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Three coach services crossing the Australian Capital Territory/New South wales border.
(1) Murrays Coaches and a BCI Explorer unit,
(2) Greyhound Australia with their Irizar Century 3900 bodied Volvo B13R (with a little bit of roadkill on the side), and,
(3) Transborder Express liveried Mercedes operated by Deanes Buslines with a Coach design body.
Desaguadero or Chaka Marka is a town on the Bolivian-Peruvian border. On the Bolivian side it is situated in the La Paz Department, Ingavi Province, Desaguadero Municipality, Desaguadero Canton.
Snow lying on the high ground in the Borders of Scotland. More on the MacLean Photographic blog - macleancomms.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/scottish-borders-land...
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Gelsenkirchen
The Ruhr area ('Ruhrgebiet') is named after the river that borders it to the south and is the largest urban area in Germany with over five million people. It is mostly known as a densely-populated industrial area. By 1850 there were almost 300 coal mines in operation in the Ruhr area. The coal was exported or processed in coking ovens into coke, used in blast furnaces, producing iron and steel. Because of the industrial significance, it had been a target from the start of the war, yet "the organized defences and the large amount of industrial pollutants produced a semi-permanent smog or industrial haze that hampered accurate bombing". During World War II, the industry and cities in the Ruhr area were heavily bombed. The combination of the lack of historic city centres, which were burned to ashes, and (air) pollution has given the area and the cities a bad reputation. Especially because it is so close to the Netherlands, I thought it would be an interesting area to visit for a little trip. I have spent three nights at a campsite on the Ruhr and visited six cities.
Gelsenkirchen is the 25th largest city in Germany and the fourth largest in the Ruhr region with a population of 260,000. Gelsenkirchen remained a small settlement until the nineteenth century, when the industrial revolution led to a rapid population increase. It became an independent city in 1896. The city used to have many torches due to the excess of coke oven gas from the coking plants, which gave Gelsenkirchen its nickname Stadt der 1000 Feuer (City of 1000 Fires). Gelsenkirchen is primarily known for its soccer club: Schalke 04, which is named after the Gelsenkirchener district Schalke.
Gelsenkirchen suffers from problems including high unemployment due to its former reliance on the coal and steel industry, high crime rates and a large amount of vacant houses caused by population decline. The population reached an all-time high in 1959 with 391,745 inhabitants; the forecast for 2025 lies at only 226,100 inhabitants, making it one of the fastest shrinking cities in Germany. Gelsenkirchen now tries to turn around things by expanding its service sector and positioning itself as a hub for solar technology.
Even though 75% of the city was destroyed during World War II, there are still plenty of remains of the architectural past.
Source: Wikipedia
The Liebfrauenkirche was constructed in 1894.
Border Buses Alexander Dennis Enviro 200MMC YX20 ODS (12006) parked in Edinburgh before operating service X62 (Edinburgh - Peebles), 31/05/21
This is the view north from camp on our first night in the Mt. Baker Wilderness. Over the valley Tomyhoi Peak, Mt. Larrabee, and Pleiades East Peak can be seen skirting the Canadian border.
We sat and had lunch, enjoyed the view and made a few photos. For this shot, I scrambled up a precarious slope (which I slide down more than once) to get above Sarah and provide a wider view of the valley.
Image with my Hasselblad 500cm.
I went into Glasgow on Saturday to go to shop and draw at the Glasgow Craft Mafia at the Lighthouse. Strangely I felt too self conscious to draw, so headed of to Borders for tea and drawing.
A possible new series - tangled borders for lettering - a friend wants to try tangled frames for her haikus. Sakura Micron in a 5" watercolour notebook.
The top arrangement is the one I had planed for my picture and would only require 24 slices of cane. However, the arrangement below is more appealing but will require 40 slices. I can just about make it.
I took my border collie, Kodiak, out for a hike in Angeles National Forest. After driving through the desert the lush pine Angeles forest was such a welcome site. There were still wildflowers in bloom and small patches of snow on the shaded mountain peaks.
He has discoid lupus erythematosus (aka collie nose), an autoimmune disorder that causes his skin to blister and bleed when exposed to UV rays. He has been about two weeks without a Lupus-bleed-blister flare up. I thought that with proper sun protection he could manage a hike. He did well on the hike, however a few days later his nose was pink and starting to bleed a teeny bit.
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