Until now, I had only seen the exoskeletons of Cicadas on some tree trunks. At the end of 2024, I discovered a Greengrocer Cicada (Cyclochila australasiae) and, more recently, this Floury Baker Cicada (Aleeta curvicosta), seen here on a Gaillardia bloom. Now, some of the Summer sounds around me have a name and an image :) /

Jusqu'a present, je ne connaissais des Cigales que les mues que je trouvais accrochees a certains troncs d'arbres. Fin 2024, j'ai decouvert celle que l'on appelle "Greengrocer" en Australie et, dernierement, cette petite nouvelle appelee "Floury Baker" Comme il en existe plus de 700 especes en Australie, il me reste du chemin a faire avant de les connaitre toutes :)

Now commonly known as Robin Hood's Bay.

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NS 233 heads west through Hammond Indiana on the NS Chicago District with the New York Central heritage unit in the lead.

Gran Turismo 6

London 2016

As you know by now, I love when artists use music to tell a story, weaving the music and the lyrics into a tale filled with emotion and colours. Don McLean is one of those Artists who masterfully achieve this. Vincent is an Ode to the dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890). He struggled with mental illness all through his life and died at his own hands at the age of just 37. During his life, he barely sold any of his paintings. Which makes the fact that these days they are worth millions kind of a cruel joke. Don McLean weaved numerous paintings of VanGogh into his Lyrics, which is another nice touch

Vincent - Don McLean

Starry, starry night

Paint your palette blue and gray

Look out on a summer's day

With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills

Sketch the trees and the daffodils

Catch the breeze and the winter chills

In colors on the snowy, linen land

Now, I understand what you tried to say to me

And how you suffered for your sanity

And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how

Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze

Swirling clouds in violet haze

Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Colors changing hue

Morning fields of amber grain

Weathered faces lined in pain

Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now, I understand, what you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how

Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you

But still your love was true

And when no hope was left inside

On that starry, starry night

You took your life as lovers often do

But I could have told you, Vincent

This world was never meant for one

As beautiful as you

Starry, starry night

Portraits hung in empty halls

Frameless heads on nameless walls

With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like the strangers that you've met

The ragged men in ragged clothes

The silver thorn of bloody rose

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now, I think I know what you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they're not listening still

Perhaps they never will

Going up seems easier for the cubs than coming down.

Not quite so snatched shot of an HST from Cranes Lock this week while having an evening walk

The bush to my right is the one obscuring a power car in the previous upload

Now on CSX, ex WM, RJ2 closes in on Smiths Siding.

and not hear the wind..

But see all wind-stirred.

Robert Frost

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Kent, CT, a wild hen turkey and her brood on a brief stroll away from the rest of the rafter.

This 19th century Moor is of two worlds - in one, he stands resolutely upon my grandmother's shelf, and in another, he is an earnest traveler, forever ready to board the next train, take the next flight, ride the next camel or walk the next path.

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Grey heron with fish, Bhigwan, Maharashtra (India). 17.2.2022

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Sunday 21st February 2021

On Friday, I had not long got into work when Phill rang to say that Kaiser was very distressed and had huge amounts of drool coming out of his mouth. When I got home he had run outside onto the lean to roof and there was lots of drool still coming out of his mouth. It took an age to coax him down but eventually I managed. I rang the vet and got an emergency appointment, but not until 11.00am. The drooling had subsided a little but he was still very distressed. The vet check him out and said that although his teeth were in good shape, he flinched when she touched one of them. She said that he might have banged it against something (perhaps Pixie thumped him!) Or it could have been he ate something that was mildly corrosive. He was given a painkilling injection and some Loxicom which he absolutely loves. He seems totally recovered now and we are keeping an eye on him for any changes. The vet advised to take him back in a week or two if nothing changes and they will check him out again. It gave us such a fright. I have had Kaiser from 6 weeks old. He is now 13 and has never been ill. Oh his weight is back up to 7 kilos *sigh*

Now that helper set is on the front end of the East Binghamton to Mechanicsville train as it prepares to head down the Lanesboro Connection to Jeff Junction.

Century Plant (Agave americana)

For my 100 Flowers Project - 2025

You may remember I posted a couple of images of this Century Plant in bud back in December. I noticed this morning that some of the clusters have flowered. So of course I had to include it in my 100 Project - it will be a long time before it flowers again.

Now I'm getting in the spirit!

Sitting in the living room, I heard a 'crash' then Kaiser came thundering into the living room as if the devil were on his tail. When I investigated I found the box in the middle of the room on its side. Not long before Kaiser had been sitting in it so, If I were to hazard a guess, I think that when he jumped out his huge backside got stuck and the box came with him. A few moments later, Pixie turned up and claimed it as hers whilst Kaiser gave me a 'see if I care' look, The box was meant for recycling but I think I will leave it where it is and see what happens next

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Don′t wanna wait 'til tomorrow

Why put it off another day?

One by one, little problems

Build up, and stand in our way, oh!

One step ahead, one step behind it

Now you gotta run to get even

Make future plans I′ll dream about yesterday, hey!

Come on turn, turn this thing around

(Right now)

Hey! It's your tomorrow

(Right now)

Come on, it's everything

(Right now)

Catch your magic moment

Do it right here and now

It means everything

Miss a beat, you lose the rhythm

And nothin′ falls into place, aah

Only missed by a fraction

Slipped a little off your pace, oh!

The more things you get, the more you want

Just trade in one for another

Workin′ so hard to make it easy

Whoa, got to turn, come on, turn this thing around

(Right now)

Hey! It's your tomorrow

(Right now)

Come on, it′s everything

(Right now)

Catch that magic moment

Do it right here and now

It means everything

It's enlightened me

Right now

What are you waitin′ for?

Ohh, yeah

Right now

(Right now)

Hey! It's your tomorrow

(Right now)

Come on, it′s everything

(Right now)

Catch that magic moment

And do it right

(Right now)

Ohh, right now

It's what's happening

Right here and now

Right now, it′s right now

Ohh

Tell me, what are you waitin′ for?

Turn this thing around

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Now is the time, she would say to herself at a certain moment, when without doing anything violent I can show the meaning of all this. And she would begin - how unmistakable that quickening is! - beckoning and summoning, and there would rise up in memory, half forgotten, perhaps quite trivial things in other chapters dropped by the way. And she would make their presence felt while some one sewed or smoked a pipe as naturally as possible, and one would feel, as she went on writing, as if one had gone to the top of the world and seen it laid out, very majestically, beneath.

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Dream

I was a little girl

Alone in my little world

Who dreamed of a little home for me

I played pretend between the trees

And fed my house guests bark and leaves

And laughed in my pretty bed of green

I had a dream

That I could fly from the highest swing

I had a dream

Long walks in the dark through woods grown behind the park

I asked God who I'm supposed to be

The stars smiled down on me

God answered in silent reverie

I said a prayer and fell asleep

I had a dream

That I could fly from the highest tree

I had a dream

Now I'm old and feeling gray

I don't know what's left to say about this life I'm willing to leave

I lived it full and I lived it well

There's many tales I lived to tell

I'm ready now, I'm ready now

I'm ready now to fly from the highest wing

I had a dream

I was a little girl

Alone in my little world

Who dreamed of a little home for me

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Bicycle park at Göttingen train station, Germany.

Abandoned asbestos factory

A shot from last year. Cant wait till the autumn, when the sun is setting across the Solway, once again.