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A pair of Steel-blue Cricket Hunter Wasps circled my yard for several days. The only place they would stop was on the orange flowers of the Butterfly Weed.
They strongly resemble Blue Mud Dauber Wasps, which have a longer pedicel (the "stalk" that connects their thorax to their abdomen).
Butterfly Weed is a native plant species, and my favorite Michigan wildflower. Ironically, I have never seen a butterfly land on the flowers, although it does attract a variety of wasps and hornets.
I returned to this one sculpture to unlock more of its secrets - many times I wonder if all of this was planned before hand. Many times I wonder if all we see was planned before hand...
This one is for Barbera....who has been braving the Toronto winter to bring us wonderful abstracts.
Explore #461, February 15
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
Steel-blue Sawfly (Perga dorsalis)
One last image of the Sawfly I spotted last weekend.
Happy Wing Wednesday!
KNWA 381 sits patiently and crew-less in Pickerington, Ohio due to the crew outlawing while waiting to get into Watkins yard. The power for the train was a pair of ex-NS SD60's, which in my opinion, are some really good looking engines. A beam of light from a car's headlights at a nearby crossing helped illuminate the bridge during the exposure.
I happened to be in Stillwater on this day, and seeing the nice updates from the peeps in the field about a late transfer from the CN, I decided to take a little detour north before heading home. Managed to hike to the bridge with only about 10 minutes of waiting before this nice trio of matching SDs pulled across in perfect light.
The Bluescope Steel Works.
Port Kembla, New South Wales
This is the view looking south along Wollongong Beach from the Wollongong Head Lighthouse, on Flagstaff HIll.
Friday afternoon, 19th June, 2020.
90 minutes south of Sydney.
Samsung Galaxy S20+ mobile phone camera.
American metal sculptor Albert Paley's "Animals Always" sculpture at the St Louis Zoo, MO. The sculpture here is a model of an imposing 100-ton Cor-ten weathered steel structure.
Südstärke Sünching
Bearbeitung: Jürgen Krall Architekturphotographie
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Durch Zufall entdeckt dass ich dieses hier noch nicht hochgeladen habe. Etwas anzüglich, zumindest für Typen wie Bender. ;-)
Remaining stacks of the Bethlehem Steel plant, now surrounded by a park. The lighted walkway is normally open to the public but, alas, wasn't when we were there.
Bethlehem Steel was one of the largest producers of steel in its heyday. It was founded in the mid-19th century, prospered for a while in the railroad boom, and then branched into shipbuilding, where it supplied its steel for the Navy, in particular the (in)famous USS Maine. It later went into shipbuilding business, constructing as much as 20% of the Navy fleet during World War II. The company also supplied steel for the Golden Gate bridge. Most steel production stopped in the 1980-ies and the company was dissolved in 2003. [paraphrased from Wikipedia]
Four Conrail four-axle EMD’s lead westbound empty hoppers past the steel mill in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Valley’s four GP38AC’s became the only examples of that model on Conrail’s roster. Although I never saw one leading a train after the Conrail takeover, they did show up from time to time in trailing positions, as seen here.