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Saturday, 16 June 2018: The New England Southern Railroad (NEGS) crew heads Northbound through Caboose Village with SW1500 2555 and two loads of clay slurry. Half way through 2018 and this was only the third train of the year for this vetenable New Hampshire Shortline. Sadly this was not an uncommon occurrence as the railroad would only handle about 12 revenue cars a year for their sole customer 3M corporation.
However, things would soon be turning around for the railroad and this train would be a hint of things to come as they would spend their morning spiking ties on the South End of the branch. Although a common occurrence on most railroads NEGS only made spiking runs a couple times a year as they would use the locomotive as a giant air compressor for their home made spiker. NEGS would make many runs this year as they stuffed in a few new ties and buttoned up the line for a 6,000 foot military train that would ply the rails in just under a month. The train would be loaded at the railroad’s Canterbury Yard by the New Hampshire National Guard for a training exercise in Grayling Michigan.
After the spiking at MP C3 was done they would continue South to Pan Am Railways Concord Industrial Track in Concord where they would pick up their two loads seen here. They then would head North 23 miles on the White Mountain Branch to the Lochmere Runaround in Tilton where they would put the locomotive on the other end of the train. After the runaround was complete they would head back South to 3M to spot the loads and pull the empties before running South again to Canterbury Yard to tie down for the day. The crew would finish their trip to interchange the empties the next day along with trimming brush along the line for better visibility of where their military train would spend the night.
New England Southern Railroad, CA-X
Northfield, New Hampshire
Five Star Bus Company Inc.
Bus Number: 1001
Coachbuilder: Trans-Oriental Motor Builders, Inc.
Body Model: Golden Dragon XML6126 "Superstar" (replica)
Chassis: MAN R39 18.350 HOCL
Classification: Air-Conditioned Provincial Operation Bus
Engine: MAN D2066LOH12
Suspension: Air-Suspension
Seating Configuration: 2x2 Seats
Capacity: 49 Passengers
Shot Location: Balintawak
Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum is an open-air museum located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, County Durham, England. The museum's guiding principle is to preserve an example of everyday life in urban and rural North East England at the climax of industrialisation in the early 20th century.
Much of the restoration and interpretation is specific to the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, together with portions of countryside under the influence of industrial revolution in 1825. On its 350 acres estate it utilises a mixture of translocated, original and replica buildings; a huge collection of artifacts, working vehicles and equipment; as well as livestock and costumed interpreters.
The museum has received a number of awards since it opened its present site to visitors in 1972 and has been influential on other "living museums". It is a significant educational resource, and helps to preserve some traditional north-country and rare livestock breeds.
Number 8 for 117 Pictures in 2017 : In or From the Jewellery Box.
Sterling Silver 6 Photo Locket Necklace, Taxco Mexico
I used to wear this a lot, but my lifestyle has changed and it would get caught up in the shrubs and brambles!
It is designed to hold little photos.
See another angle which explains the mechanism here www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/?image_id=2729174
GRG26/5/4 Photographic Portraits of South Australian Soldiers, Sailors and Nurses who took part in World War One
Number 1484 HANCOCK, Wilfred Inman
Camel Corps
Place of birth: Bute
Residence: Bute
SRSA ref: GRG26/5/4/1484
Is it 37422 or 37266 or are you allowed to underline two locos in your spotting book. Seen on the RHTT cleaning Selby Swing Bridge.Front number is 422 whilst the number on the side is 266 !
Number 34 for 116 Pictures in 2016.
What a great use for swarf!
An import in Homesense, retailing at about £25.
This is Day 2 of my "76 Days of Summer" Project.
The big number 2. The day that means, it wasn't just one photo I took the day before, this is the start of a continuation. The ability to say I will do something, and for once in my life follow through with it.
So how did I spend, day number 2?
I finished watching all of "Suits" that Netflix has to offer, and started watching "Orange is the New Black", which just doesn't seem to fill the void.
Metra's "newest" and highest-numbered F40, number 217, (ex-VRE and Amtrak) teams up with their "newest" and highest-numbered F59: freshly-rebuilt number 99. The pair accelerates up the grade at Noble Street, Chicago, on a Milwaukee District run of some sort.
Same try done with my previous pic’ (Ant’walk). The ring flash is "writing" a kind of 8 (like the number of a runner of a marathon).
Don’t hesitate to zoom on this fly’s eyes. I was impressed of all the captured details (it’s a single capture photography).
He utilizado la tecnica "zooming" (nada de photoshop) mola bastante el resultado pero la verdad es que me ha costado un hue&%**$~!!!!!!!!
......como echo de menos Flickr!!! Saludos para todos.
Beautiful glass tiles outside a house being renovated in the fascinating town of Santa Margherita. Have a look at this in full size to appreciate the detail.
Digital Accession Number: 2003:1171:0004
Maker: Art Photo & View Co.
Title: Cat watching bird in cage
Date: ca. 1880
Medium: albumen print
Dimensions: Image: 14.4 x 9.8 cm , Mount: 16.3 x 10.7 cm
George Eastman House Collection
About the Collection · Blog · Reproductions & Image Licensing
© Jim Gilbert 2014 all rights reserved
Identified by fluke pattern. First recorded in 1980, 510 is a female most often seen in nearby Frederick Sound.
Stephens Passage, outside of Holkham Bay, AK
REFORD GARDENS | LES JARDINS DE METIS
Visit: www.refordgardens.com
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From the plaque:
ANAMORPHOSES «LA PROMENADE» & «REFLETS», 2014
"As I capture the subject in its brief moment, the instant has vanished in a flash and created an infinite number of transformations".
Danièle Rataboule, Landscape Architect, Urban Planner and Teacher at University of Montreal.
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Beautiful flowers at Reford Gardens.
Visit : www.refordgardens.com/
From Wikipedia:
Elsie Stephen Meighen - born January 22, 1872, Perth, Ontario - and Robert Wilson Reford - born in 1867, Montreal - got married on June 12, 1894.
Elsie Reford was a pioneer of Canadian horticulture, creating one of the largest private gardens in Canada on her estate, Estevan Lodge in eastern Québec. Located in Grand-Métis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, her gardens have been open to the public since 1962 and operate under the name Les Jardins de Métis and Reford Gardens.
Born January 22, 1872 at Perth, Ontario, Elsie Reford was the eldest of three children born to Robert Meighen and Elsie Stephen. Coming from modest backgrounds themselves, Elsie’s parents ensured that their children received a good education. After being educated in Montreal, she was sent to finishing school in Dresden and Paris, returning to Montreal fluent in both German and French, and ready to take her place in society.
She married Robert Wilson Reford on June 12, 1894. She gave birth to two sons, Bruce in 1895 and Eric in 1900. Robert and Elsie Reford were, by many accounts, an ideal couple. In 1902, they built a house on Drummond Street in Montreal. They both loved the outdoors and they spend several weeks a year in a log cabin they built at Lac Caribou, south of Rimouski. In the autumn they hunted for caribou, deer, and ducks. They returned in winter to ski and snowshoe. Elsie Reford also liked to ride. She had learned as a girl and spent many hours riding on the slopes of Mount Royal. And of course, there was salmon-fishing – a sport at which she excelled.
In her day, she was known for her civic, social, and political activism. She was engaged in philanthropic activities, particularly for the Montreal Maternity Hospital and she was also the moving force behind the creation of the Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal, the first women club in Canada. She believed it important that the women become involved in debates over the great issues of the day, « something beyond the local gossip of the hour ». Her acquaintance with Lord Grey, the Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, led to her involvement in organizing, in 1908, Québec City’s tercentennial celebrations. The event was one of many to which she devoted herself in building bridges with French-Canadian community.
During the First World War, she joined her two sons in England and did volunteer work at the War Office, translating documents from German into English. After the war, she was active in the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, and the National Association of Conservative Women.
In 1925 at the age of 53 years, Elsie Reford was operated for appendicitis and during her convalescence, her doctor counselled against fishing, fearing that she did not have the strength to return to the river.”Why not take up gardening?” he said, thinking this a more suitable pastime for a convalescent woman of a certain age. That is why she began laying out the gardens and supervising their construction. The gardens would take ten years to build, and would extend over more than twenty acres.
Elsie Reford had to overcome many difficulties in bringing her garden to life. First among them were the allergies that sometimes left her bedridden for days on end. The second obstacle was the property itself. Estevan was first and foremost a fishing lodge. The site was chosen because of its proximity to a salmon river and its dramatic views – not for the quality of the soil.
To counter-act nature’s deficiencies, she created soil for each of the plants she had selected, bringing peat and sand from nearby farms. This exchange was fortuitous to the local farmers, suffering through the Great Depression. Then, as now, the gardens provided much-needed work to an area with high unemployment. Elsie Reford’s genius as a gardener was born of the knowledge she developed of the needs of plants. Over the course of her long life, she became an expert plantsman. By the end of her life, Elsie Reford was able to counsel other gardeners, writing in the journals of the Royal Horticultural Society and the North American Lily Society. Elsie Reford was not a landscape architect and had no training of any kind as a garden designer. While she collected and appreciated art, she claimed no talents as an artist.
Elsie Stephen Reford died at her Drummond Street home on November 8, 1967 in her ninety-sixth year.
In 1995, the Reford Gardens ("Jardins de Métis") in Grand-Métis were designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as being an excellent Canadian example of the English-inspired garden.(Wikipedia)
Visit : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_Reford
LES JARDINS DE MÉTIS
Créés par Elsie Reford de 1926 à 1958, ces jardins témoignent de façon remarquable de l’art paysager à l’anglaise. Disposés dans un cadre naturel, un ensemble de jardins exhibent fleurs vivaces, arbres et arbustes. Le jardin des pommetiers, les rocailles et l’Allée royale évoquent l’œuvre de cette dame passionnée d’horticulture. Agrémenté d’un ruisseau et de sentiers sinueux, ce site jouit d’un microclimat favorable à la croissance d’espèces uniques au Canada. Les pavots bleus et les lis, privilégiés par Mme Reford, y fleurissent toujours et contribuent , avec d’autres plantes exotiques et indigènes, à l’harmonie de ces lieux.
Created by Elsie Reford between 1926 and 1958, these gardens are an inspired example of the English art of the garden. Woven into a natural setting, a series of gardens display perennials, trees and shrubs. A crab-apple orchard, a rock garden, and the Long Walk are also the legacy of this dedicated horticulturist. A microclimate favours the growth of species found nowhere else in Canada, while the stream and winding paths add to the charm. Elsie Reford’s beloved blue poppies and lilies still bloom and contribute, with other exotic and indigenous plants, to the harmony of the site.
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Gouvernement du Canada – Government of Canada
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Scene number three using the $4 table I painted yellow. Blogged about here: theshoppingsherpa.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/buzz-bar-yellow...
(Camera settings)
Camera: FinePix HS20EXR (FUJIFILM)
Focal Length: 57 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/420 sec
When I arrived in Rockport, Mass. this morning I knew I was going to sketch this scene. Little did I know that this was the ultimate artist's subject of the New England coast. This fishing shack was built in 1884 and dubbed Motif Number 1 by the painter Lester Hornby. I hope I did it justice.
3 is my favorite number!
Dont ask me why. But it is.
I was pretty inspirationless today but I was playing pool in our sunroom and decided to make a rainbow out of my favorite pool balls (solids...I hate stripes!) and take a DOF picture. It kinda sucks though.
Oh well. I liked the colors.
Keep the faves coming!
The title refers to the fact that this was taken on a flight from Cairns to Darwin heading west. We left the ground just after the sun had set but after a quick climb to nearly 30,000 feet, we caught the sun up again!
This was taken in 1988, in the good old days when you could ask the hostess nicely if you could pay a visit to the pilots in the cockpit. They even kindly allowed me to take a photo. Can you imagine being able to do that now? The plane is possibly a Boeing 737 / 300. It was an Ansett Airlines flight (now part of history as they ceased operation in 2001). I would imagine being 35 years on from this that the average cockpit would look very different as this was the time of real instruments, dials and switches rather than modern touchscreens.
I did post this many years ago, but it was a poor quality scan. This one has turned out much better.
Original colour slide was taken with a Pentax Zoom 70 using Kodachrome 100 slide film. Scanned with a Canon R10 fitted with a Canon RF35mm macro lens.
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Happy Birthday dear Georgie,
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Hurrah!
I've just started the tenth year of daily selfies - I must be barmy :)
Just what I like, an old shop front with some original signage. I did see some pics from 10+ years ago and it was some sort of retro clothing shop. They didn't mess around with the signage though.
E Haigh, Painter and Decorator.
Taken with my Fujifilm X-T30 II camera and a XF18-55mm lens.
Lincoln, England.