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German Air Foirce "Luftwaffe" Tornado ECR "Air Defender" departing from Schleswig Air Force base,Germany.
In our earth-lab, a life form has existed randomly, thanks to the reaction of atoms of the ingredients which were already there, in the lab, for the creation of this life form. It has started to develop and expand on the earth, randomly. Later, after billions of years, it got conscious, randomly , but not all life forms have headed to the same direction. The evolution occurred according "the tree of life”.
Speculation:
Big bang has sealed the fate of our future by creating the atom based universe, like all the necessary ingredients were put in a beaker, in a chemical lab, to become the expected ( not randomly) chemical solution.
A life form is the expected result, depending of the time, of the existence and reaction of ingredients in a beaker.
Stopped on my way home to take some pictures of the Snake River and the bridge into Twin Falls Idaho. I noticed a person on the wrong side of the railing, I looked through my camera and zoomed out to see more closely. I thought he was being stupid, or maybe committing suicide, then he jumped, thank God he had a parachute.
Based at the southern end of the loch Lomond, the Drumkinnon Tower plays host to the Sea Life Loch Lomond Aquarium centre along with a 350 seat Cinema and cafe.
Parade of giants in front of the roundhouse shed
Railway museum Bochum-Dahlhausen
"The Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum is a railway museum in the south-west of Bochum, which was founded in 1977 by the German Society for Railway History [Deutsche Gesellschaft für Eisenbahngeschichte e. V.] and has been operated by the Bochum Railway Museum Foundation [Stiftung Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum] since 2011. With an area of around 46,000 m², it is the largest private railway museum in Germany.
The focal point of the museum is the 14-seat locomotive shed with a 20-metre turntable, water tower, workshops and locomotive treatment facilities such as a coaling station, water crane and sand tower. There are also two other exhibition halls with tracks on the site. There is also an operational 600 mm field railway. The entire facility of the former railway depot is a listed building.
The museum is an anchor point of the Route of Industrial Heritage [Route der Industriekultur]. [...]"
(Translated from German Wikipedia entry)
Photo in Explore 15.10.2022
Lorient la Base vue depuis la digue de Kermélo.
Avec les Croqueurs de Lorient.
Croquis sur double page Watercolour Book 200g Hahnemuhle.
Lorient la Base seen from Kermélo's dike.
With Lorient Sketchers.
Sketch on double page Watercolour Book 200g Hahnemuhle.
Close in capture of the pretty Moss Glen Falls in Vermont. A stitch of two images here to get a wider view from close in at the base. Had to do this in order NOT to get the large fallen tree that was across the scene.
Based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. What an amazing aircraft. Colour splash to highlight Thumper.
Oil-based ink on thin Japanese paper, about A4 in size.
For more on this one, you could have a look at my blog: davewhatt.wordpress.com/2021/09/24/that-lino-print-with-t...
Royal Navy Sea King search and rescue helicopter from 771 "Ace of Clubs" Naval Air Squadron over Gwithian beach heading home to Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose.
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Gimsøya, Lofoten, Norway
December 2025
Camera: Nikon FM2n
Film/Film Format: 35mm film Ilford HP5 Plus 400, Push 2
Lens: Nikkor (pancake) 50mm f/1.8 AI-s
Scanner: Noritsu scanner, 16-base (from a local lab in Singapore)
"Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’"
Robert Frost, Mending Wall
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The base of Eastatoe Falls in Rosman, NC taken with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi. I took a shot more recently, that I like better. Please view it here: Eastatoe Falls
CSXT Framingham based local L004 has been on duty more than three hours and is just now starting north. They are technically still inside the Framingham Yard limits as they trundle northbound on the Fitchburg Branch at about MP QBU35.6. The entirety of the branch is designated as Other Than Main Track with this local operating at Restricted Speed but not exceeding 10 MPH the whole way making for an agonizingly long round trip.
The two ex Chessie GP40-2s are crossing the short deck girder bridge over the Foss Reservoir/Sudbury River with a big train of more than 30 cars. Have you ever driven the Mass Pike in the Framingham area and looked over your shoulder to the south and seen a grafitti covered bridge and wondered what train crosses it? Well now you know, because the eastbound lanes of I90 are just 100 or so ft to the left of the train. a
This trackage dates from 1855 when the Agricultural Branch Railroad opened between Framingham and Northborough. In July 1866, the railroad opened a 14-mile extension to a connection with the Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad at Pratts Junction in Sterling. The next dozen years were rather convoluted as many small independent lines began to congeal into larger systems and by 1879 the route was part of the Old Colony Railroad, then ultimately came into the fold of the New York, New Haven, & Hartford in 1893.
This line, like its sister route to Lowell, was one of only three incursions of the NH north of the defacto "Mason Dixon Line" of New England Railroading into what otherwise was the exclusive domain of the Boston and Maine. For virtually a century, with few exceptions, the NH ruled CT and RI and everything in MA south of New York Central's Boston & Albany subsidiary which ran in a virtual straight line between its namesake cities bifurcating New England.
Today this 30 mile route meandering northwest is the last CSXT owned branchline in Massachusetts, with all the rest of any length that they still operate having been sold to MassDOT. The branch seems to have a solid future thanks to the addition of a busy new demolition debris customer near the end of the line in Leominster a few years ago supplementing stalwarts like Ken's Foods, Nucor, and Bestway Lumber.
Framingham, Massachusetts
Monday May 12, 2025
Here is a selection of Routemaster buses digitally-prepared to receive new liveries. All have been modified to (fictional) export specification vehicles of various lengths. Note the different doorway and staircase arrangements (the right hand pair have dual staircases). The front doors came from an RMF-type Routemaster, whereas the rear doors came from an RMC (with hindsight it would have been better to have used the same style of doors throughout). The open rear platform came from an RML (updated 05-Oct-13).
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