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Pibb the Sandhill Crane Chick was testing out his wings today, and I predict he will fly in a couple of weeks, and be able to really fly away with Classic and Cherry in about 3 weeks. They will return to the property and their nesting area each evening for some weeks after that, and then, they will go elsewhere, hopefully even the empty lot next to our house to forage, but I will see less of them.
I was photographing the family today, and getting some shots of the parents for a change, when I saw Pibb fluffing his wings out of the corner of my eye. The first shot, I clipped his right wing a little, but I still think it’s pretty darn cute. My favorite is the one I titled, “I Believe I Can Fly!”. It will be a four photo series. I’m posting them one at a time, and once I have done so, I’ll put them at the beginning of my Sandhill Crane set as a slideshow in case you want to see these four shots in order.
I am a Craniac! So this is a special time of year when my photostream gets very Sandhill Crane-ee! I hope my fellow craniacs and flickr friends enjoy them. I definitely can’t help myself. I have been photographing this family for four seasons now. It never gets old, and I am so blessed to watch their lives and be able to share that joy with others. I also hope people will find it educational.
For more information on these and other cranes, go to www.savingcranes.org. Also check out www.operationmigration.org. Many crane species still need our help, and the whooping crane migration project is fascinating and inspiring!
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Well the rain arrived as predicted to make it a soggy start to the Jubilee, but i'm continuing with my own personal sunny spell and photos from my sunny wildflower photo-shoot from earlier in the week. These next two were taken with the new 50mm, I primarily got it to work as a portrait lens (low light at weddings) but its nice to give it a workout on the landscape, the tight composition (it's about 80mm on a crop sensor body) and shallow dof making for some interesting choices.
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It was predicted in the forecast....we chose not to believe it....we got it.
She always wanted a white wedding...but chose to have it in October for fear that guests would not show...9.7 inches of the white stuff later...she was right....some guests did not show, but it was the most beautiful day ever!
And now they are going from snow to sand...for their honeymoon.
I am super excited to get started on this one! But right now I am off to cook some chili on this snowy day.
Well this winter's predicted Waxwing invasion doesn't seem to have materialised with just relatively small numbers being reported. So here's one of the three that I saw locally about a month ago. Nearly all Waxwing photos show them gorging on berries but the three birds that I saw never fed on berries and remained high in trees, making occasional sallies to catch flying insects. They weren't easy to locate and this photo gives an idea of how they could blend in.
Waxwings have never bred in Britain, and they aren't even what you would call regular migrants in winter as they usually remain in Scandinavia throughout the year. But when the berry crop fails or becomes exhausted, they will move further afield in search of berries, which is when we get them in Britain. They are also typically found in urban areas where there are lots of ornamental berry bushes like Pyracantha.
Every photo walk is different - Young Fallow Deer in Morning Light - On the way home, it is never easy to predict what a Nikon Z8 memory card will carry. Sometimes you press the shutter within the first minutes and the card fills quickly; sometimes you wait patiently without taking a single frame, imagining the photograph long before it exists.
Wildlife follows its own rhythm — and occasionally, it takes you along with it.
This pre-Christmas morning at Bradgate Park began as the rising sun broke through dark, scattered clouds. As the light softened, the landscape slowly revealed itself. At times, gentle morning light becomes incredibly effective; at other moments, you work more technically, placing the strength of the light behind you and allowing experience to grow with every frame.
The first encounter came from the rocky hilltops: a young male fallow deer, standing still, looking directly into my lens with wide, unblinking eyes.
“Young Fallow Deer in Morning Light.”
After meeting two fellow photographer friends, I joined them along the River Lin, which flows through Bradgate Park in North Leicestershire. A small group of hinds crossed the river, resisting the powerful current — a moment of shared instinct and determination.
Later, while searching for Stonechat, as on previous visits, a herd of red deer appeared, spreading calmly across the greenery. The majestic stag once again became the natural favourite of our lenses, and I worked to capture several compelling poses from different angles under direct sunlight.
The Grey Heron ultimately defined the photograph of the day. Under clean, softly broken sunlight, framed against the River Lin, the scene felt complete.
After a 3.5-hour photo walk, as I returned to the car park, my favourite bird — the tiny Robin — seemed to offer a quiet farewell. Shot in direct sunlight, the background bokeh remained simple, while the feather details glowed beautifully. With the NIKKOR 500mm and 1.4x TC at ƒ/8.0, its poised and noble stance emerged clearly.
Good evening and thank you for looking.
Every photo walk is different - On the way home, it is never easy to predict what a Nikon Z8 memory card will carry. Sometimes you press the shutter within the first minutes and the card fills quickly; sometimes you wait patiently without taking a single frame, imagining the photograph long before it exists.
Wildlife follows its own rhythm — and occasionally, it takes you along with it.
This pre-Christmas morning at Bradgate Park began as the rising sun broke through dark, scattered clouds. As the light softened, the landscape slowly revealed itself. At times, gentle morning light becomes incredibly effective; at other moments, you work more technically, placing the strength of the light behind you and allowing experience to grow with every frame.
The first encounter came from the rocky hilltops: a young male fallow deer, standing still, looking directly into my lens with wide, unblinking eyes.
“Young Fallow Deer in Morning Light.”
After meeting two fellow photographer friends, I joined them along the River Lin, which flows through Bradgate Park in North Leicestershire. A small group of hinds crossed the river, resisting the powerful current — a moment of shared instinct and determination.
Later, while searching for Stonechat, as on previous visits, a herd of red deer appeared, spreading calmly across the greenery. The majestic stag once again became the natural favourite of our lenses, and I worked to capture several compelling poses from different angles under direct sunlight.
The Grey Heron ultimately defined the photograph of the day. Under clean, softly broken sunlight, framed against the River Lin, the scene felt complete.
After a 3.5-hour photo walk, as I returned to the car park, my favourite bird — the tiny Robin — seemed to offer a quiet farewell. Shot in direct sunlight, the background bokeh remained simple, while the feather details glowed beautifully. With the NIKKOR 500mm and 1.4x TC at ƒ/8.0, its poised and noble stance emerged clearly.
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Lens - hand held or Monopod and definitely SPORT VR on. Aperture is f5.6 and full length. All my images have been converted from RAW to JPEG.
I started using Nikon Cross-Body Strap or Monopod on long walks. Here is my Carbon Monopod details : Gitzo GM2542 Series 2 4S Carbon Monopod - Really Right Stuff MH-01 Monopod Head with Standard Lever - Really Right Stuff LCF-11 Replacement Foot for Nikon AF-S 500mm /5.6E PF Lense -
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I predict the Dip would have been super brief this year .... but it has been cancelled due to all the ice on the lake unfortunately. They plan on rescheduling for a later date - we'll keep you posted!
As predicted, the snow enforced a walk to work today although I did manage to hop on a bus about half way there. I didn't mind though as I got the opportunity to take a few photos en route.
*I've swapped the photo I originally submitted to the pool as it was a bit blurry!
Taken at the Glendale Gathering Car Show held annually in the Glendale Suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
This show is small, but one of my favorites, because it's close, rarely do I see a car from a previous year and all are in excellent restored condition. This could easily be a small Concourse de Elegance. Storms were predicted in the morning which made me fear I would miss it, but things cleared and the show went on. From my point of view, the only problem was that we arrived much later than usual, so there were lots of people and most of the hoods were up for the judging. Fortunately, this beauty had the hood down.
Thinking back to previous years, this spot in the show seems to always be reserved for a Packard from America's Packard Museum located in Dayton, Ohio some 50 miles north. I love it as I'm a major fan of Packards and this spot is the first place we see when entering the show. What a great, eye popping greeting we got this and previous years. There are many really great cars at the show, but I would have been happy if this was the only one I got a shot of.
Laut Aussage von:www.Nabu.de
Das Tagpfauenauge war Schmetterling des Jahres 2009 in Deutschland.
Ein Porträt des Tagpfauenauges: 🐛Anders als die hoch spezialisierten Raupen sind die Falter wenig wählerisch. Im zeitigen Frühjahr werden Weiden, Huflattich, Schlehen und Löwenzahn besucht, im Sommer mit Vorliebe rote und blauviolette Blüten.Das Tagpfauenauge, wissenschaftlich Inachis io, gehört zur Familie der Edelfalter, seine Flügelspannweite beträgt fünf bis sechs Zentimeter.Und wie bei Kleinem Fuchs, Admiral und Landkärtchen ernähren sich die Raupen nahezu ausschließlich von Brennnesseln, weshalb diese Arten auch als Brennnesselfalter zusammengefasst werden.Die jungen Raupen sind zunächst grüngelb gefärbt, später werden sie leuchtend schwarz mit weißen Punkten. Sie tragen fleischige, bedornte Fortsätze. Die Raupen treten in großen Nestern auf, sie leben also gemeinschaftlich und überziehen dabei mehrere Brennnesselpflanzen mit ihrem Gespinst. Bevorzugt werden dabei sonnige Standorte.Dank ihrer typischen Flügeloberseiten mit vier bunten Augen auf braunrotem Grund kann man das Tagpfauenauge kaum verwechseln. Die großen Augen sollen möglichst Fressfeinde abschrecken, umgekehrt dient die graubraune Flügelunterseite der Tarnung im zusammengeklappten Zustand.Anders als die hoch spezialisierten Raupen sind die Falter wenig wählerisch, mehr als 200 Nektarpflanzen wurden registriert. Im zeitigen Frühjahr werden Weiden, Huflattich, Schlehen, Pflaumen und Löwenzahn besucht, im Sommer mit Vorliebe rote und blauviolette Blüten. Wichtig sind dabei Disteln, Wasserdost, Flockenblumen und Skabiosen, Klee und Luzerne. Gerne fliegt das Tagpfauenauge auch Schmetterlingsflieder (Buddleia) im Garten oder auf Siedlungsbrachen und Bahnflächen an. 🐛
According from www.Nabu.de
A portrait of the daycare eye: unlike the highly specialized caterpillars, the moths are not very picky. In early spring, pastures, hoof slattish, slopes and dandelion are preferred to be red and blue -violet flowers in summer. The day -to -day eye, scientific inachis io, belongs to the family of the noble butterfly, its wing span is five to six centimeters. As with a small fox, admiral and country cards, the caterpillars eat almost exclusively from fuel, why are these types Also combined as a nettle butterfly. The young caterpillars are first colored, later they become bright black with white dots. They wear fleshy, so far. The caterpillars occur in large nests, so they live together and cover several nettle plants with their web. Sunny locations are preferred, thanks to their typical wing tops with four colorful eyes on a brown -red background you can hardly confuse the dayfall eye. The big eyes are supposed to scare as predictors as possible, conversely, the gray -brown underside of the camouflage is used in the composite condition. Other than the highly specialized caterpillars, the moths are little selective, more than 200 nectar plants have been registered. In early spring, pastures, hoof slattish, slopes, plums and dandelions are visited, in summer red and blue -violet flowers. It is important to thistle, water dost, flake flowers and skaboses, clover and lucerne. The dayfall eye also likes to fly butterfly lilac (Buddleia) in the garden or on settlement wasteland and railway areas.
This is one of my very close friends. his name I Dan.
Here he is predicting a Vancouver Canucks win while we were watching the game last night.
I tried to be a bit creative with the pop up flash. It made the ball look cool.
This was taken in March 2013. Might be worth nipping up to this spot after work tomorrow, so glad I finish at 3pm :-)
What they predicted was correct, it would clear up from the East. I went on foot from Chalupki to Rudyzswald where open fields became my motif for the evening... Previous photo was the start.
It was open, without houses or any buildings.
After the previous coal train I stood against the light and then this ET22 PKP Cargo came during a solo ride.
I was on the right side of the tracks and this was just a start.
Rudyszwald, Poland
While predicting where the birds will overnight on this refuge is an iffy proposition, this shallow lake just off the tour-route road is a regular hangout. The trick is to check it out early to see if any pathfinder birds have already selected it. If so, they will continually vocalize to the overflying birds trying to entice them to drop down and join them (increasing safety in numbers). There are several blinds here that you can select for different vantage positions. It's still early, and this lake was eventually completely filled with overnighting birds.
IMG_4274; Sandhill Cranes
RBC Is First Bank to Predict Canada Headed For Recession in 2023
Economy to contract by annualized 0.5% pace in middle of year
‘Inflation has been too strong for too long’: economists
By Randy Thanthong-Knight
July 7, 2022 at 7:33 AM EDTUpdated onJuly 7, 2022 at 11:54 AM EDT
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Royal Bank of Canada became the first of the country’s major banks to predict the nation’s economy will fall into a recession next year amid four-decade high inflation, historic labor shortages and aggressive interest-rate hikes.
In a new set of projections released on Thursday, Canada’s largest bank said it expects back-to-back quarters of negative growth in 2023, a situation economists refer to as a technical recession.
The recession call illustrates the extent to which Canada’s resource-heavy economy -- which has been benefiting from the recent boom in energy prices -- remains vulnerable to global economic headwinds and higher borrowing costs that threaten to stall expansions in most major advanced economies.
Canada’s central bank will need to continue hiking into the slowdown to temper inflation expectations threatening to entrench price pressures, RBC said.
“Though higher rates will technically push Canada toward a contraction, the Bank of Canada now has little choice but to act,” according to the report, which was written by economists Nathan Janzen and Claire Fan. “Inflation has been too strong for too long and is starting to creep into longer-run business and consumer expectations.”
Earlier this week, the central bank’s quarterly surveys of executives and consumers showed inflation expectations over the next couple of years have hit a record in Canada: 78% of businesses expect the consumer price index to exceed 3% over next two years.
Still, the recession in Canada will likely be moderate and short-lived by historical standards and will be reversed once inflation settles enough for central banks to lower rates, RBC said.
The Canadian economy is expected to contract by an annualized 0.5% pace in the second and third quarters of 2023, according to the new forecasts. Growth will average 0.8% next year, down from 3.7% this year.
As the economic contraction plays out in 2023, Canada’s unemployment rate will likely rise about 1.5 percentage points to 6.6%, they said, adding that it wouldn’t take long to unwind that weakness in 2024 and beyond.
Toronto Office Vacancies Rise to a Record on Recession Fears
Royal Bank projects the Bank of Canada will increase its benchmark policy rate to 3.25% by the end of this year, from 1.5% right now. The central bank is widely expected to hike the overnight rate by three quarters of a percentage point at its next decision on July 13.
RBC cited a number of headwinds facing the nation’s economy.
While Canadians continue to fuel a recovery in the travel and hospitality sectors and higher commodity prices have boosted the mining and energy industries, RBC said soaring prices are cutting into households’ purchasing power. The housiing market, meanwhile, is sliding in some regions with prices in Toronto down 11% in four months.
Canada will also feel the spillover from slowing global growth. The US unemployment rate is expected to climb and emerging markets will struggle with higher food and energy prices and borrowing costs, acting as a drag on Canadian exports.
Even without rate hikes, labor shortages would be hampering Canada’s economy as businesses struggle to find workers to grow, Fan and Janzen said.
It predicted many indivdual design features of Fords over the following three years. While it was a 'pushmobile', the press releases stated that it was planned around a gas turbine engine.
Saturdays forecast had predicted it would be overcast all day. However, an opening in the clouds came as a pleasant surprise and resulted in a quick move down to Blue Anchor. Here, 4612 leaves Blue Anchor behind working the 15:05 Bishops Lydeard - Minehead.
Just goes to show that you never know what you'll get unless you turn up.
Snow begins to drift when wind speeds exceed a threshold velocity of 5 meters per second. Of course, the quality of the snow already on the ground has much to do with this too, and its physical composition changes with the drifting process. The mechanisms involved can be difficult to predict. Extensive research and complex equations have been created in efforts to make those predictions.
Likewise, the reasons for which the majestic snowy owl seem to drift southward in unpredictable irruptions every few years are just as uncertain. The reproduction and survival of these exalted raptors of the north seem to be intimately tied to those of a rodent, the lemming. So population growth of the birds and the lemmings are at least part of the reason that some of these birds have traveled as far south as Bermuda. Each year, it seems, at least a few birds manage to make it to our region. I hope we will have ample opportunity to see them again this year. #SnowyOwl
Scientists predict that when climate change eventually leads to the extinction of the human species there will be a new dawn...
It will be the Jealopus that will evolve and take our place...
Experts make different forecasts: someone predicts a tough scenario, and someone is sure that the economy will not suffer much. Personally, I believe that any crises open up new opportunities, motivate, reveal our strengths and weaknesses, which should be worked on. Crises come and go, recession is replaced by growth. It has always been so. All that remains is not to panic, adapt and move forward.
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The folklore of using wild persimmon seeds (from the native American persimmon tree, Diospyros virginiana) to predict winter weather is a longstanding tradition in the United States, particularly in the South, Midwest, and Ozarks regions. It's often described as an "old wives' tale" or nature-based prognostication, similar to reading woolly bear caterpillars or squirrel nest heights. Of course, they were never considered as accurate as the famed Farmers' Almanac.
Here’s the traditional meaning of each shape found inside a wild persimmon seed:
Spoon (or shovel):
Predicts a cold, snowy winter with lots of heavy, wet snow that you’ll have to “scoop” or shovel.
Fork
Predicts a mild winter with little snow, light powdery snow, or generally dry conditions.
Knife
Predicts a bitterly cold, harsh winter with piercing winds that “cut like a knife,” often icy but not necessarily snowy.
They are predicting rain overnight and into tomorrow. We had been cool all day until the wind shifted. That brought in humidity and the cloud bank you see here started to form. We will most likely get a thunder shower overnight. They are not calling for severe weather.
This is what happens during the autumn months. We will keep getting changes in wind direction. From the northeast, it will be cool, from the southwest it will bring in warmer moist air and when they meet, depending on conditions, all heck can break lose. it can be anything from constant rain and windy to tornadoes and gale force winds.
A Hindi Woman tells predicts a clients future near Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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For the first time in seemingly weeks Friday was predicted to be perfect bluebird weather. Coupled with the news just released the day prior that the Pan Am Railways acquisition by CSXT had been approved I figured I should skip my beloved ex Boston and Albany for once and go to the old Boston and Maine before the changes come. While it won't happen overnight, it will be quicker than we expect before blue dip or ugly patched GEs are rare and intermodal trains on District 3 are but a memory.
With that in mind a look at the turnover revealed that a 22K was tied down at Fitchburg scheduled for an early recrew to bring into Ayer and that an EDPO was out of East Deerfield headed east and counterpart POED was moving with work at Graniteville before going west. Throw in regular AYPO building in Ayer and it was an unusual busy morning to the point that you actually had to make a choice what you wanted to focus on!
Anyway, first up I headed here to find 22K (47th Street Chicago to PAS Ayer) tied down on Main 2 just west of CPF FG as outbound Keolis/MBTA train 403 trails away for Fitchburg and Wachusett on Main 1. The standard NS SD60E has a colorful BNSF and UP GE duo trailing making for some nice variety here in the morning sun just west of Bemis Road at MP 48.3 (from North Station via the Fitchburg Route main) and 328.3 (from Mattawamkeag, ME via Pan Am's Freight Main).
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Friday April 15, 2022
- Rosa's Garden of Earthly Delights, Keefer Lake, Ontario, Canada -
We are back after a wonderful visit in Portugal. Athough rain was predicted for the majority of our stay it thankfully proved wrong and warmth and bright sun was the order of almost all of our days on our trip.
Keefer Lake saved a thin sheet of ice for our return and then all of it disappeared over the course of a few hours on our first day back - the lake is ice free and no doubt the Loons will be calling within a day or so.
And now begins a labour of love as I sift and sort through over 2000 photographs taken during the trip. As Ansel Adams once noted, if you make 10 good photographs a year ... it's a good year. I shall be quite happy to have four or five.
The above is an image taken last year in 'Rosa's Garden of Earthly Delights' as I call it ... she is working on the beginnings of new gardens as I write this and has an infectious smile a mile (1.6 kilometres) wide on her beautiful face.
After a brutal March, full of snow, rain, and wind the sun has returned. Predictably the earth has responded to the warmth and light by bursting forth with verdant grasses and vibrant flowers. It is so easy to be seduced by spring, especially early on. The meteorologists are predicting a bout of heavy rain this weekend but for the moment I'm happy to be seduced.
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Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto, Japan
The touristy bit...
Fushimi Inari Shrine (伏見稲荷大社, Fushimi Inari Taisha) is an important Shinto shrine in southern Kyoto. It is famous for the thousands of vermilion torii gates, which straddle a network of trails behind it's main buildings. The trails lead into the wooded forest of the sacred Mount Inari, which stands at 233 meters and belongs to the shrine grounds.
Fushimi Inari is the most important of several thousands of shrines dedicated to Inari, the Shinto god of rice. Foxes are thought to be Inari's messengers, resulting in many fox statues across the shrine grounds. Fushimi Inari Shrine has ancient origins, predating the capital's move to Kyoto in 794.
While the primary reason most foreign visitors come to Fushimi Inari Shrine is to explore the mountain trails and the double corridor torii gates, the shrine buildings themselves are also attractive. At the shrine's entrance stands the Romon Gate, which was donated in 1589 by the famous leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Behind stands the shrine's main hall (honden) where visitors and locals pay respect to the resident deity by making a small offering.
At the very back of the shrine's main grounds is the entrance to the torii gate-covered hiking trail, which starts with two dense parallel rows of gates called Senbon Torii ("thousands of torii gates"). The torii gates along the entire trail are donations by individuals and companies, and you will find the donator's name and the date of the donation inscribed on the back of each gate. The cost starts around ¥400,000 for a small sized gate and increases to over ¥1,000,000 for a large gate.
The hike to the summit of the mountain and back takes about 2-3 hours, however, visitors are free to walk just as far as they wish before turning back. Along the way, there are multiple smaller shrines with stacks of miniature torii gates that were donated by visitors with smaller budgets. There are also a few restaurants along the way, which offer locally themed dishes such as Inari Sushi and Kitsune Udon ("Fox Udon"), both featuring pieces of aburaage (fried tofu), said to be a favourite food of foxes.
After about a 30-45 minute ascent and a gradual decrease in the density of torii gates, visitors will reach the Yotsutsuji intersection roughly half way up the mountain, where some nice views over Kyoto can be enjoyed, and then the trail splits into a circular route to the summit. Many hikers only venture as far as here, as the trails do not offer much variation beyond this point and the gate density decreases further.
For the photographers...
Having mis-timed our trip to the bamboo forest the previous day (too many tourists) we went early. The easiest way to get there is to take the train from Kyoto Station, a journey of about 10 minutes. Both the Keihan Main line and the JR Nara line stop close to the shrine but we took the JR Nara as it's station is literally across the road from the Romon Gate and the start of the shrine complex. Even at 7:30am there were signs of coach parties arriving and so we headed straight for the torii gates. It took about 10 minutes to reach Senbon torii and we passed through some pretty big ones en route.
The day was overcast with rain predicted later on in the morning and here lies the difficulty in photographing these things... I don't want to make excuses from the off but for anyone thinking of following in our footsteps... forewarned is forearmed! The double row of torii gates are at best guess, 8ft tall and 8ft wide and very tightly arranged and surprisingly dark once you step inside making handheld shots difficult if you want any decent depth of field. You'll notice that all the uprights are blank, that's because the Japanese calligraphy is on the other side and best seen from the top of the corridor but then you're likely to meet the hoards of people coming up behind you.
It only takes a couple of minutes to walk the length of Senbon torii although I stopped every couple of yards trying to capture these cliché interiors. However, all is not lost and after exiting the Senbon torii, the other gates start to thin out as does the number of tourists. It always amazes me the number of people who can't be bothered to go the whole nine yards when visiting such places, after all if you've travelled thousands of miles to get there then you might as well see the whole shebang! I reckon only 10% made it to the top that day, which is really where this little blog ends. No sooner had we summited then it began to rain and boy did it rain... our one and only bad day. The coach parties of tourists never made it beyond the double gates for they hightailed it back down, umbrellas up every last one of them back to the coaches. I never got a second chance on the way down due to the bobbing flow of umbrellas but at least I'd got something in the can on the way up. If I could shoot it all again... I'd go in the summer months when the light might favour the early start, use a faster lens and take a tripod, just in case you get the chance to use it.
They predicted the last Tuesday in August would be a perfect-weather day. Again, we were advised to take advantage of it as the rain would be back on Wednesday.
Excerpt from www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=13533...:
Description of Historic Place
Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Church / Basilica National Historic Site of Canada is an immense stone church built from 1824 to 1829 in the Romantic Gothic Revival style. It features massive twin towers and a Gothic-arched, recessed portico. The interior is decorated in a later and more elaborate version of the Gothic Revival style. The church faces onto Notre-Dame Street, directly across from Place d’Armes in the heart of Old Montréal. The formal recognition consists of the building on its footprint.
Heritage Value
Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Church / Basilica was designated a national historic site of Canada in 1989 because:
- it showcases the romantic expression of the Gothic revival Style and is the flagship of this style in Canada;
- the use of the Gothic Revival on a building of such importance accurately predicts the prominence that this style would have in Canadian architecture.
Built from 1824 to 1829, Notre-Dame Roman Catholic Church / Basilica was the first significant example of the Gothic Revival style in Canada. In the 1820s the parish of Notre-Dame was led by a group of prominent Montréal merchants and by the Sulpicians, a powerful Roman Catholic religious order that had historically controlled the island of Montréal as its priests and seigneurs. The Sulpicians wanted to build a new parish church that was more impressive than the recently built Roman Catholic and Anglican churches in the city. The Sulpicians called on James O’Donnell, an American Protestant architect to build a church in the latest style, with enough space to accommodate a congregation of more than 8000. The resulting Gothic Revival style church, named Notre-Dame, served all of Montréal. For the next half century it was the largest church in either Canada or the United States. Its early Gothic Revival style, which was applied to a straightforward nave plan with galleries and twin towers, marked the beginning of the style’s significance in Canadian church architecture. It represents a Romantic, non-academic approach to the style, which contrasts with the formal Ecclesiological Gothic Revival of many of Canada’s large Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals of the mid- to late-19th century.
The parish used many of Quebec’s most celebrated architects and artisans to help complete the decoration of the church in the 19th and 20th centuries. Architect John Ostell finished the twin towers in 1843, after O’Donnell’s death but according to the original plan. Between 1872 and 1880, O’Donnell’s interior was replaced by a more elaborate Gothic Revival decoration, designed by well-known architect Victor Bourgeau. Bourgeau commissioned French sculptor Henri Bouriché to produce the statues and reliefs for the main altar and the massive reredos along the east side of the chancel. Montréal sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert added a pulpit between 1883 and 1887 to plans by Bouriché. In 1926, Quebec artist Ozias Leduc decorated vaults, walls, doorways and stained glass windows.
Key elements contributing to the heritage value of the site include:
- the monumental effect of the building, achieved through its large scale, traditional plan, flat façade, and the two massive towers;
- features typical of traditional, classically inspired designs, including the symmetrical facade, a low-pitched roof, and a general rectilinear approach;
- its simple interior organization, consisting of nave and galleries;
- its imposing façade, consisting of a triple arched portico surmounted by a blind arcade and flanked by twin squared towers;
- the Gothic Revival detailing applied to the façade, including niches with statuary, a crenellated parapet, octagonal colonettes finishing the corners of the towers, buttresses, pointed-arch windows, and window tracery;
- its early 19th-century construction technology, including, its complex wooden roof truss system, its painted lath-and-plaster vaulted ceiling, and its Montréal limestone walls;
- its highly decorated, Gothic Revival interior designed by Victor Bourgeau, including, the polychromatic nave, the rose windows, the Gothic tracery, the painted nave illuminated by three octagonal skylights, the ribbed vaulted ceiling, and the mahogany choir stalls;
- Gothic Revival decoration produced by French sculptor Henri Bouriché, including the statues and reliefs of the main altar and the massive reredos along the east side of the choir;
- the pulpit by sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert;
- the vaulting, walls, doorways and stained-glass windows produced by Ozias Leduc;
- the viewscapes between the church and Place d’Armes.
Predicted weather forecast for this morning sounded promising... so took the plunge, got up in the dark and drove an hour to this spot (Chalky Beach, NSW; Australia) eager for what might happen.
The image you see here was taken during a 10 minute splash of color!
I managed a couple of other keepers during this brief episode and will post them later..
Hope you like this one - thanks in advance for any comments, views or favorites - always very much appreciated!!!
Hope you have an awesome day and weekend!!
Given the predicted weather conditions it was with some trepidation that I ventured to Wellington to record the passage of 70000 Britannia on a loaded Crewe to Crewe test run! I was one of the few to venture onto the road bridge and suffered an awful downpour prior to the working. Had it been on time, the sun would have been missing! The crowds on the platforms were vying for positions. God knows how many elbows and heads were in their shots! C’est la vie’ !! 37688 was on the rear!
Top temperature predicted this week by the kind folks at the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM or as we used to call it, the Weather Bureau - why a Bureau though?) is a humid 35C. Sounds like no-one has told them it's now Autumn! Putting that aside, we were down the back alleys of Fortitude Valley in Brisbane and I noted these old commercial buildings (read shops and maybe Bubbles Bath House - whatever that could be!!!!) with four old brick chimneys. Well, they are old and back then of course before Global Warming it seemed to get colder for sure in winter. Chimneys are not rare in Brisbane at all on older buildings but I do wonder even then how many times they were lit up.
Thanks to everyone for your kind enquires about my hearts progress this last week, that support is greatly appreciated. After all the tests, they have confirmed that my heart has deteriorated in terms of its pumping capacity since my last echo sound three years back. Well, that's the heart failure for you I guess. It's kind of relentless. One happy note amongst a sea of bad (my blood pressure is also very low too which goes with the above)...when I started my cardio vascular journey as a 34 year old it was high enough 240/150 to blow my head off and get rushed immediately to hospital. My doctor at the time thought his blood pressure machine (it has a name but I can't spell it) was broken and took three readings on two machines. I have battled high BP since and it's an unpleasant change really to swim to the other end of the pool as low BP is harder to treat.
Anyway, the happy note was that I also had a four hour stress test on my heart, that test is a chemical one (walking on a treadmill uphill would kill me) so they do CT's before and after filling you with chemicals that mimic stressing your heart and radio active tracers that allow them to see your heart arteries and muscle - the upshot of which was 13 years after my quadruple by-pass, the arteries are at least still good, despite all those chocolates that our neighbour gave us at Christmas etc etc etc!
So now I am on new drugs for me and new drugs on the market that hopefully will strengthen my heart a bit without lowering my BP further. It's kind of a Catch 22 and complicated journey. I know that many of you have your own to make and of great challenge...getting old isn't all line dancing and orchid growing! Have a happy weekend everyone. And thanks again.
The weather predictors "flurries will not stick"
"TOO WARM THE SNOW WILL MELT" ha
Still weird we do not get snow in December. Rarely get snow anyway. Like once ever three years in February.
See how bright the flowers color was. Cut them all down 2 days later. . . sigh
I was on a hike in the Alps with our dog Giorgio. The weather forecast predicted it would be a sunny day! But the God of the weather had other plans. His humor is more complex. It’s much funnier to have fog, followed by a pinch of strong wind and a few hours of snowstorm. I think it was an experiment to test how long it will take until I’m going crazy (lol), because suddenly all the three components were there! We were still high up on the mountain and had to hurry to reach our home. From a distance I saw a house like the one on my photo! Such houses are only used in summer for the cows. In winter they are empty!
Do you know those movies where a small group of teenagers find a small little house in a place in the wilderness only to die one after the other? Well, it was too late for us to descent the mountain, so we went to this little house to seek shelter from the storm.
And then we stood in front of the door. The house was made of wood and was very very old. The wind was getting stronger and stronger and the wooden beams rattled! Should we really enter this house? I heard the wind whispering to me: „Get in there my little boy, please go inside the house!“. The trees behind me began to bend over because the wind was getting stronger and the sky changed to a mystical dark. Oh boy, if a witch is in the house there, I will die :-)
I stood closer to the door and listened. What was in there? I heard something! I tried to open the door. Very good, it was open he he he! But honestly, I did not wanted to enter this place! And again I heard the wind that whispered to me with a raspy voice: „Come in my boy, here it is warm and beautiful, come in!“. I slowly opened the door and Giorgio began to growl. The door squeaked and in front of me I saw only darkness. And again that scary whisper: „Come in and bring me luck“ … for a felt eternity it was very quiet except for Giorgio who was still growling … and suddenly a raven flew over our heads into the open! Ahhhhhh … I swore vilely in six different languages! What a fright!!!! My heart has fallen down into my shoes, and since then I try to get it back again (lol). I think I am aged about 20 years ha ha ha!
Well, we were about 30 minutes in this cottage. And then after this time the sun came out! This day was one of the sunniest days of my vacation :-)
I want to thank all very much for your "views", "Comments" and "Favourites" :-) The only thing that matters is that you have joy in this photo. Again, thank you :-)
The weather was predicted to be overcast and rainy this morning ...so l wasn't expecting to get any sunrise photos ....but while l was drinking my coffee and listening to all the bad news about the world on tv ...l happend to notice some color through the window in the eastern sky ....so l grabbed my camera and went outside and got a few shots ....
It was a strange sky, because there was actually a fine drizzle of rain falling ...and the colors faded to a dull gray just a few minutes after these pics .......and the sunrise itself was gray and colorless ...
Thanks for the visit ...wishing you a nice week :-)