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Step 1: Find and Save
First of all, our pretty goldfinch needs to find something tasty to eat. Once that's done, it's important to show your presence in order to convince potential interested parties that you don't want to compete. And then of course he has to make sure that he doesn't become breakfast himself. After all, there are two cats living on the property (birds are always a bit hyperactive and stressed anyway, which is not surprising with a heart rate of 300 to 800 beats per minute).
Step 2: A quick try
Maybe it's really easy and I'll be out of here in no time and up to the cherry tree? So he first tries the supposedly easiest route, which (as so often in life) ends up being the more strenuous one.
Step 3: Replanning and Realignment:
After plan 1 failed miserably, the gentleman finally takes some time and takes a closer look at the matter. He is looking for a stable position with the best possible access to resources. Of course not without keeping an eye on his surroundings the whole time (cats and stuff, you know that).
Step 4: Breakfast
Yammi, delicious sunflower seeds. We haven’t had this for a long time.
Enjoy your meal.
Schritt 1: Finden und Sichern
Zu Allererst muss unser hübscher Stieglitz erst einmal etwas leckeres zum Essen finden. Ist das dann geschafft gilt es Präsenz zu zeigen um eventuelle Interessenten gleich davon zu überzeugen, dass man keine Lust auf Mitbewerber hat. Und dann muss er sich natürlich vergewissern, das er selbst nicht zum Frühstück wird. Immerhin leben hier zwei Katzen auf dem Grundstück (Vögel sind ja von Grund auf sowieso immer etwas hyperaktiv und getresst, was bei einer Herzfrequenz von 300 bis 800 Schlägen pro Minute auch nicht verwundert).
Schritt 2: Ein schneller Versuch
Vielleicht gehts ja ganz einfach und ich bin in null komma nichts hier wieder weg und oben auf dem Kirschbaum ? Also versucht er erst einmal den vermeintlich einfachsten Weg, der (wie so oft im Leben) schlußendlich der anstrengendere ist.
Schritt 3: Neuplanung und Neuausrichtung:
Nachdem Plan 1 kläglich gescheitert ist nimmt der Herr sich nun endlich Zeit und schaut sich die Sache mal genauer an. Er sucht nach einer stabilen Position mit best möglichem Zugang zu den Ressourcen. Natürlich nicht, ohne die ganze Zeit die Umgebung im Auge zu behalten (Katzen und so, ihr kennt das ja).
Schritt 4: Frühstück
Yammi, Leckere Sonnenblumenkerne, hatten wir lange nicht.
Mahlzeit.
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Probably one of the biggest surprises to me as a railfan in South Florida was driving up around the airport loop and finding double stack land bridge on the run around track on the north side of Runway 9... which led to discovering what FEC (or FECI for that matter) did with the plot of land south of Hialeah Yard on the old Kendall Branch. Quality Container assumed the plot for intermodal ramping operations, primarily of international stacks. Call it an inland port if you will. The operation steadily grew, with a realignment to the bank of the canal in the foreground, and an extension of the operation past the obligatory hook turn the 415 is on. Quality handles routinely about 1,500'-1,800' of intermodal coming from Port Miami or any inbound train on FEC. The 415 is handling empty flats that got ramped here as well as stored on the airport loop, rendering this photo op possible. An uncommon sight, but one more common with Hialeah Yard short of room. In 2022 a new loading spot was added for boxcars consigned to Happy Floors.
Winchester & Western's Inwood to Hagerstown turn job soars high over the Potomac River that marks the boundary between West Virginia and Maryland. This was once Pennsylvania Railroad trackage and lead locomotive GP38-2 2689 may have travelled this line in a prior life as it was built for the Penn Central in 1971 and later worked for ConRail. This track was acquired by the W&W from ConRail in 1986.
From my friend Ken Lehman: The old bridge piers were the original Cumberland Valley RR/PRR bridge across the Potomac. The current bridge and realignment were completed in 1914. If you know where to look in the winter when the foliage is gone, one can see where a spur left the original alignment down to river level. There, coal was transferred from rail to barges for transportation on the C&O canal.
FEC GP38-2 508 returns after placing hoppers on the Airport Loop. Quality Container takes up to 1900' of intermodal generally to and from the Port, using a realigned stretch of the old FEC Kendall Branch as a defacto ramp.
A set of doors to one of the many decaying manufacturing buildings left behind at the closed Savanna Army Depot,a 13000 acre facility that was closed in 2000 during the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Process for the military. Many of these areas are off limits and the whole base is a Superfund site.This particular part of the base was open when this picture was taken 4 years ago,now it is fenced off and used by a rail storage company.But the decaying buildings remain...
The Indiana General Assembly is the state legislature, or legislative branch, of the state of Indiana. It is a bicameral legislature that consists of a lower house, the Indiana House of Representatives, and an upper house, the Indiana Senate. The General Assembly meets annually at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis.
Members of the General Assembly are elected from districts that are realigned every ten years. Representatives serve terms of two years and senators serve terms of four years. Both houses can create bills, but bills must pass both houses before it can be submitted to the governor and enacted into law. 49
continuing my little texas theme here... as I have no time processing my newer images right now.
loosely inspired by the always great mr. vedder: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJvZznSqDak
"Setting Forth"
Be it no concern, point of no return
Go forward in reverse
This I will recall
Everytime I fall
I'm free
Setting forth in the universe
Oh I'm free
Setting forth in the universe
Out here realigned
A planet out of sight
Nature drunk and high
Oh I'm free
I'm free...
The campus began in 1887 as "Ye Forest Inne," a summer vacation retreat for Washington, D.C., residents. The retreat did not succeed financially, and the property was sold and redeveloped as a finishing school, opening in 1894 with a class of 48 female students.[2] The architecture of the campus remained eclectic and whimsical. In addition to various Victorian styles, exotic designs included a Dutch windmill, a Swiss chalet, a Japanese pagoda, an Italian villa, and an English castle.[3] Many of these small homes with international designs were built from blueprints obtained by competing sororities, but all were designed by architect Emily Elizabeth Holman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[4] The campus also featured covered walkways, outdoor sculptures, and elaborately planned formal gardens. Among the administration was Assistant Dean of the College, Miss Edna Roeckel.[5] In 1936 it was renamed "National Park College" and its focus was realigned with more modern education trends; it remained one of the most prestigious women's schools in the country.
This photograph is an idea that had been brewing for a few years. It's a vertorama, time stack and exposure blend of the night sky over lower falls. The original idea was to shoot the falls at dusk and to have the milky way over the falls. In fact I did shoot the milky way that night, but the sky here is earlier in the night when I was realigning the camera so the sky would be accurate with the landscape. Well, it was quite a surprise to find all the "meteors" in the photograph. But frankly, the meteors don't look right, so what's probably happening here is I accidentally bumped the tripod during the exposure (I've done that before), and the brighter stars created some light trails. But the effect is cool and I like how it came out, and hope you do also. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, July 2020
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I find a macro shot of lilacs, which should not look old-fashioned, not so easy. It was only after cropping and the necessary realignment of the shot that I realized I could share it after all.
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2023 Photo 208/157 My wife broke her arm on July 13, Thursday. Today, July 27, another Thursday, a surgeon opened up her right wrist and rebroke it so he could realign it and attach a plate and two screws to make the joint "just like new," he said. They put these ID bands on Linda to make her perfectly identifiable. ©2023 John M. Hudson
Old Bayview Ave Bridge.
It's been long abandoned, bypassed by the Bayview realignment and high level bridge that towers just to the west in 1929. It's been sitting idle in the valley for almost 100 years without traffic.
Toronto, Ontario
1 Nikkor 10mm F2.8
Nikon 1 V1
A seemingly rare daylight South Shore Freight runs on a beautiful code blue sky Sunday, as Engineer Nice Guy Mike takes a trio of CSS GP38-2s (2005/2001/2004) on train PF9 enroute to Belt Railway of Chicago’s Commercial Avenue Yard. Seen here heading west through the S Curve in Hammond, IN while approaching the Illinois State Line. Taken: 11-12-23
This whole area of downtown Hammond will look drastically different in the coming months as next to me is the track realignment for the main and the connection for their new passenger service to Dyer, IN. This S curve is one of my favorite hidden shots on the line, time will tell what the track alignment will look like when the track project is all said and done.
Winchester & Western's Inwood to Hagerstown turn job soars high over the Potomac River that marks the boundary between West Virginia and Maryland. This was once Pennsylvania Railroad trackage and lead locomotive GP38-2 2689 may have travelled this line in a prior life as it was built for the Penn Central in 1971 and later worked for ConRail. This track was acquired by the W&W from ConRail in 1986.
From my friend Ken Lehman: The old bridge piers were the original CVRR/PRR bridge across the Potomac. The current bridge and realignment were completed in 1914. If you know where to look in the winter when the foliage is gone, one can see where a spur left the original alignment down to river level. There, coal was transferred from rail to barges for transportation on the C&O canal.
Old Bayview Ave Bridge.
It's been long abandoned, bypassed by the Bayview realignment and high level bridge that towers just to the west in 1929. It's been sitting idle in the valley for almost 100 years without traffic.
Toronto, Ontario
1 Nikkor 10mm F2.8
Nikon 1 V1
Double stack train HAN-1X from the NYS&W moves west on the Binghamton-Buffalo segment of the run at Gibson on 27 April 1991, with a SD40-2 quartet for power. Realignment of Route 17 through here necessitated shifting the Southern Tier Line from ex-Erie right of way over to the long abandoned Lackawanna roadbed, restoring a small piece of the DL&W in the process.
As international trade continues to grow in British Columbia, the City of Vancouver [...] and Port [Metro Vancouver] collaborated on a plan to realign and elevate the road to allow for the construction of [...] additional tracks.
Nilex [...] recommended the SierraScape Retaining Wall System and the Sierra Slope Retention System as economical and aesthetic alternatives to other concrete panel or wire wall systems. [...].
The rock face and the vegetated face (see image below) of the now completed Low Level Road Expansion wall will lower sound reflection from the grain terminal and railway adjacent to the road.
Rio Grande Zephyr enters the Soldier Creek Line Change at Detour, Utah on Oct. 10, 1982. The original right-of-way featured seven miles of 4% grade, tracing the path of today's US Highway 6 to Soldier Summit. The 1913 realignment through the Gilluly horseshoe curves cut that gradient in half.
The DPU of the Z-SSECHC rolls over Nason Creek on the Gaynor Treslte on a cloudy day in the Cascade Mountains.
In 1949, the Great Northern Railroad completed a project to realign the tracks in this area over the current day Gaynor Treslte and Tunnel 14.7. Below in this frame was the pre-1949 right of way, which was constructed in the late 1800's when GN first built over the pass.
After letting Extra 9022 East pass, GTW passenger train #56 is departing Durand for Detroit on a sunny evening in October 1958. The train is crossing the Ann Arbor diamond that was eliminated during the realignment of the line that ended with the Ann Arbor utilizing trackage rights from Durand to Owosso to access their yard and facilities. Photo by Emery Gulash.
I made a visit to the Morenci Mine railroad, these days formally named Freeport McMoRan (FMI) on a Monday in early September. Like so many railfans before me, I came to the area as I’d been fascinated from afar by the steep grades, heavy tonnage, and beautiful scenery of this part of Arizona. It lived up to the reputation! (Well, perhaps all except for the condition of the engines - the FMI engines have gotten rather filthy as it appears they don’t bother washing much of anything and the AZER paint is cleaner but is a bit more faded now in the desert sun…)
The Arizona Eastern is the FMI’s connection to the outside world. They started the morning in town and made a trip to South Siding and back. The FMI ran a job within the plant to move some cars from the concentrator area down to their main lower yard, and then a job that made two trips up and down the hill with a second set of power.
Here the 5-pack of geeps in three different paint schemes (FMI 49, FMI 55, FMI 50, FMI 59, FMI 56) are howling in dynamic braking mode as they ease the first cut of cars down the hill nearing the interchange with the Arizona and Eastern at Clifton. The AZER hadn’t quite returned from making a run to South Siding yet and so after depositing their outbounds in the small yard along the San Francisco River they would have a short wait on “the ramp” before they did the typical interchange handoff.
Some of the slanted cuts visible on the hill at the top of the frame are from one of the earlier switch-back railroad routes that made the climb from Clifton up to Morenci high on the hills above. Previous operator Phelps Dodge made a realignment of the line to ease the grades a little bit but they still run between 4% and 5% in spots on this impressive bit of industrial railroading.
(I would be remiss without giving a big thanks to GSP and Dennis Stern for kindly sharing some intel on this area that helped make my visit a success!)
CP 244 passes Adelaide at the west end of Quebec Street Yard in London. The crossing for Adelaide Street behind the frame is currently undergoing a grade separation project. So far they have realigned the main and yard lead, and moved the signals around a bit but no replacements have been put up as of yet.
Train: CP 244 with CP 8812 (ES44AC) and CP 8570 (AC4400CW).
Galt Subdivision
London, ON
3/22/2007
I’m stepping away from this for a while.
I’ve reached a point in my life when it’s become necessary to strip away the things that are unessential, and I need to make some decisions and realign a few priorities. I know that sounds ambiguous, and I don’t mean to try to be mysterious; it’s just that this is a public forum and I don’t think the world needs to see every last facet of my mind.
In light of this, I’m going to leave Flickr for a while. I don’t know how long. I need to focus less on the virtual world and more on the real one that I live in, and to do what I can to make the real world better—for me, and for the people I love, and for beings I don’t know but care about anyway, because they have the capacity to experience suffering, and love, and joy.
I want to thank every single one of you for all the kindness you have shown me. Nobody makes you leave comments. Nobody makes you list my photos as your favorites. Nobody makes you send me emails or write me testimonials. You do it because you want to. You choose to give me your time.
And that, to me, is moving and beautiful. I feel honored. I feel thankful. I love you for taking the time to do what you do, and I thank you for making me smile. It is such a simple gesture, to do something that makes someone else smile, and sometimes it’s all that matters.
I wish all of you the joyous sort of feeling one achieves upon leaping up into the sunset.
So goodbye for now, and thank you again for everything. Thank you, thank you thank you.
J. Star
70813 sits at Dore Station Jn being loaded with spent ballast from the bi-directional line through Dore Station. This has been ripped up and realigned to allow a new Manchester bound line to be laid alongside.
A pair of Norfolk Southern SD70ACe's lead a southbound empty coal train out of Tunnel number 4 on the Kenova District, and into the flash of light provided by @mtnclimberjoe. Between Kenova and Delmore, the Kenova district has 7 active tunnels, each of which has its own personality. Tunnel 5 is a "new" bore as it was built to accommodate stack trains on the realigned section between tunnel 7 and tunnel 4, bypassing the old tunnel 6 and 5. Tunnel 4 seen here, is the orginal bore but has been heightened to accommodate stack trains.
After chasing a southbound grain train from Kenova to Williamson in the morning, the rest of the day was fairly dead until dispatch lined 3 southbounds out of Star Yard. One was a coal train that we chased south while the sun was still up, ending here at Tunnel 4 where we waited for the next two southbounds.
July 18, 2018 - Kearney / Gibbon / Heartwell Nebraska US
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This Majestically Beautiful Supercell was loosing steam.. She wouldn't be downgraded until she went south of Nebraska I-80 Corridor between Kearney & Gibbon.
I didn't have time to stop in Kearney long enough, due to I was racing the sunset and still trying to stay in front of the storm. Incredible CC & CG Lighting filled the sky every few seconds as I could hear the Civil Defense (Tornado Sirens) firing off in the City of Kearney & Gibbon Nebraska.
I would eventually realign myself in front of the storm after sunset to get some good lightning firing off. It wasn't the end that days chase. We had another Thunderstorm, severe warned right behind this one... This was to good to be true....Oh what a night!!!
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Le pendule de Foucault, du nom du physicien français J.B.L. Foucault, est une expérience conçue pour mettre en évidence la rotation de la Terre. Elle s'explique par l'existence de la force de Coriolis.
Cette expérience, datant de 1851, met en scène un pendule accroché à 67m de haut, au sommet de la voute du Panthéon, à Paris.
Photo prise lors d'une petite Balade Parisienne avec Catherine et Frank.
4 pictures HDR vertorama, see large
Song Sparrow • Melospiza melodia
Cleaning feathers through a process called preening, using their beaks to realign feathers, remove dirt, and spread oils from a gland near their tail.
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Six KCS EMDs drag M262 across the Blue Parkway concrete arch bridge on Kansas City's east side, built in 1928 as part of a major realignment of the KCS mainline in the 1920s and one of four major trestles on the mainline coming out of Knoche. EMD supremacy is on full display here, a nod to the era between the early 1960s and mid-1990s when KCS remained a strictly-EMD railroad.
Kuala Lumpur City Center. Taken at sunrise this Saturday morning from the Skybar of the Traders Hotel, located on the 33th floor. A perfect vantage point! No tripod used, but managed to secure the camera steadily.
7 exposures HDR. Thanks to the very fast auto bracketing of the D300 (less than 2 secs for the 7 exp), I did not even need to realign the exposures.
Wish you an excellent week end my friends!
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After several years, the second platform at Metra's Union Pacific North Line station at Ravenswood is finally taking shape. For... reasons, this station upgrade project has stretched over many years, along with the reconstruction and realignment of the right of way in Chicago proper, in order to replace century-plus old bridges. In accordance with Chicago & North Western's tradition of left-hand running, the newest platform here is the inbound side.
Constructed in 1907, Singer station took its name from the huge Singer sewing machine factory that it was built to serve. The station is located on a section of track that was realigned to make space for the factory. In addition to this station (still in use today), the original station, which was titled Singer Works, and previously called Kilbowie Road (Old), once boasted six bay platforms for the many workers' trains that ran there. Regular works trains ended in 1963 and the bay platforms, and indeed the factory, have long since gone. Quoted from Wikipedia
yucca, arizona in 2007, on the 1952 realignment of route 66.
this area has several abandoned buildings and signs near what used to be known as the ford proving grounds.
A Pratt through truss bridge over Crooked Creek on an old alignment of County Road 818 in Cullman County, Alabama. It was built in 1935, rehabilitated 1989, and abandoned in 2004 when a road realignment with a new bridge was completed.
It's like the first Sparrow seen in the May morn
hopping toward the joy gleaned from a bread crumb
of comfort bourn unto the wind it flies
in the face of commonality it didn't succumb
from Winter a mild-mannered Spring now belies
a testament to the irony of Sunday's halo
encircling this dawn Sun's peep
a day of tardiness for the populous is also pause for thought
cleansing to some, it's the eave hung over the deep house of little sleep -
to others, the ambient house for the weekend hitherto overwrought
we're all in the shadow of tomorrow as the Sun rises
or should it set without us...
amends can be made with the comforts of yesterday
for the present is where time is always able to discuss
many a portentous abode where our minutes obey
the quest of what it means to truly awaken
and what it is to truly dream alive;
is a sleepy Sunday merely the abridgement for the weak?
or the realignment of the senses derailed before belief can arrive
we'll wait and see for our every experience is by rights unique.
by anglia24
09h00: 04/05/2008
©2008anglia24
This was the moment a male Sparrowhawk returned to the perch after an unsuccessful hunt.
It had slammed into the hedge behind a small bird that narrowly escaped its talons.
I took this shot with the sun to the side and low in the sky, hence the high contrast.
It does at least show how quickly the eyes adjust to changing light. The eye in full sun appears yellow (the same as a juvenile), but the eye in shadow is orange as you would expect in an adult.
What it also shows is how quickly the eyes adjust to changing light. The pupil of the eye in shadow has instantly dilated to let in more light.
A few moments preening and realigning its feathers and it was ready for another hunt.
UP Northwest #713 rolls past a nearly empty North Avenue Yard which now primarily serves as a MOW base. Above the lead engine in the background is St. Stanislaus Kostka, the second church on the site built in 1881. Before the future Kennedy Expressway was built, the C&NW ran behind the east side of the church. When the construction of the expressway began in the 1950s, a furious community effort resulted in the realignment of the proposed freeway and a complete relocation of the C&NW mainline. It also, more or less, resulted in the construction of North Avenue Yard.
Statesman's trip up the S&C today was headed by 47805 and 47810 running 1Z47 08:32 Uttoxetter to Appleby.
The light not quite right at Dore, looking across the realigned curve, but much better 30 minutes, and a quick drive across Sheffield later.
The thrill of a train moving backwards. That’s how the world is up here on NS’ Cub Creek Branch with only one way in and one way out. We are just over halfway thru the backup move back to Cub Creek Jct. and the “mainline” of the Guyandott River Branch. This is ex-Virginian territory, although this particular spot is on the realigned part of the branch rebuilt after N&W took em over. Virginian originated coal doesn’t utilized the famed P-D district south of Mullens/Elmore anymore either. All former VGN loaded trains head west towards Gilbert to connect to the N&W. After a short run on their Gilbert Branch trains arrive at the Wharncliffe wye where you can turn towards Williamson and western destinations, or east for Bluefield and the traditional tidewater ports the VGN would serve.
The Colorado River served as a major barrier to early settlers and explorers of the region. In 1880 a prospector named Cass Hite established a ford near the mouth of the Dirty Devil River, 2 miles downstream from the present-day bridge location. This ford, named "Dandy Crossing", served as one of the few locations in the region where travelers could cross the Colorado River. The settlement that formed at the crossing location took the name of its founder, Hite. In 1946, a settler named Arthur Chaffin constructed an automobile ferry using an old car engine and a thick steel cable to hold it in place. The ferry operated for 20 years, before the rising waters of Lake Powell inundated the settlement of Hite.
The bridge was completed as part of the realignment of State Route 95, which was approved in 1962 due to the construction of Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell's subsequent flooding of the original roadway alignment and the original river crossing in Hite.
raised the sights so the work w/ the suppressor and added a cute little torch/lam combo. Let me know what you all think.
The campus began in 1887 as "Ye Forest Inne," a summer vacation retreat for Washington, D.C., residents. The retreat did not succeed financially, and the property was sold and redeveloped as a finishing school, opening in 1894 with a class of 48 female students.[2] The architecture of the campus remained eclectic and whimsical. In addition to various Victorian styles, exotic designs included a Dutch windmill, a Swiss chalet, a Japanese pagoda, an Italian villa, and an English castle.[3] Many of these small homes with international designs were built from blueprints obtained by competing sororities, but all were designed by architect Emily Elizabeth Holman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[4] The campus also featured covered walkways, outdoor sculptures, and elaborately planned formal gardens. Among the administration was Assistant Dean of the College, Miss Edna Roeckel.[5] In 1936 it was renamed "National Park College" and its focus was realigned with more modern education trends; it remained one of the most prestigious women's schools in the country.