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Morning muster rounding up the Perrindale Ewe's and their lambs for drenching and docking of the lambs tails.
In full summer the rata trees flower in our part of the world. Our Christmas is beaches, BBQs and chilling out while July and August we might see snow.
My dad took this shot of CBQ 9917A leading train #11 out of Burlington, IA back in December 1967.
My dad was always more into riding and watching trains, but he did take some pictures. Years later he lamented the fact that he didn't have a better camera, but even if the scans aren't perfect, viewing them now brings out some great stories and memories from him. I'll have to dig through and share some more of the oldies from the 60s.
The mattress factory was still seeing boxcars here between Main Street and 3rd Street and the yard was always busy. There was a ton of business in Burlington back then to keep three tricks of switch engines occupied, along with an operator, yardmaster, and plenty of clerks. Third trick's job mostly to switch out cars on passenger trains, which was my grandfather's job as a switchman for many years.
My dad took this shot of the Nebraska Zephyr in his hometown while on leave from the Air Force. Even though he was stationed in Turkey for most of his tour in the Air Force in the late 60s, he usually made it home to Burlington for Christmas.
When I started shooting in the 90s, he was always nice enough to help with money to buy film and equipment for me when I started shooting slides. Thanks Dad!
Shot taken by Bob Madsen in December of 1967.
NZ Fur Seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) at Bushy Beach, Otago. Photo full zoom and crop, I didn't get that close!
Would have loved to have spent some more time around Queenstown, the ever changing scenery is just remarkable
Found this poor adult bird on my doorstep - uninjured but very thin and weak. The wildlife rescue team said that several had been brought in in the same condition - due to the drought we are having. They have no water, fish or normal diet at the moment. Unfortunately I was not able to capture its wonderful irridescent colour.
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