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I was thumbing through the William Price "Western Maryland Steam Album" book with the intent of gaining some day dreaming time, instead I found myself pondering what it would be like to stand on Helmstetters curve when a big 4-8-4 Potomac class came up the grade. Most of my journey through railroad history (and my photo descriptions as a result) tend to lean into a yearn to see railroads in their glory years. This photo then popped into my mind. After being in service for 2 years, I just started shooting the 2102 at Reading and Northern that summer and fall. I did 3 outings to see the thing and enjoyed all of them. The 2102 is big enough to produce power, but not powerful enough to have a seamless run with whatever train you throw at it. The T-1s were built in house by the Reading company using some select parts recycled from other engines. Some call them "rebuilds" because of this. The T-1s were some of the biggest and baddest engines on the Reading minus the light mallets the road rostered. At the end of steam, 5 survived into Reading Rambles excursion service (with one being scrapped for parts during this time period before 1964). Since then they lived on in various states at various places. 2102 runs up the former Reading trackage into the anthracite region and over the former CNJ branch from Haucks to Jim Thorpe in the present day. The run has various grades, bridges, tunnels, and obstacles. North of Tamaqua the trackage starts a hefty climb up to Hometown where it crests downhill to Jim Thorpe. At mile marker 99, at the searchlights installed within the past 10 years, the train's dig into the grade has already begun. You can hear the beating on the rails from lightyears away, it becomes oh so closely sounding but continues to trick the mind. The bellless crossing next to the signals activates. Lights stream around the corner. Then the sounds, A long, a long, "OSJT, Clear signal, 99", a short, a long. The engine, shooting smoke at high velocity out the stack, thunders at the trees and removes their leaves. The approach lit SB signal lights up, rails squeel, the bridge takes on the weight of the engine... you can no longer hear anything... A static takes hold as the exhaust has produced enough sound to pierce your ears. Its loud but silent, the camera clicks away without a detectable sound. Decibels rise, you cannot hear yourself think. You take the camera down and get the friendly wave, they have ear plugs! The shrill passes and then slowly fades. The rail squeals as the clickety clacks fade back in like a studio mix on a 60s hippy song. Marker lights on the rear observation car conclude the show. The crossing lights conclude their flashing, the railfans scurry back to their cars and leave in a hurry, the signal goes back to darkness. Peace has returned to the Schuylkill Valley.
Misty forest scene. Blue Mountains NSW Australia.
2017
I went back to this spot at Mount Wilson a year ago, it didn't look the same, trees had fallen and been removed, it just looked a mess. Change is inevitable, sometimes quickly, and sometimes very slowly.
Group: Macro Mondays
Theme: Snack
Here's a "fun size" Whoppers snack, with reflection.
This week's theme was a bit trying. Since my surgery for throat cancer removing my tongue, I've been dependent on a feeding tube and have not been able to enjoy eating for close to two years now. But, we all have to press on. Praise the Lord for continued life.
HMM!
When the young monk Tsui-Yen felt that he had understood the essence of life, he left his teacher and traveled through China. Many years later, on his return, his master asked him: " Tell me about the essence of life". and Tsui-Yen replied: “When the sky is clear and the light plays in the waves of the water. The master looked at him and said: “You have grown old too, but you have not understood. Tsui-Yen lowered his eyes and asked his old master with a tear-streaked face: “Then please tell me what the essence of life is.” The master replied: “When the sky is clear and the light plays in the waves of the water".
I immediately thought of this story, which is typical for Zen Buddhists.
Partly frozen water surface of a fish pond in the Amper valley.
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Always an attractive train to photograph, 'The Statesman' up on booked time forges north just beyond Golborne Junction.
* heavy wire removed.
In the past few days I have observed this clematis flower, which looks very worn out. I decided to take a picture of it at the weekend, especially as there was no wind in the early morning. This is essential for a focus stacking picture. At first I thought it had got another brown spot. But when I used my glasses I recognized an insect, probably a dung bee, or common drone fly, that had spent the night here and was still stiff from the morning chill. When I went to look for it again later, it was gone.
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Wood anemone in the Amper floodplains. Is also known as white Easter flower. I wish all flickr friends happy Easter.
Focus stack of twenty individual images. I decided to blur the background, because this gives a more pleasant image impression.
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How it might have looked?
Playing around with the Generative remove tool in Lightroom v13.3.
It took around ten minutes to remove the wires and posts from the original shot.
Not something you would normally do but I was experimenting with the new Lightroom feature - and its pouring outside!
Details:
LMS Fowler 7P (Royal Scot) Class 4-6-0 No 46100 'Royal Scot' climbs Gamston Bank on the ECML working 1Z62, the York - Shoeburyness Steam Dreams rail tour back in September 2023.
Operated by LSL.
BODY: Reborn eBODY
OUTFIT: NEW!! LUAS in ENGINE ROOM
GRANADE: Soda granade NEW!! TANAKA & TREVOR in TOKYO ZERO
(Included granade and Hud with 11 textures, on/off activating, remove pin option and throw option)
SHOES: Sofia NEW!! UTOPIA DESIGN in UBER EVENT
(For Maitreya, Legacy, Reborn, Kupra and GenX.
Fatpack included Hud with 24 colors and tinting option)
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The light is on inside this kiosk but the telephone equipment that used to be installed in it has been dismantled and taken away. Many examples of the famous K6 kiosk, which was in production from 1936 to a design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, now enjoy statutory protection as buildings of special architectural or historic interest. This particular kiosk, at Tickenham in North Somerset, isn't listed, but one that is can be found just a couple of miles from here on Clevedon's sea front. Some similarly redundant kiosks in this part of the world have found new uses, for example to house emergency defibrillators or as miniature lending libraries. Hidden in a dip below the hill that is just discernible through the gloom, the M5 motorway ascends to the Wynhol Gap before threading its way through the Gordano Valley. Photograph made Monday 23rd November 2015.
Update October 2016: this photo is no longer "on" in quite the same way because the light inside the kiosk now fails to illuminate. I'm glad I took the chance when I had it.
Federn zwischen Last und Schiene
Der Übertragungsnetzbetreiber Amprion tauscht im Koepchenwerk in Herdecke einenTransformator aus.
Nachdem der neue,187,5 Tonnen schwere Transformator gestern über die Hengsteysee-Brücke bis zum Koepchenwerk transportiert wurde, fand heute der Abtransport des alten Trafos statt.
The transmission grid operator Amprion is replacing a transformer at the Koepchenwerk in Herdecke.
After the new 187.5 ton transformer was transported over the Hengsteysee bridge to the Koepchenwerk yesterday, the old transformer was removed today.
The Cudahy Tower is the southernmost of a string of residential highrises overlooking Lake Michigan along North Prospect Avenue.
The building originally sported an 11'-6" spire, which brought the original height to 235'-11". It has since been removed.
The tower has a granite base, brick on floors 3 to 11, and terracotta for the top floors.
The main entrance on Wells Street is about 9 feet higher than the sidewalk grade at the building's southeast corner.
Architectural stylebeaux-arts / historism 1927
Usages
Main Usage
rental apartments
commercial office
Side Usage
restaurant
28 153
Tyto alba, in a building where a ceiling panel had been removed,
Jocelyn Nungaray (recently changed from Anahuac) National Wildlife Refuge, SE Texas
Winning the Pike's Peak race, and placing 6th at Indy, this car went to auction with $6-700,000 estimates, and actually sold for $1.1 Million! Gorgeously restored, this image is from Laguna Seca, and the owner/driver let us sit in it with the Imposing steering wheel dominating your vision.
'As early as 1929, Ab Jenkins set his sights on Indy, but it wasn't until 1931 that he took his best shot. He'd already known George Hunt, Studebaker's testing chief, from his time racing Studebakers in endurance runs in the late Twenties, and according to Gordon Eliot White's "Ab & Marvin Jenkins: The Studebaker Connection and the Mormon Meteors," Studebaker owed Jenkins for his expenses, so he cashed in that IOU in the form of off-the-shelf Studebaker Commander axles, hardware, and a Commander 337-cu.in. straight-eight engine.
He and Hunt then took the lot over to Indianapolis-based Herman Rigling, who built one of his Indy chassis around the components and slid it under a Pop Dreyer-built aluminum body. Somebody - most likely Hunt - spent the time massaging the nine-main-bearing straight-eight with a 6.5:1 compression ratio aluminum cylinder head, four Studebaker truck carburetors, a Scintilla magneto, and a reground camshaft to bump the stock engine's output from 110 to 175 horsepower.
They built the car according to the so-called "junk formula" template that Eddie Rickenbacker initiated for the 1930 Indy 500. Over the prior 20 years, the race entries had grown ever more exotic, expensive, and removed from the vehicles that carmakers offered. In an attempt to lure those carmakers back to supporting Indy, Rickenbacker increased allowable engine displacement from 91.5 cubic inches to 366 cubic inches for heavier, naturally aspirated four-stroke engine-vehicle combinations and re-instituted the riding mechanic.
Jenkins's illness forced him and Hunt to find another driver, Indy veteran Tony Gulotta, who qualified in the No. 37 car at 111 MPH. Along with riding mechanic Carl Riscigno, Gulotta turned in a spectacular performance. While they started in the middle of the pack, according to The Old Motor, Guletta was given the signal to run flat our with 80 laps to go then "passed 18 cars in the next 46 laps and was running in first place when he hit a patch of oil left over from a crash, and went into the wall ending its run." The two men walked away unscathed and Gulotta was credited with 18th place.
Hunt took the car straight back to South Bend to repair it before entering it - still wearing No. 37 - in that year's Pikes Peak hillclimb. While White makes mention of Jenkins's involvement in the car throughout this period, Pikes Peak records list the car as the Hunt Special and another driver, Chuck Myers, drove the car in the event. Myers did well too, beating out Jerry Unser and Glen Shultz with a time of 17 minutes, 10.3 seconds, good enough for an overall win and a course record.'
thanks to Hemming's Motor News.
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hot and spicy lamb bhuna cooked, bone removed, ready to box for the freezer to eat as and when flic.kr/p/2qJAaoH
lamb bhuna recipe www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKjk3gEi8PI
the meaning of 'bhuna'
an Indian dish or sauce in which spices are dry-roasted in a pan and then combined with a moistening agent such as yogurt or water.
the word 'bhuna' refers to the cooking method of this dish, and means 'to fry' or 'fried'. usually the spices are fried gently, before adding the meat.
originating in bengal, bhuna is a hot curry and doesn’t come swimming in sauce. it’s usually a thick sauce, with just enough to cling to the meat.
more curry information
lamb bhuna
www.kitchensanctuary.com/lamb-bhuna/
what is a bhuna?
www.seasonedpioneers.com/what-is-a-bhuna/
indian restaurant bhuna curry
glebekitchen.com/indian-restaurant-bhuna-curry/
chicken bhuna curry
searchingforspice.com/chicken-bhuna-curry-indian-takeaway...
The secret to making great curry
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/31/how-to-make-...
6 Common Cooking Mistakes While Preparing Chicken Curry
Tips To Make It Perfect
www.ndtv.com/food/6-common-cooking-mistakes-while-prepari...
How to Cook Spices for Chicken Curry | Indian Food
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV6Elm3gdRA
Varieties of Dahl Curry
food.ndtv.com/lists/10-best-dal-recipes-how-to-cook-it-to...
types of curry
curryculture.co.uk/types-of-curry/
24 vegan curry recipes www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/collection/best-vegan-curry...
how to thicken curry
lianaskitchen.co.uk/how-to-thicken-curry/
spices & ingredients
curryculture.co.uk/category/spices-ingredients/
tamarind sauce
greatcurryrecipes.net/2018/03/26/tamarind-sauce/
just one thing with michael mosley
food special with professor tim spector
7 days 30 different plant based foods
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ngjx
ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily ...
i've created a group www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...
Sade [Lovers Rock]
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This is yesterdays photo edited. I had always intended to remove the bread (see original in Comments) with Content Aware Fill but had so many photos from that week that I hadn't gotten around to it. So, I finally did it just now.
I know you can still see that it doesn't quite match under the bread (where it used to be) if you know what to look for, but I am okay with that; it doesn't seem major enough to me to be worth bothering about.
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Awww, loving the almost daily surprises of all the new Spring growth popping up around the farm.
English bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) are an introduced species in the Pacific Northwest and other parts of Canada. They date back to the early 1500s and are native to England and France.
In the United Kingdom, the bluebell is protected under the “Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981”. Landowners are prohibited from removing common bluebells on their land and it is a criminal offence to remove the bulbs of wild common bluebells. Source Wikipedia.
These fragrant spring bluish purplish delights reach heights of 12 inches and make beautiful cut flowers.
Trees and canoes at the boat launch site on the Old Ausable Channel in the Pinery Provincial Park on Lake Huron and near the town of Grand Bend , Martin’s photographs , Ontario , Canada , October 27. 2022
Canoe boat launch site at the Old Ausable Channel
Canoe launch site
Old Ausable Channel
Fire pit
picnic table
steel fire pit
Dunes at Lake Huron Beach
Campground
Dunes
Lake Huron dunes
Pinery provincial park
Pinery provincial park on Lake Huron near the town of Grand bend
trail through campground
Pinery provincial park on Lake Huron
Ontario parks
glowing
fire iron is a fireplace poker
camp fire on a campsite at the Pinery provincial park
Lake Huron
town of Grand bend
The glowing end of a fire iron just removed from the camp fire
Pinery provincial park
Camp fire on our campsite
Camp fire
campsite
Cardinal flowers and rocks in a swamp
Cardinal flowers in a swamp at Bon Echo Provincial Park
Martin’s photographs
Frog
Frogs
Water plants
Joe Perry Lake
cloudy sky
Mazinaw Rock
Mazinaw Lake
Canada
Ontario
Bon Echo Provincial Park
Bon Echo
Provincial Park
October 2022
IPhone 6s
Favourites
HWY. ON. 41 , Cloyne
Martin’s photographs
Cloyne
HWY. ON. 41
clouds
Woods
Trees and roots near the shore of Mazinaw Lake
Lake shore
Trees and roots near the shore
Roots
Lake
Lake Huron beach
sandy beach
beach
September 2019
October 2019
boardwalk
stairs
Oak trees
Cedar trees
Pine tree
Dead tree
Tree roots
Moss
Tent
Evergreen trees
Removed branch from above its head in photoshop. Maybe I will like photoshop after I learn how to use it.
After an hours delay in York station, due the consist being long (a new set of stock had been brought over yesterday) and the errant coach(es) having to be removed, Gresley 'A3' 4-6-2 no.60103 'Flying Scotsman' brings the York-Carlisle-York "Waverley" past Barkston Ash.
Nice chatting with Robert Falconer during the wait.
Cake:
2 cups sifted cake flour
1 1/4 cups sugar, divided
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
7 tbsp canola or light olive oil
1/3 cup fresh lime juice (about 3)
3 tbsps water
finely grated rind of 2 limes
3 egg yolks
8 egg whites
1 tsp cream of tarttar
Lime curd:
8 large egg yolks
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice (3-4 limes)
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (1 -2 lemons)
1 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1 stick (113 g) unsalted butter, cold, cut into pieces
Frosting:
2 cups heavy cream
2 tbsp sugar
2 tsp gelatin
1/4 cup water
~ 900 ml blueberries
To prepare cake, line bottoms of the 3 (8-inch) cake pans with parchment paper, coat with cooking spray.
Combine 2 cups cake flour, 1 cup sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl, stirring with a whisk, until well combined.Combine oil, 1/3 cup juice, 3 tbsp water, rind and egg yolks in a medium bowl, stirring with a whisk. Add oil mixture to flour mixture, beat with a mixer at medium speed just until smooth.
Place egg whites in a large bowl, beat with with a mixer at high speed until foamy. Add cream of tartar, beat until soft peaks form. Gradually add remaining 1/4 cup sugar, beating until stiff peaks form. Gently stir one-fourthof egg mixture into flour mixture, gently fold in remaining egg white mixture.
Divide cake batter equally among prepared pans. Bake at 325F for 20 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes, remove from pans. remove wax paper from cake layers. Cool completely on wire rack.
Lime curd:
Beat egg yolks and sugar until light in colour and sugar almost dissolves. Add lime juice and lemon juice, half of the zest, and salt to the egg yolk mixture. Cook in a heavy-bottom saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon ( be sure to scrape the sides of the pan) until mixture is thick enough to coat back of the spoon ~8-10 minutes. Remove saucepan from the heat. Add butter, stirring until smooth and the remaining zest.Refrigerate until chilled and set, at least 1 hour.
For stabilized whipped cream, combine gelatin and water, allw to soften for 5 minutes, then, dissolve gelatin overlow heat. Gelatin must be liquid , but not warm.
In the chilled bowl beat the cream and sugar just until traces of beater marks begin to show distinctly. Add the gelatin mixture in a teady stream, beating constantly and beat just until stiff peaks form when beater is raised.
To assemble cake, place 1 cake layer on a plate, spread ~ 1/3 of lime curd over cake layer, scatter blueberries. Top with secon layer, 1/3 of lime curd, and blueberries and third layer. Combine the ramining lime curd with whipped cream and spread frosting over top and sides of cake. Garnish with blueberries.
Exceedingly tempted to remove this the moment I have uploaded it!
My first attempt at an expansion. I need more practise, because I am seeing more flaws the more I look!
Magpies are incredibly intelligent and attentive parents. What you saw was likely the adult carefully removing an impacted food item or pellet (sometimes chicks struggle to regurgitate cast pellets like raptors do, or they choke on large pieces), and the parent stepped in to clear the airway. It shows just how aware and responsive corvids are to their chicks’ distress.
Magpies have strong family bonds and will often help feed, preen, or even rescue their young in danger. Seeing one delicately extract something from a chick’s throat is a rare glimpse into their problem-solving and nurturing behavior.
If the bird regularly eats prey with bones, fur, feathers, or hard insect exoskeletons, it almost certainly casts pellets. Seed-eaters, nectar-feeders, and fruit-eaters generally don’t. So yes — magpies (and all corvids) do cast pellets, though usually smaller and less obvious than an owl’s because they eat a more varied diet and crush food more thoroughly. Chicks sometimes have trouble expelling them, which is probably why you saw the parent intervene.
Source: Grok 4.1
Clip re-timed to 50% speed.
I took this photo of my stepfather Owen and his granddaughter Hope (also known as my second-cousin Owen and my second cousin twice-removed Hope) at Owen's beach house on the Isle of Palms in Charleston. Or is that near Charleston? I never spent enough time in Charleston to know. Hope is the eldest of his five grandchildren; she and her sisters Sally and Weiza are my favorite relatives and among my best friends anywhere. Sally and I, in fact, have become especially close friends since my mom's death in 2004.
Hope was a terrific athlete even then (she probably still is); and whenever I came to Charleston for a visit, she and I would get together and play frisbee for about 2 hours. I taught her one summer afternoon and she picked up on it immediately, faster than anyone I've ever known.