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It looks like a mop head growing off the top of this rock. It is in fact a lichen known as Usnea inermis. A popular name for it is "old man's beard".
On a more dramatic note, it did make me think of those ugly creatures known as Morlocks in the 1960 sci-fi movie, The Time Machine.
1960 George Pal - "The Time Machine" (Morlocks excerpt)
Mid Michigan #180 trundles south through Holton with a pair of hoppers from the Co-Op in Fremont on a muggy summer afternoon. GP9s #179 and #180 were referred to as the "Mop Twins" by crews and fans alike, because the way their blue paint was weathering made them look like they were painted with a mop. Built for Cartier by GMD with factory low noses, #179 and #180 were usually seen doing the local work on the Michigan Shore (along with SW1200 #73), while their pair of GP38s handled the Cannonball to CSX in Holland. #180 would be repainted the following year into a nice red and white scheme reminiscent of the MS's Railtex era paint scheme. Unfortunately it would only run a few months in its new garb before its engine suffered freeze damage on a cold night and it was deemed too expensive to fix. It was cut up for scrap in 2009.
The line up to Fremont is mostly dormant these days, the Co-Op now being owned by a company that also owns a much newer elevator on Marquette Rail in White Cloud. Consequently, they moved all of their rail business over there, another blow to the Michigan Shore.
Lockdown has offered me the opportunity to remember why I love photography. It's been 8 years. I'm having to read the manual again!
The hogger on this Missouri Pacific local seems to approve of me being here. Different times for sure. We're in Benton, Illinois in July of 1974.
This is an Atlantic longfin squid "egg mop" washed up on the beach. Multiple squid contribute eggs to the same mop. Unfortunately, this one was washed ashore.
Part of my Saturday routine is to smash the house with the hoover then mop the floors to my Mrs satisfaction, 10/10 this morning so I earned a big kiss, well worth it ;-)))))))))
Used my LX100 connected via WiFi to my smart phone for this shot, great for these low down shots, got full control over all the settings & zoom, love it ;-)))
UP SD70ACe #1982, the Missouri Pacific commemorative locomotive, leads a 5,736 ft long QNPINP-01 down the KCT East-West Corridor outside of KCUS as it splits the searchlight signals and their replacements. 9/2/15.
Not quite twins but siblings from the same Mopac mother, GTW GP38-2's head east with cars picked up from Griffith Yard.
Photo by John Eagan
Final 3 from a wet walk around Brixton...
Old art by Artista and Irony on this wall. The art was recently cleaned up by the artists after some tagging, only to be tagged again...why did they bother? Maybe the guy with the mop can give it a wipe down...
After all was said and done, it took almost 3 years to contain the zombies and eliminate them. The scientists figured out how eliminate them at a biological level, while still not having any long term effects on those who hadn't been turned. A bad cold for us, death for the undead. With a 99 percent effectiveness, it was easy to eliminate any that weren't caught up in the chemical sweep. The only thing we had left to worry about were all the little rogue groups that popped up, fighting for supremacy over a broken land. They must have forgot about all the bunkers the government had. We still have a standing army made up of several hundred thousand troops, along with all those waiting with the fleets. Hell, we might even be done in time for elections to be held again next year