FT-2 and Horizont
View allAll Photos Tagged borrow,
My Beanie Bear Barry sitting on borrowed books beside a jar of buttons on a brown bench.
The five B's were originally: Barry/Bear/Books/Buttons/Bench
I thought it would be fun to combine.
Happy Smile on Saturday
Phnom Penh
Some of the slum areas do not even have single rooms, they are thick and untidy clusters of small roofed walls – ceilings of which are made of scraps of wood, used sacks, metal, or some sort of waste material. You see 10 to 12 people live, eat and sleep under the same roof. The children often play in places where the drains are used as open toilets
Guide Falls, near Burnie, northern Tasmania.
This was taken as the sun was sinking below the horizon, so I lost light very rapidly.
Everything on earth is borrowed....
There is no "Mine or Yours."....
There is only "Ours."....
Even time is borrowed.
We kill over a plot of land that
belongs only to our Mother Earth.
All you have is what you came with...
and what you will leave with....
Your Spirit.
Native American Proverb
* Given that Spurn Point is relatively close to Hull I guess it's surprising I do not go there often. It is the oddest and wildest part of East Yorkshire with huge skies. However I find it too desolate to really enjoy, though some of my friends who are serious birders love it . This shot was taken on the narrowest parts of the spit. On the left hand side is the North Sea and on the right the waters of the Humber estuary . The little wooden cabin is a shelter in case a high tide cuts you off from the mainland which is not uncommon. You can see the lighthouse which is about four miles further along the spit.
Its a hard place to describe so I will borrow some text from the Yorkshire wildlife trust .
From the Yorkshire wildlife trust website
Spurn Point (or Spurn Head as it is also known) is a narrow sand spit on the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber estuary. It is over 3 miles long, almost half the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 50 yards wide in places. The southernmost tip is known as Spurn Head or Spurn Point and is the home to an RNLI lifeboat station and disused lighthouse. It forms part of the civil parish of Easington.
Spurn Head covers 280 acres above high water and 450 acres of foreshore. It has been owned since 1960 by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and is a designated National Nature Reserve, Heritage Coast and is part of the Humber Flats, Marshes and Coast Special Protection Area.
The peninsula is made up from sand and shingle as well as Boulder Clay eroded from the Holderness coastline washed down the coastline from Flamborough Head. Material is washed down the coast by longshore drift and accumulates to form the long, narrow embankment in the sheltered waters inside the mouth of the Humber estuary. It is maintained by plants, especially Marram grass . Waves carry material along the peninsula to the tip, continually extending it; as this action stretches the peninsula it also narrows it to the extent that the sea can cut across it in severe weather. When the sea cuts across it permanently, everything beyond the breach is swept away, only to eventually reform as a new spit pointing further south. This cycle of destruction and reconstruction occurs approximately every 250 years. The now crumbling defences will not be replaced and the spit will continue to move westwards at a rate of 2 metres per year, keeping pace with the coastal erosion further north.
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT TO MY STREAM.
I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD NOT FAVE A PHOTO
WITHOUT ALSO LEAVING A COMMENT .
One of the interesting aspects of grave sites around Thailand is that many include pictures of the deceased, like the ones seen here at Wat Arun. Often names go forgotten and I thought it was a nice addition to a traditional grave that brought a sense of humanity to an otherwise cold faceless stone.
Another one from Lake Wenatchee. I miss this place a lot.
Also this photo is the first one I edited after I discovered artificial grad filters in Lightroom. That would have been nice to know about months ago.
The fortunes of the paper mill town of Canton took a devastating turn with this evening's (3/6/23) announcement that Evergreen Packaging is to close its massive paper mill in town next quarter. The largest source of traffic on the Blue Ridge Southern and a hungry consumer of woodchips from throughout Tennessee and western North Carolina, the shockwaves from this closure bode poorly for the already dwindling rail scene around Asheville and its surroundings. While the show will go on for the BLU and for the town of Canton, things won't be what they once were when the smoke finally ceases from the century-old paper mill. In better times on MLK Day 2020, a T59 crew switches out cars at the east end of the yard adjacent to the Evergreen complex.
Counting stars and passing cars
On the interstate
The end is near I feel it dear,
But I am not afraid
Step, step right over the line
And onto borrowed time
When it's life, not waiting to die
Waiting to divide to divide
But you say you're getting tired
You're tired and so am I
When you follow from behind
Step, step right over the line
And onto borrowed time
When it's life, not waiting to die
Waiting to divide to divide
A Fine Frenzy - Borrowed Time
Spotting Seals during a boattrip on the Westerschelde with shipping company de Festijn.
My 150-450mm lens - in crop mode 688mm - came in very handy.
The accompanying text below is borrowed from Het Zeeuws Landschap.
About the area
In the middle of the Western Scheldt lie the beautiful Hooge Platen. The area is constantly in flux because it is subject to the ebb and flow of the tides. At low tide, an area of 1,800 hectares of mudflats and sandbanks extends. Large numbers of birds come here to forage for food. They live on the worms, shellfish, and crustaceans that live in and on the mudflats. In addition, seals can be found on the Hooge Platen at low tide. At high tide, when the mudflats disappear beneath the waves, schools of young fish come there to forage. The birds then stay on land. Part of the area, the Bol, remains permanently dry. Many different bird species breed here. The Hooge Platen are of great importance as a resting place, nursery, and restaurant for many different birds.
Seals
A large population of common and gray seals lives around the Hooge Platen. They rest on the sandbanks and nurse their young there. From the dike near birdwatching hut Number One, you can see the seals on the sandbank, usually near buoy VH8. Keep the tides in mind: the best time to look is from two hours before low tide until low tide.
With two maroon SD9043MAC sisters awaiting delivery at Wales, are these nice recently washed blue CEFX MACs on borrowed time?
Approaching sundown at Sabang Beach in Baler, Aurora, Philippines. This beach faces east so we did not expect to get any good sunset shots here. But just as we were strolling along the baywalk before dusk on our second day here, we noticed that the setting sun had started to lend its colors to the opposite horizon. Time to bring out the cameras...
Simha borrowed this toy from one of my grandchildren. The grandchildren are all grown up (the youngest is 16, and the eldest is 22), and the toy was in my desk drawer. The cat found it and pulled it out!
Thank you all for visits, favs and comments, it's greatly appreciated!
WAH are checking in checked out but non returned books. We are more lenders than borrowers, but I suspect at least one of these is a University library book which will forever be unreturned.
Family of Mr. Frank Cunningham, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower in their home which they rent near Franklin, Georgia. Heard County, USA
Jack Delano, photographer, 1941
Original picture:
www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8c05307/
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
© Jack Delano, 1941
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2022
For Macro Mondays - Speckled.
Borrowed from a plant in a friends garden. I'm not sure what the plant is and as our friends are away at present I can't ask. The leaf is 54 mm (just over 2 inches long) and was shot against a reflective surface.
Happy Macro Monday.
WAH visiting Book Nerds
I borrowed this coffee table book with the intention of visiting all the places around Albuqurque mentioned in It.
It never happened but I'll keep hold of the book just incase those intentions return.
Sponsored by Quills and Curiosities (maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Diagon%20Alley/138/156/2201) and Something New poses (maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mythical%20Serenity/140/12...)
Location: Lux Aeterna (maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lux%20Aeterna/103/116/24)
Pose and Bookpile: Never Stop Reading by Something New. Now available at POSEvent (maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Possession/76/181/25)
Spellbook: Ars Occultus by Quills and Curiosities at We Love Roleplay (maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Riverhunt/128/128/1504)
Garb: Eldar Vestments by Somnium
Chapeau: Wide Awake Hat by Gild, now at FaMESHed
Specs: Alfred by Deep Static
Merton often appears to be the observer and commentator who borrows everything from outside, from someone else. Sometimes he writes as a kind of contemplative journalist, and in that relaxed mood he is often at his best. What we get from Merton is not a structured, objective vision but the light of his brilliant and sensitive subjectivity, opening the things of this world which we share with him to the beauty, depth, and simplicity within them. Everything is experienced in the music of this spirit. We have left behind the theological score to enjoy the sapiential music itself, the communicated experience.
-The future of wisdom : toward a rebirth of sapiential Christianity / Bruno Barnhart ; foreword by Cynthia Bourgeault ; afterword by Cyprian Consiglio.
Well, I seriously doubt that schnauzer girl Roux knew that Tinker had borrowed her amazing squawking pink chicken! He was less than impressed for the photo, though he has play many times with Roux and this thing!
Happy Caturday! "Something Borrowed"
Borrowed from the EVWR website:
Hamilton County Coal, LLC operates Mine #1, which is an underground mine located near the city of Dahlgren in Hamilton County, Illinois. Mine #1 utilizes longwall mining techniques to produce high-sulfur coal. The preparation plant at Hamilton County Coal has a throughput capacity of 2,000 tons of raw coal per hour.
Annual Production: 6.3 million tons in 2018.
Borrowed D5600 and 200-500 zoom. Capped ISO at 1600 with f5.6 and let the shutter speed drop as necessary. Single point focus.
Clinchfield’s US&S P-5 installations at S.E. Kermit work out their last days as also soon to be rebuilt CSXT 428 works south toward Kingsport Yard with M693-10. As of the date of this photo, there were new signal bases and conduit at both ends of the siding. “Progress” I guess…
She leans into borrowed luck, smiling as if belief were permanent.
The water reflects everything and promises nothing.
Even joy here feels temporary—polished smooth by countless hands,
remembered longer by the harbor than by those who pass through it.
With an overhauled SD70MACE on the point, M252 knocks down the BC 33.1 intermediate at Dillsboro. While not part of last months cutovers, this signal already has a replacement mast standing next to it, with an anticipated cutover in October. The remaining stretch from Milan to Lawrenceburg is the last bastion of active B&O intermediate signals, as the Toledo Sub and most examples on short lines only include control points. With the fall of the remaining signals on the Indiana sub, B&O intermediates will be all but extinct.
NS 1066 finds itself on BISI for the second time this week, with engineer Ed wasting no time on the road.
I'm going to borrow a page from GSP here, and start a theme of blue EMDs. Why blue, you ask? Because that's what we have in abundance around here, between CSX and Pan Scam. So, off we go on a two-week kick. Consider this your warning.
My original plan was to be even more specific, and offer a theme of blue 40-series EMDs, but some of the shots I have lined up predate the 40 series.
I won't make you suffer through CSX and Pan Am the whole time, but we'll get them out the way first. So to begin the blue EMD theme, here we have one of those funky Tier 4 SD70s in Worcester a few weeks ago.