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A Queen Butterfly (Danaus gilippus) searching out nectar at the St. Paul Conservatory Butterfly exhibit. A wonderful place to visit.
Reminiscing ...
Simpson Desert stroll in 2011
Photo credit: Paddy McHugh
This is what it means being stuck, really stuck, without any trees anywhere to try to winch the car out. I don't remember what was done. I think it may have involved some digging, and, some more digging, and then some more. I don't think it occurred to anybody to unload everything in order to make the 4WD and the trailer lighter. Anyhow, somehow or another we got going again 😊
Photo credit: Paddy McHugh
Paddy McHugh is embarking with another lot of desert walkers on a stroll across the Simpson Desert this year and I came across this shot on Paddy McHugh's FB page.
(Paddy McHugh gave me permission to upload the photo on my flickr photostream).
This is us!
As far as I remember, the advice was to use this road, 'Rig Road', due to rain being expected. Being so remote, road condition updates may be a bit late and maybe a bit unreliable. A decision had to be made and it led us to 'Rig Road'. Being caught and stranded by rain in the Simpson Desert area is a disaster.
Some may wonder how it came to this. Well, I guess, when there is not much of a track anymore the driver tries to negotiate driving on whatever is the highest part of the road. The track was firm but, with so many wheels to consider, the task proved to be a bit too tricky.
After a lot of head scratching, walking around the scene, looking under, looking over, thinking, trying to lift, trying to shove, listening to advice by non-mechanics and other smart people, 'we' managed to get the situation under control and got the 4WD and trailer back onto the road. Well, this is a road.
Us walkers continued our walk and proceeded without any other major conundrums, apart from a damaged axle, or something, on the trailer sometime later. I have to try to find the photo of the interesting fix. The trailer was done at Kulgera and was left there, unfit for the 2,000km drive back to Townsville.
Camping at Kulgera was another adventure: Domestic mouse plague!
2011 was another year of a mouse plague and even on the trek we encountered mice scurrying across the tents at night. At Kulgera, I discovered one trying to hide in my tent and so did what we've done when growing up on a farm. There are times when you can't be squeamish and have to be rational. There were mice in the roadhouse dining area as well. Mouse plagues are a disaster for farmers, are a disaster for native desert mice, are a health hazard, and have to be controlled by any means possible.
Sheep herding contest at Iowa State Fair to show off dog obedience. The red markings on them were for identification and are not blood.
The sheep will obey but as I observed them, I noticed they never seem to stare directly at the dog as cattle seem to do.
They seem to be glancing away even though they know the dog is there, because the sheep were at a point where they were staring at the herder with a stick in hand at a gate entrance and are actually focused on him. The dog also has his eyes fixed toward the command and not the sheep.
Tish is so pretty and looks so ladylike, but I do love it when she really gets stuck in...it's a pleasure to watch her enjoying herself. Mind you it would be, as she's not mine and I'm not the one who has to has to clean those paws :-)
Stanier '5MT' 4-6-0 no.45212 digs into the climb as she heads towards Glenfinnan summit with the afternoon Fort William-Mallaig "Jacobite" train.
2020 Jacobite
actually this Elephant is busy cleaning out again his self dug waterhole or making it a bit deeper . Here in the dry river bed he does not risk an Crocodile attack. These ones are hiding in the shallow river water waiting for a good prey ....
Between Letaba and Shingwidzi, Kruger National Park, Limpopo Province, South Africa
The crew of 'Jubilee' No. 5690 'Leander' are digging in for the long drag to Ais Gill summit, as they approach Bull Gill, a short distance south of Kirkby Stephen, on 9th September 2009. The train is Statesman Rail's 'The Fellsman', 1Z22 1520 Carlisle - Lancaster. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
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digging the archives at the moment ,with this crap weather
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2021.01.17 - People digging out their cars after the snowstorm that dumoed around 30cm on the city overnight..
On the far right of the frame the head brakeman on extra 734 west works to get the switch after digging and sweeping the points to get 734 out on the main to head to the west end of the yard at Trout Lake. At the west end the process will be repeated 4 more times before 734 can gather up its Marquette bound freight and back around the SW wye to get out of town. This slide was shot in January 1985 and was in a box I'd inadvertently tossed in with traders.
Pan Am Railways RUPO, led by MEC 315, notches up to get to track speed near an old freight shed in Greene, ME.
Yes, I built yet another Joker head sculpt within a week... 😬 Very much like the movies themselves, while Joaquin Phoenix's Joker was phenomenal, Heath Ledger's performance in the 2008 The Dark Knight will forever hold a special place in my heart... One of my all-time favourite movies that I will never get bored of watching!
In fact, this character has been forever been on my to-build list, but I never had the confidence to give it a try, and the success in Joaquin's Joker bust earlier gave me the courage to finally go for it.
I must say my worry didn't come out of nowhere, it was considerably more challenging than the first Joker bust! The eyes, nose, and again my favourite part of the entire MOC, the mouth all took me multiple trials to get them right, but luckily I still managed to pull it off and finish the project with 19 hours (I cheated a bit on this one as the 19 hours were spent across 2 days, but still... I am proud of myself! 😝) And perhaps among all challenges... nothing can compare to the struggle of digging up purple pieces in my inventory! 😭
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This young female couldn't get enough mineral salts from the surface dust, and so knelt down and used her tusk to dig into the soil and loosen it..
A digging nuthatch skeptically looking at me and my camera.
Taken with a Sony A-6500 (Sony ILCE-6500) and SEL-100400GM as RAW. Converted to JPEG with LR 6.
New kid on the block, British India Line, digs in to the climb to Aisgill at Waitby, with the second southbound Dalesman charter train of the season, May 8th 2018. The 3 cylinder exhaust beat sounded very crisp, great to hear after all the teething problems!
A pymgy goat arrived early and had the whole cart of feeds to itself at the Country Farm in Richmond BC.
Chicago, Central & Pacific GP10 1744 leads a unit coal train eastbound at Waddams Grove, IL in April 1990.
Jubilee 45690 "Leander" makes a spirited climb to Ais Gill with last nights returning Dalesman. The 3 cylinder roar could be heard long before and after she came into view powering her 12 coach load past Angerholme in lovely early evening sunshine.
Camera: Barkleys tin
Film: orthochromatic photocopy, 6x9 cm
Exposure: 10 min
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2016-10-07
The eastern one-third of the United States, southern Ontario and Quebec was hit by a nasty "Texas Low" storm between March 2 and March 4, 2023. The intense low-pressure system started in Texas, gained strength from the warm and moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and travelled north and east across the Southern States, then the Eastern Midwest and up to the Southeastern Great Lakes and then part of the New England area.
Depending where one is, heavy rain, strong winds, thunderstorms, tornadoes, sleet/ freezing rain, wet snow, and heavy snow were encountered by millions of people. For us in the Toronto area, we got some 25+ cm (10 inches) of very sticky and wet snow overnight.