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Another shot from the San Diego Color Run. She is running through the crowd launching magenta powder at all the runners. (EXPLORE)
I look forward every summer to seeing and hearing a pair of these across the street from us, nesting in a very tall & thick group of pine trees, There has been a pair there for many years. It's on the river where they fish, or the lake behind us. So, they have plenty to eat. I keep waiting for man to cut down their nesting trees, or someone to shoot the birds. Because that's what man does. Kills everything.
The closest approach of a Great Egret on Horsepen Bayou before my panning got out of sync with autofocus.
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney
“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Formations of the "Garden of Eden" as seen from the primitive loop trail in the Windows District of Arches National Park.
It's time again to change our clocks forward 1 hour tonight before we go to bed. More daylight - Yea!
From the looks these Snowflakes, the garden is already springing forward.
For that matter, only
To go ahead go forward still
Because comes always
Where else than you wanted
Leopold Staff
Just a little something I was thinking about last night. I never seem to have time to keep in touch with everyone so putting what I want to say into a picture is so much easier sometimes. The image of the glass was one of my uploads titled 'Always Half Full' so this composition has a double meaning. Enjoy and don't forget to pass it on....Happy Wednesday!
2 textures ~ Playing with brushes (thanks Renee!)
The rest ~ by me! (my husband the 'hand model' wasn't around so this is my hand instead!)
Happy spring. Beautiful season but beware of pollens. Poppy blossom from the backyard few years past.
Bound
PlayStation 4 Pro (4K .png)
Just built-in Photo Mode
(Finally got rid of shrinked screen/Letterboxing)
"Front Forward" The long hood of GP38-2 5166 points the way north on Chamblee based job, G76 and is seen standing in the Oakland City area of Atlanta, Georgia on the night of January 18, 2017.
The helicopter is ready to take off, waiting for the mission to get the green light.
He has been uneasy since the moment he reached this forward operating base.
Something about this joint operation disturbs him.
He is all for joint operations. He is not so sure about the ones involving secretive organizations with no definite chain of command.
He is always suspicious about secretive organizations, especially when they claim to act in the “exclusive” interest of humanity. It often turns out they have some different agenda.
However his orders are to cooperate until the mission objectives remain the same and so he will do. Until the mission objectives remain the same.
The communicator integrated in his helmet activates and he get the Command’s message: “Mission is a go.”
He grabs his gear and moves to the helicopter.
It’s time to put the bad guys out of business, while keeping a eye on the new “friends”, just in case.
I realized I never used the Ultra Agents UltraCopter I bought for the villain Minfigure and so I decided to make a little test, bringing the Series 13 Galaxy Trooper Minifigure into the scene :)
I hope you like this photo :)
... the only way out is through.
Beautiful girls, you can do hard things. (And beautiful boys, you can help.)
moving forward looking across the december garden from the patio
for many years my garden was a shrubbery flic.kr/p/Lhv9ag which i loved. a picket fence covered in an ivy hedge coming down in a storm flic.kr/p/2gnCyih meant that over time changes had to happen flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a i'll be glad when the trellis is covered in honeysuckle and jasmine. that's the plan ...
www.flickr.com/groups/gardening_is_my_hobby/ helpful for ideas. thank you for sharing
Just pulling over some random stuff from IG.
Planning to stay over there, but maybe doing more here on Flickr too!
In this gorgeous ca. 1970 Grumman Aerospace Corporation artist’s concept, a “Design 532” shuttle orbiter is depicted coming in for a powered landing at KSC, using its deployed forward-mounted air-breathing engines. Amongst other things, note the VAB & full shuttle stack rolling out to Launch Complex 39 in the background.
I assume/am hoping the orbiter’s concrete runway (future SLF?) is just outside of the image to the left. 😉
“DESIGN 532
Design 532 is a quite different response which we believe holds promise for answering the question "Can we limit the program risk?" If Design 518 yields a program requiring a funding pattern as shown in Fig. S-2, we will face a situation which may permit neither the development of the space shuttle system nor the development of its payloads. This consideration as well as the NASA/MSC interest in a smaller, simpler, vehicle which could fly earlier, led to the development of Design 532.
Design 532 is a fully reusable, two-stage space shuttle with an initial low cross-range payload of 12,800 lb. Design 532 is also designed for the high aerodynamic cross-range potential and makes provisions for phased implementation of increased payload and performance capability. This approach permits a stepwise increase in capability and growth while decoupling the technical risk and reducing initial cost. Using engines and electronics derived from existing equipment should assure an earlier first flight. Additional performance becomes available with introduction of the high-pressure orbiter engines with a payload of 22,600 lb.
The Design 532 booster is fully reusable with LOX/RP-1 propellants and five F1 engines. A deliberately conservative approach to the design of the booster minimizes technical risk and cost by avoiding development of large-scale hydrogen tankage. Development savings of several hundred million dollars per year appear possible for this orbiter-booster combination.
The Design 532 orbiter will, at first, use three J2S engines, operate at low cross range, and be fitted with first generation avionics. The baseline Design 532 orbiter is achieved by subsequent installation of the high Isp, high-pressure 250,000 lb. thrust engines. Improved thermal protection systems extend cross range, and second-generation electronics improve operational efficiency. We believe that operational experience with the orbiter will show that for certain missions the air-breathing engines are not required. Therefore, the flying qualities have been tailored to accommodate both engine weight in and engine weight out cg positions. Removal of the air-breathing engines and reduction of on-orbit propellant will increase payload capacity to orbit to 52,700 lb. As a further step to make even heavier up-payloads possible, we have made provisions for a potential non-reusable kick stage. This would raise the payload limit to 76,500 lb. In conjunction with this attention to capacity for heavy payloads, the Design 532 cargo bay has been conceived as a "flat-bed" sized for a 10 ft. diameter payload carried internally, 15 ft. diameter carried semi-submerged, and for 22 ft. diameter carried externally.
To summarize, Design 532 is based on the following considerations:
- Reduced initial funding requirements
- Payload flexibility and growth
- Early initial flight date and initial operational capability"
The above, accompanied by supporting figures & diagrams…and a whole lot more, at:
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20160012503/downloads/2016001...
Context regarding the referenced Design 518 can also be found within the document, to include size, engine configuration, payload capacity, etc.
Last, but not least, as I cautiously suspected, the work is confirmed to be by Craig Kavafes. Fortunately, enough of his distinctive signature ‘made the cut’.
I was really looking forward to this Macro Monday, as I've been meaning to have a play with my little (2") turquoise glass bottle.
Watched an internet tutorial on lighting, which helped. I think we can probably guess where the inspiration came from (our own 365-er Mandy Willard)!
Viewed through the shoulder of a cider flagon, with white surface and background, and black boards either side, with flash behind the bottle, reflected off the backdrop from each side. This was the most abstract version I shot, and I preferred it for that reason.
Still need to work on lighting glass, but fun was had!