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Looking for an ID. I love the red drops, which aren't typical of the possible species. Stacked photo. Bola Creek, Royal NP, Australia.
With it’s typical uniform train of JB Hunt double stacks, NS 21G sprints west on the “Water Level Route” towards the setting sun as it split’s one of the several remaining bracket signals on this portion of the line with Waterloo, Indiana in the distance. This train would become one of BNSF’s Q-NYCLAC trains in Chicago and traverse the former Santa Fe mainline across the rest of the United States to California, making it a truly “transcontinental” train.
The old bracket post signal at Deshler...the slide scanner did not like the "gray ghost" paint, but you get the general idea.
Focus-bracketed macro image of the pore structure on the underside of a bracket fungus on silver birch.
It is also named as Shelf Fungi, are among the many groups of fungi that comprise the phylum Basidiomycota. Characteristically, they produce shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting bodies called conks that lie in a close planar grouping of separate or interconnected horizontal rows. Brackets can range from only a single row of a few caps, to dozens of rows of caps that can weigh several hundred pounds.
They are mainly found on trees (living and dead) and coarse woody debris, and may resemble mushrooms. Bracket fungi often grow in semi-circular shapes, looking like trees or wood. They can be parasitic, saprotrophic, or both.
Some species of bracket fungi are cultivated for human consumption or medicinal use.They can also be used as a wick in an oil/fat lamp.
Info Source: Wikipedia, 2013.
Photo taken: Tyresta Park, Stockholm
Only 20 kilometres from the centre of Stockholm lies one of the most unspoilt areas of natural beauty in central Sweden – Tyresta National Park and Nature Reserve.
D744 with four cars is "heading for the barn" as a conductor who held that same local job out of Dayton for many years used to say. The bracket CPL signal and its companion dwarf at North Troy continue to guard the interlocking for the time being.
With a pair of clean CN General Electric ES44AC units, an NS 32D train rolls past the classic New York Central-style bracket post signals on the "Water Level Route" at Dunlap, Indiana.
Alas, these vintage signals were replaced later in 2015 as part of a project to add a third main track between Goshen and Elkhart in order to reduce a traffic bottleneck on that section.
Found on patio during spring cleanup. Placed the log on the patio when it was freshly cut, about 12 years ago. Hadn't paid any attention to it since. Wish now I had been tracking the growth of the fungus!
Taken at Chase Water, Staffordshire.
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"The common name Razor Strop Fungus comes from the use in old barber shops of cutting a strip from the underside of the fungus, drying it and sticking it to a piece of flat wood. This was used to give the final finish to the cut throat razors that barbers used. I’m not sure if they were aware of the fact but in doing so they were giving their blades an antiseptic, antifungal and styptic wipe!
The fungus has also been used in the past as very fine emery cloth to polish metals, making ink blotters and even bases for mounting insects for collections. Truly the Swiss Army knife of mushrooms."
Source: www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/birch-polypore-fomitops...
Red-belted Bracket (Fomitopsis pinicola) at Binsted Woods, West Sussex England
Focus Stacked images, using various numbers of original image files
Over an hour after departing Seymour, J780-12 crawls westbound at E.E. Brownstown, where the only remaining B&O CPL bracket post west of Cincinnati stands tall at a siding switch that no longer exists. Between Seymour and Washington, the former B&O's 60mph main to St. Louis is reduced to essentially a 10mph branch line. Color position lights, codeline, and rail rolled in 1955 all sit perfectly preserved, seemingly lost in time. This local is the only train seen in semi-regularity. If you get the chance to shoot it, do so, because who knows how long these relics will last.
Bracket Fungi taken Yeadon Tarn
Simple, aerobic organisms (such as mildews, molds, mushrooms, smuts, toadstools, and yeast) which (1) unlike bacteria can grow in low moisture and low pH environments, and have their genetic material bound in a membrane, (2) unlike plants do not have roots or leaves, do not contain chlorophyll, and do not produce their own food, but obtain nourishment from dead organic matter.
With a day off, Grady and I set off for a little central Illinois exploration. I had wanted to get a couple of trains on the NS Brooklyn District around Midway Siding as it was protected by bracket post signals and searchlights at both ends. I believe these signals date from when the N&W single tracked the Brooklyn District from BD Jct (Decatur) to Poag Jct (Edwardsville area). Curiously, from Winston Interlocking south became CTC but Litchfield north stayed ABS. Midway siding is roughly "mid-way" between Litchfield and Taylorville with the south switch at Raymond and the north switch at Harvel. Bonus in my book was Triple Crown train 260 rolling north past the South Siding Switch of Midway in Raymond, IL. 8320 was tugging on a monster train of roadrailers!
07-03-2015