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Late last night while digging through
a junk drawer I found a thumb drive.
On it was this one photo, 2005-6?.
Article ran in the local paper. The
sidewalk is wet and it's cold out.
Even though I rode Harleys, parked
in the garage was one of my favorites.
A Ural/Sidecar just for Mr SideCarCid.
Cid was smart, silent hand commands
were his specialty.110 lbs of solid muscle.
He worked out every day just like all those
Olympic champions.He came from Germany
where there is no backyard breeding ! Brains
and Brawn. Woman loved him as he loved them.
Men were in awe of him knowing all his working
talents. Children crawled all over him, pulling his
tail and rolling on top of his massive head. A gentle
giant that knew exactly when to protect family/friends.
In my lifetime I've had a lot of extremely smart
working dogs. Mainly German working dogs.
Mr Cid was one of the smartest ever.
He is greatly missed by many.
OK, now lets talk about the followup story.
This morning I walked over to the table where
no# 1 and all the relatives were eating breakfast.
Two of which can read and write English but seldom
speak it. I asked no# 1 if she had beat me with a base ball
bat while I was sleeping. She studied me for a minute and said.
"What you talk about?" I showed her the bruise on my right hip
& another one on my shoulder. Plus some missing hide on my
right elbow. She turned to the relatives and said something
in Thai. They all seemed to agree as their heads were bobbing
up and down like those dolls ya see in the back windows of cars.
No# 1 looks at me and asks, "does your head hurt?"
"No, well only one side hurts where the big lump is."
I was instructed to sit down while water was brought.
No# 1 says, "When you jumped up in the air and tried
to spin around to avoid the cobra you came down on
the ground like a sack of cement !" "I don't remember
that." "Of course not Mr Monkey when you came down
you knocked yourself out for about 3-4 seconds !" "And
that is most likely what saved your life !" no# 1 replied.
Once again she turns an says something in Thai and
all the bobble heads start bobbing and whispering.
She went on to say, "When you were out cold you
did not move a muscle and the cobra raised up
two feet over your head and flared it's hood
preparing to strike you right in the face !"
"Boney & Pumpkin came racing in and the cobra
took off and just as you opened your eyes it
was crawling across your legs !" She said.
She went on to say," You bolted upright and took
off so fast you ran right out of your sandals
and ran across the sharp crushed gravel
in hot pursuit of the Siam Cobra !"
All the relatives are still mumbling among themselves.
"Why didn't you tell me this yesterday ?"
"We did but you're not right in the head"
"And only today you start crying like a
baby about the bruises on your body."
"Is this why everybody thought I
had been bit by the cobra ?"
"Yes we were all positive you had been."
"WoW, that would have been a cool photo"
"Did anybody catch it on their cell phone ?"
No# 1 didn't say a word, her eyes said it all !
I cautiously made my escape before
her laser beam eyes sucked my
soul right out of my body .
Damn, that would have made
for a good youtube video ;-)-
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I wonder if digging sand is one of basic human instincs.
On the beach, I was stunned by a good number of kids (both boys and girls) digging sand like crazy for hours. Then I remembered that I used to be the same.
After crossing Lummis Mill Road, the engineer running WW 576 will notch out the throttle. The solo GP10 sounded great digging into the slight grade with 33 empty sand hoppers in tow, and the added weight of WW 732 on the hind end.
For the past few months I have been fortunate to work with a talented and beautiful musician, Xerephine Musica, in making PR shots, fine art work and documenting the making of her latest video. She plays several instruments, writes her own songs and has a sweet, angelic voice. If you would like to hear her music see the links below to her Instagram and Facebook.
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Thank you for keeping your comments respectful to my models and appropriate for safe groups.
In 8th notch and down to walking pace, G528 and G543 haul their 40 wagon grain train up Warrenheip Bank in Ballarat as 9156 PN Grain from Manangatang
This was my favorite of the plants I added to my very small yard a couple of weeks ago. I got out my Sigma 70 Macro and started taking pics when this first pod opened and it bloomed. I figured it would be a good way for me to get some good florals in a city that is not known for having an abundance of nature.
This was processed in Photoshop Elements rather than On1. I sometimes do this to see which software I prefer for a certain set of images so I can just go with that one. Here, I got some very similar results. On1 has become much faster in its latest upgrades and has a much greater set of native options so have mostly used that. Its major limitation is its rather poor noise reduction feature. So, I brought it into Elements for a trip into Nik Dfine. Not a big deal at all. In fact, I always bring my On1 results into Elements for finishing touches or more significant alterations with my various plug-ins.
With a leased N&W SD45 in the mix, this e/b piggy-back train grinds up the pass at Cajon on July 28, 1979.
Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis mellori), Australian Reptile Park, NSW, Australia
Ebird checklist:
ebird.org/australia/checklist/S65552613
The buff-banded rail (Gallirallus philippensis) is a distinctively coloured, highly dispersive, medium-sized rail of the rail family, Rallidae. This species comprises several subspecies found throughout much of Australasia and the south-west Pacific region, including the Philippines (where it is known as tikling), New Guinea, Australia (where it is known as a Misery chicken), New Zealand (where it is known as the banded rail or moho-pereru in Māori), and numerous smaller islands, covering a range of latitudes from the tropics to the Subantarctic.
Source: Wikipedia
Not exactly the Batman vs. Joker scene one would expect, but I felt this was a little more in character. Batman is often seen looking into police files, and Terry is often caught while doing so.
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Probably an occasion I could have done with a bit more dof so the winged creature could be made out more. However, I am always very disiplined to stay at or close to base ISO for best colours, DR and overall quality.
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Ongoing resignaling work in South Wales calls for some deep excavations at Cardiff Central , passing by is First Great Western 43005 one end of the 1L55 Swansea - London Paddington.
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The photo is about a light digger. But actually it is about a worker of a brick field who is working till the sunset. And he is digging a hill of mud for collecting mud from that hill. But it seems like he is digging the black frame to give the frame more light.
If you've followed my photostream for a while you may have noticed there isn't much steam on here. Thanks to the antics that surround mainline excursions I swore them off about 20 years ago. I have a list of reasons to pass on them about as long as my arm. I knew the Big Boy revival would be the hot topic this year and didn't make any plans around it. I was content to follow the action through the impressive imagery by those I follow here on Flickr.
When the 4014 got closer to the Twin Cities I started comparing the schedule of the train to my own. I would be in the same city on the same day as the Big Boy at least twice. With billions of pixels burned on the 4014 this summer I had doubts about the need for me take pictures of the trip. A bigger consideration was simply seeing this beast in action with my own eyes. Last Friday the 4014 headed for Duluth but oppressive heat and poor sun angles dissuaded me from being there.
Monday had a very nice forecast and I brought the camera along to work with plans to nab them coming through Northeast Minneapolis on their way back from Duluth. I tracked the progress of the excursion through the day. There is frequent bus service out of downtown so I planned to duck out when they got close to the Junction at Coon Creek and intercept them for a quick photo. I also kept an eye on ATCS for an indication of the line-up and reroute for the extra when I reached the Staples Sub.
It looked like they made excellent time out of Superior and each time they stopped I hoped for a little more delay for a little better afternoon light. Maybe I got lulled by all the updates, I watched them close in on Coon Creek, still no lineup onto the Staples. Hmmm, they aren't stopped, a couple minutes later and a check of the live map on UPRR, they were on the Staples already, oh no! I bolted out the door and caught the next bus, a very crowded and very slowwww bus. Well I got to my spot but missed the 4014 by just a couple minutes. I cut it too close and could do nothing but catch a bus back to the office (almost empty and twice as fast of course).
Frustrated, I now had a quandry, do I give up on seeing the Big Boy or do I make one more try at it since it was still in St. Paul for the night? The forecast for Tuesday was just as nice and if I altered my commute a bit I could be there to see the departure on my way into work. This alternate route put me on the always exciting I-94 where my car sustained a healthy rock chip crater to my windshield. This casual visit with the Big Boy was not proving to be easy. The bus deposited me right on time near the foot of the Kellogg Blvd bridge. There was a handful of folks waiting on the bridge (much larger crowds along a fence closer to the train). The train started the trip right on the advertised at 8 a.m. but stopped to fuel up before departing the depot. Within a half hour the fueling was done and 4014 had resumed the trip to Altoona.
Watching the 4-8-8-4 swing out of the depot and climb the hill was very impressive and I'm glad I was there to see it at work. Now I'll go back to watching its progress near and far through the lenses of others. A short walk from this spot put me on a light rail train in front of Union Depot for the rest of my trip to work.
The careful negotiation of this curve meant plenty of time for a few photo angles and the opportunity to take in the powerful sounds of this gargantuan of the rails. July 23, 2019.
Diggings (spoil) from London's Crossrail project were brought down the river Thames to be spread over a now disused landfill site outside Tilbury, directly across the river from Gravesend, where I am...in those days it was possible to pop on the ferry from Gravesend to Tilbury landing stage and walk past the spot where the barges carrying the dirt were moored and diggers transferred it to tipper trucks from whence it was driven to wherever it was to go. Messy; exceptionally muddy when wet, exceptionally dusty in hot, dry weather. This was taken in 2013, the ferry closed in 2024 and, I believe, there is still muck being brought to the site.
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