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I'd love to identify this branching tree with its rather stiff fern like leaves. Very unusual for northwestern CT.
I am an only child and what that really means is that I spent a great deal of time learning how to exist in the world both alone and lonely. Unlike many kids today who grow up with constant entertainment through the internet screens, I had to learn to use my imagination to fill my extra time. It also meant that I had to get used to having strong feelings and have no place for them outside of myself.
For many years when I was a kid, I really wanted to have as many friends as possible and be the popular one at school. But, I soon realized I had developed opinions that were very different from most kids at school. For instance, I hated Barbie (still do!) and I thought Vanilla Ice was.a thief and that Freddie Mercury (though dying of AIDS at the time) should make him rue the day he ever stepped in front of a microphone. (Most of my friends were developing dance routines to "Ice Ice Baby". So yeah...). For the record, I still detest the person and the song.
You can try to make friends and influence people but if you're a person like me, you tend to think you've given up something genuine about yourself that way. Eventually, you realize you are better off alone.
Then, Cinchel came along and I really couldn't believe it was possible to have this kind of connection with another human. I know some would rather be solitary forever but, for me, the thought of losing him is devastating.
Still, after Trump won the election recently, maybe my old solitary child need for space reappeared. Basically, even if you surround yourself with well meaning people, you can still never escape your own self. I had friends and family calling but I just wanted to be away from everything, especially my own head space. And, when you work in a public sphere and you have to function and not fall apart and succumb to hysterical crying all day, it is exhausting to say the least. I realize we all do this to some extent unless you're the human on the street corner literally screaming non stop until someone attacks or arrests you. There is a persistent sense in my mind, though, that there are a great deal of people who are disinterested and don't connect the impact of choices or lack of choices. Maybe they end up happier or not....I'm not really sure. No one can ever truly know what is like to be another human being.
In any case, when you reach a certain level of depression, you don't even want people around you who you care for deeply because you don't want them to have to witness you at your worst, even when they are willing. It is likely that, as in that expression "You contain multitudes" that we are not so simple as we appear on the surface. There are quite a few complex layers of human consciousness to contend with and they might not all agree with each other.
Today is Thanksgiving in America, which is nice that we have one day designated to be grateful for others while the other 364 days we are competitive, bitter, and spiteful. Well, I try not to be this way. But, you see it with extreme capitalism that these systems drive us to the point of being different selves and ones I wouldn't want to have even a basic conversation with.
Let's be thankful for those humans who have seen our true selves and still choose to share some of their time on Earth with us. We can be thankful for solitude too..for quiet moments and presence within moments without the world weighing on us.
I don't define myself by other people but I doubt I would still exist in this reality as a living breathing entity without certain people.
I hope you find peace today.
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Most of my fellow foamer friends think this thing is hideous and won't shoot a train if it's on it. I'm in the other camp and think its kind of awesome with its mis match of eras. What camp are you in?
While waiting around for some window trains to pass I grabbed this clean roster shot of PW 4001 a GE B40-8 blt. Jun. 1988 as NYSW 4004. It is the trailing unit on Providence and Worcester freight DAWO (Davisville to Worcester) which runs under the cover of darkness and is the only freight train that normally operates on this stretch of the busy Northeast Corridor. The prior night's southbound WODA crew ran out of time and was unable to make the trip back north, so they tied their train down here just railroad west of the US Route 1 overpass. It was brought to Worcester later in the day by Valley Falls based PR-3 once they are done with their regular customer work.
I wasn't able to wait around for that to happen but did catch a few trains passing them as they sat on Main 4 just west of Malcolm interlocking at MP 169.9 on Amtrak's New Haven Line main.
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Friday May 16, 2025
CSXT 4579 leads an engine-heavy UP MCHNP passed the BN caboose placed by the wrong railroad in Fremont, NE.
Prairie blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya) blooms in profusion in a high quality longleaf pine savanna in Newton County, Texas.
This is another image taken on private land in the Pineywoods of east Texas. In stark contrast with the imperiled forest I posted yesterday, these woods are protected through legal agreements with nonprofit conservation partners and are managed to maintain exceptionally high quality habitat. I use the term “woods” lightly for this longleaf pine savanna, as, despite the trees, places like this are more prairie than forest. This site is rich in prairie genera like Schizachyrium, Andropogon, Eryngium, Silphium, and so on. This savanna received a growing season burn this year, which is typical of the fire regime under which the community evolved, and contrary to the cool season burns that primarily occur today due to a variety of non-ecological reasons. The results were spectacular, and Liatris pycnostachya in particular seemed to respond.
CSX (SBD) GP40 6773 (reportedly built as SCL 1619) is parked at the company shops backlot in Waycross, GA. If only the Seaboard logo was on that yellow nose.
This unit allegedly went to Point Comfort and Northern, then New Orleans Public Belt, now works for Nebraska Central, proving they don't make them like they used to.
Excerpt from www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/community/art_archi_urban.html:
Urban Identity
The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) collaborated with MTR Corporation to create the newly installed artworks at Sham Shui Po Station.
Guided by SCAD Professors, a team of fourteen students explored the vernacular architecture and urban environment of Sham Shui Po as part of a 12-week collaborative learning experience.
“Urban Identity” celebrates Sham Shui Po’s uniqueness by capturing the existing architectural characteristics that house local trades and the unique vibrancy of the community.
In this section / there must be at least / 53 identities /on the outside / not be be discerned / one from another.
Back from a recent lease to Arkefly, this Skyservice 757, C-FLOX, still wears the TUI logo on the tail.
BCE47142 *LG71DXA* seen at Ham working on route 65 towards Kingston.
Back when photographing the new BCE buses on the 65, there was a number of them that had been diverted to this route instead of their allocated routes. BCE47142 is ordered for the 125.
The registration plate at the time BCE47142 had been carrying was LG71DXA, which is the plate for BCE47143. BCE47142 has since of photograph been corrected to LG71DWZ.
Rupit, Barcelona (Spain).
ENGLISH
The first flags were used to assist military coordination on battlefields and flags have evolved into a general tool for rudimentary signaling and identification, This was especially used in environments where communication is similarly challenging (such as the maritime environment where semaphore is used). National flags are potent patriotic symbols with varied wide-ranging interpretations, often including strong military associations due to their original and ongoing military uses. Flags are used in messaging, advertising, or for other decorative purposes. The study of flags is known as vexillology, from the Latin vexillum meaning flag or banner.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica: "Flags recognizable as such were the invention, almost certainly, of the ancient Indians or the Chinese." The usage of flags spread from India and China to neighboring Burma, Siam, and southeastern Asia.
Persians used Derafsh-e-kaviani as the flag, at the time of Achaemenian dynasty at 550–330 B.C. Afterwards it was used in different look by the late Sassanid era (224-651). It was also representative of the Sassanid state - Ērānshāhr, the "Kingdom of Iran" - and may so be considered to have been the first "national flag" of Iran.
Originally, the standards of the Roman legions were not flags, but symbols like the eagle of Augustus Caesar's Xth legion; this eagle would be placed on a staff for the standard-bearer to hold up during battle. But a military unit from Dacia had for a standard a dragon with a flexible tail which would move in the wind; the legions copied this; eventually all the legions had flexible standards — our modern-day flag.
During the Middle Ages, flags were used mainly during battles to identify individual leaders: in Europe the knights, in Japan the samurai, and in China the generals under the imperial army.
From the time of Christopher Columbus onwards, it has been customary (and later a legal requirement) for ships to carry flags designating their nationality; these flags eventually evolved into the national flags and maritime flags of today. Flags also became the preferred means of communications at sea, resulting in various systems of flag signals; see International maritime signal flags.
As European knights were replaced by centralized armies, flags became the means to identify not just nationalities but also individual military units. Flags became objects to be captured or defended. Eventually these flags posed too much danger to those carrying them, and by World War I these were withdrawn from the battlefields, and have since been used only at ceremonial occasions.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag
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CASTELLANO
Una bandera es una pieza de tela, normalmente rectangular, aunque puede adoptar formas muy variadas, que se sujeta por uno de sus lados a un asta, o se cuelga de una driza. Se utiliza para identificar o representar a una persona, o grupo de personas. También puede servir para trasmitir señales. El estudio de las banderas se conoce como vexilología.
Es posible considerar a los vexilos (palabra origen del término), utilizados por los legionarios durante la civilización romana, como las primeras insignias empleadas en Europa. En España, los visigodos siguieron utilizando este tipo de estandartes rígidos con alguna clase de paño; pero no fue sino hasta la invasión musulmana cuando se comenzaron a utilizar lo que actualmente conocemos como "banderas", ya que el uso de tejidos ligeros, como la seda, en los estandartes tuvo su origen en Oriente, siendo los musulmanes y los cruzados los primeros en implantar su uso en Europa. Las banderas se convirtieron en guiones y estandartes representativos de Reyes y Señores (específicamente, de sus linajes o casas reales), más que de territorios o naciones, tal como hoy son utilizadas las enseñas nacionales.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandera
I had my hand held scanner turned on, and overheard UP dispatcher 5 chatting with a train. One transmission read: "5371 you have authority to enter Main 2 in Provo and proceed west".
What???? So I quickly drove to the Rio Grande tracks at Midvale to intercept the train, anticipating something incredible.
Oh well!
8.5.2008
This is a photo of a wall mask made by Karen Schlick that explores the shamanic layers of personal psychology.
*Ultimate Collection by Identity Body Shop located at Kinky Event. *Iced Coffee Drinks by Rue located at the mainstore.
Here's one for my buddy Cody who enjoys patched locomotives.
CN 332 is seen passing by Powerline Road in Brantford Ontario with CN 2036 leading the way. 2036 is one of the many ex UP C40-8's that CN has purchased in the last few years. Third out in this consist is a NREX switcher for Dofasco in Hamilton.
There was a good handful of these that ran around in CN patch and a couple lead...this would be my only one leading.
45627 'Sierra Leone' (aka 45699 'Galatea' with 45562 cab--side numbering) works hard away from its Clitheroe station stop near Rimington, the 1Z52 08:09 Lancaster to Carlisle 'Pendle Dalesman' charter on Tuesday 10th August 2021.
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Don't be afraid to take off your mask and show your true character. Life's best when we're not playing with others!
Light in its purest form, is truth.
Truth is an elusive servant of what seems right;
a perpetual quest within the mind,
to reach beyond the self.
Perhaps it is the mind's churning
which ignites that wondrous universal balance
that empowers light to cut through the darkness.
We all are born same, as human being, yet most of us dream to raise our head high, create our own identity as we grow up and try to be someone different....
I dedicate this to dear tom-sketching,who got inspired by the words ''seeking my identity'' near my screen name,and wrote a most deeply meaningful poem on it..Thank you my dear friend.. That's fabulous..I read it again and again ! And yes..you're right Tom...seeking will never end:)
Here is the link to his amazing capture accompanying that beautiful poem:
www.flickr.com/photos/tom_sketching/4112754994/
#163 Nov.20,2009
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