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Of course, it isn't fishing for fish only...Montana Rail Link eastbound freight passes by "Gold Creek" behind an all BN consist of two GP50's and a B30-7Ab.
I spent the weekend with the URHS crew, aboard their time machine NYC Hickory Creek. Here it is, in damp repose, aside some neighboring Amtrak equipment. Standing there in the rain taking these photos, it struck me that this scene really is a multigenerational story of post-war passenger railroading: Amfleets were the first new cars purchased by NRPC in 1975, ACS-64s are the modern electric power on the NEC, and of course in the middle is this 1948 Pullman-built obs lounge, the crown jewel of a train dedicated by none other than Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower himself. Sunnyside, once the largest coach yard anywhere, is a location steeped in history, and still serves as the nerve center of passenger operations in New York City, stabling Amtrak, NJ Transit, and LIRR trains between runs.
This course in Baltimore County is adjacent to the center for MD agriculture and farm park which we visited last week - HTMT!
Of course I'd never bother a threatened species by running after them, but in Goleta, a flock ran up to me! And sat right down! And hung out for a bit! They were too cool for words!
It makes me think the town of Goleta is taking very good care of their plovers, they've got a nice large seaside preserve, and seem to have little fear of humans. Which makes me think the local humans are behaving well around them.
Somewhere between Santa Barbara Shores and Sands Beach, in Goleta or Isla Vista, California. February 2019.
This migrant seemed to be all alone except it was hanging out with a black-necked stilt. (Also unusual for us, but a little less so.)
American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana
A late season search for a winter stash of food on a golf course in Dundas, Ontario. Now we know where your missing balls end up.
A rare photo of me, with my son (right) and grandson last night. My grandson's first 18 holes. I never knew either of my grandfathers so hopefully we've made some memories which will last my grandson a lifetime.... Taken on my grandson's I-Phone.
Many years ago, the Pearl River flowed here. The river changed course. A shallow area was created by the deposition of sediments as the river retreated. During periodic low water, seedlings of water-tolerant cypress and tupelo trees gained a foothold. The trees you see today are a result.
Water tupelo and bald cypress trees can live in deep water for long periods. After taking root in the summer when the swamp is dry, the seedlings can stay alive in water deep enough to kill other plants.
The trail at this location leads through an abandoned river channel. As the channel fills with silt and vegetation, black willow, sycamore, red maple, and other trees will gradually replace the bald cypress and water tupelo. Also if you look closely you may see juvenile alligators sunning themselves on floating logs and other vegetation.
This location is also a trailhead for the Yockanookany Section of the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail. This trailhead is located directly across the paved Parkway from the Cypress Swamp site. Hikers may hike south 14.1 miles to the West Florida Boundary, north 8.9 miles to the Yockanookany Trailhead, or any distance they chose on this out and back trail.
www.nps.gov/places/cypress-swamp.htm
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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WD 2-10-0 90775 departs Sheringham with the BR suburban set, during the Members and Shareholders weekend.
A spectacular trio of merging galaxies in the constellation Boötes takes centre stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. These three galaxies are set on a collision course and will eventually merge into a single larger galaxy, distorting one another’s spiral structure through mutual gravitational interaction in the process. An unrelated foreground galaxy appears to float serenely alongside the collision, and the smudged shapes of much more distant galaxies are visible in the background.
This colliding trio — known to astronomers as SDSSCGB 10189 — is a relatively rare combination of three large star-forming galaxies lying within only 50 000 light-years of one another. While that might sound like a safe distance, for galaxies this makes them extremely close neighbours! Our own galactic neighbours are much further away; Andromeda, the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way, is more than 2.5 million light-years away from Earth.
This observation was designed to help astronomers understand the origin of the largest, most massive galaxies in the universe. These galactic behemoths are called Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) and — as the name suggests — are defined as the brightest galaxies in any given galaxy cluster. Astronomers suspect that BCGs form through the merger of large, gas-rich galaxies like the ones in this image. They turned to Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys to investigate this galactic trio in painstaking detail, hoping to shed light on the formation of the Universe’s most massive galaxies.
[Image description: Three galaxies stand together just right of centre. They are close enough that they appear to be merging into one. Their shapes are distorted, with strands of gas and dust running between them. Each is emitting a lot of light. Further to the left is an unconnected, dimmer spiral galaxy. The background is dark, with a few smaller, dim and faint galaxies and a couple of stars.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun; CC BY 4.0