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Though we found a number of colorful birds during our recent travels along the Texas coast, we also encountered our share of brown feathered feathered friends. Starting with yesterday's post of the clapper rail I'll present a few of these brunette birdies.
From the Audubon Field Guide: "From eastern Mexico to northern Colombia, this plain gray-brown thrush is very common in lowland habitats, including parks and gardens. In recent years it has become a regular visitor to southernmost Texas, especially in winter, and it has even nested there a number of times. It was formerly called Clay-colored Robin."
We saw a few of these thrushes during a previous visit to the Rio Grande Valley a few years ago but I didn't manage any decent shots. So I'm fairly pleased to get this one.
1948 Tucker
Some might say that Preston Tucker was a genius, and whether that's true, or not, is certainly debatable. But, I think we all could agree that he was a visionary with his car, and it's design. Advanced concepts that would take years and even decades for other car manufacturers to follow suit with, if at all. Air cooled rear engines, front wheel drive, electric assist manual transmission shifter, safety features largely unheard of in production cars at the time. Features like pop out windshield in the event of an accident, disc brakes, seat belts, padded dash, front right passenger safety zone, a third headlight that moved as the car turned, surely, I missed some. Some of these already had found a home in his first effort, the '48, and if he had remained in business his later models would have included those items not yet on the 48. The car I will show over the next series of shots was present at the annual Lime Rock Labor Day event in '24. It happens to be the 44th one produced out of the 51 he made before he, and his company got into trouble. The Big 3 had to be threatened by Preston's dream car, and one has to wonder what role they had played in Tucker's eventual demise? What made seeing this car special at the show was a chance to meet and talk with Tucker's great grandsons, twins I believe, and they had brought number 44 to the show.
Number 105 of my 365 photo challenge - A high speed image with a shallow depth of field of a shotgun cartridge being ejecting from the gun after firing.
5x7 watercolor. Ok, I loved Liz's cow paintings so much I wanted to try to paint something fun like hers. It's not beautiful and loose like hers but I had fun.
I quite liked the symmetry with the lamps and pot plants, the rest is rather asymmetrical. :-)
Electric wire fences are a common feature in Windhoek, most walls are "crowned" with them.
Happy Wall Wednesday and a Happy 2019!
For Wednesday Walls
Neukirchen bei Altmünster, Oberösterreich
Pinhole Zero 612 F Multiformat, Fuji Acros, Rodinal 1+50
Print auf Fomatone 132 mit mit Moersch ECO 4812
gebleicht mit Hexacyanoferrat/Kaliumbromid 1+49, 30 sec
Vario Schwefeltoner MT 3 (50+50+900)
A delightful Cotswold cottage in the village of Taynton, West Oxfordshire
For another image from this village please see
www.flickr.com/photos/rosbornking/53196058278/in/photostr...
In 2023 a number of my pictures were accidentally deleted from Flickr, and I have searched my archives in an attempt to replace the best of them. This is one.
Wastwater is situated in the Wasdale Valley on the western side of the Lake District. This dramatic lake is three miles long, half a mile wide and 260 feet deep. It is the deepest of all of England’s lakes as well as being perhaps the most awe-inspiring. It is surrounded by mountains including Red Pike, Kirk Fell, Great Gable and Scafell Pike, which at 3,209 feet above sea level is the highest in England.
Source: www.visitcumbria.com/wc/wastwater/.
With the south wall gone, and multiple holes in the roof, this wonderful old barn's days are numbered.
Number 3 in my Round theme for this week. Inner dome pattern Taj Mahal, Agra, India taken in 2002 on old film camera a scanned into computer.
Brescia, Lombarida, Italia
For more doors and windows see my album Doors & Windows
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