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With fur softer than a baby rabbit, Peanut relaxes on my lap every night, and gets into some of the weirdest positions. Here he has his rear paw laying on his forehead. Sometimes he gets so relaxed he just slides right off onto the floor. Oh to be that relaxed.
Explored: Highest position: 52 on Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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On our recent trip we stopped to see the Chandelier Tree, a drive-thru Redwood in Leggett, California, and found this resident egret who lives on a nearby lake.
The egret was too far away to get a good picture with the Nikon 8800 so I started around the lake to get a closer look. The closer I got the more nervous the egret became until it finally took off and landed in a nearby tree. Once safely ensconced in the tree, the egret was no longer bothered by my proximity and allowed me to get several close-ups.
This is pretty much SOOC, with a very little levels darkennig. I considered cropping it a bit on the right, but thought I'd wait to see what Ms Cheeky and her other students have to say:-)
Explore ~ Highest position: 242 on Monday, October 6, 2008
A friend of my husband found this little cutie (well, I think they are cute) for me so I could get a picture of him! :)
Here is some information about them:
Here's a Toad thats not really a toad at all! The Phrynosoma, or Horned Lizards, have also been referred to as Horned Toads, Horny Toads, and even Horned Frogs. This is not because it is related to frogs, but rather because it has a face which looks a lot like that of a toad, and because it has a short and wide body.
Horned Lizards protect themselves in a variety of ways. Their body is spikey and flat, so when startled they usually will flatten out and sit really still so as to hopefully not be seen. If this doesnt work, they have also been known to inflate their body and hiss a lot, and in extreme cases, they can even squirt blood from their eyeballs to attack predators! In the 100th Anniversary Edition of Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Reptiles Lizards and Prehistoric Beasts, published in 1994, it states that Horned Lizards can squirt blood from their eye as far as 5 feet!
For more info on these cool creatures click here www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/thlizard/
I just couldn't stop taking pictures of N&W 611 during it's visit to the Strasburg Railroad. Every angle you see this engine from is a good one. I really love how this shot looks in B&W. What do you think?
Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Shot on Kodak Trix film, ISO 400, with a Canon A1, 50mm 1.4 lens. Developed with Kodak D76 and scanned with a Minolta Dimage Multi II.
I move down the stairwell another level. The second floor is a lot more heavily damaged than the previous; an entire section looking like it had collapsed into the street. I crouch down and try to stay out of sight as I go along the side of the wall. I stop just short from where the floor drops away, kneel down and keep a low profile behind the crumbling wall, and slowly mount my rifle on top of the blasted concrete for stability. The gunner and one of the other rangers are pulling a tarp over the open cab and another ranger stands in front of the truck; keeping watch I'm assuming.
Cristy is going for the gunner, so I decide to take aim at the other ranger with the tarp. Then the last can be taken out between the two of us. She's not gonna shoot until I do, so I straighten out, take aim, and...
On a damp day around Crewe Gresty Bridge, I was instantly inspired by the intelligent positioning of DRS's new locomotive 68002 'Intrepid' along side Ffestiniog Railway's 'Prince'.
This is one of few of my photos that was not photo-bombed by the masses of people at the Open Day. I also fancied doing something different to the inevitable identical photos many of you will see of this event.
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Positioned adjacent to the town-side entrance of Sutton Coldfield station, 'The Station' has long been a popular local pub. It has recently changed its sign, now featuring the front end view of a Metro-Cammell Class 101 DMU. Perhaps unusual, as it features a DMU instead of the usual steam locomotive, but the 'Met-camms' were locally built and saw some use on the Cross City Line. Of note, it replaces what I thought was one of the best pub signs, featuring a LNER Pacific, point work and a signal gantry (see album 'Railway themed pub signs). Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Positioning into Birmingham from Stansted to pick up the England football team for their World cup match away in Malta .
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Highest position # 317 on March 5, 2008
"Amazing" by Aerosmtih
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pteXfGWPJZM
I kept the right ones out
And let the wrong ones in
Had an angel of mercy to see me through all my sins
There were times in my life
When I was goin' insane
Tryin' to walk through
The pain
When I lost my grip
And I hit the floor
Yeah, I thought I could leave but couldn't get out the door
I was so sick and tired
Of a livin' a lie
I was wishin' that I
Would die
It's Amazing
With the blink of an eye you finally see the light
It's Amazing
When the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright
It's Amazing
And I'm sayin' a prayer for the desperate hearts tonight
That one last shot's a Permanent Vacation
And how high can you fly with broken wings?
Life's a journey not a destination
And I just can't tell just what tomorrow brings
You have to learn to crawl
Before you learn to walk
But I just couldn't liten to all that righteous talk
I was out on the street,
Just a tryin' to survive
Winning eight races and nine pole positions, 1996 was the year Damon Hill became Formula One World Champion. He followed in the footsteps of his late father Graham who achieved that status twice in 1962 and 1968. This car, Chassis 02, was used by Damon as a test car to perfect the set-up for his races during most of 1996.
It was also the car in which Jacques Villeneuve had his first three Formula One outings, gaining a pole position and finishing second in Australia at the very start of the ’96 season. The points accumulated by the two drivers presented Williams with their eighth World Championship Constructors Title.
With Locomotive #108 positioned just short of the the wooden trestle at the north end of the Hill City Yard, Black Hills Central Engineer Cesar and his fireman open the blow-down valves on #108 to rid the mud-ring section of the firebox of any loose sediment and contaminants. Instantly, super-heated water is ejected out of both sides of the locomotive at boiler pressure (about 190 PSI), and instantly flashes to steam. The process is loud and typically attracts spectators, some of whom will get a bit wet if they're standing downwind. This blow-down procedure is executed before the first run every day, and is repeated at least once during each run, typically in a secluded section of the line. With the procedure complete, the crew will back the locomotive up to the water tank near the station to fill the big saddle tank, before coupling on to their train.
I was exploring abandoned railroad tracks near my home, when I looked over and saw this nicely textured tree, dead for decades, with a pole through its trunk. Walking railroad tracks, for Midwesterners, is like "beach-combing," an opportunity to explore, because you never know what you'll find!
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Cosimo Rosselli -
Moses receives the tablets of law [1482]
Vatican, Sistine chapel, south wall
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The painting, like others in the cycle, shows more episodes at the same time; the theme is described by the inscription on the frieze PROMULGATIO LEGIS SCRIPTE PER MOISEM. In ("Promulgation of the Written Law through Moses").
In the upper part is Moses kneeling on Mount Sinai, with a sleeping Joshua nearby: he receives the Tables of the Law from Yahweh, who appears in a luminescent cloud, surrounded by angels. In the foreground, on the left, Moses brings the Tables to the Israelites. In the background is camp of tents, with the altar of the golden calf in the middle; the Israelites, spurred by Aaron, are adoring it: the position of some of them, painted from behind, was usually used for negative characters, such as Judas Iscariot in the Last Supper. Once seeing that, Moses, in the center, gets angry and breaks the Tables on the ground. The right background depicts the punishment of the idolatrous and the receiving of the new Tables. Joshua, in the blue and yellow, appears with Moses.
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More information:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_Mount_Sinai_(Sistine_Chapel)
Positioned for the afternoon and night photo session, CSX 4621 has been parked, "blue flagged," and even a derailer put in place, just to make sure the engine doesnt roll out of the yard. Even though the engine currently has no means of propulsion, either missing its prime mover or traction motors, I think the later is missing. Western Maryland 501 sits along side and 734 can just barley be seen behind 501.
Taken during the "Fireball Photo Experience" photo charter held at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad
*This image was taken on private property with permission from the crew and event organizers. Please do not trespass!*
The Orbital Science Corporation Antares rocket is seen in this four minute exposure as it is raised into position at launch Pad-0A, Tuesday, December 17, 2013, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA. The Antares will launch a Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Orbital-1 mission is Orbital Sciences' first contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA. Among the cargo aboard Cygnus set to launch to the space station are science experiments, crew provisions, spare parts and other hardware. Launch is scheduled for 9:19 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 19. Weather permitting, it may be widely visible along the east coast of the United States. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Many operators were unhappy with the position that Leyland had acquired by the early 1970s - which was that almost all heavyweight bus and coach supplies in the UK were in their hands. AEC, Daimler and Bristol had all joined the British Leyland Motor Corporation and the company began a very gradual process of reducing duplication - or, as the operators would put it, choice. Matters weren't helped by the industrial climate of the time which resulted in strikes causing delays in new deliveries and shortages of spare parts.
Long-established coachbuilders Metro-Cammell felt threatened, especially by the advent of the integral Leyland National, and turned the threat into an opportunity. They teamed up with Swedish company Scania-Vabis to offer the Metro Scania, an integral single decker built by Metro Cammell with Scania running units. The new machine was stylish, in a quirky way, and was very fast.
SELNEC decided to take a few, numbered in their experimental EX series, and we see two of them slightly later in their lives at Leigh bus station where they all eventually congregated after being sent to the town's bus garage.
The Metro-Scanias were indeed very fast, but this combined with their torque converter transmission made them very thirsty indeed just at the time when Middle East conflict caused fuel prices to rocket. Even so their speed made them popular with drivers, and passengers liked to interior layout.
But the worst problem for the Metro-Scanias (and their slightly later double deck siblings, the Metropolitans) came to light only very gradually. For Metro Cammell, which had been famed for decades for building strong and robust bus bodies, took their eye off the ball in one crucial area: corrosion.
For whatever reason, these buses didn't have adequate anti-corrosion measures and little bit by little bit they rotted away. Salt on winter northern roads didn't help, and by the time this photo was taken their days were already numbered. Bus 1344 on the right was new in 1972 and was withdrawn just ten years later, going straight for scrap; 1353 on the left was new in May 1973 and was withdrawn for scrap in January 1983, lasting just nine years and eight months.
Very, very few Metro-Scanias are preserved today because of the corrosion problems, and so far as we know none of the Greater Manchester examples survive. But you can still see orange buses, at the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester, including an example of the Leyland National for which the Metro-Scania was a competitor.
If you'd like to know more about the Museum of Transport and its collection of vintage buses and many documents, photos and other materials, go to www.motgm.uk.
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Once the sun moved into a favorable angle, we all took up position outside Missionary Ridge tunnel for a runby. (Actually, a bunch of them.)
And yes, there was more than one Dad Joke made about it being the missionary position...
An old John Deere tractor sits in the powerful sun while on display at the Washington County Ag Center.
Illustration Sex (Photo: Johan Fatzry)
The position of the preferred sex by men, likened the taste of coffee that always wanted to be enjoyed from the first to the last drop. Everyone always likes something similar, but have different ways to mengungkapannya. Especially in the case of this...
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A corner house
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Fachwerkhaus, Obergasse 14, Ecke Kaffeegasse/Frölenberg, eines der stattlichsten Bürgerhäuser, erbaut 1596 in prominenter Situation: Kopfbau im spitzen Winkel von Kaffee- und Obergasse mit Sichtbezug zum König-Adolf-Platz; über gemauertem Erdgeschoss mit geländebedingt hohem Sockel erhebt sich das reichverzierte Fachwerk-Obergeschoss mit drei Giebeln, deren prächtigster sich nach Norden zur Unionskirche und zur Stadtmitte orientiert
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Album Description – Idstein, Germany – 2016APR07
I visited somewhere so small I didn’t see any stoplights, so big it has 11 suburbs – eleven formerly independent villages absorbed in 1971 into Idstein, a splendid Town of Tradition with history dating to 1102 – a royal seat in the past and a modern city in the present!
My friends Dori & Siggi picked me up 2:00 at the crew hotel; Dori drove us north across the Rhine River, then 12 miles on further north, past Wiesbaden up into a magnificent town in the Taunus Mountains I have long wanted to tour. Highlights:
✓Castle Lane („Schloßgasse“):
• Tower of Idstein 'Bergfried', 'Wachturm', a 12th-century free-standing fighting-tower in Castle Garden 'Schloßgarten', a part of Idstein Castle a.k.a. the Witches‘ Tower 'Hexenturm'
• Idstein Castle, former fortress 'Burg Idstein', Castle Lane 'Schloßgasse', later palace 'Schloß Idstein' 1614, now school
• Fortress Gate, the massive 'Burgtor' 1497
• Heavenly Lane 'Himmelsgasse':
• Timber-frame 'Fotostudio Idstein Claudia Rothenberger' 18th century corner building, corner of Felix-Lahnstein-Street
• Timber-frame 'Gasthof zur Peif' 1615, at King Adolf Square
✓Upper Lane 'Obergasse':
• Hotel/Restaurant German House 'Deutsches-Haus' 1751
• Hotel/Restaurant house Henrich Heer built 1620 'Höerhof'
✓Martin Luther Street 'Martin-Luther-Straße':
• Parish Church 'Pfarrkirche' 1330
• Picturesque view at the church down a cobblestone lane to the Town Hall and the Tower of Idstein
✓King Adolf Square 'König-Adolf-Platz':
• Town Hall 'Rathaus' 1698
• Historic timber-framed houses 'Fachwerkhäuser, and most especially the gorgeous house ‘Killingerhaus’ 1615
✓Lopsided house 'Das sogenannte Schiefe Haus' 1727
✓Brewpub, the Idsteiner 'Alte Feuerwache' 1928, a converted old fire station, where we ate an early supper
Due to its well-preserved Old Town 'Altstadt', Idstein is on the German Timber-Frame Road 'Deutsche Fachwerkstraße', a tourist route through towns with fine timbered construction. It was so much fun visiting here with my friends Dori & Siggi; I am scheduled for FRA next week, when we plan to return!
The best of 524 photos from this layover are a 3-album set:
• Mainz, Germany – 2016APR06-08
• Idstein, Germany – 2016APR07
• Roman Limes Tower at Idstein, Germany – 2016APR07
Hope you enjoy my favorite 27% of the 371 photos in Idstein!
On Explore. Highest position: 122 on Sunday, November 22, 2009
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Assault troops of the Infanterie-Regiment 13 training behind the line in preparation of the Operation "Leifeld" against French positions on the Dead Man's Hill.
I only transcripted/translated the part from the IR13 because they are the soldiers on the photo but texts related to this operation can be found in IR55 (page 38), FR37 (page 199 to 203 - A very big attack with a lot of assault troops and flamethrowers.)
Extrct from the IR13 regiment's chronic (pages 176 and 177):
"Assault company ‘ Leifeld ’ 28.12.1916
The undeniably great successes of the enemy on the right bank were entirely conducive to strengthening their confidence in victory and awakening in them the belief in their superiority. It was therefore important to give them proof of our undiminished fighting spirit and to boost the self-confidence of our own troops through early successes. For this reason, the 30th I.D. (Füs.R. 37 and I.R. 155) planned a major operation on the Dead Man's Hill for 28 December. As a diversion, the Regtr. 13 and 55 and R.I.R. 109 were to carry out smaller advances at the same time. The I.R. 13 found a favourable point of attack in the far advanced French sappers Africa, America and Asia and commissioned Haupt. Kristen, I/13, to carry out the operation, which was named after Leutn. d.R. Leifeld. It was agreed with R.I.R. 109 that it should simultaneously advance close alongside it into the sharp angle of the enemy trench protruding on its left border. The special task for the Leifeld company was to penetrate the trench between the Africa and the Belgian sector, destroy the position and especially the dugouts and sector heads and take prisoners and loot. - In addition to the planned artillery support, the 4 m.M.W. (medium trench mortars) of the western battery of the M.W.Komp. (trench mortar company) of the 13th I.D. shot up the trench in an hour-long barrage. The 8 l.M.W. (light trench mortars), the ‘Priester’ grenade launchers and the regiment's trench gun filled two 5-minute pauses and fired interdiction fire when the storm began.
The destroying fire started at 1.20 a.m., the infantry assault at 2.28 a.m. and the withdrawal from the enemy position at 2.45 a.m. Three assault squads, a total of 8 groups of I. Batl. and a group of 1/Pi. 7 carried out the assault. The artillery and mine fire was very good until, shortly before the assault, an enemy gunner fired a few short shots into our trench, burying three dugouts in which the right-hand assault squad was deployed and wounding several people. The digging out of the buried men was not yet completely finished when the moment of the storm approached. Those who had been freed hurried to their places. The main operation on the Dead Man's Hill, on the other hand, was a complete success. The German army report of the 29th states:
‘On the west bank of the Meuse yesterday, at Hill 304 and on the southern edge of the Dead Man's Hill, parts of Infantry Regiments 13 and 55 and of Fus.R. 37, all of them well known from the Somme, made advances into the French position. Detailed preparations by artillery and the proven mine throwers, which had become indispensable to the infantry due to their effectiveness, paved the way for the assault troops to reach the second and third lines of the enemy positions, from which 222 prisoners, including 4 officers and 7 machine guns, were brought back. In the trenches taken, several French counterattacks were repulsed, even at night.’
The enemy did not launch any counterattacks in the Hindenburg section. - On 31 December, a roll call of the ‘Leifeld’ participants took place in front of Commanding General v. François."
The French unit in front of the Infanterie-Regiment 13 appears to be the 203e Régiment d'Infanterie :
"...At 2.30pm, without waiting for their artillery fire to increase, the enemy launched a large-scale attack on the Sonnois Est Cottin and Molina trenches.
By this time these trenches had been overrun by shelling and filled in at many points, especially at the Sonnois barrage and opposite the Delaunoy and Rello gutters. A large number of defenders had already been killed or wounded.
The enemy used flmethrowers. The enemy attacked our trenches in 3 columns of 2 companies each, one at the Sonnois dam, the 2nd at the Delaunay gut and the 3rd at the Rello gut...."
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REF: 140-250-10