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FaeTal - St Nick Earrings.
Blog:
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Slay vs Sleigh:
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FaeTal Mainstore:
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FaeTal Marketplace:
Way back to 2014 for this image.
R 707 takes regular mainline trips around Victoria. Unfortunately for us the line that passes about 300 metres from us is no longer considered a mainline since the completion of the regional rail link in 2015.
Three Monongahela Super Sevens pull a train of empty hoppers down Main Street in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania. The nearly-new Conrail bathtub gondolas are headed for loading at the Federal #2 mine at the farthest point from West Brownsville.
Returning to land after months and traversing tens of thousands of solitary miles wandering over open ocean, this mōlī, or Laysan albatross, was one of the first to arrive at the nesting site for this year’s breeding season. This female bird was color banded V141 on 30 April 2015 after hatching in February 2015, making her almost eight years old in this photo.
SCOUT: "Daddy? Daddy!"
DADDY: "Yes Scout?"
SCOUT: "Daddy, I want everyone to see the beautiful Little Red Riding Hood that I received as a Christmas gift from Father Christmas and the Christmas Bear this year!" *Preens.* "I look soooo pretty in it! Can you put my photograph on Looking Close on Friday? Please!"
DADDY: "But Scout, the theme for this week is red bows."
SCOUT: "Well, my new Little Red Riding Hood ties with a bow under my chin!" *Nods emphatically.* "See?" *Points to bow with paw.*
DADDY: "Hhhmmm... well, that is true, Scout, it does." *Doubtful.* "However, it's very small! The bow needs to be more of a focal point for the photograph."
SCOUT: "Oh I can fix that, Daddy!" *Smiles.* "Wait there!" *Rushes away before coming back with a big red bow tied under his chin.* "Now can you put my photograph on Looking Close on Friday, please Daddy?"
DADDY: "Goodness! Where did that ribbon come from?"
SCOUT: "It was one of the ones you collected from Christmas Day, yesterday. I think I look pretty!" *Preens more.* "Now, can you PLEASE put my photograph on Looking Close on Friday, Daddy, so that everyone can admire me?"
DADDY: "Alright Scout."
SCOUT: "Oh thank you, Daddy!" *Preens even more.* "I knew you would see it my way... eventually."
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 26th of December is "red bow". My little bear Scout received this beautifully made Little Red Riding Hood cape from Father Christmas and the Christmas Bear for Christmas this year, and whilst Scout is correct, it does tie with a bow, the bow was very small, so being a master of dress-ups, Scout embellished his new cape with a lovely big red bow! I hope you like my choice for this week's theme, and that it makes you smile!
Scout was a gift to Paddy from my friend. He is a Fair Trade Bear hand knitted in Africa. His name comes from the shop my friend found him in: Scout House. He tells me that life was very different where he came from, and Paddy is helping introduce him to many new experiences. Scout catches on quickly, and has proven to be a cheeky, but very lovable member of our closely knit family.
the past isn't dead
it's alive, it is happening
in the back of my head
no future, no past
no laws of time
can undo what is happening
when i close my eyes
with the stars and the moon
i woke up in the night
Conway Scenic’s Notch train crosses Willey Brook as they head back to North Conway. Noticing that year the train only ran to Crawfords on certain days offered opportunities of crossing the bridge not in shadows. Not another soul around until after the train passed. Photo taken Harts Location, NH October 2016
While we had a good turn-out of the FFF+ yesterday several friends were missing.
So here's to them, may they have enjoyable holidays and activities! (And no more rain Beverley!)
Sandhill Crane.
Between 34 to 48 inches in length with a wingspan of nearly 7 feet. They are very tall with a long neck and long legs. Largely gray with a red forehead. Juveniles are browner and have no red on head. Their plumage often appears a rusty color because of iron stains from water of ponds or marshes.
They inhabit large freshwater marshes, prairie ponds and marshy tundra. They are also on prairies and grain fields during migration and in winter.
They range from Siberia and Alaska to the Hudson Bay and south into western Ontario. There are isolated populations in: the Rocky Mountains, the northern prairies, the Great Lakes, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida. They winter in California's Central Valley and across the southern states from Arizona to Florida.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Happy to change my mind from the nothing that seemed to be there ... I smile and click SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Haraiki%20Bay/120/24/23
Explore: 7-19-09 Thank you my dear Flickr friends.
Walter Cronkite, one of America's leading news reporters and journalist, died two days ago at the age of 92. He was the man who told America President John F. Kennedy had died, and informed us of so many important events in our history. Like so many other Americans growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, he was to me America's most trusted man. Walter Cronkite was a role model to so many and he will be greatly missed by the world.
We headed to beautiful Santa Cruz, located at the California coast across the hill from the Silicon Valley. We first stopped at the picturesque town of Capitola just south of Santa Cruz.
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“And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of "other people," which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill-equipped are we all to envision one another's interior workings and invisible aims? Is everyone to go off and lock the door and sit secluded like the lonely writers do, in a soundproof cell, summoning people out of words and then proposing that these word people are closer to the real thing than the real people that we mangle with our ignorance every day? The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.”
Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Serve me the opera "Madame butterfly"
middle ground
with spicy peanut sauce
and a bit of Spanish government
with bits of winter
Then he brings me a soldier from the first artillery brigade
completely drunk
a pair of delicious fruit myrtle,
the krakatoa eruption
and the postal service in the light of philosophy.
For drink
something that does not faint in the difficult, but honorable task of pleasing him.
I'll order the desserts later.
oh!!
and toothpicks.
by Roque Dalton Garcia
Essences, Essences (119, 68, 21) - Moderado
This past Sunday seemed to mostly be about old barns and snow. It was still snowing when I took this shot and of course we were riding down the road at top speed. LOL I really liked this barn because of the pretty green doors and the fact that someone parked that bright red horse trailer in front of them. :) Hope everyone is enjoying a nice midweek sort of day!
Springtime and a return to life in Bowling.
Texture by frostbo - DeviantArt
Pink Floyd - Coming back to Life
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Where are you this moment?
only in my dreams.
You're missing, but you're always
a heartbeat from me.
I'm lost now without you,
I don't know where you are.
I keep watching, I keep hoping,
but time keeps us apart
Is there a way I can find you,
is there a sign I should know,
is there a road I could follow
to bring you back home?
Winter lies before me
now you're so far away.
In the darkness of my dreaming
the light of you will stay
If I could be close beside you
If I could be where you are
if I could reach out and touch you
and bring you back home
Is there a way I can find you
Is there a sign I should know
Is there a road I could follow
to bring you back home
to me ...
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Material: Perhaps Twine as base, DAZ, various brushes & textures, song: Enya: If I could be where you are
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Health still doesn't allow me to be back on flickr at the moment, this had to get out though.
auf die Finger geschaut.
Oft zündet man eine Kerze für jemand anderen an und denkt dabei an jenen anderen, für den oder die man beten möchte: Menschen, die traurig sind; Menschen, die krank sind; Menschen, die vor einer schwierigen Herausforderung stehen; oder einfach Menschen, die einem ganz persönlich am Herzen liegen.
watched.
Often you light a candle for someone else and think of the other person you want to pray for: people who are sad; people who are sick; people who are facing a difficult challenge; or simply people who are close to your heart.
Managed to sneak out with the pup for a few minutes last night and catch this shot just as the sun was trying to break throught the clouds. Was kind of playing around and didn't think I;d have much time so I set the camera to 7 exp. at +/- 1/3 stops and converted in Photmatix.
I'm kind of liken the way this one developed
Hope you all have a great weekend ahead of you
Hitting "L" and viewing large works better on this
Lovely to see so much life in a public pond. With quite high banks it was quite a challenge to get low to the water for this shot. Camera and lens very close to a dunking.
With spring on the horizon and the 627 soon to be shootable again, here's one from when it was greener (in more ways then one), specifically May of last year.
I only started somewhat recently keeping notes from every shoot outside of my Flickr posts so I don't have much of an idea for what happened on this day. I can see it was a Wednesday, so I presume I had brought my equipment with me that day with the hope that 1462 would lead the 627 west to Aurora that day. Sure enough it did, with a triclops 60M in tow.
I've wanted a shot of a BN leader off of the Pleasant Dale bridge on a sunny evening for a long time and I'm glad I was able to cross it off with this one. Judging by the folder from that day, they must have been making good time as I didn't get back in front of them again until west of Tamora. By that time, the clouds had come in and the sun was gone, so I called it there. Jamison appeared in one of my photos so I know he was out for this chase. Sam, were you there as well? I'm tagging you anyway--I don't seem to get out much unless I'm along with you.
As you can tell from my very infrequent uploads over the last year and a half or more, I have quite the backlog to pull from. I have a process that I go through with cataloging and editing and uploading each image that will keep me sane 30 years from now but is a pain to do every time I shoot a train, so I struggled with the motivation to keep the uploads a regular occurrence. Two weeks after this photo was taken, I was let go from my job, and on top of a lot of other things going on it life, I lost all motivation for pretty much everything, something I'm still working on recovering from.
All that to say, I have a good chunk of photos to upload that I will be working on adding here and there among recent shots. I don't even know what all I haven't gotten around to yet, but I hope to be caught back up again at some point.
BNSF SD60M 1462 leads the Aurora local westbound on the Ravenna Subdivision outside Pleasant Dale, Nebraska, May 14, 2025.
The Protestant Church of St. Katharinen, which dates back to the 13th century, with its 115 meter high tower cannot be overlooked when you are traveling in the Hafencity in Hamburg.
It is considered the oldest upright building in Hamburg that is still in use.
Due to its proximity to the harbor, it is considered the sailors' church. That is why she also bears the name of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, the patron saint of sailors and merchants.
Since Hamburg was one of Europe's centers for trade and shipping at the time, this makes perfect sense.
Further to the left in the background you can see the church of St. Nikolai, which was destroyed in the Second World War and of which only the tower remains today as a memorial.
Die aus dem 13. Jarhundert stammende evangelische Kirche St. Katharinen ist mit ihrem 115 Metern hohen Turm t nicht zu übersehen, wenn Ihr in der Hafencity in Hamburg unterwegs seid.
Sie gilt als das älteste aufrecht stehende Gebäude von Hamburg, welches noch immer in Funkton ist.
Auf Grund ihrer Nähe zum Hafen gilt sie als die Kirche der Seeleute. Darum träge sie auch den Namen der Heiligen Katharina von Alexandrien dem Schutzpatron der Schiffer und Kaufleute.
Da Hamburg zur damaligen Zeit eines der europäischen Zentren für Handel und Schiffahrt war, macht das absolut Sinn.
Weiter links im Hintergrund seht Ihr noch die Kirche St. Nikolai, die allerdings im 2. Weltkrieg zerstört wurde und von der heute nur noch der Turm als Mahnmal erhalten ist.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
A paradise for nature lovers. Especially in the summer months you can find up to 400 different plants here.
"Ausflug zur Insel Magerøya"
Ein Paradies für Naturliebhaber. Besonders in den Sommermonaten kann man hier bis zu 400 verschiedene Pflanzen finden.
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(Album - Travel 2023 - Norway Cruise)
(Album - Landscape)
Many thanks to everyone who chooses to leave a comment or
add this image to their favorites, it is much appreciated.
Muchas gracias a todos los que eligen dejar un comentario o añadir esta imagen a sus favoritos, es muy apreciado.
I recently found out that there is a train connection from my home town in southern Germany to Edinburgh -- 15 hours, four countries and under the sea, three capital cities, 2000 kilometers. I just had to try, and I loved it! There's so much to see and experience, plus it gives you a whole different idea of the distance than by simply taking the plane. (I did take a plane on my way home though :-))
And mostly the weather was great in Edinburgh...