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Some things remain –
silent, still, observing what’s left behind.
A cat on a rusted roof,
a quiet sentinel in a world that forgot itself.
Captured in Second Life on Portocorvo – Harvest Moon.
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There are moments that will probably remain unforgettable. This morning was one of them and so the first rays of the sun were not only warming the scenery, they were also warming the photographer's heart.
In one of the few remaining places for me to bird in Ottawa, while respecting the rules around public space and physical distancing, there are densely overgrown trails. The birds migrating through love the protection they provide, and photographers - the few of us out and about - are less thrilled. But this is the bird in its habitat and for that I am really pleased.
This was my first day using a new (to me, but previously used) camera that I bought to change things up (thanks David!). It is a very different approach to bird photography for me, as it really relies on my getting pretty close to my subject. But it works really well, and the detail (assuming i can keep getting close to something!) is amazing.
Yesterday the thermometer remained below zero and after a foggy start the sun pleased with bright light. The evening showed a very nice sunset. Hücker Moor, Spenge, Ostwestfalen, Germany
How can you do anything more?
From the series 'Los desastres de la guerra' ('The Disasters of War')
1812 - 1815
From the exhibition "The Disasters of War. Goya and the Present" in the Albertina
"Since the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine in February of this year, the photographer Mykhaylo Palinchak (*1985) has been documenting his homeland’s destruction and the attendant impacts on those who live there. His pictures of apartment complex ruins, the dead and survivors, people on the run, and those who have remained provide an impactful impression of this war’s immediate consequences.
The ALBERTINA Museum is showing 40 recent war photographs by Palinchak, whose work has dealt repeatedly with incisive political developments in Ukraine, in juxtaposition with Goya’s Los Desastres de la Guerra. Just like Palinchak's photography, Goya’s early 19th-century depictions of war from the collection of the ALBERTINA document the universal brutality of wartime events and the suffering of the civilian populace.
The exhibition is on view from 24 May until 21 August 2022."
www.albertina.at/en/exhibitions/the-disasters-of-war-goya...
On one of our included tours with Princess cruises, we went on the only remaining authentic Alaskan sternwheeler for a cruise along the Chena and Tanana Rivers. We saw a bush pilot perform a take off and landing on the river
Music:
A beautiful cover of the Roy Harper classic
"Another Day" by THIS MORTAL COIL, in 'It'll End In Tears' (1984)
Tybo, Nevada
One of the very few remaining buildings in this once thriving gold mining town found up a dry and dusty gravel road near Tonapah. There appear to be a couple of occupied houses, one of which sported MAGA signs. We didn't stay long.
York, England looking NE from the City Wall, near the railway station. The brown spire in the distance is the Catholic St Wilfrid; York Minster is visible behind and to the right.
York is about 200 miles north of London. There are ~200,000 people in York & its surrounding area, ~1 in 10 is a student. The city is known for landmarks such as York Minster & the City Walls.
York has, since Roman times, been defended by walls of one form or another. To this day, substantial portions of the walls remain, and York has more miles of intact wall than any other city in England. They are known as York City Walls, the Bar Walls & the Roman walls (though this last is a misnomer as very little of the extant stonework is of Roman origin, and the course of the wall has been substantially altered since Roman times). The walls are ~13 feet (4m) high & 6 feet (1.8m) wide.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_city_walls
Fujifilm X-T20. Fujinon XF 10-24mm f/4 R OIS. 24mm, f/5, 1/200 sec, ISO 400. Thanks for viewing. The album "England" has 2 more views of York Minster.
The lighthouse of the Venetian harbor of Rethymno is the second largest remaining Egyptian lighthouse in Crete, after the lighthouse of Chania harbor. It is built on the edge of the old sea wall of Rethymnon and it can be accessed very easily.
The lighthouse we see today was built by the Egyptians during the decade of 1830, when the Turks handed Crete to the Egyptians. Possibly there was an older Venetian lighthouse at the site, just like Chania harbor.
CSX unit steel train U522-30 is heading south out of Deshler through some of the remaining classic B&O CPL installations left on the line. Deshler, OH 11/30/2024
Moving trains at Clapham North tube station. Clapham North is one of the few remaining stations with an island platform
The belfry & part of the west wall alone remain of this 12th Century celtic type church destroyed in the great storm of Oct 1859 along with over 100 ships along the coast of Wales/ Another storm in March 1979 caused further damage to the churchyard.
Last night we visited it was a dull day, this time it was gorgeous.
Isaiah 10:19 “And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down.”
The snow
began here
this morning and all day
continued, its white
rhetoric everywhere
calling us back to why, how,
whence such beauty and what
the meaning; such
an oracular fever!
flowing past windows, an energy it seemed
would never ebb, never settle
less than lovely! and only now,
deep into night,
it has finally ended.
The silence
is immense,
and the heavens still hold
a million candles, nowhere
the familiar things:
stars, the moon,
the darkness we expect
and nightly turn from. Trees
glitter like castles
of ribbons, the broad fields
smolder with light, a passing
creekbed lies
heaped with shining hills;
and though the questions
that have assailed us all day
remain - not a single
answer has been found -
walking out now
into the silence and the light
under the trees,
and through the fields,
feels like one.
~First Snow , Mary Oliver
The one and only Santa Fe painted engine remaining in Kansas City is assigned to BNSF train Y-KCK1161-18A today, seen here pulling a small cut of autoracks out of the IRT Auto Facility on the north side of BNSF's Argentine Yard. They're crossing over onto Main Track 5 of the BNSF Emporia Sub, and once they're clear of CP 72, they'll shove into Turner via the North Receiver. 6/18/23.
UP 6706, the last remaining "active" patched CNW unit on the UP, leads a very late ZLCG2 into Murray, NE. Usually a night run through the OMC, problems in Kansas City resulted in the train being late enough to make daylight just south of Omaha.
6706 also threw a rod a week later and is currently enroute to Hinkle, OR where it will either be repaired or stored for the foreseeable future.
The last remaining French RTG "Turboliner", one of the first pieces of new equipment purchased by Amtrak, sits forlorn and derelict in a southern Indiana scrap yard.
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..."stay out with me tonight there's some blankets in the back....I know it's cold but it's that kind of cold that doesn't feel bad when it's late...."
This façade in Amsterdam captures the city's unique blend of practicality and charm. The building's brickwork, arched windows, and bold red shutters are typical of the old canal houses that line the waterways. These structures were often warehouses in the seventeenth century, designed with wide openings and heavy wooden shutters to facilitate the loading and storage of goods brought in by boat. The contrast between the dark brick and bright red wood adds a striking touch, reflecting the city's historic architecture that favors both function and visual rhythm.
Amsterdamâs architecture tells the story of a city built on trade and resilience. The narrow, tall buildings were designed this way due to limited space and high taxes based on façade width. Each feature had a purpose: hooks for hoisting goods, arched doors for access to warehouses, and robust shutters for protection against weather and theft. Over time, many of these commercial structures were converted into homes or offices, yet they retained their original shapes, preserving the city's mercantile identity.
Today, these façades are symbols of continuity and adaptation. While the bicycles leaning on the walls and the restored windows speak of modern urban life, the materials and forms remain anchored in the Golden Age of Amsterdam. The balance between preservation and reinvention is what gives the city its timeless character; a place where centuries of history coexist naturally with daily life.
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After another heavy day of rain, none of the nest was left but one of the chicks remained near where the nest had been. Mama joined this chick at the top of the tree.
Malgré sa ressemblance avec les bourdons, c’est un syrphe appartenane à la famille Syrphidae, donc une mouche. Comme éléments d’identification notons principalement des antennes courtes (elles sont beaucoup plus longues chez le bourdon) ; les nervures des ailes montrent une boucle bien visible, caractéristique de la famille Syrphidae, boucle appelée R4+5. Le mimétisme avec le bourdon est un moyen de défense.
L’adulte ne vit que quelques semaines le temps de pondre pond ses œufs sur des feuilles de narcisse ; à l’éclosion les larves s’installeront dans le bulbe et y resteront jusqu’au printemps suivant.
Despite its resemblance to bumblebees, it is a syrphid belonging to the family Syrphidae, therefore a fly. As identification elements, we note mainly short antennae (they are much longer in the bumblebee); the ribs of the wings show a clearly visible loop, characteristic of the Syrphidae family, a loop called R4 + 5. Mimicry with the bumblebee is a defense.
The adult only lives for a few weeks to lay eggs on narcissus leaves; upon hatching the larvae will settle in the bulb and remain there until the following spring.
Sacred Kingfisher
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We had high hopes that the pair of Kingfishers would remain in the area and raise their young.
They stayed for several weeks, but made no real attempt at nesting.
As the area is a dry ephemeral swamp, in the end, suitably refuelled, they moved on.
Arms encircle as the familiar & friendly begins its embrace. Almost imperceptibly you sense something is just tantalizingly out of reach.
Gently you inquire: "And what's that you are holding with your third arm - behind your back?"
With CP sending their remaining Red Barns off to be scrapped, the ten that the CMQ bought appear to be the lucky ones, being refurnished and repainted. However, before the paint started flowing, they roamed the Moosehead Sub in their old CP Rail era Action Red, such as here, with Job 1 rolling west over the East Outlet of Moosehead Lake. Three of the SD40-2Fs, led by the 9010, lead a PRLX SD40T-2 on a pleasant fall morning, with a lengthy freight trailing behind them.
After finishing up with T4 at Milton and having dinner commitments We said goodbye to Dan and headed for FDL via Slinger and Highway 175. I was showing Stan the railroad we we came down Highway F at Byron to see the headlight of a Southbound in the trees climbing the hill. We quickly got in position and was able to get the last remaining light as by the time the rear end passed us the shadows had completely taken over.
Popped the drone up for a bit of practice this afternoon. The light was good, so I chose the ND4/PL filter. I remain quite self-conscious when I fly, so was careful to keep the drone out over the water and practice manoeuvring from there, so as to minimise disturbance.
The Moorings at Metung, the main white building pictured here, is built on the site of an old boat-builders and also a place where flying boats moored during WW2.
The sole remaining covered bridge spanning the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia, where such bridges once were used to transport goods from roughly 50 mills that lined the creek banks. This 1855 Thomas Mill Road Covered Bridge is the only covered bridge in a major U.S. city.
Out for a short walk on my local patch and was delighted to see this solitary Greenshank amongst the growing numbers of Redshanks. It will be passing through. The Redshanks will remain and by the Autumn there will be thousands, in my humble opinion the Greenshank is one of the most beautifully delicate of the waders we get around here. Actually saw about 24 species of birds in the 30 min walk along the shore. So not a bad tally.
Having eaten, the male brings the remaining half of the fish in for female, and to relieve her on the eggs while she goes and eats.
I'd never been to the Lyndon site at Rutland Water on Manton Bay, to see the Ospreys before and I was a bit dubious, as I'd heard that the nest site and feeding posts were quite distant from the hides. They were indeed a long way off, which stretched the reach of my kit and equally, when flying around, tended to keep their distance, but they did occasionally come closer. At times it was a bit like watching paint dry, while the male went off to fish with the female hunkered down on the nest and eggs; equally as each bird had it's own leisurely feed. However, the short bursts of action in between and after, as the birds flew and wallowed in the water, bathing, was fascinating behaviour to watch and photograph and it was a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon.
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I got out of my car early enough to see the entire sky filled with high level streaking clouds and stars peeking through well before the sun started to rise. The whole hike into the foothills the color just started building in this spectacular way...a strange but amazing atmosphere that slowly creeps in indicating you've made a great decision. It wasn't until a little under an hour before sunrise I was able to capture this scene luckily with a few stars remaining. Unfortunately there was an approaching storm that moved too fast and cut the light right before things really exploded :(
I have another version of this, there is actually a field of dense purple Triplet Lilies below this frame.