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In this section / there must be at least / 53 identities /on the outside / not be be discerned / one from another.
I'd love to identify this branching tree with its rather stiff fern like leaves. Very unusual for northwestern CT.
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.
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
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.
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.
April 7, 2009
I made a trip out to the "ranch" to see if our two favorite horses were still in residence. Happily they were still there plus Red Pony's mother. All the snow in the background is now gone. I made the trip to Omaha yesterday morning and had to back detour thirty miles as the normal bridge crossing the Red River was completely under water, the rail on the sides was not even visisble. I will be here in Omaha for the rest of the week.
Strange way to change identities. Peel one's back open and slip into something new and likely slimy. And leave a shell of its former self.
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
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Well folks, it's the time of year to show photos from the annual Fort Lauderdale Air Show. Here we have the Blue Angels' C-130 support plane "Fat Albert" dropping parachutists at the opening. Flying nearby is the acrobatic aircraft flown by Aaron Aern.
This is a photo of a wall mask made by Karen Schlick that explores the shamanic layers of personal psychology.
Don't be afraid to take off your mask and show your true character. Life's best when we're not playing with others!
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....
What to do when you are having one?
Remember that your identity is that of your own choosing.
Sometimes we bring on the crisis ourselves because we linked our personal identity to temporarily links. Spend some time to explore new interests!
Don't accept the influence of others in forming your new identity.
And last but not least: think positive!
Have a great day everyone and thank you for your views, faves and comments!