Broken things
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You are fortunate if you got a chance to hit rock bottom in life. The diamond that you are can magnificently shine only under that tremendous pressure.”
Hiral Nagda
After many days the sun finally broke through the grey clouds. Much like the weather, it is important to reach for the sweet things in life when the road has been rather rough. Here's to finding moments of joy and love.
I spotted these crimson tipped flowers on the side of the road in Australia's Western territory after our bus broke down.
Hey, Gus. Get your ass back in formation! We're about to land.
Alviso, California. Beautiful, calm day. The only ripples in the water caused by the birds landing, taking off or walking around.
Black Neck Stilts.
Conrail Alco 's and MLW's from CN (leased to CR during the early years of the merger ) mingle with Cleveland Electric GP38s at the Mingo Jct. diesel service tracks.
As I took the shot the sun actually broke through the gloom. creating a welcome splash of color contrasting with the normally grey industrialized environment .
Mingo Jct. Mingo Jct. OH
Valley Division Central Region CR 1976
Pan dorrodd drws y cerbyd diogelwch/ When the door of the security van broke... Aberystwyth, Ceredigion --- www.trustpilot.com/review/g4s.uk.com
Sunrise at Lytham St-Annes
Like the rays coming down from the sky onto the land below.
(To explain, this was taken on the coast, the land you can see is further up the coast and the dark at the bottom would be the sea. It was a dark and cloudy morning anyways but the way the sun broke the through the clouds caused the picture to be taken like this - I darkened it a little as the sea was sort of distracting as it was)
Mother Road Sim
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It takes one hand
To count the things
I can count on
No, there ain't much man
That ain't ever let me down Longneck, ice cold beer never broke my heart
Like diamond rings and football teams
Have torn this girl apart
Like a neon dream it just dawned on me
The bars and this guitar
And longneck, ice cold beer never broke my heart
#MacroMondays
#IMadeThis
I (re)made this crystal bead necklace just the other day, and stupidly broke one of the beads while doing so (I used the wrong pliers, and instead of the wire, the first bead next to the clasp broke). You've seen a small part of this necklace before, for our first theme of 2024, "New" (please see the first comment).
Back in January, I had just newly stringed this lovely necklace, but with a pre-fab jewellery wire that had half of the clasp already mounted so it would be easier to do. It was, but other than I'd thought, the clasp's materials were neither stainless steel nor sterling silver, so the atomically thin silver layer came off quickly. Annoying. But, on the other hand, it allowed me to try again and get the mounting of the clasp properly done with crimp beads (and a proper silver clasp), something I've always struggled with (regarding the finishing part when it comes to mounting the connection ring and Cartier carabiner to the already beaded necklace). And I finally, finally got the knack of doing it the right way. I will remake this necklace again once I've found a bead to replace the broken one. I want to do it in Wabi-sabi style so I hope to find a bead of the correct shape and size but with a different colour. But for now, I'm wearing it as is, one bead shorter, because at the moment, it's my favourite necklace.
For this image, I put the smaller part of the broken bead (I've kept the pieces) on the connection ring of the clasp so the ring and the crimp beads are visible. This time, I thought a black backdrop looked nicer than the apricot-orange background I'd used for my previous photo of this necklace because it added more depth to this quite different presentation. The image is an in-camera focus stacking, and combining the 15 single RAW files in Helicon Focus provided a slightly better result than the automatically in-camera processed Jpg. I removed the inevitable dust but not the signs of usage on the crystal beads.
HMM, Everyone!
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Centuries
Song by Fall Out Boy
Lyrics
Du-du-du-du-du-du-du
Du-du-du-du-du-du-du
Some legends are told
Some turn to dust or to gold
But you will remember me
Remember me, for centuries
And just one mistake
Is all it will take
We'll go down in history
Remember me for centuries
Hey-ya, a-hey, hey-ya
Remember me for centuries
Mummified my teenage dreams
No, it's nothing wrong with me
The kids are all wrong, the story's all off
Heavy metal broke my heart
Come on, come on, and let me in
Bruises on your thighs like my fingerprints
And this is for to match
The darkness that you felt
I never meant for you to fix yourself
Du-du-du-du-du-du-du
Du-du-du-du-du-du-du
Some legends are told
Some turn to dust or to gold
But you will remember me
Remember me, for centuries
And just one mistake
Is all it will take
We'll go down in history
Remember me for centuries
Hey-ya, a-hey, hey-ya
Remember me for centuries
And I can't stop 'til the whole world knows my name
'Cause I was only born inside my dreams
Until you die for me, as long as there's a light
My shadow's over you
'Cause I-I am the opposite of amnesia
And you're a cherry blossom
You're about to bloom
You look so pretty, but you're gone so soon
Du-du-du-du-du-du-du
Du-du-du-du-du-du-du
Some legends are told
Some turn to dust or to gold
But you will remember me
Remember me, for centuries
And just one mistake
Is all it will take
We'll go down in history
Remember me for centuries
Hey-ya, a-hey, hey-ya
Remember me for centuries
We've been here forever
And here's the frozen proof
I could scream forever
We are the poisoned youth
Du-du-du-du-du-du-du
Du-du-du-du-du-du-du
Du-du-du-du-du-du-du
Du-du-du-du-du-du-du
Some legends are told
Some turn to dust or to gold
But you will remember me
Remember me, for centuries
And just one mistake
Is all it will take
We'll go down in history
Remember me for centuries
Hey-ya, a-hey, hey-ya
We'll go down in history
Remember me for centuries!
"I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity. . ."
love killed my sanity . . .
Pose: Del May ♥
and broke records..it was 27 C in Halifax, NS, but 33 C (about 90 F) at my school in Milford..but then it dropped to 2C overnight (35F). CRAZY! It will be about 12 C today..ahhh...nice while it lasted LOL
On explore @232, April 30
Taken just as the sun broke the horizon and started to light the mist that was increasing all the time.
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Gotta keep the stove hot so it cook right
If everybody eating that's a good night
Had to take a loss 'fore I took flight
Hard times made for a good life
I said being broke made me rich
Being broke made me rich
Being broke made me rich
Being broke made me rich, yeah
A couple of days ago I broke a tooth, which involved an essential and expensive visit to the dentist. To take advantage of a brief escape from lockdown, while out in the car I decided to visit a tree I know, to cheer myself up. By tree, I don't mean the occasional tiny windswept hawthorn bushes which are more often found West Penwith, but a 'proper' tree - quite rare at this end of Cornwall. After enduring the few weeks of gales we've had, the oak was looking a bit lacklustre in the flat afternoon light, but still sported a few russet leaves. I added a texture for a bit of extra interest.
The crew on this CPR Extra 4573 East are bending the rules at bit by having all 6 "Bigs" on line and literally tearing the hill at Racey, Quebec to pieces. 24 operating axles are what the book says, even with maximum 9800 tons, but these guys don't give a damn. They'll make it to Megantic in under 3 hours from Sherbrooke. There must be a party someplace! Besides, rules were made to be broke.
♫
Then a light broke through the black
I was standing on a track
That little light began to grow
There was no where I could go
And the ground began to shake
No time left to hit the brake
That little light was closing in
And suddenly I'm floating
Love I see you now
You found me here
Underground
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It was strange yesterday, the sun never broke through and we were shrouded in a cloak of fog which made the day very cold. Luckily the visit from the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister went well, an awe had a great opportunity to raise the profile of the work for the High Brown Fritillary. Everything will be alright is by The Killers, let's hope they will be.
After running all the way to the Mexican border at Laredo for a company town hall, the Royal Canadian Pacific (CPKC 41B-25) is eastbound on UP rails through Houston, deadheading back to Calgary. The train splits Winter Street along UP’s Houston Sub Main 1, making a daytime appearance through the city after a ridiculous sequence of delays encountered the previous day & overnight.
With CP 1401 having led the way south, FP9 #4107 was poised to lead back north- a fairly rare occurrence. As the train made its way along the Laredo Sub, 4107’s horn lever broke off. Running restricted speed for a bit, they stopped at an industry wye in Alice, TX to spin the power, and continued with 1401 now in the lead again- so much for shooting 4107.
The train made it to the Rosenberg Sub just after sunset, following right behind the MMX-181 priority stack train. Just after I had flashed both trains at the SP depot in Wharton a bit before 10:30pm, both trains stopped on the main at Wharton siding to allow a southbound into the hole that had barely departed the yard at Kendleton just ahead.
The southbound was KCS 4805 (the first KCS unit to receive the CPKC paint scheme), suffering from a shifted load in its train and major electrical issues which had clogged up Kendleton for several hours. Once 4805 pulled into Wharton siding, 181 proceeded north to start its work in Kendleton, but the dispatcher instructed 41B’s crew to assist the stricken 4805; 4805’s crew had begun to cycle the unit’s lights at random intervals. I jumped ahead to flash 41B again, setting up at a bridge just south of Kendleton… and a 2+ hour wait ensued while 4805’s issues were attempted to be resolved.
41B eventually pulled, arriving in Kendleton just after 1am. A new crew had been called at 11pm, and was on board by 1:30 for the run over UP rails through Houston. 181 had just completed its work around the same time, and had been lined out from Kendleton up to the turnout onto the UP in Rosenberg. 41B would continue to follow 181, and both trains were lined up to McHattie siding, immediately south of the UP turnout at the Tower 17 interlocking.
I jumped ahead to Richmond for a 3rd & final flash attempt, but despite both trains being ready to go, it soon became apparent that UP’s TD2 dispatcher wasn’t ready to bring 181 (and by extension 41B) onto his main at Rosenberg. Once a UP eastbound was lined through Tower 17, I called it a night and made it home a bit after 3am, assuming 41B would be long gone by sunrise.
Well, after the eastbound UP ZLBHO came through, despite no other opposing trains between Rosenberg and Houston, 181 and 41B kept sitting at McHattie… for over 4 hours.
By sunrise, 181 had bumped up to Richmond siding, just on the opposite end of Tower 17 from McHattie. Judging from this, it appeared that the pair of trains would finally get moving… but only now, UP decided to run a fleet of FIVE westbounds out of Houston toward Rosenberg.
Delays for CPKC traffic over the UP in Texas aren’t anything new, and it wasn’t unforeseen with 41B being a deadhead move, but why the business train along with their highest priority stack train were held up for this long is anyone’s guess. A working theory is that UP had some issue in the Houston terminal to where they didn’t want any inbound traffic, but I guess the world outside the Spring Dispatch Center may never know.
Once this westbound fleet ran through, 181 got on the move east, and after waiting for over six hours, 41B finally swung onto the UP at Rosenberg, heading into Houston in prime morning sunlight. Smooth sailing now… right?
Well by this time, the 2300 crew on board was getting close to running on their HOS; making the next crew change point in Beaumont had long gone out the window. After running no more than 35 miles from Kendleton, 41B stopped once again in west Houston for a crew swap, which was done in around half an hour.
I had woken up a little after the train pulled from Rosenberg, and after getting ready for a later start at work that day, I found I could swing one more shot of 41B making its way through the terminal. I pulled into the pseudo-street running along Winter Street as the tail end of the 181 was passing, and a short wait later, I had bagged 41B again after flashing it just 14 hours earlier, merely 40 miles down the line. We chased the train up to Belt Junction, where we got cloud-banged.