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Amtrak 160 leads the Beech Grove segment of Amtrak’s Cardinal at Lafayette Junction, wearing the heritage “Dash 8 Phase III” scheme in the “Pepsi Can” livery that many Dash 8s on the Amtrak roster wore upon delivery. With a lot of actual Dash 8s being on this train in the area over the last year, this is the closest we will get to getting this scheme back, not on a real dash 8 unfortunately (4/2/25).
The 367-80 was a prototype aircraft developed to prove Boeing's ability to produce a jet airliner and aerial refueling tanker. It's one of my favorite aircraft at the Udvar-Hazy center.
The model is at ~1/64 scale, similar to last year's B-52 and RC-2 airliner. It took about a month and a half to build, and it's my second largest aircraft at 3,355 parts.
C-GONJ, a de Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8, on approach to runway 06R at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario.
It was arriving as BF1625 (North Star Air Ltd.; operated by Summit Air Ltd.) from its base at Thunder Bay, Ontario. Its radio call sign was "Blackfly 1625".
Serial number 095 first flew on February 29, 1988 and began its career as C-GONJ with Air Ontario Inc. on March 23, 1988.
CN 2031 leads train M334 thru Effingham, IL, where it will do some work in the yard before proceeding south towards its destination of Memphis, TN. A duo of CN C40-8s in 2024. Crazy.
my Austrian Dash 8 Q400 Reg. OE-LGI as flight No OS 906 to Vienna International Airport (VIE/LOWW) departure Innsbruck Airport (LOWI/INN)
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Oh, help! I posted this two hours ago, and all of a sudden it and all the information about Blue Dashers disappeared! To those who left comments, thank you, but I have no idea how these things happen. Perhaps power was lost somewhere in the system due to the heat wave we're experiencing.
Basically, what I said was that it's a very common dragonfly here, but I hadn't seen one in over a month until this (really small at an inch) Blue Dasher was nice enough to perch on a Horsetail Grass for ten minutes. After he flew off, I was back to damselflies whose population is fluctuating wildly this summer.
Now for the Blue Dasher: "The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas.
Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", their wings are not substantially longer than those of related species. Females do, however, have a short abdomen that makes the wings appear longer in comparison. The blue dasher grows up to 25–43 mm long (1-1.5 in).
The males are easy to recognize with their vibrant blue color, yellow-striped thorax, and metallic green eyes. Females are somewhat less colorful than the male, an example of sexual dimorphism. While they have a matching yellow-striped thorax, their abdomen has a distinct brown and yellow striping that sets them apart from the male, along with contrasting red eyes. Both sexes develop a frosted color with age.
The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is the only species in the genus Pachydiplax. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas. The males are easy to recognize with their vibrant blue color, yellow-striped thorax, and metallic green eyes. Females are somewhat less colorful than the male, an example of sexual dimorphism. While they have a matching yellow-striped thorax, their abdomen has a distinct brown and yellow striping that sets them apart from the male, along with contrasting red eyes. Both sexes develop a frosted color with age.
For the past two seasons, I have been saying that the Blue Dasher is the most numerous of odonates, but something happened in early July this year. This is one of the last I've seen. In fact, the Blue Dasher and Flame Skimmers both seem to have "disappeared" from all our favorite ponds at about the same time. It's been a very unusual and somewhat disconcerting summer. (Two Great Egrets, one Green Heron, one Red-shouldered Hawk, no Barn Swallows... Two heat waves with high humidity, two lightning and thunder storms, followed by twenty degree drops in temperature. My notes since 2002 show August and September to be the hottest and driest months. Today's high is supposed to be 84, and I'm headed to the swamp at 10:30, late in the day for September 1. The last three years have been inactive for me due to health - and then, of course, Covid - but I've noticed that migrations and nesting have dropped off tremendously in large parts of the west. And that pretty much sums up the summer of 2020.)
One Blue Dash dragonfly looks at me with interest. Probably believes that the huge eye looking at her (my lens) is one of a frightening animal.
A world in itself, the dragonfly is a phenomenal creature, that withstand all crazy changes in world history as its age, as species is estimated by specialists to be over 300 million years. If you examine from close range the mechanics they heve on their back to move the wings, are just incredibly perfect. They are eating a huge number of mosquitos and their babies every day. They are very helpful insects.
Conrail went on a Quality kick in the mid-1990's and slapped "Conrail Quality" on everything. C40-8W 6149 was delivered in the Quality scheme and was leading train PIBA-7 through Marysville.
Trailing the GE was SD60M 5557 and SD40-2 6487 on that chilly afternoon back in 1994.
Summer of 2017 - Morgan County, Alabama - Blue Dasher Dragonfly (please correct if i.d. is incorrect).
A "pumpkin" Dash 9 brings up the rear of a lengthy train of marine double stacks as they pass under the signal bridge at Highgrove, CA.
Good morning everyone and Happy Dragonfly Thursday. As the title indicates featured today is a collection of first of the year (FOTY) photos of Blue Dashers (Pachydiplax longipennis). More specifically of immatures...both females and males.
Easy way to identify an immature Blue Dasher is by the brown eyes as seen above. In the case of the female, the eyes as an adult will turn green, but still have some hints of brown coloring. Otherwise the body markings will remain the same except for normal fading with age and typical wear & tear.
As for the male, the eyes will turn a blue-green as an adult and the dark abdomen with eventually turn a powdery light-blue.
Kind of a long series so don't forget to click on "view previous comments" if you don't see the additional photos in the comment section. Even better, scroll to them by clicking on the arrow thingy to the right of the above pic. And if you want to view any picture in the comment section large all you have to do is click on it where you'll also find the full text describing this species of dragonfly.
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you're having a truly great week.
Lacey
A pair of MRL SD40-2XRs work the Helena yard job on a crummy Thursday morning alongside a tied down Jimbo.
On my exploration yesterday I went further along the hills of northeast Tacoma than I've so far gone, and came upon Dash Point and this beach and dock and pier which is closed down with danger signs all over the place!. The sky was overcast and somewhat ominoous and there was not very much color anywhere so I thought it would look better in black and white.
NiSi 3-stop ND filter (but handheld)
Dragons and damsels exhibit behavior. Surprise! Dragonflies especially have favorite perches in their territories. If you'll note this twig that the Blue Dasher is on and the twig from yesterday's Firecracker, you'd be right in assuming that they're the same twig. I *know* where that twig is, and I stake it out. And that's the first trick of photographing dragons and damsels.
Another trick. After perching, you want to ID them. Well, as much as eyes and abdomen, look at the position of the wings. Dashers will land with wings forward most of the time. Skimmers with the wings out. I'll save the rest for next year...
These units ran on Florida trains nearly every day since they started running for CSX, mostly on trains that are predominantly pulled by a pair of Lovelies: Dash 8s. Their service on trains like Q453, Q441 (seen here), and more earned them thhumorous nickname "Dash 8s" under some Florida Railfans.
We took another nice hike together today. I like this one because it seems to highlight the differences in personality between Dash and Jasper.
The end result of a mad dash across the early morning flat waters for this highly efficient Tricolored Heron.
Should we lose power again, we could be out for three or four days. So, here's tomorrow's upload today. It was the Blue Dasher that led Art Deco smiths to name dragonflies "Flying Jewels." Sapphire, emerald, ruby, and diamond-encrusted platinum and gold became the broaches, bracelets, necklaces, rings, and stick pins of the millionaires in the Twenties. When I was eight, I took my allowance to downtown (remember when you could walk a mile from home and no one thought you'd be kidnapped - because they knew you), and bought my mother a birthday present, an "emerald" dragonfly on a bracelet! My mother was delighted and I was none the wise when I never saw her wear it. It was fifty cents worth of gaudy bad taste.
A dragonfly (which I believe to be a blue dasher, Pachydiplax longipennis) is perching on a shrub branch near a small pond in Cary, NC, USA.
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Blue dasher dragonfly,July 26, 2021.
Blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis), a.k.a. the Swift Long-winged skimmer (they aren’t especially long-winged, though that’s what longipennis means) and the Blue pirate.
Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
A shot of Dash one of the harbour pleasure boats that sail up and down the river Esk on a daily basis.
Shot on Leica X typ 113 and post processed in Lightroom.
I started the season with a Flame Skimmer followed by a Blue Dasher. I ended the season with a Blue Dasher followed by a Flame Skimmer. But what hakes this one different is that it is the most colorful background I have ever gotten of a Blue without the water or sky as a backdrop.
If you're wondering what the difference is between the Blue Dasher and Western Pondhawk, well the Blue Dasher has a larger yellow marker on the bottom of the thorax, is about a half-inch shorter in length, with wings a third of an inch wider, and a blue that has less black separating the segments than the Pondhawk.
These are the blocks that I was working on collecting orange fabric for. They are 6 inch Churn Dash Blocks.
I can't decide if I want to keep the quilt as Pink, Red, and Orange or also add in the yellow. Any suggestions?
I'm also still thinking about if I want the Orange (and the yellow) to only be the "Churn Dashes" or if I should also use the orange(yellow) as the background too in some blocks. I did two blocks where they were the background. Haven't decided yet!