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I couldn’t decide between these two edits. I look so sad here, but I liked my makeup a lot. I guess it’s ok to wear this emotion on my sleeve sometimes.
Here's the last tractor, and whacko title, in this series and it's all green and yellow... including the background except for the country lane and sky. It's a two cylinder John Deere Model-A tractor in the big assembly at the Dougherty Museum year end party. According to Wikipedia (and this doesn't come from the illegal political right jive artists so it is probably true), the John Deere Model A was produced to directly compete with McCormick's Farmall tractors. It was a very popular tractor that used Deere & Company's famous two cylinder design. Early tractors burned distillate, and became a main selling point because of its low price. Deere & Company's two cylinder design made a very distinctive sound giving them the nickname "Johnny Poppers."
There is a tractor that wasn't in line at the back. This is surely a raft of diverse tractor manufacturers. I had to shoot this because of the background green and yellow sunflowers. Beyond are fields, sky and farms from the "California Burning" sky. Although we toured the museum's inside some time ago in the heat of summer, I surely didn't remember such a vast host of agricultural implements inside with others scattered elsewhere. We are still stuck in the heat of summer and Trump is out of paper towels and passion for the Carolinas although his supporters there are learning global warming lessons.
A couple of Saturdays back Dougherty had their end of summer blow out. Boulder County Open Space maintains and opens the museum on summer Fridays and weekends. They moved a load of their antiques outside and into the daylight which was a grand improvement especially for those with cameras. The museum started when Ray Dougherty started to acquire old automobiles. He finally branched out to antique farm equipment and early home entertainment devices.
This was a dandy day and I am glad eDDie jumped me to get down there at 9:00 on the stroke of opening. I was over toasted after a couple of hours. Summer t'ain't over here; we get a week of 90s this September week. I must have been a little later than dead on time because folks were shuttling to park and around exhibits. My first trek was over to machinery. From the size of the tractor lineup, I had a load of shooting at this event.
Now some pictures from the zoo in Bern, more than two years after the last time. Here just two puffins...
- www.kevin-palmer.com - After 3 days of dumping snow, whiteout conditions, and winds up to 60mph, the blizzard slowly came to an end. In its wake was 2 feet of fresh snow, with drifts much higher. Since it would still be days before the roads into Theodore Roosevelt National Park were cleared, I set off into the park on foot. The bison could be anywhere, but they were exactly where I hoped to find them. Standing 6 feet tall and weighing up to 2,000 pounds, bison are the largest mammal in North America. Few animals are better suited to endure a blizzard and thrive in deep snow. They use the muscles in their necks and shoulder humps to push snow out of the way with their massive heads, like nature's snowplow. Bison eat 24 pounds per day, and they had no problem finding the grass buried under the snow. It was fascinating observing this group of 4 from a safe distance for more than an hour.
Two water filled balloons shot with an air pistol and captured using the MIOPS trigger on sound sensor
Double-heading BR(W) Manors. Collett design 4-6-0 no.7822 ‘Foxcote Manor’ leads no.7820 ‘Dinmore Manor’ past the fisherman’s crossing, Tyt’n-y-celyn (west of Garth-y-dwr) with the 09:20 “Festiniog Railway Society AGM Special” to Corwen East.
Note: it may look as though this shot was taken line side, but in fact it isn’t, as the path moves nearer the track at this point.
ODC Our Daily Challenge: Perhaps I should have ... a cuppa tea :-)
118 Pictures in 2018: #89 Two of a Kind
This image was captured during a recent explore of a local woodland, with the aim of photographic bluebells.
The group of bluebells seen here are on part of an Iron age hillfort. The potential view here reminds me of Chun Castle in Cornwall, where you can see for miles. If you do visit Chun Castle and wonder where the stones are, they were robbed by the Victorian and used down in Penzance.
Something that I noticed was some of the trees and their colouring. Almost as if spring and autumn have meet.
Bindweed is a plant of the morning glory family that produces handsome white, pink, or blue funnel-shaped flowers1. The bindweed vines will grow leaves, which are shaped much like an arrowhead, before growing flowers2. Bindweed flowers are trumpet-shaped and will be either white or pink234. Hedge bindweed has large leaves and big white trumpet-shaped flowers in summer, while field bindweed is similar but smaller, with flowers that are either white or pink4.
This week has been so crazy.
These two pictures are from this week, taken on my iPhone. It's been a good companion, lol.
Hopefully this weekend is productive. Still need to post my Project 52 picture. Will think about what that needs to be, since it's a wiidcard theme :D
Been so behind on commenting and checking out photostreams...no time - ahhh! I'll catch up soon.
Ciao :)
PS. Thank you for commenting everyone, it means so much!
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937 passing over the Waianakarua River's North Branch bridge. The Road bridge behind the loco is 148 years old. Arched bridges are rare in N.Z. The pylons of the rail bridge are about 145.
Two of a group of three I found together. The rut is over, deer are back in single-sex herds, and they will soon drop their antlers.
Flickr Lounge ~ Two of the Same
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fixing some reflection is harder than i thought. hope y'all like this. =D
for strobist: lit with sunpak 120J bounced off a white ceiling. water in glass to achieve color switching. =D
Another shot of the Sugarloaf, but this time from Vartry Reservoir in Wicklow. Spot the two boats on the right.