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Well.....they say that Fall has arrived. Hard to tell by the Temps here in the Southeast : ))
I haven't been around much this week, trying to play "catch up" tonight. I've been busy doing Computer Upgrades at work for the last two weeks....hopefully I can get around to everyone tonight. Enjoy the weekend ; )
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"Sometimes I dream I'm falling and there's nobody there to help me... because I'm alone, I have no one."
Early fall at Ogle Lake, Brown County State Park, Indiana. October 2024. This seems to be a popular time of the day for fishing here. There were a number of fishermen here this early evening.
September 22, the autumnal equinox, marks the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere, but the fall harvest begins early in the harsh continental climate of eastern Kazakhstan. By September 9, 2013, when the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite acquired this image, several fields were already harvested and bare. Others were dark green with pasture grasses or ripening crops. The fields fill the contours of the land, running long and narrow down mountain valleys and spreading in large squares over the plains.
Agriculture is an important segment of the economy in Kazakhstan: the country’s dry climate is ideal for producing high quality wheat for export. However, 61 percent of the country’s agricultural land is pasture for livestock. The area shown in this image, far eastern Kazakhstan near the Chinese border, is a minor wheat-growing region and may also produce sunflowers, barley, and other food crops.
An artifact of Soviet-era collective farms, most of the farms in Kazakhstan are large, covering more than 5,000 hectares (12,500 acres). Some of the larger fields in the image reflect the big business side of agriculture. However, family farms and small agriculture businesses account for 35 percent of the country’s agricultural production, and some of these are visible as well, particularly in the uneven hills and mountains.
Nearly all agriculture in Kazakhstan is rain fed. Farmers in this region have designed their fields to take advantage of rain flowing down hills, allowing the natural shape of the land to channel water to crops. The effect is a mosaic of green and tan with tones matching the natural vegetation in the mountains to the north.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
Instrument: Landsat 8 - OLI
More info: 1.usa.gov/16IZ047
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For Freight Car Friday here's another one of these once ubiquitous cars. It's kind of sad but this was the last M426/M427 that I actually saw one on. I'm sure there are more around, but they are falling fast.
MEC 31805 is entrained on CSXT M427 (Rigby Yard to Selkirk manifest) hustling west on CSXT's Boston Sub mainline, the former Boston and Albany Railroad, approaching the water plant crossing at about MP QB89.8. The Pan Am blue car is from a 250 unit order of (Lot 17977) of 58 ft, 77 ton capacity cars built by FMC (originally Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation - at that time owner of Gunderson in Oregon) in Nov. 1978.
The profitable little class 1, Maine Central, had ordered over 1000 new boxcars in the half dozen years prior to Guilford buying the railroad in 1981 and until recently there were still enough around that you were nearly guaranteed to at least see a few anytime you were trackside in New England for any length of time. However, the day will probably come soon when I have taken my last photo of one of these in revenue service but I doubt I'll realize it when it happens.
Wilbraham, Massachusetts
Friday October 11, 2024
if there is something good about living in the northeast, it may be the different views offered by the change of seasons...fall is in full display, like a proud peacock showing off its grand plumage.
A lot of the leaves are down now but I spotted this yesterday.
I drove for the first time in a month on Thursday. Eye continues to improve slowly.
I LOVE this photo for one simple reason. I take soooooooo many photos of my niece. She hates smiling photos. HATES them. She will almost never smile. However, tonight we were taking the fall installment of her senior photos. I had her lay on the sidewalk, downtown, in a pile of leaves. There was a stop light right by us, and a car pulled up. These guys started asking if she was okay, and joking around with her. They were cracking her up. I guess we did look a bit weird, but the result was perfect. I got a genuine, beautiful smile.....one that even got her stamp of approval.
Oh, yeah, and it fits into the SYWBPP lottery theme. Yay!!