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Old cemetery Freiburg, Germany. Black and white version. Can`t really decide if I like black and white or colour better...
...this pic, and song, is for those of you that have lost a loved one. The song was written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings after the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a 53-story window. For all of you that have felt the hurt and pain from the loss of a loved one, I dedicate this to you.
~~~ Tears In Heaven ~~~
These are pictures Terry has sent to me over the years that we have been friends.
This is one of the many poems he has sent to me also.
Tears fall from Heaven
From the Savior’s eyes
Passing through the sunlight
Made a rainbow in the sky.
Jesus Christ is weeping
For us He’s shedding tears
He’s been crying for humanity
The last two thousand years.
His tears for the sinner
The ones who won’t believe
Tears for all the children
Who are tempted and deceived.
The rainbow made with teardrops
From the Savior up above
A constant reminder to us
His sign of precious love.
The archway to paradise
The rainbow in the sky
Jesus will be waiting
His hand for you and I.
The rainbow holds the earth
So we won’t drift apart
A constant reminder to us
God’s pouring out His heart.
The rainbow in the sky
Tears shed for you and me
Started back two thousand year
Upon the dogwood tree.
Tears of total forgiveness
He shed for you and I
You can see them still today
Each rainbow in the sky/
By: Terry D. VanHaute
Iron Mountain, Michigan
When I saw this scene something about the stillness, the light and the setting spoke to me of loss. Since the Princess was with me I thought mainly of those who lose a young child and I couldn't imagine the pain that must cause. My heartfelt sympathies to all of who have lost a child.
I love Susan's (aka mothernature) words much better than mine: It is a vision of what used to be.
Thanks for your friendship and visits.
February 2007, Hoytville, Ohio
"for god & country"
Hoytville had a population of 296 in the year 2000.
2006 was my first time walking the trails above a friend's home in Ben Lomond, CA. It was a magical experience. It remains embedded in my senses... the soft air on my skin, the loamy smell rising with every step, the birdsongs and rustle of furry beings, that feeling of being surrounded by beauty beyond comprehension, wanting to hold on to it, but knowing existentially that was impossible.
I believed it was only the moment I could not keep... that everything would remain to return to and enjoy.
And, now, in a flash, all this may be gone. Seventy miles away, safe in my suburban home, I can smell the trees burning. I can see the orange of their embers stain the sky an alien color.
I cry for the wildlife. I cry for my friends not knowing if their home, one that has been in their family through generations, still stands.
I look at my snapshots, remembering that, at the time, I thought I can always go back and take better photos with a better camera and, then, never doing it.
The lesson is, there may never be a next time.
EDIT: My friends' home miraculously survived. The surrounding forest and most of their neighbors' homes did not.
The loss of a loved one by a dear friend colored my view of an oncoming storm. This was once the site of many Wetland photos, but now I'm on a busy bridge instead of quiet country road...
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Isolated and unused on the open prairie, an old barn seems to ponder the setting sun, a closing down of yet another day and also its usefulness. Older people often flounder when they no longer are raising children or working at a job. A new sense of usefulness has to be discovered.
I mourn the loss of light as the clocks fall back and winter approaches. Yet the grey gloom makes the leaves shine like old gold and the tattered clouds appear like dragon’s breath. Remnants of smoke dragged across the sky. There is beauty at this time of year.
"How do we know that to cling to life is not an error? Perhaps our fear of its end approaching is like forgetting our way and not knowing how to return home.....Someday will come a great awakening when we will know this life was like a dream..."
excerpt from 'The Te of Piglet' by Benjamin Hoff
Once upon a memory
someone wiped away a tear,
held me close and loved me.
Thank you, mother dear.
(author unknown)
7 Days with Flickr - Friday: flora
(photo by Freya)
Heritage "Kraesgenberg", a unique culture park in the little town Losser.
This building is a wood-fired 17th century peasant bread oven.
"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that"
~Martin Luther King Jr.~
When the sun gets drops behind the mountains, the feel and focus of an area seems to change quickly. As the valley begins to fill with shade, the wonderful golden light and bright blue hues give way to more muted colours, creating the opportunity to direct the viewers attention. Sometimes the mountains create a spotlight for you to play with. Or, well, that's the theory.
On the other hand, I just really love those blue green tones and back lit trees.
Shot with a Canon 5D IV, 24-70 f/2.8L ii, and a LEE polarizer. Processed in Camera Raw and Photoshop.
A forgotten wheelchair on the entrance of the hospital my grandfαther was hospitalised for the last time...
film, 2015
Nikon FM, nikkor 50mm 1.8
The streaked bulbul, or green-backed bulbul, is a songbird species in the bulbul family. It is found on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.
Scientific name: Ixos malaccensis
Conservation status: Near Threatened (Population decreasing)
For Macro Mondays: The flowers are 1/2 inch long. (It’s damaged because I didn’t water it enough and the flowers wilted.)
For Macro Mondays Theme - Pick Two - Damaged Plant
119 Pictures in 2019 - Theme No. 13 - Bedraggled
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart and you shall see that, in truth, you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
-- Kahlil Gibran
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For Sigi and the Kolbes...there is never an adequate answer to the question, "Why?"...
Habitat is a “home ground” or an environment in which an organism or group of species normally lives or occurs. In this sense, a habitat is any particular place that supports animal or plant life. From the habitat is where plants or animals get their survival essentialities such as water, food, shelter, and breeding grounds.
Different plant or animal species have different necessities for water, shelter, nesting and food. Thus, each and every plant or animal is adapted to survive in a specific kind of habitat. For instance, some turtles live in the seas while others live on land. Some plants grow in the deserts, some in the seas, and some in swampy areas. This shows different species have different needs. Examples of habitats include oceans, streams, or forests.
When a habitat is dramatically altered due to natural or anthropogenic activities such as earthquakes, agriculture, pollution or oil exploration, these places may no longer be able to provide shelter, food, water, or breeding grounds for the living organisms.
Such kind of events lessens the places where plants or animals such as wildlife can live and threatens the survival of various species. That sort of habitat degradation or fragmentation is what is termed as habitat loss and destruction. Habitat loss and destruction are influenced by several drivers which include:
1. Agriculture
Agricultural production has claimed much space of the natural habitat since settlers began converting forests and grasslands to croplands. In the modern world, the pressure to convert lands into resource areas for producing priced foods and crops has increasingly led to habitat loss.
Runoff of agricultural waste, fertilizers, and pesticides into marine and freshwater environments has also transformed streams and water systems. As a result, there has been a tremendous loss of natural crop species, aquatic life, and wildlife habitat.
2. Animal Waste, Sewage, Fertilizer, and Mining Waste Pollution
Marine and freshwater life forms are the most affected by pollution. Pollutants from animal waste, untreated sewage, fertilizers, pesticides, and heavy metals find way into wetlands and water systems and subsequently end up in the food web.
Animal wastes and fertilizers generate nutrients that cause an outburst in algae growth that depletes dissolved oxygen in aquatic systems. Mining wastes may also contain heavy metals that affect the health and breeding of aquatic organisms. Sewage sediments may destroy dwelling grounds of aquatic animals.
3. Industrial and Automobile Pollution
The majority of animal and plant habitats have been destroyed due to the toxic substances and chemicals emitted from industries and automobiles that pose long-term cumulative impacts on the species health. Seriously polluted regions have become dead zones since the conditions have become very harsh for biotic survival. A prime example is an acidic lake which cannot support aquatic life forms. In some areas, only a few organisms can survive owing to the cumulative effects of industrial and automobile pollution.
4. Water Projects
The development of water projects such as hydropower plants, dam construction, and water diversion frequently disconnect or draw off waters thereby altering water chemistry and hydrology. This is because such water projects limit the amount of water and nutrients running downstream.
The downstream section of the river can dry out and the nutrients supporting aquatic life can significantly reduce. As an outcome, gradual habitat loss happens as the water flows downstream.
5. Land Use and Development
The conversion of lands into urban settings, housing developments, office spaces, shopping malls, industrial sites, parking areas, road networks, and so on takes away the naturally occurring land that provided habitat for wildlife and other living organisms. This practice has substantially led to the loss and destruction of millions of acre of natural habitable environments.
6. Global Warming
Global warming is one of the recent leading causes of habitat loss since it changes the physical environmental factors such as temperature and moisture which are essential for a sustainable habitat.
For instance, wildlife that requires cool temperatures of high elevations such as the rock rabbit and mountain gorillas may in the near future run out of habitat due to global warming. Excessive rains, flooding or drought arising out of global warming have also impacted several habitats, contributing to the loss of wildlife and other living organisms.
7. Diversity Loss and Invasive Species
When a certain ecosystem which is home to numerous species collapse, more aggressive species may enter the territory. As the original species struggle to cope in a harsher environment, the invasive species contributes to a further and rapid decline of the habitat and subsequently dominates.
The explosive entry of invasive species into a habitat presents a strong threat to the native species as they struggle to survive in the increasingly changing environment. Invasive species directly competes for food with the native species and can also alter the structure of the habitat.
8. Vegetation Removal and Logging
Vegetation removal and logging destroy the structure of the habitat since it takes away the vital materials and natural systems responsible for replenishing and purifying the habitat. Removal of vegetation cover and logging also creates room for soil erosion and decrease stormwater infiltration which leads to the degradation of water quality, further destroying the habitat.
9. Dredging and Bottom Trawling Fishing
Dredging and bottom trawling fishing gives rise to the physical destruction of the dwelling, feeding and breeding areas for aquatic plants and animals. The displaced sediments may further smother the bottom dwelling organisms. Fish gills can as well become blocked with sediments and plant life activity is reduced due to limited light.
Dredging might also release underground toxic materials into aquatic habitats. Besides, bottom trawling fishing can by-catch unmarketable fish which turns out to be the food for other bigger fish in that particular underwater habitats.
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The greater sand plover (Charadrius leschenaultii) is a small wader in the plover family of birds.
It breeds in the semi-deserts of Turkey and eastwards through Central Asia. It nests in a bare ground scrape. This species is strongly migratory, wintering on sandy beaches in East Africa, South Asia and Australasia. It is a rare vagrant in western Europe, where it has been recorded as far west as Great Britain, France and Iceland. It has been spotted twice in North America, the most recent being on May 14, 2009, in Jacksonville, Florida.
This species is fully migratory, and is likely to migrate without stopping on a broad front between breeding and non-breeding areas . Migratory flocks form after the end of breeding between mid-June and early-August, and arrive in the wintering grounds between mid-July and November (adults and immature birds arriving before juveniles. Those birds wintering in South-East Asia start moving northwards to the breeding grounds in late-February (the migration peaking in March to early-April), arriving from mid-March to May; whereas those wintering in East Africa and southern Asia depart for breeding grounds from mid-April to early-May. Most non-adult wintering birds remain in the wintering areas during the breeding season . The species is typically gregarious, feeding in flocks of 2-50, and sometimes congregating in groups of up to 1,000 when roosting (Urban et al. 1986, del Hoyo et al. 1996). Habitat Breeding During the breeding season this species is predominantly found in open, dry, treeless, uncultivated areas up to 3,000 m , including dried mud, silt and clay flats, hard salt-pans overgrown with halophytic plants , and rocky plains near mountains in desert or semi-desert . In Turkey the species frequents heavily grazed saline steppe . The species usually breeds near water but exceptionally it will nest up to 20 km away from it. Non-breeding During the non-breeding season this species shows a preference for littoral habitats with mixed sand and mud substrata . It is found on sheltered sandy, shelly or muddy beaches, large intertidal mudflats, sandbanks, salt-marshes, estuaries, coral reefs, rocky islands, tidal lagoons and dunes near the coast , although it may sometimes feed on coastal grasslands . Whilst on migration the species will occasionally utilise inland habitats such as salt-lakes and brackish swamps, usually roosting on sandbanks and spits . Diet This species is carnivorous: during the breeding season its diet consists mainly of terrestrial insects and their larvae (especially beetles, termites, midges and ants), and occasionally lizards whereas during the non-breeding season its diet contains mainly marine invertebrates such as molluscs (snails), worms and crustaceans (such as shrimps and crabs). Breeding site The nest is a shallow scrape on the ground amongst sand-hills, gravel, or on other barren substrates.
Been wanting to do this shoot for a while now, today was 'warm' enough to do it. Well done Marian for braving the freezing water! This is quite a romantic and nostalgic idea...underlining the fact that loosing the perceptions of childhood is a bad idea! ;)
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Pan Am's flag fell today but just shy of two years ago we lost this road to another Class 1 buyout. I'd respectfully argue this was the bigger loss. I only got to see it once, and just days before the buyout at that. I'm sooo glad I made the effort in the midst of covid to go see then for the first and last time. Here is another frame from that day and the caption I wrote at the time with something I shared long ago:
Central Maine and Quebec Railway westbound Job 1 is departing Jackman at MP 73.6 on the Moosehead Subdivision with the Canadian crew on board having just swapped out with the crew that brought the train over from Brownville Jct. At left is the original Canadian Pacific station erected in 1910, now unused and derelict it amazingly was a stop for VIA Rail's Atlantic until 1994.
I was fortunate to photograph three trains on the Moosehead this day including this Job 1 with pure CMQ power, an SD40-2F "barn" and both of the road's AC400CWs. Job 2 featured a tired CP AC4400CW leader, a CMQ barn, another CP unit and a leader geep.
This would be my first and last chance to photograph the CMQ Railway on their last weekend of existence as the Canadian Pacific is taking back over their historic property on June 4th. And while it is going to be sad to see the CMQ go I suppose if anyone was to have to take over it is kind of nice to see a Class 1 return to Maine and on a line that was historically their own.
Construction began in 1886 on the International Railway of Maine (a CPR subsidiary) and was completed in June 1889. This route in conjunction with the purchase of several smaller roads to the east and the west in Canada and trackage rights over the Maine Central's former Eurpean & North American Railway line between Mattawamkeag and Vanceboro. This route across Maine gave CPR access to the ice free port of St. John, New Brunswick and made the road a true Transcontinental System.
For the next century the line would be an important link in CPR's network and as late as 1974 they continued to invest in the property when they purchased the former E&NA route that they had maintained trackage rights on for 85 years between Mattawamkeag and Vanceboro. However, within a decade CP Rail was seeing dramatic declines in traffic on its eastern lines and in 1988 the CP created an internal shortline known as the Canadian Atlantic Railway to operate all lines east of Megantic, QC in Maine, New Brunswick, & Nova Scotia. Over the next few years nearly all the branch lines in those two provinces were abandoned. By 1993, traffic had declined on the CAR's Saint John-Montreal route to fewer than 25,000 carloads per year (including Via Rail's Atlantic). This amount of traffic was unsustainable for the route, forcing CP Rail to apply for abandonment with U.S. and Canadian regulators, however the company was denied in lieu of selling the track to another operator. Several short line railroad companies subsequently entered into negotiations with CP Rail to purchase the entire CAR.
Negotiations for purchasing the lines in New Brunswick, Maine and Quebec with the short line operators fell through in early 1994 and CP Rail reapplied for abandonment of its line across Maine between Saint John and Megantic, later extended west to Lennoxville. An abandonment date of December 31, 1994, was established should no purchaser be found in the interim.
Ultimately in January 1995 two buyers were found which kept the historic route intact but split it between two operators. All trackage east of Brownville Jct. became the property of J.D. Erving limited which operated the lines seamlessly as the Eastern Maine Railway and New Brunswick Southern Railway.
Meanwhile the Moosehead Subdivision to the west and the CP lines in Quebec were sold to the Iron Road Railways which operated them as subsidiary Canadian American. Iron Road would also come to purchase other CP lines in Quebec and Vermont as well as the entire the Bangor and Aroostook system creating a more than 800 mile long system. However, this network would prove no more viable to Iron Roads than it was to CP and by 2002 Iron Roads was bankrupt.
In January 2003 Ed Burkhart's Rail World Inc. purchased the assets and created the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway to operate them. A bit over a decade later the MMA was itself bankrupt following the horrifying disaster at Lac Megantic. In March 2014, Fortress Investment's newly formed Central Maine & Quebec Railway acquired the line from the bankruptcy trustee. Having grown business and upgraded the physical plant to again make the road financially viable Fortress put it up for sale and in a strange turn of events Canadian Pacific was the winning bidder. So 32 years after CP first spun it off into Canadian Atlantic and three more operators after that, they are back on their historic home territory! What a strange twist.
Jackman, Maine
Saturday May 30, 2020