Monroe County, WV

Flint the burrowing owl, forgot where I took it, discovered it on a card I thought I'd lost!

I think I like the vertical better than the horizontal . But, of course, it never shows better on a computer screen.

Nikon D7000 -- Nikon 18-300mm 6.3 ED VR

195mm

F16@1/6th

Polarizer

(DSC_3191)

©Don Brown 2016

The view from a pedestrian bridge on The Flint River Greenway in The Hays Nature Preserve in Huntsville, Alabama

Probably a school! Couldn't even get close enough to tell.

Couldn't shoot the place except from behind two fences. Love those arches.

A few miles from Skiddy, Kansas

The wall of the Guildhall in Norwich. 15th Century building made from local flint stone.

Panorama combining 15 (portrait format) photos

Built in 1845 over the First Branch of the White River in Tunbridge, VT

best buddies since they were tykes, the only thing they argued about was who got to use the bathtub first :)

I have no idea who these fellers are, found among my pappy's old photos, probably taken at the Cloverdale Rodeo 1950ish.

Ironman's Bay. Westeros

My friend decided to burn his old broken tombak. I suggested using a flint for this. We doused the drum with lighter fluid and tried to light it with a fire starter. Well it didn’t work. As a result, we had to use a gas burner)

But the picture turned out great.

Creamery, Monroe County, WV.

Homestead National Monument exhibits a lot of different fences, including a variety of barbed wires. These limestone fence posts are characteristic of the Flint Hills region of Kansas, which stretches a little bit across the Nebraska border.

Winchester, England

Just been handed this piece of flint, not sure where it came from.

Near Beaumont, KS. This was a Wichita State University geomorphology field trip.

fishing the flint river at sprewell bluff

Flint corn is a variant of maize, the same species as common corn. Because each kernel has a hard outer layer to protect the soft endosperm, it is likened to being hard as flint, hence the name. It is one of six major types of corn, the others being dent corn, pod corn, popcorn, flour corn, and sweet corn.

Catch up in a little while

A view of the Flint Riverbank near downtown, in b/w, July 9, 2022.

Panorama 12th century fortress in Wales

The only way between the two sides of town was through this railroad bridge...

Happy Fence Friday, my flickr peeps! It's been long, long time since I've shared a fence. It feels good!

This beautiful scene is in northeastern Kansas. This image was takenjust after sunrise…only my niece and I were on this gravel road that sliced through the Flint Hills. Nirvana for me.

Just a little look at a section of flint walling , been there for quite a while I would guess as it is part of the wall of Great Bookham Parish Church .

Macro Mondays. Stone

Flint is the state stone of Ohio (in the USA). There are many large veins of flint in Ohio. Many flint arrowheads made by Native Americans and it's not unusual for farmers and amateur explorers to find them in farm fields. There is also a State Park called Flint Ridge. We found these stones in a small quarried farm which is open to the public and sold by the pound. My grandkids had a great time digging and excavating.

Flint celebrating Gm's 100th anniversary. taken from the flint river bridge on Chevrolet ave.

Harz mountain near Schierke

On the banks of the river Dee Wales

A spectacular supercell over the Flint Hills, near the town of Severy, Kansas Saturday, May 10th, 2014.

Thankfully I slept in Saturday morning and left late. Because of that, I chose to intercept a few supercells forming on the dryline east of Wichita, instead of the ones in Kansas City on the warm front. The structure on this storm was something out of this world! Will be hard for me to top it!

Schiffswerft M. A. Flint

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Slipanlagen der Hamburger Werft M. A. Flint

Die Schiffswerft M. A. Flint ist eine kleine Werft in Hamburg. Das Unternehmen wurde 1870 mit dem Ziel gegründet, vorwiegend Reparaturen auszuführen. Später kamen die Bereiche Neubau, Taucherei, Wasserbau, Bergung und Maschinenbau dazu. Das Unternehmen M. A. Flint ist heute ein in fünfter Generation geführter Familienbetrieb.

The Flint Hills are alive (with cows).

Not much time for taking photos lately. So I edit photos that were taken earlier. Like this one.

CSX D711

flint and steel producing glowing sparks :D

striking the edge of the flint held in my left hand with the steel in my right hand

For Macro Monday redux of 2019 themes I chose the "Handmade" theme. The knife was found on a Boy Scout trip many many years ago, probably in the Tehachapi Mountains in southern California.

HMM

Flint Covered Bridge built in 1845 in Tunbridge, Vermont, USA

Explored on 2019-03-27

I always forget people like the sense of depth a foreground in a picture gives them. Or, at least I’m told they like it. Here you go.

Fall reflects in the Flint River at Sprewell Bluff in Upson County, Georgia

Nikon D7000 -- Nikon 18-300mm 6.3 ED VR

48mm

F16@1/10th

Polarizer

(DSC_3225)

©Don Brown 2016

Running on what was the CSX, formerly Pere Marquette, the Lake State Railway job from Wixom to Flint arrives the yard in Flint. The crew will tie down the train and board an already idling train in the yard for the return trip down to Wixom.

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The last three percent of untouched Tallgrass Prairie left in North America is in the Flint Hills of Kansas and the Osage Hills in Extreme Northern Oklahoma. The Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie is clearly the last significant expanse of a unique prairie ecosystem and it needs to be protected and preserved for future generations.

The Flint Hills, in the eastern part of the state, fan out over 183 miles from north to south, stretching 30 to 40 miles wide in parts, the land folding into itself, then popping up in gentle bumps, with mounds looming far off on the horizon. Seemingly endless,

the landscape offers up isolated images — a wind-whipped cottonwood tree, a rusted cattle pen, a spindly windmill, an abandoned limestone schoolhouse, the metal-gated entrance to a hilltop cemetery.The hills are named after another native stone, flintlike chert that Indians used to make tools. Many artifacts have been found at area quarries.

The Flint Hills in Kansas and in Oklahoma are North America’s largest remaining tract of tallgrass prairie. The preserve is at its full glory in late spring, when yellow, white, purple and blue wildflowers pop up amid a sea of green grass. The grass is tallest, about waist high in the fall.

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With the Y119 turn from Saginaw on the drawbar, LSRC 6431 and friends pull into the former PM/C&O/CSX McGrew Yard in Flint, MI.

With the return train (and power) for Saginaw already staged at the north end of the yard, the crew will tie this train down and then hop on their return ride home. Lake State runs a tight ship, and this crew will get to sleep in their own beds tonight.

LSRC 6431 was formerly UP 4608, purchased by the Lake State in 2022.

LSRC Y119 19 (Saginaw to Flint, MI and return)

LSRC SD70M #6431

LSRC SD70M #6433

LSRC SD50-3 #6356

LSRC SD40-2 #6304

Flint, MI

September 19th, 2023

up on the top side of the flint hills is open prairie for miles in every direction

The Flint Hills of Kansas will be looking like this in about a month from now. Ready for spring wildflowers to start blooming.

Flint corn (Zea mays var. indurata) also known as Indian corn or sometimes calico corn is a variant of maize, the same species as common corn. Because each kernel has a hard outer layer to protect the soft endosperm, it is likened to being hard as flint; hence the name. The six major types of corn are dent corn, flint corn, pod corn, popcorn, flour corn, and sweet corn.

Flint