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With morning servicing complete, Valley Railroad Consolidation #97 makes her way light across the yard in Essex, CT, headed to the depot to pick up a passenger consist. This 1926 Alco product is the Valley's longest serving steam locomotive, having entered service here in 1973, just two years after the former New York, New Haven & Hartford line was established as a tourist operation. On this particular morning in October of 2024, the locomotive was performing for a photo shoot organized by Dak Dillon Photography.
Replica of an iconic Japanese landmark. The calligraphy on the plaque was done by my friend, Miwako Kobayashi.
Wrapped in winter magic, this look blends cozy charm with confident glamour. A richly textured knit dress in deep teal hugs every curve while its bold cutout adds a modern, sultry edge to a classic cold-weather silhouette. Soft earmuffs and thigh-high boots complete the ensemble, balancing warmth and style with effortless grace.
Set against a snowy backdrop trimmed in twinkling lights and festive garland, this look feels like a holiday daydream—where elegance meets seasonal sparkle. It’s the perfect reminder that winter fashion can be both snug and striking, turning even the coldest moments into a runway-worthy scene
Outfit: ~ Sassy! ~ Aeris Dress
* This stunning knit dress is designed to turn heads while keeping things effortlessly chic. Featuring a curve-hugging fit with a bold cutout detail, it delivers the perfect balance of cozy elegance and confident allure. Offered in one beautifully crafted color, this dress is made to shine just as it is—no extras needed.
Carefully fitted for Lara X, Perky, Legacy, Petite X, Reborn, and Waifu mesh bodies, it ensures a flattering silhouette across all shapes. Slip it on and let this timeless yet daring piece become your go-to for unforgettable winter moments.
EarMuff: Someone Stole My Sign Flakey Muffs
* Complete your cold-weather look with these sleek, stylish earmuffs designed for effortless wear. Available only in classic black, they add a touch of cozy sophistication to any outfit while keeping things timeless and versatile. Made to fit any head, they’re perfect for mixing and matching with all your winter looks.
These earmuffs are unscripted, with resize scripts included so you can adjust them perfectly to your style. Offered Copy and Mod only, they give you the freedom to customize while staying simple, clean, and easy to use—an essential accessory for every winter wardrobe.
These items and others more are featured in the Cheeky Monkey Hunt Event " Baby It's Cold Outside" Jan. 1st - Jan.31st.
CMH "Baby It's Cold Outside"
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~Sassy!~
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Someone Stole My Sign
End result: a soft pouch with three compartments, plus a pocket for the power brick. Keeps the dirt off your shiny white laptop and confuses potential thieves.
See the "before" picture, and the article on page 27 of MAKE 06.
I started this page in the early summer and posted the individual drawings as I finished them. I just completed the butterfly which is new. Now to start a new page!
Sorry guys if I didn't upload a lot of pics recently, but I had a lot of things to do and I found easier to upload my pics on Instagram as it's faster, but now I'm back :p
Here's the complete pic of the lot I recently got from my friend, I already posted a pic of the My Scenes and Toralei but here are the others ^^
It's a big bunch of all types of dolls XD You have Barbies, Disney, Friends, Clones and more and I forgot to take a pic of the lot of clothes but it was as huge as the doll lot
I'm totally lost in my cleaning, I have way too much to wash... I'll succeed one day, but it will take a lil while XD
Gentile Bellini (completed by Giovanni Bellini), Saint Mark Preaching in Alexandria, 1504–07, oil on canvas, 347 x 770 cm (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
I was pretty unimpressed with this Agnes when I saw the pic. Her hair was not my favorite, her eyebrows were too light, the outfit was way too overwhelming a red. I played with outfit concepts the week after convention and ran across this Holiday Barbie 1997. I'd never looked at it twice before because the top half had these ridiculous sleeve ribbons, but when I discovered those were detachable, I jumped on the gown. I've added her own shawl (I cut it in half) to add just a bit of red and cover the always skinny FR arms. Jewelry is from lovelygirl on ebay, and I wetted those two bang things just enough to loosen them and pull them so they curled behind her neck. I like her SO much better than I did originally. I've got a crown on order that will hopefully complete her look, and I'll post an updated pic with that when it gets here.
Olean, NY. August 2017.
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After unloading Clay for brick field, laborer heading for new load. Some washing themselves onboard, some are repairing their tools.
Ref : DSC_2036
December 24, 2013.
Penygroes was situated on the Menai Bridge & Afon Wen line which opened in stages between 1852 and 1871. It was on the western edge of the village from which it took its name. The section of line through Penygroes was originally part of the Nantlle Railway, a horse-drawn tramway opened in 1827 linking slate quarries at Nantlle with Caernarfon & quayside. Passenger services were operated between 11 August 1856 and 12 June 1865, and one of the stations on the line was at Penygroes. Facilities - if there were any would have been basic. On 29 July 1862, the Carnarvonshire Railway (CR) was authorised to build a line between Caernarfon and Afon Wen. The CR took over the Nantlle Railway between Penygroes and Caernarfon, but not the section up to Nantlle which remained a horse-drawn tramway. In October 1866 the largely completed CR was inspected, but its opening was not approved until 2 September 1867 by which time all work was finished.
The station opened as Penygroes on the 2nd September 1867. the line was a single track but at Penygroes a passing loop was provided with two platforms. The main station building was a two-storey brick structure of some elegance and complexity. Located east of the line on what became the 'down' (Afon Wen direction) Platform. On the platform elevation, a two-storey gabled block at the southern end and a tall single-storey element with a hipped roof were either side of a ridged roof section with a smaller cross gable which was fronted by a slanted awning. At the northern end of the building was a further hipped roof section somewhat lower than its neighbour, extending northward with a recessed ridged roof element. Decorative touches included distillation under the eaves, recessed triangular features in the gables and created ridge tiles above the slated roofs. The chimney stacks were multi-faceted, each em-blemished with a protruding ledge and square chimney pots with spiked corners. On the frontage, the two-storey southern block repeated its platform face, but the northern hipped-roof single-storey section carried a large gable-end, with the recessed triangular decoration. The central section, which carried one cross-gable on the platform elevation, presented two gables to the frontage. Within the building were waiting rooms for both sexes, a booking hall, porters office, lamp room, a weigh office, toilets for both sexes and accommodation for the stationmaster. On the platform, a stone waiting shelter with a slate roof was provided. A bridge carried Clynnog Road over the line immediately north of the station building. Originally the platforms ended at the bridge but later they were extended under it northwards.
Penygroes had goods sidings west side of the line, south of the station. In 1867 there were also transhipment sidings east of the line, again south of the station; the Nantlle Railway terminated at the transhipment sidings.
At first passenger services ran between Caernarfon Pant and Afon Wen with some trains continuing beyond Afon Wen onto the Cambrian Railway which was not completed and did not open throughout until 10 October 1867. There were five up and five down trains on Monday to Saturday and one in each direction on Sundays. From January 1871, with the completion of the Carnarvon Town line, trains were able to run between Bangor and Afon Wen. From 4 July 1870, the CR had become part of the London & North Western Railway.
The quarry owners at Nantlle were frustrated with the situation that existed after the CR had taken over the Nantlle Railway. Previously their products had been worked over the Nantlle Railway direct to the quayside at Caernarfon, but as the CR line was built to standard gauge and the Nantlle was 3ft 6in this was not possible after 1867. Slate had to be transhipped at Penygroes and again at Caernarfon, which added to costs and resulted in more breakages of slates. To improve the situation in 1870 the LNWR took over the section of the Nantlle Railway, extending to just over a mile, from Penygroes to Nantlle. It was converted to a standard gauge and connected directly with the former CR line via a junction immediately south of Penygroes station. The converted line became the Nantlle branch and began operation for goods on 1 August 1872; a passenger service was introduced on 1 October 1872. As most of the Nantlle passenger services originated from and terminated at, Penygroes, a bay platform was created to the rear of the down platform at the southern end. An LNWR 33-lever signal box just beyond the end of the down platform controlled the junction, the passing loop and access to the goods yard. A footbridge south of the station building, linking the two platforms, had also been provided by this time.
By December 1895, Penygroes had six up and eleven down trains Monday to Friday as shown in the table below. There were also five services that terminated at Penygroes from Nantlle. Extra trains ran on Saturdays and there was a train in each direction on Sundays.
In 1904 the LNWR changed the spelling of Pen-y-Groes to Penygroes. Interestingly they did not alter the signal box name board. By July 1922 there were eight up trains and eighteen down trains, eleven of which were Nantlle shuttles, Monday to Friday as seen in the table below. There were twelve services from Nantlle all but the last of which terminated at Penygroes. There was an extra up train on Saturdays and no Sunday service.
On 1 January 1923 Penygroes became part of the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS). By 1928 they were running twelve up and nine down trains Monday to Friday with only a few services on the Nantlle branch. A few years later, in summer 1932 there were ten up and nine down mainline trains and twelve services each way on the Nantlle branch Monday to Friday. Passenger services to Nantlle ceased on 8 August 1932, but excursion trains continued until 1939.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, an emergency timetable was introduced on 11 September 1939, and Penygroes had only three trains in each direction on Monday-to-Saturday. The service was improved from 1 January 1940 when six trains ran in each direction on Monday to Saturday. On 1 January 1948 Penygroes became part of the British Railways London Midland Region. The summer 1948 timetable showed eight up and eight down services Monday to Friday with retimed trains and an extra up train on Saturdays.
In 1939 Billy Butlin built a holiday camp at Penychain on the former Cambrian line to the west of Afon Wen. Due to the war, it did not open for holidaymakers until the summer season of 1947 although it was used during the war by the Royal Navy. The opening of the holiday camp brought a lot of extra traffic in the form of holiday specials to the Menai Bridge – Afon Wen line during the summer months which were much longer than the routine service trains. At many of the stations, including Penygroes, platforms were lengthened. Even the scheduled services had improved by the mid-1950s. The summer timetable for the Summer of 1955 showed ten up and eleven down trains Monday to Friday as seen in the table below. On Saturdays, there were sixteen up and seventeen down services but no service on Sundays.
DMUs were introduced to many services in 1958. The line remained busy in the summer months into the 1960s but during the winter period, it was very quiet. Goods services on the Nantlle branch ceased on 2 December 1963. By the end, there was only a single train, and it ran only on alternate days. The Reshaping of British Railways Beeching report of 1963 recommended that the line between Caernarfon and Afon Wen be closed completely. This was despite the very heavy holiday traffic in the summer. Interestingly in 1964 steam-hauled trains were used on most services with DMUs being sent elsewhere. The line closed completely on 7 December 1964 with the last services running on Saturday 5 December.
In this rather grainy shot, looking north at Penygroes in the mid-1950s as a local train calls en route to Afon Wen. At the head of the train is locomotive No. 80089 carrying a single lamp on the top of the smokebox denoting a class B train. The loco is a BR standard class 4 passenger tank. Designed by R.A.Riddles and built at BR Brighton works, 80089 entered service on the 4th of August 1954 at 26D, Bury shed. It had a short service life of only 10 years, 10 months and 30 days when it was withdrawn from 75B, Redhill shed and broken up shortly after at Birds of Morriston. One of a class of 155, these Standard 4s shared much of the basic design of the LMS designs of Stanier and Fairburn, but with considerable improvements. They had smaller cylinders and higher boiler pressure; they were more economical and were very popular with crews for better riding and improved cab facilities.
Complete with matching bicycle. From 3 RAW images (Exp -2, 0, +2), Photomatix and Topaz Adjust. Seen at Melbourne GreazeFest 2014.
A two-copy international giveaway of Paul Jackson's new book, Complete Pleats, runs through Friday, October 16, 2015 on All Things Paper: www.allthingspaper.net/2015/10/complete-pleats-by-paul-ja...
A delicious blend of triangles from my Fat Quarter Shop bundle and a few extra fabrics including some hoarded AMH fabrics. Made and completed for my husband for Father's Day 2013.
Abstract polymer clay flowers. Red and orange (cranberry and warm orange). Painted with alcohol inks. For my Etsy shop art embellishments.
We started with a dusty old cabinet I had salvaged from the dump when we were stationed in Germany. The solid wood cabinet made several moves with us and served as a garage storage container for old paint and random garage-type items.
We sanded the cabinet, and painted it white.
The faucet and tee-towel holder is from a free wharehouse. The silver bowl (ie sink) is from my kitchen and the paint is leftover from when we painted our house.
About the only purchases for this project was the hardware and the wood for the backsplash.
Total project cost just under ten dollars.
all done, another one of my favorite portraits to date!! these two little girls were so fun to paint!! also...i am always available for commissions, thanks marla:)
I’m sitting here on our balcony overlooking the Pacific Ocean listening to the waves come crashing in as I write my last 365 post. Today is the day! I finished my 365 in Oregon! A whole year has gone by, it’s amazing how fast time flies and then it’s over.
It’s been a year of learning and growing, a year of sharing life with those I would have never met had it not been for coming to Flickr and then coming across Project 365! and giving that a try.
I never imagined it to turn into what it did, sharing bits of my life whether it be joys, struggles, my faith or failures. I’ve felt blessed to be able to share these bits of my life with who ever came by and I’ve always wanted to be transparent in what I’ve shared and my sole purpose was that maybe, just maybe someone would come by who would need a word of encouragement or who needed to know that yeah we all struggle and fail at times but it’s okay…that’s how we learn and grow and give others opportunity to pick us up and dust us off. I’ve had my up days and down days through doing this project, it hasn’t always been easy, it’s been frustrating at times and my family has had to see me in my not so nice moods when things just weren’t working out. There were times when it became the dreaded word…”project 365.” But I think with anything in life there are the good times and the tough times but its how we manage our way through that with those we love. I must confess I have not always done that gracefully as I’ve written about in numerous posts ;-) I think though as I neared the end I broke through some of that.
So though my husband has taken the brunt of my not so nice attitudes at times, he has been my greatest source of encouragement and I’m thankful for that. He has cheered me on, he has spoken those words “that’s it, you’ll just have to make do with what you’ve got,” he has driven me places, helped me and even shown his face in a number of shots. He has wanted to see me complete this and not just because at times he was sick of it :-) but because he wanted me who can start so many things and not finish them to accomplish this one thing to the fullest. My kids have also been a blessing to me in this, they’ve been excited to see what picture I took or what I wrote and they’ve allowed me to show their faces as well in some of my shots. My friend has also been a great source of encouragement…she would say to me “I’m watching your back” as she followed my stream. And my parents and other family members too, they’ve been excited about this project and that has blessed me. It’s funny how when I started I was scared to tell anyone about it because I thought is this a waste of time and what will they think of me spending all this time on this project, but over the year I’ve been able to break out of that.
I’m also thankful to each of you who have encouraged me along the way, who’ve cheered me on and who’ve spoken words of wisdom…it has meant a lot to me and I’ve felt blessed to be a part of your life here on flickr. I even had the exciting opportunity of meeting one flickr friend. It’s kind of a bittersweet feeling to be finished because it becomes so much a part of your daily life but life changes, seasons come and go and so now I am off to enter a new season, not sure exactly what it will look like but I’m sure over time it will unfold.
So today I end with a jumping for joy shot on the Oregon coast as the waves come crashing in, yes my eyes aren’t fully open (I’m winking at you all) but my smile expresses the joy I wanted to convey. It was fun and it was freeing. I had written my words in the sand, did a few shots and then the water came rushing in and washed my words away as the tide was rising and so I had to move in closer to shore and write my words in the sand a second time. Then after I had finished my jump shots I just stood there and watched as the words were washed away by the rising tide a second time...I thought it fitting as it was my final shot.
365 Complete!
A CTA Red Line train was spotted at Howard after completing its run and dropping off the last passengers. From there, it proceeded through Howard Yard via the Turnback Loop before heading south to 95th/Dan Ryan.
It's been quite a while since I last did an SP and now that I am almost completely recovered, save for a paralysed vocal cord, I thought it was time to get back into photography mode and try to get to grips with Photoshop & Lightroom CC2016.
I wanted to use the thundery sky from yesterday and have combined it with this morning's SP to depict my coming out of a fairly dark and brooding place since last April. I clearly still have much to learn about CC2016!! :)