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Continuing to mine the great variety of Canadian railroading in the 1980s, we present this view of an eastbound CN container train approaching Montreal on a rolling tangent through Beaconsfield on 9 July 1987, with C630M leading two other big MLWs.
Continuing with the rediscovered memory card from last summer. I have been using iPhoto to process this and the previous two shots. I never really bothered with iPhoto before now but it is actually quite useful for doing quick edits. I'm quite impressed with it overall.
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Continuing with my Positive Flags of the Nations project.
Today I want to address the beauty of children and their innocence and want to remind each one of us, that it is our duty to protect them all, no matter their background. We can and must help ALL children.
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Monarchs continue pouring through North Georgia - both at the river and here at home. We had half a dozen Monarchs at the river yesterday and another one at home. We've been getting about one Monarch a day in my zinnias - that's a lot compared to most years. Plenty of other butterflies at the river - so you'll be seeing photos long after they're gone.
>> Monarch on pink zinnia - dangling in my flowers - two days ago
The Monarchs at the river yesterday looked fresh (photos soon!) - they have to make it to Mexico and survive till next Spring. I reached out and touched one of the Monarchs - like touching a miracle in the works. Amazing!
Door continue uitbreiding van haar loccenbestand kan TX Logistics haar intermodale diensten uit Zweden en Noorwegen transit door Denemarken rijden tot diep in Duitsland. Voor de treinen naar Italië bestaat logischerwijs nog een locwissel in Duitsland; de treinen naar Herne worden inmiddels wel tot de eindbestemming door een in Zweden toegelaten loc getrokken. Alleen voor treinen met Deense herkomst of bestemming wordt nog tractie ingehuurd bij Railcare.
Tegen het vallen van de avond op 9 maart passeert de TXL 185 408 ter hoogte van Belm met trein 45699 van Malmö Gbg naar Herne.
Continuing this brief series of cool sights I saw on a single morning outing to Grasslands, the park at my doorstep. These two Moose with their calves were a surprise; I tend to see moose more often in fall and winter. And last year there was considerable noise and commotion as contractors built a new bridge across the Frenchman River - resulting in many wildlife species, including moose, steering clear of the area until things settled down.
But.. they're ba-ack!
I'm so happy. They add an extra touch of wildness to the prairie landscape. Twenty-four years ago, when I first spent some extended time hanging out in this place, moose were a rare sighting. In the interim, they have arrived to occupy the valley, and other prairie locations, too; biologists are not sure why.
My theory? They find ample food and shelter here, where there are no natural predators, no hunting, and an abundance of peace and quiet. Essentially these are the same reasons I moved here full time in 2011. I'd like to think I'm smarter than the average moose. But maybe I'm not.
More to come...
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2024 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
(NIKON D80; 4/6/2008; 1/200 at f/16; ISO 400; white balance: Auto; focal length: 50 mm)
Continued from this. And now you can see how lazy I am as I just put that blue gel between wide-area plastic thing on sb-800 :)
I was standing on the bridge between the two ponds at the south end of Willband Creek Park looking down. I was hoping he was going to continue to hunt but just then a runner with an off-leash dog ran over the bridge and the heron flew away. Not an new story.
Good dog owners;
Keep their dog on a leash attached to them.
Clean up the crap their dog leaves.
Bad dog owners don't.
Continuing to recap our 2025 wildlife photo expeditions with this shot of a cow moose.
On this trip, we did a location double dip for moose. First location was Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado where I photographed the "faux fight" posted a couple of days ago. Second location was the Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming where we found this lovely lady.
P.S. My Flickr people feed is messed up this morning. I can no longer see any photos by the folks I follow that were posted before midafternoon on Saturday.
Been away from my computer a lot for the last few days. Just got back to it. Got sunsets for weather 10a240 looking pretty good I thought :)
Opethfeldt 7 unofficial update WIP
Ah, Azalea Amore continues as new blossoms arrive and Snoopy has once again found the salvia lyrata, or Lyreleaf Sage.
These delightful little violet bells are always a welcome sight. They pop up usually around our front sidewalk and sometimes even form the most lovely expanse in sections of our field.
So we were quite surprised, happily so, upon close inspection of these blooms to find the most charming little beagle trying to hide inside!
😊 😊
💐🌷A🌸Z💮A🌹L🌺E🌻A🌼💕AMORE💘💖
A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Peanuts
Snoopy
1990s, RM
The Lyreleaf Sage have been featured in Azalea Amore many times and modeled by such luminaries as:
Batman and Wonder Woman in 2019!
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Chun Li in 2020!
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Anova Moretti in 2022!
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And Snoopy in 2024!
Continuing my exploration of Killarney, I was really surprised at what you could find by wandering around. Lots of little scenes which were really interesting, but also a few big scenes which I wasn't expecting. Who knew you could find views like this in Ontario? I'll definitely be back here!
Taken with a Canon 5D IV and a 24-70 f/2.8L ii. Processed in Camera Raw and Photoshop from two exposure blended images.
Again, continuing with the theme/idea of capturing some images around the village as mono images using (what I think) is the excellent camera jpeg mono setting of the Fuji XE1. All the images will be straight out of the camera with all the settings tweeked first in camera.
Continuing the review of my nine month roadtrip... After three months in Colorado, I finally made it to New Mexico. First stop... The Albaquerque Balloon Fiesta. I thought this title was appropriate. Unfortunately, the Balloon Festival was a complete disaster this year. It was really disappointing. I only went to the last four days of the festival. The last two days it was completely cancelled. The day before that was cancelled shortly after it began because of high winds, so I got nothing that day. So, my first day there was my only day to shoot, and I only put in a halfhearted effort that day, because I thought I would have three more days.
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Taken along the main street in downtown Mayville, Wisconsin.
Like much of downtown, this very cool old building appeared to be well maintained although the second floor looks like it may be vacant. Since they don't make 'em like they used to, I hope they continue to preserve it.
-Có flash nhìn trắg :)) thíc :))
-CMT+Fav nhìu nhak :****
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Chỉ có nhữg con CHÓ mới pk CHÙA :))
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Well I've been on a WC kick this week so why not continue that into Thirty Thursday with a couple more WC shots. The WC started up with a fleet of 17 ex SOO 30's along with other varied units. Most of the Ex SOO's were laid up in the first few years but then WC added three ex CNW 30's when the GBW/FRVR purchase was made. These three added to the 5 ex SOO's that were retained made for a nice little fleet of 30's that lasted as long or nearly as long as the WC. This is job LO-42 at Newberry with 820 and 584 on April 23. 1995. That's the "Hospital Branch" curving off to the left where most of the rail shippers in the Newberry area are located.
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St Pierre is a former parish and hamlet in Monmouthshire, south east Wales, 3 miles (4.8 km) south west of Chepstow and adjacent to the Severn Estuary. It is now the site of a large golf and country club, the Marriott St Pierre Hotel & Country Club, which was previously a large manor house and deer park belonging to the Lewis family.
The manor of St Pierre was originally part of the parish of Runston, now a deserted village whose only standing remains are Runston Chapel, and was later amalgamated for civil purposes with the neighbouring parish of Mathern. It is uncertain whether the name originates from a Welsh family, Pŷr, or is of Norman origin.
Around 1380, St Pierre was owned by Sir David ap Philip, who served under King Henry V in France, and the name of his son, Lewis, was later adopted by his family and descendants as their surname. The estate continued in the ownership of the Lewis family until 1924, although they had moved out of the mansion to the neighbouring Moynes Court in the late 19th century. The last member of the family to own the estate was Air Commodore Freke William Wiseman-Clark, who died without issue in 1908. Thomas Lewis, Esq., married the daughter of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London, and other Lewis family members also made propitious marriages. Several members of the family became High Sheriffs of Monmouthshire. Others became Members of Parliament, including Thomas Lewis who was MP for Monmouth, Newport and Usk between 1713 and 1752. His family took over and developed the "New Passage" ferry service across the Severn from Black Rock, in competition with the "Old Passage" service run from Beachley by the Duke of Beaufort. In 1925, the mansion and deer park were sold to Daniel Lysaght.
The former manor house includes an important 16th-century gatehouse which is a Grade II* listed building, but the remainder of the building was largely built in the 19th century. Major extensions have been added since the house became a hotel in the 1960s. It was bought by Tintern Abbey Hotels in 1961, and a golf course (now "the Old Course") was opened in 1962 with a second course in 1975.
Text curtesy of Wikipedia.
Continuing south, the train approaches Sutton Junction, where the one-time Drummondville Sub up to its namesake city via Foster (junction with the Sherbrooke Sub) diverged to the north. To avoid confusion with the nearby town of Sutton, the junction was later renamed to Enlaugra - a portmanteau of Enid, Laura and Grace, names of the daughters of a local CPR official.
After visiting the Škocjan Caves we continued our walking along the Big Collapse Doline and visited smaller caves. The path winds under the natural bridge to the Little Collapse Doline (Mala dolina). Across the bridge you can enter the Mahorčič and Marinič Cave, which lie below the village Škocjan, after which the entire cave system got its name. Here you can see the view we had looking down from our path :)
Škocjan Caves is a cave system located in Slovenia. It's an underground phenomenon in the Karst region and Slovenia. The explored length of the caves is 6,200 meters. The caves have formed in a 300-meter-thick layer of Cretaceous and Paleocene limestone. Along with the underground stream of the Reka River, it forms one of the longest karst underground wetlands in Europe. The protected area of 413 ha conserves an exceptional limestone cave system which comprises one of the world's largest known underground river canyons. Škocjan Caves was included on UNESCO’s list of natural and cultural World Heritage Sites in 1986. The trail for visitors is about 3 km long. The route inside the cave runs along the narrow walkway, which is situated on a vertical rock and ends with a bridge suspended at a height of about 50 m above the river. After leaving the caves, you can also visit nearby viewpoints on the sinkholes, walk along the Big Collapse Doline (Velika dolina), which is one of the largest collapse dolines in Slovenia and the Reka River valley, as well as smaller caves located nearby.
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Po wyjściu z Jaskiń Szkocjańskich kontynuowaliśmy nasz spacer szlakiem wzdłuż Wielkiego Zapadliska, odwiedzając po drodze mniejsze jaskinie. Ścieżka prowadzi pod naturalnym mostem do Małego Zapadliska (Mala dolina). Przez most można jeszcze wejść do Jaskiń Mahorčič i Marinič, które znajdują się poniżej wsi Škocjan, od której cały system jaskiń wziął swoją nazwę. Na zdjęciu widok jaki mieliśmy patrząc w dół z naszej ścieżki :)
Jaskinie Szkocjańskie – zespół jaskiń krasowych w Słowenii. Sumaryczna długość jaskiń wynosi ok. 6,2 km. Jaskinie charakteryzują się dużą wysokością komór i korytarzy oraz płynącą przez nie podziemną rzeką o nazwie Reka, która wyżłobiła w skałach największy w Europie podziemny kanion. Jaskinie Szkocjańskie znajdują się pod ochroną jako park krajobrazowy oraz obszar ochrony biosfery. Zostały częściowo udostępnione do zwiedzania i stanowią jedną z najciekawszych atrakcji turystycznych Słowenii. W roku 1986 Jaskinie Szkocjańskie zostały wpisane na listę światowego dziedzictwa kulturalnego i przyrodniczego UNESCO. Szlak dla zwiedzających ma długość ok. 3 km. Trasa wewnątrz jaskini biegnie wąskim chodnikiem poprowadzonym na pionowej skale i kończy się przejściem przez most zawieszony na wysokości ok. 50m nad rzeką. Po wyjściu z jaskiń można jeszcze odwiedzić pobliskie punkty widokowe na zapadliska krasowe, przejść wzdłuż Wielkiego Zapadliska (Velika dolina), które jest jednym z największych zapadlisk w Słowenii i dolinę rzeki Reka oraz znajdujące się obok mniejsze jaskinie.
...the concise report on our trip through the southwest of Iceland. Warning: this is only day 2 of 9, so you'll probably get bored... // ...met het beknopte verslag van onze tocht door zuidwest IJsland. Waarschuwing: dit is pas dag 2 van negen dagen, dus je zult je waarschijnlijk gaan vervelen!
Continuing with the swallow observations I've been concentrating on lately, here is a Tree Swallow with a dragonfly, delivering to the nest. One of the young actually flew out of the hole when this adult landed, so the young are already fledging.
Wood Lake Nature Center MN
Continuing my explore of local Pennsylvania sites... Perfect weather to try a new hiking trail, Dingmans Creek, in the Delaware Water Gap National Park. This waterfall is at the end of this trail, beautifully peaceful in a weekday.
We continue to walk up to the crest of the mountain. To one side reindeer, ptarmigan and the beautiful snow bunting and on the other the view over St Jonfjorden and the mountains beyond. I have to admit not having seen landscape like tihs I was speechless, unusual for me. Beside me walked a mad German women, Linda, mad but so full of the joys of spring, a breath of fresh air when fresh air was all around us!
Continued confirmation that I have a "thing " with mixed, light and dark high contrast image taking .
The light through the window blind provided a nice pattern.
I wish it would warm up here ! 😌
i picked some of the berries before they were totally ripe to save them from slugs, but the harvest is better than i thought so far :)
Continuing the Burscough theme,the town has 2 stations - this one on the Preston-Ormskirk line and Burscough Bridge on the Wigan-Southport line.There was a link between the lines which was closed many years ago but plans to rebuild this come up regularly.The sidings were for a MOD depot which closed in 1996 but I think rail traffic had finished before then - actually Oct 1981 from info supplied by Shed Loop
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Continuing my quest to find and make interesting images of folk on their mobile devices. This one took several (dozen) attempts before I got anything like what I was after
(Cut to stage left where Caly and Levi use their weapons to kill the two guards in the wings, and Caly spots Sienna, Mateo, and Ronan on the opposite side of the stage.)
Levi: They've made Trajan a lifevessel?
Caly: I guess he's bigger on the inside, now.
(Caly gives Levi a smile and a shrug before leaping off the stage and dashing down the length of the remaining queue in front of Lilitus, her right hand brushing the skin of each human as she passes, skipping Dyanna, and the people sway, each feeling a little lightheaded. She stops before Lilitus.)
Caly: Well, hello imperious impersonator.
Lilitus: (looking down at Caly) Tenet scum!
Caly: Now that we're acquainted--
(Caly leaps onto the edge of the stage, landing on her left hand and kicking out with both feet, hitting the heavy podium and sending it crashing into Lilitus, sending both skidding to the back of the stage.)
Mateo: Think that's the sign?
Sienna: Looks like a sign to me.
(Sienna, Mateo, and Ronan dash onto the ballroom floor from one side of the stage while Levi dashes out from the other side)
Levi: Ronan! Get the humans out! (pointing at the dizzy formal-attired humans, then starting to kill what remained of guards of those waiting to board)
(Cut to the back of the stage where Lilitus kicks the podium away like it was paper, facing off with Caly.)
Lilitus: I've consumed dozens of lives, tenet!
Caly: That explains the chin bloat.
Lilitus: (drawing a different sort of weapon than Caly held) Die, traitor!
(Caly performs a quick backflip as Lilitus fires, the beam passing over her, scoring the carpet. Caly glances at the burn pattern where she'd been a moment before.)
Caly: Okay, lesson learned. I shouldn't body shame.
(to be continued)
Thank you to the cast!
Lilitus: Bailey
Caly: TB
Costume design for Lilitus: Bailey
Costume design for Caly: TB
Set design: Bailey
This is continued shot from Portland Bill. The sky that day made me get dark and freaky with my verotrama's. I love this place, the rocks and sea have Soooooooooooo much power. :-)
Barbara and I have gotten personalized Christmas Ornaments since the 70's. For the last few years we have gotten them in Pigeon Forge, TN. Christmas is a big time at our house, even though it is just the two of us. Yesterday, being the first Saturday of December, was the day to go to one of the local tree farms and pick out our Christmas Tree. The farmers cut them for you, so it is nice and fresh.
During the next couple weeks, everything will be removed from the mantel, curio cabinet, coffee table, window sill, piano, etc. Christmas decorations will replace everything removed. Barbara and I made many of the decorations from ceramics. Dozens of stuffed animals will fill the living room. Barbara's little girl Bride Doll and her electric train will go under the tree. The train is almost 60 years old and still runs fine. Yes, Chistmas is a big time at our house.
Union Pacific SD70M 2002 leads the I-G2G2 shuttle through Elmhurst on a sunny morning along the Geneva Subdivision. Westbounds in the morning aren't the best to shoot light-wise unless you go wide and to the side.
The games were held in Salt Lake in 2002 and the reminders of that time continue to roll across the Midwest in fresh paint, thanks to some nice folks at Union Pacific.
. . . Continuing my series from Yellowstone National Park, this well known geyser is very close to Old Faithful. Sadly, I have never seen it erupt, which it does about every 10-12 hours. It is called a cone shaped geyser, and was first named in 1870 because it reminded one of a castle.
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Continuing my theme of birds in the context of their habitat, here's a Little Owl enjoying a little winter sunshine on a Pennine drystone wall yesterday morning. I did get some much closer shots but I've posted lots of Little Owls and this is something a bit different. It also gave me an opportunity to use a Pink Floyd song title.
Although Little Owls look totally at home in Britain they are a nineteenth century introduction that had never been recorded here historically (not even as bones or fossils). The first attempt at establishing Little Owls in Britain was actually in Yorkshire at Walton Park near Wakefield in 1843 when Charles Waterton released five Little Owls that he had brought from Rome the previous year. These vanished without establishing themselves. They were also released in Norfolk and Sussex in the 1870s but these failed too. E G B Meado-Waldo released dozens of birds between 1874 and 1900 in Kent (between Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks) and they first nested in 1879 and were well established and widespread by 1900. The most famous introduction was near Oundle in Northamptonshire where Lord Lilford (Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford 1833 –1896) had been releasing birds for several years and they first bred in the wild in Northants in 1889, ten years after they first bred in Kent. By 1892 they had spread to Woburn, 44 miles to the south, and in the next few decades they colonised much of England, Wales and eventually bred in Scotland in the 1950s.
The scientific name Athene noctua comes from the Greek goddess of wisdom (but also war and the liberal arts). Athene's favourite bird was the owl, probably because she was once considered to be goddess of night, but owls are also associated with wisdom. Athene was also the protectorate of the city of Athens and the Little Owl appeared on ancient Athenian coins and the bird still appears on the city's badge. Noctua is also a word for owl, which comes from the word for night, from the owls' time of activity. And why are owls associated with wisdom? Probably because they appear contemplative. But in reality much of their brain function is taken up with their keen senses of vision and hearing, which doesn't leave much room for what we think of as intelligence.
We continue with rushing, whitewater photos. This was just past the drop from yesterday's photo (in Comments). That was almost mono, but there is much colour in this.
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Continuing our first chase up the Rich Mountain grade we caught them again grinding up the 1.12% climb toward the summit about six miles or so ahead. This is almost exactly one mile east of the Oklahoma state line as they approach a private crossing at MP 361.4 on Kansas City Southern's Shreveport Sub deep in the Ouachita Mountains.
The MKCSH2 02 (second Kansas City to Shreveport manifest) has a nice consist of KCS 4618 (GE AC400CW blt. Dec. 1999 as KCS 2043), gray ghost KCSM 4533 (GE AC400CW blt. May. 1998 as TFM 2633)and KCS 3967 (EMD SD70MAC blt. Mar. 2000 as TFM 1667) on the head end with KCS 5023 (GE ET44AC blt. 2019) on the rear as the DPU.
Polk County, Arkansas
Friday September 3, 2021
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[13:12] Belle Mistwallow shouts: Oh goodness heavens. It's INCREDIBLE to see each and every single one of you out here CELEBRATING our FANTASTIC, ONE OF A KIND city. It's more than just a city. It's a community. We love each other as much as we love the Moles and Lindens who invest so much time and effort to improving it on a regular basis. IF you dont live here, you should. But that's by the by. Just want to thank you all for being here, and adding to the color and vibrance of the event. Here is to 8th years and many more. NOW....PARTAAAAYYYYYY