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What a difference since the beginning of the year. Gone is the forest and in its place are these steel giants of the future. The atmosphere of this place however has not changed.
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
Yoko Ono
POV Series
Im Spätherbst fuhr ich bereits schon einmal diesen Weg durch Thüringen. Es war damals ein trüber Morgen. Heute war ich kurz vor dem Sonnenuntergang unterwegs...
Überwältigt vom Unterschied, den lediglich ein paar Sonnenstrahlen und ein imposanter Himmel machen können, muss ich euch hier noch mal beide Bilder zeigen!
The same spot on the Eldred river with high water flows, shutter speeds of 1/20 and 1/640 of a second.
Joey patrols around the house looking for intruding neighborhood cats, before declaring that all's safe and sound.
This is one of Joey's many photos which I had taken many years ago, but didn't get to upload to my Flickr account. 😸
There is quite a difference in winter versus the warm months in observing the eating habits of pheasants. In the summer time unless you are out very early in the mornings or happen to catch them searching for bits of gravel to serve as grit to help their digestion, pheasants often are more hidden as they seek things to eat. They normally have a menu with more entries on it than they do during the winter.
The phrase “scratching out a living” goes all the way back to the 14th-15th centuries when in the older farming communities the farmers “scratched” the land using more primitive tools.
By the 18th-19th centuries, the use of the phrase gained uses beyond that of farming to include anyone who was barely making ends meet in their day to day struggle.
Jump ahead until today and the phrase applies to a broad spectrum of normally physically hard, low paying jobs or an unstable work life.
I grew up in an era when there were only a few government help agencies and can well remember my folks talking about people around them during the Depression and beyond who spent many years on community “poor farms”.
Poor farms were quite prevalent at one time in the US and folks who were unable to work due to age, disability or other factors were housed and fed in exchange for helping to produce food and maintain a farm. Local governments ran the farms as they were considered a cost-effective way to care for the needy rather than simply doling out monies to individuals.
It carried negative connotations for participants, particularly because they were labeled “inmates.”
Poor farms gradually petered out by the middle of last century with many in Minnesota closing in the 1930s due to government programs starting up such as Social Security in 1935 and the growing prevalence of nursing homes.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Happy Tree mendous Tuesday
Thank you for taken your time to visit me, comments or faves are always much appreciated!
A couple of local jobs switching around Pomona Yard, both sporting former N&W SD40-2s, pause beside each other for a moment, allowing one to see the distinct differences that time has brought to these sister engines.
What a difference a day makes; last Friday I was at a press call for the Moscow State Circus and the on Saturday I photographed a massive Orange Lodge march through Johnstone involving over 40 bands (it took at least 40 minutes to pass my viewpoint). While most people probably think that such marches are only held in Northern Ireland they are very much part of life here in Scotland as well as in parts of England. The weather was kind for once, if not a little too sunny given the length of their march, marching all round the town while playing their instruments and carrying their various banners is no mean feat!!
What a difference a day makes!
The previous picture in my photo stream showed a sunset from this vantage point. This is the view we woke to the next morning.
From fire to ice......
If you look closely, you can see some faint rainbow colors in the clouds. I learned that this is called "cloud iridescence" , and results from sunlight reflecting off of ice crystals in the clouds. no filters, just what could be seen with the naked eye.
Jenny Pansing photos
Every color,
every perspective,
every triumph,
every defeat,
every me,
and every you —
lies in the mirrors
of this kaleidoscope.
- JK Cabresos -
Using the Nikon Nikkor AF-P 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 G VR DX (kit) lens.
Photo taken at Randfontein in South Africa.
I Shoot Raw.
I edit in GIMP.
Feel free to criticize or just comment.
Some of you will remember me making this 3 ton excavator last year. A few weeks ago I called to see my friends at Clem Jacob Hire so I brought the bucket of the 90 ton excavator with me to show them the difference. It got a few laughs I can tell you. 😂
auf Wunsch von Kristina hier noch eine weitere Version. Für mich eher inakzeptabel, da die hellen Himmelsbereiche ausgefressen wirken und dafür jede Menge räumliche Tiefe einfach ins Grau verschwindet.
Basílica de la Virgen de la Peña, Graus, La Ribagorza, Huesca, Aragón, España.
La antigua basílica de la Virgen de la Peña se levanta en la villa española de Graus (Ribagorza, provincia de Huesca, Aragón). El actual templo se levantó a mediados del siglo XVI sobre un edificio románico anterior. Consta de iglesia, patio y hospital de peregrinos con un bello claustro-mirador.
Proponemos a los visitantes que comiencen la visita desde el interior de la iglesia. Allí quedan restos del edificio románico, en concreto en la parte inferior del muro del evangelio, donde hay una pequeña puerta en alto y sillares más pequeños. El edificio actual presenta, una nave única de dos tramos, cubiertos con bóvedas de terceletes (la de los pies era originalmente estrellada) y una cabecera plana sobre la que se levanta una torre poligonal rematada en chapitel. LLama la atención el achaflanamiento de los ángulos de los pies de la nave.
La puerta de entrada tiene arco de medio punto y abundante decoración: (candelieri, casetones, angelotes, escudos y guirnaldas) y se enmarca por columnas unidas por un entablamento. Frente a ella, el pórtico imita sus formas corintias. En su friso se encuentra la firma de Joan Tellet en dos cartelas junto a una pequeña ménsula que llama la atención del observador. Allí está también la puerta de la capilla de San Juan de Letrán y una escalinata que une el pórtico con el patio. la esquina de la iglesia nos hace comprender el achaflanamiento interior, ya que si no se hubiera adoptado esta solución los contrafuertes exteriores ocuparían el solar de esta escalinata.
La arquería del hospital se abre al patio. Allí vemos cómo la estructura de este edificio apoya sobre la de la iglesia. Otra arcada sobre columnas torsas nos ofrece una espléndida vista de Graus y de la confluencia de los ríos Ésera e Isábena. Al salir, bajando por la rampa, veremos la otra esquina de la iglesia y de nuevo entendemos el achaflanamiento interior la nave, pues otro contrafuerte exterior hubiera impedido el camino de acceso al conjunto.
Desde el exterior se observan diferencias en los dos tramos de la iglesia:
la primera fase de las obras articula sus paños con molduras y contrafuertes
la segunda, obra de Tellet, que presenta paños y esquinas lisos.
En el conjunto del hospital también se ven dos fases:
un modesto edificio de cuatro plantas (apoyado sobre la iglesia y sobre la entrada al conjunto) fue seguramente el primero en construirse y debía servir de residencia del clero
una ampliación, mucho más ambiciosa, de tres plantas: la primera, con la arcada de arcos de medio punto que cobija la rampa de acceso; la segunda, con el mirador de columnas torsas; y la última, de ladrillo y totalmente reconstruida, donde se hallaban habitaciones destinadas a hospital de peregrinos y donde se ubica actualmente un museo de iconos.
The ancient basilica of the Virgen de la Peña stands in the Spanish town of Graus (Ribagorza, province of Huesca, Aragon). The current temple was built in the mid-16th century on a previous Romanesque building. It consists of a church, patio and pilgrim hospital with a beautiful cloister-viewpoint.
We suggest visitors begin their visit from inside the church. There are remains of the Romanesque building, specifically in the lower part of the gospel wall, where there is a small high door and smaller ashlars. The current building has a single nave with two sections, covered with triplet vaults (the one at the foot was originally star-shaped) and a flat head on which rises a polygonal tower topped with a spire. The chamfering of the angles of the feet of the nave is striking.
The entrance door has a semicircular arch and abundant decoration: (candelieri, coffers, angels, shields and garlands) and is framed by columns joined by an entablature. In front of it, the porch imitates its Corinthian forms. On its frieze there is the signature of Joan Tellet in two cartouches along with a small corbel that draws the observer's attention. There is also the door to the chapel of San Juan de Letrán and a staircase that connects the portico with the patio. The corner of the church makes us understand the interior chamfering, since if this solution had not been adopted the exterior buttresses would occupy the site of this staircase.
The hospital archway opens to the patio. There we see how the structure of this building supports that of the church. Another archway on twisted columns offers us a splendid view of Graus and the confluence of the Ésera and Isábena rivers. As we leave, going down the ramp, we will see the other corner of the church and once again we understand the interior chamfering of the nave, since another exterior buttress would have prevented the access path to the complex.
From the outside, differences are observed in the two sections of the church:
The first phase of the works articulates its panels with moldings and buttresses
the second, a work by Tellet, which presents smooth panels and corners.
In the hospital as a whole there are also two phases:
a modest four-story building (leaning on the church and on the entrance to the complex) was surely the first to be built and was to serve as the residence of the clergy.
a much more ambitious extension, with three floors: the first, with the archway of semicircular arches that shelters the access ramp; the second, with the viewpoint of twisted columns; and the last one, made of brick and completely rebuilt, where there were rooms used as a pilgrim hospital and where a museum of icons is currently located.
I know this picture is quite simular to the last one, but it is from the same series- I hopethis isn´t any problem and you will like this picture anywaaaays :-)
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On Wednesday morning I cut a hole out in the wall, we then threaded the beam through the hole, and propped it. I then dropped the doorway opening; and I took out the fireplace in the background.
Of course the bricks that were taken out needed stacking (ready for cleaning, and re-use). The debris needed taking down the stairs to the skip outside. This is the first floor of the building.
On Thursday morning I straightened up the sides of the door opening, ready to take the lintels next week. I can then wall up above the lintels, remove the beam and take out the props.
I started to wall up the fireplace opening in the background too.
Waterfoot
Lancashire
One last prairie dog photo from earlier in the week in Montana at Benton Lake NWR. Edit on 3/10/17 - after some research, it appears that this is a Richardson's ground squirrel, not a prairie dog. Being from Florida, I didn't know the difference :)
The view from Liverpool Lime Street station up towards Edge Hill station shows the incline,
As built this line utilized rope haulage, and today, in a manner of speaking, it still does, the wire rope still provides the energy to lift trains up the incline, the difference being that the wire rope conducts electricity today.
The two holds significance, as this was P3 prior to remodeling of the station, they extended platforms to increase capacity, and..... removed a platform ?. from what i am lead to believe the original P1 is to be utilized for retail usage, then re opened as P0....
The sceptic in me thinks all this work has been done, not for passengers but for money....
Although the argument would be that, passengers can take advantage of the retail outlets on offer....
This raises more questions however,
Firstly i should say that i'm no retail marketing analyst, but....
This side of the station is predominantly Northern Rail in it's operations, along with the Newcastle and Scarborough Trans Pennine services.
It is auto ticket barrier accessed, and most of the services are relatively short haul and commuter focused...
The other side of the station operates Virgin West Coast, LNW and East Midland services and is open access...
I would have thought that these travelers would be more likely to spend prior to making a journey,
Whilst people on the other side, going to Blackpool or Scarborough are more likely to save their cash to spend at their destinations. that is my logic anyhow,
Along with all of this, the Northern side being auto ticket barrier controlled, says a little about Northern's determination to remove train crew, whilst the other side being open access may be saying something about the need for train crew on longer distance journey's.... Or more customer focused operators ! any how you catch my drift i hope..
"The biggest difference is propulsion or movement. House boats are in fact - boats. They can be moved from place to place and have their own means of propulsion and navigation. They have seaworthy hulls, engines and fuel. Floating homes are a house built on a floating apparatus, and are unable to move without help."
Found along the Neckar river just north of Rottweil Germany. I know I'm getting old when I don't notice the difference between 100 and 1000 ISO in the viewfinder while being amazed of being able to shoot at 1/500 of a second in a less than optimal lighting. :-) Thank goodness the D850 is so forgiving.
This weekend the steam locomotive 26.26 has made its first official journey with passengers after its restoration! BDZ organized several Christmas trains to Bankya with this old lady and also on the narrow gauge railway to Velingrad. As always there were a lot of interest for the trains and despite the bad weather, many enthusiats went to ride or just to see the retro locomotives. On the photo steam loco 26.26 is waiting at Bankya station while the modern Siemens train is ready for departure with the noon service towards Sofia. Interesting fact is that there are exactly 100 years difference between those two railway units! Steam locomotive 26.26 of BDZ was made in 1908 and the Siemens Desiro EMU has been assembled in 2008.
In case if you are interested in railway videos, you can watch and listen this old steam locomotive here:
What a difference a week makes. Just when our Barn Owls are up against it trying to supply their hungry young ones with plenty of voles...we get hit by high winds and torrential rain making it near impossible for them to hunt effectively.
Fingers crossed this weather front is short lived and we soon have calmer days again.
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As noted in the prior scan, 130 and 129 had a split fuel tank, one for fuel and one for boiler water. This shows the difference with sister 159, which has the standard 1/2 fuel tank and the other half as added weight that included a tool box, spare knuckles and chains. Ah, the sound of that Nathan P5...