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enjoyed a wonderful weekend in cambridge.
beautiful weather, fabulous company and a chance to cycle everywhere.
i've really missed cycling.
........back later with more, gotta go find a bench : )
Roid week October 2018
Day 1
SX70 and TZ
Maldivian Board repairs. This will be exhibited as part of Instant Art Paris in November.
(EN) Picture was taken in the dark ride „Castello dei Medici“ at amusement park „Europa-Park“ Germany.
(DE) Das Foto wurde in der renovierten Themenfahrt „Castello dei Medici“ (ehemals „Geisterschloss“) des Europa-Parks aufgenommen
Gino felt discarded. He put in years of loyal service for the Boss and then, when he broke a few teeth, the Boss tossed him into the "has been" pile. Gino's career was over just like that!
Bakersfield, California 2015
While waiting for our flight to Tagbilaran City, Bohol. Panglao Island-bound.
Metal bench
Monochrome
(Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Ninoy Aquino)
Ninoy Aquino International Airport
Terminal II
Pasay City, Philippines
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For Steam Sunday here's another from my recent visit to the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum.
This Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum is a special place that I've been remiss in visiting only one prior time despite it being relatively close. Since my GF and I had plans to be in Portland for the weekend for a Christmas party we were less than an hour away and it just so happened to be one of the three weekends they were operating their Victorian Christmas Train to the outdoor Christmas Market at Sea Lyon Farm.
With seven sold out departures every 40 min between 10 AM and 2 PM the little 24 inch gauge railroad was busy! I didn't have reservations but after getting up there to photograph a few trains around the Sheepscot Yard I was told that if we waited we might be able to get on the last run at 2 PM. And true to their word they let us grab a couple tickets and amazingly we had the cupola seats in caboose number 320 to ourselves both directions. The market was fabulous and we enjoyed some food by the fire and came home with some goodies and gifts from the many talented local artisans set up.
The five two foot narrow gauge systems are undoubtedly what makes the state of Maine unique in the annals US rail history. Though the original lines were all abaondoned well before the mid 20th century mark they have captivated historians and railfans ever since. Furthermore, thanks to Ellis D. Atwood's Edaville Railroad in South Carver, Massachusetts an inordinate amount of the dimunitive equipment survived to captivate generations of young New England Railfans, me among them.
This particular railroad was chartered as the Wiscassett and Quebec and opened in 1895. At its peak it stretched only 58 miles never coming close to Quebec. Even after being reorganized after the turn of the century as the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington it was still unable to attain even those two more modest goals in its new name.
Abandoned in 1933 the line has been being rebuilt with more than three and a half miles in place and more on the way. In addition to meticulously recreated modern structures, some original WW&F artifacts are now here including an original section house, an original W&Q boxcar and coach (both dating from 1894), an original WW&F flat from 1912 and of course locomotive number 9.
Here's a timeless scene at the Alna Center depot, MP 6.4 (as measured from the historic south end of the line at Wiscasset harbor) about 1.5 miles north of Sheepscot and as far as these Christmas trains run. WW&F number 9 is departing south shoving the three car train as they pass the tiny station and a gorgeously restored Ford pickup (I'm not a car guy so of anyone knows year and model please let me know). This 0-4-4T locomotive was built by the Portland Company in 1891 for another of Maine's two foot pikes, the Sandy River Railroad. Successor Sandy River & Rangely Lakes sold her in 1924 to the Kennebec Central where she ran for less than a decade before being sold once again in 1933 to the WW&F in its last year before abandonement.
The dimutive little engine seemed destined for a scrapper’s torch like the rest of the railroad but fate intervened in 1937 when she was purchased by Frank Ramsdell and transported to his farm in West Thompson, Connecticut. The locomotive would remain there in a barn for more than six decades until Frank's daughter Alice passed away. It was sold in 1995 by its new owner, Dale King who was Alice’s nephew and migrated home to begin a restoration process that would last two decades. Number 9 made her return to service in 2016, roughly 80 years since she last ran on her own power and today operates regularly over three and a half miles of line resurrected from the Maine woods.
To plan a trip of your own here check out the museum's site.
And to learn more find a copy of the December 2025 issue of Trains Magazine for a great in depth article on this remarkable place and all they have achieved and what they have planned for the future.
This is a truly special special place, and I want to share one little personal tidbit. Those who know me know I have a huge library of railroad books more than 30 years in the making and worth tens of thousands of dollars. But you know what the very first railroad book that began my collection was? A copy of Big Dreams and Little Wheels that I picked up as a kid from a shelf at LL Bean in Freeport while shopping with my folks on the way to Bar Harbor. This little softcover volume by Ruby Crosby Wiggin was published in 1971 as a history of the WW&F, and I remember reading it in our camper somewhere down east and being utterly captivated....and from then on I had big dreams of railroading some day too...
Alna, Maine
Saturday December 13, 2025
For Looking Close.. on Friday! #monochrome bubble bokeh
I really wanted to try something new for this really cool theme idea, but I ran out of time. So this is a bokeh shot from my (recent) archive that has been monochromed with a coral overlay,
Hexagonal bokeh. Because it's great.
A view along the Grove of the Patriarchs trail in Mt. Rainier National Park
I just changed work locations this past week; it's been a very emotional roller coaster for me. I had started my previous job with a lot of expectations and hopes but as time went on I became more and more unhappy. There was a day when I realized that, due to how my coworkers treated me and how terribly things were managed at my lab, my frustration, anger, and anxieties had built up so much that I almost lost all my enthusiasm for a job I loved so much. It became obvious that it was time to move on to a new place. So now I am at a new lab with a longer commute. Even after just a couple days I can feel the more positive energy and attitude; it's like a tremendous weight has been lifted. I wish I had reflected on my unhappiness sooner and not spent so much time and effort trying to fix the problems that I couldn't solve (for a variety of reasons), it's over now and I am so very excited for my fresh start.
So remember folks to take time for self reflection and to make positive changes whenever possible to improve your life.
Where's the love song?
To set us free
Too many people down
Everything turning the wrong way around
....
And you've been so busy lately
that you haven't found the time
To open up your mind
And watch the world spinning gently out of time
Tell me I'm not dreaming but are we out of time?
....
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/technology/26polaroid.html
I shot this on actual Time Zero film. Look at that creamy skin. It is like a dream. I'm going to miss that film...
❥Skin: Glam Affair] Eliz [Lelutka EvoX] access
❥Outfit: Lichia- Zoe set @ Belleza Event
❥Tattoo: +GODFLESH+ CALYPSO TATTOO @ Belleza Event
❥Body: Belleza - Gen.X Female Body - Curvy @ Mainstore
With deadlines coming up,
the overwhelming numbing sensation
is oddly alarming
If only time could cease to be.
I need 6 photos to put in my portfolio in which relate to a theme. I was thinking maybe "conceptual" as a theme...
any ideas?
no graphics please! they'll be deleted. comments are more than welcome :) encouraged, even.
Explored # 43
The Kermode bears (both the black and the rarer white phase called spirit bear) eat constantly during the time of plenty when the spawning salmon fill the streams of the Pacific Northwest, preparing for their long hibernation when they go without food for several months. I saw a number of bears, who were clearly full, catch salmon and just strip out the eggs, leaving the rest of the body for other scavengers in the area. The bears often drag their catches into the woods where the nutrients feed the rainforest.
02/01/2019 www.allenfotowild.com
Time for work!
Challenge 36 - MAKE US LAUGH !! - The Blind Pig Speakeasy
Make It Interesting • Challenge 1 (Hobbiton)
Source image with thanks to Jeff Hitchcock
Cloud background by amka Stock deviantArt
Umbrella girl - jumping 19 by JusticeStock- deviantArt
Just a reminder (with an apology) that we are still around, and will soon be back into the Spring swing of things after a much needed break from life in general (Dad, that is, not me) to help look after his Mum (thankfully along with several other caring siblings--she's 94!), also, he's heavily involved in the writing game now trying to hack out-
"Hey, watch it, dude."
-a historical fiction novel about his time on a farm in far away Toronto for a summer in 1975 when he was sixteen, where as an example of minor content, he saw the raising of the antenna on the CN Tower March 1 of that year and the final capping on April 2, and never shuts up about it--but maybe this will finally do that.
"Your friends will be happy to see that you are as kind to me as ever, Clancy."
Hey, I plugged your stupid book, now where's my treat?
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