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There was a grand re-opening at Prospect Hill Tower the other day - it was a great event and I was thrilled to get up to the top and see the view! Also had a great time meeting neighbors, Somerville city employees, historical society members, and other photographers!
The prospect of a merchant navy charging up out of Weymouth celebrating 55 years since the end of southern steam seemed like a good excuse for a weekend in the south.
Reality was near heatstroke, a track circuit failure and a late departing tour. Thankfully not too late to loose the shot to the ever encroaching shadows as the evening drew in, but Clan Line eventually showed up hauling its train up the 1 in 50 to Dorchester with ease.
*support coach edited to maroon
The bright orange on CMQ's pair of Heritage I painted B23-7s pops out nicely from the dull colors of late winter as CMQ 211 twists into Prospect. This is the wide shot of my previous shot here, and shows most of the train this time, with eight empty slurry tanks, and six acid tanks. The Searsport Branch closely follows Route 1A here, as both round Mosquito Mountain along the edge of the Marsh River to the right.
This was the home of Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman. 31st January 1942 to 19th February 1994.
He was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.
On 22nd December 1986 he was diagnosed as HIV positive. His illness prompted him to move to Prospect Cottage. Here he created his famous garden using the plants that naturally grew at Dungeness.
In 1994 he died of an AIDS related illness in London aged just 52.
There is a poem on the side of the cottage which is the first stanza and the last five lines of the last stanza of John Donne's poem The Rising Sun.
THE SUN RISING.
by John Donne
BUSY old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
In that the world's contracted thus;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.
The Keystone Driller
This steam powered, portable drilling machine was used in the Chilkat Valley outside of Haines Alaska, to prospect for gold in the early 1900’s.
It was developed and patented by Robert M. Downie in 1892, and manufactured by the Keystone Driller Company in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
It had an 11 horsepower steam engine, and weighed in at 13, 000 pounds. It was rated at a 500 foot depth. It was a magnificent machine for those that sought gold back in the good old days. Wish I could have seen it in action.
If you visit Haines this summer, be sure to roam around all of the side streets. There are treasures to be found at every turn in the road.
YT71 GHD is an irizar i6 new to Prospect, Lye in October 2021.
It carries a hybrid megabus.com livery and is seen here at London Victoria heading for the departure area in Victoria Coach Station to operate megabus service M22 to Nottingham.
Prospect is a Canadian coastal community on the Chebucto Peninsula in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality.
It borders the Atlantic Ocean approximately 23 kilometers southwest of Halifax off the Prospect Bay Road.
Textures by pareeerica:
Grunge Chocolate:
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Hint of Jade Lace:
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Explored 29.03.09 - #107