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It is not easy to get a shot of Mak. It looks like he is sitting there enjoying the photoshoot but he was prancing to get going again. Im sure he was thinking hurry up and be quick.
A quick word of thanks to everyone who has taken the trouble to view, comment or fave any of my shots this last year. Thanks too for your inspiration - I hope you have a great Christmas / holiday, and all the very best for 2017 in life's quest for happiness, health and, of course, snapping "the one"!
This will be my last upload for 2016. If you prefer an 'unencumbered' version ....... www.flickr.com/photos/davidhayes/16410253092
Lunar, with Luna, SQL & Alfie HSoS!
I misread the theme and had to quickly find a replacement for the image I had planned to upload!
grey Sunday here on Long Island, with the temps in the mid 60'sF, but so very windy... and I spotted this beautiful little girl fluttering around my garden... I quickly grabbed my camera and followed her around....
not the best images because of the wind... but I like to keep track of all my Monarch visitors!
Happy Sunday, my Flickr friends!!
January has been a very busy month for me, and surprisingly I almost made it through the entire month without shooting a moving train! Of course, it doesn't help that Pan Am Southern's Freight Main--which I currently live only five minutes from--is mostly nocturnal, and even if it wasn't the choice is usually a parade of NS widecabs or patched ex-CSX C40-8s. However, when a friend of mine alerted me to the fact that rebuilt CP SD70ACU #7012 in CP heritage paint was leading today's CP 252 down the CP D&H, a quick check of Google Maps reminded me that I'm just a little over 30 minutes from Fort Edward. Having a well-timed prep-from-home day for work, I figured I could take a little time off and do a "one and done." I arrived at Fort Edward station to see nothing around, and just as I finished checking to see that Amtrak 69, "The Adirondack," would be arriving from the south in 15 minutes, I heard an EOT chirp. A quick check of the tracks and there was 252 in the hole! I quickly relocated to Rogers Island since the light was still good for the bridge over the Hudson River. Amtrak passed northbound, and shortly after 252 could be heard throttling up and then blowing for the crossing. One last quick check of my settings and framing, and 252 quickly entered into view. Not bad for my first moving train this month!
A couple of days ago I posted a comment saying that I don’t do sports shots and here I go again. Actually I don’t really think of this shot as a sport subject either. It’s an exercise in light and motion that just happens to be a picture of a motor bike.
This was taken at an annual event that is held on the beach front at Kirkcaldy. The local motor cycle club gets to close the beach down and race various styles of bike along the sands. This was my first attempt at a panning shot and to this day it’s been one of my best.
How long does it take you to drive 30 miles? If you were with my wife and I you would probably not like it. We stop often when we see things like this. One subject usually leads to another. Do you see only the sunrise? If you look lower you will see an decrepit barn with an old vehicle forever parked by it. That sight means I need to drive up and take a closer look even though we are headed elsewhere.
Normally she always turns her head away when i get the camera. Today i was lucky again and was a bit quicker.
It appears as though someone stopped out on the road and then slogged through the snow to check on an old car in the deteriorating shed. Life habits of our parents often pursue us all our lives. My parents farmed on three locations and sometimes after a long day of work on one of them, my dad would irritate me when we were headed home toward supper and he would say, "let's just stop and take a quick check on the tractor in the other field we left for tomorrow." There weren't as many malevolent country folks back then to worry about but he had a protective sense of ownership and responsibility that he passed on to his children by his example.
Last Saturday we had to drop the children back at University so took the opportunity to call in in the Peak District. A 6 mile walk around Monyash was good (and so was the cake in the cafe there!) and the weather was so good we parked up at Glutton Bridge at 6pm for a walk over Hollins and Chrome Hill.
The post box at Glutton bridge had been taken over by a nesting Robin
First of all, sorry about all the background sound. The director and photographer of this video got lazy and made absolutely no attempt at creativity or artistry! Just a rough and ready clip to show the folding mechanism of my latest little portable travel scooter. I had just returned from a short jaunt along one of our many bike tracks and thought I would do a quick video before putting the trike into the car. The background noise is a council ride on lawnmower keeping the bike track clear and tidy. The trike folding mechanism is really very quiet!
Mr Wattle had to get in quick to grab a piece of honey bread, before the Rainbow Lorikeet got to bossy.
The snow dozer pauses briefly at the Merritt crossing to allow a maintenance employee to climb down from the dozer cab and join a co-worker in the waiting hi-rail truck. A quick briefing is had between crews before the work train will get underway once again and continue plowing eastward while the hi-rail will split, probably driving back across the pass to the west side.
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CM3313 and CM3304 pick up speed as they head North away from Table Top towards Gerogery with 4MC7 to Junee.
Wednesday 21st March 2018
Quick look through the fencing to part of the airstrip where helicopters, light aircraft and The Air Ambulance take off at Caernarfon Airport.
The sign can be seen for The Helicopter Rides.
Cabbage and noodles, with ice cold applesauce on the side, makes for a quick and nourishing lunch on a cold autumn day.
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It seems that nexus gone crazy over there... just been there to download something, an hour later, it says that I have 73 notifications, yet when I open to see... nothing new, only one new.
The questions continue...
You might remember this little hole in a fence post at St Cyrus. A few weeks ago, I'd noticed a couple of male leafcutter bees on these posts, so on another visit I looked for nest holes in the posts, and was thrilled to find one occupied hole, but was then surprised to see that it was occupied not by a bee, but by a digger wasp (`Flick' back about 10 images in my stream). Since then, when I've been at St Cyrus, I've keenly looked in on the digger wasp as I passed; it was there every day I checked. Yesterday, after a break of about 6 days, I think, I was back and checked the post to find not the digger wasp but a cute bee in the same hole! Unfortunately I didn't have my camera, so this is a quick snap on my phone.
I'm curious about what's gone on here; could they both be using the same hole?; did the wasp move out naturally, and then the bee moved in?; did the bee evict the wasp?; is one a parasite?; are they both nesting?; was one or both using it as shelter?
I'm also not sure what type of bee this is. The leafcutters I saw (a few photos in my recent uploads) have now been kindly IDd by the expert Steven Falk, as one of the rarer leafcutters, the black-headed leafcutter bee (Megachile circumcincta). This could be a female (according to his book, they usually nest in sandy ground, but have also been reported to nest in wood), but that's a wild guess.
So much to learn :D
I thought that my little secret was safe…After all, who could possibly find out about my little misadventure this early morning….It all started as I forgot to put my clocks forward to British summer time, making me late riser this morning…….…..Having gulped a cup of tea down, and picked up my guitar and raced to the garage……And slid down the side of the car in my tight garage having placed the guitar in a safe out of harms way place first……It was at that time my phone rang with someone asking where I was as I was late……Thus putting me under more pressure to make up time, as I struggled into the car and fired up the engine slammed it into reverse and reversed straight into my safe place…..And despite my revving engine You could plainly hear the strings pinging as they snapped as the guitar was crushed……I quickly gathered up the remains and put them in the boot of the car and rushed off to my meeting, in the secure knowledge that things could have been worse…For considering that all of the CraZyGang were still very much into British winter time and had no intentions of moving into British summer time this cold morning thank goodness, and would not have been awake to see or hear a thing…..Meaning…… I would not have to face any awkward happy questions about the demise of the guitar when I got home……Or so I had thought….For it would seem that Millie has a story to tell!!!!...And tell it she did…...But at least I can console myself in the knowledge that at least Maysie-May and Halo look suitably unhappy to think that they might never hear me play again !!!!!!!!! I mean just look that face of Halo to prove my point...!!!!!!
The Sea, The Sky, The Earth, The Wind, 2005. Four paintings by Dutch artist Jan Cremer, Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, Holland.
A quick shot of the fading tulips; they only lasted another day or so after I snapped this so I'm glad it caught my eye when it did.
Hope everyone is healthy and doing well.
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On Easter Sunday, the crew on LBU53X out of Butler have been called for a run down the Clyman Subdivision to Jefferson. They've spent most of the day at their tasks of spotting a long string of U.P. reefer storage cars and two loads for the coop on the north side of Jefferson. With their work completed, the duo of UP 1024 and UP 1480 are now light power and are finally beginning the run back north for Clyman Junction and then Butler for the tie-up. Here they clattering over the diamond at Jefferson Junction as the crew checks in with the dispatcher. There's not any mainline traffic, so it sounds like it'll be a quick run back to Butler once they reach the mainline.
The caboose at right, CNW 10958, along with the font of the office sign help make the heritage of this area pretty obvious, despite the UP shield on the power and office door. "JJ" was once the crossing of the CNW mainline from Fond Du Lac to Janesville (which the LBU53X is on) and the mainline from Waueksha to Madison. Both lines have been significantly trimmed down, and with the dwindling of industries on the modern-day Clyman subdivision, this junction is quite sleepy compared to even a couple decades ago. Still though, just being able to see something still clattering through the diamonds here in 2021 is a neat sight in my book, especially from this elevated view.
A VOLTE E' MEGLIO NON NASCERE
La cavolaia è un insetto che fa parte della famiglia dei lepidotteri, possiamo vederlo svolazzare in fase adulta come farfalla, ma a preoccupare il coltivatore è il bruco, implacabile divoratore delle piante di cavolo.
Questo insetto infatti è temuto in agricoltura perché depone le sue uova proprio sulle foglie dei cavoli e in generale delle varie piante crucifere, dalle uova escono larve particolarmente voraci, che danneggiano rapidamente le verdure, sbranando le foglie.
Le larve nutrendosi delle foglie mangiucchiano i cavoli, dilaniando e sporcando l’ortaggio, provocando anche marcescenze. Quando le uova fanno nascere numerosi bruchi l’azione distruttiva può essere anche rapida e pregiudicare totalmente il raccolto delle piante colpite.
Le farfalle adulte invece non portano nessun danno diretto anche se ovviamente deponendo le uova sono la causa del problema e per questo è corretto contrastarle con trattamenti dedicati.
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SOMETIMES IT'S BETTER NOT TO BE BORN
The cavolaia is an insect that is part of the lepidoptera family, we can see it fluttering in the adult stage as a butterfly, but what worries the grower is the caterpillar, relentless devourer of cabbage plants.
In fact, this insect is feared in agriculture because it lays its eggs on the leaves of the cabbage and in general of the various cruciferous plants, particularly voracious larvae emerge from the eggs, which quickly damage the vegetables, tearing the leaves apart.
The larvae feeding on the leaves nibble on the cabbage, tearing and dirtying the vegetable, also causing rot. When the eggs give birth to numerous caterpillars, the destructive action can also be rapid and totally affect the harvest of the affected plants.
Adult butterflies, on the other hand, do not cause any direct damage even if obviously by laying eggs they are the cause of the problem and for this reason it is correct to fight them with dedicated treatments.
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