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One of the many natural wonders found at Yellowstone's Mammoth Hot Springs. Easy to miss this unless one takes the Upper Terrace Drive.
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Sun setting behind a gnarly old tree on the cliffline at Blue Mounds State Park in Luverne, Minnesota.
Taken from Badlands National Park in South Dakota last June...
"Why are some of the badlands mounds yellow?
As the water level dropped and the sea floor became land, the Pierre Shale (the bottommost rock layer of the Badlands) crumbled into soil and created the Yellow Mounds Formation, so called because of its mustard-like color."
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The rare dwarf beech (also called hanging beech) on a Celtic burial mound in the morning around 6 in the golden light.
Die seltene Süntelbuche (auch Hängebuche genannt) auf einem keltischen Hügelgrab morgens gegen 6 im goldenen Licht.
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Long before Sweden was a nation and a Christian country, great men reigned from the area today known as Old Uppsala (Gamla Uppsala) which was both a political and religious centre. And here you can find the Royal mounds (Kungshögarna or just Gamla Uppsala högar, Old Uppsala mounds). Those buried here, in the 5th and 6th centuries, are not known. Folklore told that it was the gods Thor, Oden and Frey, and later historians guessed it was the kings of Swedes, Aun, Adil and Egil. But the truth is we just don't know.
I find Magpies very wary, probably due to persecution. Showing its glossy blue and green feathers as it hopped jauntily on this grass mound, this one soon took off.
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This large 25 foot high geothermal wonder is one of my favorites at Mammoth Hot Springs. Easy to see how it got it's name. It can be found on the Upper Terrace Drive.
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children go up with sledges, the sun appears briefly behind frosty trees.../ Tumbas vikingas, unos chicos suben con sus trineos, de a momentos asoma un sol lejano tras los árboles escarchados…/ Kungahögar i Gamla Uppsala, några barn går upp för att åka pulka, stundvis tittar solen fram bakom frostiga träd...
A rare snowstorm covered Joshua Tree National Park. It was a beautiful sight to see the Joshua Trees draped in snow and icicles.
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Topaz Studio Impressions.
Tsukiyama (築山) or the artificial mound and Ike (池) or the pond are the two basic elements of Daimyou gardens.
Most of the Daimyou gardens install pathways to appreciate the changing landscape while walking. This style of Japanese gardens is called Chisen-kaiyuushiki (池泉回遊式) or Stroll-around-the-pond style.
This is a stone-paved pathway down to the pond from the Tsukiyama in Kourakuen.
Southern giraffe (Giraffa giraffa), aka two-horned giraffe,] is a species of giraffe native to Southern Africa. It is one of the four species of giraffe recognized by the International union for the Conservaton of Nature (IUCN).
Okavanga Delta, Botswana.
Conservation status: vulnerable
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Yellowstone's Mammoth Hot Spring's Orange Spring Mound is a fascinating colorful natural wonder. Dimensions are ~ 48'x25'x25' so it is good sized. Colors were nice and rich on this rainy afternoon. It is quite tall and impressive.
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IR shot of a Neolithic burial mound overlooking the village of Avebury in South West England. Avebury itself is a Neolithic henge monument in the South West of England containing three stone circles likley to have been over 3000 years BC. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans.
Constructed over several hundred years in the third millennium BC, during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, the monument comprises a large henge (a bank and a ditch) with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument.
The Yellow Mounds in Badlands National Park are what geologists call a paleosol. Paleosols are ancient, fossilized soils preserved in the rock record, and they often appear as brightly colored layers like the Yellow Mounds, which gets its mustardy color from a mineral called Goethite.
As the sun sets on a pleasant January evening, the Chicago-bound Southwest Chief races across the desert at Wagon Mound, New Mexico.
The ruins of Caisteal Maol overlook the harbour at Kyleakin at the western end of Loch Alsh. The harbour was once busy with ferries from Kyle of Lochalsh on the mainland but the opening of the Skye Bridge in 1995 changed things dramatically and the now by-passed village is a quieter place altogether, except when the tour buses use it as a stop-off point! It's definitely worth a look since the views across to the mainland are pretty special.
On a day they moved up the call time to cover additional work, Union Pacific’s LJP45 local departed Helper in predawn darkness on October 8, 2004. As the train switched at Mounds, Rio Grande Tunnel Motor No. 5371 casts a stark silhouette against the eastern sky just moments after the sun cracks over the Book Cliffs.
Amtrak No. 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, curves through the desert on Union Pacific’s Green River Subdivision main line between Wash and Mounds, Utah, on the morning of July 26, 2002.
I remember the name for this particular part of The Badlands. Well-named and memorable.
These strangely colored mounds are the result of an ancient sea draining away and the chemicals from decaying plants turning the soil yellow.
This is the last of this Badlands set. More later. Thanks for tagging along.
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After meeting a northbound at BD Junction, 31N rolls south through the TWC portion of the Brooklyn District, seen here at Blue Mound. A UP leader spruces up the scene.
Low to the ground, the blooms are about 19mm.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Robert Frost
After Photographing the Milky Way the previous night, I forced myself to get out for the sunrise. I was so happy I did, as the colors of the sky were spectacular.
a small dry creek bed cuts through a section of the park known as Yellow Mounds, a group of hills known for their array of colors. Rolling mounds of reds, yellows and browns mixed with the occasional green vegetation makes this place especially photogenic.
Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Nos. 5390, 5377 and 5401 power Union Pacific’s westbound LJP45 dirt train just east of Mounds, Utah, on the Sunnyside Branch on May 22, 2002.
While photographing the sunrise to the east in the Yellow Mounds of the Badlands, I could absolutely sense something was going on in the sky to the west. Sure enough, I turned around and scampered for a composition I liked. The sky was almost the same color as the pink/purple lines of the upper strata in the mounds.
An early morning view over the distant Windermere from above Nanny Brow in the Lake District.
I loved how the early morning light hit these rocks with the hazy background providing a hint of the location and the prospect of a day ahead.
The first stop on a Lake District foray with Flickr pal John Bleakley.
A truely WONDERFUL morning of light and contrast (briefly, but intense) as N519DN as Delta 41 slows and vacates 34L Sydney Airport from Los Angeles
Swinging through the curves coming into Mounds, Utah, is Union Pacific’s LJP45 local nearing the approach signal for the junction with the main line a trip back Helper on February 5, 2004. Rio Grande SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor No. 5390 leads the way, with Engineer Mel Baughman at the throttle and Steve McFarland in the conductor’s seat.
With the famous "Wagon Mound" landmark looming in the distance, Amtrak Train No. 4 whizzes by the intermediate semaphores between E Wagon Mound and W Levy, New Mexico, on June 30, 2024. Units 207, 164 and 14 power the 8-car train–––photo by Joe McMillan, 5:17 p.m.
Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5390, 5349, and 5371 pull the “Dirt Train” up the Sunnyside Sub along Grassy Trail Creek the morning of Oct. 16, 2004. The Helper-based LJP45 became the last bastion of pure D&RGW tunnel motors on the Union Pacific Railroad.
After getting over the cancellation of the Manor working the 08.30 goods out of Keighley, and this after a 04.30 start from home and standing in some of the best light of the year, the sight of the visiting two locomotives working up from Damens to Oakworth at least made up for the early disappointment. Looking and sounding superb ex GWR Manor Class 4-6-0 No 7822 Foxcote Manor pilots ex SR Rebuilt Battle of Britain Class 4-6-2 No 34053 Sir Keith Park on the quickly arranged and delayed 09.15 service to Oxenhope. Despite the loss of the early run with the Manor and some late running thereafter full marks must go to all those at the KWVR for another most enjoyable autumn gala..many thanks. It was good to meet up with so many friends at 'the mound' and a first meeting at last with John Crawshaw.
Sunday 9th October 2016 Copyright Simon Lathlane.