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Finally got a bit of sunshine breaking through the clouds which shone just right on this little spot :)
it is finally warm enough for the resident Bluetongue Lizard (not a snake!) to come out into our vegetable garden to soak up a bit of sun.
I have finally been able to try Marina's (Photo Mama) ACR settings....love them to pieces! This one is mellow maitai...
After many years of visiting Anglesey I was beginning to think that the claim of Red Squirrels on the island was a tourist marketing ploy.
But no, they do actually exist and finally got a shot to prove it! It isn't my finest shot but hey, it'll do.
Congress finally appropriated $20,000 for a lighthouse at Port Sanilac in 1885, and a site was selected and purchased. After specifications for the necessary metalwork were prepared, a contract was entered into, and the lantern room and spiral staircase were delivered to the Detroit lighthouse depot on October 1, 1885. Charles Diem, the contractor charged with erecting the brick tower and keeper’s dwelling, commenced work on June 7, 1886, and by the end of that month had made excavations for the structures, had put in place the concrete foundation for the dwelling and a portion of the four-feet-thick concrete foundation for the tower, and had laid about one-half of the stone foundation walls for the dwelling. The tower, dwelling, privy, and oil house were completed on October 13, 1886, and the station’s fixed white light, produced by a fourth-order, Barbier & Fenestre Fresnel lens, was placed in operation a week later on October 20, 1886. The work of grading, filling, and sodding the grounds, along with building a perimeter fence, laying sidewalks, and digging and lining a well was finished on October 23.
Situated 130 feet from the lakeshore, octagonal Port Sanilac Lighthouse stands fifty-nine feet tall and is connected to the nearby two-story keeper’s by a covered passageway. The eight-room dwelling had two, 2,200-gallon brick cisterns built beneath its kitchen that were used to collect rainwater for domestic use. Ile aux Galets Lighthouse is the only tower that resembles the one at Port Sanilac.
It was there!
From my trip to the Sunshine Coast, this was taken at Kings Beach.
Note the rocks are very slippery here, I went down 3 times, I didn't find it too funny but a few people on the cliff behind me did! :-)
Photo is 6 exposures tonemapped in Photomatix.
Did some shading, unmask sharpening and saturation in PS.
For the past few days, this female Black-headed Grosbeak has been coming to the yard. I finally managed to get a few pictures of her yesterday on the garden gate as well as at the feeder.
Good morning everyone. And as the title indicates, I finally got some pics of a Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta Canadensis). Been a long time coming since I first spotted one a little over a month ago.
The day this was taken three appeared, but only briefly together. Plus with the colder temps they are now visiting daily. But you need to be there at the right time with camera in-hand when they do. Plus very patient as they are hyper little birds and rarely ever sit still for long.
Just two pics of the same bird on different tree limbs, of which the second one can be found in the comment section and my stream. And while it's difficult to differentiate between gender, I'm pretty sure this is a male.
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you have a truly great day and weekend.
Lacey
ISO1600, aperture f/5.6, exposure .004 seconds (1/250) focal length 450mm
Horses waiting for their suppliment feed before the Roans arrive, Winter grass has no nutrician at present. Cody left caught coming to a sudden stop
Day 059 - 365/2023 - A Never-Ending Journey
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Night & day
After having to wait for over 2 hours for a conductor to finally arrive, CSX L810 departs Cedartown after working GEO Specialty Chemicals, as seen here as they cross the diamond with Norfolk Southern’s Cedartown District. The reason for the massive delay is a bit unique to this line. Due to union agreements, because this subdivision is former SCL territory & the crews for it would have been based out of Birmingham back when it the whole line between Birmingham & Atlanta was still connected, this local is still manned by “SCL crews” that are based out of Birmingham, even though Cartersville is the official on duty-off duty location. Normally, this isn’t much of a fuss in part because the regular guys that hold it live fairly close & CSX gives whoever works it an extra $100-plus per day for working it as travel reimbursement essentially. This week, however, the regular conductor that holds it was on vacation, so they were having to pull from the extra board for conductors & on this day, they weren’t able to finally get a conductor out of Birmingham to Cartersville until sometime after 9am. This was annoying for me since I had to be at work that afternoon, thus resulting in a short chase for me, but at least a bunch of others had the chance to get it as a result of its late departure. 10-12-23
The ice storm hit us March 29. Yesterday we finished cutting, wood splitting, and piling our wood and the wood some of our friends gave us. This will give us some good wood for a fire in the fire pit outback.
Finally got back out for some late evening captures. Tonight's sunset was pretty there for a few minutes. Took advantage of it while visiting down at my uncle's home.
Capture here at 120 seconds with the 10 Stop ND filter.
North Leverton Windmill this evening.
I don't normally shoot star trails this long as I usually nearly die of boredom waiting for the sequence to finish. But when you're in good company with high quality banter, the time just flies by!
This is 223 x 30 second exposures before my battery died....
Finally my Candy Rock Rufus Blue is here!!!!!
she is perfect, her clothes hair...everything
i love her so much!!!*______________*
I finally had the CN heritage unit that matters to me, leading a train of mine. WC painted 3069 for this former WC employee on the point of 93 cars loaded with corn heading to Canada. Unfortunately, the sun was damn near straight down the tracks when the only opportunity during my trip to grab a shot in the daytime (late afternoon) presented itself.
For the past several years, I have hoped to get a full on frontal photograph of the Lover's Lane Falls located in the Olympic National Park.
I finally did.
My kids and I tromped through some very heavy underbrush to get this particular angle that you see above. I had hoped to repel down (probably fall, breaking bones!) to the base of the falls, but thought better of this idea based on the steepness of the gorge. It is possible with perhaps more than just a rope. More planning is needed!
We had a wonderful day in the Sol Duc forest and as always, were grateful for each others good company :)