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The Isola San Giorgio Maggiore has always intrigued me. It is definitely one of the iconic sights to see in Venice. The island has been occupied since 829 and the church, with its bell tower, was built in 1566. This was taken one morning as the sun began to rise over the beautiful historic city!!
I continue to be busy trying to lend support to a Presidential candidate here in the USA and getting ready for a new trip to India. Southern India will be my destination this time. I miss my daily contact with every one, but probably won't be back on schedule until sometime in March! I continue to appreciate your support and encouragement!!!
Lendal Bridge York, North Yorkshire.
Think i took this about 8 years ago and just found it again. Aint got a clue what i took it on.
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this silly hand, which is flexible, belonged to my mom... I found it in a desk drawer and it called out to me... the perfect image for Macro Monday - Keychain...
I miss my mom so much... she is always with me.
1/23/1914 - 10/16/2003
She was so talented and an amazing seamstress... made all my clothes growing up and many bridal gowns and their wedding party... she could do just about anything.... and thankfully, I took after her... except for the sewing garments... but I've made a ton of quilts!
Macro Monday - Keychain
Surrounded by former work companions, an old barn lends what little strength it has left to support those that remain. Older folks who meet for the first time have an instant rapport as the last decades of life ring the same bell for everyone.
Cannaregio one of the six sestieri of Venice in Veneto, Italy.
Cannaregio is the northernmost of the six historic sestieri (districts) of Venice. It is the second largest sestiere by land area and the largest by population, with 13,169 people as of 2007. Isola di San Michele, the historic cemetery island, is associated with the district.
The Cannaregio Canal, which was the main route into the city until the construction of a railway link to the mainland, gave the district its name (Canal Regio is Italian for Royal Canal). Development began in the eleventh century as the area was drained and parallel canals were dredged. Although elegant palazzos were built facing the Grand Canal, the area grew primarily with working class housing and manufacturing. Beginning in 1516, Jews were restricted to living in the Venetian Ghetto.
It was enclosed by guarded gates and no one was allowed to leave from sunset to dawn. However, Jews held successful positions in the city such as merchants, physicians, money lenders, and other trades. Restrictions on daily Jewish life continued for more than 270 years, until Napoleon Bonaparte conquered the Venetian Republic in 1797. He removed the gates and gave all residents the freedom to live where they chose.
In the 19th century, civil engineers built a street named Strada Nuova through Cannaregio, and a railway bridge and road bridge were constructed to connect Venice directly to Mestre. Today, the areas of the district along the Grand Canal from the train station to the Rialto Bridge are packed with tourists, but the rest of Cannaregio is residential and relatively peaceful, with morning markets, neighbourhood shops, and small cafés.
When you trek through the jungle of Khao Sok National Park, in Surat Thani, Thailand, you are often in semi-darkness amongst overhanging foliage. It's a welcome sight to see the occasional glimpse of blue sky lending a lightening to the trees.
. . . at sunrise.
My recollections are of struggling with an icy wind, it being mid-autumn & myself not having not quite acclimatized for the sudden plunge in temperature after summer (happens every year to me).
A few of you will remember a similar image, taken with the sun having gained strength & thus lending significantly more general contrast to the scene; although far more subdued, this earlier shot records the moment when the sun has barely broken the horizon & is only just beginning to fire up the afterburners.
Having left our cases at the Hilton we wandered into York over the river Ouse via Lendal bridge looking for lunch. This pleasure boat was passing with very few passenger onboard. It is a tourist picture but there again we are on holiday.
Lendal Bridge is a beautiful bridge that crosses the River Ouse. Constructed and opened in 1863 ,the second of three modern bridges constructed, it's a great piece of architecture, very busy,offers great views of the River Ouse ...
After a rescue mission from the previous night, MBTA 1137 is returning home to Boston after spending the night in Brunswick, Maine... well off of commuter territory in Amtrak's hands.
One of the Dukesfield Viaduct Murals, painted on a support pillar beneath the Silver Jubilee Bridge at Runcorn, provides a striking counterpoint to a Transport for Wales Class 197 crossing the adjacent railway bridge with a Chester – Liverpool Lime Street service on 18 October 2025.
9011, 9006 and 9012 power upgrade banking the sparingly used Whitehaven Coal owned but PN operated coal set operating service WH902 (led by WH class locos WH001, WH002 and WH003), seen at Kankool at 1119 on Monday the 3rd of July 2023. These bankers were attached just around the corner at Chilcotts Creek Loop, and will be detached at Ardglen, the summit of the steep 1:40 Ardglen Bank.
PN and Aurizon attach bankers to Newcastle bound coal and grain services at Chilcotts Creek Loop to give them a shove over the steep 1:40 grade. The locos are detached just around the corner from where I took this photo. SSR also have bankers for their daily grain trains over this bank, but are attached at Werris Creek and detached at Pages River Loop due to the lack of siding space at Chilcotts Creek.
The 90 class face an uncertain future due to their lack of ECP braking capabilities, a technology which ARTC intend to make universal on coal trains on their network within coming years, a technology that the 90s cannot have fitted outside of a major rebuild. Coupled with the continued obsolescence of their DC traction package and their extremely heavy weight (by Australian standards) of 164t or 177t (the latter weight is a modification fitted to several examples which allows their tractive effort to be equal to that of a unit with AC traction) makes them too heavy to work anywhere outside of the Hunter Valley coal network (Narrabri-Newcastle) with little exception. What will happen is unclear as Pacific National have made conflicting statements and actions regrading whether the locomotives will be rebuilt or withdrawn from service in the near future, with members of the class coming in and out of storage, although none as of the time of writing (03/07/23) have been scrapped. In addition to normal coal services, since 2020 three 90s at a time have been dedicated to banking duties for loaded coal trains over the steep Ardglen Bank. These locomotives are based at Chilcotts Creek loop (with Aurizon's bankers based there as well) when not required.