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Paratroopers from Italy, Spain, and the U.S. jump from aircraft to seize an airfield on Smardan Training Area, Romania. XVIII Airborne Corps led a Combined Joint Task Force during a joint forcible entry training exercise as part of Operation Swift Response 15 (photo by Lt. Col. Rod Cunningham).
I caught this one of the Swift River as it rounded a bend and managed to take it without joining the denizens of the river.
Paul Swift started his stunt driving career at the age of seven where he learned to drive the family’s ride on lawn-mover on two wheels. Within three months of practicing, the skillful youngster managed to set a world record performing the stunt over a distance of 230m. His first ever precision driving show was as part of his fathers display team (Russ Swift) in a Miniature Rover Montego at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone
XVIII Airborne Corps Deputy Commander of Operations Canadian Brig. Gen. Simon Heatherington (right) and Communications Director Col. Joseph Hilfiker observe observe paratroopers from Italy, Spain, and the U.S. jump onto a drop zone to sieze an airfield as part of a joint forcible entry training exercise. XVIII Airborne Corps led a Combined Joint Task Force during a joint forcible entry training exercise as part of Operation Swift Response 15 (photo by Lt. Col. Rod Cunningham).
St Mary, Great Blakenham, Suffolk
The town of Ipswich has thirteen surviving medieval churches within its borough boundaries, but half a dozen more are in the greater urban area, and only outwith the town on the whim of a bureaucrat's pen. And then there is the next wave out, villages like Great Blakenham. protected from urban sprawl by a nominal field or two. But if Great Blakenham has escaped being subsumed, it has paid the price for being kept at arms length. It would be tiresome to observe again that it is not Suffolk's most attractive village, for how could it be, when so much industry appears to have come adrift from the neighbouring town to wash up against it. But the cement works have now gone, and the huge new refuse incinerator at the eastern end of the parish gives the effect of mighty castle overseeing a vassal town. And in any case, warehousing and light industry have a more deleterious effect on a rural parish than industry does.
The busy A14 runs through immediately to the north. Once, the village street was the main road from Ipswich to Norwich and Cambridge. Further west, the street settles down into the quiet domesticity of 19th and 20th century houses. The church is here, opposite the pub, in a neat little churchyard beside the grand Victorian former rectory, almost as big as the church itself. The churchyard contains several headstones with WWI inscriptions. Three Cresswell brothers are remembered on one, the first killed in the War and the other two dying of injuries soon after. Another remembers the Lucas brothers, killed in 1916 and 1917.
The plain tower, with its Norman lower stages, gives no hint of what we will find within the church, but the fifteenth century wooden porch begins, perhaps, to suggest that here is something a bit out of the ordinary.
As is common to several churches in this area to the west of Ipswich it is an open wooden construction, probably 14th Century. Above the entrance, where we might expect to find a niche for a statue, is a wooden effigy of the Blessed Virgin carved directly onto the beam. It has been weathered by five hundred years of Suffolk wind and rain, and looks rather like one of those pieces of driftwood you find on the beach at Aldeburgh after a storm. Cautley thought it had been mutilated, but Mortlock and Blatchly thought not. The iconoclast William Dowsing visited on 1st February 1644, but in his account he does not mention the effigy on the porch. It was his first church of the day on a morning in late winter, so perhaps the light was not very good that day. Inside, he gave orders for the chancel steps, recently installed by orders of Archbishop Laud, to be removed, but that was all. He may have missed the Instruments of the Passion on the font, or perhaps they were plastered over - or, indeed, perhaps the font has come from elsewhere in the years since.
The nave's thick walls and splayed windows betray its Norman origins, but St Mary has one of Suffolk's few Early English chancels, and the fine set of triple lancets surmounted by a splayed round window is offset in soft pink. These windows were actually blocked off in the 17th century, but the restoration of the 1870s restored them to their original state. The church was closed for 18 months for the restoration, which was carried out by Cory and Ferguson of Carlisle, who also carried out the restoration at Earl Stonham. They had to make room for an organ, and given that this is a small church, the only place they could find to put the 1645 Swift memorial was the space beneath the tower, where it remains to this day, curiously set and seeming to serve a dual purpose as a table. The roodloft stairs were unblocked, the ceilings were removed, but the fine Stuart pulpit survived. All in all, a good restoration.
For many years this church was difficult of access, but now it is warm and welcoming, open every day, and with a sign telling you so.
Taylor Swift headlines the 18th Annual Chicago Country Music Festival
Chicago, Illinois - 12.10.08
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Federal Swift en montée sur le fleuve St-Laurent à la hauteur de Ste-Foy, Quebec.
Federal Swift upbound on the St-Lawrence River in front of Ste-Foy, Quebec.
2013-7-28
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Robert helped Sharon and I by turning our skeins into balls of wool with Sharon's swift. This was at our Tour de France launch knitting party.
Off with Runyon to his favorite place on earth - Swift Run Dog Park (near the intersection of Platt and Ellsworth and across the street from Lillie Park). Pictures from the morning of Sunday October 23rd, 2022.
I have been trying to get a better Swift than my last years one.......and this is slightly better, but still not great! Taken in Harwich, Essex. I also had a bit of a dusty lens I think ( must give it a clean!)
(Vulpes velox)
Swift foxes are small, mostly nocturnal, prairie predators that subsist primarily on jackrabbits, rodents and other small animals. Trim, sleek and built for speed, swift foxes rarely weigh more than 6 pounds (3 kg).
Like many prairie-dwelling animals, swift foxes have been adversely affected by human activities. In addition to losing habitat, they have been negatively impacted by attempts to control other predators. Extirpation of wolves has allowed their main predator, the coyote, to flourish. Also, unwary swift foxes are sometimes attracted to poisoned bait set out for coyotes.
This adult swift fox, photographed in late afternoon not far from its burrow near Karval, Colorado, is leaving to find food for its pups.
Taken back on 12th April, this was the first and only time time I had seen this beautiful creature, despite all my visits to the Zoo. For once, it was out of its burrow and was constantly on the move, making taking photos really difficult : ). I was delighted to finally see what a Swift Fox looked like.
"The swift fox (Vulpes velox), is one of the smallest foxes in the world, and is only found in the Great Plains of North America. This fox is only about the size of a house cat, standing about 30 cm high and weighing about 2.7 kilograms. The swift fox gets its name because it can reach speeds of up to 40 km per hour. At one time the fox could be found in great numbers all over the Canadian grasslands of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Their U.S. range included several states between North Dakota and Mexico.
The swift fox is now endangered in 90% of its historical habitat range. The reasons for the disappearance of swift foxes in both Canada and the U.S. are uncertain, but strychnine-poisoning, intensive trapping (in the past), and habitat destruction are thought to be the primary causes.
In 1973, a captive breeding program for swift foxes began in Cochrane, Alberta. The captive breeding program for these foxes, supported by Wildlife Preservation Trust of Canada (WPTC), has been very successful. With a well-established breeding program, swift fox releases began in 1983. The Swift Fox Recovery Team decided to begin in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan in an effort to reintroduce this species to its native Canadian habitat." From www.thewildones.org/Animals/swiftFox.
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November 4, 2010: Taylor Swift appearing on Much Music in Toronto, Canda.
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