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Under my tree ...
(It's quite big, I think that two person, holding their hands, can embrace it arround... or maybe even not ...
I must check it next time :-)
St. Louis Missouri, taken in the rain from a parking garage at the Gateway Arch. This historic two level bridge was the first large bridge to span the Mississippi River. It was also the first bridge to have railroad tracks crossing the river. It connects St. Louis, Missouri with East St. Louis, Illinois. Designed by James Buchanan Eads, it was completed in 1874. At 6224 feet long, it was, at the time, the longest arch bridge in the world. In addition, it was first alloy steel bridge; the first to use tubular cord members; and the first to depend entirely on the use of the cantilever in the building of the superstructure. The piers, which were sunk 96 ft. below the water level, an unprecedented depth at the time, were constructed using pneumatic cassions - their first use for such a purpose in the United States. To keep work on the piers going without interuption, Eads even invented a pump to pump sand out of the caissons. (DSC09396)
When I pull out my camera, I draw a crowd. The cats all come and even seem to compete for my attention. Here I was sitting on the floor taking photos of Kiwi and Ariel on the chair (not together, mind you, that wouldn't happen on its own). I look up, and Vidalia has arrived to provide supervision. . . Sorry, sweetheart, I took a photo before shooing her off. After all, cats aren't allowed on the table. Yeah right. In our dreams anyway.
[SOOC, f/2.2, ISO 200, shutter speed 1/200, +1 EV]
Can you tell which is the contrail and which is the chemtrail? Hint: Contrails disappear. Chemtrails disperse.
After a recent close photo competition in the "Trees" category, (and after going through my stream as well) I realized, I really like trees. Especially really big trees. I'm not a big fan of certain evergreens - but most I really like. This was a huge tree at Camp McKean, where we went to a picnic on Friday. It was a gorgeous spreading tree, all covered in moss. Unfortunately, it also had some sort of yellow-jacket nest or something in its branches, and when some guys throwing a football around lodged it briefly in the leaves, some came down and started attacking one of them - got him in the back of the neck, and I think maybe his arm. Ouch! I should've taken a photo of the base of the tree - it was pretty big around too, and the roots were pretty gnarly.
tigre 12mm / Fujicolor SUPERIA 100(ISO100, 35mm color print film)
I took this photo on 30th April 2006(WPPD).
one of the great things about gafftape it that you can put it directly on a lamp, up to 1000 watts, apparently. this little guy is only 60 watts.
the thing is: the tape will stick, and be totally happy. but if you continually turn the lamp on and off daily over the course of... oh... say... three months, the adhesive will stay stuck to the lamp while the cloth crumbles and cracks away, becoming very much the brittleness and color of blue corn tortilla chips, at which point the whacking of the lighting fixture with anything so delicate as a twelve foot ladder will result in a little fake-blue-corn- fiestornado.
Of all the trees full of leaves, the cormorants picked out a bare tree to rest. It makes me chilly just looking at it. A little glow from the sunset shines on his face.
This tree is in the city, between Art Gallery Road and the Domain carpark. I've been dying to get a shot of its flowers all week, and today was the first time the bench underneath it was empty. So I sat.
Looking up at the field lights which surround the track/field on the Subase where I live. We were there to watch my husband's flag-football team play another duty-station's team (sadly, the other team greatly outscored them in the first half, and they were unable to recoup their losses... even though they outscored the opposition by triple in the second half. Oh well...)
Lift the skin up, and put into the bunt the slack of the clews (not too taut), the leech and foot-rope, and body of the sail; being careful not to let it get forward under or hang down abaft. Then haul your bunt well up on the yard, smoothing the skin and bringing it down well abaft, and make fast the bunt gasket round the mast, and the jigger, if there be one, to the tie.
—Richard Henry Dana, Jr., The Seaman's Manual (1844)
One of the carvings on the outside of the old Colisseum Theater building in downtown Seattle. Currently a Banana Republic (boo!) it is considered the site of the first actual movie theater in the nation (as opposed to a theatrical theater that also showed films back in the day) Beautiful building by any stretch.
My first entry to the group devoted to Ospreys. Because of the long narrow wings, it may be Mr. Grimsley. I'm not positive. Anyway, it is one of them. (156mrsgrimsleyosprey)
my Rhipsalis pilocarpa is in bloom! well, ok, it has one little flower, but cacti and succulents bloom so rarely for me, this is reason to celebrate! it was also reason for me to actually do a little research to find out what the mystery plant was. :-)