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Standing on the remains of the former B&OCT lift bridge over the Calumet River which was infamously taken out by a freighter in 1988. In the background, the former LS&MS (NYC) bridges are permanently raised and a stack train crosses the sole remaining PFW&C (PRR) bridge that makes up CP 509.
The title is an actual neighborhood. Look at the location description in the info.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risley_Moss
Risley Moss is an area of peat bog situated near Birchwood in Warrington, England. It covers an area of 210.5 acres (85.2 ha) and is one of the last remaining fragments of the raised bogs that once covered large areas of South Lancashire and North Cheshire. Natural depressions in the glacial drift left by the ice sheets which covered the Cheshire–Shropshire plain during the last ice age, 10,000–15,000 years ago, filled with water, forming the meres and mosses characteristic of the area today. In some cases, like Risley Moss, peat accumulation filled the depression, allowing colonisation by bog mosses such as the Sphagnum varieties, thus giving rise to the name "moss".
Risley Moss is one of only two mosses in Cheshire where the water level has been deliberately raised in an attempt to encourage the regeneration of an active bog surface.[1] The long-term restoration project to re-wet the moss began in 1978 and was completed in 2002. This scheme was undertaken to create a series of scrapes and bunds to retain water and recreate the perfect conditions for bog flora such as cotton grass and sphagnum mosses to re-colonise the bogs.[2]
It was the former site of a large Royal Ordnance Factory. Today, it is managed by Cheshire County Council as a country park and an educational nature reserve. It was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1986.[1] Risley Moss, together with Astley and Bedford Mosses and Holcroft Moss, is also a European Union designated Special Area of Conservation, known as Manchester Mosses.[3]
Features
The main feature of Risley Moss is the large peat bog flats, overlooked by two observation points: a large watchtower, ideal for bird watching, and a smaller lookout. These points have additional information inside relating to bird species and landscape layouts. The Moss also has several smaller huts located inside the forested area for bird watching and nature enthusiasts.
Tours across the flats and nature reserve are available from the main information centre and are undertaken by local rangers.
In addition to the natural features and landscape, there are several sculptures around the site, usually with a natural theme.
The start of a great morning at Homestead National Historical Park, conveniently located just west of Beatrice, Nebraska.
The Heritage Center building houses a museum, bookstore, and administrative offices.
This is the completed California Dreamin quilt top :o) To compliment (I hope) the off center Barn Raising layout I pieced a diamond border to only run along the two sides. Now to begin the quilt back :o)
Sand Pattern Abstracts, Alameda, California
I frequently walk the beach in Alameda with my camera. Each time I visit the combination of tides and light is different. The conditions are not always conducive to interesting photos but chance favors the prepared so on this day everything came together shortly before sunset with the warm-colored, side-lit sand contrasted against the cool blue shadows where the tide had receded from shortly before.
One of the raised garden boxes in the backyard I can see from my office, gives me something to photograph without going out in the heat.
Peonies and a lone foxglove in a raised bed by the lake. A colony of wild geraniums on the breakwater.
All those who have played cricket & scored a century must have experienced one particular feeling. As soon as you reach the magical three-figure mark & you raise the bat, there is this sudden warm rush up the neck. Whoosh! There is a surge of blood that flows up your neck & face to such a happy feeling that is unexplainable any other way but to get a hundred & feel it.
Completing the Everest Base Camp gave me the same rush. The afterglow that makes you want it again. You realize that the addiction for a game, sports, achieving a particular goal is obsessive & you want your fix again.
Raised Crossing - Norfolk & Southern Main Line from Norfolk VA to points west. Suffolk, VA USA - Camera = Fuji GA645 - Film = Ilford Delta 100 - Film developed by The Darkroom Lab in San Clemente, CA, USA - TheDarkroom.com