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I've been putting out food and water for Tidda in a hidden area near the beach, hoping she'd find it. It might sustain her strength and maintain a connection between us. The food and water have been disappearing every night but I couldn't tell if it was Tidda.
Yesterday I got a wildlife trail camera and set it up to answer this very question, and I discovered that EVERYBODY is eating the food - except Tidda. Cat, opossum, raccoons and skunk.
I will move the camera and food around to different locations hoping to catch a glimpse of her and get some clue about which area she might be frequenting.
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of a previously published black and white shot captured in July 2014. Enjoy!
1959 Buick
In 1959, General Motors design staff had undertaken a major update of the Buick line, which most consumers really liked and admired. The 1959 Buicks were introduced to the public on September 16, 1958, and model year production was 285,089 units, or 5.1 percent of the total vehicle market.
Buick offered 17 models for 1959, including the LeSabre, the lowest priced series that replaced the Special series. The Century nameplate had disappeared again, and the Electra was part of the luxury series.
The 1959 lineup offered impeccable styling. I always thought the 1959 Buick models were great looking designs. The Electra 225 was a very popular model; its name came from the overall length of the car in inches. George H. Dammann, in his book “Seventy Years of Buick, said, “The new Buicks were completely new cars, resembling nothing that ever rolled out of Flint before, and having no common ties with other General Motors styles.”
Both power brakes and power steering were standard on the Electra Series, but cost a total of $150 extra on other Buick models. The 1959 Buicks also offered the popular panorama windshield and vent windows in the front doors. The four-door hardtop design models offered a one-piece rear door glass and a rear window design that wrapped around to meet the door glass. The tailfin design was very unique compared to other vehicles on the road during the 1950s.
The 1959 Buick convertible served as the pace car for the Indy 500 race. The Electra 225 convertible was priced at $4,192. The most popular 1959 Buick model was the Electra 225 series; GM offered a four-door hardtop which sold for $ 4,300 and had a total production run of 10,491 units. The LeSabre models were also very popular. Two Buick models were available as station wagons: the Invicta series priced at $3,841 or the LeSabre series at $3,320
The press reports on the 1959 Buicks were very favorable, and Motor Trend magazine named the 1959 Buick Invicta four-door hardtop the “best looking car overall,” a huge honor for GM.
In conclusion, the 1959 Buick models were quite different from the previous model year and offered the most revolutionary changes in GM’s lineup for the 1959 model year. Some of the traditional model names like Special and Roadmaster were gone, but Buick’s great styling will always be a part of GM’s legacy for many generations to come.
“Whatever car you have in mind you’re better off with a Buick!”
By Robert Tate, Automotive Historian and Researcher
Influenced by Andreas Gursky's works showing humanity's addiction to mass consumption.
Celebrating consumerism in creamy analog color.
What works towards the success of this photo is that all the individuals in the middle ground are coincidentally wearing slate colored shirts... and that delicious orange color way way in the back
Minolta X-700 - 28mm
I try to not post roster shots but this new slug set is a little too colorful not to post. Consumers Energy's newest locomotive set is seen sitting at CSX's Wyoming yard in Grand Rapids MI awaiting further movement to West Olive. This set will replace a SW cow and calf set that is already there.
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Listen, enjoy and think: Marvin Gaye - Mercy, Mercy, Me.
The classic self unloader steamer Consumers Power steams up the St. Marys River at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan as viewed from Sugar Island. Her days with the American Steamship Company are numbered as she would later be sold to the Erie Sand and Steamship Company, seen here the morning of August 26, 1979.
A fountain in Torquay's Princess Gardens (?). Torquay's seafront was extensively lit, often in pretty garish coloured light, but it obviously attracted me to attempt to photograph it.
Standard consumer E6 chemicals, processed at home.
Digitized using a Nikon D7000 dslr, Nikkor 40mm lens, JJC ES-2 adapter.
RAW file edited in Photoshop Elements 11.
[cs06295] BlueSky 10 February 2025
Supermarket car park. The lamps again.
People were shopping like crazy tonight, what with all the bank holidays coming up. I don't think many of them noticed this at all.
At the time of the photo, Consumers Fuel Company in Martinsburg, WV was one of the last places in the country still receiving single carloads of coal for residential home heating. We got word that a car of coal was going to be spotted by the daylight Pearson Yard based local, and a few of us descended on Martinsburg to witness the event. Luckily we made the effort when we did, as we believe this was the penultimate car ever delivered before rail service to Consumers Fuel ceased.
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These two shots go together, the Fire shot is from the summer of 2007. I spotted the fire when I was on the mountain and it was burning so bright it wasn't hard to locate in Lower Hamilton. It was located on the other side of the tracks from consumers' glass and the fire department had set the perimeter a way back because they were trying to cool the tankers that were right next to the fire, scared that they might blow up.
The Second shot is one I took in the Winter of 2008 with a few of my friends from when some asshats took it upon themselves to lock us into the complex and then watch us struggle from behind the fence. They took off right after we got free when the owner showed up and was wondering what we were doing in the back who then let us out. He said he left the gate open with the lock open since he was planning to come back, and didn't understand how we ended up the back, LOL.
The funny thing is I only ever had these problems when exploring without my 'usual' exploring partner. A few, other local explores were kinda tainted the same way. Funny coincidence that is, kiddos.
The midday quiet in the river town of Alma, WI squished between the river bluffs and the Mighty Mississippi River is about to be shattered by a long coal train rolling eastbound behind relatively new power: two EMD SD70ACE's (one up front and one DP'd) and a GE ES44AC
The coal train "CATMCXC0-16A" has 130 cars loaded with Powder River Basin coal good for 18550 trailing tons and 7175 feet long on it's way from the Antelope Mine in Wyoming to the Consumers Energy Campbell plant in West Olive, Michigan via the CSX in Chicago.
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