The beauty behind life cycles

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Just returned after spending a week in Ohio, captured this amazing sunset along an old country farm road.

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On a still warmed sunsetting August day, suspended in the melted margarine sky sediment stirred up by combines harvesting wheat turns to ever so slightly drifting dust cloaking a westbound Eastern Washington Gateway Scoot Train taking the rise just west of Hite where diesels grumbling the head-end bids good evening to the “Three Sisters,” then two long, one short, one long for Stroup Road. The Sisters? Three out-of-place trees. In the middle of nowhere but wheatland: as far as the eye can reach. And those in tow 4750 CH’s? They’ll find their way to Reardan – the next station – and “spots” on down the line where they’ll fill with the very harvest collected by sweat-faced men and their colossal combines. (15Aug17 ©)

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“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” Genesis 3:19

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Snack time, and it’s mine, all mine!

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Colors of a Sunset Reflection... Dallas, Texas.

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Belmont, CA - October 2020

Mountain climber wagon back to the Base Station.

The Mount Washington Cog Railway

Betton Woods, New Hampshire, USA

Planet Hollywood . . . Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Twilight and the first star of the evening: the headlight of this near silhouetted DPU draws the eye to itself as the sun has taken her warmth leaving another day to the cold night coming. Her receding residual light faintly beaming through the celestial prism creates a magical hue above the vast Eastern Washington horizon weaving a seamless transition from red to cobalt and vice versa. This unit oil, having just cleared West Lamphier has come to a stop. Shortly it’ll slip away and out of sight itself down Sprague Hill heading – West. This evening I find the Lakeside Sub is a non-stop procession of westbounds jumping from one block to the next waiting for a favorable light to proceed as eastbounds in the darkness beyond look for cover in sidings the likes of Tokio, Essig, Paha, Keystone, and Sprague. It’ll be a long night for the men and women running on the hundred-quarter-some-mile Lakeside. But they already know it's par for the course. (05Dec17 ©)

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Turning another silent into a violent night. A methodical violence that is: disturbing the dead and the dead-asleep alike. Hootin’, rootin’ and a tootin’ – Cowboys and their metal mares – as if nightmarish apparitions ridin’ into some souled high plains town on steel horses to wrangle then, just as quickly as they appear, steal away with the community’s bounty like booty. No, not like that nefarious ’69 cinematic Wild Bunch, but professionals. A Band of Brothers. Eastern Washington Gateway Railroaders. Die-hards. In fact. Present day grunts armed with orders to take; comms to coordinate the taking; the skill to execute the taking near effortlessly; the precision to take as efficiently as possible. Boots-on-the-ground, got each other's six operators operating on the cusp of railroading past. High above, the recently retired CWGG wheat laurels logo still and still will herald the arrival and departure of this timeless cacophony as it will the corrugated crib elevator with its bearing friction 40’ cars box platform permanently chained, rusted in the upright position. A scene, but for the crew van, anachronistic: may as well be unfolding in 1968 instead of a half-century later. Whatever century it may be, or what wristed analog standard railroad time, or obstacle, the objective is accomplished. Always. (© 08Jun18)

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Vermont waterfall

Somewhere along Laurance Lake Road, Mount Hood (Oregon).

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Celebrate Christmas this year by visiting the spectacular tree lights on display at Vitruvian Park in Addison, Texas.

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Before Europeans settled here, the Kiewa Valley was an annual meeting place for six Aboriginal tribes where they gathered to perform rituals and sort out their grievances. They also enjoyed a good feed of Bogong moths that prefer to breed here in the summer months, it's cool this morning at 6°C (42°F).

Kiewa means sweet water.

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Jo Daviess County, Illinois

Aerial photograph of two old grain elevators in the prairies in Saskatchewan Canada

A Jack goes to pot in Chamberlin on ex-Milwaukee Road real estate, Dakota Southern. One can only wonder if this once celebrated “Centennial” – DDA40X 6925 – will ever be restored, or simply saved from her agonizing demise of slowly-but-surely oxidizing into the central South Dakota color-rust earth. Aside from serving as an eight-thousand gallon fuel bunker, having been plundered of her dynamic braking apparatus, and otherwise donor of homogeneous EMD parts, the near 100-foot-long, head-hanging sixty-six-hundred horse dreadnaught, shamefully moored along the shores of the mighty Mo nowhere near the open seas of amber waves of wheat and sand she once plied, still appears ripe for resurrection. Hopefully, her owner will consider her historical significance and act, for posterity’s sake, soon. (© 28Aug18)

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You're gonna need a bigger boat!

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If there ever were a case of atherosclerosis in BNSF’s vast cardiovascular rail system, the famed infamous “Funnel,” so famously coined by my friend Bruce Kelly so many Kodachrome boxes past, may well be the epitome thereof. The amount of non-stop (figuratively speaking), bidirectional-traffic pumped through this constricted chemin de fer construct at its most acute less than three-mile-short, 21-foot tie-end to concrete tie-end narrows – between Napa & Lee Street Junction and Sunset Junction – is a feat worthy of a standalone Discovery series, if not a Modern Marvels feature, or a modern-day History Channel “Hell on Wheels.” Here, just East of the geographic center of Spokane, the epicenter of The Funnel, it’s 21:35 of any given night or day, and Main Two has very little exposed rail as one eastbound after the other in “Train Ahead” formation follows on the DPU’s dim of the previous in a more stop than go precession. Meanwhile Main One is the antithesis as Boyer West shoots WB-after-WB out of Hauser 23 east-miles as rapidly as safe, making room for the in-frame and following eastbounds. In what may seem as arbitrary minutes, this grain empty will ease ahead keeping measured distance as the train behind it inches its way forward and so on an so forth ad infinitum. (© 24Jul18)

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@denoswonderwheelpark The ‪#‎wonderwheel‬ was erected in 1920 and stands 150 feet high and holds 144 people at once. Its unusual design for a ‪#‎ferriswheel‬ incorporates sections of curved tracks connecting an outer wheel and a smaller inner wheel, with 16 swinging cars which roll back and forth between the two wheels. There are also 8 stationary cars. All of the cars give riders panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean. We not only love riding on this Ferris wheel but also love the park's ‪#‎vintage‬ ‪#‎neonsign‬ depicting its colorful ride! ‪#‎coneyisland‬ ‪#‎americana‬ ‪#‎ig_nycity‬ ‪#‎IGS_NYC‬ ‪#‎ig_nyc‬ ‪#‎insta_america‬ ‪#‎vintagesign‬ ‪#‎insta_america_americana‬ ‪#‎just_unitedstates‬ ‪#‎ig_signage‬ ‪#‎signgeeks‬ ‪#‎neongeeks‬ ‪#‎neon‬ ‪#‎SignCollective‬ ‪#‎typevstime‬ ‪#‎typography‬ ‪#‎jj_texttypographical‬ ‪#‎trb_ipoft_signs‬ ‪#‎ipulledoverforthis‬ ‪#‎tv_retrotype‬

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