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A BNSF empty coal train slithers through the curves west of Dutch Wyoming, through what is perhaps the quintessential Big Horn Subdivision location. The subdivision's namesake mountain range dominates the background on this gorgeous early Summer morning. In a short distance, the coal train, headed up by a clean SD70ACe, will head north on the Dutch Subdivision for loading.
Thirlmere, Lake District, Cumbria.
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Several years back, dad found a Blue Beech tree on his property with a unique bend in it. Dad cut the limb from the dead tree and gave it to me for a walking stick. After being in storage for quite some time, it finally hit me while staring at it, how I could make a cool looking walking stick. After doing some research on one of the coolest looking rattlesnakes, the Eastern Diamondback, the challenge was on. It turned out to be easier than expected. I only carved about ten inches down the beech stick because I wanted to blend to scales into the natural bark of the wood. The eyes are glass and the carved section was painted with acrylics and thoroughly sealed. The walking stick is about four feet high with a stainless steel spike on the foot. On your next walk through the woods or digging through a pile of brush, keep your eyes peeled for something that you can turn into a unique piece.
Never stop dreaming
Firstly I would like to apologize to anyone who finds this too gory. I came across this snake (not sure which type) in the middle of his or her supper one evening last week and he (or she) was too busy with their meal to slither away before I snapped off a few shots. This snake was very small despite how the size may appear in the picture.
Slithering through tall cornfields is the northbound TPW 3440 and one car from Bringhurst, on the former Pennsylvania I&F Branch.
We're standing in a cornfield just north of Camden, Indiana.
With the sun having made only the briefest of appearances, I began to look around for inspiration elsewhere. I then noticed this interesting cloud/blue sky formation beyond Hannafore Point, which I thought might work as a focal point and subject in its own right. The surrounding sky was so dark, that this colourful slither really sang out.
Watch your step, Western-Washington outdoors-people! When the sunbeams come out, so do the dangerous garter snakes! One wrong move, and you might find your ankles nibbled upon!
Exclamation points!
Steigerwald Lake NWR (!)
ʜᴇʏ
ʜᴇʏ
ʜᴇʏ
ᴡʜᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜ ʟᴏᴏᴋ ʏᴏᴜ ꜱᴇᴇ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴍᴇ
ᴄᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴏᴘᴇ, ꜰᴇʟʟ ᴛᴏ ᴍʏ ᴋɴᴇᴇꜱ
ʙᴏʀɴ ᴀɴᴅ ʙʀᴏᴋᴇɴ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ꜱɪɴɢʟᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ
ᴀʟᴡᴀʏꜱ ᴋᴇᴇᴘ ᴍᴇ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀ ꜰɪɴɢᴇʀ
ᴛʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴘᴏᴛ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ʀᴜɴ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ
ᴍɪɢʜᴛ ꜱᴇᴇ ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ᴛʏᴘᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴜʀᴇ ɪɴ ᴍʏ ᴍɪɴᴅ
ʏᴇᴀʜ, ʜᴇʀᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴇꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ
ɪᴛ ᴄᴏᴍᴇꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴡᴀꜱʜ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱɪɴꜱ ᴏꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀɴᴅ ɪ
ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴛɪᴍᴇ, ʏᴏᴜ ꜱᴇᴇ
ʜᴇʏ
ʜᴇʏ
ʜᴇʏ
ᴡʜᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜ ꜱᴇᴇᴋ ᴍᴇ, ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴇꜱᴛʀᴏʏ ᴍᴇ
ʀᴀᴘᴇ ᴍʏ ᴍɪɴᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴍᴇʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏᴘᴘɪᴇꜱ
ʙᴏʀɴ ᴀɴᴅ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅɪᴇᴅ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ꜱɪɴɢʟᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ
ᴀʟᴡᴀʏꜱ ᴋᴇᴇᴘ ᴍᴇ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀ ꜰɪɴɢᴇʀ
ᴛʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴘᴏᴛ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴍɪɢʜᴛ ʟɪɴɢᴇʀ
ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ꜱᴇᴇ ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ᴛʏᴘᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴜʀᴇ ɪɴ ᴍʏ ᴍɪɴᴅ
ʏᴇᴀʜ, ʜᴇʀᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴇꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ
ɪᴛ ᴄᴏᴍᴇꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴡᴀꜱʜ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱɪɴꜱ ᴏꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀɴᴅ ɪ
ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴛɪᴍᴇ, ʏᴏᴜ ꜱᴇᴇ
ʟɪᴋᴇ ʜᴏʟʏ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ
ɪᴛ ᴏɴʟʏ ʙᴜʀɴꜱ ʏᴏᴜ ꜰᴀꜱᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜᴀɴ ʏᴏᴜ'ʟʟ ᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴅʀʏ
ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴛɪᴍᴇ, ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴍᴇ
It's silly o'clock and I slither out from under the bed clothes, lit only by the LED on the clock. Its cold, the heating hasn't fired up yet. I quickly put on my clothes, specially laid out for speed. I hurry downstairs (we don't live in a bungalow you know!!) Gathering up all my gear I have placed by the door, I call upstairs.... Byeeeee, see you later. I'm off to the car. I have to scrape the frost from the windscreen; I think this is a good sign. I set off into the darkness, looking over the hedge where ever I can for any sign of the mist. Suddenly I hit a pocket... my heart skips a beat... so, it's about!!!!!
I pull into the little gravel car park at the bottom of Martinsell Hill. By this time there is just a smidge of light in the sky, you can see outlines of trees and hedgerows shooting off into the darkness. Switching off the headlights, my eyes take a few seconds to adjust. I set off through the gate and now for the climb up the hill. I know there are cows in the field as every five or six footsteps it feels a little squelchy underfoot :o(.. It's OK, I have my walking boots on and spares in the car :o). I head up the hill, Pewsey Vale on my left and a small wood on my right. Sometimes there’s a Raven just beginning to croak good morning at me ( I love that sound ) but not this morning, but as always there’s a Tawny Owl telling me it's his wood, sometimes the female adds her support !! All of a sudden a cow stands up in front of me from its overnight sleeping place, I nearly wet myself. It's still too dark to clearly see, but I hate using a torch, it spoils the mood. I have a chuckle and press on. I round a corner on the hillside and cross a stone-age flint quarry, the only tell tale sign these days is when the sun finally rises and the light dances off the hillside, it looks like the surface of a giant golf ball. I wonder if thousands of years ago Stone Age people sat here knapping flint for arrow heads and watched the sun rise, as I will!! Must press on, the sun won’t wait, every minute there is more light. I reach my chosen spot, heart pounding, as much from the excitement of what could happen, as from the walk up the hill. Unpacking all the kit and setting it up all takes time, checking and re-checking the settings. By now the mist is really starting to form, lying in hollows and collecting around trees. A buzzard calls somewhere, I don’t even look up, I just love the fact it made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. Within minutes the sun pops over the far side of the vale, and sprays its rays over the mist, clipping the tops of the trees.
It’s then that I know.... silly o’clock wasn’t so silly :o)
If you get this far, well done.... if not, sod ya..... lol ...
dejavu!!! Another snake, this time a western diamondback, manages to slither out of my way (even though I was only trying to photograph it, LOL!). It was about five feet long and there were no rocks to collect nearby, making it pretty safe for that snake! (notice all the deer tracks, along the edge of the road!)
This youngster is slightly bigger in diameter than a pencil and effortlessly glides around the bushes and trees seeking a snack!
In order to become a god
you must first believe in yourself.
CREDIT---
outfit . Slither set / by L.I.C. (mainshop / MP)
eyeshadow . Finea Eyemakeup (BoM) / by Zibska @ Vanity Event until Feb 8
lipstick . Psykhe Lips (BoM) / by Zibska
halo . Shattered Crystal Halo / by Soul
pose & pentagram . O Fortuna / by NANTRA
wings . Succubus / by Trap & Gauze
skin . Jody pale (BoM) / by Go&See (in January Catwa Powder Pack)
scales . New Dragon - Army Pink (BoM) / by Even~Tide
skin effect . Web of Fire body shine / by Stargazer
hairbase . essential Hairbase set 2 (BoM) / by Just Magnetized
eyebrow . Julie Waters triplets (BoM) / by Simple Bloom
eyes . Halo Burst (BoM) / by The Stringer Mausoleum
head . Amelia / by Slink
body . Hourglass / by Slink
nails . XXXL Stilleto nails / by Slink
ears . Monster Ear Augment / by Slink
face pose . bento Facial expression HUD / by Happy Dispatch
particles . Sea Sorcery / by Cole's Corner
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✭ NANTRA ✭ Sinful Needs ✭ Soul ✭ Zibska ✭
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Not sure if this guy was asleep or awake since he has no eyelids.
Loved his scales and had to get a close-up shot to display them.
I spent 30 minutes slithering across the beach to approach these sandpipers. My friend Chris also slithered toward them, but I had a head start, having thought of it first, which not only compensated for the shorter lens I was using but also allowed an eye level view (the pebble beach sloped down to the water's edge). There were a hundred or more Western Sandpipers in this group. It only takes one to panic, and in a flash they're gone, which was precisely what happened after this, my last frame.
300mm f/4 + 1.7x teleconverter. Not my preferred combination but really compact and lightweight. Some days that is a priority.
Photographed on the western flyway for migratory birds - wild, coastal British Columbia (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2019 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
For some of my previous shots of the river I have planted my tripod on the weedy bit beside the river, there is a way around avoiding the mud.
This broken old fence has been here for many a year when cattle were free to roam along the river bank, this fence would have stopped them from wandering towards the long gone Shoreham to Horsham railway line.
It`s currently 36 c in my garden another scorcher today, there is a combine harvester working in a field of some form of Beans about 200 Mtrs from our house, the dust is incredible we had to close all our windows, my car now looks like it has been in a desert bring on the badly needed rain.
I thought about rushing to get a shot but the dust is just too much, my camera would not be happy .
I know most people really hate photos of snakes, but I just had to post this one. I was looking for birds and just saw snakes (5 of them) and this guy was entertaining to say the least. I got some really interesting shots of it and have nothing else to post that is recent. Maybe some of you will find it interesting anyway :>)
Zahner Campus last of last. I shan't post any more pics of this building; I've spammed you enough. Thank you for allowing me this indulgence!
It’s a long bumpy road to reach the Racetrack Playa at Death Valley, but I’ve yet to find another place like this. Perhaps I’ll have to visit Oregon’s Alvord Desert this summer.
CP 7000, BNSF 9669, and BNSF 8771 (along with an unpictured KCS SD70ACe on the rear) have 111 empty tank cars slithering noisily through the curves along the west bank of the Mississippi River on this late March afternoon. The 577 train is crossing Panther Creek at the small hamlet of North Buena Vista, Iowa. A day before one of the few snowfalls of this quite brown winter had fallen, but temps above freezing during the day have already mostly melted it away except for in shaded areas like the bluff at right. The distant bluffs across the River are in Wisconsin.
CPKC's trains around the Marquette Sub in this PSR era are definitely dominated by a variety of dirty GEs from multiple roads (CPKC, UP, BNSF, NS, CSX, etc), though the occasional nice nugget can be found. But a colorful EMD trio like this was definitely something that made me take notice when it rolled by the Bellevue, Iowa webcam on a Saturday afternoon. I had visions of a sunny view at this spot I recently discovered with my drone, but alas the clouds won out this time. Still was worth the effort to me though!
The small Mississippi River river town of North Buena Vista is off the beaten path and is mostly an out-of-the-way vacation spot with lots of cabins. The water-logged shelters in the lower right are boat slips, and the boat at center-left is regularly moored there, I believe as a floating store that travelers on the Mississippi River can stop at during warmer weather while boating, fishing, and tubing. But this "spring" afternoon the two small bars in town were both open with a number of local patrons inside watching the TV to cheer on the Iowa Women's Basketball team and phenom Catlin Clark in their first March Madness game, perhaps adding a little extra activity to this sleepy outpost.
I was trying to take a picture of some frozen mixed veggies on a clear glass plate while sitting on the grass this morning when this little critter slipped himself into the scene. I abandoned the frozen veggies and worked to get a focused image of this slithering fellow. Most of my photos don't involve moving subjects so I applaud anyone who shoots and gets sharp focus when shooting moving objects.
Macro Monday - It's All About The Natural Light
ODC - underneath - the dandelion underneath the glass is helping to illuminate my slug
My alphabet challenge letter S
And now for something completely different. This slithering specimen provided an interesting diversion on an otherwise slow birding day.
6.30 pm high tide snapping,the tripod and I slithering around on the rocks for a bit before eventually settling .Pitter - patter of rain threatening as the light begins to slip away , clouds rolling in behind Poolbeg and North Wall lighthouses, the wind luckily, not creating too much of a hullabaloo. 10 stop exposures quickly running into two ,then three minutes. Three stops at 4/5 seconds more doable. Dusk was well under way as i scrambled back over the rocks and cycled home ,incredibly people still swimming off the Bull Wall in the encroaching darkness ! Sundown , 7.30pm.
37401 'Mary Queen of Scots' + 37422 'Victorious' in a lucky slither of light at Old Alder Lane, Winwick working 6X12 0844 West Ealing Plasser Sidings - Tyne S.S 09/01/23.
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It was quite startling to look down and see this big snake slithering in the mud. Largest I've ever seen. Unlike water snakes, male rat snakes are larger than females. I'd hate to be a rat with this coming my way. For me, it was just a beautiful awesome sight.
Male Western Rat Snake (Pantherophis obsoletus)
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