Costly But Cosy Corner Delta First Class TPA-JFK - IMRAN®

First Class obviously ends up costing a lot more. But the decent delicious dinner and calm cosy comfort — without being cramped with overweight people in undersized economy seats — are often worth it.

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I experienced the worst airline service last night ever. Due to a thunder storm flights were significantly delayed. However, having finally boarded, we taxied to the end of the runway with 4 flights ahead of us in the take off cue, just to be told that we had now missed the city's midnight take-off curfew and that we will have to return back to the terminal building along with 30+ other flights (most long haul). Arriving back at the gate, we had to wait for it to be opened and for us to disembark. Back in the terminal chaos reigned! There were almost no staff to be seen and the few that were still there were aggressive, uncooperative, uninformed and shutting down their counters because they have reached a 12 hour work day. At passport control, there was one desk open trying to deal with 10,000 tired and frustrated passengers. Having worked our way through the gates we arrived in an utterly deserted arrival/departure hall. Not a single desk manned. At 01.00 we were all left to fend for ourselves with no accommodation, food or water arrangements made for passengers. I captured a number of images that I hope will convey the juxtoposed service promise and delivery. I fully understand that there are rules and laws, but this event is a shaming indictment of zero disaster planning by the Lufthansa management and Board of Directors. Shame on you. This is a case of staff rights placed ahead of customer service and safety. This is a case of passengers treated as 'Untermensch'!. Most airlines manage to provide a reasonable service under normal conditions but differentiate themselves from others in how they deal with the unexpected. The ensuing chaos last night showed up Lufthansa and the Frankfurt Airport Authorities for what they truly are - sub-mediocre, negligent and wanting!

Red-tailed hawk so high you can see the vapor trail coming off the bottom ones right rudder, lol. I watched these birds thermalling up, probably gained 1000 ft in 3 minutes, with no wing flapping, now this is on Nov 3, it was close to 80 degrees today, amazing, to watch this pair.

This fellow is living under a cement water take in some cattle corrals, they have been working cattle there the last week, I thought he would have left but he was still there and recognized me I guess.

….Let me sleep among the stars.

Anybody that has chased these birds around knows its almost Impossible to get this close, the weather was terrible and she must have been hungry, let me get pretty close and watch, it was great. I have been chasing them for years, with very little luck, until today

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Main Course

Grilled rack of lamb

- the new season's lamb, seared on the grill, topped with semi-dried tomatoes, black olives, and rich lamb jus, served with vegetable ratatouille and creamy mashed potatoes.

Wine

Château Batailley 2000, Pauillac

EK385 HKG-BKK

I experienced the worst airline service last night ever. Due to a thunder storm flights were significantly delayed. However, having finally boarded, we taxied to the end of the runway with 4 flights ahead of us in the take off cue, just to be told that we had now missed the city's midnight take-off curfew and that we will have to return back to the terminal building along with 30+ other flights (most long haul). Arriving back at the gate, we had to wait for it to be opened and for us to disembark. Back in the terminal chaos reigned! There were almost no staff to be seen and the few that were still there were aggressive, uncooperative, uninformed and shutting down their counters because they have reached a 12 hour work day. At passport control, there was one desk open trying to deal with 10,000 tired and frustrated passengers. Having worked our way through the gates we arrived in an utterly deserted arrival/departure hall. Not a single desk manned. At 01.00 we were all left to fend for ourselves with no accommodation, food or water arrangements made for passengers. I captured a number of images that I hope will convey the juxtoposed service promise and delivery. I fully understand that there are rules and laws, but this event is a shaming indictment of zero disaster planning by the Lufthansa management and Board of Directors. Shame on you. This is a case of staff rights placed ahead of customer service and safety. This is a case of passengers treated as 'Untermensch'!. Most airlines manage to provide a reasonable service under normal conditions but differentiate themselves from others in how they deal with the unexpected. The ensuing chaos last night showed up Lufthansa and the Frankfurt Airport Authorities for what they truly are - sub-mediocre, negligent and wanting!

With dinner. This taken on a overcast day, with the 300mm and the 1.4X converter.

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Western T anager

A White-eyed Vireo as seen in Texas at www.martinrefuge.com/

I am lucky if I see one of these a year, and can get close enough to get a good photo.

He bags a catfish dinner, he got it down also

Manufacurer: Del Monte Motorworks

Model: DM16S2 HID

Chassis: Volvo B8R

Engine: Volvo D8C

Route: Kamuning - Tabuk

📷: Dec 2022

Northern Harrier, male

Dark Morph as Camden points out.

So how many birds do you think you see, and don't count the thing over on the right side, I think its dirt, have to work on this when I get home, but there are birds in the photo

I experienced the worst airline service last night ever. Due to a thunder storm flights were significantly delayed. However, having finally boarded, we taxied to the end of the runway with 4 flights ahead of us in the take off cue, just to be told that we had now missed the city's midnight take-off curfew and that we will have to return back to the terminal building along with 30+ other flights (most long haul). Arriving back at the gate, we had to wait for it to be opened and for us to disembark. Back in the terminal chaos reigned! There were almost no staff to be seen and the few that were still there were aggressive, uncooperative, uninformed and shutting down their counters because they have reached a 12 hour work day. At passport control, there was one desk open trying to deal with 10,000 tired and frustrated passengers. Having worked our way through the gates we arrived in an utterly deserted arrival/departure hall. Not a single desk manned. At 01.00 we were all left to fend for ourselves with no accommodation, food or water arrangements made for passengers. I captured a number of images that I hope will convey the juxtoposed service promise and delivery. I fully understand that there are rules and laws, but this event is a shaming indictment of zero disaster planning by the Lufthansa management and Board of Directors. Shame on you. This is a case of staff rights placed ahead of customer service and safety. This is a case of passengers treated as 'Untermensch'!. Most airlines manage to provide a reasonable service under normal conditions but differentiate themselves from others in how they deal with the unexpected. The ensuing chaos last night showed up Lufthansa and the Frankfurt Airport Authorities for what they truly are - sub-mediocre, negligent and wanting!

installation of a main-beam rack of the British first-class Battleship HMS Victory, the flagship of Admiral Horatio Nelson, after the end of the war 28th August 1945.Since the Germans knew the exact location of Victory, no serious attempts were made to disguise it. We limited ourselves to dismantling the upper masts and most of the rigging during the war.

The ship was closed to the public. However, at that time he received many visitors, including King George VI of Great Britain, other members of the royal family, and Allied leaders who visited England.

In a way, Victory returned to active duty: the ship was used as a floating barracks for privates from the Royal Naval Barracks and anti-aircraft artillery crews. In April 1941, Admiral William James (William Milbourne James), the commander of the Portsmouth Naval Base, transferred his department aboard the ship when a German bomb hit the Admiralty House (Admiralty House).

After one of the raids in 1941, the Germans announced the destruction of the ship. This statement was soon refuted by the British, but in March 1941 the ship barely escaped the unenviable fate: a German 500-pound (226 kg) bomb fell into a dry dock and exploded on the left under the nose of the battleship. The explosion made a hole in the hull measuring 8 x 15 feet (2.5 x 4.5 m) and a pothole of 20 feet (6 m) in the masonry of the dock. Some steel support blocks flew hundreds of meters.

In November 1945, the ship was again open to the public.

Victory Liner 545

Volvo B8R

Del Monte DM16

Victory Liner 551 First Class

Autodelta Coach Volvo B11R -Marcopolo Audace 1050

:Quezon City | April 2023

Found a mated pair, don't see the nest yet, very difficult to find and don't want to disturb them.The costal birds have this brown cap, the inland ones, don't, I guess Sacramento is now coastal. lol.

Andy Warhol exhibit in York Art Gallery. This art gallery is one of the finest I’ve ever visited both for the way the artwork is presented but also for the staff and volunteers who made our visit so interesting.