after a very stormy day

Rose-breasted Grosbeak targeting a uric acid packet drop.

Checking in to all my friends on Flickr --- and hoping that all have been keeping well and happy during the pandemic

Viceroy butterfly resting on thistle down.

Common and somewhat abundant.

Wish you all some sun for the weekend!

This month was cold and lots of wind but the sun going down is always a pleasure specially on the beach.

lapwings in flight

Goldfinch on a post-Christmas downer!

Zebra enjoying the last of the sun and grazing contentedly - ox peckers in tow!

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Upper Falls, Vermont

The bridge was built in 1840 by James Tasker of Claremont, New Hampshire. It is distinctive among Vermont's many surviving covered bridges for the Greek Revival elements of its gables, and for the remarkably good condition of the surviving stone abutment, which has precisely laid stonework. At the time of its National Register listing in 1973 it was not in very good condition; it underwent a complete reconstruction in 2008.

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Walking trail park in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Waiting for the sunset

on our way back to the camp.

Thank you very much for your visits comments and favs - especially for the last pictures... you explored them! Thank you very much!!

sun,sea and waves, an oldfashioned one on the beatch.

It's business as usual for the 45-year-old Metra 117 as it blasts off from Downers Grove after a quick station stop. One can only wonder just how many times this hunk of metal has passed this exact spot since the late 1970s.

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Sundown at wallasey Uk, one of natures finest displays.

I found a fox den in May in the woods next to my village. First time in my life... I saw the fox cubs coming out of the den and seeing the sun for the first time in their life... I saw them growing and changing...

I gave my small fox-cubs names. This one is Bluebeard because of it’s blue eyes... now the color changed to amber, but for me it is still my small Bluebeard...

I usually would spend more then two hours waiting for them in the evening... Sometimes they would show up after sun-set... I only enjoy them playing and exploring the world...in this case... Even with my NIKON D5 pictures are just impossible as you loose at some point the speed... But sometimes they would do me a favor and come out before sun-set...with the last light of the day... and when this happens... magic moments can be captured...

NIKON D5 with Nikkor 600mm f4

@600mm f4 1/250' ISO800.

Metra 211,0the CB&Q heritage unit, leads a outbound express train through Downers Grove, IL.

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Screaming the piggys westward at Downers Grove, Illinois on the BN race track is GP40 3002 leading a UP U30C - March 5, 1978.

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The last rays of a golden sunset catch the side of SCT service 1MP9 during a storm at Coondambo hauled by locos SCT009,SCT007 on the evening of 2-4-12

Enjoy a sunny Sunday ! See you tomorrow!

This portrait of a Western Scrub Jay that uses it's bill to point the way it wants you to put the peanuts by looking down toward the ground.

The red bokeh is caused by a Bottlebrush flower.

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As the sun sets over the windy city, an eastbound Metra communter train quickly accelerates out of Fairview Avenue Station in Downers Grove. A Metra F40PH still wearing the retro blue and red livery provides the trains power as it hurries east down the BNSF Chicago Subdivision.

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BNSF Chicago Subdivision

Downers Grove, Illinois, USA

May 26, 2025

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Even as a little kid, I was fascinated with trains. Here, my Dad and I sit at our favorite spot about 6 blocks from our house - just West of the Forest Avenue grade crossing in Downers Grove, Illinois.

Photo taken in August of 1986 by my Mom. That puts me at 4 1/2 years old in this picture.

A southbound CN SD50F passes Deval Tower back in 2007. The old zebra-stripped cowl was about to pound UP's Harvard Sub on a dreary day in wire-infested Des Plaines.

The SD50F fleet is long gone from CN and of course Deval Tower was torn down a few years later.