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.... Come vecchie mani protese...
Uno studio della University of Western Australia ha dimostrato che le piante sanno ascoltare l'acqua e la cercano per crescere.
Hanno un sistema di sensi molto più complesso di quanto abbiamo pensato, con la capacità di rilevare e rispondere ai suoni per trovare l'acqua , e in ultima analisi sopravvivere, ascoltandone e percependone le vibrazioni sonore
Bosco di faggi della Val d'Aveto, Liguria
The thirsty roots
Some researchers have shown that plants can listen to the sound of the water and look for it to survive....
Loro assetate, io piuttosto affamata : erano quasi le 14, avevamo fatto tardi col lungo percorso, e stavamo ancora salendo nel bosco verso il monte Penna....Due componenti del gruppo avevano rinunciato ed erano tornati indietro.
Anche ai piedi del Monviso scarseggia l'acqua : il rifugio Quintino Sella costretto a chiudere. Mai successo prima
The heroic crew of a Super Scooper firefighting plane make a low pass through heavy smoke on West Mountain in Idaho. They had just dumped water further up the slope and were heading down to the lake to refill by skimming the water in a touch-and-go operation.
Peak Action
During the height of the West Mountain wildfire in August 2025, several Super Scoopers and helicopters shuttled relentlessly from Lake Cascade, dropping load after load of scooped water on the flames. Usually, multiple scoopers arced up and around the mountain while helicopters retreated to reload, alternating to maintain safe separation in the crowded airspace. This rare frame captures the exception: for a split second, a Scooper and helicopter shared the same turbulent, smoky corridor.
Fire Timeline
The Rock Fire ignited from lightning strikes on August 12, 2025 evening, just south of Tamarack Resort along Lake Cascade's steep timbered west shore. It exploded in size to roughly 2,743 acres about a week after this shot, forcing Tamarack to halt operations. The fire reached full containment on September 2, 2025, after burning a final 2,844 acres.
Response Scale
Ground crews peaking near 900 firefighters and support staff battled alongside aerial assets that included helicopters dropping over 1,145 buckets of water, multiple Super Scoopers, and fixed-wing tankers, all carving through smoke to protect homes and infrastructure.
2025 Fire Season
2025 marked an exceptionally busy wildfire year across North America, with over 50 large fires active nationwide in late August alone amid widespread lightning outbreaks. Idaho saw multiple blazes sparked around the same storm systems, including the Rock Fire among several near Tamarack and larger ones like Island Creek. Canada endured a record-shattering season with 6,125 fires burning over 21 million acres -- more than double the 10-year average -- fueled by persistent drought and heat.
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Hey, Wally, I hear you got a new government job.
Yeah, it's great! I get to meet all kinds of interesting and smart people.
Yeah? Like who?
Like all kinds. I met Putin the other day.
Yeah? Isn't he a total thug, killer and creep?
No way! He was really cool! Said all kinds of nice things about me!
And so you think. . . what?
To me, if he says nice things, that's a real asset.
And that affects how you perform your job?
Yeah! He even gave me tips about emptying the trash! Makes sweeping up at the White House a lot easier.
I can totally see how it would.
I know, right?
After being blocked by CN A407, the DREI 101 got its go-ahead to cross over the shared CN/UP/DREI diamond in Tuscola. Typically, the 101 is powered by some SD45s - derated to 3000hp, they are SD40-2s for all intents and purposes - however today, the leader was an actual SD40-2 with a pretty clean K5. Quite a neat combo these days. Just shooting an SD40 leader is a delight these days in fields of endless widecabs.
WAMX 4134, our leader, has a fairly short history. Built for the Union Pacific as the 3578 in July of 1979, the SD40-2 pulled for the yellow beast up until around 2006. It changed hands to Progress Rail at that point, where it moved around the country for a while before ending up in storage. It appeared under the WAMX reporting mark in 2008, working as a quarry queen for the better part of a decade in Texas. It ventured north to Illinois in 2020, receiving the WAMX black and gold in 2021, and now lives on the DREI.
The 101, from Decatur to Chrisman, is a pretty nice chase. Always a good time heading down to go after it.
I left the money in the creek, it wasn't mine. I wonder how far downstream the coins have traveled in seven months . . .
or maybe the next dude across the bridge grabbed it up.
After spotting three cars at Toll Brothers, CSAO MO-33 gets moving across Pennsylvania Avenue in Morrisville with a dozen tanks for Staley, led by a duo of CSX GP40-2s, 6129 & 6203 running long hood forward.
Conrail Shared Assets WPCA-20 shakes the windows along 3rd Street in Moorestown, NJ on a daily basis. In fact, it is the only train to shake the windows here anymore.
Rebuilt EMD SD30C-ECO 1707 and standard SD40-2 8828 had Conrail Shared Assets train CA-11 northbound at Five Points, New Jersey under blue skies.
1707 was originally a Seaboard Coast Line SD40-2 while the 8828 was built for Conrail.
Escorted by a pair of Lightning IIs, Royal Air Force Boeing Rivet Joint R.1 'Goose 51' heads across Essex towards The Mall and Buckingham Palace as part of the VE Day 80th Anniversary celebration Flypast
The No.51 Squadron Rivet Joint was ZZ666 with Marham based
F-35s ZM148/014 and ZM162/028 flying as 'Doom 11 & 12'
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29/04/2023 - Truckfest Peterborough 2023
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Unfortunately, I am eating everything in sight right now..this has got to stop. I get little snippets of will power and resolve but they only last a day or so.
Good news...I have healed the slipped disk in my neck enough to have started running again. Also played my first soccer game in two months. Whoot! Great to be back at it.
This image was shot for Our Daily Challenge: Portraits from Behind
With a challenge like that, how could I resist??
Heads up - this is the first of a series of photos that I took today that will comprise my "Asset" series. Hee Hee Hee