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I was not expecting to get to see the RCP during my time in Canada, and I surely wasn't expecting to see it push a road train up Kicking Horse Pass. Crazy times!
I was expecting this marsh harrier to just fly through Summer Leys but as it approached one of the reedbeds it suddenly turned and dove down. It came up empty handed (or taloned?), flew around a bit as if looking at what it could have had for breakfast and then continued on down the valley
From a tree in the parking lot of Broom's Bloom restaurant, Harford County, Maryland, USA. I expect that there has been a lot of pollen from these.
Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
Did you know that over 8 million tons of plastic flow into our ocean every year? By 2050 it is expected that there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish.
I've been thinking a lot about these stats recently and what I can do to raise awareness and give back - especially considering today is Earth Day.
So all sales from this weekend will be matched and donated to "Ocean Blue Project", a nonprofit committed to removing plastic from our ocean and beaches.
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New ((Krature)) releases at our mainstore for Wanderlust Weekend!
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Rings is my first ever custom mesh creation. Its everyone's least favorite piece of harmful trash - soda can rings.
Included are
✨ Two hold versions with pose sized for M/F
✨ One placed version that lines up with the string on RIPTIDE
✨ One Unrigged/Unscripted Version to Rezz in world or wear as you like.
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Trash is a mermaid tail applier HUD for RIPTIDE by Aii & Ego. It's created on the Alienwaves. RIPTIDE applier system, so if you have tails from other stores who use the same applier - no need to reinstall the scripts in your tail!
Trash is designed to look like black plastic bags wrapped around the tail, and the fins have custom materials which resemble the ever popular convenience store "THANK YOU" plastic bags.
This is my first release for this tail, I hope you enjoy it - I am excited to make more.
**Designed Exclusively for the Aii & Ego RIPTIDE Tail, you will need to buy this tail to use this product. You can purchase it from their mainstore**
Did beauty lie here?
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At some stage, Ukraine will become EU member.
EU Council President Charles Michel said earlier today that he expects Zelensky to formally apply for EU membership some time soon. the EU commission will then formulate an advice, it will require a unanimous agreement of the 27 member states to approve the application and grant the status of candidate member state, which would be the start of the formal accession procedure for the Ukraine (this accession procedure takes several years).
Meanwhile, in a never before taken measure, yesterday the Council of National Ministers of the 27member states of the European Union, unanimously decided that Ukrainian refugees arriving in the EU will automatically get protected status for up to three years without having to go through the usual asylum procedure.
360,000 Ukrainian refugees have already arrived in the EU, a figure that is expected to rise to several millions over the next couple of days and weeks.
Quebec Gatineau is supposed to receive five ex-BNSF SD70MACs and they took delivery of the first three last December. Here two of them and an SD40-2 (QGRY 4015, QGRY 4016 & QGRY 3334) back into a siding off CP's Adriondack Sub to pick up the first grain train of the season for Quebec City (they seem to be relegated to trail only for now). The conductor has just thrown the switch.
For the number crunchers:
QGRY 4015, ex-BNSF 8839
QGRY 4016, ex-BNSF 8860
One from yesterday mornings trip up to Latrigg. We went expecting a bit of an inversion but it seems we hit the wrong place for it. Everything was happening behind us so Stuart headed up the hill to see what was going on. This is best viewed in a not so bright environment
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Expecting 8-14 inches of snow late tonight and into Thursday. The feeders are full! Hopefully, this will be the last big storm of the season.
I expected to see autumn colours, sunshine and this big karst field flooded. Well, flooded it was, mostly...
You can compare this view with the one in early summer:
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While I knew that I was on the Wonderland and I knew where Gertrude was parked, I didn't know that I was going the wrong way..... It wasn't an unpleasant hike, just not the one I was expecting. This gem stood out and since I didn't know what I was looking at it's all the more mysterious. It turns out that this 52 foot drop of Martha here is actually a small part of a 670 foot waterfall. NW waterfall survey says that it is impossible to see it in its entirety, but most of it can be seen from Stevens Canyon Road, no pull out so be careful.
Someday I'll post a pic of the falls themselves, but I like this one because this is how you first see it, exiting the tree line and.... hello.
As expected, the plum trees did not bear a large crop this year; the harvest was only about one-third of last year's.
In a typical year, I would have had to climb a tall ladder and spend a long time picking the fruit. This year, however, I was able to harvest the plums simply by gathering the fully ripe ones that fell naturally to the ground.
The plums shown in the uploaded image are yellow fruits captured just before they dropped from the tree. 🍏🍏🍏🍏🍏
Once, this was expected to be the passenger motive power of the future; SDP35 at Tilford Yard in Atlanta, Georgia, November 15, 1977. For a more conventional view of this unit, see: www.flickr.com/photos/georgehamlin/49863701267/
Did you know?
"The name "hog" is synonymous with Harley-Davidson bikes, and though you might expect it to have something to do with their imposing, hulking size (or sound), in reality, the nickname was adopted because Harley racing team member Ray Weishaar owned a piglet, which became the team's mascot. After winning competitions, team members would take a victory lap with their porcine mascot." Rich Duprey (TMFCop) Jun 6, 2017 at 7:32AM
Spotted in Hawaii
We expect a species with the name Western Bluebird will be colourful, and it doesn’t disappoint. This male has the additional highlight of an area of bright chestnut plumage. This individual was seen in the White Lake Grasslands Protected Area near Okanagan Falls in southcentral British Columbia, Canada — a great spot to sight the species.
“The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.” - L.M. Montgomery
What a luxury that would be !
While I sit here at the computer with a hot water bottle strapped to my sciatica via a knotted flanno shirt, and another hottie waiting for me already in bed ( hot water bottle ), the pain is finally easing and I just want to be lulled to sleep, with no dogs barking at wallabies, no getting up and down to let the girls in and out ... in and out, all flamin' night ... just want to ease my mind of all the stuff going on lately, all the things I'm supposed to be doing but can't, all the humans who've annoyed the crap outta me lately, all the favours other people expect from me with no thought of lending me a hand,
…. all the ... all the … zzzzzz…..
Off to bed extra early folks, a huge thank you for all your support, with apologies I'm behind in some visits, and other visits too quick with faves and no comments, a stream of unanswered/unread Flickr mails waiting … I am so blinkin' tired..
no ed's..
Weeds in the wind, late afternoon, up the bank from the river bend, just down the road from town.
The light is from ther glare off a tin roof.
I could've sat there for longer the other day.
I like this large..
I expected a nice sunset today on the beach. In El Porto, I always take a few shots of the power plant as the sky is always pink n that direction. Today the reflection of the lights on the sand was very nice, and the surfboard is a nice coincidence.
I was chasing after a hoverfly that was jumping from flower to flower much quicker than I expected. After many blurry shots I finally managed to get one in focus :-).
Reine on Moskenes island, Lofoten archipelago in Northern Norway. All day we had most amazing cloudscapes showing up over these picturesque basalt mountains.
As expected the charger for my camera made a surprise reappearance on the day after I‘d bought a new one. Anyway, I was able to take photos of my new home again and did a little tour around a bird sanctuary on Sunday where I took this shot. Unfortunately my computer is still in a box, and I can’t geotag my photos on my tablet; but honestly that doesn’t really matter anyway as the Flickr app tells me that supposedly I took all my geotagged photos in Arinacrinachd, Scotland. (I hope I got that right... does anyone know how to pronounce it? Just out of curiosity LOL)
I wasn't expecting to see a butterfly on the beach at Felixstowe today, but this beauty was warming up on the stones in the sun!
Peacock butterflies are not poisonous or foul-tasting, so their first line of defence is to go unnoticed. The Peacock, like other overwintering butterflies, is a master of disguise. At rest, with its wings held tightly together over its back, the Peacock resembles a dead leaf, with dark colours on the underside of the wings and a scalloped, irregular shape provide convincing camouflage.
Peacock butterflies however, have another, more dramatic trick up their sleeve, or rather, on their wings. When a predator gets close the Peacock will abandon its disguise and adopt shock tactics instead, repeatedly flicking open its wings, to expose suddenly bright upperwing colours and its characteristic, large eye-spot markings.
It’s these eye spots, of course, that gave rise to the butterfly’s common name. It was originally known as the Peacock’s Eye, a clear reference to the ‘eyes’ on the extravagant tail feathers of the male Peacock bird. Experiments have shown that the eye spots on the Peacock butterfly’s wings startle small insectivorous birds, such as Blue Tits, greatly increasing the butterfly’s chance of surviving such an encounter.
I did not expect at all to meet this little dude ...
At first, I had absolutely no idea what it was, I did not know that crane nestlings were reddish like that and it was more or less swimming on the water like a duck.
I should have known though, as 2 minutes before I was secretly trying to approach a pair of common cranes in the swamp, that eventually flew away. I had never thought about where Common cranes are nesting, I was assuming it was way more in the north of Europe.
Anyway after taking a shot, I did not stay much longer to avoid creating too much disturbance :(
Because darkroom paper is orthochromatic, the colour response isn't what you might expect - the petals of this sunflower are actually yellow and the background should be black ...
A fire caused some evacuations in the neighborhoods on the northern part of Salt Lake City, near Ensign Peak, over the last two days or so. It mainly affected a grassy area so we can expect significant changes in the burn scar in a matter of months, assuming we get sufficient rain. Fortunately, no structured were damaged and no life was lost. By the way, the wait for more significant rains in this region is seeming interminable at this point. Added to that, our snowpack this year was abysmal.
They expect me to take part in the annual Lunar Festival, as if it's an easy feat to step into the spotlight without a moment’s rest. Yet no time is given to rehearse, no space offered to prepare — only expectations piled high like moonlight on snow. So here I am, practicing in secret, hidden away in quiet corners, stealing moments just to make sure I don't embarrass myself when the curtain rises.
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Another bird we expect to see in our visits to Southern Arizona.
From the Cornell Lab:
"Dapper in looks and cheerful in song, the Pyrrhuloxia is a tough-as-nails songbird of baking hot deserts in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. They’re closely related to Northern Cardinals, but they are a crisp gray and red, with a longer, elegant crest and a stubby, parrotlike yellow bill. During breeding season Pyrrhuloxias are fiercely and vocally territorial, but in the winter they forget their disputes and join together in large foraging flocks."
This one was following the script, being "fiercely and vocally territorial" in Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, Arizona.
UP 9009 and a pair of GEs take this MALNP(?) southbound past the old CRI&P interlocker in downtown Albert Lea, MN on UP's Spine Line. This is the last standing interlocking tower left in the state of Minnesota, as I understand it. This train--which had 53' stacks on the rear of the train, courtesy of the new intermodal deal UP's got in the Twin Cities--is traversing over the then Canadian Pacific, originally MILW, and now CPKC Jackson Subdivision. For being inoperable, the tower honestly doesn't look to be in the worst shape, IMO. Caught this train by complete chance, too. Sometimes things just work out and bucket list items magically get checked off when you least expect it. Taken on the UP Albert Lea Subdivision on 3/26/22.
Creosote Bush and Dunes. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.
A lone creosote bush among sand dunes, Death Valley.
The sand dunes often surprise first-time visitor with much more evidence of life than they might expect. We tend to think of dunes as being…. just sand. They are largely sand, but things live and grow out there, too — from reptiles, birds, and mammals to all kinds of highly adapted plants. In fact, sometimes when I’m trying to photograph a landscape of “just sand” I have to work to keep the other stuff out of the frame!
The bushes are well adapted to the dunes. While the lower branches eventually die and turn brown, in spring the upper portion of the plant can be intensely green and covered with small yellow flowers. On a windless day you might be surprised by the hum of bees swarming the flowers!
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
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Having pitched my tent earlier than expected in La Fouly, Switzerland, I decided to add on an extra little adventure to get up a little closer to the Glacier de l'A Neuve. I was certainly glad of my efforts as only 500m higher than the campsite, which was at 1600m, the landscape was much more wild and rugged. Not long after this image was taken, the weather changed quickly. The summits became enshrouded in cloud and the heavens opened up. I made it back to camp in the nick of time. Switzerland is an incredible country and one that I would be very happy to spend a lot more time.