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A liitle more than 3 weeks before I leave for china. Last 2 trips have been to the mountain sights but this trip I think I will go to Guizhou and experience some of the minorities and thier culture.
I bet his Mom doesn't tell him to count sheep when he can't sleep because sheep are apart of his nightmares now. No one was hurt. The ewe dumped the little guy, then jumped over him, obviously, to avoid trampling him :)
Opera singer, bariton Laimonas Pautienius posing for portrait.
This portrait is an allusion to the Count di Luna from one of Verdi's most dramatic masterpieces - "Troubadour"
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Wet Plate Collodion. Tintype
18x24, lens I-37
Epson V600
Named for the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Though Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned city now has a special status within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), being administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as nuclear power stations were seen by the Soviet Union as safer than other types of power plants. Nuclear power stations were presented as being an achievement of Soviet engineering, where nuclear power was harnessed for peaceful projects. The slogan "peaceful atom" (Russian: ?????? ????, mirnyj atom) was popular during those times. The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kiev, but the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, among other bodies, expressed concern about it being too close to the city. As a result, the power station and Pripyat were built at their current locations, about 100 km (62 mi) from Kiev. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.
A 35 man (plus guides) trip to the Ukraine exploring Chernobyl, the village, Duga 3, Pripyat and Kiev including Maidan (Independence Square) and observing the peaceful protests underway.
Some new faces, some old, made new friends and generally we were in our elements.
Rhetorical question but did we have a blast? You bet!
Amazing group, top guys. Till the next time!
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A satisfying moment in Trafalgar Square: Go Ahead LT441 on Route 12 lines up next to London Sovereign VH3 on Route 13
We first met Shepherd McKnight Dreamer during the Summer Joust. As you can see, even if he cares about sheep, he still dreams to be a knight.
I don't know if his dream will come true but maybe he's gonna get more sheep to heard, thanks to the incredible BrickNerd judges! :)
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No, we're not having another. This was an assignment :-)
It was a horrible year. But I had to do my annual Winter Count anyway so here it is. A January view from home, part of my 100 Days of Darkness project. February is a good month for enjoying a Semla. The horror of 2020 in one March photo. The usual suspects had a few nice BBQs during this very unusual year. When the warm weather came back I was back in the saddle most every day. Here bird spotting in a Canola field. It was one of the warmest days of the year when I went for a walk around Långholmen in Stockholm. One of my Summer hobbies when it comes to Summer photography is panning shots. I had to visit the Graffiti Heaven that is Lövsättra before it was demolished. I visited the new nature reserve Klövberget in Tyresö together with one of the usual Suspects in September. An October outing to Nynäshamn took me and two of the usual suspectds to the top of the Vinsberget hill. I spent quite a lot of tim at the Häringe/Hammersta nature reserve and made four visits in four month to the Lookout Point at Häringenäs. I had to add at least one photo of the old tree so here is one from December.
More No Counts from Japan
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from left:
1.Japanese Green Pheasant - Fujikawaguchiko, Tokyo
2.Willow Tit - Kushiro, Hokkaido.
3.Japanese Wagtail - Fujikawaguchiko, Tokyo.
The monarchs leave their overwintering sites in Mexico in March and the migration lasts until June. I don't expect to see them here in Kansas anytime soon.
Alas, it's not even September, much less Halloween.
Perhaps he's just practicing.
Count Buckula, the early years.
(I actually have Count Buckula as a tag. Hey, it's better than politics.)