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Our only male cat, Niles (aka Dr. Purrmeister) when he was a kitteh, with his mom Delores (aka Dill Pickle)
“The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.”
Charles Caleb Colton
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Niles was established in the 1850s and was a junction point of the Southern Pacific Railroad lines from Oakland to San Jose and southern coastal points. Vallejo’s Mill was the first flourishing flour mill constructed and completed in this country. It was run by water conducted in a long flume from Alameda Creek. Niles at one time was noted for the location of the California Nursery, the largest nursery in California, with the largest rose plantation in the state.
“The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Kruger National Park.
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I think that, of all the times I have shot this hill, this is the first time I have tried it in B&W. I like it.
Nijlgans - Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus).
Jewel of the Nile? Hardly
Check out those wacky feet. (-;
The Blue Nile: youtu.be/qTUKxyeunR0
"Close your eyes
Come with me
Only love is alive
Headlights on the parade
Light up the way
I love you
Only love will survive
The city wins while you and I
Can't find a way"
A ride with local fishermen in their boats sharing the traditional experience and skills of these men who live in harmony with the Nile. Shot from Besaw island some 100km north of Aswan.
Doug Harrop Photography • April 6, 1976
Back in 1912, the Western Pacific constructed Niles Tower, an interlocking plant where the WP crossed the Southern Pacific Railroad in Niles, California. The tower stood in relative obscurity until railfans and a historians realized the tower's time was about up, and standard technology of 1912 was ancient technology by 1980.
Niles Tower finally succumbed to SP's implementation of CTC and DTC in early 1986, and the building itself was sadly destroyed in two successive fires that same year. Although WP operators manned the tower (as part of the agreement allowing WP to cross SP tracks), most of their work involved SP trains: cutting orders and routing trains around SP's two wye tracks. WP work was largely confined to lighting signals, and routing their own trains over the SP diamond.
Doug Harrop lived in San Francisco and made numerous trips to Altamont to capture Western Pacific's "Fab Four" quartet of F7s in freight service on the San Jose Turn in the mid- to late 1970s. He captured this stunning view as WP 921 approaches the SP diamonds at Niles Tower on April 6, 1976.
Today's theme: riverfront, Chobe National Park, Botswana. I took an afternoon cruise on the Chobe River where it was possible to see animals on the river bank. Chobe National Park is Botswana's first national park, and also the most biologically diverse. Located in the north of the country, it is Botswana's third largest park after Central Kalahari Game Reserve and Gemsbok National Park.
The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, occurring mostly in the eastern, southern, and central regions of the continent.
Aswan,
way down south on the Nile
hot as hell
but heavenly beautiful....
The cataracts of the Nile are shallow lengths (or white water rapids) of the Nile River, between Aswan and Khartoum, where the surface of the water is broken by many small boulders and stones protruding out of the river bed, as well as many rocky islets. In some places, these stretches are punctuated by whitewater and are perhaps well characterized as rapids, while at others the water flow is smoother, but still shallow.
ASWAN
Photography’s new conscience
The statue is located in the little square named Piazzetta Nilo. During the Roman Empire in that area of Naples lived many Egyptians. They decided to erect a statue of the Nile god. The statue was lost with the collapse of the Roman Empire. It was recovered many centuries later headless. In 1647 it was placed in the present location with a new head. In the 1950s some parts of the statue were stolen including the little Sphinx. In 2013 a special branch of the Carabinieri found the little Spinx in Austria and after a restoration it has been set again in its original place.