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The Wilson Church in Colfax County, near Schuyler, Nebraska.
Leica m10, 35mm Canon FD TS lens
ISO 200, f/8 at 1/1000 second
Eastbound BN train rolls through Prairie du Chein, WI on September 16, 1990. Led by one of the leased GE LMX B39-8 units (nicknamed "sharks") and a BN-unique cabless B30-7A...first out are two business cars followed by a aircraft fuselage transport car returning empty from Boeing in Seattle.
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Try to imagine events that led owners to abandon this house. Feels like a mystery to me. I tried to play with titles and descriptions like: "Once he went to work ... and never came back again", or "She left him ... with Kirby vacuum salesman". But when I posted it, the stories were so distracting that I could not focus on the photo.
Sometimes titles are almost as much fun as taking pictures.
Metra MP36PH 418 approaches Prairie Crossing (or Grays Lake, to CN) in Grayslake, Illinois, on a spring Sunday afternoon. This exurban location is where CN's Waukesha Sub (ex-Wisconsin Central and originally the Soo Line main to Chicago) crosses the Fox Lake Branch of Metra's Milwaukee District North Line (originally Milwaukee Road's "J Line", to Janesville, Wisconsin). Traffic on the branch is almost all Metra trains, but also hosts an occasional CP local and most Wisconsin & Southern freights to and from Chicago. CN through here, meanwhile, is much busier, with all freight to and from Wisconsin and western Canada routed this way, in addition to Metra's North Central Service trains to Antioch.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - I came across this pile of Scoria Rock on top of a hill just before the sunlight disappeared.
I haven't yet identified the flower
Update: It's Spotted Knapweed, quite lovely and very invasive-it just takes over a field.
Thanks for the ID, terranoesis. Sigh. It ranks high on the list of invasives from the DNR.
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I tried to tell the people but they never heard a word I say
They say there's nothing out there but wheat fields anyway
Just a farmer's wife hanging laundry in her back yard
Out on the prairie where the winds blow long and hard
~ neil young
Flamingo, Everglades NP
On the last day of my trip to Florida, spending a last morning in the Everglades, migrating warblers were just streaming through - Pine Warblers, Prairie Warblers, Northern Parulas, and Yellow Warblers.
Warnockia scutellarioides, at the Wildflower Center in Austin. They grow wild in Travis County and along the Balcones Escarpment in central Texas. Flower stalk 15 to 20 cm high.
This black-tailed prairie dog was enjoying the warmth of the sun and some fresh grass.
Este perrito llanero cola negra disfrutaba del calor del Sol y de las hierbas frescas.
UPDATE: This art was selected as one of SCRUPLZ Magazine's January 2011 "FIVE QUILLS" awards. Scruplz is a SecondLife online magazine featuring amazing SL art and fashion. scruplz.com Page 201
When I saw this SecondLife build from the amazing 3D artistic SL builders of AM RADIO an Mencius Watts of a lonely dark winter scene of a typical North American prairie, I totally fell in love!!
I am from the deep flat Canadian Prairies and this scene is all to common. They made this look so real and truly so haunting cold and lonely - yet peaceful and beautiful. It touched something me. I explored this land they created for 2 days - even though there really is little detail to initially see, but when you are there - its so peaceful. Watching the falling snow... seeing the migrating geese fly over head. Looking out to the never ending prairie horizon (just like where i live). I could gush on and on.
I took this photo in October (with several others) and I worked it in Photoshop with my own new textures. But it sat unfinished for a long time. Something wasnt finished. THEN this weekend I took some photos of the snow that fell this past week in our city. POOF! that was the missing component. I merged my new fluffy snow texture (link below) to this art and it was done! It might be subtle but I also wanted to portay warmth inside on a cold night - so the window of the lil shack is glowing.
If any of my fellow SL Photo Artists have not yet gone to this amazing sim build in SecondLife... you dont know what you are missing! For those of you that are not SL residents... wow... the beauty you all are missing.
CREDITS & PERMISSION:
> All textures used to manipulate & enhance the main winter scene photo of this Photo Manipulation work are my own private stock textures. Most I do not publish but I have offered one of my textures used here for public conditional use. Fluffy Snow toysoldierthor.deviantart.com/#/d33qe2z
> The main Winter Scene photograph is my own photograph from the virtual world of SecondLife. I abided by all terms and conditions formally set out by the owners of LindenLab Inc. when taking this photograph. See detailed description of SecondLife Photography below.
> The SecondLife 3D Builders of the Sim I photo'ed
Artists: Group "IDIA" Members: AM Radio & Mencius Watts
SIM Name: AMRadio at IDIA Labs_001
SURL LM: slurl.com/secondlife/IDIA%20Laboratories/128/128/31
This grain elevator stands as it has for the past 101 years at the western edge of the Prairies as a light Spring rain falls and sunbeams cut the vast clouds above.
Press 'L' and you can almost hear the sound of the wind.
Keeping a watchful eye on the surroundings; I was fortunate to be able to get close to this prairie dog using my vehicle as a hide.
Manteniendo vigilancia de sus alrededores; Tuve la suerte de acercarme bastante a este perrito llanero usando mi vehÃculo como escondite.
I'm in charge of a 10 acre prairie restoration at my work.
This is the second year since seeding the prairie. Many of the seeds we planted need several years in the ground before they will germinate. These will all be mowed down soon. During the first several years of a native prairie restoration, the field needs to be mowed about 3 times per year to keep invasive weeds down and establish strong roots. When the prairie is strong enough - we will start burning annually. Hopefully with some time and proper management, we will see a large diverse field of clump grasses, flowers and other forbs.
As many of you are probably aware, the Prairie Blazing Star is long-stemmed and very beautiful in bloom. This one is close to blooming and I decided to take a shot looking directly down. My new tripod allows me to set the camera to horizontal for just this type of shot . I took several shots at different apertures, the goal being to present the buds first and foremost but also to present the leaves OOF, but not completely so. C&C?
This juvenile Prairie Kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster) was found crossing the FM road in front of my house several nights ago. Nacogdoches County, Texas. October 2019.
Another shot taken from the car on the highway somewhere close to Lloydminster, Alberta, back at the end of May, here you can see an impressive cloudscape over a gently rolling, beautifully curved prarie field and hill, with a tiny, tiny little rainwater pond visible through the grass in the right front foreground and a piece of heavy farm machinery just visible over the roll of the hill.
I was able to take many amazing photos during the 6 hour plus northeastern car trip; Alberta sure has some lovely landscapes!
Hope you all enjoyed your Friday night and are having an excellent weekend so far, all the best, my friends!