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WAMX 4187, in "Grow Wisconsin" livery, leads a late WSOR T4H west and south toward Janesville after they have entered home rails in Waukesha.
2024 is coming to an end, and I for one am glad to see it in my rearview mirror. One of the bright spots this year was finding this big momma toad hanging out in the basin of our River Birch tree. Growing up only a half a block from where I currently live, I could find toads, frogs, snakes and all of the creepy crawly creatures a boy could use to torment his sisters. When we moved in some twenty plus years ago, not so much.
But it is getting better. During the summer nights, bats are flying overhead and the toads are hoping in front of us during our evening walks. A month ago, Luna stopped dead in her tracks as an owl did a fly by.
I wish everyone a wonderful 2025.
Some new leaves growing at Thunder Bay Conservatory
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With every breath I take
With every step I take
with every mistake I make
Still growing................
LARGER is BETTER
The plant shown is a wild-growing specimen of the ubiquitous European Red Raspberry (Rubus idaeus). When loose in the wild (as here), it is an amazingly successful, hardy, difficult plant that seems to grow anywhere and everywhere. Its shoots grow really fast--a couple of meters in a couple of spring months. The thorns are numerous and sharp. I learned the hard way that you have to wear heavy gloves to deal with the shoots.
Location: Among some old machinery in "indefinite, long-term outdoor storage." Kreiterhof, near the village of Nebenau, District of Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg DE.
In my album: Dan's Weed World.
A proud mother watches over her growing cygnets. Like all youngsters, some of them are still sound asleep! Taken at Doune Ponds, Perthshire.
there is freedom waiting for you,
on the breezes of the sky,
and you ask, "what if I fall?"
oh, but my darling,
what if you fly?
-eric hanson
The foal of a Belgian Draught horse at Hoeve Hangerijn is growing fast. In my albums 'Horses' and 'Near Bruges 2025' you can see a couple of earlier photos of the young stallion.
This chipmunk is constantly filling its cheeks with birdseed, then running off to hide them! This seems to be its full time job! LoL! Its cheeks can triple this size, it's amazing to watch!
The record setting heat of the past summer was shattered for several consecutive nights. Low temperatures in the mid 30s replaced the low 60s that had been in place for weeks. Patchy frost formed in some areas, bringing a selective end to the growing season, while nearby areas were spared. But the reprieve is only temporary. A killing frost is expected in the first week of October as arctic air sweeps down across the eastern half of the United States. I'm ambivalent at the prospect of losing what's left of my vegetable gardens. Lots of work to create and maintain, but tremendous Zen accompanies tending them and harvesting produce. Garden inspections are a part of my daily summer life, and the first couple of weeks after the killing frost will require some mental adjustment. Some other activity will fill the void, but as always, it's the crossover phase that's worrisome. I've tried to mitigate the sadness of seeing frozen blackness sweep over the planting beds that I've been nourishing since May. I've been pulling out the spent vines as the early plantings reached the end of the line and stopped producing. I'm clinging like grim death to whatever is still alive, trying to squeeze every last tomato and cucumber from the soil. It's become a losing battle. Even though warmer temperatures have returned, the sun angle is now much lower. The growth rate of the remaining plants is a mere shadow of what it was back in June and July when the sun hung high in the sky for 15 hours or more each day.
In the village cemetery the grass grows long in the old section. The summer hires that mowed the grounds through the summer have returned to college or wherever they go in the off season. Sadness seems to descend over the graves like a pall as they prepare to endure yet another winter.
Based on Newfoundland and Labrador statistics my life is 77% over. Funny, it doesn’t feel that way. Does it mean I’ll have to stop running and take up fishing? My running doesn’t look graceful anymore.
I’m not giving up photography, my camera will be coming with me when I die.
"For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be." John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
[Childhood Series]
Finding time and space to allow kids room to grow is important, especially during a pandemic. My son loves the outdoors and finds peace in exploring…and rolling down hills.
Taken in Eniwa, Hokkaido
Photo taken at the sim created by Jade K.oltai, a peaceful and a bit somber feel here - lovely place to visit and sit for awhile.
Sim's name is Overland Hills - I will no longer post links/slurls here as my acct was deleted before from things like this, sorry. I provide links and SLURLs at my Primfeed.
"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive." `Eleonora Duse
I'm interrupting the Faroe Islands series, with a shot from a recent trip over to the Palouse region of Washington. Those waves of earth always amaze me.
"When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and despair
And cannot find your way out of the darkness, remember that
This is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings."
~ Anonymous
A Peacock Pansy clicked at the Kannur Fort.
It seems that 3 of the chickadee chicks have survived and are growing so fast, so cute to see them seek out food for themselves
Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park. I found this little pine growing impossibly in solid granite. Tioga Pass is closed for the season. I made this photograph on the last day it was open.
Pretty cool to see these tall plants growing there in Arizona as we were traveling about. Liked this spot and the clouds there in the middle of the day so I asked for Mrs. Krach's 'permission' to pull over and take a quick snap.
She allowed ;)
Captured with the CPL filter as well.
Happy Fence Friday