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A river runs through a barley field reflecting the early morning light. Nubra Valley, Ladakh Himalaya, India. Please press 'L' on your keyboard for the full effect :)
Along spring runs and rivers, you may notice small clusters of pink-tinted eggs attached to plants and roots at the water's edge. These are the eggs of the apple snail, chief food of the limpkin, a long-legged waterbird with a downcurved bill. The limpkin resembles a rail but stands taller, has a longer neck and is distinguished by its dark brown feathers flecked with white, which give it a spotted appearance. It is probably better known for its voice, described as a piercing repeated wail, "Kree-ow, Kra-ow," often heard in the background of old Tarzan movies. The sound of several males calling is described as "one of the weirdest cacophonies of nature."
In the United States, limpkins are found in southern Georgia and Florida in the shallows along rivers, streams and lakes, and in marshes, swamps and sloughs.
As the limpkin walks through shallow water, it uses sight and touch to search for apple snails, mussels, worms and insects. The sharp and twisted end of its curved bill fits perfectly into a snail shell, allowing the limping to deftly extract the mollusk.
Today, Florida's limpkin population is fairly stable. The main threats to the population are wetland drainage and anything that diminishes apple snail abundance. In some areas, thick mats of nonnative plants, such as water hyacinths, prevent limpkins from finding snails and other food. Dense cattail stands along the shorelines of lakes and rivers receiving nutrient-enriched runoff , can similarly degrade foraging habitat and access to mollusks. Because of these threats, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission listed the Limpkin as a Species of Special Concern.
I found this one at Joe Overstreet Landing. Lake Kissimmee. Osceola County Florida.
The Teign Estuary with snow covered hills on the outskirts of Teignmouth.. better in light box 'L' on keyboard..
HBM..!! thanks for your visit & comments..
The Rochdale Canal in Mytholmroyd, Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
The Rochdale is a broad canal because its locks are wide enough to allow vessels of 14 feet width. The canal runs for 32 miles across the Pennines from the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield Basin in Manchester to join the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire.
The Rochdale Canal was conceived in 1776, when a group of 48 men from Rochdale raised £237 and commissioned James Brindley to conduct a survey of possible routes between Sowerby Bridge and Manchester.
The promoters, unsure as to whether to build a wide or a narrow canal, postponed the decision until an Act of Parliament had been obtained. The first two attempts to obtain an act failed after being opposed by mill owners, concerned about water supply. The promoters, to understand the mill owners' position, asked William Jessop to survey the parts of the proposed canal that were causing most concern. Jessop gave evidence to the Parliamentary committee, and in 1794 an act was obtained which created the Rochdale Canal Company and its construction. Rennie's estimated cost in the second bill was £291,000, and the company was empowered to raise the money by issuing shares, with powers to raise a further £100,000 if required.
When an Act of Parliament was sought in 1965, to authorise the abandonment of the canal, the Inland Waterways Association petitioned against it, and when it was finally passed, it contained a clause that ensured the owners would maintain it until the adjacent Ashton Canal was abandoned. Discussion of the relative merits of restoring the canal or the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in 1973 led the formation of societies to promote both schemes in 1974.
The Rochdale Canal Society wanted to see the canal fully re-opened, as part of a proposed Pennine Park. They worked hard both to protect the line of the canal and to begin the process of refurbishing it. A new organisational structure was created in 1984, with the formation of the Rochdale Canal Trust.
In 1997, the Rochdale Canal Trust was restructured, in response to announcements that there might be large grants available as part of the millennium celebrations. The canal was still at this point owned by a private company, and the Millennium Commission would not make grants to a scheme which was for private profit, rather than public benefit. The restructuring would allow the Trust to take over responsibility for the canal. However, the plan was rejected by the Commission, and to access the grant of £11.3 million, the Waterways Trust took over ownership of the canal.
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Dwelling Places III (18)
to burn it all is a much simpler
process. I cover my head with ashes
(not stars) as if in warning.
Here we are at the end
of the world! It’s a sizeable wall, a monument
to ancient wisdom,
and it runs inside us! Meanwhile we pour
ourselves out in all directions, and I know I’m forgetting
the essential thing, that vial of perfume
at day’s end (or was it at night?) when
hands still made us close,
fire was an easy word,
and in us light alone lived.
*
Terceiras Moradas (18)
incendiar, sim, é um processo
mais simples. Cubro a cabeça de cinza
(não de estrelas!), como se fora um aviso.
Eis-nos chegados ao fim
do mundo! É uma parede considerável, um monumento
ao saber mais antigo,
percorre-nos interiormente! E entretanto
entornamo-nos em todos os sentidos, e sei que no meio esqueço
o essencial, esse frasco de perfume
ao descer o dia? ou seria a noite? quando
as mãos ainda nos aproximavam,
o fogo era uma palavra entre todas a mais fácil,
e só, em nós, a luz vivia.
© 1996, António Franco Alexandre
From: Poemas
Publisher: Assírio & Alvim, 1996
© Translation: Richard Zenith
NS train 28N runs along the Canisteo River at Browns Crossing, NY in the heart of the Canisteo Valley. With nasty weather in the forecast for the rest of the week, it was time to take a vacation day and head down to the Canisteo Valley for some Fall colors. The railroad and the colors did not disappoint. I caught 3 trains at Browns Crossing and CAM in about a half hour's time after I arrived.
Delivered to Worksop Traincare and Heavy Maintenance Depot on March 21st from Portbury Dock. Rail Operations Group 93006 made its debut out on the mainline today. It is seen here leading classmates 93010 & 93002 out of platform 8 where the convoy turned working 0Q42 09.57 Worksop Down Yard - Crewe South Yard. Test runs for the new Stadler locos are to commence this week on the WCML between Crewe & Carlisle.
66199 runs between the Grangetown Oxygen plant and what is left of the Lackenby grids and steelsheds with empty raw steel carriers tripping from the Skinningrove rolling mills to Tees Yard, trip 6N53, on the afternoon of September the 29th 2021. The wagons will return overnight to Scunthorpe steelworks added to other wagons that deliver raw slab to the Lackenby rolling mills at left.
This picture is a simple stitch. Well, they ain't quite so often as easy as that, but this is two pictures. I wanted to use my 100mm lens and also include the BOC plant as well as the large expansion bends in the pipes at right alongside the Lackenby complex. So I took an acceptable picture of the train with the BOC plant left and then after the train passed, moved right. Well, the driver waved and gave me a toot, instantly I forgot about the stitch and reciprocated so had to recompose, checking the picture on the camera to find the top and bottom boundaries. The stitching software is lazy and with the two photos whole removes the train so I had to crop the right picture close to the signal. This gave a poor stitch along the power lines so I cropped the top half of the right picture and added that to the stitch, it crosses both photos and cures that problem. I hope you like it, its took the best part of half a day to make!
CP 813 runs northbound near Kains siding on the Marquette Sub with a new Tier 4 SD70ACe running as the DPU.
UP 3032
45029 runs off the depot at Bristol Bath Road.
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A wee picture of a misty morning spent chasing the conditions up and down The Great Glen which runs from Fort William to Inverness.
My copy of LPOTY collection 8 arrived this afternoon. The pictures are stunning, there's not a bad one in there, very inspirational.
I'd like to congratulate all those who got in to the book this year, especially my Flickr friends and contacts. Very well done guys.
I'd also like to congratulate Mark Littlejohn on his prestigious win. It was Mark who got me into photography really when he began displaying his pictures on a forum dedicated to music and hi-fi from various days out walking his dug, weird how paths cross which change how you lead your life.
His pictures left a huge impact on me and thought here's something I'd like to have a bash at, how hard can it be. But I couldn't have been any more wrong. I had no idea about the world of landscape photography then and still don't in many respects as I fumble my way around the Highlands but after getting the bug Mark helped me along the way any time advice or help was asked and even attended one of his workshops in Cumbria.
I was also privileged to be with Mark on the day the winning picture was taken on a horrendous day in Glencoe. Mark had set off at 1.30am that morning hooking up with Billy Curry on the way up. Despite the wet windy conditions the crack was flowing well all day along with the water down the mountains.
So big guy, very well done, couldn't have happened to a better bloke.
I never made the book this year but I'm not surprised looking at the quality of the pictures, anything I submitted fell way short of what's required.
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With every injury there are setbacks. A few of you may have already know that I broke my right shoulder from doing something that I absolutely love. I am afraid to admit that this is a season ending injury. Surprisingly I am not feeling a lot of pain instead I feel disappointed and frustrated. All I can really do now is focus on getting back to where I used to be.
Dagmar, Uxbridge
"Failure is only a fact when you give up. Everyone gets knocked down, the question is: Will you get back up?" - Anonymous
Taken on 22nd Nov 2015 of this year’s free exhibition of “A Christmas Carol” which runs from 19th Nov 2015 to 3rd Jan 2016. For more information see:
chestercathedral.com/about/christmas-at-chester-cathedral...
Taken as part of my 2015 #ChristmasInChester photo project.
NS 92G runs through the siding at Robertson all the way to Ferguson at restricted speed while doing that “The Brick” will scan the track and send data to NS 36 “Research” aka the passenger car behind the brick where they’ll analyze the data (probably not right away) and see what might need to be fixed or changed with the tracks, grades, switches, etc. After 92G makes their run through the siding they will then back up to Robertson on the main at restricted speed going backwards also doing the same thing they just had done to the siding, before they reached Berkeley they were doing this to every siding on the line before which helped it make better time lighting wise into St. Louis. After it does it’s run through the main it’ll then head East to Luther where it’ll scan the inbound and outbound tracks
The mountain Dímon stands alone on the sands of Markarfljót river, which runs from Mýrdalsjökull and Eyjafjallajökull glaciers.
Two parallel runs in two consecutive shots!
Leading its first mainline train of 2025, K183 accelerates away from South Yarra on the Caulfield Through lines, just barely out-pacing Metro Trains Comeng set 472M-1086T-471M-430M-1065T-431M running an up Sandringham Service as it leads A2 986 on train 8542, the return of Steamrail's first Moomba Shuttle to Glen Huntly. 9/3/25
A marker stone with graffiti at the start of the Woodland trail it connects to the Bowmanville Valley trail that runs near the Bowmanville creek at Bowmanville Valley concervation area , Martin’s photograph , Bowmanville , Ontario , Canada , April 25 2021
A marker stone with graffiti
the Woodland trail
A marker stone
A marker stone with graffiti at the start of the Woodland trail it connects to the Bowmanville Valley
We having nice a walk at Bowmanville Valley trail in the Bowmanville Valley concervation area
We having nice a walk at Bowmanville Valley trail
in the Bowmanville Ontario
We having nice a walk at Bowmanville Valley trail
Tamarack tree
tree with small cones
Bowmanville Valley trail
Bowmanville Valley concervation area
Martin’s photographs
Bowmanville
Ontario
Canada
April 2021
Alder tree
Elder tree with small cones at Bowmanville Valley trail in the Bowmanville Valley concervation area
IPhone XR
Alder tree with small cones at
Bowmanville Valley trail in the Bowmanville Valley concervation area
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Alder tree
Bowmanville creek
Photographed in Sanpete County, Utah.
Newly plowed alfalfa hay fields lay below snow-covered mountains in central Utah. We estimated over two-thousand Mule Deer foraging in these fields over a thirty-mile span of US-89 which runs through the Sanpete valley.
Since settlement(1850s), Sanpete County's economy has been based on agriculture. In its first few decades it served as Utah's granary. Sheep dominated the local economy from the 1880s through the 1920s, and the county played a prominent part in world markets for a time. Turkeys, grown casually as a farmyard animal, became a cooperative, integrated industry in response to the 1930s Great Depression. Today they rule the roost in Sanpete, which ranks among the top ten turkey-producing counties in the country. Sanpete's location at Utah's geographical heart masks its isolation. Much interstate and recreational traffic bypasses it. The small, scattered towns with their long and interesting rivalries have never allowed the development of a dominant county economic center.
The Stonehenge Visitor Centre, which was opened in December 2013 by English Heritage, and is located 1.5 miles from the stones. In Wiltshire.
The visitor centre houses permanent and temporary exhibitions, including nearly 300 archaeological treasures found buried at the site – from jewellery to pottery to human remains – as well as a gallery, a gift shop and a 110-seater counter service café that serves hot and cold food using locally-sourced produce. There's inside and outside seating where you can enjoy lovely views to the west or take food away for your onward journey.
A shuttle service runs from the visitor centre to the stone circle, stopping off halfway to allow visitors the opportunity to walk the remaining stretch if you wish.
R155NPR which has seen some white paint applied on the advert livery it carried with Wilts & Dorset. It was originally purchased by Lynx buses in Kings Lynn but moved down the A47 last year and is now in regular use on schools, seen in Emneth. The village was once home to The Reverend W.V. Awdry famous for Thomas the tank engine books which apparently were written in the old vicarage during the 1950 & 60s ( listening to the odd Gardner trundling by maybe ! )
I rolled the clock back to an earlier portrait shot taken when we arrived before I tracked up the snow. We returned for eDDie's "better light;" I don't have a problem with this light. I used three layers to pull it out and include those great reflections on the ditch and pond. Nice pool... no fish. It even shows the sculpting on the snow. No one could believe the number of gravel pits that ripped up farm land beyond view. I have recently been tied up in several other projects. I pounded a lot of effort into them. That might be easing up.
If I see other things of interest, I'll go shoot them as long as eDDie doesn't light out after me with a switch. He's gonna throttle me! I bet eDDie got some good shots before I tracked it all up; check his site. I buzzed all around Four Mile Farm and Valmont to shoot the remaining rail yard and the old stage stop in the snow.
I energized for the snow day and am still into my snow series, reveling in some actual area snow and recent snow day with eDDie. Since then we had yet another snow panic; over a foot was promised but was pinched that down 4 inches of wet snow that shrunk to 2 by morning. I personally sent the storm to Texas to quench their drought and now Houston is trying to sue me; I'm pointing the finger at the Kochs. Why can't Texas get on with their seceding from the union; I'd sign the petition! Snow in Colorado; who'da thunk it. What's going to happen to the ecosystem and environment next? Even the Ring of Fire is being resized!
Originally, this site must have been a ranch along the stage route and the Boulder Valley branch of the Union Pacific. Old farm implements are in the distance. There was haying here to support the stage station at Valmont. Was the Four Mile Farm rake originally horse drawn? Perhaps not. This does support the image of the area's transportation history though. I bet the old tractor is not that old.
The now disappearing agricultural town and travel stop of Valmont was just south of here; agriculture around Longmont also continued thrived. I suppose that the coal field connection just to the east had a role in early travel. Also the old stage route into Valmont and Boulder coursed through here. Ranches had to supply feed for the stage stop. See some of my other Valmont images. This must have been a busy route when the stage had to start competing with the new rail route. The Valmont stage station is nearby Four Mile Farm.
Clear Creek runs under 44th Ave and most of the time's is an uneventful flow but this spring along with a friend we waited to see if it would over flow - this area is lower thus the wall - it never over flowed which we we're surprised but water was leaking in the crack's and this bike path was closed for this section.