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Golden Islands Cottages is built with the local architectural tradition of stilt house.
The hotel is owned and run by Pa'O National Organisation (PNO). It is the political organisation of the Pa'O ethnic group that has an autonomous territory in the mountainside east of Inle Lake.
PNO is funded by the profit from the hotel.
It is an oldest stilt house hotel in Inle Lake.
PNO obtained knowhow to run a resort hotel through their British supporter. I guess the ideas of running a hotel to fund a political organisation as well as building a hotel as a local stilt house architecture also may have come from, or influenced by, their British connection.
A photo taken in the orchard of a farm in Cai Rang.
Mekong Delta is covered with a network of canals, and goods are transported by boat. But the primary purpose of the canal was to drain water and secure dry farmland. Excavated soil was used to construct dykes to save the farmland from flooding, and houses were built on the dykes. These dykes were later strengthened to form circle levees that shut out flooding water in the rainy season completely.
This is a knowhow developed in the Vietnamese homeland of Red River Delta (or Hong River Delta) in the north, with which ancient Vietnamese converted the wetlands and flood plains to fertile rice paddies.
The same knowhow was applied to much larger Mekong Delta from the 17th century onwards.
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This photo was taken on my way to Chùa Mahatup or Mahatup Temple that was in an outskirt of the Soc Trang city.
Percentages of the Khmer population in Mekong Delta are considerably different by province. Ethnic Khmers consist around 30% of the population in Soc Trang and Tra Vinh, a province north of Soc Trang across the Hau Giang. Percentage of Khmer population tends to be higher in coastal provinces, while the Vietnamese are overwhelmingly dominant in the upstream part of the delta closer to Cambodia.
It is supposed that the population density of Khmers was relatively low in the upstream part as the flooding of the Mekong was more serious than the coastal areas. Expansive untouched wetlands were available for arriving Vietnamese immigrants who had the knowhow acquired through their strives in the Red River Delta to convert such lands to fertile rice paddy.
“Everything happens around us, but no one knows how. Everything is before us, but no one sees the source. All together and individually, people value that part of knowledge that is already known. They do not know how to use the unknown in order to achieve knowledge with it. Isn't that a delusion? ”
Chuang Tzu
Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
The moment of observation is the real find ...
Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
The meaning of all this is the process!
Find someone who inspires shooting the camera!
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What does not matter ?😜
1.What to photograph - Camera. 📷📱
2.Where to photograph - Place. 🌋
3.When to photograph -Time.🌅🌄
What is important ?😎
1.Study and tune the camera. 👨🔧
2.Learn where you are going.
3.Study the lighting at different times.🌞🌚
What's the secret?♀️
1.Feel the instrument, hear what it says. 🙏
2.Feel the atmosphere of the place, catch the wave. 🌊
3.Switch on .Catch the moment!⚡️
What to photograph?
✨Finding the observer, comes awareness!✨
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The new website is online. It is possible that not everything is working properly yet.
In the knowhow section you will find partly new, partly revised instructions. Among others also 2nd pass lith.
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Trial with a paper batch (077848-17) from December 2022, which proved to be completely unusable for a straight lith.
SE2 Warm 1+10 two and a half minutes, copper bleach until the lights solarise. Easy Lith 3+3+500ml a minute and a half at 35°C.
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“Play is the work of the child.” – Maria Montessori
“Play is the highest form of research.” – Albert Einstein
“It is a happy talent to know how to play.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.” – Mr. Rogers
“Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.” – Plato
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BMW was kind enough to offer me to test-drive the BMW i8 for a few hours. It is a very exciting car for sure: The looks are the stuff of a bedroom poster, including ground-hugging proportions and ‘butterfly’ doors, I would say it’s BMW’s most striking car ever. I did honestly notice an extreme amount of attention (personally, too much for me :-)). The performance is outstanding too, with a 4.4-second 0-62mph sprint. But here’s the thing: its official average fuel consumption rating is 134.5mpg, and CO2 is 49g/km. Those near-miraculous numbers come because the i8 is a petrol-electric hybrid, and the culmination of all BMW’s engineering knowhow.
(Disclaimer: I do not work for BMW)
A photo of restaurants and drinking places constructed under the girder of old railway tracks in Shinbashi (新橋).
Shinbashi is known as a district for Salarymen which is a Japanglish word meaning people who work in a company or an organisation for a monthly salary. White-collar workers in Kasumigaseki bureaucratic district, Marunouchi / Ootemachi business districts as well as newly developed Shiodome Siosite are the principal clientele for the drinking places in Shinbashi.
Shinbashi is an entertainment district in Minato City but its character is quite different from those of Akasaka and Roppongi in the same city where they meet people for business talks or for showing off their knowhow, capacity, credibility, wealth etc.
In contrast, Shinbashi is for the same people to meet close friends, complain about their customers, criticise their boss etc. to release their frustration (^_^;
Unlike Akasaka, Roppongi as well as Ginza in Chuuou City where bills are often paid at corporate expense, bills tend to be paid in Shinbashi at salarymen's own expense.
It means bills are cheaper in Shinbashi.
Under-the-girder (ガード下 Gaado-shita) restaurants in Tokyo are now attracting tourists for its very Japanese ambience, which is the polar opposite of Akasaka and Roppongi where the international ambience is attracting Japanese youth.
Matsue Castle is located on a hill overlooking the Shinjiko surrounded by the moats with water guided from the lagoon.
Izumo used to be part of the Mouri (毛利氏) territory until the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. The Mouri sided with the defeated Toyotomi side, and their territory was reduced to the Yamaguchi prefecture after the battle. Izumo was given to the Horio family (堀尾氏) who sided with the Tokugawa although the family had been a vassal of the Toyotomi.
This type of Daimyou (大名 literally "big name" meaning local rulers) like the Mouri and the Horio was called Tozama (外様 outsider) as compared to Shinpan (親藩), relatives of the Tokugawa, and Fudai (譜代), hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa.
The knowhow to control Tozama Daimyou had been crucial for the Tokugawa rule over Japan, which lasted 265 years.
Thanks for de Wonderful words. Anu. I don't have any technical knowhow in fotography and in fauna n flora still an infant, trying to learn more n more everyday..... stumbling but trying my level best.
Thank you for brightening the day!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for being my FRIEND... value friendships n they're de fragrance around...
On a photo trip around Ireland, I found this skull on a stone - why it was there I do not know, hehe. I used my chance anyway!
See how I created this image here:
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Still raiding the archives on my old spare laptop. Allegedly my mended one is coming back today I've had a text to that effect from the "KnowHow Team" but I won't hold my breath.
Photo taken back in Island Wood, Co. Cork. A White-tailed Bumble bee queen heading towards her nest hole HBBBT!
In den Sommerferien 2009 frisch nachdem man alleine Kfz bewegen durfte, ging es ins oberbayerische Dieselparadies, wo damals noch alte Herrlichtkeit herrschte, was man vom Knowhow und Wetter nicht so behaupten kann.
Jedoch gelangen an jenem 28. August 2009 ein paar brauchbare Fotos.
So konnten wir bei Heilligenstadt die mit XXL DB Logo ausgestattete 225 094 mit dem 56516 (Kastl -Mühldorf) vor typischer Kulisse festhalten.
225 094 hat nach dem Ende im DB Konzern den Absprung geschafft und fährt bis heute unter privater Flagge weiter. Allerdings nicht mehr in verkehrsrot.
Vanaf de koudste foto van het afgelopen jaar naar de warmste. Toen ik op 16 juni vorig jaar klaar stond om de Athus trein buiten te trekken van de Noordzeeterminal bleek dat deze nog niet helemaal klaar was. M.a.w., ik had nog wel enkele minuten om de loc van dienst even op het nevenliggend spoor te rangeren. Daar had Crossrail een spoor vol gezet met Uacns-wagons die gebruikt worden op de trafiek naar Ineos in Geel. Je zou het haast niet zeggen maar op een luttele 10cm van de buffers van de wagens zette ik de loc stil om vervolgens bovenstaande foto te nemen. Het verse buffervet dat ook langs de andere kant van de loc op de buffers was aangebracht wou ik namelijk niet gebruiken om wagens van de concurrentie te onderhouden.
Het leek me wel leuk om eens een Railtraxx class in Captrain livrei voor een Crossrail-trein te zetten. Tot voor kort was dit nog niet gebeurd, zij het bij wagens die in samenwerking met Crossrail van/naar Woippy in het SNCF MLMC verkeer overgedragen worden. Wat toen dus iets unieks leek, geschiedt dezer dagen meerdere malen per week. Sinds 6 februari, de dag waarop deze trafiek plotsklaps werd opgestart, rijdt Railtraxx de bediening van lijn 207. Voor zij die het interesseren, nog steeds op dezelfde uren als Crossrail dat deed, op voorwaarde dat de locomotief etc. het doet. ;-)
In de achtergrond is de salpeterzuur installatie te zien op de site van BASF. Een deel van de salpeterzuur installaties is eigendom van het Russische EuroChem, dat de meststoffen uitbaat, maar de productie is blijkbaar in handen van BASF personeel. Te weten dat zwavelzuur een bestanddeel kan uitmaken van explosieven maakt dat de Russen hierbij hun knowhow wel kunnen uitbuiten.
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Strange times meet strange clouds. Noctilucent or ‘night shining’ clouds (NLC) are captured over Knowlton Church in Dorset, UK, by astrophotographer Ollie Taylor in the early hours of 22 June.
A summer phenomenon, these rare clouds are visible when the Sun is below the viewer’s horizon, shining light on these tenuous wisps. First mentioned in 1885, just two years after the Krakatoa volcanic eruption, one of the most destructive on record, they were once considered a rare meteorological phenomenon. The clouds have been sited more frequently over the past few years, linked by many to increased greenhouse gas emissions.
Thanks to a dedicated network of NLC trackers, including live space weather updates, Czech-based NLC webcam observations and a Facebook group, Ollie got a great night’s worth of photography.
“It was an excellent night of shooting, arriving at location in the evening already greeted by noctilucent clouds better than I had previously seen in the south of England,” says Ollie.
Taken between 2 and 2:50am, the clouds lend a ghostly glow to the 12th century church in the middle of a Neolithic henge monument. “The electric blue complemented the misty landscape and eerie structure,” Ollie says of this picture-perfect moment.
But what exactly is a noctilucent cloud?
NLCs form in the mesosphere, the upper and more complex part of Earth’s atmosphere. While the lower atmosphere warms during this period, atmospheric circulation pushes air upwards, where it expands and cools. This means the mesosphere is cold enough for water vapour to freeze into clouds of ice crystals that form on meteoric dust and other particles found at the so called edge of space.
The rarefied atmosphere at these altitudes is electrically charged and some of these charges are transferred to the ice crystals, creating a so-called dusty plasma in the region.
Considered the fourth state of matter, plasma – or electrically charged gas – is ubiquitous in the universe. In order to study dusty plasmas, scientists have taken plasma research to low Earth orbit, where weightlessness allows particles to be suspended and more easily studied.
The Plasma Kristall-4 experiment, a joint European-Russian endeavour since 2006, has just run its 10th campaign on the International Space Station. The recipe is simple: apply electrical current to create a plasma-filled tube and coax dust particles to behave like atoms and form three-dimensional crystal structures. By adjusting the voltage across the experiment chamber, scientists can tailor their interactions and observe each particle as if in slow motion. Using PK-4, researchers across the world can follow how matter melts, how waves spread in fluids and how flows change at the atomic level.
A team of scientists has already made use of the technical knowhow gained from developing the ISS experiment, to build plasma devices that disinfect wounds at room temperature. This revolution in healthcare has many practical applications, from food hygiene to treatment of skin diseases, water purification and even neutralising bad odours.
As for these noctilucent clouds, they are visible from Earth and also in space. ESA astronauts Luca Parmitano and Tim Peake also took pictures of the clouds during their missions on board the International Space Station.
Credits: Ollie Taylor
Walter Percy Chrysler, whose amazing career as a locomotive machinist, who purchased a locomotive in 1908 that he took apart and reassembled serval times before using it, was hired by Charles Nash of Buick part of General Motors in 1911 to use his intellect and mechanical knowhow to solve engineering & production problems. When founder William Durant returned to helm at GM in 1916 Chrysler was made president and general manager of Buick. Resigned in 1919 because of direction Durant was taking GM. Hired to rescue ailing Willys-Overland, which he did and was financially rewarded, though he failed to take it over. Then he worked with another ailing automotive company Maxwell which he would eventually acquire successfully and eventually became Chrysler Corporation. Chrysler envisioned an amazing skyscraper in New York City (he was living in Great Neck on Long Island) that would when he brought this property on 42nd Street from Coney Island developer William H. Reynold for $2 million and he hired William Van Allen to design his crowning jewel, the 1,048 foot Art Deco masterpiece with its massive 125 foot spire. The tallest building in the world until the Empire State Building opened in 1931, the lighting in the upper windows did not happen until late in the 20th century that is seen in this image captured by Grand Central Terminal. OM Systems Olympus OM-D EM-1 Mark III Olympus OM Systems Olympus M.Zuiko PRO 12-40 f2.8 #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @mpbcom @kehcamera @nycurbanism @nycprimeshot @nybucketlist #omd #olympus #olympusphotography #microfourthirds #micro43 #micro43photography @chrysler_building @chryslerbuildingtoday
Bob took us shopping to the village market this morning at 8am to avoid the worst of the heat (& the tourists). The stall you see on the left sells all things Provençal (soap, table cloths, tea towels, lavender, etc.). I was standing at this spot for almost 30 minutes with Bob while my partner was queueing to the left of the shot at the cheese stall. It always takes an age buying cheese from that particular seller as it's so popular; she takes her time in explaining the cheeses and how to keep them and when to eat them and then packages them up very daintily. Her prices are the best of the market. Such top service but oh, the queueing....especially when you have a very fidgety puppy who still hasn't fully understood the meaning of the word 'SIT!'. The word 'bio' on the board for the olive stand is the equivalent to 'organic' in the UK. A.O.P. is a specific marque for products that are produced with a knowhow specific for the region, which gives them their characteristics in the same geographical area (or something like that!).
Happy Tuesdays all round!
EU provided assistance to Bandipur in 1990s for its metamorphosis to a tourist destination. Hydra in Greece and Riomaggiore in Italy provided advisory for the facelift of Bandipur.
Abandoned buildings were renovated and converted to restaurants and guesthouses, and the entry of vehicles into the stone-paved main street / bazar area was prohibited. Cafes and restaurants now place tables outdoor. I presume these are European knowhow and influence. Bazar area that may have been bustling with people like Indra Chowk in Kathmandu turned into a tourist area. Bandipur was revived like a living museum of old Newar town.
It is a popular destination for domestic tourists as the town is not far from the largest cities of Kathmandu and Pokhara and, in my opinion, has some mood of Europe. New hotels are now being built in the surroundings. Bandipur has survived, and it is regarded as a success story of town rejuvenation.
France is a country where the wine from differents areas is tasty. It is an old tradition in France with a know-how from century and century.
This house you can not escape it when you pass in front, you can buy wine in this place but do not forget :
"drink or drive you must make your choice !"
Sometimes we need to dig into our archive and do some rework with the current knowhow ... ;-)
Lens used : SIGMA 10-20mm ... the nose was about 20cm away from my lens only.. ;-)
Shipbuilding on Zanzibar - everything, without exception, is made by hand, with very simple tools and a lot of knowhow and experience of the master builders.
Stai organizzando una serata o una festa con gli amici e sai bene che la musica é fondamentale per creare la giusta atmosfera, ma non puoi permetterti un DeeJey, come puoi fare ? Semplice usi Mixere e autoproduci gratis in maniera professionale...
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Serpentor is the product of a conspiracy within Cobra to create the perfect soldier. A cabal of Cobra scientists led by Dr. Mindbender and Destro raided just about every tomb to contain history's greatest warriors. They scrounged every scrap of DNA they could that would serve as the genetic blueprint of this super soldier. Thanks to Mindbender's genius, Serpentor is imbued with the memories and experience of these legendary men.
Serpentor possesses acute military genius, courage, daring, charisma, political knowhow and fighting prowess that easily overshadows Cobra Commander's. His creators neglected to take into consideration that the warriors from which Serpentor's DNA come from also happen to be cunning and ruthless leaders with huge ambitions. For in Serpentor's blood, it calls forth in him the glory of conquest... the conquest of the world.
They normally count a tree's age by the rings through the trunk. This old yew is so old that even the rings in the tree have expired and it is totally hollow. You can walk through it. Yet it lives as is evident by it voluminous canopy. It stands like an old man leaning bent on two walking sticks in the church yard of St Mary's in Astbury, which, as a Grade 1 Listed building is one of the finest in the country. Its history is here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Astbury . They say the tree is over 1000 years old and it is a warning to all those who cherish humans living longer and longer. In perhaps a hundred years when they have the health programmes and medical knowhow to help humans live until they are 1000 years old, this might be what you will look like. All those vitamins and supplements might not leave you with a body beautiful.
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It is fun to have fun.
But you have to know how.
- Seuss - the Cat in the Hat, in The Cat in the Hat (1957)
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose. -
Dr. Seuss - narrator, Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (1990)
In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away. - Shing Xiong
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. - Unknown
Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it
hurts you, it probably hurts the person too. - Unknown
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours – Zig Ziglar.
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Shot at the equivalent of 50mm f/0.8ish.
If everything goes right, I should be able to do the big reveal of what I've been up to with these "strange lenses" tomorrow. Here's the big hint, though -- when you rule out the impossible, the improbable must be true. It's impossible that I've had the time or the knowhow to literally sit in a lab and grind out glass. What I've done is the repurposing of existing tools to achieve a very different effect. It's like when someone figured out that if you take a fast 50mm lens, reverse it, and put it on another lens, you get a powerful macro option.
The good news, then, is that while certain tools will dramatically help this effect, you don't need to buy any equipment solely for it. I'm sure one of you will figure out exactly what I've done in the next 30 seconds now -- you're too darned clever. After all, I've ruled out all but one possibility, mathematically speaking. Just remember this is real, optical DoF, not photoshop blur.
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A number of geese live along the River Itchen in Southampton. In first comment box another couple with cute goslings but I couldn't handle the bright morning light on the water.
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The Mustang's owner was very excited about this, concluding that "bitchin'" was the only word that could really describe what was happening. 261's old enough to be that Mustang's mother, but, two nice examples of mid-century American knowhow, I suppose.
Comp leaves plenty to be desired, but, you get what you can take when you're not first to the photo line.
While any self respecting nation or city state has a least a small skyfleet to patrol their own airspace, few can lay claim to be the equal off the dwarves of the steel mountains. Thanks to their significant technical and magical knowhow, the short mountainfolk are capable of constructing some truly impressive displays of magitech: huge ironclads over a hundred meters in length, powered by massive elemental engines and armed with heavy spellcannons capable of delivering a devastating broadside. While they might not be as advanced as the ships produced by the storm elves or the gnomes, or as fast as an dark elven raider, the heavy rune-reinforced steel plating grants the vessels a toughness only matched by the dwarves themselves.
In Belgium, as in the United States, mainly in Wallonie, we have technicians, small, but brave , capable of resolving the most complex problems engendered by the new technologies...
En Belgique, comme aux Etats-Unis, principalement en Wallonie, nous avons des techniciens, petits mais courageux, capables de résoudre les problèmes les plus complexes engendrés par les nouvelles technologies...
En informatique, le mot boot (apocope du mot anglais bootstrap, nom qui désigne la languette des chaussures pour pouvoir les enfiler plus facilement), désigne la procédure de démarrage d'un ordinateur.
In computing, the word boot (apocope of the English bootstrap word, the name which appoints the tongue of shoes to be able to thread them more easily), indicate the procedure of starting up of a computer.
I feel a bit like this sign in Homebase, I've lost my Flickr mojo. Sincere apologies to my wonderful Flickr friends for my lack of commenting lately, normal service will be resumed shortly I promise. According to the PC World KnowHow (know nothing) Team my laptop will be coming back this Thursday after nearly a month away being repaired HWW & HSS!
This amazing bridge made sublimely out of hand-curved stone is located a few kilometers away from the city of Xanthi, on the old county road that connects Drama and Xanthi via Stavroupoli ... 54 of them exist at the broader area, most of them created throughout Turkish occupation (about 4 to 5 hundred years ago) by Greek craftsmen that were true experts in creating those elegant and unique constructions ...
They were based upon original Roman patterns ... Without a shadow of a doubt Romans will always remain the best Bridge builders ever !!! But only an experienced and armed with extreme technical ability team of builders possessed the absolute knowhow to construct them ... and those builders were coming from Ipiros, Greece ... Turks placed utmost confidence on their artfulness and let them wander uninhibited from place to place in order to create elegant constructions like the above one ...
It is said that once they started building a construction and the person who placed the order refused to pay them, their only reaction was to stop working !!! No one could fill their shoes and so the scrooge behaving "master" simply had to give in ... Their technical expertise was truly unique !!!!
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We all have our origin story in this hobby... for me, I "cut my teeth" railfanning in my hometown of Reedsburg, Wisconsin the mid-2000s, watching the tri-weekly Wisconsin and Southern local working the various industries in town. Reedsburg was the end of the branch from Madison, which was former the C&NW Route of the 400s, fallen from grace a bit. The MALPM (for Madison Area Local PM Job) ran as a turn three days a week - typically Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoon/evenings in this era.
There was many an evening where a horn for the South Dewey Avenue crossing a mile to the south of our home would be heard by my attentive ears, usually quickly followed by the words "Can we go watch the train?" And most of the time my very patient father would be kind enough to hop in the car with me and spend perhaps an hour watching the crews work Lakeside Canning, Hartje Lumber, and Pace Plastics, and very occasionally Midwest Hardwoods or the Reedsburg Co-op in Potash season. He'd usually bring the paper or a book to read or on some Sunday evenings we'd listen to the Sunday night "Game of the Week" baseball game on ESPN radio. Though as I recall every once and a while my dad would be the first one to yell through the house "the train's in town!" when that distant horn could be heard, so I suspect at least some of the time he must have enjoyed it himself... or perhaps he just enjoyed seeing me happy.
When we got our first (pretty cheap) digital cameras I started taking photos of course, but as a pre-teenager without much understanding of composition or much technical knowhow, most of the images from that era are best mostly for the memories. But this image is one I've always liked, of the WSOR 2052 on the MAPM 29 crossing Main Street (STH 33) on May 29, 2005. That's Downtown Reedsburg over the Baraboo River in the background left.
The standard power was a combination of either one or two GP38s or SD20s that the WSOR rostered at the time, and I was always glad to see the SD20s especially.
The crew may have been running up here to the end of the in-place track to service Lakeside Foods, a cannery that used to ship a lot of cars in canning season when I first started foaming. I think by this date their traffic was waning though, and so it's possible the crew was actually running up here so they could walk to the Kwik Trip a block away for lunch. That wasn't an uncommon occurrence... "to polish the rails" as the regular conductor once put it.
That continued until somewhere circa 2008 or 2009, when I can remember going home from school one day in the winter and finding a GP38 sitting derailed on one of the crossings just to the east of here... ice in the flange had gotten them as they made their lunch run! Shortly thereafter a red board went up by the depot to keep anything from going any further than needed to serve the active industries, and so I don't think anything has traveled over the pictured crossing in more than a decade now. When I was back to visit my folks a couple days before Christmas 2020, the crossing signals were being removed for this and several other crossings on the inactive track. While the east side of Reedsburg continues to be a busy traffic generator for the WSOR, it appears the days of trains running to the west side of Reedsburg are over, unfortunately. So I'm glad to have an image like this to remember it by at least.
A rather large slug making his way up the inside of our polytunnel. It was rehomed to the "wild" part of the garden after I took the photo HBBBT!
Still no laptop, Team KnowHow from Currys PC World know very little it turns out. I got a text from them on Monday saying they would be "with me" today - yippee I thought, my laptop is finally coming back. At 8am today I get a text saying it had been received at their UK repair centre (a courier collected it from my house 12 days ago) followed by a phone call 2 minutes later from a courier saying where was I located as he'd got to collect a laptop from me. I said "you mean bring a laptop to me" but no he was to pick it up. I explained my laptop was in fact already in England so he needn't waste his time. I rang Team KnowHow & spoke to a young man who sounded like he was about 16 & a YTS employee so I went above him & spoke to a manager. Apparently I should have my laptop back on the 7th September. They really don't know their @rse from their elbow. I need to lie down in a dark room now.