The turnpike runs through Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach, where it parallels I-95, and through Orlando, where it crosses I-4.
Tolls on the turnpike are an average of 6.7 cents per mile (4.2 ¢/km) for cars and other two-axle vehicles using SunPass. A trip on the entire turnpike (not including the Homestead Extension) would cost $22.59 with Toll-by-Plate, and $17.45 with SunPass.
The turnpike was originally entirely on the ticket system, but due to congestion in the Miami and Orlando metro areas, a coin system was implemented from the Three Lakes toll plaza north to the terminus at I-75, and from Lantana south to I-95, in the 1990s. In 2015, the portion between the Golden Glades toll barrier and I-595 in Davie was converted to a cashless toll system. Additional projects to convert the turnpike to an electronic collection system were completed between I-595 and Lantana in 2019, and from SR 429 north to I-75 in Wildwood in 2020.
The final stretch of the turnpike to use the ticket system ran between what are now electronic toll gantries at Lantana (mile 89.4 in Palm Beach County) and Three Lakes (mile 236.5 in Osceola County). This section was converted to a cashless system on November 8, 2021, removing the final cash-based toll collections and converting the entire length of the turnpike to electronic toll collection.
The SunPass electronic toll collection system, in use since 1999, has become the primary method of paying tolls on the turnpike, with 80% of customers using the electronic tolling as of October 2009. SunPass can be used on most Florida toll roads, in conjunction with other electronic toll collection systems in Florida (E-Pass and LeeWay). SunPass users benefit from an average of a 25% discount on tolls and access to SunPass-only exit ramps. SunPass transponders are available at the gift shop and gas stations at all service plazas, as well as Walgreens, Publix, and CVS stores statewide.[18] Since 2021, E-ZPass, which is used primarily in the Midwest and Northeast U.S., has also been accepted on Florida's Turnpike.
As the Turnpike and its system of roads are primary routes for emergency evacuations, tolls may be suspended, in cooperation with the state's emergency operations center and county governments, when a state or national emergency, most common being a hurricane watch, warrant rapid movement of the population.
Eight service plazas are located along the turnpike, spaced about 45 miles (72 km) apart. All eight plazas are open 24 hours a day and located on the center median of the turnpike for access from both directions and offer gasoline, diesel fuel, internet access, travel and tourism info and tickets, picnic areas, TV news, gift shops offering Florida Lottery, family-friendly restrooms, and pay phones. A convenience store/gas station is located at the Snapper Creek plaza on the Homestead Extension of the turnpike, while the remaining seven are full-service plazas, featuring a selection of franchised fast food restaurants. Three of the service plazas (Pompano, Port St. Lucie/Fort Pierce, Turkey Lake) also provide E85 ethanol. The Turkey Lake plaza also has a Tesla Supercharger for Tesla electric vehicles. Superchargers are also located at Ft. Drum plaza, and Canoe Creek and Okahumpa are scheduled to open Superchargers in 2021/22.
The operation of Sunshine State Parkway gas stations and service centers was originally bid out under separate contracts, and as a result, differing petroleum brands operated concurrently along the parkway, with varying levels of service and pricing. This practice was discontinued in 1995 when all service center operations were combined to improve supply and continuity of service; with Martin Petroleum, a Florida corporation, operating the stations with Citgo brand fuel at its stations. Since then, the Venezuelan government, under President Hugo Chávez, nationalized Citgo, and in 2006, political controversy resulted in a movement to remove the brand from the turnpike.
In 2009, Areas U.S.A. signed a 30-year contract for operation of food and retail concessions, taking over operations from Martin Petroleum and HMSHost. Florida Turnpike Services, L.L.C., Areas' partner, replaced the Citgo brand with Shell, the current brand for gas stations along the turnpike. Many of the restaurant brands were also changed over, with Dunkin' Donuts replacing Starbucks locations as well as KFC, Pizza Hut, Villa Pizza and Wendy's replacing most Popeyes and Burger King locations. The reconstruction and renovation of six of the service plazas began on November 1, 2010, to be completed in 2012. The Okahumpka and Ft. Pierce plazas will begin reconstruction when the other plaza projects are complete. Total renovation costs are estimated at $160 million.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%27s_Turnpike
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13 Catalan independence leaders, including Carles Puigdemont will charged for rebellion by Spain's Supreme court. Peacefully politicians are being jailed in the EU for representing their voters. Absolutely shameful!
Facism is back in Europe! This is another black day for the democracy in whole Europe.
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The fact that the crime and the punishment were related and bound up in the form of atrocity was not the result of some obscurely accepted law of retaliation. It was the effect, in the rites of punishment, of a certain mechanism of power: of a power that not only did not hesitate to exert itself directly on bodies, but was exalted and strengthened by its visible manifestations; of a power that asserted itself as an armed power whose functions of maintaining order were not entirely unconnected with the functions of war; of a power that presented rules and obligations as personal bonds, a breach of which constituted an offence and called for vengeance; of a power for which disobedience was an act of hostility, the first sign of rebellion, which is not in principle different from civil war; of a power that had to demonstrate not why it enforced its laws, but who were its enemies, and what unleashing of force threatened them; of a power which, in the absence of continual supervision, sought a renewal of its effect in the spectacle of its individual manifestations; of a power that was recharged in the ritual display of its reality as 'super-power'.
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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This is the notorious "Highway 4", arguably one of Saskatchewan's worst roads: rough, potholed, too narrow, poorly maintained. Truckers coming up from Montana hate it, refer to it mockingly as the "goat road". Not only is it the road most visitors have to drive to reach Grasslands National Park, but it's the road we take to reach the outside world. The nearest supply centre, Swift Current, is 120 km (75 miles) north of my home in Val Marie; this is about the halfway point, looking toward the town of Cadillac. It's the only town en route. Yes, I live at the end of a goat track.
Most of the time, I love it. It's 7 a.m., I'm sitting in my office at my iMac, and the silence is pure, broken only by robins' voices from the cottonwood trees outside. After a hot day, it has dawned cloudy and cool. I am considering taking the camera out in search of birds or wildflowers; both are within easy reach. The great pleasure of living here, and the great difference between here and every place I've lived, is the accessibility of wild nature, just minutes away in Canada's only national park comprised entirely of prairie ecosystems. It takes me one minute to clear city limits, five more minutes to reach the nearest entrance to the park: more than 900 sq km of native prairie.
It is worth visiting; absolutely. Just drive slowly. Watch for wildlife, especially at dawn and dusk, south of Cadillac. Some folks become so enchanted with the area that they return to visit every summer. It's a little like stepping into the past - with high speed internet.
Photographed along Highway 4 south of Cadillac, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2014 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Maintainers from the 197th FIS work to keep a F-86A in the fight. Gowan Field Boise, Idaho.
Photograph by Dale Welker.
Malbork Castle, Zamek w Malborku
The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork is a 13th-century Teutonic castle and fortress located near the town of Malbork, Poland. It is the largest castle in the world measured by land area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Wikipedia
It was originally constructed by the Teutonic Knights, a German Catholic religious order of crusaders, in a form of an Ordensburg fortress. The Order named it Marienburg in honour of Mary, mother of Jesus. In 1457, it since served as one of the several Polish royal residences and the seat of Polish offices and institutions to 1772. From then on the castle was under German rule for over 170 years until 1945.
The castle is a classic example of a medieval fortress and, on its completion in 1406, was the world's largest brick castle. UNESCO designated the "Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork" and the Malbork Castle Museum a World Heritage Site in December 1997. It is one of two World Heritage Sites in the region (north-central Poland), together with the "Medieval Town of Toruń", which was founded in 1231.
Malbork Castle is also one of Poland's official national Historic Monuments (Pomnik historii), as designated on 16 September 1994. Its listing is maintained by the National Heritage Board of Poland.
With the rise of Adolf Hitler to power in the early 1930s, the Nazis used the castle as a destination for annual pilgrimages of both the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls. The Teutonic Castle at Marienburg served as a blueprint for the Order Castles of the Third Reich built under Hitler's reign. In 1945 during World War II combat in the area, more than half the castle was destroyed. At the conclusion of the war, the city of Malbork and the castle became again part of Poland. The castle has been mostly reconstructed, with restoration ongoing since 1962. A new restoration was completed in April 2016. Malbork Castle remains the largest brick complex in Europe.
The old New Haven Fitchburg Branch no longer reaches its namesake town, instead ending here about 4.6 miles short at the Mechanic Street crossing at CSXT milepost QBU 4.6 where just enough track is maintained and the crossing signals manually operated so that two units can clear the north end of the runaround in the remains of the old Leominster Yard. That's exactly what the pair of GP40-2s on Framingham based local L004 are doing after pulling empties from Win-Waste and working Teknor-Apex. Having dropped their train in the runaround, they will head back light to spot up the empties they left on the main down at Win-Waste, then once that chore is done they will return to the south end of the runaround to gather up their train and head back south.
It's been decades since a train has traveled any further north than this point and the rails are long gone, but amazingly just around the corner maybe 100 ft behind me is the circa 1878 Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Railroad station that saw it's last New Haven passenger train call in 1928.
To learn some history of this old school meandering 30 mile long branchline check out the long caption with the earlier post in this series.
Leominster, Massachusetts
Friday May 10, 2024
I always maintained as a photographer that AI is possibly the devil's work. After a brief experiment with AI, I've decided it might be unwise to upload my photo to ChatGPT with it's dark and moody interpretation of my selfie!
I used the prompt "A high contrast close portrait of my face focusing on front head in black and white closeup. 35mm lens 4k HD Quality. Giving fierce expression, Water droplets on my face. Black shadow background, only face is visible with my profile looking sharper. Ratio 4:3"
Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice change, concluded this year’s springtime survey of Arctic sea and land ice on May 2. The flights, which began on March 22, covered the western basin of the Arctic Ocean and Greenland’s fastest-changing glaciers.
This image was taken during a research flight carried out on April 21 near Vestfjord Glacier in Scoresby Sund, along the eastern coast of Greenland. The photo shows a large iceberg that has broken the surrounding layer of consolidated sea ice. Flat floes of sea ice with fresh snow on top, areas of open water that are beginning to refreeze and neighboring smaller icebergs are visible.
The mission of Operation IceBridge is to collect data on changing polar land and sea ice and maintain continuity of measurements between NASA’s ICESat missions. The original ICESat mission launched in 2003 and ended in 2009, and its successor, ICESat-2, is scheduled for launch in September 2018. Operation IceBridge began in 2009 and is currently funded until 2020.
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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A section of old Oregon Highway 30 which until the late '50's was the east-west route through the Columbia River Gorge. Since then, I-84 has became the primary interstate going between Western Oregon and Utah.
A section of Highway 30 is still maintained and is now referred to as the Historic Columbia River Highway, or as the locals call it: the "old Scenic Highway".
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Cambrian Bowl located at 14900 Camden Ave. in San Jose,CA. This bowling alley opened in 1958 and is still doing quite well to this day as it is well maintained and operated. The font on the exterior of this bowling alley is just amazing and quite a treat to see. Its one of those details that makes this place special and if it was removed this would just be your run of the mill bowling alley.
A well maintained but no longer used barn and stable near West Salem, Wisconsin.
Minolta SR-1 w/55mm f/2 Rokkor-PF, Kentmere 400@400, Caffenol C-L 70min. stand.
Used the sunny 16 rule to adjust exposure on this roll. All of the photos were overexposed by about 1 stop. I like this camera and lens combo, but will bring a light meter with me on my next shoot.