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The launch last night, just after the SRB separation.
Growing up with these shuttle launches regularly, I got pretty tired of all the TV news anchors saying after each successful shuttle launch 'Oh it was a gorgeous launch today!' It could have been the blandest, most humdrum looking launch on a clear-blue-sky day and they'd be calling it a gorgeous launch.
Last night however, as the orbiter climbed higher and higher, reaching its escape velocity, it reached above the level where the horizon shrouded the already-set sun, and immediately its contrail burst into a wild flame of oranges and pinks and reds, delivering us an extended sunset - showing us what people hundreds of miles away were seeing as their day came to a close.
And that's what really made this launch special. I have to mark this down as perhaps one of the most, if not the most beautiful launch I've ever seen go up.
The fog came in heavy this one evening and everything looked a little different.LOL.I name this one Escape .Looks a liitle errie.Hope you enjoy this one.Thanks for the views,favs and comments.
"MAKE IT A GREAT DAY"
A lone sail boat heads South into the gusting winds that blast up Howe Sound on warm days. Captured from the mountains above Howe Sound around Squamish, British Columbia, Canada.
Captured with Fujifilm X-T1 and 18-135mm lens
Purple Gallinules are brilliantly colored waterbirds related to rails and coots. In Florida, they are year-round residents throughout the southern two-thirds of the state. They also breed in the panhandle and northern part of the state, but individuals head south to escape the cold winter weather. Depending on locale, they can be easy to find walking on lily pads, or they also may skulk in dense aquatic vegetation where they are easier to detect by their cackling, chicken-like sounds. Purple Gallinules feed on seeds, fruits and invertebrates.
Found this one along Heron Hideout, at Circle B Bar Reserve. Polk County, Florida.
[...] If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow [...]
-- Chinese Proverbs
Nikon D200, Samyang 8mm, f/3.5 - 8mm - f/8 - 1/4s - HDR 5xp +2/-2EV
Rome, Italy (April, 2016)
"Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances."
Of course Tarkin wasn't staying at the Tropicana Hotel.
While traveling the backroads of rural Illinois on an idealic summer day I spotted these gorgeous red shrub roses, long since escaped from the farm and growing along the roadside.
Metal cut outs of two Nez Perce on horseback are lit up by my car’s rear lights at the overlook at Dead Indian Pass on Chief Joseph Highway in Shoshone National Forest near Cody, Wyoming.
The metal cutouts are part of the exhibits explaining what happened in the area in 1877 during the so called Nez Perce War. Not happy with their treatment, the Nez Perce under the leadership of Chief Joseph left the reservation in Washington State headed for Canada and greater freedom. They were pursued by several hundred soldiers led by General O.O. Howard. Forced to head east, Chief Joseph led 700 Nez Perce men, women, and children and 2,000 horses through Yellowstone Park and into the Absaroka Mountains on a route known as the Bannock trail. From the Absaroka, the band planned to exit on to the Great Plans and then turn north toward Canada. However, the US army had anticipated that the Nez Perce would attempt to break out of the mountains onto the Plains and Howard had stationed General Samuel D. Sturgis and 600 cavalry near the base of the mountains to intercept them.. Sturgis's forces were strategically placed where he could move quickly south or north toward known trails along Clarks Fork or the Shoshone River..
Thinking the Clark’s Fork exit too rough for women and children, Sturgis discounted the Clark's Fork as an escape route from the mountains.
On September 8, 1877, the Nez Perce reached what is now called Dead Indian Pass, about six miles from Sturgis's force on the Plains below. Their advance scouts observed the soldiers far below awaiting their appearance. If the Nez Pierce took the open and easy route to reach the Plains, they would be easily visible. Instead they attempted a difficult maneuver to mislead the soldiers. They feinted going south toward the Shoshone River by milling their horses in a big circle to kick up visible dust and sell Sturgis on the idea that they were heading south. Then, invisible to army scouts, they sneaked back north, concealed by heavy timber, and traversed Dead Indian Gulch down to the Clark's Fork River. The lower portion of the narrow, steep-sided gulch is but a slit in the rock, very steep for over a 1,000 feet and barely wide enough for two horses to go side-by-side. But the Nez Perce executed the maneuver brilliantly. Sturgis took the bait and led his soldiers away from the Clark's Fork and headed south to the Shoshone. The Nez Perce popped out of the mountains onto the plains. By the time Sturgis realized his error, turned around, and met up with Howard who had descended the Clark's Fork following the Nez Perce's route, the military force was two days and 50 miles behind the Nez Perce. The US Army would not finally corner and defeat the Nez Perce until nearly a month later in Montana at Bear Paw just shy of the Canadian Border.
For Steam Sunday here's another from my day out in the cranberry bogs of South Carver.
Like many people of a certain age who grew up in Eastern Massachusetts or Rhode Island a visit to this place was a right of passage, particularly during the holiday season. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of cold nights, warm wooden coaches, and twinkling lights beneath stars, and along the bogs of cranberry country. Edaville Railroad was a special place for generations, and it had been more than 35 years since I last visited. Named for its founder, Ellis D. Atwood, who did so much to save the unique two foot gauge equipment, Edaville was later purchased by Nelson Blount of Steamtown fame after Mr. Atwood's tragic death. When Blount also died young in an accident their spirit and dream lived up through successive owners until finally foundering in the early 1990s. Despite most of the classic two foot gauge equipment being repatriated to Maine and the original five and a half mile long loop around Atwood Reservoir being cut back to only two miles Edaville has survived.
For the first time in 35 or more years I returned thanks to the suggestion of a friend for a fun little photo charter featuring two steam locomotives, sponsored by the railroad and coordinated by Bill Willis of Precious Escapes Photography (make sure to give him a like or follow if you don't already). The star of the show was Edaville #3, an 0-4-4T Forney type locomotive built by Vulcan Locomotive works in 1913 for Maine's Monson Railroad. It ran on the six mile long pike from Monson Junction to its namesake town until the railroad's demise in 1943, the last common carrier 2 ft gauge railroad in operation in the US. Following the road's abandonment, #3 operated at the original Edaville Railroad for nearly 50 years, and was part of the original collection of equipment that migrated to the then new Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Museum in Portland following Edaville Railroad's closure. #3 has been a frequent visitor to other 2 ft gauge recreational railroads in New England when not in Portland and returned to the reestablished Edaville Railroad a few years ago where it continues to operate.
To learn more check out these links:
mainenarrowgauge.org/collection-roster/
Here she is leading a four car freight consisting of three flat cars around the outer end of the shortened loop, and the original five mile long loop once came in just out of frame to the left. For a small locomotive weighing in at about only 17 tons, she sure puts on quite a good show! The cars (three of them at least) recently arrived from South Africa where they once operated on the now closed Avontuur Railway, which at 177 miles was the longest two foot gauge railway ever built. If anyone has more history of these specific cars I'd love to learn more about them.
Carver, Massachusetts
Sunday December 22, 2024
It was really a challenge to make this photo, because people were gathering around us, watching what we doing, and making photos and videos of us like we were famous celebrities. Eventually this was the best result.