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This lighthouse has a cylindrical tower set to the side on a round flat dwelling pad. The tower is painted with red and white stripes and makes in coordination with the remainder of the structure, it looks similar to a child’s toy top. This waisted caisson designed tower is one of the most dangerous lighthouses found on the St. Lawrence River.
Originally, there was a light station that was built there in 1902, but in 1964 the light replaced the former structure.
The lighthouse tower is 83 feet high, with a focal plane of 81 feet, The white light will flash every 2.5 seconds and offers a viewing range of 18 nautical miles. In 2002, the Canadian government granted C$1,4000,000 to rebuild and repair the upper portion of the lighthouse. In 1962, they purposely sunk the hourglass-shaped base in 38 feet of water which took 3 hours to sink. They opened up the valves allowing it to slowly sink to a new location at the river bottom. It was filled up with 8,000 tons of concrete and rock in order to more firmly anchor it into position.
The concrete slab that was then constructed was used as a landing platform for helicopters for lighthouse staff. Other parts of the outside walls were also rebuilt as well. The new base of the lighthouse was intentionally tapered so as to help resist the 20 foot tides that are found in the waters nearby. Oddly enough, in 1966, it was pounded by high waves, snow, and fierce winds for 48 hours but it was able to withstand the storm conditions which were actually much worse than the structure had been built to withstand.
It is currently an active lighthouse but it is not open to the public. You can view the lighthouse from some of the neighboring whale watching tour boats that operate in the area.
The lighthouse is recognized as a Federal Heritage Building due to its historical associations and architectural values. Learn more about Great Lakes Tours and Attractions and cruising the St. Lawrence Seaway with Great Lakes Cruises.
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Snow is melting as some leaves are still hanging on. Will there be one more blast of winter? Or are the green buds just about to reappear and replace these wilted remainders of the season past?
Sharing the remainder of the quick snaps from LA. And another European! Starling sitting in a palm.
Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex
Grade l listed.
List Entry Number: 1272785
Listing NGR: TQ6463810388
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/04/2020
TQ 61SW 13/406
HERSTMONCEUX HERSTMONCEUX PARK Herstmonceux Castle, with attached bridges to north and south and causeway with moat retaining walls to west.
GV I Castle/country house. c1441 (when licence to crenellate was granted) for Sir Roger Fiennes; further embellished mid C16 for Baroness and Lord Dacre; altered mid-late C17 for Lord Dacre; part demolished 1776-1777 for Robert Hare; restored and rebuilt early C20, mostly 1911-1912, for Lieutenant Colonel Claude Lowther and 1930s for Sir Paul Latham.
Red brick in English bond with some blue header diaper work; stone dressings; plain tile roofs. Square on plan with inner courtyard, this originally divided into four courts and containing Great Hall, but these and the internal walls of the castle demolished C18; south range and south ends of east and west ranges restored by Lowther, the remainder restored by Latham. Two storeys with attic and basement in parts; five x four wide bays with tapering polygonal towers at corners and between bays, taller at angles and centre. Built and restored in C15 style: exterior has one-light or two-light windows, some transomed; courtyard has more wider windows and some with cusped or round-headed lights; four-centred-arched or segmental-arched moulded or chamfered doorways with C20 studded board doors; tall plinth with moulded offset; moulded string below embattled parapet with roll moulded coping; rainwater pipes with decorative initialled heads; stacks with ribbed and corniced clustered flues; steeply-pitched roofs with roll-moulded coping, some with hipped ends.
South (entrance) elevation: three-storey central gate tower has tall recess containing wide, panelled door, window of two cusped, transomed lights above, and grooves for former drawbridge arms; on second floor two transomed windows of two round-headed lights flank coat of arms of Sir Roger Fiennes; flanking towers have gun ports at base, looped arrow slits, machicolated parapets with arrow slits to merlons, and towers rising above as drums. Projecting from gate tower is long bridge (mostly C20) of eight arches, that to centre wider and shallower, with cutwaters, stone parapet, and central corbelled embrasure with flanking tower buttresses.
North side: central gate towers formerly had rooms on lower floors, of which truncated walls and first-floor fireplace fragment remain; machicolated parapet; at left end of range C17 window openings with later eighteen-pane sashes. West side: attached causeway containing basement room and with three half-arched bridge on south side, walling returning as moat retaining walls; main range has a basement doorway with side-lights in chamfered embrasure.
East side: the second tower has C16 first-floor bow window; tall windows to central tower (which contains chapel); right half of range has older windows blocked and larger C17 replacement openings with later eighteen-pane sashes.
Courtyard: seven-bay arcade to north side and central corbelled stack with clock; three-bay 1930s Great Hall (now library) on west side with decorative tracery to windows and offset buttress; gable of former chapel on east side, has perpendicular tracery to window, a two-storey bay window and two crow-stepped gabled attic windows to its left; several doorways and a two-storey bay window to south side; hipped-roofed dormers; brick-lined well in south-west corner.
Interior: some original features survive, including fireplaces, privies, doorways, dungeon and brick-lined dovecote in south-east tower; other old features were brought in from elsewhere, including doors, fireplaces, panelling. In south range: porter's room has old fireplace and relocated linenfold door (found in cellar); reused traceried wood panelling in rebuilt dining room fireplace; stair hall has fine early C17 wooden stair (brought from Theobalds, Herts) with strapwork roundels between square vase balusters, elaborate relief decoration, and lion finials holding shields; at head of stair; elaborate doorcase of same period ribbed ceiling with pendant finials. Drummers Room has reused panelling, part dated 1697, with fluted pilasters and frieze and elaborately arcaded and fluted-pilastered overmantel. Green Room, on second floor, has restored fireplace with crests and beasts on hood; moulded beams and bosses; and reused traceried panel below courtyard window.
North range: very fine late C17 stair (brought from Wheatley Hall, Doncaster; possibly from the workshop of Grinling Gibbons) with baskets-of-flowers and pendant finials to newels, balustrades of open, leafy, scrollwork with flower roundels, and at head of stair two elaborately carved doorcases in similar style with shields in broken pediments. Former ball room has arched ceiling with decorative plasterwork; C17-style panelling; reused elaborately-decorated C17 wooden fireplace overmantel (from Madingley Hall, Cambs.) with two orders of caryatids and embossed panels.
East range: former chapel has reused C15 wooden screen (from France) set in west wall; former Drawing room has elaborate stone fireplace, 1930s in C16 style, and in ante room a reused richly decorated fireplace with griffins and portrait roundels. The C15 castle was well restored in the early C20 and the many fine features which were brought in at that time add to its importance.
Listing NGR: TQ6463810388
Sources
Books and journals
Calvert, D , The History of Herstmonceux Castle
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 534-6
'Country Life' in 18 May, (1929), 702-709
'Country Life' in 7 December, (1935), 606-612
'Country Life' in 14 December, (1935)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 14 East Sussex,
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272785
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Before 1066 Herst (meaning forest or wood) was the name of a prominent local Anglo-Saxon family and ownership of the family's estate passed into the hands of the victorious Normans. In 1131 the manor and estates were transferred to Drogo de Monceux, a great grandson of William the Conqueror . Drogo's son Ingleram married Idonea de Herst, thus founding the Herstmonceux line.
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Herstmonceux Castle Gardens and Grounds is a 300 acre estate including woodland, formal themed gardens and of course a 15th century moated castle.
Made from red brick Herstmonceux Castle is one of the earliest examples of a brick built building in England.
Read more about the history here:-
With the exception of Jo Davies County, the remainder of the topography of Illinois is relatively flat due to the glacial drifts. Jo Davies County is located in what is called a driftless area and as such was not as effected by the sliding plats of ice. As part of the Driftless Area, Jo Daviess County is known for its scenic stretches of road and valley views. Within Jo Daviess County lies Charles Mound, the highest natural point in Illinois. The scenery in Jo Davies county is refreshing and breathtaking to those accustomed to the flat plains of Illinois.
When you try to squeeze in an afternoon nap, but the neighbor’s kids are getting rowdy again... #CanYouNot 😆
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📷 Photo captures two juvenile Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris) rough-housing in the surf, while the remainder of the rookery attempts to get some shut-eye. San Simeon, CA 2017. 🐘🐶🌊
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With a fresh crew for the remainder of the trip to Schiller Park, a rare daylight I165-10 heads west out of Blue Island, IL with CP 8781 (ES44AC) the “Saint John Express” unit painted up in Canadian Pacific’s main intermodal carrier, Hapag Lloyd for their service to the Port of St John. Seen here at CP 154 about to suck under Kedzie Avenue on the IHB West Line. Taken: 12-11-21
Both trains I165/I166 are usually nocturnal on their runs in and out of Chicago.
Ouff, 4 photos at once, sorry about the diarrhea of upload, I was enjoying the peace and quiet of this minor hilltop with no other people around, perfect place to enjoy the sunset in the Saint Donat area with the remainder of duty free Icelandic brennevin, it takes 30-40 minutes to walk up, and 20 minutes to walk down even if you're drunk and it's dark.
Okay so this says Merry Christmas to me but I wanted a nice bauble to take a picture of :)
I haven't logged on to Flickr for months so it feels strange but I couldn't let Christmas and New Year pass by without wishing you all the best. Sorry I haven't been around but Flickr was taking up a lot of my time and then with me finding out I was pregnant I had so much to do and think about. Something had to give or I wouldn't have time for friends or family - so sadly that was Flickr. I have missed my Flickr friends dearly though.
I finish for my maternity leave on Christmas Eve so I will have 10 weeks of getting everything ready for the new arrival as well as having time to come back to Flickr. I have a camera full of photographs and I even have the remainder of my New York photos to post from May! I really don't know where this year has gone. The weeks are just flying by.
I hope you are all well and I look forward to catching up with you all in the New Year. I wish you a very Merry Christmas to you and all your families and a wonderful 2009 filled with life, love and laughter.
Heather xx
For the past couple of months I’ve been unusually busy at work, and other than a couple of very short local outings, I haven’t had the time to go out and take many photos. It was looking like it was going to be like this for the remainder of 2018 and the early part of 2019, but Friday morning I received some information that resulted in my time being freed up - - at least for the next few weeks.
Not wanting to lose this opportunity (which might be brief), I raced home, packed a bag and threw my photo gear in the back of my car. I had no idea where I was going until I finished packing and did some quick research on the internet. I checked several places that I have never been to before that were within a 5 to 8 hour drive. Nothing much happening at most of them. Then, bazinga! Jasper-Pulaski Fish & Wildlife Area in northern Indiana has long been on my bucket list. It is famous for being a stopping place for Sandhill Cranes on their winter and spring migrations. Just the day before, they posted a bird count that stated that there were 21,880 Sandhill Cranes on the property. My wife, who is very supportive, gave me the green light to go. I hopped in my car and drove the 5 ½ hours straight through.
I arrived at my hotel at about 10:30 p.m. and went straight to bed, planning on getting an early start the next morning. Before turning out the light, I checked Google Maps and noted that my hotel was about a 40 minute drive from the wildlife area. My alarm went off at 4:45 a.m., and I was on the road by 5:40 a.m., planning on arriving by 6:30 a.m., well before dawn. However, when I plugged in the coordinates for the wildlife area into my GPS, it said I wasn’t going to arrive until 7:30 a.m.! I didn’t realize that in the short distance between my hotel and the wildlife area I would be crossing a time zone and losing an hour. For a brief moment my heart sank, but then I realized that the sun really doesn’t come up any earlier 20 or 30 miles away. I would be okay.
To my relief, I arrived at Jasper-Pulaski Fish & Wildlife Area well before dawn. According to the information on the internet, the Sandhill Cranes gather in a marshy area overnight before taking off in the morning to search for food in the surrounding corn fields. The marsh is closed off to the public during the Sandhill Crane migrations, but the Indiana Department of Natural Resources has constructed an elevated viewing platform (they call it a “tower” even though it is only about 15 feet off of the ground) where you can view the Sandhill Cranes during the migration.
There were 2 or 3 other photographers there when I arrived at the parking lot, and we hiked back to the viewing tower. I had this image in my head of standing on the tower and gazing upon a sea of 20,000+ Sandhill Cranes. However, when we reached the top of the platform, my heart again sank. I was gazing out on a completely empty field! Had I driven all this way for nothing?
One of the other photographers told me not to worry, and to listen. In the distance I could hear a cacophony of sounds. It was like standing in the middle of Busch Stadium between innings - - thousand of voices blending together. The Sandhill Cranes were there. They were just gathered beyond a long line of trees about a quarter of a mile away. So we waited.
It was cloudy and cold (about 20 degrees), with a bit of a wind. But as soon as the sky began to show some light, flock after flock of 50 to 100+ Sandhill Cranes would rise up from behind the line of trees and take flight. Many would fly directly over our viewing platform. Others would head in other directions. Wave after wave of Sandhill Cranes kept taking off - - their rattling, almost purring, bugle calls growing louder as they approached.
I watched for about an hour and half before things settled down, and then drove around to the surrounding corn fields where hundreds and thousands of Sandhill Cranes were scattered for miles around feeding on the remnants of the corn that had already been harvested from the fields. Sandhill Cranes are beautiful, large birds standing about 3 ½ to 4 feet tall. They are mostly slate gray, with a scarlet red crown and a dash of white on their heads.
By 10:30 a.m., I was ready to return to town, grab lunch and get ready for round two. I returned later that afternoon around 3:00 p.m. The Sandhill Cranes were still scattered across the corn fields in large groups for 2 or 3 miles around the marsh. But as the day wore on, flock after flock would take flight, heading back to the marsh area. I found a large group in a field and watched for about an hour. I soon learned that right before taking flight, small groups of them would suddenly begin to lean forward as if bracing themselves against a strong headwind. They might do this for a minute or two, until one daring Crane would suddenly take flight. Then 8 or 10 or 20 or more of his/hers brothers and sisters would follow, initially skimming the ground for several feet before gaining enough speed to soar high into the sky as the sun dipped lower and lower on the horizon.
Seen in Explore December 11, 2018.
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The remainders of a mangrove forest eaten by erosion and converted to a ghostly looking beach
This is an excellent location for night shots and I hope one day we gonna make it. This place can only be accessed by boat or helicopter
The clouds, unfortunately, had thickened to the point where I wasn't likely to get any sun for the remainder of the chase to Farnham. Nonetheless, here's the train at Fulford, passing a surviving remnant of the old pole line.
Durdle Door (sometimes written Durdle Dor) is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset, England. Although privately owned by the Lulworth Estate, it is open to the public.
The form of the coastline around Durdle Door is controlled by its geology—both by the contrasting hardnesses of the rocks, and by the local patterns of faults and folds. The arch has formed on a concordant coastline where bands of rock run parallel to the shoreline. The rock strata are almost vertical, and the bands of rock are quite narrow. Originally a band of resistant Portland limestone ran along the shore, the same band that appears one mile along the coast forming the narrow entrance to Lulworth Cove. Behind this is a 120-metre (390 ft) band of weaker, easily eroded rocks, and behind this is a stronger and much thicker band of chalk, which forms the Purbeck Hills. These steeply dipping rocks are part of the Lulworth crumple, itself part of the broader Purbeck Monocline, produced by the building of the Alps during the mid-Cenozoic.
A 'back view' of the Durdle Door promontory from the east, showing the remnants of the more resistant strata in Man O'War Bay
The limestone and chalk are in closer proximity at Durdle Door than at Swanage, 10 miles (16 km) to the east, where the distance is over 2 miles (3 km). Around this part of the coast nearly all of the limestone has been removed by sea erosion, whilst the remainder forms the small headland which includes the arch. Erosion at the western end of the limestone band has resulted in the arch formation. UNESCO teams monitor the condition of both the arch and adjacent beach.
The 120-metre (390 ft) isthmus that joins the limestone to the chalk is made of a 50-metre (160 ft) band of Portland limestone, a narrow and compressed band of Cretaceous Wealden clays and sands, and then narrow bands of greensand and sandstone.
In Man O' War Bay, the small bay immediately east of Durdle Door, the band of Portland and Purbeck limestone has not been entirely eroded away, and is visible above the waves as Man O'War Rocks. Similarly, offshore to the west, the eroded limestone outcrop forms a line of small rocky islets called (from east to west) The Bull, The Blind Cow, The Cow, and The Calf.
As the coastline in this area is generally an eroding landscape, the cliffs are subject to occasional rockfalls and landslides; a particularly large slide occurred just to the east of Durdle Door in April 2013, resulting in destruction of part of the South West Coast Path.
And finally, 86259 on 1Z86 0708 Euston-Carlisle, the outward leg of Railway Touring Co’s “Cumbrian Coast Express”. The train would be re-engined by a Black 5 at Carlisle which would work back to Carnforth via the Cumbrian Coast. The 86 would return light from Carlisle to Carnforth where it take over for the remainder of the journey back to London.
Running an hour late due to multiple CTC failures in the Crystal Brook area is Aurizon Intermodal service 3DA6 from Berrimah to Islington as ALF24/FQ04 work through Korunye on Thursday the 6th of February 2025, the FQ originally lead this train out of Darwin however the locomotives were spun on the triangle at Muckaty due to an Air Conditioning failure, with the ALF leading the remainder of the journey to Adelaide.
ALF24 joins classmates ALF22 & ALF23 in wearing the Aurizon livery, standing out amongst the other inherited locomotives ex One Rail Australia in the Aurizon Bulk Central fleet. The CLF/CLP class locomotives are due to receive the yellow treatment in the coming months as overhaul programs commence at the Motive Power Centre in Dry Creek, with repainting to be completed at Islington Workshops by Railfirst Asset Management.
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Life aboard Leon's Claw had taken a major turn when Vincent's abduction left him with grievous injuries. It meant ship operations would be suspended for the remainder of the Summer while he recovered from his ordeal. Between the stress of that, Damien and Aiden's growing animosity, and hovering loved ones? Well, it was quickly making Vincent feel he'd go mad! Though fate would have it that he wouldn't have to go through it all alone...
Aiden had discovered more about himself since leaving home than he could have ever imagined. When his beloved captain's life was at stake, Aiden risked everything to get him back...and he succeeded!
Now with nothing but time on their hands, Vincent and Aiden are finding themselves in each other's company more and more, as if unable to help themselves. And with pressure of the Midsummer Masquerade approaching and new friendships testing the boundaries of their relationship, will Aiden finally get the courage to tell Vincent how he feels before it's too late?
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psychosocial therapies are part of the standard management of schizophrenic illnesses, but have not been subjected to systematic evaluation and are therefore not included in this guideline. This does not imply that they are not essential components of good practice.
The remainder of this section describes the evidence for the effectiveness of Education Programmes, Family Interventions, and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in the management of schizophrenia. Section 3 provides recommendations for the application of these interventions in clinical practice, according to the phase of the illness.
Education programmes
Education Programmes are directed at either patients or carers/family members and have several aims. Improvement in knowledge of schizophrenia and its course and in compliance with treatment has been shown. There is also evidence of greater satisfaction with services provided. Some programmes go beyond the provision of information and take an educational approach to skills training or problem solving.
Education Programmes for patients may be undertaken in individual or in group settings. Simple information-giving is less effective than interactive sessions. The focus includes giving information about the course and management of the illness, including the importance of compliance with medication and the management of stress.
Providing carers and family members with information on the likely course of the illness, the treatments available, the importance of compliance and the services available is an essential element of good practice It may be undertaken as part of a Family Intervention programme
Specific techniques, e.g. use of homework or video, have not been shown to improve the assimilation of information, but a group setting has advantages
Family interventions
The aims of 'Family Intervention' include reduction of frequency of relapse into illness and reduction of hospital admissions, reduction in the burden of care on families and carers, and improvement in compliance with medication.
Some Family Intervention Programmes have targeted families where there are high levels of criticism, hostility and over-involvement. 'High expressed emotion' is a measure of these features and programmes which reduce this or reduce the amount of 'face to face' contact between the patient and family members have been shown to reduce the frequency of relapse. However, the measurement of expressed emotion is a research technique which is not practical for everyday use. Family Intervention Programmes which are not derived from this theoretical background have been shown to be effective.
Most intervention strategies contain more than one technique. Separating and defining the effects of the components of an intervention strategy is not possible at present as few studies examine the effect of a single technique and only a general description of interventions used in research studies is usually given. However, a number of practice guides have been published which give detailed descriptions of the techniques employed in some studies. Family Intervention has been shown to be effective with some variation in the components of the programme, but family sessions to address the problems identified in the analysis may not be effective if the patient is not included. Social skills training and vocational rehabilitation were included in some studies. These are not covered as separate interventions in the guideline.
Cognitive behaviour therapy
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for psychosis is a modification of standard cognitive behavioural therapy. The aim is to modify symptoms (e.g. delusions, hallucinations) or the consequences of the symptoms which may be cognitive, emotional, physiological or behavioural. The treatment programme is intensive (involving about 20 hours of individual treatment) and based on an individually tailored formulation which provides an explanation of the development, maintenance and exacerbation of symptoms and of pre-morbid mood, interpersonal and behavioural difficulties.
There is now good evidence that treatment resistant symptoms (delusions, hallucinations) can be substantially reduced in a significant proportion of those who complete therapy. It is not yet clear who is most likely to benefit from treatment and many patients may be unwilling to participate. The treatment is well tolerated. However, reduction of symptoms has not been shown to lead to significant social or lifestyle improvements.
A combination of the following techniques has been shown to be most effective in lessening symptoms of psychosis resistant to other forms of treatment:
◦enhancement of cognitive behavioural coping strategies5
◦developing a rationale to explain symptoms28◦realistic goal setting
◦modification of delusional beliefs29◦modification of dysfunctional assumptions.
A number of these techniques are a refinement of normal good practice using a systematic approach.
'Early Intervention Studies' have aimed to identify prodromal symptoms or the 'signature' preceding relapse. The approach is not a form of cognitive therapy, but early intervention with medication or Cognitive Behaviour Therapy may be facilitated
These two are part of a larger group of hyenas coveting a dead antilope, currently eaten by a single lionness. In the end, a single roar from the lioness is enough to keep the group at bay. After she left with the remainder of the corpse, the hyenas would fight for a single rib.
Ces deux hyènes font partie d'un plus grand groupe qui convoite une antilope morte qu'une lionne seule est en train de déguster. Au final, il suffira d'un grognement de la lionne pour que les hyènes restent à l'écart. A son départ avec la carcasse, les hyènes se bagarreront pour une unique petite côte.
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NS GP38-2 5252's career is over, the unit is at Bessemer, Alabama on April 18, 2020 awaiting it's delivery to the scrapper at Ensley. 5252 began experiencing rear draft gear issues in late 2018 that plagued the engine's operation through the remainder of it's time in 2019.
The crew on the Escanaba and Lake Superior 502 is going about their first work of the day at Randville, Michigan on an early fall Wednesday morning. The 502 was tied down by the crew overnight in Randville just a bit north of here. In this view, the train is actually shoving back north on the main line, having picked up the six pulpwood loads off the siding a few moments before and also moved the pictured empties into position for loading. These 6 loads will be added to 24 storage cars for the remainder of the trip south towards Pembine.
Much of the traffic moving on the ELS tends to be related to the paper industry (or storage cars...). There are several wood landings along the railroad like this one at Randville. Of course, there once were many more to be found, but as mills have closed and trucks have continued to be competitive with the railroad, it seems there are less and less active wood landings all the time...
What had started out as a mostly sunny morning when I woke up in Iron Mountain had quickly turned into a partly to mostly cloudy morning thanks to a fast-moving bank of clouds. But I got lucky with this moment as the crew shoved back right as one of the holes in the clouds passed by. It still isn't as bright as when the sun was fully out but with at least some direct sunlight to highlight the great fall colors on the birch trees, I'll take it!
The remainder of this unofficial trail up Mt. Storm King was indeed a bit sketchy, but luckily there were ropes in place to grab. Still, I was covered in mud and slightly shaky by the time we reached the lookout point.
Image made with my Hasselblad 500 C/M.
GXR M with Nikkor 50/1.2 ai @1.2 and Novoflex adapter. Not a controlled experiment, but interesting, I think, anyway to compare with the 1.4D shot.
Known landmark in the city of Gothenburg, a remainder of the shipyard days, now mostly used for bungyjumping.
Enjoying the remainder of what I believe is (or was) a squirrel. On my neighbors fence in NE Oklahoma.
Remainder of spots from a day spent patrolling Glasgow.
Something a bit special, albeit pretty rotten here. It's really unfortunate that this Carlton is longer than the roof it's parked under, as it's only visibly rusted in that rear quarter. Parked up in 2002.
Hard to decipher the plates but I think they could be Barnetts going off the logos?
F747 FUS
After my encounter at the abandoned house, I figured the remainder of Sunday afternoon would be smooth sailing.
I set off deeper into the back hill country of south-central Eastern Washington State like the bear going over the mountain— to see what I could see. The narrow gravel roads meandered, curved back on themselves and took no readily predictable direction, as they followed the contours of the landscape. I passed one ranch house off in the distance; barely discernible where it squatted at the base of the browned-hill horizon. Other than that, no cars, no people, no civilization.
Drifting along in a pleasant frame of mind, I was suddenly shaken from my near meditative state by the unmistakable klaxon call of the Emergency Broadcast System. Force of habit turned my eye to the stereo, but immediately came to terms with the fact it wasn't even turned on, being as I enjoy the natural silence when I'm in places like this. My cell phone was stashed in the ashtray, and it was from there that the braying alarm had originated. Stopping the truck, I retrieved the phone and flipped it open— Kirk to Enterprise...yes, I still use a flip phone. :^D
My eyes were greeted to a flashy display of red, yellow and black— implying all the danger of an agitated coral snake ready to inject the venom. "IMMINENT THREAT, Extreme". The urgency of which was punctuated by a furious red exclamation point.
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And just when I thought the rest of the day was going to be all rainbows and unicorns. With a slight sighing exhalation, I tapped the button to display the message and read:
"From:Imminent Threat - Extreme (Jul 31) - Emergency Alerts
Fire danger in the area of Richards Rd residents in that
area to evacuate."
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Okay, hmmm...where am I in relation to this...let's check the map...oh, that's nice— looks like it's...right over there...behind that line of hills that the cloud of smoke is boiling up from.
The road was heading at a 90 degree angle from the smoke, but these roads change direction on a dime; so at this point, it wasn't clear if the road was going to lead me directly into the fire.
Now here was the quandary I faced. There are no services in areas like this for 50+ miles and I had planned to have enough fuel to make it to the next place gas was available— which was ahead, on down the road about another 40 miles. What I didn't have, was the luxury of enough gas to backtrack the way I had come from and make it to the nearest fuel-stop in that direction.
The unknown was whether I was going to encounter a raging wildfire over those hills. Well, here goes— you only live once. LOL!
Now this last leg doesn't warrant a play-by-play; suffice it to say there were a lot of u-turns and changed roads, as I tried to avoid what was a dangerously close wildfire. So close in fact, that I kept encountering flame-razed areas where the stench of charred wood overpowered the air and the ground still smoked in places.
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Fortunately for me, I managed to remain where the fire had been, versus where it was headed— which was in the direction of the Hanford nuclear power plant. So after some circuitous driving, I rolled into Mabton, WA with gas to spare and nary a singed whisker.
I came away with a few shots and a story to tell, heading home at this point— which took six hours for what should have been a three hour drive, due to three separate car crashes and some poorly planned road construction Sunday night, coupled with everyone heading back to Seattle after the weekend. That's okay, I'll take that over being another shrimp on the barbie any time!
1 thru 3 are males, 4 and 5 are females, and 6 is a male Brewster's hybrid. 3 and 5 are fall migration images, and the remainder are from spring breeding grounds.
Adult plumages look similar both spring and fall, and it is difficult to age this species in the field. 3 may be a first fall male, having a lot of olive in the back of the crown.
5 shows the 'chickadee' upside down feeding behavior often exhibited by this species, as it probes for insect material between a folded leaf. 2 shows a male on breeding grounds who appears to be collecting nesting material. 4 is his mate and she was frequenting the same type vegetation.
6 shows a banded male Brewster's hybrid. Nearly all the males were banded in the population which included this bird (and 2). This species is frequently the subject of field studies due to sharp population declines. Part of the problem is competition from the closely related Blue-winged warbler, which is displacing the Golden-winged warbler as the Blue-winged warbler expands it's range to the north. Where the populations of these two species intersect, cross-breeding occurs.
The Brewster's warbler is a hybrid of the dominant traits of the two species. The black eye line of the Blue-winged warbler is dominant over the black face mask/black throat of the Golden-winged warbler, and the white/gray below of the Golden-winged warbler is dominant over the yellow below of the Blue-winged warbler. The resulting cross between the species can lead to a male Brewster's with the dominant traits of the black eye-line and the white/gray. A first generation male Brewster's normally has some yellow on the throat/chest area, and a 2nd generation male Brewster's has no such yellow as illustrated by 6.
Such a 2nd generation is thought to normally be a cross between a 1st generation Brewster's and a Golden-winged warbler. Thus 6 in effect is a male Golden-winged warbler plumage with a black eye-line rather than the typical black face mask/throat. With further breeding involving hybrid genetics the much less common Lawrence's warbler may result. The resulting male plumage will exhibit the recessive traits of the black face mask/throat, and yellow on the rest of the face and below. It will essentially look like a Blue-winged warbler with the black face mask/throat of a Golden-winged warbler (male). The Lawrence's hybrid is a beautiful bird which I have yet to photograph.
Ruts behind the barn are the visible remainder of the old military road from Fort Ellensburg to Fort Dalles.
The stakes here are to warn boats entering and departing Gillingham Marina of the risk of running aground in the mud at high tide.
This view of the River Medway, seen from Gillingham, is a river in South East England. It rises in the High Weald, West Sussex and flows through Tonbridge, Maidstone and the Medway conurbation in Kent, before emptying into the Thames Estuary near Sheerness, a total distance of 113 kilometres. About 21 kilometres of the river lies in East Sussex, with the remainder being in Kent.
The Medway features a catchment area of 2,409 km², making it the second largest in southern England, following the Thames. An extensive system of smaller streams flows into the main river, with these tributaries originating from various locations along the North Downs, the Weald, and Ashdown Forest.
The lights visible in the distance (1.5 km) originate from Hoo St Werburgh, often referred to simply as Hoo, which is a sizable village and civil parish located in the Medway district of Kent. It is one of several villages on the Hoo Peninsula that share the name Hoo, a term of Saxon origin thought to mean "spur of land" or to describe the "distinct heel-shape of the ridge of hills" that runs through the area. Hoo is mentioned in the Domesday Book and had a population of 7,356 according to the 2001 census, which increased to 8,945 by the 2011 census. The civil parish also encompasses Chattenden to the west.
St Werburgh was the daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia, and niece of King Æthelred, his brother and successor. She was born between 640 and 650. The first church of Hoo may have been built in the reign of the 8th-century King Æthelbald of Mercia, though presumably a monastery existed nearby at an earlier time. This, together with land at Hoo All Hallows, is likely to have been placed under the rule of the leading Mercian monastery of Medeshamstede, now known as Peterborough.
A small view of part of the snuff mill at Morden Hall Park and here the River Wandle makes it's way through the park .
Morden Hall Park is a National Trust park located on the banks of the River Wandle in Morden, south London. It covers over 50ha (125 acres) of parkland with the River Wandle meandering through it spanned by numerous foot bridges. The estate contains Morden Hall itself, Morden Cottage, an old Snuff Mill, and many old farm buildings, some of which are now a garden centre and a city farm. The rose garden has over 2000 roses.
The estate land was originally owned by Westminster Abbey. There is evidence of an earlier manor-house, but the Hall dates back to the 1770s and contains a variety of natural landscapes, including the parkland of the "Deer Park", meadow and marshland. A number of historic buildings are located in the park, including the Hall itself and preserved watermills where tobacco was once ground into snuff.
The Hall was owned and occupied by the Garth family for generations. It was occupied, as a school, for young gentlemen about 1840, until it was sold by Sir Richard Garth to a tobacco merchant Gilliat Hatfeild (1827–1906) in the 1870s.
The Hall was a military hospital during the First World War.
Gilliat Hatfeild's son, Gilliat Edward Hatfeild (1864–9 February 1941), left the core of the estate (including the house) to the National Trust, when he died. The Hall is now an exclusive Wedding Venue, offering a beautiful location together with fine foods and drink. It had previously been a Whitbread plc owned restaurant.
Gilliat Edward Hatfeild lived at the nearby Morden Cottage which he considered better suited to his life as a bachelor. The formal garden of the cottage is surrounded by an unusual collection of ornamental trees, including one of the oldest yews in England.
Outside of the main park, the remainder of the estate has been swallowed up in housing developments stretching between Morden, South Wimbledon and Collier's Wood and an industrial estate at Deer Park Road.
Op 25 april 1998 organiseerde TSP een rit in het Luikse en daarbij werd ook het restant van de vroegere lijn 127 bereden. Die was toen nog in dienst tussen Statte en de kalkgroeve in Moha. TSP ging echter nog een stapje verder want er werd letterlijk tot de laatste meter spoor dat nog bestond gereden.
On April 25, 1998, preservation society TSP-PFT organized an excursion in the Liège region, which included the remainder of the former line 127. It was at that time still in service between Statte and the limestone quarry in Moha. However, TSP went one step further as they literally rode to the last remaining meter of track.