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Just like this boat, it feels like I should retire my internet service provider. I had no connection for six days until today. Our rural service is slow on a good day and frequently cuts out. COVID-19 has overloaded their system with so many people at home. The boat is at Riverport, Nova Scotia.
Pergear 35mm, f1.6
Southern Pacific EMD SD45T-2R No. 6826 leads a westbound freight at Wilmot, Arizona, on April 21, 1990. The train is waiting on a new crew—note how the locomotive is “tied down” with a stick in front of the second axle, perhaps in addition to using a handbrake. In the background, a passing intermodal train carries a trailer advertising SP’s famous “Golden Pig Service.”
Sometime late in the evening of January 8, 1973, or early the following day, a freight train derailed between Williams Junction and Flagstaff, Arizona, delaying Amtrak No. 3 and No. 4. The decision was made to bus the passengers between the two points and turn No. 4 as No. 3 at Williams Junction. No. 3 would turn as No. 4 at Flagstaff. In this scene, No. 4 is at Williams Junction. The passengers have been bussed to Flagstaff, and a rental truck is parked alongside the train to transfer luggage from the baggage car.
I had ridden this train up from Needles, and it was my job––about an hour before arriving at the Junction––to use the PA system to wake the passengers and give them instructions as to what to do. It all went smoothly.
Several freight units are tied to the rear end to pull the train back west as No. 3.
It is indeed a weathered service tube above dark water in the shadow from the shore to a houseboat on the quay of a canal in Amsterdam for gas, electricity, water and internet.
Yoder, WY
Today Oldogs and I met the nicest people in Wyoming. Among them is Doug Essert, who remembers this service station being very busy when he was a child. His father ran the business, and employed many young men to keep up with constant demand.
African Buffalo - Syncerus caffer - Kaffernbüffel with a Yellow-Billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) Gelbschnabel-Madenhacker
Kruger NP - Februar/March 2017
South Africa
Roberts Nr.771
I've driven by this dilapidated service station many times and always dismissed it as an unworthy subject, until a few days ago. Even then I had driven past it but something about the evening light made me turn around and give it a go.
Photographing these kinds of subjects always makes me wonder about the lives that were lived there. Undoubtedly a family business, it may have supported several generations and brought much needed income to everyone involved. But as modern life progresses, eventually the kids may not have wanted to be gas station attendants and, combined with modern environmental regulations, it became unsustainable to run mom and pop service stations and the place was closed. There it now sits, slowly decaying.
But I imagine its heyday, with shiny old fashioned gas pumps complete with illuminated medallions on top and a '57 Chevy pulling up, getting gas for 20 cents a gallon. Of course the driver didn't have to pump it, the attendant would've done it for him or her and cleaned the windshield while he was at it in addition to checking the oil.
Oh, and don't forget the adjacent Liquor store, so you could fill up yourself too! As things were, there was nobody to check your lubrication afterwards...
We must had had rain at just the right time for the roses; they are wonderful this year! These are at Hazelbrook Rural Fire Service.
Provision of services
A Ruff (on the right) seeks parasites and insects between the feathers of a Pied Avocet (on the left)
Een kemphaan (rechts) zoekt parasieten en insecten tussen de veren van een kluut (links)
The Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family (Recurvirostridae).
The 40 to 45 cm avocets are easy to identify. Adults have white plumage except for a black cap and black patches in the wings and on the back. They have long, upturned beaks and long, bluish legs.
They breed in temperate Europe and western and Central Asia. This species is migratory and most winter in Africa or southern Asia. Some remain to winter in the mildest parts of their range, for example in southern Spain, the Netherlands and southern England.
These birds forage in shallow brackish water or on mud flats, often scything their bills from side to side in water (a feeding technique that is unique to the avocets. They mainly eat crustaceans and insects.
This species gets its English and scientific names from its black cap, as once worn by European advocates or lawyers. The call of the Avocet is a loud “klute-klute-klute”. The Dutch name is therefore “Kluut”.
The Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) is a medium-sized wader; a long-necked with a small head, pot-bellied bird.
This species shows marked sexual dimorphism; the male is much larger than the female and has a breeding plumage. The female on the picture and the non-breeding male have grey-brown upperparts and mainly white underparts. He is 29–32 cm long with a 54–60 cm wingspan, weighs about 180 gr. The female is 22–26 cm long with a 46–49 cm wingspan, and weighs about 110 gr.
The ruff is a migratory species, breeding in wetlands in colder regions of northern Eurasia, and spends the northern winter in the tropics, mainly in Africa. Some Siberian breeders undertake an annual round trip of up to 30,000 km to the West African wintering grounds. There is a limited overlap in western Europe. In parts of coastal western Europe, where the breeding and wintering ranges overlap, birds may be present throughout the year.
The ruff forages in wet grassland and soft mud, probing or searching by sight for edible items.
It primarily feeds on insects, especially in the breeding season, but it will consume plant material, including rice and maize, on migration and in winter.
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a western osprey, AKA fish hawk/river hawk, heading home with breakfast from Lake Snelling on Fort Snelling State Park, MN