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Stuff:
DRD Bynhilda Shoulders
DE Designs Lace Up Corset
LODE headpiece Feathers Mono
DRD Nerd Goggles
DRD Nerk Neck Wraps
Izzie's Dirt Tattoo
JPK Steampunk Goggles
.Shi Vigilante Earring
[The Forge} Junk Spear
I couldn't resist enhancing his muscles in editing when I saw the pose and tough guy expression he gave me.
The little inventor and his trusty owl build a steam engine…
Skippy envisioned his universe with the help of the following innovative creations:
{-Maru Kado-}'s Barn Owl!
Contraption's The Operator's Overture Train Engine, The Repairman's Requiem Train Car, The Stratus Sailors Train Car, Mark's Lamp, Mark's Shelf with Books, Mark's Revolving Book Case, and The Story Teller Clock!
kunst's Screwdriver, Mechanic's Cloth, Vintage Oiler, Bolts & Nuts, Nuts Jar, Bolts Jar, Industrial Bench Lamp, and Welder Bench!
8f8's Storyteller's Burrow Old Armchair and Old Rugs!
NOMAD's Science Lab Cabinet!
zerkalo's Books!
anxiety's Quebec Hall!
The little prince wears the following durable styles:
Hotdog's Spencer Jumper!
Katatonik's Juggy Hat!
Contraption's Worker's Gloves!
Contraption's Machinist Goggles!
Let's keep building a world founded on kindness and compassion where everyone can create a brighter today!
Hooded crow (Corvus cornix) perched on a branch with a stick – nest building material – in its beak.
Wrona siwa (Corvus cornix) siedąca na gałązce z patykiem – materiałem do budowy gniazda – w dziobie.
Another dormant pub. My local as well. Nice atmosphere, great beer and food plus a spacious garden at the rear. Soon I hope!!
We have finally seen some snow in southern Wisconsin, making it look and feel a little more like winter. Here on the north side of Watertown, Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder kicks up the powder a little after just crossing over from 2 main to the single track main at Watertown West.
Amtrak 8
AMTK 130,140,133
Watertown, WI.
January 23, 2022
Yes...I know it's another Goldfinch....but how could I refuse to take her portrait when she'd been so industrious,and posed Soooo close to me, and, with a gorse bush as her back drop....Delightful...!
Worth viewing large...she deserves it after all her hard work, thanks.
Osprey Everglades.
No post-processing done to photo. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
Number 7, The Empire Builder heads westward on the Glasgow Sub with a couple of extra motors. On this trip west, the train was terminated at Glasgow Montana due to avalanche related issues on Marias Pass. The eastbound Empire Builder, #8 picked up the cars and power at Glasgow, and brought the whole consist eastward, with the ultimate destination of Chicago. Passenger service across the northern transcon is currently suspended until the avalanche dangers have passed on Marias.
A late-running Amtrak No. 8, the Empire Builder, cruises through Grizzly, Montana, on December 23, 1998. The train is leaving the snow-covered Rocky Mountains of Glacier National Park behind on this extremely cold day. Leading the silvery Superliner is an all-GE consist, led by warbonnet-clad BNSF No. 761, with P40DCs (822, 808, 817) in three different paint schemes trailing.
After crossing a snowy Marias Pass, Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder curves through Grizzly, Montana, on a cold December 22, 1998.
The Empire Builder on Main 1 approaching Red Rock. Although I'd rather see the Charger on the point, it's always nice to have a P-42 along for reliability.
The previous day's eastbound Empire Builder rolled through about an hour ahead of this Christmas day scheduled eastbound Builder. Nothing special about this train other than it's Christmas day passengers traveling by rail, as it should be.
Amtrak Number 8
AMTK 165,19,154
Watertown, WI.
December 25, 2021
Architects/Collaborators
Weary & Kramer, Akron (architects)
Doerzbach and Decker, Sandusky (builders)
Style
Richardsonian Romanesque
History
The construction of Baldwin Cottage, a small-dorm complement to stately Talcott which rose more or less simultaneously next door, began soon after the 1886 fire which destroyed the Second Ladies Hall. It was named for Elbert Baldwin, a Cleveland dry goods merchant from whom Adelia Field Johnston, Oberlin's leading woman administrator, extracted a gift of $20,000. The village paper announced that Baldwin would be done "in the Queen Anne style, with broken roof lines, with the effect of earlier colonial houses" -- language suggesting that wonderfully elastic range of "Queen Anne". Weary and Kramer's design reached for the informal intimacy of a cottage look through variety in massing, texture, and detail. The studied unexpectedness of Baldwin's shapes--its squat tower, its low double-arched entry porch, the broad and gentle slopes of its roof lines, the episodic placement of its windows and dormers--made it a local triumph in the art of organic irregularity popularized by Henry Hobson Richardson. The roofing material, a warm red diamond-shaped tile, introduced a theme that would govern the campus building projects for the next 45 years. Dark, rich woodwork helped carry a friendly "nook-and-cranny" mood through the interior, making Baldwin one of the most durably popular living places on the campus.
Another winter snowfall and brings another late Empire Builder on its trip back to Chicago. Siemens ALC-42 Chargers 302 and 310 are about 5 hours late into the Twin Cities and should arrive at St. Paul Union Deport within the half hour.
Full Youtube video at:
Hunting Great Blue Herons wade slowly or stand statue-like, stalking fish and other prey in shallow water or open fields. Watch for the lightning-fast thrust of the neck and head as they stab with their strong bills. Their very slow wingbeats, tucked-in neck and trailing legs create an unmistakable image in flight.
Great Blue Herons have a long back toe that helps them to grab onto branches to sit in trees and to nest in them. They build sturdy stick nests. Most of them nest in colonies of a few to hundreds of pairs, but some Great Blue Herons are more territorial and nest far from others. No one understands why some are so much more solitary than others.
Sources: Cornell Lab of Orthinology
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I've made a little decorative birdhouse that's hanging near the front door of my house that's been popular over the years.
-A few years ago, some chickadees checked it out a lot, but didn't move in.
-The next year it got invaded by yellow-jackets.
-This year it has attracted a pair of Bewick's wrens.
Of course the houses I've built specifically for wrens, in ideal locations/heights/etc. so far have had no visitors.
The previous day, Amtrak zipped through town missing the 5 car Seattle section of the train. That section (led by AMTK 307) smashed a tree west of Spokane and was towed back to Seattle and added to the next day's train. (307 was left behind)
Led by 3 differently painted Amtrak locomotives, an unusually big 14-car Empire Builder flies through town with temperatures just barely hitting +10.
Of course, in 2022, I would have much rather shot AMTK 301 ("Day 1") leading. But I feel like in several years when the GEs are gone or hard to find I'll feel differently about catching a bloody Genesis 45 leading.
Winds kept the Becker plant steam away from the sun but also chilled the bones stepping outside to get the shot.
AMTK 45
AMTK 301
AMTK 303
Years ago, before double track, there was a tree that blocked the billboard and was a better photo prop. Granted the billboard has changed recently, but I still miss the tree.
The Empire Builder at MP 322, cruising along the Mississippi River at track speed on a beautiful day.
Builder's plate for an operational 0-4-0 Porter steam locomotive built in 1889.
Shot for Our Daily Challenge :“Plate”
The Dairy in the New Garden was built to plans by the master builder, Carl Gotthard Langhans, on the shore of the Jungfernsee lake at the northernmost tip of the New Garden in Potsdam, Germany. Construction was carried out from 1790 to 1792 by Andreas Ludwig Krüger.
In 1843/1844 Frederick William IV. had the building extended. To a design by the architect Ludwig Persius a second storey was added under the direction of Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse and the southwest corner was enhanced with a tower. Battlements run along the edges of the roof and give the building a Norman character.
A second expansion was carried out in 1857 with the engine or pump house, which was built to water the New Garden.The high, slender chimney is part of that technical modification.The upper basin for the supply of water is nowadays located within the Belvedere on the Pfingstberg.
n 1928 a restaurant was established in the building that became one of the most popular destinations for day trippers in Potsdam until the Second World War.
Its occupation by the Red Army at the end of 1945 and the destruction by fire of part of the building ended its gastronomic function. The dairy was still in this ruined condition when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961.
In 1991, after the Wende, renovation and restoration measures were carried out on the old building and, in 2003, it was able to re-open as a brewery and restaurant
Second build in my Iron Builder round against Caleb (Cheesie), with the Minecraft Trident in sand green as a seed part.
The seed part was used 10 times.
Stalagtite/stalagmite design by Thorsten Bonsch.
This photograph was selected for the 2017 Annual Curated Auction by The Light Factory, Center for Contemporary Photography in Charlotte, NC.
Five days after shooting this Empire Builder consist on August 5th, it is again making another round trip on the route from Chicago to the west coast on August 10th. Some strange dispatching delayed the Builder's route into the Minnesota Commercial and down the CP Merriam Park Subdivision to Union Depot.
It's around 3:15pm on June 11, 2021 on a sunny day, perfect for a different take on the Empire Builder as it navigates through Saint Paul down seven hours. Here it works through the Minnesota Commercial yard in the Midway neighborhood.
Eighth and final build in my Iron Builder round against Loïc, with the Technic rotation joint cylinder in med. azure as a seed part.
The seed part was used ten times... But can you spot any other seed parts from previous rounds?
A builder at work in a Rome backstreet. I liked the way the sun was catching the wooden posts, it made them glow in almost a religious way.
For an account of a few interesting days in Rome:
Amtrak’s westbound Empire Builder passes through a frozen scene as the blue hour descends on Brookfield after one of Wisconsin’s winter ice/snowstorms in February 1983. The two EMD F40PHs have the train at track speed as they pass the north edge of Wirth Park.