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Panned shot of a 1953-built Ferrari 250MM at Lavant corner during the Freddie March Memorial Trophy race at the 2021 Goodwood Revival.
EMD FL9 (New Haven Class EDER-5) 2006 is sitting at the Danbury Railroad Museum. The FL9 is a model of electro-diesel locomotive, capable of operating either as a traditional diesel-electric locomotive or as an electric locomotive powered from a third rail.
Sixty units were built between October 1956 and November 1960 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division for the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad.
One of those 'can't decide between b&w and colour' moments!
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I was watching these black swans which are now a regular feature on the River Itchen. The one on the left appeared to be swimming fast to catch up the other three. It turns out that for whatever reason he was out to pick a fight and so they all took off. I wasn't really ready for that but this story fits the speedy theme.
119 in 2019 #94
This is another recent purchase I made on Ebay. It is an early United model (Tokyo, Japan), that was imported to the USA In 1958. This came in, and still has, it's original green PFM/United box. These are considered "Crown" models because of their limited production, however, they are not rare since there were 494 of them made between 1958 and 1962. All brass construction. The photo was taken in very dark conditions, so when I lightened it a little, it became grainy, sorry for the bad photo.
Scale: HO
Category: Steam
Type: ARTICULATED MALLET
Road: Norfolk & Western (N&W)
Whyte: 2-8-8-2
Description: Y-6B
Importer: Pacific Fast Mail (PFM)
Catalog: CROWN
Builder: ATL/ASAHI (UNITED)
Year(s): 1958-1962
Qty Made: 494
Eine unbekannte Lok der BR 143 mit RB 19 157Lauda – Stuttgart
am Neckarufer zwischen Nordheim (Württ) und Lauffen (Neckar).
Growing up fast.
The black necked stilt chicks at Bombay Hook NWR are growing up very fast. They seem to be an inch taller every week, and if they are not already flying, they will be very soon.
The stilt parents were still extremely protective not allowing any other birds, including small shorebirds to come anywhere close to their chicks
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Well, relatively fast... Around midnight during a cold january night, one of many local movements in the port of Antwerp is entering the Far-West section. I wonder why this section is named Far-West, considering it's on the most eastern part of the port. Maybe it has to do with the destinations that were once served from here?
The photo was made using 3 remotely controlled flash units, and lots of layers of warm clothing :)
7727, Antwerpen Far-West 24.1.2015
The Lake Wales Ridge, sometimes referred to as the Mid-Florida Ridge, is a sand ridge running for about 100 miles south to north in Central Florida. Clearly viewable from satellite, the white sands of the ridge are located in Highlands County and Polk County, and also extend north into Osceola, Orange, and Lake Counties. It is named for the city of Lake Wales, roughly at the midpoint of the ridge. The highest point of the ridge is Sugarloaf Mountain, which at 312 feet (95 meters) is also the highest natural point in peninsular Florida. (The highest point of land, at 371 ft (113 m), is a manmade mining tank west of Bartow.) Iron Mountain, the location of Bok Tower, marks another well-known high point on the ridge, attaining an elevation of 295 ft (90 m). A northern unconnected extension of the Lake Wales Ridge exists in western Putnam County near the town of Grandin.
Origins
Florida's ancient sand islands stretch for over 100 miles down the middle of central Florida. Glacial changes and the rising and falling of the oceans caused dramatic transformations on the Florida peninsula. Covered almost completely by water two million years ago, only a series of small islands existed. It is the remnants of those islands that make up today's Lake Wales Ridge. Although the waters have receded, the islands continue to support distinctive life forms found nowhere else. Today several communities are located inside the Lake Wales sand ridge, with the glaring white sands visible in many neighborhoods.
Habitat
These relic sand dunes created over thousands of years by the dynamic movements of sea, ice and wind now provide refuge for rare and endangered plants and animals. Although consisting of a variety of habitats from low and wet bayheads to high and dry sandhills, the ridge is most famous for its scrub habitat. Wildlife and plants once isolated on these islands evolved extremely unusual characteristics. This forest in miniature consists of clusters of shrubs scattered between patches of open sand. The lack of canopy cover and very deep porous sands create a hot, dry, desert like habitat. Due primarily to a long period of isolation, plants and animals that live on the Ridge have developed ways to deal with their harsh environment.
One of the scrub's best known residents is Florida's only endemic bird, the Florida scrub-jay. When walking through scrub areas, small scrub lizards often race off in the distance — perhaps an adaptation for crossing the hot sand quickly. Many animals of the scrub spend much of their lives underground to escape the hot Florida sun as well as to avoid predators. The gopher tortoise digs a burrow underground that may be up to ten feet deep and up to 30 feet long. More than 360 species may share the gopher's burrow. Other small animals such as the sand skink leave only "S"-shaped tracks as it "swims" just beneath the surface of the sand. It is the only known sand-swimming skink in North America and occurs in only seven counties in Florida.
Most of the vegetation in the Lake Wales Sand Ridge consists of (or has evolved into) scrub plants with thick waxy coated leaves that are drought tolerant. The leaves of the sand live oak are thick and leathery, rolled in at the edges to help retain as much water as possible during the blazing hot days of summer. Species of Opuntia, Yucca, Scrub plum, and scrub Serenoa repens palm dot the landscape and are well adapted to the hot sun and fast draining soils.
In the early twentieth century parts of the ridge were converted to citrus groves. More recently, some of the citrus groves, particularly in the north of the ridge, have been redeveloped for residential housing. Today several areas of the Ridge are protected National Wildlife Refuges and State Forest.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wales_Ridge
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabal_palmetto
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GOLDEN HANDSHAKE? LOL
An Autumn Sunday in North-Wales.
Little winding roads amongst the golden larches, up towards Mount Snowdon, this river surprised me with its golden and indigo colours, the limpid water ice cold and wild.
Wales, with its dramatic scenery, is steeped in mystery and romance.
Its majestic heather-clad hills cut by cascading waterfalls, and mountain streams rushing through gladed valleys are both the places of legends and of history running back into the mists of time.
Yet, beneath the quartzite surface of this jewelled landscape, there is another treasure, as valuable as it is beautiful – Welsh gold.
Today, Welsh gold is scarcer than it has ever been.
When mining took place at the Clogau St. David’s Gold Mine in the late 1990s it used to cost over £1000 an ounce to extract.
Look at that golden hand, maybe a giant fell?
Isn't imagination a wonderful gift?
I wish you all a golden day and thank you for visiting, Magda (*_*)
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Had fun with Leo today.. He was sooo fast.. :) he had a blast too! Sooc just cropped and contrast adjustment.
HBW
Its wingspan ranges from 82 to 92 mm, and it is colored orange (brighter in male specimens) with black markings; this species is somewhat unpalatable to birds and belongs to the "orange" Batesian mimicry complex.
This butterfly is a fast flier and frequents clearings, paths, and margins of forests and woodlands. It feeds on the nectar of flowers, such as lantanas (Lantana) and shepherd's-needle (Scandix pecten-veneris), and the tears of caiman, the eye of which the butterfly irritates to produce tears.
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47-031, RNLB Voluntary Worker as she did a fast pass along the beach at Selsey before heading east. Although I was above the tide level I was so intent on taking her photo that her wash got my left foot wet. Not a problem.
Pancake tortoises are native to the area of Tanzania and Kenya. The species is thought to be the fastest tortoise in the world. They can quickly evade predators by scampering under rocks, and even climbing nearly vertical services. Unlike many other tortoises, if they find themselves on their backs, they can flip upright quickly.
...Mother Nature gave us a storm this weekend, and a spectacular sunset and twilight.
Plus pretty cold weather.
Still wearing surfshorts though, because I´m stubborn.
Big rookie mistake - not checking ISO settings until too late at which time the waves were getting bigger and more dangerous so I had to leave the spot. I managed to get 6 seconds with a 15 stop ND filter and I did like the shot so I put it up anyway, noise and all.
Almeno i bambini si divertono sulla Piramìda abbandonata
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Pochi bambini in Albania, i giovani emigrano e i bambini li fanno all'estero
Union Pacific ‘high speed’ SD40-2s No. 8073, 8063, 8041, and 8070 find themselves pulling a low priority, slow moving train through Grant Tower in Salt Lake City, Utah on Jan. 28, 1978. 100 UP SD40-2 units were geared to operate at 80 mph speeds on priority intermodal trains. They were typically sandwiched between two DDA40X units, also geared for 80 mph operation.