THE THINGS THAT SEPARATE US...

Two small planets rotate on an elliptical axis without ever meeting. But in the evening, as soon as they realign at the closest point, if nothing else they can see each other, along with everything that divides them ...

🎧 tune

Alone, as the fragments pull away

I try to trace the outline

An atlas, only shade

Warm in the fragments of the day

I pull away 'til I find aptness that will stay

We dissolve in it for a brief moment

I see a light flicker in the low haze

We dissolve in it, and when we fall in

Softening, we realign

I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive

Clearing smoke from my eyes

Color floods from both sides, high

And all the fear that I felt subsides

I'm awake in the slow rise

I'm awake in the slow rise

We dissolve in it for a brief moment

I see a light flicker in the low haze

We dissolve in it, and when we fall in

Softening, we realign

We dissolve in it for a brief moment

I see a light flicker in the low haze

We dissolve in it, and when we fall in

Softening, we realign

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none of the processes that have been replaced have disappeared. More people than ever are practicing every approach to shooting and printing :-)

Keith Carter

HMM!! Truth Matters! Lies have consequences.

cosmos, little theater garden, raleigh, north carolina

youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8

I am resilient

I trust the movement

I negate the chaos

uplift the negative

I'll show up at the table

again and again and again

I'll close my mouth and learn to listen

woah woah ooh ooh

these times are poignant

the winds have shifted

it's all we can do

to stay uplifted

pipelines through backyards

wolves howlin out front

yeah, I got my crew but truth is what I want

realigned and on point

power to the peaceful

prayers to the waters

women at the center

all vessels open

to give and receive

let's see the system

brought down to its knees

woah woah ooh ooh

I'm made of thunder

I'm made of lightning

I'm made of dirt yeah

made of the fine things

my father taught me that I'm a speck of dust

and this world was made for me

so let's go and try our luck

I got my roots down, down deep

So what are we doing here?

what has been done?

what are you gonna do about it

when the world comes undone?

my voice feels tiny

and I'm sure so does yours

but put us all together

make a mighty roar

roar

Chelsea Piers

Shot at Ocean Rd (Southern Ocean) Victoria (Australia). On cloud dancing: "ice crystals, especially long needles, tend to become aligned with the ambient electric field. So what you are seeing is sunlight reflecting off ice crystal faces that are constantly being oriented by the developing electric field just above the [cumulonimbus] top. Then there is a discharge in the cloud, and the field collapses momentarily, and the crystals begin to realign again. Then this just keeps happening over and over"

{see: www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/amazing-video-of-a-...).

Canon EOS 7D Mark II

Sunrises are something very special to me, something magical. And not only when they appear in the form of angel wings on an old willow tree.

Every sunrise is a small new beginning, an opportunity to reorient, realign or maybe even reinvent yourself.

Of course, this is so much easier said (or written) than actually done. Because each of us is in our deep orbits, surrounded by walls made up of societal norms and expectations directed at us. The worst of these are usually our own expectations of ourselves.

But it doesn't have to be total overthrow. Be aware of where you want to go and who you want to be every day and always hold on to it. That alone will change your path.

And if you're thrown back once, it's not so bad. After all, tomorrow is another sunrise.

Sonnenaufgänge sind etwas ganz Besonderes für mich, etwas magisches. Und das nicht nur, wenn sie sich in Form von Engelsfügeln an einer alten Weide zeigen.

Jeder Sonnenaufgang ist ein kleiner Neubeginn, eine Gelegenheit sich neu zu orientieren, neu auszurichten oder vielleicht sogar ganz neu zu erfinden.

Natürlich ist das so viel leichter gesagt (oder geschrieben) als tatsächlich getan. Denn jeder von uns befindet sich in seinen tiefen Bahnen, umgeben von Wänden bestehend aus gesellschaftlichen Normen und Erwartungen, die an uns gerichtet sind. Wobei die schlimmsten davon meist, die eigenen Erwartungen an uns selbst sind.

Doch es muss nicht gleich der totale Umsturz sein. Sei dir täglich bewusst, wo du hin möchtest und wer du sein möchtest und halte immer daran fest. Das allein wird bereits deinen Weg verändern.

Und wirst du einmal zurück geworfen, dann ist das nicht so schlimm. Schließlich ist morgen auch wieder ein Sonnenaufgang.

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Geary, Oklahoma was on Route 66 when the Mother Road was built in 1926; however by 1934 Route 66 was realigned directly from El Reno to Hydro, bypassing Geary.

Barred Owl realignment..

On my yesterdays walk through thick fog a met these two buddies. When I saw them standing there, so lonely on that wide field I instantly knew the titel of this photo and I realized that You don’t need much to feel associated. I don’t have to be the center of each party ore need to realign on everybody around me. After all, and I do abridge that here, it only needs one other person. Someone in whom I can reflect myself, who I feel connected with, someone who is sharing my view to this world ideally with a different point of view. To have someone like this can make the difference between being alone and being lonely.

Bei meinem Spaziergang im dichten Nebel stieß ich gestern auf diese beiden Kameraden. Wie ich sie das so stehen sehe, einsam auf weitem Feld ist mir spontan der Titel des Bildes eingefallen. Und ich bin zu der Erkenntnis gelangt, dass es nicht viel bedarf, um sich dazugehörig zu fühlen. Ich muss nicht der Mittelpunkt jeder Party sein, oder mich an alle Menschen in meiner Umgebung anpassen. Im Grund, und hier sehr verkürzt dargestellt, reicht dazu eine weitere Person aus. Jemand, in dem ich mich spiegeln kann, mit dem ich mich verbunden fühle, Jemand der den Blick auf die Welt mit mir teilt, im Idealfall mit einem anderen Blickwinkel. So jemanden zu haben kann den Unterschied zwischen Allein sein und Einsam sein ausmachen.

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New sculpture to commemorate US Rt. 66. The sculpture is along the original alignment of the mother road. This was the route from 1926 until 1933 when a realignment move it a mile south of this location

If you like Indie-Pop (like me), this might be something for you:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqTd0zlZnY

... I dont' know the band Subsonic Eye, just discovered the song by chance when looking for "Cosmic Realignment" (the name of the filter I used here) ... the sound reminds me a tiny bit of the The Maccabees

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This is the roof of a cinema complex in my city (looking straight up). In my eyes it looks like a spaceship - I am such a SciFi fan ; ))

So I added the filter 'Cosmic Realignment' (Topaz Studio) just for fun (it's the blue-magenta galaxy-shaped bubble in the middle) and some further edit in Analog Efex (especially light leaks)

I had to crop the image on the right to cut away a pillar that destroyed the spaceship-look : ))

Happy (Sliders) Sunday !

Seen on an estate...perfect place to get away from it all for awhile.

So glad you stopped by, thanks very much!...Pat...xo

I can do awards and invites again even with the splint; I''ll explain below:)

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I had wrist surgery on Jan. 5, bones were realigned and a plate inserted to keep them in place. After one bad night of sleeping, I'm good to go...even drove today on a couple errands (not on painkillers, that's why). Have much more flexibility and much less pain than the previous two weeks...now it's on to therapy!

For "Macro Mondays" group theme "Shadow"

Decided to have a clearing of my desktop and this little bottle remained to be put in its storage box. The desk light happened to highlight it to produce quite a long shadow that seemed to have possibilities. So replaced onto a whiter card, desk light adjusted, bottle realigned, and after a check on overall size, photograph taken - just this one.

The patterned shadow was a bonus.

The bottle is more of a flask as it isn't round but more oval in

cross-section.

Another 'KISS' - keep it simple stupid - production.

Cosmicar TV lens 50mm f1.9

The Zia Motor Lodge was erected about 1938, right after Route 66 was realigned to come straight through Tijeras Canyon rather than detour up through Santa Fe. The smallish Zia symbol fit in nicely with the understated, yet regionally appropriate architecture. There were open carports next to each unit. The Zia Motor Lodge was styled in the Southwest vernacular architectural design.

It's exciting and fulfilling to walk on new lanes and virgin paths. Contemporary it can be very exhausting and even dangerous too. Thats why its not only making sense but sometimes its even necessary following trails others left behind for us. When we do this, we have to be cautious and keep two things in mind (at least two). For one thing, we need to be attentive, where these trails are guiding us too. We need to look up again and again asking ourselves if we wanted to get here and if its good for ourselves to be here. If its not like this, we need to realign, change the direction and leave the trail. For the second thing, we need to make sure that we don't follow our own footprints because in that case, we are going in circles and will never reach somewhere.

Es ist sehr aufregend und erfüllend neue Wege zu gehen und auf jungfräulichen Pfaden zu wandern. Gleichzeitig kann dies jedoch auch äußerst anstrengend und manchmal sogar gefährlich sein. Deshalb macht es nicht nur Sinn sondern ist manchmal sogar nötig auch Spuren zu folgen, die andere für uns hinterlassen haben. Wenn wir das tun, müssen wir jedoch achtsam sein und zwei Dinge beachten (mindestens zwei). Zum einen müssen wir aufmerksam sein, wo die Spuren uns hin leiten. Wir müssen immer wieder aufblicken und uns fragen, ob wir hier hin wollten und ob es uns hier gut geht. Ist dem nichts so, gilt es sich neu zu orientieren, die Richtung zu wechseln und die Spur zu verlassen. Zum anderen müssen wir uns vergewissern, dass es nicht unsere eigene Spur ist, der wir folgen, denn ist sie das, laufen wir im Kreis und kommen nie irgendwo an.

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The daily Waterloo Yard to Kirk Yard manifest train has a old veteran leader today. BNSF 732 does the honors on this 6800 foot DP-d train as they cross over Buffalo Creek on this wooden bridge east of Winthrop. The railroad realigned the track thru here many years ago to lesson the grades thru here. One can see the old piling from the old alignment that crossed way lower. There use to be some hellish grades thru here back in the IC days.

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A matched quartet of Utah Railway SD40s pull a Moapa, Nevada to Wildcat, Utah coal empty along D&RGW's Soldier Creek Line Change near Tucker, Utah the afternoon of April 2, 1994. The realignment reduced the ruling grade between Detour and Soldier Summit from 4% to 2%.

with each gust of gloom

transparent emotions flow

a whistling tender breeze

lingering a lonely rhythm

realigning clouds of smog

hovering tattering trees

leaving behind a silhouette

absorbing shadows of sorrow

all alone a locked heart

searching for unknown hope

humming the bitter dreams

of a darkened and lost soul....written by lady bird.

A female Merlin realigning her feathers :-) Ottawa East

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A tower stands on the edge of time

Upon it stands the astral mind

The burning chaosphere seethes behind

Ours to see yet we are blind

The eyes of God look upon what he's done

And the eyes of Man look on and beyond

I am a god, I am the one

The wizard in black reveals the sign

The chosen are ready, destiny realigns

Eye of ultra soul, together we join

Alone again, once again, into the void

Cosmic eye in the heart of the sun

Freedom rays awaken the chosen ones

[Song: "Wizard in Black" by Electric Wizard, off the 1997 album "Come My Fanatics"]

Concept by Torsten Pose by Tantrica!

Shot at Ostoja! maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nadril/43/207/38

This photograph was taken on a red brick section of the original (1926-1930) alignment of U.S. Route 66 that is located between Chatham and Auburn on Snell Rd. off Illinois Route 4 in Sangamon County, Illinois. In 1926, this road segment became part of the new Federal Highway System when it was designated as part of U.S. Route 66.

It held this distinction until 1930 when Route 66 was relocated to the east in an effort to bypass more municipalities. This was deemed necessary by the Division of Highways to allow traffic flow through the state with less obstacles to slow the journey.

In 1932, the original Portland cement used on this segment was resurfaced with the brick surface seen in this photo. Brick used for road surfaces were most often laid over a bed of concrete. After pouring the Portland cement, the brick had to be laid by hand, a difficult, time consuming project. Records show no reason for resurfacing the rural 1.53 miles of Illinois Route 4, north of Auburn with brick. After the project was completed, this road was designated Old Illinois 4. Today the road and bridges, cross-section template, culverts and gradings are virtually as they were in 1932.

This 1.53 mile long section of the road in Sangamon County is known today as the Auburn Brick Road. This segment of Route 66 was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It is listed on the National Register because of its value to engineering history, not its Mother Road connection.

Route 66 originally ran from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California, a distance of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). It was recognized in popular culture by both the 1946 hit song "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" and the Route 66 television series, which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It was also featured in the Disney/Pixar feature film franchise Cars. In John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), the road "Highway 66" symbolized escape and loss. Other designations and nicknames for the highway include the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America and the Mother Road. US 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, but was officially removed from the United States Highway System in 1985 after it had been replaced in its entirety by segments of the Interstate Highway System.

Sources: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Illinois Route 4, North of Auburn; Sangamon Link: Auburn Brick Road, and U.S. Route 66 on Wikipedia

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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.

Amtrak F40PH locomotives 321 and 336 pull the California Zephyr train No. 6 along the Thistle Line Change the morning of June 13, 1984. The line change, built to bypass a massive landslide in the town of Thistle, Utah, opened for service on July 4, 1983. A switchback for construction of the realignment of US Highway 6, is on Billies Mountain at upper right.

The Neighbourhood - Reflections

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJNdR_MKuDM

Where have you been?

Do you know when you're comin' back?

Since you've been gone

I've got along, but I've been sad

I tried to put it out for you to get

Could've, should've, but you never did

Wish you wanted it a little bit

More, but it's a chore for you to give

Where have you been?

Do you know if you're comin' back?

We were too close to the stars

I never knew somebody like you, somebody

Fallin' just as hard

I'd rather lose somebody than use somebody

Maybe it's a blessing in disguise

(I see myself in you)

I see my reflection in your eyes

I know you're sick

Hopin' you fix whatever's broken

Ignorant bliss

And a few sips might be the potion

I tried to put it out for you to get

Coulda, shoulda, but you never did

Wish you wanted it a little bit

More, but it's a chore for you to give

Where have you been?

Do you know if you're comin' back?

We were too close to the stars

I never knew somebody like you, somebody

Fallin' just as hard

I'd rather lose somebody than use somebody

Maybe it's a blessing in disguise

(I see myself in you)

I see my reflection in your eyes

(Tell me you see it too)

So close, so close

Yet so far away (so far)

I don't know (I don't) how to be solo (no)

So don't go, oh, no, just stay

You and I were bright, shootin' through the sky daily (yeah)

Lightin' up the night, wasn't always right, baby (mm-hm)

Yeah, every time that we realign, it's crazy

And you save me

We were too close to the stars

I never knew somebody like you, somebody

Fallin' just as hard

I'd rather lose somebody than use somebody

Maybe it's a blessing in disguise

(I see myself in you)

I see my reflection in your eyes

(I sold my soul for you, I know you see it too)

Yeah, I bought the same ones too

I know you're tired, I know you tried

To say your point of view, yeah

Sick of all the poison in me

What the hell do you want from me, babe? Uh-huh

I see myself in you, I see myself in you, baby

I see myself in you, alright

I sold my soul for you, maybe you should stick with us now

The daily Waterloo Yard to Kirk Yard manifest train has a couple SD75's today for the short 4700 foot train. The train crosses the 32 feet high/321 feet long wood bridge over Buffalo Creek east of Winthrop on the Dubuque Sub. The railroad realigned the track thru here somewhere around 1952. One can see the old pilings from the old alignment that crossed lower, and made for some huge grades throughout this area. Finally...CN power on CN track!

CN's EJ&E tribute engine works up the 2% grade of Steelton Hill with cans destined for export. The original alignment of Steelton Hill can be seen on the left. CN realigned parts of the hill in 2015 during a double-tracking project.

In order to fly at peak performance, birds must carefully maintain their feathers. This means removing dirt, excess oil, and parasites. Birds do this by running their bill from the base of a feather to the tip, a process known as preening. In addition to removing debris, preening also realigns feathers, improving their aerodynamic performance.

Photographed at Fish Haul Beach, Atlantic Ocean, Hilton Head Island,US

Composite of two handheld images taken just after sunset from the same viewpoint, in Sugar Land Memorial Park. Different focus and separate curve adjustment, but no realignment.

29 June 2021; 09:20 CDT; Velvia with post. ^188/220427

Two days without power helps realign priorities... but golly I missed my computer. Two days behind in processing new pictures, too. And trying to make the most of these nice fresh fritillaries.

U30Cs, pellets between the rails, rock cuts, 82 year old jennies, searchlights, and a door propped open with a broom. Does it get any more LS&I than that? The 7 Tilden crew makes their second trip to the mine with the U30C pair as they hang a right at Palmerline Junction and head for a load of Tilden ore. This location was originally where the DSS&A’s “Palmerline” to the Volunteer Mine in nearby Palmer parted ways with the C&NW main to Escanaba to the right, hence the junction’s name. Both lines were originally further west, but were joined and realigned to their current location in the early 50s to access the then-new Tracy Mine just to the north.

Later that same evening, after the moon had set in the western sky and darkness had descended upon Bridport beach, we realigned ourselves with the Magellanic Clouds around the other side of the jetty.

This image is also a vertical panoramic blend of four wide angled images.

Union Pacific's LUC55 local departs Salt Lake City through Grant Tower the afternoon of Dec. 27, 1992. The train is powered by "Operation Red Block" SD40-2 No. 3626 and GP15-1 No. 1555 pulling 83 cars. Today, the right of way on the left is lined with hundreds of luxury apartments and the track itself has been realigned with gentler curves to increase train speed.

Du coup, c'est fait, c'est fini pour les trains de voyageurs Grandes Lignes en BB 67400. Dur de se dire que le dernier des derniers trains à leur roulement est tombé pour de bon, c'est clairement la fin d'une époque et une page qui se tourne. Si c'est une très bonne nouvelle pour la pérennité du Paris Rodez-Albi, ça en est une un peu moins bonne pour les amateurs des Pielstick et de train à l'ancienne. Revenons à une époque toute proche où sur une bonne annonce de je ne sais plus qui j'apprends que ce dimanche, c'est la belle 67523 bleue nouille qui fait le Albi, et surtout en US. Pas un nuage à l'horizon, tant pis pour le compteur de la 206 qui va prendre un montant à 4 chiffres, les planètes ne se réaligneront pas forcement de si tôt. Après avoir descendu en W sa rame depuis Rodez et en avoir fait l'impasse en gare d'Albi, 20h56 c'est reparti direction la capitale, ou tout du moins Brive, pour l'Intercités de Nuit Albi - Paris-Austerlitz. Il quitte cette cité pleine d'histoire aux derniers rayons de cette belle journée du 18 Juin 2017.

Merci à la team Bleu229 pour leur initiative, qui à défaut de s'être conclu par un train d'adieu porté par notre chère SNCF, aura au moins permis que ce train et les 67400 ne partent pas dans le total anonymat qui leur était promis.

I spent much of Super Bowl Sunday exploring the Conemaugh Line of the NS. This is NS's river grade line east of Pittsburgh used by eastward bulk and heavy manifest freights bypassing the heavy grades of the main line east of Pittsburgh through Latrobe and Greensburg. Here loaded coal train 534 soars across the line's namesake waterway. The line through here was rebuilt to higher ground in the late 1940s due to nearby dam construction. The bridge below was built in 1907 and was part of a first realignment of the original right of way that was built in 1864.

25 years ago, in 1995, photographers had to expect the near end of Nohab built class Di3 workings for NSB as new locos had been ordered in Kiel. Then there had been introduced a third passenger train crossing the polar circle. And in 1990 the E6 road running parallel to the railway on the Saltfjell had been realigned at the polar circle on the east side of the railway with a new bridge at Stødi, that since has proven popular with photographers, when road traffic is not too heavy.

NSB Di 3 623 is seen with the morning's northbound Rt 459 Mosjøen - Bodø a bit north of the polar circle at Stødi, having accomplished the 680m climb, that had started in Mo i Rana at sea level.

I didn't know snakes yawn, but a quick google search showed me that they do and sometimes they do this type of behavior to realign their jaws after a big meal and sometimes it's because they have respiratory issues. It didn't look like this one had had a big meal but I hope it doesn't have any breathing issues either. This is one of my resident black snakes. Not the one who visits me Inside the house because this one is only about 3 feet long and the one that comes inside occasionally is almost 5 feet long. I gently sweep that one back outside! LOL

Same leaf, different shot with texture

Not sure I like it but ...

DSB Vectron EB 3240 with stcikering to commemorate that this loco is the 1000th Vectron produced by Siemens, with regional train Naestved - Kopenhagen at Tyvelse, on the newly electrified and realigned line Ringsted - Naestved.

The lake was formed due to a massive landslide at Attabad village in Gilgit-Baltistan, that occurred on January 4, 2010. The landslide blocked the flow of the Hunza River for five months. The lake flooding had inundated over 12 miles (19 km) of the Karakoram Highway. The lake reached 13 miles (21 km) long and over 100 metres (330 ft) in depth by the first week of June 2010 when it began flowing over the landslide dam.

Part of Karakorum Highway was submerged due to this landslide. The seven kilometer long five tunnels are part of the 24 km long portion of the Karakorum Highway (KKH) which was damaged due to the landsliding.The realignment project was completed at the cost of $275 million.

Soon after leaving Kyle of Lochalsh the first train of the day skirts Badicaul Bay on its way to Inverness. Since this picture was taken the road has been realigned and runs in front of the railway. July 1991

Took this shot of the Concord Point Lighthouse in Havre de Grace, MD at sunset. The ground is uneven, so I took the shot in person it came out a little crooked. Had to realign the photo in Lightroom. Selected a preset with embellish a warm tone and worked on the shadows/highlights for the clouds. Also moved the saturation around a bit.

Some birds, like cormorants, adopt postures where they spread their wings to dry them out, especially after being in the water.

The structure of cormorant feathers decreases buoyancy and thus facilitates underwater pursuit of fishes. Hence their plumage is not water-repellent, but "wettable." In addition to helping wing feathers to dry, other suggested functions for these postures include regulating body temperature ("thermoregulation"), realigning of feathers, forcing parasites into motion to ease their removal, and helping the perched bird to balance.

How does it feel? I think it is about to snow any minute now. Weather feels all over the place. I’m still wearing shorts :) But till we see some snow lets revisit one of my favorite locations outside Chicago covered in fall color. Wish it was closer than it is. What do you think?