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Weevil (family Curculionidae)
The first Weevil I have spotted this season. I am unsure of the exact species. Just 4 mm in length so it may be a nymph.
Dundas Square is Toronto's answer to Times Square with many advertising billboards. It is also site for outdoor concerts and festivals. It was a place for protests and demonstrations, until the authorities decided that in the name of Democracy, protests are only permitted for approved causes and for freedoms in countries far away. I was crossing the square, when the billboard above flooded the place with colour on otherwise grey drizzly day. The square was not always there. It opened in 2002 in effort to revitalize the area. To be honest, I should, but do not remember what was there before.
047. Toronto. Taken 2023- May 02. P1580520, Upload 2023- May 05. Lmx -ZS100.
Another moldy oldie. NJDOT GG-1 No. 4881 brings train 3320 out of the South Amboy station on the morning of 24 August 1981, and rolls across Augusta Street, in the era before station expansion resulted in removal of the grade crossing.
looks like the time will speed up for me. today is my birthday :)
sorry for post and run - will be back in the evening
37403 'Isle of Mull' crossing the River Esk at Ruswarp with the 09.15 Grosmont - Whitby on Sat 14th May 2022.
"Crossing that bridge,
With lessons I've learned.
Playing with fire,
And not getting burned.
I may not know what you're going through.
But time is the space,
Between me and you.
Life carries on... it goes on."
~Seal
An empty CN ore train heads north on Missabe Sub for Fairlane seen here crossing the Cloquet River. This days power consisted of two IC SD40s and a CN SD40-2W. This train will be loaded at United Taconite before returning south again for Proctor.
I am fortunate during the winter months to visit Circle B Bar Reserve 3 or 4 times weekly. It seems to me that I have witnessed substantially more gators crossing trails than in years past . . . though I realize I may have just been more often in the right place at the right time. More photographers metadata follows, if you care for the story:
The trail in this area goes along the shore of Lake Hancock for about 1/4 mile. I had been following a juvenile raccoon for several hundred yards along the water's edge trying to get a clear shot him. As I glanced ahead on the trail, my eyes were caught by the head of this gator about ten feet out from shore. The raccoon was in & out of the brush along the shore and proceeding towards the gator. I watch as the gator began to glide slowly toward shore and climb up to rest it snout on the trunk of a fallen palm tree. The raccoon came out the brush and started to climb over the palm tree trunk when it saw the raccoon . . . now, I can't be sure of the expression on the raccoon's face because his back was to me . . . but, I'm sure his eyes grew as large as saucers because he did a back-flip and dashed off. The gator then crawled over the tree trunk, laid on the trail for several seconds, and then strolled on across the trail. Average day at Circle B Bar Reserve.
The Severn Bridge (Welsh: Pont Hafren), sometimes also called the Severn-Wye Bridge is a motorway suspension bridge spanning the River Severn and River Wye between Aust, South Gloucestershire (just north of Bristol) in England, and Chepstow, Monmouthshire in South East Wales, via Beachley, Gloucestershire, a peninsula between the two rivers. It is the original Severn road crossing between England and Wales and took three and half years[3] to construct at a cost of £8 million.[4] It replaced the Aust ferry.
The bridge was opened on 8 September 1966, by Queen Elizabeth II, who hailed it as the dawn of a new economic era for South Wales. The bridge was granted Grade I listed status on 26 November 1999.[5]
This tributary crossing serves as a significant landmark leading to the side trails of Rich Falls, Big Falls and Dome Falls. On this day, my objective was to reach Rich Falls. According to the research info I had, the trail should have been 10 to 15 minutes past this crossing on the left. Well...I walked 10 to 15 minutes and didn't see a trail. I kept going. As a matter of fact, I kept going to a place on the trail where I could hear Big Falls raging and "raising a ruckus" like you wouldn't believe in the gorge below. I turned around to backtrack hoping to see the trail and instead ended back up at the tributary again with no results. Knowing full well how dangerous the descents down into the gorge are after this point and to avoid attempting a bushwhack (let wisdom prevail), so I headed back across the tributary. Not long afterwards I encountered Charlie, an experienced hiker on the trail who was on his way to Big Falls. I explained about not being able to locate either trailhead, and he obliged to lead me right to where the trail to Rich Falls began. We ultimately reached the trailhead, about 30 minutes after the tributary crossing which was rarely used and was hidden underneath the fallen leaves. Charlie spoke about some of the steep sections of the trail, and I thanked him for the info and assured him I would be fine after I had started. After sharing some friendly parting words, he headed off towards Big Falls and I headed down the trail to my destination.
European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Common Hoverfly (Melangyna viridiceps)
Nice to see these two sharing the Dandelion pollen
Special train J20 leaves Otago for Canterbury, crossing the provincial boundary that is the Waitaki River.
21 Jan 2023, Train J20, 7241-7199, Waitaki River, SIMT-NZ
Southern Pacific’s Roper - Provo turn, aka the UT04L, pulls 68 cars at the west end of the siding at Riverton, Utah the morning of Dec. 17, 1994. This road crossing was an eternal pain for the railroad and motorists, especially when trains would meet. The nightmare ended when a grade separation project was completed two decades ago.
I could make a joke about helping an old lady crossing the road, but that would only end with pain so instead - awww aren't we cute!
Crossing the Wysox Creek, Conrail train ALCG approaches the town of the same name in north central Pennsylvania.
The path up to Dubh Loch from Loch Muick crosses strulan burn at this point .. pick your way carefully!!
Goodbye Nacho...I'm sad that you had to leave. I'm grateful for your presence in my life - your support, unwaivering kindness and generosity. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself - both through your images and your words. You touched many people with your generous words of support and encouragement, as well as with your inspirational photos. You will certainly be missed.
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Taken, processed, and uploaded with an iPhone 4.