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My funny little bandit again, this time with her bandit dog hoping to play 'fetch' with the dog, but I think the dog has other ideas.
SOLD.
Tanner, a dachshund and chihuahua mix and maybe some more, was scheduled to be put down when he was rescued by a cocker spaniel rescue. He has been to many foster homes and boarding kennels for the last couple of months, finally coming to our home. He is the sweetest little guy, extremely affectionate and cuddly, but also super energic when he wants to. They get along with Maya very well, sharing (!) toys and chasing each other.
This is Tanners first day with his foster parents and sibling Maya the beagle.
09 Jan 11 - Today’s Daily Shoot assignment is:
Embrace the shadows today and make a photograph dominated by dark tones, also known as a low-key image.
Get out there, take a photograph, upload it, and tweet a link to @dailyshoot with the hashtag: #ds420
galapagos sea lion - genovesa island - galapagos, ecuador
sea lions are very playful by nature. this one had a stick and seemed endlessly amused by tossing and then swimming after it. i watched him play that game for about 30 minutes; he eventually got as curious about me as I was about him so he swam up to the rock where I was sitting. I found a stick and threw it into the water. And of course, he took off after it!
amazing place, the galapagos - where else can you play fetch with a wild sea lion?
After our paddleboarding trip around Alta Lake, we saw this dog chasing tennis balls into the lake. He surprised everyone with a ladder climb out of the lake to return the ball for another throw.
Casey's so good at fetch, we're beginning to think he's a puppy! I froze the action with a little bounce flash from my popup flash, bounced with a mirror.
On graduation day (Dec.. 19), I will be getting a brand new Canon DSLR kit to replace my current Sony one (Sony will make its way to ebay after the first of the year). I'm really excited about it!
Kos or Cos (Greek: Κως) is a Greek island, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea, next to the Gulf of Gökova/Cos.
In Homer's Iliad, a contingent from Kos fought for the Greeks in the Trojan War.[12]
In the Roman mythology, the island was visited by Hercules.[13]
The island was originally colonised by the Carians. The Dorians invaded it in the 11th century BC, establishing a Dorian colony with a large contingent of settlers from Epidaurus, whose Asclepius cult made their new home famous for its sanatoria. The other chief sources of the island's wealth lay in its wines and, in later days, in its silk manufacture.[14]
Its early history–as part of the religious-political amphictyony that included Lindos, Kamiros, Ialysos, Cnidus and Halicarnassus, the Dorian Hexapolis (hexapolis means six cities in Greek),[15]–is obscure. At the end of the 6th century, Kos fell under Achaemenid domination but rebelled after the Greek victory at the Battle of Mycale in 479. During the Greco-Persian Wars, before it twice expelled the Persians, it was ruled by Persian-appointed tyrants, but as a rule it seems to have been under oligarchic government. In the 5th century, it joined the Delian League, and, after the revolt of Rhodes, it served as the chief Athenian station in the south-eastern Aegean (411–407). In 366 BC, a democracy was instituted. In 366 BC, the capital was transferred from Astypalaia to the newly built town of Kos, laid out in a Hippodamian grid. After helping to weaken Athenian power, in the Social War (357-355 BC), it fell for a few years to the king Mausolus of Caria.
Proximity to the east gave the island first access to imported silk thread. Aristotle mentions silk weaving conducted by the women of the island.[16] Silk production of garments was conducted in large factories by women slaves.[17]
In the Hellenistic age, Kos attained the zenith of its prosperity. Its alliance was valued by the kings of Egypt, who used it as a naval outpost to oversee the Aegean. As a seat of learning, it arose as a provincial branch of the museum of Alexandria, and became a favorite resort for the education of the princes of the Ptolemaic dynasty. During the hellenistic age, there was a medical school; however, the theory that this school was founded by Hippocrates (see below) during the classical age is an unwarranted extrapolation.[18] Among its most famous sons were the physician Hippocrates, the painter Apelles, the poets Philitas and, perhaps, Theocritus.
Diodorus Siculus (xv. 76) and Strabo (xiv. 657) describe it as a well-fortified port. Its position gave it a high importance in Aegean trade; while the island itself was rich in wines of considerable fame.[19] Under Alexander the Great and the Egyptian Ptolemies the town developed into one of the great centers in the Aegean; Josephus[20] quotes Strabo to the effect that Mithridates was sent to Kos to fetch the gold deposited there by the queen Cleopatra of Egypt. Herod is said to have provided an annual stipend for the benefit of prize-winners in the athletic games,[21] and a statue was erected there to his son Herod the Tetrarch ("C. I. G." 2502 ). Paul briefly visited here according to Acts 21:1.
Except for occasional incursions by corsairs and some severe earthquakes, the island has rarely had its peace disturbed. Following the lead of its larger neighbour, Rhodes, Kos generally displayed a friendly attitude toward the Romans; in 53 AD it was made a free city. Lucian (125–180) mentions their manufacture of semi-transparent light dresses, a fashion success.[22] The island of Kos also featured a provincial library during the Roman period. The island first became a center for learning during the Ptolemaic dynasty, and Hippocrates, Apelles, Philitas and possibly Theocritus came from the area. An inscription lists people who made contributions to build the library in the 1st century AD.[23] One of the people responsible for the library's construction was the Kos doctor Gaiou Stertinou Xenofontos, who lived in Rome and was the personal physician of the Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero.[24]
The bishopric of Cos was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Rhodes.[25] Its bishop Meliphron attended the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Eddesius was one of the minority Eastern bishops who withdrew from the Council of Sardica in about 344 and set up a rival council at Philippopolis. Iulianus went to the synod held in Constantinople in 448 in preparation for the Council of Chalcedon of 451, in which he participated as a legate of Pope Leo I, and he was a signatory of the joint letter that the bishops of the Roman province of Insulae sent in 458 to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian with regard to the killing of Proterius of Alexandria. Dorotheus took part in a synod in 518. Georgius was a participant of the Third Council of Constantinople in 680–681. Constantinus went to the Photian Council of Constantinople (879).[26][27] Under Byzantine rule, apart from the participation of its bishops in councils, the island's history remains obscure. It was governed by a droungarios in the 8th/9th centuries, and seems to have acquired some importance in the 11th and 12th centuries: Nikephoros Melissenos began his uprising here, and in the middle of the 12th century, it was governed by a scion of the ruling Komnenos dynasty, Nikephoros Komnenos.[25] Kos or Cos (Greek: Κως) is a Greek island, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea, next to the Gulf of Gökova/Cos.
In Homer's Iliad, a contingent from Kos fought for the Greeks in the Trojan War.[12]
In the Roman mythology, the island was visited by Hercules.[13]
The island was originally colonised by the Carians. The Dorians invaded it in the 11th century BC, establishing a Dorian colony with a large contingent of settlers from Epidaurus, whose Asclepius cult made their new home famous for its sanatoria. The other chief sources of the island's wealth lay in its wines and, in later days, in its silk manufacture.[14]
Its early history–as part of the religious-political amphictyony that included Lindos, Kamiros, Ialysos, Cnidus and Halicarnassus, the Dorian Hexapolis (hexapolis means six cities in Greek),[15]–is obscure. At the end of the 6th century, Kos fell under Achaemenid domination but rebelled after the Greek victory at the Battle of Mycale in 479. During the Greco-Persian Wars, before it twice expelled the Persians, it was ruled by Persian-appointed tyrants, but as a rule it seems to have been under oligarchic government. In the 5th century, it joined the Delian League, and, after the revolt of Rhodes, it served as the chief Athenian station in the south-eastern Aegean (411–407). In 366 BC, a democracy was instituted. In 366 BC, the capital was transferred from Astypalaia to the newly built town of Kos, laid out in a Hippodamian grid. After helping to weaken Athenian power, in the Social War (357-355 BC), it fell for a few years to the king Mausolus of Caria.
Proximity to the east gave the island first access to imported silk thread. Aristotle mentions silk weaving conducted by the women of the island.[16] Silk production of garments was conducted in large factories by women slaves.[17]
In the Hellenistic age, Kos attained the zenith of its prosperity. Its alliance was valued by the kings of Egypt, who used it as a naval outpost to oversee the Aegean. As a seat of learning, it arose as a provincial branch of the museum of Alexandria, and became a favorite resort for the education of the princes of the Ptolemaic dynasty. During the hellenistic age, there was a medical school; however, the theory that this school was founded by Hippocrates (see below) during the classical age is an unwarranted extrapolation.[18] Among its most famous sons were the physician Hippocrates, the painter Apelles, the poets Philitas and, perhaps, Theocritus.
Diodorus Siculus (xv. 76) and Strabo (xiv. 657) describe it as a well-fortified port. Its position gave it a high importance in Aegean trade; while the island itself was rich in wines of considerable fame.[19] Under Alexander the Great and the Egyptian Ptolemies the town developed into one of the great centers in the Aegean; Josephus[20] quotes Strabo to the effect that Mithridates was sent to Kos to fetch the gold deposited there by the queen Cleopatra of Egypt. Herod is said to have provided an annual stipend for the benefit of prize-winners in the athletic games,[21] and a statue was erected there to his son Herod the Tetrarch ("C. I. G." 2502 ). Paul briefly visited here according to Acts 21:1.
Except for occasional incursions by corsairs and some severe earthquakes, the island has rarely had its peace disturbed. Following the lead of its larger neighbour, Rhodes, Kos generally displayed a friendly attitude toward the Romans; in 53 AD it was made a free city. Lucian (125–180) mentions their manufacture of semi-transparent light dresses, a fashion success.[22] The island of Kos also featured a provincial library during the Roman period. The island first became a center for learning during the Ptolemaic dynasty, and Hippocrates, Apelles, Philitas and possibly Theocritus came from the area. An inscription lists people who made contributions to build the library in the 1st century AD.[23] One of the people responsible for the library's construction was the Kos doctor Gaiou Stertinou Xenofontos, who lived in Rome and was the personal physician of the Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero.[24]
The bishopric of Cos was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Rhodes.[25] Its bishop Meliphron attended the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Eddesius was one of the minority Eastern bishops who withdrew from the Council of Sardica in about 344 and set up a rival council at Philippopolis. Iulianus went to the synod held in Constantinople in 448 in preparation for the Council of Chalcedon of 451, in which he participated as a legate of Pope Leo I, and he was a signatory of the joint letter that the bishops of the Roman province of Insulae sent in 458 to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian with regard to the killing of Proterius of Alexandria. Dorotheus took part in a synod in 518. Georgius was a participant of the Third Council of Constantinople in 680–681. Constantinus went to the Photian Council of Constantinople (879).[26][27] Under Byzantine rule, apart from the participation of its bishops in councils, the island's history remains obscure. It was governed by a droungarios in the 8th/9th centuries, and seems to have acquired some importance in the 11th and 12th centuries: Nikephoros Melissenos began his uprising here, and in the middle of the 12th century, it was governed by a scion of the ruling Komnenos dynasty, Nikephoros Komnenos.[25]
My neighbor's dog, Dottie Ann, plays fetch with a slightly bigger ball than the one my boys play with.
SMART Train, 31 August 2017
SMART, the Sonoma Marin Rail Transit system, began service on 25 August. I was busy with work that day, but 31 August was a bit quieter, so I took a train ride, working from train for part of the time.
SMART operates on the Northwestern Pacific between San Rafael and the Sonoma County Airport, just north of Santa Rosa. It parallels US 101. The line had been freight only since 1958, when NWP's Redwood was cut back to Willits-Eureka operation, connecting with buses for the Willits-San Francisco part of the trip.
Before the Golden Gate Bridge was built, NWP ran electrified commuter train in the southern part of Marin County, connecting with ferries to San Francisco at Sausalito. The bridge quickly drained the commuter traffic to SF and the electrics finished before WW2. North of San Rafael, the passenger service was never as heavy, although the NWP used to carry a lot of lumber.
As logging on the north coast declined, the NWP's traffic did as well and eventually, the entire NWP was out of service for several years. It is still out of service north of Windsor and whether it will be restored north of there is anyone's guess. The line in Eel River Canyon is washed out in places and the Ft Bragg lumber mill, which provided traffic to the NWP via the California Western at Willits is gone. The new NWP runs freight between Lombard and Windsor, and now it shares the track with passenger service between Novato and the airport.
My trip was via Capitol Corridor train 527 from Sacramento to Richmond. This 0700 departure is the train I took last year when I had a job in Berkeley for a month. We were delayed shortly after leaving Sacramento because UP had let the ZOAG2 run ahead of Capitol train 520 and we wound up waiting for 520 to crossover at West Causeway betwen Davis and Sacramento. 520 had the Amtrak California P32s, 2051 and 2052, leading. They were going to the Siemens plant in Sacramento to fetch a Charger locomotive.
As I've done on other Capitol runs, I took some photos of ships at Benicia. Martinez and farther on along the bay.
As we were late getting into Richmond, there was no way I was going to make a tight connection on a bus to San Rafael, so I hung out at Richmond station long enough to record the arrival of Capitol 529, which had a cabbage car (ex-F40) instead of its usual cab car. I considered sticking around in Richmond to see the eastbound Zephyr, but that might have risked the bus connection, so I took BART to El Cerrito del Norte, where the Golden Gate Transit 40 route took me to San Rafael.
San Rafael depot has changed since I last was there. SMART uses high level platforms and has rebuilt what was some pretty dilapidated track from the NWP days. There are plans to extend SMART south from San Rafael to the ferry terminal at Larkspur, near the trestle where Dirty Harry jumps off the NWP onto the school bus in the first Dirty Harry movie, but for now, people wanting to connect to SF can catch a GGT bus to SF or to Larkspur and the ferry from there.
I was heading the other way, and after buying a Clipper card, got set up to record the arrival of the next train into San Rafael. The train appeared to be full from the crowd getting off and our northbound train also had a lot of people board. Right on time at 1129, our train departed and rolled north parallel to 101. SMART moves right along and in places where we could see the highway, we were passing some cars on it, even in the middle of the day. On the way back, the northbound lanes were stop and go as we zipped by.
Not all of the NWP is in sight of 101 and in some places we passed through cow pastures and wetlands with hundreds of gulls, egrets, geese, ducks and other birds.
We arrived on time at the Somoma County Airport station at 1236. Many people got off at Santa Rosa, the last station that had much around it, with those of us staying on to the airport mostly being folks just out for the ride. SMART's maintenance yard is at the airport. There are plans to extend SMART north to Cloverdale.
The train soon returned south and I rode it to Santa Rosa downtown, which has a nice old NWP station and some restaurants. Lunch was in the plans for Santa Rosa, then afterward, I looked it at the visitor center in the station before boarding the next train heading south, which I rode to Petaluma.
Another southbound train would be along in a half hour at Petaluma and a northbound came through shortly after my train departed. Between trains, I photographed the station, and checked out the visitor center in the Petaluma depot.
I wanted to get home at a reasonable hour, so I took the next train south. As we passed Novato junction, an NWP train was stopped and I barely got a grab shot with the camera. When we arrived in San Rafael, the nest northbound train was ready to depart and I photographed it leaving before getting on the 40 bus to El Cerrito, where a BART train was arriving as I stepped onto the platform. BART took me back to Richmond, where train 543 was heading west as I got onto the Amtrak plaform.
540 was due in a few minutes, and it pulled in on time at 1712. The BART train I had ridden was still in the BART platform and another BART train was creeping up on the block as Amtrak arrived. I can only imagine the frustration of people on that BART train who might have been try to connect to Amtrak to see their Amtrak train arrive as they waited.
540 was on time the whole way, and early into Sacramento. I took a few photos at the station, then was asked by the family to stop by the store on the way home.
It was a great day out.
Illustration from "Easy Growth in Reading," "At Play," John C. Winston Company 1940. The reader bears an imprint declaring it "Property of the State of Texas." The illustrations include sweet scenes of classic 1940's moppets and their pets.
Before I recently photographed skateboarders for my Action topic, I thought I might find some active dogs at the local off-leash park. There were only a couple of likely prospects chasing balls, and each other, but the cutest was this little dachshund.
+3 in cmnts. All are almost sooc.
Rex got so big since I saw him in September! But he's just as hyper and goofy and crazy.
I think I like this lightboxed.
Me, my Auntie, my Brother, and my Sister took Eddie out for a walk down to the Reservoir. We got round to the Memorial Bench, for the boys who drowned, and we sat there for a while. Got this picture, whilst I was trying out my Dads Minolta Mirror Lens, which is superb.
I love how I've captured the movement of water, so well.