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It is a herbivore and feed on sweet potato plant parts. This picture was taken in a resort while it was resting on a coat buttons flower (Tridax procumbens) at night.
Tanat Valley Optare Spectra 571 - R871 MDY drops off the last of its passengers in Llanfyllin after working route 72 from Oswestry via Morda & Llanymynech. This step entrance DAF DB250 began life with Eastbourne Buses where it was numbered 271.
It could be a spoonful of coffee
It could be a spoonful of tea
But one little spoon of your precious love
Is good enough for me
Painter working on Borofsky's Hammering Man
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My contribution to this week's Fotosöndag on "Symbols".
Right now it is in the larva or caterpillar stage. I have not seen many monarch's here this year and so I was excited to see the monarch caterpillar on the milkweed.
The previous generation’s adult butterfly lays eggs on the milkweed, when the stage one of the first generation starts. Within 4 days, the eggs hatch to form a caterpillar or larva, the second stage. At this stage, the larvae eat the milkweed on which it lives.
Within two weeks, it attains full growth and attaches to some place like a leaf or stem by discharging silk, and undergoes the process of metamorphosis to transform into a pupa or chrysalis.
In the next 10 days, continuous process of metamorphosis transforms the old body parts of the pupa into the beautiful parts of the future adult butterfly. The adult butterfly will emerge in the mid-morning time and fly away in search of food and a mate.
They live a short life that ranges from two to six weeks. Within this period, it will lay eggs for the second generation. The second generation flies roughly one month after the migrating monarchs arrive and reproduce which would be anytime from May through July. It lays eggs for the third generation in July or August. The fourth generation process is almost same except one point.
The fourth generation eggs are laid in the month of September or October, but they live more than eight to nine months. This fourth generation butterfly also has a specialty; it migrates to the warmer regions of California or Mexico.
Canon EOS 7D, Sigma 150-500 mm hand held at 500mm aperture priority at f16 CAMERA RAW cropped and resized for the web in Lightroom Classic.
As I was teasing you with the Christmas/Halloween photos I have decided the full length one can wait a little while longer and instead you can have this one.
Feeling a little better this evening and so hopefully i should be ok to go back to work tomorrow
You say you really know me,
not afraid to show me
what is in your eyes
Tell me about the rumours
Are they only rumours?
Are they only lies?
Falling out of a perfect dream, coming out of the blue.
Is it true?
Is it over?
Did I throw it away?
Was it you?
Did you tell me you would never leave me this way?
Download the Song for sure !
From the Nevada Northern's winter photo shoot weekend two.
This last weekend I spent two days at the railroad studying and working to pass their safety training. I'm now cleared to start supervised work on train crews. If I stick with it one day it'll be me taking #93 out of the engine house.
It was apparently the world photography day. August 19. I thought I should at least take a new photo on this day. And I thought of going on a long hike, or an adventure trip to a nearby forest preserve. Then I took a bold decision. I walked about a whole half mile across one whole neighborhood, and then caught a glimpse of this gorgeous sunset. I thought it was adventure enough for one day.
While I would have loved to follow D36 and its ex-SP duo around some more, that just wasn't going to happen. Once the train slowed to a stop at CP Veech, we grabbed a few more shots across the soybean fields, and headed back towards home. We had plans that night, and we needed to get that check engine light we'd acquired back at Lodge checked out. The good news? It was nothing! A knock sensor warning, one I've had before and one that is meaningless considering the hard bumps and rough roads from the day. With that clear, we both agreed it was a successful outing. Too bad that was our last one for a while, but, international borders and such...
Some interesting notes on these two SP motors is that neither originated from SP. 2690 was built as a PRR SD45, the 6202, and it moved through PC and CR with that number until it was sold to the CNW as the 6527, and then rebuilt to SD40M-2 spec for SP. Numbered SP8614, it lived into UP as the 2690, and keeps that number today after changing hands to NREX and now HZRX.
The 2676 went through equally as many names. Built as an SD45 as ACL1024, it quickly joined the SCL as the 2000, then the Seaboard as the 8900, then CSX, and wound up in VMV with the same number. It follows the same pattern as the 2690 after that - rebuilt as an SD40M-2 and numbered SP8600, then UP2676, NREX, and now HZRX. Reportedly, both of these motors are going to Hach Equipment in Painesville, OH. After that? who knows!
It’s a Beautiful Day
U2
‘It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away‘
One of those moments when everything just feels so right. Sun, a lovely calm river, yes work to go to but a little respite before it. It’s a beautiful day for sure.
68032 ‘Destroyer’ slips over Scarborough Bridge at York and a very still river Ouse, whilst working 0P68 05:15 Longsight To York via Scarborough on the morning of 13th May 2019.
The new TransPennine Express trains are edging a little closer to passenger service with the first set of coaches TP09 having been accepted, the second set TP06 due to be handed over on Wednesday and a third set starting testing this week.
It has been far too long since I've posted a cat picture and much, much too long since I've had the chance to photograph one. I need more kitties in my life!
Geiko Sisters Kikuno, Kikuyuu and Kikutsuru performing in the last act of Mizuekai, the autumn dances of Miyagawacho hanamachi, called "Miyagawa Kouta."
Looking at this picture now, I think it's funny how I caught all three Kiku geiko. I was just trying to shoot Kikuyuu, and just now realized the composition. If only I could have snapped more pics!!
The John Hancock Center is a 100-story, 1,128-foot supertall skyscraper at 875 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. When the building topped out in 1968 it was the second tallest building in the world and the tallest outside New York City. It is currently the fourth-tallest building in Chicago and the eighth-tallest in the United States.
it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces :-)
Maureen Murphy
tree peony, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Hey guys,
Some days ago a friend called me and asked me to dance two short simple chair dance performances.
Although my doctor advised me against doing this, I simply couldn't resist. So I did it, because I miss you, boys...
This photo was taken in my dressing room. As you can see, there is even a bed in it, and it looks a little messy at the moment.
One day everything will go back to normal.
I'm just addicted to you boys!! 😍
With love,
Jenna 💋
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Jenna Rogers
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It's a name of a band.
Um.
Okay I hate this.
Like seriously, I didn't even want to upload it, but since I spent hours working on different versions I thought I just might as well put it up.
Its supposed to look like some sort of abstract painting.
Anyway the motion thingy is inspired by Holly Skye.
She has a pretty awesome take on that.
Okay I used a shit load of textures here and I forgot who made them.. so yea.. Ops.
Very uninspired and unmotivated lately.
hmm no wait, I'm not uninspired, I have ideas but I can't seem to execute them properly.
if it even saves this.
It's Fence Friday and we found this mozzie inffffested fence with reffflection at Tinchi Tamba Wetlands today. The wetlands are flooded lands at the moment from all the rain earlier in the week.
Brisbane.
Probably smooth newt, but can't say for sure that it isn't palmate. Discovered during a moth night at the Stiperstones. June '18.
Back in 2008, I built a model of the CH-47D Chinook. I think that, despite its age, it's still OK, but compared to some of my more recent models, it does show its age. Because I built it in old dark grey, though, it cannot update it using all the wonderful new parts that LEGO have made since; curved slopes in particular. My solution is to build a new model in a colour in which all these new parts do exist and this is the progress so far.
The US Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, also known as the Nightstalkers, has been operating special variants of the Chinook for a few decades. Initially they were olive drab, like most US Army helicopters, but about 20 years ago they started being repainting in black. So, I'm building one of those; an MH-47E to be precise. One of the major challenges in this build were its much larger fuel tank sponsons. They are actually so big that they cover the bottom of the windows, so that's is not a mistake on my part. There's actually a small cutout in the top of the tank for the bubble window
It could be Texas, or New Mexico, or Wyoming, but believe or not, it's Oregon. Eastern Oregon to be exact, which is totally different from
Western Oregon and the coast.
Yesterday I posted a Rocky Mountain Elk bugling in the early stages of the rut.
This post is of three Roosevelt Elk the day after their rut abruptly ended. How do I know their rut had ended? Well, the day before this shot was taken, the bull in the foreground had a nice harem of 16 cows. On this day, the cows were about a mile away and this guy was peacefully grazing in a meadow with four other bulls (two of them in the background). It's Over!
FYI:
The Rocky Mountain elk is a subspecies of elk found in the Rocky Mountains and adjacent ranges of Western North America.
The Roosevelt Elk are located in the rain forests and coastal areas of Northern California, Oregon, Washington, and into British Columbia. They are the largest of the elk subspecies. The Roosevelt Elk tend to be a deeper darker brown than the relatively smaller Rocky Mountain Elk, and have a darker mane and yellowish-brown rump. Roosevelt Elk tend to have narrower antlers than the Rocky Mountain elk, but usually have more body mass and height.