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The peak of fall foliage has begun to move south of Keene now, but isolated patches of delayed flourescent color lingers on in isolated sugar maples here and there. iPhone 12 images, with wide-angle distortions in some shots.
Keene, NH: 13 and 14 October, 2022
not the clearest..took it through the window (which I will clean if the weather warms up a bit).....did a bit of adjusting of course to brighten him up...his tale was covered in fluffy flakes of fresh snow...LOL alliteration! Just noticed he looks similar to the last one in the squirrels set but his "sleeves" are a different colors LOL ON explore dec. 27 at #85...up to #37...and 16 and then on Front Pages!!
My 561st that Scout poster found from explore...I think the magic donkey computer puts us in categories and then recognizes those photos..some people always get picked with their macro bokeh shots..very few of my indoor macros show up, but my squirrels almost always do...go figure!
CN AC44C6M 3301 and ES44AC 2759 leading CN X31441 22 as it rolls down the Bala Sub towards Mac Yard with 450 right behind it by about 10mins.
A bit of retro tech for you here from 1987. I found a boxed Interface card for the IBM PC, used with 'LEGO TC Logo', a technic control program using the Logo programming language, and LEGO's actual first foray into programming. Slap this baby in the expansion slot of your IBM PC (another variant was made for the Apple II) and load the software, and you could create primitive commands for your technic motors connected to a control deck.
Morning Coffee in our little garden. Caught some bird and planes. This little fella had an amazing sense of balance. Must have been on the end of that branch swaying in the breeze for about 30 mins
Ok it’s time to post something a bit less dark! Here is a Cornish Tin Mine that has been photographed countless times! None the less, it’s a lovely spot looking down on the amazing turquoise sea!
There is a bit of background required to put this portrait in context. By mere chance, I discovered online that a fully-restored Boeing B-17G World War II heavy bomber was going to spend a week at the small airport in Kingston Ontario. Kingston is a beautiful, historic city three hours east of Toronto. It is also home to my son and his fiancée. While I wasn’t in a position to take a flight on Sentimental Journey, I was determined to see the plane, tour it on the ground, photograph it, and watch it take off and land.
When I saw it sitting on the tarmac of the Kingston Flying Club at the south edge of the airport, it was truly a thing of gleaming beauty. The plane is owned by the Commemorative Air Force, a nonprofit which is dedicated to preserving historic aircraft. It has chapters throughout the U.S. Sentimental Journey’s home base is in Phoenix Arizona but it tours and is available to the public every summer.
The man you are looking at was one of the volunteers who was available to explain about the airplane and answer questions and he was a treasure trove of historical and aviation information. Sensing my eager interest, he kindly made himself available to talk about airplanes and World War II and when I expressed interest in him, he also shared a bit about himself. Meet Bruce.
Bruce is a member of the Commemorative Air Force chapter in Indiana and he told me every year he likes to donate a couple of his vacation weeks to the organization. This summer he flew up to Toronto from Indiana on a commercial flight and met Sentimental Journey in nearby Peterborough Ontario. He spent that week hosting visitors and accompanying them on demonstration rides on the plane. He then accompanied the plane from Peterborough to Kingston where he is doing his last week of volunteering before returning to his “real life” in Indiana.
What is Bruce’s “real life?” Interestingly, it has nothing to do with aviation. He is a PhD research chemist at Purdue University in Lafayette Indiana. His work has to do with analyzing the quantities of medications in bloodstream samples and much of his work has to do with the pharmaceutical industry. He directs the university’s Metabolomics Facility (yes, that was a new one for me too.)
Understandably, most of our conversation was about Sentimental Journey and historic aircraft and it was clear that Bruce is a very informed student of history and lover of airplanes. He had a very warm, pleasant manner, which combined with is knowledge of the plane, made him the perfect tour guide. He had a very pleasant accent which I think was a mix of North Carolina where he did his PhD and Indiana where he lives currently.
When I explained my Human Family photo project to him, Bruce was interested and was happy to participate. We had a few minutes while other visitors were inside the plane and I suggested posing him inside the bomb bay, the doors of which were open and provided sheltered light on this bright day. We both had to duck to get into the bay and I took a couple of portraits with sample bombs hanging on the racks above his head. When I invited him to share a message with the project he thought for a moment and said “We should not glorify war, but we should not forget the past either. This plane serves as a memorial to the young men, often just 20 and 21 years of age who risked and lost their lives in these machines while serving their country.” He went on to reflect about the fact that many of the pilots, navigators, radio operators, and bombardiers were just kids and many of them had never been more than 25 miles from their Midwestern farm lives when they entered the military, were taught to fly and fight, and found themselves over the heart of Germany in the dead of night at 30,000 feet, dropping bombs and fighting for their lives. It is a sobering thought indeed. Bruce concluded with the comment “I wonder how many 20 year-olds would be able to manage that today?”
Thank you Bruce, for a fascinating conversation, a wealth of information about B-17s, and for participating in The Human Family. This is my 522nd submission to The Human Family Group on Flickr.
I hope you had a great two weeks of volunteering and return to your university job with fond memories of Canada.
You can view more street portraits and stories by visiting The Human Family.
A Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) rests on a sheet of fast ice in the Antarctic. Fast ice is a sheet of ice or a iceberg bit that has grounded or is attached to land. The white liquid around its mouth is perfectly normal and is a compound that helps with breathing.
vivienne and i could *not* resist doing a li'l cosplay of the sailor scouts after we managed to collect all the senshi lingerie from tsg! \o/
Funny how the camera catches us differently sometimes! I can see a bit of me as a young man in this one! 😏
Halloween was last month. As found, metal pole with/ without orange paint...
Macro Mondays: "Strictly Texture" today!
I took this while following deer all through the woods with my mother. (I didn't think this picture would turn out.)
film expired by 10 or 11 years. sooc.
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Found this little claw next to the trail, not far from the Wisconsin. Leftover lunch I suppose. Plenty of otters, raccoons, mink and fishers that probably all love a tasty crayfish now and again.
A bit of Nottingham History....
The Nottingham General Hospital rear has in its grounds the Jubilee Wing, now called the Rotunda. The main Hospital was built 1782 and a third story added 1855 designed by the local Architect TC Hine which included the Clock, with the Jubilee Wing being added in 1898, opened by the 6th Duke of Portland GCVO PC.
The rotunda is now a Bar and Restaurant.
Inset is the Plaque of the Opening Ceremony which reads:-
"This Foundation Stone of the Extension
of the Nottingham General Hospital
A Memorial of the Sixtieth Year
of the Reign of Her Majesty
QUEEN VICTORIA
was laid on the 7th day of July 1898 by His
Grace The Duke of Portland GCVO PC"
Below the main plaque was added:-
"Provincial Grand Master of Notts
with Masonic Ceremony".
The honors of GCVO PC stand for "Grand Cross of the Victorian Order" and "Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council"