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March Point. Padilla Bay/Fidalgo Bay.
"Hosting one of the largest Great Blue Heron colonies in Western North America, this island of forest sits between Padilla and Fidalgo Bays. Vera and Bud Kinney donated this property to Skagit Land Trust in 1994 to protect the nesting herons. With the cooperation of neighboring landowners, each year, Skagit Land Trust conducts a nest count in the heronry. 680 heron nests were counted in 2019 in this relatively small area, which provides easy access to feeding grounds for the herons. Unfortunately, the Trust does not have access to all neighboring property, and therefore some heron nests are uncounted. The overall trend, however, shows increasing number of heron nests in the colony on SLT property and the property to which we have access -- and there are likely to be hundreds more nests on the adjacent property to which we do not have access." March Point Heronry
I count myself lucky to be living in a city so vibrant with culture and with rugged walking trails like this two minutes from downtown. The North Head trail starts in the Battery and circles the bottom of Signal hill ending with 240 steps up to Cabot Tower, 160 metres above sea level.
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.
A pleasant surprise was catching a Champion SD40-2 on the point of the 208 I believe. A poster on fecrailway@groups.io says the 208 is the cleanup train to Bowden. This train must have picked up every empty between Hialeah and St. Augustine. They must be mostly empties as I counted 174 cars and I think I missed a few at the front. Only 6000 HP, too.
January. A visit to Norrköping and a photo of the famous "Strykjärnet" building. February. Windy visit to the rocky beach at Torö. March. A different take on the old tree on a misty day. April. The fields of blooming anemones. Always a spectacular sight every Spring. May. The second annual Tulip Festival in Handen was very colorful. June. A visit to Landsort on a hot Summer day. July. New architecture in Stockholm. August. Always nice with a Summer portrait. September. At the motor racing track watching Crosscart was a first. October. Autumn tree at my favorite beach. November. I had to include a photo from my 100 Days Of Darkness project. December. A typical Swedish Winter view.
My tenth Winter Count for Utata.
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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Here's the 4th comic strip featuring a new character called Blood Count. (Get it? Wakka wakka!) My goal will be for him to die at the end of each comic strip, but I'm open to the idea of him living as long as he's miserable.
I couldn't decide whether to call him Blood Count or Vlad the Imp. I liked both equally.
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More No Counts from Japan
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1.Japanese Green Pheasant - Fujikawaguchiko, Tokyo
2.Willow Tit - Kushiro, Hokkaido.
3.Japanese Wagtail - Fujikawaguchiko, Tokyo.
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! :)
This was in the morning.... at 10 or so. In parts of eastern europe, fogs really fill the sky. So the slow, wake of the morning sun and the foggy sky does give the sense of being in the werewolf and dracula scene...
Count Jan van Nassau managed on 23 januari 1579 that 7 little states agreed to work together. This was called the Republic of seven united Netherlands and many years later it became The Netherlands.
Sunday morning: A good time to count your blessings.
Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville, Alabama
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Women on the street. Counting money.
Vietnam's currency is the dong which is one of the most devalued currencies in the world.
It's easy to find yourself a millionaire and end up carrying around big wad of notes due to the high devaluation.
When travelling is important to make sure that the Vietnamese notes are not torn: many shops and restaurants could not accept them.