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There are worse things to come home to than Mozart and cherry pie.
(Random sentences often stick with me. I hear them someplace and for some reason, they just stay. This is one of them.)
Flypaper new texture pack... you know you want it.
Who knew? After it's Hollywood acting role, D&RGW Consolidation engine #268, C-16 class 2-4-0s, would have to go right back to work. Here it is again hauling a freight drag in the Rockies. At least, it got a free Hollywood paint job. Maybe D& RGW (Dangerous and Rapidly Growing Worse) thought that they could expand on the Hollywood notariety and it's paint scheme - livery per rail fans. Some rail fans like Neal, called the engine's exhaust a "bituminous cloud." This is another of Neal Miller's photos he passed to me. I hope he donated his massive book collection (even the Colorado Midland book - worth hundreds itself) to the Colorado Railroad Museum before passing some time ago.
The D&RGW ordered a raft of consolidation (C-16) engines to haul freight throughout the Colorado Rockies. Were they all from BLW - Baldwin Locomotive Works out east? Only later did they order larger engines and start converting standard gauge engines to narrow gauge, the 480s and 490s, which also worked several movies in their day. I thought that I ought to get this copy posted while Neal's previous #268 shot is still on this page. This is a significant version.
My cousin confuses the word steamers with doggy leftovers in his back yard.
Ontario must pay for surgery to give trans resident both penis and vagina: appeal court:
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2 Timothy 3:13 “But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.”
This looks worse than it was - these two are brothers and at the time they have a lot of fun together. In one or two years they'll be adults and won't live that easy together, and one of them will have to leave into another zoo. It was amazing to watch these two gicantic animals playing in the water, but while watching them I felt so sad thinking on their future in nature. The global warming will endanger so many wonderful creatures. When will we ever learn..?
When the alarm went off at 4:30 AM a couple of weeks ago, I gritted my teeth and told myself, yet again, that a 95% burn forecast on Skyfire doesn't come along every day. I had also checked the satellite the night before and I knew there was a decent chance of some color down in Laguna, but I had been shut out PLENTY of times down there before. I can't begin to count the number of times over the past couple of years where I made the drive based on a Skyfire forecast only to show up and have the sun duck behind some clouds right at game time, or worse...have the clouds disappear altogether.
So when I groggily pulled up at Heisler Park at 5 AM, I wasn't sure what to expect. I was further unnerved by the fact that I was here on a Sunday morning and it looked like I was the only photographer who showed up. I started to set up my tripod, but one of the legs locked up and I had to improvise by hanging the stupid thing over a railing. Muttering to myself like a deranged homeless guy, I fought with the tripod and shivered as the wind had picked up substantially. "Bah!", I thought to myself. "I came all the way down here for what, exactly?"
And then I looked up. And smiled. The sky definitely began to glow early, and I really thought it was going to blow up in a big way. But just as the clouds really began to glow, the sun went behind another cloud beyond the horizon, and it looked like the show was over. Grimacing a bit, I folded up my broken tripod and headed back to the car, bummed that the sunrise fizzled out, but glad to be going home with at least a couple of shots. Just out of curiosity, I thought I should head up North a bit to Shaw's Cove to see what it looked like during high tide. Fisherman's Cove was out because most of it would be under water, but Shaw's should still work to get some scouting shots in, if nothing else.
I pulled my car around and muttered some more salty words at a scuba diver who stole my spot right in front of me, made a u turn....and my jaw hit the floor. While I had been finding a parking space, the sky had indeed blown up…in a huge way. I flew down the stairs to the Cove, ditching the broken tripod and began shooting like crazy. This was easily the most color I had ever seen in Laguna and the crimson red and fiery orange spilled out over the wet sand in all directions. And it just kept going! The reds eventually gave way to a brilliant golden glow giving me plenty of time to run up and down the beach and out onto the rocks. I think I clocked in around 600 shots by the time the sun went behind another cloud and I headed off, exhausted, to to Jack In The Box.
Kudos to Skyfire which knocked this one out of the park, This was a sunrise that I probably would have missed as I thought the cloud cover was going to be too deep. It was also a good reminder that every so often, those 4:30 AM wake up times actually pay off.
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A British idiom, meaning "there are much worse things than this". Probably owing its origin to the reputation of the sea as a place of disasters, wrecks and death.
Native English speakers offer another interpretation, that's to say "It is not that bad". This is a more optimistic interpretation.
This reminds me of the Engineer's Consolation, namely
"you can't fall off the floor" .
Taken From The Santander to Portsmouth ferry.
Session with Worse... with a lot of "DARE"-Orange, in memory of a good friend:
Sigi "DARE" von Koeding 15.09.1968 - 06.03.2010... R.I.P.
A somewhat worse for wear Nubian giraffe, looking old and dark he had a large patch of white pigmentation on his neck and the hair on his horn like ossicones was literally worn to the bone.
Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, June 2019
Nikon D500, 300mm F4 PF & 1.4TCiii @ F8, 1/1600, ISO1400
Had a bit of a dilemma yesterday afternoon, do I go back to Dartmoor for more snow or head towards the coast, obviously I choose the later. This is another location I'd never been to before and when I left the car I really didn't realise what I was up against, the hike nearly killed me! The sunset never really mounted to much but it could have been worse. As the Sun poked out from the clouds for one last time I tried to get everything pointing sunwards.
Shot with d3100 and Nikon 12-24mm
Any constructive crit welcomed.
Cheers,
Gary.
Edit: I've just started a Facebook page to show some more of my photos, hopefully it will be used for all types of photography that I will be experimenting with. I also hope to use it to build up some like minded contacts. There's not much on there at the moment but over the coming weeks and months I will be adding plenty. If you are a facebook user and have time please take a look and maybe even like. Feel free to leave a link for any facebook pages you may have for me to check out. Cheers, Gary
25 February 2021: The trend that was started earlier this week, is being continued as the average number of new Covid cases is up again. In the week to 21 February on average 2201 people tested positive each day in Belgium. The figure is up 20% on the week. In Ghent the rise is a staggering 70 percent. Whilst the coronavirus statistics are taking a turn for the worse the Flemish Prime Minister, Jan Jambon announced yesterday that serous relaxations will be possible as of April. Try to make sense out of that… Yesterday’s good news was that the FDA announced that the one-shot coronavirus vaccine made by J&J provides strong protection against severe disease and death from Covid-19 and may reduce the spread of the virus by vaccinated people. The same statement also said that the F.D.A. could authorize the vaccine as early as next Saturday. I’m wondering how long it will take for the EMA to come to the same conclusion. To cope with the frustration that is creeping up on me I’m continuing to snap my way around Ghent. On display today is a wimmelbild of a bored bus driver waiting for his passengers to arrive – Zuid, Ghent, Belgium.
"...worse things than that when you are young. The worst thing is when you have adults around you that forget that children are there to remind us the magic is real, that innocence is one of the things that’s big enough to create the world all over again every day, bigger & brighter every time. When you have adults around you who forget that, they do mean & stupid things that can hurt for your whole life."
© StoryPeople
Hello Flickr friends worldwide the new Notifications Center that Flickr is activating Is a bunch of baloney. We are the customer and we pay for the service. If they don't change it back I will close my account. I am sick and tired of them making continuously worse just so they can compile more data on us!
"Not Dark Yet"
Shadows are falling, and I've been here all day
It's too hot to sleep, and time is running away
Feel like my soul has, turned into steel
I've still got the scars, that the sun didn't heal
There's not even room enough, to be anywhere
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
Well, my sense of humanity, has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain
She wrote me a letter, and she wrote it so kind
She put down in writing, what was in her mind
I just don't see why I should even care
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
Well, I've been to London, and I've been to gay Paris
I've followed the river, and I got to the sea
I've been down to the bottom, of a world full of lies
I ain't looking for nothing, in anyone's eyes
Sometimes my burden, is more than I can bear
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
I was born here, and I'll die here, against my will
I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still
Every nerve in my body, is so naked and numb
I can't even remember what it was, I came here to get away from
Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer
And it's not dark yet, but it's getting there
Every nerve in my body, is so naked and numb
And it's not dark yet, but it's getting there.
Song by:Calum Scott
Andra Day - Rise Up
You’re broken down and tired
Of living life on a merry-go-round
And you can’t find the fighter
But I see it in you so we gonna walk it out
And move mountains
We gonna walk it out
And move mountains
And I’ll rise up
I'll rise like the day
I’ll rise up
I'll rise unafraid
I'll rise up
And I’ll do it a thousand times again
And I’ll rise up
High like the waves
I’ll rise up
In spite of the ache
I'll rise up
And I’ll do it a thousand times again
For you
For you
For you
For you
When the silence isn’t quiet
And it feels like it’s getting hard to breathe
And I know you feel like dying
But I promise we’ll take the world to its feet
And move mountains
Bring it to its feet
And move mountains
And I’ll rise up
I'll rise like the day
I’ll rise up
I'll rise unafraid
I'll rise up
And I’ll do it a thousand times again
For you
For you
For you
For you
All we need, all we need is hope
And for that we have each other
And for that we have each other
We will rise
We will rise
We’ll rise, ohh ohhh
We’ll rise
I’ll rise up
Rise like the day
I’ll rise up
In spite of the ache
I will rise a thousands times again
And we’ll rise up
Rise like the waves
We’ll rise up
In spite of the ache
We’ll rise up
And we'll do it a thousands times again
For you ohhhh ohhh ohh ohhh ohh
For you ohhhh ohhh ohh ohhh ohh
For you ohhhh ohhh ohh ohhh ohh.
Song by: Andra Day.
... than never!
November took a turn for the worse on the Friday 26th when Storm Arwen arrived, and wiped out all communications and power for almost a week. That is why I am uploading this on December 4th!
There is a sense of unreality here, as a week has vanished into a dark and frozen void! It really does show how dependent we are on our electricity supply! Luckily we had some remnants of camping kit, from trips many years ago, so we survived the 6 days and 5 nights. And ironically we were in the process of preparing for power cuts this winter - updating our mobile heating and cooking equipment etc. And replacing the old generator was in process too. So the unexpected storm came a week early .... we would have been more 'storm-proof' had it hit us today!!
But November itself has been a bit of a surprise even before the storm. Wet and windy, and with many nights dipping below zero. It seemed that autumn was a missing season, and we moved straight into winter. We managed only one trip out with cameras, to Fyvie Loch - but didn't manage to visit the coast, or other inland places. I did make up for our home-based month by taking plenty of still-life and macro shots.
Once again, thanks to everyone who has visited my photostream and for the comments and faves. I hope the collage gives an enjoyable look back through November.
All my collages are collected here: At a Glance
And I continue to paint with watercolour, and am writing about it too.
theliddells.com/hands-on-watercolours/
theliddells.com/hands-on-watercolours-1/
19 February 2021: In the week to 15 February on average 1813 people tested positive each day in Belgium. The figure is down 12% on the week. In the same period 120 patients with Covid were hospitalised and 39 fatalities a day were linked to Covid. The figures are down respectively 2% and 8% on the week. Even though Belgium’s coronavirus infection and hospitalisation figures are continuing their downward trend, they are not good enough to start relaxing the measures that were put in place to curb the spread of the virus yet. 240 coronavirus infections per day per 100,000 inhabitants is still way too high. Compared to other European countries we’re ranking somewhere in the middle. We are doing better than France (400) and the Netherlands (290) but worse than Germany (140). Belgian virologists, therefore, reiterated that the thresholds of 800 infections and 75 hospitalisations per day should be reached first before any relaxation could be considered. One virologist said “If we begin to relax some coronavirus measures before Easter, we would be shooting ourselves in the foot. Going too fast is not an option”. Today, I’m posting the last pictures of last week’s cold snap – Zevergem, Belgium.
Recent heavy rains have brought the Little Miami River out of its banks causing road closures in some areas. But, I've seen it a lot worse than this in the past.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree
and climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more
but dipped its top and set me down again
that would be good both going and coming back
one could do worse than be a swinger of birches
Robert Frost (American poet 1874-1963)
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... Series: "Oscuridades" / "Darks"
... Music: "Godzilla" by Blue Öyster Cult ...................................................... enjoy it!!!!
If the idea was to ruin the shots of whoever happened to cross paths with these guys, it was a pretty weak attempt. At least the colors matched, and it wasn't toilet paper or garbage bags like I've seen some asshole do. Anyway 778 with its bucket loads off the Monongahela are about to make all sorts of noise on the Marion diamonds.
The Los Angeles County Arboretum during COVID-19. When this image was captured the number of cases and deaths in LA County had started to rapidly grow. The peak has not yet been reached as of December 13th. Deaths have tripled in less than a month. Cases have increased by a factor of NINE - we can expect an increase in the death rate in the coming weeks.
Follow the people in this image - wear a mask, keep your distance and use common sense or things will simply continue to get worse !!!!
Looking worse for wear, D1041 heads the 17.47 to Westbury, at Paddington. On the left classmate D1010, with only one more month left in traffic, is in charge of the 17.44 to Didcot.
I was walking home when a new neighbour introduced herself and gave me these roses from her garden. She moved into my street to be closer to and care for her very sick daughter and family.
It just goes to show there are some wonderful people in the world and that if we think we have problems, there is always someone worse off.
Best wishes to my new neighbour and her family.