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As me and a friend of mine were waiting just to the left a few hundred feet away for MILW 156 to be moved to KCUS, we saw a Slow Moving Eastbound Headed through the KC Metro sub toward Neff, the leader in which puffing out smoke with graffiti and the other two behind being severely tagged aswell. And From a wise Person, he would call these "the Spirit of California" units.
7/05/26
UP KC Metro Subdivision
Kansas City, MO
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I was recently certified as a Naturalist in the Channel Islands Naturalist Corps and with this certification one of my duties is to assist the crew of whale watching boats in the Santa Barbara Channel in educating 'whale watch passengers' about the kind of whales they are seeing and to explain various facts about cetacean life in California's Santa Barbara Channel. This photograph was taken aboard the Island Packer's "Islander" on March 11. This is a Humpback Whale, a member of the Mysticeti suborder of Cetaceans, also called Baleen Whales (meaning they have no teeth and use a brush like anatomical structure in their mouth called a baleen to assist them in feeding.) The baleen acts like a filter. When whales dive they swallow large volumes of sea water and the sea life contained in the swallowed water. When whales, which are air breathing mammals, surface to breath they blow out the water through blowholes located directly behind their skulls. The krill (a shrimp-like organism) the principal diet of humpbacks, are trapped by the filaments of the baleen, remain behind and are swallowed by the whale. The whale's enormous tongue is used to clean the baleen and aids in swallowing. Whales consume several tons of krill daily. Because of the oceanography of the Santa Barbara Channel, (i.e. confluence of warm and cold currents, and the shape of the California bight tidal patterns called gyres are created and the gyres cause the upwelling of deeper water and sediments from the ocean bottom), it is one of the richest ocean environments anywhere in the world for nutrients.
Unlike grey, blue and other baleen whales, humpbacks are somewhat gregarious and do not try to avoid humans or boats. If fact humpbacks display a number of behaviors such as breaching (jumping out of the water and landing with enormous splashes), their ventral fins (flippers) slapping (the adult humpback whales ventral fins are approximately one-third the length of the whales body -- adults about 60 feet, with flippers up to twenty feet long). They are a spectacular sight for whale watchers. This whale, I've named it "Nessie" because in this photo it looks like illustrations I've seen of the Loch Ness Monster, was approximately 100 yards directly in front of our ship. The Marine Mammals Protection Act does not allow whale watching, commercial or recreational vessels to come any closer than this distance (However if a whale approaches the vessel on its own, that is not considered a violation.)
This, several other humpbacks, along with dolphins, sea lions and a variety of seabirds was observed feeding near one of the oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel.
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in the chinese calendar, my daughter was born in the year of the pig, 2019 is also the year of the pig...after several years and many hours of determined study, congratulations nurse jasmin!
Draw your own conclusions friends and followers.
... Update! Flickr chooses this photo to be featured in "Explore". As always I am honored and humbled.
Thank you Flickr!
MTM's SDP40 325 sits in the T-Yard at Northtown, beginning its journey with MTM coach 1096 to Relco in Albia, Iowa to be repainted in Great Northern orange and green.
A massive donation from a private donor covered the cost of the repaint, under the condition it was orange, and not Big Sky Blue as was always intended.
Although many are frustrated with the decision, myself included, I look forward to seeing 325 and 1096 when completed later this year.
I thought it might be a unique view from St Anthony Bridge to get the Minneapolis skyline in the background.
I was off duty but I figured this might be the last time I would see the big green machine before it changes color.
As a former member/volunteer at MTM, I have a lot of memories with that locomotive, including it being the first and last engine I operated as a certified engineer with the organization.
Not too shabby for an iPhone.
CP 2CWR scoots by Northbrook with 2 CP GEs and BNSF 9774. Despite calling out as a CWR train, there was never actually a rail train involved. This consist went right to Portage.
Blahaj was surprised by this extremely rare occurrence, which showed up as he waited on the next inbound Metra train to arrive.
he used to love elephants. the big one beside him is a gift from his uncle mikee on his 3rd birthday. now he tells me "i don't like them anymore, mommy. i'm bored. i wanna do something fun."
Fun, of course, translates to "video games" which he sees his kuya play with. it's always a tug-o-war and a challenge of wills in this house on that one. how much is enough? how often is okay? is this game safe? is there too much violence in that one? sometimes i wish we were back twenty, thirty years ago when dirt and sun, stones and water and sticks were enough to make us kids happy. but it's a totally new world. at times i get tired of fighting the good fight. media is such a goliath, so help me gods of moms and dads and caregivers who only want the best for the children.
the "weekends only" rule is working nicely. so far. and yes, providing a lot of alternatives like clay and dominoes and kids scrabble...but who am i kidding, right? the lure of the screen is much stronger. (case in point: there's a vacuum cleaner with my name on it and i'm here talking to you! LOL)
parenting. the most challenging job in the universe...and the most heart-soul expanding!
Clay Series: certified Sheryl-Inspired
I have been going through all my old pictures and gathering photographs of my older son who now lives in Japan to give him to keep.
Long before I had a decent camera - most are blurry fuzzy snapshots.
This picture is actually my youngest son - and was taken by the local newspaper guy. It was customary for the newspaper photographer to take a trip to the maternity ward every few days to capture the newborns and Mums....and the pictures would then go out in the weekly edition. Probably the best photos I have are those taken while I was still in hospital with my new babies.
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Sunrise down in the Fairfax District of Kansas City. Many industrial plants along with older run down buildings in this part of the city. The color version looked equally as disturbing but the blue skies behind it didn't give the dirty feeling I wanted to portray here.
Hope everyone has a great weekend. I hoping for the sun to break through so I can go on a photo walk this morning.
Mike D
I&M Rail Link's St. Paul-Kansas City freight brings with it a pair of Soo GP9s as it makes time through Lake City, Minn., on a snowless December 1998 day. The pair will join the IMRL 100 series, some of which operated until very recently lettered for successor IC&E. In the lead today is an SD45/SD40 combo, not such a bad catch in and of themselves.
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