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a year on since the opening of the umbrella revolution. things might have quieted down a bit and the government has been as bad as ever, but there is hope, there always is, as long as we fight on on an individual level. a revolution does not have to be an apparent movement of the mass, it can just be you or me making small differences on an everyday basis. stride on, fight on.
picture taken in Tottori, in Sep 2014.
Cloud inversion covered everything for most of the day with only the tops of the highest peaks occasionally visible. But in the late afternoon the clouds dropped enough to reveal Striding Edge.
Lake District, St Sunday Crag, Nov 8th 2024.
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Olè taking off. I created this with the help of my cat Monty who insisted on jumping on the keyboard and grabbing the mouse, Of course, as soon as I finished it, he went off to sleep on the ironing board.
Texture is my own
There was a little pond on the pasture I was exploring last week & it was teeming with life. Including this new kind of bug for me. Water striders look cool as they skate across the water. Some other common names for them are Pond Skaters, Jesus Bugs, Water Skippers. Their wings are iridescent when the light hits just right. They are also like a swarm of piranhas when a bug falls into the water. More on that later, for now, enjoying the beauty of insect on the glass-like surface of the water.
Water Strider (Gerris sp.)
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Robin Hood's Stride (also known as Mock Beggar's Mansion) is a rock formation on the Limestone Way in Derbyshire close to the village of Elton.
It consists of gritstone boulders deeply seamed by water flows. The two "pinnacles" are Weasel pinnacle (eastern end; Diff) and Inaccessible pinnacle (west; V Diff).
Eindhoven / North Brabant / Netherlands
Album of Netherlands: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157626238...
A couple of Water Striders (order: Hemiptera, family: Gerridae) caught in the act :-)
Paparazzi shot, using 1:1 magnification. LOL
Best viewed Large, On Black, if you're naughty enough ;-)
Surely the most interesting way to ascend Helvellyn is via the Lakelands best known edge. Under a threatening sky long term pal and hiking buddy Clyde is seen on one of the smaller pinnacles of the ridge.
And here's all that Southern Pacific goodness in all its glory!
The six SD40's get into their stride as they leave the West End of Trona, heading for Searles Junction.
Of the six, only the lead unit still wears SP branding, the other three are naked black and red (of sorts...) or UP yellow and grey. Sure, they're rather scruffy, but look at the environment they live and work in, and I'm quite sure the Trona Railroad bought them to do a job rather than painting them in pretty colours...
Trona CA, 28 May 2025.
TRC 2005 EMD SD40T-2 ex-SP 8541
TRC 2004 EMD SD40T-2 ex-SP 8517
TRC 2006 EMD SD40T-2 ex-SP 8505
TRC 2007 EMD SD40-2 ex-UP 3567
TRC 2002 EMD SD40R ex-SP 8471
TRC 2008 EMD SD40-2 ex-UP 3720
Early Halloween spooks, a relatively simple moc with (mostly) well lit photos!
Able to engulf a minifigure whole!
Subfamily: Gerrinae
Family: Gerridae
Order: Hemiptera
This member of the water strider subfamily Gerrinae was sharing a small pond with another strider species Tenagogerris euphrosyne. The two species were coexisting but with an occasional skirmish over space.
The striders are hemipterans or "true-bugs" - insects that feed by piercing and sucking food through the proboscis.
The striders walk on water, thanks to hydrophobic hairs on the legs. The hairs extend across the whole body too, making the insect able to repel splashes of water. They are successful in their niche and the strider family, the Gerridae, are widespread with some 1700 species described, 10% of which are marine.
The Gerridae are polymorphic in that they can have wings in one generation, when there might be a need to relocate to a new water body, however the next generation may not have wings, if the current environment is stable.
The Gerridae possess scent glands in the thorax that deter fish from eating them.
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