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These rock fins I found two days after the previous photo, in a place four miles away. They are in a remote area of the Paria Plateau not likely visited by anyone. I have also found similar intact flakes eight miles away in another direction, and on West Clark Bench 8 miles in the opposite direction. The process that produced these covered a large area, even out to Valley of Fire, Nevada, 150 miles to the west.
Layers of Navajo sandstone, initially laid down horizontally, with alternating bands of hardness, were tilted up at an angle, causing them to erode in fantastic ways like this. The rock fins can stick out of the ground several feet in places (see previous photo).
Delicate and easily breakable, these fins would not last long if a busload of children came out here to play. Fortunately, the bad roads and hiking distances make heavy visitation unlikely. Some of the flakes may have been broken by cattle. If you ever explore out here, stay away and don't disturb them. Leave them for others to wonder at. I'm glad I had the opportunity to see these in their intact state.
On my YouTube channel, you can watch my "New Discoveries on the Paria Plateau" where I found these. Three episodes have been posted so far, and another is coming later this month.
Hubble's recent 28th anniversary observations also included some parallel observations which were not part of the photo release. I'm totally here for that.
In this image, reddish, orange light represents mostly gaseous emission of energized hydrogen atoms, and muted, blueish gray areas are largely reflected starlight. This combination of light results in an image quality I am very fond of, but I must confess it took me a very long time to understand it beyond oooh, pretty. Once one understands that parts of the clouds are emitting light, while other parts are simply reflecting light, the shapes and coloration begin to make more sense. They are not very different in some ways from water clouds seen on Earth, but our water clouds are most frequently seen reflecting the Sun's light, and not ever emitting their own light.
Interestingly, there are only two filters available to work with for the parallel observations. I wrongly guessed that the same filters used in the primary observations would end up being used in parallel. I don't know why.
The proposal for these data is here:
Optical and infrared imaging of the Lagoon Nebula (M8)
Orange: ACS/WFC F658N
Cyan: ACS/WFC F550M
North is merely 1.05° counter-clockwise from up.
Wonderful park near our B&B in Dublin, Ireland. Europeans long ago discovered one of the secrets to the good life: artfully created parks.
Texture thanks to rubyblossom.
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is that opportune...?
on her birthday...?
lying on the ground...?
what is she doing there...?
is it passion...?
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yesterday on tour with Rafaela and family
Our Daily Challenge - July 19, 2017 - "What are you waiting for?"
The boys lined up, awaiting their nightly flea combing - which is what I did as soon as I took this picture.
(sigh)
Stop on by Zachary and Henry's blog: bzdogs.com - The Secret Life of the Suburban Dog
Two worlds exist side by side...one that we can touch, the other beyond the limit of sensation. Most of us are oblivious to the existence of this other intangible world, which holds the truth of mystery.
A hot hazy late spring day finds the typical collection of loaded coal trains tied down in Norfolk Southern’s South Yard at about MP 243.2 just west of where the Altavista District ends and it becomes the Roanoke Terminal District. But that is just the modern names for this line that was historically the property of the Virginian Railway. The VGN was a small but might Class 1 that opened in 1909 and was financed by the fortune of Henry Huttleson Rogers of Fairhaven, Massachusetts who was one of the richest men in the world at the time as principal of Standard Oil.
I won’t go into to much history but in addition to oil and pipelines (he first conceived the idea of long pipelines for transporting oil and gas) he had his hand in railroading as a close associate of E.H. Harriman. Rogers sat on the board of many of the great railroads of that era but arguably the VGN would come to be his crowning achievement that he financed almost entirely by himself. The road grew to 600 miles and was an extremely well engineered route designed with one purpose, moving West Virginia coal to tidewater on Hampton Roads in direct competition with it’s larger and largely parallel neighbor the Norfolk and Western.
Profitable and progressive the VGN electrified a 134 mile stretch of its mainline across the mounts from Mullens, WV to Roanoke in 1925. The VGN’s half century of independence came to a close in 1959 when the N&W merged it and on June 30, 1962 the wires were de-energized. But over the ensuing decades much of the VGN mainline remained an important component of the N&W and successor NS in continuing the task for what it was built. And, here more than a half century after the pantographs were lowered for the last time some catenary poles continue to support wires that span the yard here as a reminder of that earlier era.
NS 8099 seen here beneath the concrete arch Jefferson Street overpass is a three year old GE ES44AC delivered in this scheme as part of the NS’ 40th anniversary celebration that saw 20 modern units emerge in historic schemes representing predecessor components of the giant Class 1.
Roanoke, Virginia
Sunday May 31, 2015
As light quickly fades conditions are beginning to deteriorate as a last-minute parallel run heads out of Castlemaine, as VGR's J549 (barely visible through the trees above the third sitting car) runs light engine back to Maldon alongside A2 986 as the two trains part ways at Castlemaine Junction, with the A2 leading N class N456 on train 8096 returning to Melbourne with Steamrail's tour to the 150th Bendigo Easter Fair. 18/4/22
My summary of the 6 logos seen on 3001old 2x4 bricks.
Wide logos touch the sides of the studs - narrow logos do not.
Straight O means the sides of the O are parallel. Round O means the sides of the O are convex.
I believe the Round O variants to be exclusive to Samsonite.
If you can contradict any of the information here, please let me know!
Walking along the Cannaregio Canal in Cannaregio one of the six sestieri of Venice in Veneto, Italy.
It was the main route into the city until the construction of a railway link to the mainland, gave the district its name (Canal Regio is Italian for Royal Canal). Development began in the eleventh century as the area was drained and parallel canals were dredged. Although elegant palazzos were built facing the Grand Canal, the area grew primarily with working class housing and manufacturing. The canal still runs as an important part of the district.
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