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Myriads of Common Spotted-orchids (Dactylorhiza fuchsia) were blooming in a secluded grassland landscape dotted with Pyramidal orchids. I liked the way these three specimens stood together in the shade. Bathampton Down. BANES, England UK
“And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance—they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.” – Kathleen Raine
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"It costs less at Sterchi's"
STERCHI BROS. STORES
to furnish your home.
From VanishingGeorgia.com.
This landmark, visible on Georgia Highway 22 between Gray and Haddock, is an amazing survivor from a time when the roofs of rural barns were used to advertise myriad businesses and attractions. The “See Rock City” barns have become icons, but many other businesses were promoted in this way. This example advertises Knoxville-based Sterchi* Brothers Furniture Company [It Costs Less at Sterchi’s], which was the largest furniture store chain in the nation in the early 20th century, with over 650 stores in the Southeast. There are only a few of these Sterchi barns documented, to my knowledge, and most are in Tennessee. It is believed that most are at least 80 years old.
Title: Myriad of colours
Year: 2014
Location: Australia, Lincoln national Park
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Semence du salsifis des prés (Pragopognon pratensis)
Contre plongée vers le ciel gris (presqu'un High key)
Venice Italy is pure magic. This is Venice and magic is what I tell everyone who asks me for travel advice.
Consider nearly 400 ancient bridges to cross, tall campaniles defining the city's skyline, stone walkways, 150 canals, 139 churches, a myriad of fascinating museums, St Mark's Square and Italian gelato that will satisfy your tastebuds as you meander your way through the timeless islands.
There are no cars in Venice. The roads are indeed the city's canals and if you want to be transported, your only choices are the iconic gondolas, private water taxis and public waterbus which is the vaporetto. If you're lucky, Venice will experience a mild Acqua Alta while you're in St. Mark's Square as there's nothing quite like it.
You might feel as if you're on a movie set as Venice doesn't seem real at first tho' the city is indeed a living breathing real place where people live and work. Be respectful as tensions toward tourists run a bit high these days.
Be prepared to think you're lost but also be prepared to throw away your map as a map will only frustrate you. Meander your way through the narrow alleys and simply be pleasantly surprised when you reach one of the public squares where you're sure to find shops and cafes.
Venice is splendid to discover. Take your time and take it all in. The city is pure sensory overload.
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I had never seen A Santa Cruz Water Lily plant until I saw this one at the Myriad Botanical Gardens in Oklahoma City while on vacation a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, there were no blooms at the time the photo was taken but the leaves, also know as pads were strikingly beautiful. This tropical species is native to South America. HSoS!
(Theme for Smile on Saturday Group: A Single Leaf)
This is an artwork installation reflecting datasets by Anna Ridler. It's made up of 10,000 Polaroid photographs of tulips taken by the artist throughout the tulip season, with each one hand-labelled.
Each tulip is different. This photo shows 425 of them. A winner of the Beazley Designs of the Year Award 2019, exhibited at the Design Museum, London.
These images became an AI training data set - the information given to an algorithm to learn and recognise. it shows the human aspect behind machine learning, BUT it suggests that AI is benign and harmless, which is far from the case. AI IS EVIL - but that doesn't negate the beauty of this image in my eyes or the original artistic purpose of the installation.
The Remarkable Rocks are remarkable for their shapes and the enormity of their size, as shown by the man walking on one of the rocks. The golden orange lichen covering some of the rocks and the myriad different shapes had me excited looking for angles for my photos. A wonderful place to visit.
This picture, which I took on one of my trips to Vietnam, also fits into the series "Window in House Wall". Ho Chi Minh City - the former Saigon - offers a myriad of good such photo motifs. I love going on a photo tour in Ho Chi Minh City.
I am here posting. But I am hearing the H-hour is 6:00pm!! OK, guys, at your 6:00pm sharp post a shot ;))
Iris, besides being a lovely flower that can be found in myriad shapes and hues, was the Goddess of the Rainbow.
SOOC!!
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Hollywood Hills, CA
09-04-2017
Processed 09-15-20.
This photo was taken three years ago from the grounds of the Griffith Park Observatory on my favorite kinds of days, when there are myriad fluffy clouds in the bright blue sky.
I live near the ocean, and I'm physically about 30 miles away from the nearest fires, but the skies have been oppressive and dark, bordering on apocalyptic yellow and orange, not bright blue, and raining ash at times.
I'm praying that the fires will pass, and sooner than later. The country has burned enough. Hopefully these blue skies and wondrous clouds will return above California and the West.
Palm flowers attract a myriad of bees. Their buzzing sound attracted my attention to this particular Palm tree.
Another take on an awesome stormy sky over Mono Lake from a few weeks ago. It was such a treat to watch this thunderstorm gradually gain strength on the horizon.
Niagara Yard's afternoon industry road runner L035 spots one loaded TBOX at 84 Lumber's Tonawanda, NY location at last light following heavy rainfalls which left behind a small gift in the gauge.
Prior to 2022, daylight shots here were hard to come by, with steel coil customer DKP almost always being the first stop for this job on the southbound journey. DKP was located about a mile south of 84 Lumber, however on track two rather than off of track one like all the other customers L035 caters to. With the closure of Kenmore Yard's office in late 2020, this job's former iteration Y234 was moved to Niagara Falls as its base, merging with a job already based out of Niagara at the time Y203. DKP was one of the most consistently worked customers on the Branch, almost always on the three days a week it was allotted. With 84 Lumber more of as-needed stop, DKP took precedence since the remainder of the evening's work is otherwise off of track one. On days when the crew had both to work, they would do DKP first thing, spin the train at Blackrock and head back north on track one (barring a necessary shove move into the Kam Siding at CP 8), complete their northbound track one work, lock in on the Lockport Industrial Runner north of 84, run around at the end of the industrial, open back up onto track one at QDN 14.1, then work 84 Lumber as their last customer stop on the second trip south to spin again, before returning north to Niagara. In this order of operations, 84 was virtually always left in the dark. In March of 2022 CSX made sweeping symbol changes across its system, converting Y203 to L035. In summer of that year, DKP succumbed to supply chain shortages and took a pause on rail service for a brief time, returning for a few months before finally giving it up for good. Ever since, 84 Lumber is now always the first customer L035 can work going south, with no work off of track two required any longer. The only things left to work on track two are the myriad of customers jutting off of Kenmore Yard (or what's left of it), covered by first shift Niagara job Y136 these days. Both that job and L035 share the same PTC power five days a week, unless Y136 is late to return after L035 goes on duty. But that condition is only fulfilled if there are two PTC units at Niagara, which up until this year has not been a regular thing since the symbol changes in 2022. A brief history of operations for ya.
Only once in April 2021 did I ever hear of DKP skipping a day of rail service, which allowed for my first opportunity to shoot 84 Lumber, and ultimately failed as I didn't find the right path back to the tracks in time. The closest access points to the spur are either walking south straight down the right of way from the nearest road crossing, or my preferred and much more discreet method, climbing down a small embankment behind the storage unit lot directly next to 84, emerging right onto the switchback siding into the customer. On that particular occasion I instead elected to drive right into 84's lot and walk the tracks next to the building, which was met with a disgruntled employee informing me they were locking up at that moment. I was not afforded another chance for over a year till May 9th, 2022 as part of a full sunrise to sunset unforgettable day of railfanning. This was a special circumstance which saw both 84 and DKP worked back to back. Due to repaving projects for the major road crossings on the Lockport Industrial in North Tonawanda, the customers on the industrial would not be getting served that day, leaving L035 with only three customer stops all within three miles. Being up at Niagara at the time of departure, I spotted the loaded centerbeam they had with them from afar and my face lit right up when they told dispatch their first stop would be 84. Following their stop there, they would go down to CP 9 and use the handthrow crossover switches to switch to track two, then shove back north a mile to DKP. Their last stop that day was Aurubis on the Kam Siding at CP 8 after turning the train. With all three customers switched well before sunset, it was an early trip back to Niagara for the quit. That was 2022 though. The shot above is 2025. The only other thing to note is that box cars have separate designated placement spots than centerbeams for unloading. The engine doesn't normally get this deep into the spur, as half the time they work here with other cars on the head end, sticking out a bit on the curve. It certainly made for a unique angle, and one I haven't seen again this year, nor ever before that evening. The puddle reflection perfectly still between the rails was just a little bonus. I swear I never start off these posts thinking I have that much to say, but the details naturally flow forth.
Myriad Hotel, at Parque das Nações (Nations Park), east Lisbon.
Hotel Myriad, Parque das Nações, Lisboa.
Europe, Portugal, Lisboa, Parque das Naçoes, Torre Vasco da Gama, Myriad (cut from T, slightly cut from all sides).
The Torre Vasco da Gama transformed the skyline of Lisbon two times. The first time thru is creation in 1997 and the second time in 2012 when it was turned in to a hotel (Myriad) and a massive and rather unappealing hotel block was added to it.
It’s still one of the tallest building in Lisbon and was originally designed by Skidmore Owings and Merrill architects for the 1998 Expo. The main structure of the original tower is a 145 -meter concrete mast (about 40 stories) and a curved metal support structure. The profile of the whole structure resembles the sail of a ship. This maritime morphology is also to be seen in other Lisbon building and monuments, like the Torre São Gabriel .
Before its hotel days, the tower used to host a panoramic restaurant and a terrace. Access to it is via two glass-sided elevators that face the Tagus River with room for twenty-five passengers each. At the base of the tower was the three storey former EU pavilion with extensive exhibition space, jutting 20 metres into the Tejo. This pavilion has alas been demolished in 2012 and replaced by the 22 story unappealing hotel block.
The tower and the Parque das Naçoes were created for the 1998 World Expo. It transformed a largely abandoned petrochemical industry complex (from Galp) into a new city quarter and park. It’s situated at a privileged location on the Tejo (Tagus).
Shown here is an element of the new part of the tower - the trussed metal cover of the fire escape stair case of the new hotel block .
This is number 1033 of Minimalism/Explicit graphism and 30 of Parque das Naçoes
Blue Dasher, Pachydiplax longipennis.
You've seen better on Flickr, no doubt, but this is my best result for flying dragonflies so far, I think. Handheld, spot autofocus. I keep intending to just set up a tripod and just take a few hundred shots with a fast shutter, narrow aperture, and manual focus. May have to wait for the return of myriads next year.