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Morning on Downhill Beach looking towards Mussenden Temple with a rock pool in the foreground.
Just after sunrise the sky took on some nice but subtle colours which was nice to experience as it wasn't looking good up to that point.
Today I decided to spend the dying stages of my Winter vacation for a hiking tour up the Hohenstein, one of the rare areas in Northern Germany where you have high hills and rocks. It was breathtaking to climb up the hills in foggy conditions and to face sunshine when I walked down. Hessisch Oldendorf, Lower Saxony, Germany
July 1pm hour. When you get to the downhill side of the day, every new moment seems like a brand new day. We're on the downhill side of the year, too. There's so much to be excited about ahead! Just look beyond...
Thank you for your patience, my Flickr friends. I'm on the downhill side of my project and I'll still be off and on for awhile longer.
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Downhill House was a mansion built in the late 18th century for Frederick, 4th Earl of Bristol and Lord Bishop of Derry (popularly known as 'the Earl-Bishop'), at Downhill, County Londonderry. Much of the building was destroyed by fire in 1851 before being rebuilt in the 1870s. It fell into disrepair after the Second World War.
Downhill House is now part of The National Trust property of Downhill Demesne and Mussenden Temple.
Both Mussenden Temple and Downhill Beach were used in Game of Thrones as filming locations for Dragonstone. Remember the
burning of the ancient gods by Melisandre on the beach? Well, that was here. And also where Stannis Baratheon pulls the
flaming sword "Light-bringer" out of the flames.
The truly spectacular Quiraing is an icon of Scotland. Many people visit only the first short section of path. My intention was to walk around it, but heavy rain prevented me from doing so. A real shame, as the site is so spectacular.
With dynamics howling, a 1500 Yard/Hill job on the LS&I creeps over the Pine Hill Scale just outside of Eagle Mills, Michigan just as a snow squall moves in. A pair of leased AC4400s and 120 or so loads of processed hematite fluxstone pellets from the Tilden Mine make up the train today as they descend “the hill” portion of the railroad towards Marquette. I believe the pellets from this train were eventually loaded onto the Lee A. Tregurtha at the dock in Presque Isle and shuttled to the Rouge Mill on the south side of Detroit.
This image will be the last in my current set of b&w images from Ireland as I will be moving on to post a set of autumn landscape and nature images from Ontario, Canada which I have been recently making.
The above image is of Downhill Country House (Bishop's Palace). Built in the 1770's for Frederick Augustus Hervey, Castlerock, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. Destroyed by fire in 1851.
You can see a colour version of this image below for comparison.
Descending into the Crater Plateau of Mount Ruapehu.
Last bit of sidewall into the crater was icy and steep so we proceeded to dagger down slowly from round about where the lead/left climber is in this photo. Unfortunately my rookie daggering technique and hiking crampons with tiny spikes were a little inadequate which has led to my spectacular fail and slide into the crater, only minutes after this photo was taken :-)
I bet not many people had face-planted into the crater of the highest mountain on North Island before - I guess I may well be the the first. Maybe I shall return and place a plaque commemorating the event.
LOL!
Although the big-rigs and other vehicles are having no particular problem conquering the roller-coaster ride on parallel Highway 56, the hogger running Cimarron Valley (ex-CSX) C40-8 4053 and sister GECX (ex-CSX) C40-8 #7522 is taking it nice and easy on this, the last leg of his train's journey from Satanta to Dodge City, Kansas. The run of nearly 60 miles has taken the better part of 5 hours and it'll be dark before the train finally ties up at the BNSF yard in D.C., but for now, the sun gets one more opportunity to turn the Kansas landscape a golden hue.
Not bad for the end of Day 2.