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The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
Ginny Weasley, she's really cute and accurate too, though her head is a little loose for some reason, also her hair is not perfect like Hermione's but it's manageable, is she on a Stacie body?
It's a mobile shot tonight which I'm attempting to upload from the phone as we've got no wifi working in our flop house. Tomorrow is the big airshow at RAF Waddington, and we're overnighting locally near Lincoln for a manageable day tomorrow.
Travelodges are, in our experience, variable at best. We've experienced everything from the Good (Heathrow), the bad (Keswick) and the downright ugly (Southend). We normally try to stay at the Premier Inn which is altogether safer, but when I was booking the room in December this was all I could get.
As it goes it wasn't too bad. The water was iffy so my shower was either scalding or freezing but at least we got a room. When we turned up the receptionist basically said "Well...we're fully booked tonight and we're one room down with a blocked toilet, so someone is sleeping in the car park. But it's not you."
Phew.
Sigma 17-35mm f/2.8-4 EX DG
This lens is one that I was looking forward to testing as I have owned its predecessor for some 18 month now The exercise proves beyond doubt that Sigma are taking their programme of change to digitally enhanced models seriously and not just changing the coating and packaging! They have taken the opportunity for a major overhaul and grasped it with both hands. Here we look not just at the new lens, but also at the changes that make it a different lens!
Specifications
Focal length 17-35mm
Angle of view 103.7-63.4º
Max Aperture f/2.8Filter size 77mm
Construction 16 elements in 13 groups
Focus type Internal HSM (Sigma, Canon & Nikon)
Closest focus 27cm/1ft 1in
Size 83.5x88.7mm
Weight 0.56kg
Mount Sigma, Canon, Nikon, Minolta D, Pentax.
Tripod Bush No
Price £430
Build and handling
This lens was awarded the TIPA 2004 ‘best consumer lens in Europe’ prize on it’s announcement and on opening the box you immediately start to realise why Packed in Sigma’s sturdy soft case with a zipped top and Velcro fastened safety flap, the lens is a total re-work of the old model. Gone is the huge 82mm front, down to a much more manageable 77mm and mid way along the barrel, between the zoom ring and the focus ring, is a neat distance window replacing the etchings of the old lens. The window is marked with a useful depth-of-field scale that eliminates the guesswork.
The lens is also more barrel shaped than its cone shaped predecessor, enhancing the solid look and making both the zoom and focus rings the same diameter. The ribbed grip on both rings is a practical pattern that is varied by coarseness, the zoom being the larger pattern than the focus, which is the front of the two. I always feel that this is a useful tactile difference. The zoom ring is marked at 17, 20, 24, 28 and 35mm.
The only control on the lens, other than these rings, is the auto/manual switch for the focussing, and even this is omitted on the Nikon mount version.
The finish is Sigma’s smooth matt surface, which I have found to be hard wearing as well as smart. The supplied, shallow, petal-shaped hood has the same finish and the bayonet fitting has been improved by the inclusion of a click stop to keep it in position. Though shallow, this hood still proved to be practical and worthwhile.
The inclusion of an HSM (HyperSonic Motor) focussing engine, which was included in the old model but seems quicker and quieter in the new, and the short distance it needs to travel in this type of lens, makes focussing virtually instant. The wide aperture helps here, allowing plenty of light in to get a very fast focus ‘fix’!
All in all, a well put together lens that felt right and was nice to use.
Optical Quality
The older lens was a nice lens, although it did gain a reputation for being a little soft at times. The new one has improved considerably. Let us not forget that this lens is classified as a DG lens and can still be used on full frame 35mm cameras despite having been optimised for digital. Like all lenses, the performance wide open is not as good as when the lens is stopped down an aperture or two and this one is no different. Once you are through the f/5.6 mark though, the sharpness cannot be faulted.
As this is a wide-angle zoom, it is good to see that the optimum performance is attained at the 17mm short end whereas most zooms are optimised for the middle of their range.
Colours are well reproduced and chromatic aberrations well controlled once the lens is closed down a stop. I found no evidence of ghosting or flare.
Verdict
Sigma have taken their upgrade program to digitally enhanced lenses seriously and used the opportunity well. This lens is a shining example in which they have addressed the criticisms of the older model and put them all right without putting the price through the ceiling. With crop factors on digital SLR’s averaging at 1.6x, this lens come out at a 27-56mm equivalent and makes a useful wide to standard walk-around zoom that retains the ability to do some good quality landscape work.
In summary the main positive points of the Sigma 17-35mm f/2.8-4 EX DG are:
Quick, quiet autofocus.
Good build quality
Useable filter size
Value for money
Best at wide end
Negative points are:
Performance with wide open aperture could be better
www.ephotozine.com/article/sigma-17-35mm-f-2-8-4-ex-dg-in...
This guy hasn't received decals yet, so while printing the J15's I printed hers and the Jinty's. The buffer beam decals are tricky to keep on but manageable.
Purchased on land contract, he secured a interest rate of only 11%, on a 15 year term keeping his payments manageable. He plans on renting out the main structure by the week, or month, through a local broker, as well as the rear shed for the next several years. This way he has a place to stay when in Florida, and an eventual retirement location near the Indian Reservation and it's supply of hot and loose Indian women. He had the house fitted with a Maco 5/8th wave CB antenna so he can keep in contact with his family back in Minnesota.
I had the pleasure of attending the Carnevale in Venice in February 2011 - what a great experience! This was about my 4th or 5th Carnevale and they keep getting better. Many of the masked characters recognized me from prior years and gave me great access for photos. I also had the chance to shoot with many others; some in masks and costumes, some face paintees, and some faces in the crowd - great fun. Because of the large number of photos I took during the Carnevale I will use a separate set for each day to make it manageable. These photos are from my first day there, Sunday, 27 February 2011.
Title: With the snip of a red ribbon, the St. Thomas Municipal Airport was officially opened in June 1972. Federal transport minister Don Jamieson, with scissors, performed the honours along with St. Thomas Mayor Eber Rice, left. Also taking part were St. Thomas Alderman Roger Cyr, airport committee chairman, second from left; Elgin MP Harold Stafford, centre; and St. Thomas Alderman Don Hitch, chairman of the St. Thomas Industrial Development Corporation, right. The airport was turned over to the city by the department of transport after more than $100,000 in capital works was spent on the Highway 3 facility. St. Thomas city council is getting ready to hear staff recommendations on the future of the aviation hub after a complete case study was presented in December 2016. The document identifies several growth opportunities for the city-owned institution. City staff are sifting through the mounds of data to come up with a manageable list of priorities to improve the airport in the years to come.
Creator(s): St. Thomas Times-Journal
Bygone Days Publication Date: March 23, 2017
Original Publication Date: June 29, 1972
Reference No.: C8 Sh4 B3 F4 21
Credit: Elgin County Archives, St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
The magic that made Concorde work (together with the Olympus 593). Low drag at supersonic speeds, could still make lift at high angles of attack to enable a manageable landing speed. Genius, and made before computational fluid dynamics could be much help.
The railway bridge that spanned Whaley Lane that was situated next to Whaley Bridge station, was replaced with a new structure over the weekend of the 7/8th November.
Here a section of the old bridge is cautiously by remote control inched down Canal Street, to Canal Wharf car park to be cut up into more manageable pieces.
7th November 2020
The post-dark age mad purchase rush has finally settled down. I spent the first half of the year panic-buying LEGO sets, and now I'm experiencing a bad, bad case of buyer's remorse.
I never really expected to go back to collecting and playing with LEGO. I don't know, it's like a brick (ha. ha.) hit me out of nowhere and the next thing I know, I'm picking up boxes and boxes of LEGO at the toy store as if they were cheap candy. I strayed away from my core interest themes and bought a lot of sets out of curiosity and just for the heck of it (6193 Castle Building Set, anyone?).
While updating my inventory last week, I realized that by recklessly buying lots of small- and mid-sized sets over the past six months, I've missed out on the big ones (e.g. Cafe Corner) that I really wanted but have always dismissed as too expensive.
So now I trimmed down my to-acquire list for the rest of the year to a semi-manageable three big sets. I'm planning to sell some of my other old and new sets as well. Not an easy thing to do, really. I'm still having a hard time stopping myself from going to the LEGO section every time I pass by a toy store.
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
When the Newhouse Tunnel, later called the Argo Tunnel, and its tributary gold mines were initially drilled, they were backbreakingly done so with a hand drill and hammer and black powder was used for blasting. Soon, pneumatic drills were developed. Compressed air was fed into the drill, which operated a piston that hammered the bit into the rock as it rotated in the chuck. Once the hole was deep enough, explosives were placed inside to break the ore into more manageable pieces. water was not used in conjunction with this particular drill to lubricate the bit so a huge amount of dust was created. The drill earned the nickname “widowmaker” because many of the men who operated the drill died from illnesses related to inhaling too much dust. Sometime later the drills were modified with a hole in the center of the drill steel and bit to allow pressurized water to turn the dust into a slurry. Dynamite became available and the tunnel was getting deeper and deeper. When electricity finally came to Idaho Springs, the tunnel had lights and the mules that had been used to pull the ore cars were replaced with electric locomotives.
The Argo Gold Mine and Mill, at 2350 Riverside Dr, is a former mine and gold that opened on April 1, 1913 at the entrance of the 4.6-mile Newhouse Tunnel, later called the Argo Tunnel. The Tunnel was built between 1893 and 1910 to drain the gold mines in Virginia Canyon, Gilpin Gulch, Russell Gulch, Quartz Hill, Nevadaville, and Central City. The mill, one of the largest and most modern in Colorado, was built by R.E. Shimer to strip the valuable metals like gold, silver, copper and lead from the ore extracted from the tunnel. Following a flooding accident in 1943 that left four miners dead, the tunnel was closed, and Argo Mill ceased operations.
The five-story mill sat abandoned until 1976 when it was purchased by James N. Maxwell, who renovated it and opened it to the public as a museum. The bottom level of the mill serves as a museum displaying mining and milling artifacts, old payroll records, milling receipts, and old photographs. After touring the Dougle Eagle mine, and the Argo Mill, visitors can pan for gold and gems.
National Register #78000836 (1978)
I followed the recipe in the River Cottage Meat book but I just found the recipe listed here: www.rivercottage.net/recipes/gills-chinese-ribs
• 1 lb Spare ribs of pork
• 2 Pig’s trotters
• 2tbsp Sunflower Oil
• 50g Light brown sugar
• 6-8 Large garlic cloves, crushed
• 5cm piece of fresh ginger root, freshly chopped
• 100ml Cider vinegar or brown rice vinegar
• 150ml Apple juice (or pineapple juice)
• 50ml Dark soy sauce
• 100ml Light soy sauce
Step 1 First you need to cut the spare ribs / trotters into manageable sections.
Step 2 Chop through the chine bone with the cleaver. Repeat for each section until you have several pieces of meat. Then split each piece into halves, again using the cleaver. Continue chopping up the ribs into halves until you have bite-size, chewable pieces.
Step 3 If you don’t have a cleaver, your butcher will happily chop the ribs up for you.
Step 4 Clean up the trotters using a knife. You can singe off hair with a Chef's blowtorch or over a gas flame. Using the cleaver, chop each trotter into 6 pieces. First cut the trotter in half lengthways (this may take a few goes!) and then chop each half into thirds.
Step 5 Heat up the sunflower oil in the frying pan. When the oil is hot, place the rib pieces and trotters in the pan. When they are lightly browned, turn them over. The rib pieces will be uneven, so keep moving them around to ensure they colour all over.
Step 6 When all the meat is lightly browned, take each piece out of the pan and place it in the large pot.
Step 7 Now it’s time to add the sweet and sour ingredients. Add the sugar, garlic, ginger, ginger syrup, cider vinegar, apple juice and soy sauce to the pot. As the dish cooks down all these flavours will mellow into a sticky, rich sauce.
Step 8 Top up the pot with water so that the pieces of meat are just covered. Add a couple of dried red chillies for heat.
Step 9 Cover the pot and cook for 2-2½ hours until the meat is tender. Then pour into a serving dish and serve.
First test roll on the M6. Metering seems optimistic by a stop, which is manageable. Otherwise, turned out alright.
Leica M6 + 50mm Summicron + Kodak T-max 100
I'm not active on Flickr anymore. My best photos can be found at: alexnichol.com
This quilt measures approximately 29"x29". 100% cotton.
I used fabric from Amy Butler's Love line. The fabric is a quilting weight, so it offers plenty of durability. The size makes it perfect for snuggling your baby, and it is a very manageable size to accompany your little bambino in the carseat.
Pretty slow progress as I try to gain ground on numerous fronts. I thought the next step would be the orangey colors near the bottom (and sorted on the cardboard sheets), but there are so many pieces. I found some smaller areas - the tan area to the right and the grey-green to the left - that were more manageable. Most recently focusing on any pieces that have lines on them. Everything is topsy-turvy.
The cut itself continues to be a challenge and I am frequently having to remove pieces which fit perfectly, but aren't correct.
Built circa 1790. Droved Craigleith sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. Channelled rustication at ground; cill course at 1st floor; simple moulded architraves; cornices at 1st floor. Pilastered doorpiece and panelled door; stylised capitals, fluted friezes with rosettes; 4-arched-pane fanlight. Timber sash and case windows.
From a plaque by the entrance: “Sir James Young Simpson lived here 1845 - 1870 and in 1847 discovered the anaesthetic power of chloroform.”
Sir James Young Simpson entered Edinburgh University in 1825, to graduate MD (1832) and proceed rapidly to the chair of midwifery (1839). Excited by the new use of sulphuric ether as an anaesthetic agent, but concerned to find a substance more manageable and effective, he self-experimented with other volatile fluids before settling on chloroform (1847). Despite its rapid popularity, his advocacy for its use in natural childbirth as well as surgical intervention led to intense criticism from moralists and theologians until Queen Victoria's delighted approbation after the delivery of her ninth child (1853). A baronetcy was bestowed in 1866. He lived here at 52 Queen Street.
The Mk. 8 was an attempt to miniaturize Coilgun technology. The battery holds a charge much longer than previous designs, and is encased within the weapon, requiring a breakdown of the weapon to be swapped out.
The weapon itself is considered the first compact weapon Luprecal has ever made, despite still being somewhat bulky.
Notes:
"It's alright. Gets the job done without a hassle. M seems convinced that its some pinnacle of design or something, but she's a moron about these things."
"Uses the same magazines as most of the other models."
"The internal battery is a welcome change. The old models had it exposed, and as a result it could get bashed up real easily, ruining the damn thing and forcing you to get another."
"Not the smallest model, but a nice manageable size that doesn't weigh you down too badly."
Made in PMG.
Una and I have been fascinated with fascinators ... along with the rest of the blogosphere, apparently.
Una's Fascinator of choice this summer has been her beachcomber option (i.e., found on the beach, claws to comb hair ... get it? Groan!)
And this is the first shot of her new hair since her balding disease. In retrospect, I think a mohair or alpaca fiber would be more manageable. We used a heat proof synthetic to match her original hair. It has a lovely drape but is almost too silky and fine for my horrible styling skills. I am very happy with the colour: like her original but less orange and more brown ... gingery. It still needs a trim but I am horrible at cutting hair.
P.S. - I have been trying out the manual setting on my camera. Let me know what you think.
Beautiful dress by Shallala
A view from the subway portal into the tunnel where work is going on.
CTA crews replaced running rail in the Kimball Subway (Blue Line, O'Hare Branch) over the weekend, as a part of important regular track maintenance.
On Saturday, February 22, around 1,300 feet of new rail was installed, replacing old rail showing signs of wear on the Forest Park-bound track. One of the rails was replaced from the subway portal at the Kennedy Expressway (I90/94) down to the Belmont station. The new rail installed weighed nearly 50,000 lbs. (about 25 tons).
Workers cut the old rail into manageable segments, removed them, swapped in new pieces of new rail and joined the 1500-lb pieces together. Crews also made adjustments to the third rail, swapping out old third rail chairs with new ones.
Reusable parts of the rail that was removed was used to replace sections of worn rail on the O'Hare-bound side, Sunday (we reuse what we can).
This maintenance work is just a taste of what's to come with an upcoming project to improve this line! Later this year, larger, more widespread work will occur to improve tracks, stations and infrastructure on the Blue Line in areas between O'Hare and through downtown as part of the Your New Blue project, a $492 million investment in the Blue Line. Learn more at transitchicago.com/yournewblue
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
Dolls in photo (from left to right):
-Girl of the Year 2016 Lea Clark
-My American Girl #41 "Maya"
I was beyond excited to design earrings to go with Lea's Hiking Outfit. But when I had all my bead kits sprawled out, I was a little bummed out that I didn't have any butterflies that would match the one on her shirt. I try not to buy beads too often, because it's easier for me to come up with ideas with a smaller collection. And of course it's more manageable to store, and I like to get a lot of use out of the stuff I do buy. But all my butterfly charms get used quickly (that and flowers). The few I had left just would have looked plain tacky with this getup. I didn't want the earrings to be too feminine either, since this ensemble is a sporty one. I spotted these oddly colored yellow, white, and dark pink beads in one of my kits. I got them in a small baggie at Wal-Mart for $1. I was always tempted to buy the entire strands of these beads for $3/$4, but they aren't versatile enough for me to require so many. It might seem like an odd choice, but to me these beads look like they were painted with watercolors. And the butterfly printed on the shirt of Lea's Hiking Outfit also has the same watercolor effect. I tied the green color of her shorts into the earrings by using green cube beads. I also got these at Wal-Mart years and years ago (they were some of the first ones I ever bought when I started making jewelry).
Maya is modeling the World Traveler Dress, which is a "purchase with purchase" item. Just like with Jess and Lea's Hiking Outfit, truth be told, I purchased the World Traveler Dress just for Grace. I knew it would be a breeze to make earrings for since I have loads and loads of pink and black beads to choose from. I perused over my several bead kits when I saw these marbled black and white balls. For some reason, they reminded me of the grey/black print on the dress, and they looked classy. I also paired them with these light pink balls, which came from a deconstructed necklace that belonged to my grandmother. I've used these same pink beads time and time again for my American Girls--it's a good thing there were so many on that necklace, or they'd be all gone by now! And to top it all off, I finished the earrings with some basic silver beads and pink crystals. I love how cute but sophisticated these earrings turned out to be (believe me, I could have taken a much tackier approach to this pair since I have a plethora of black and pink beads)! I would have loved it if I had some sort of traveling themed charms, like little Eiffel Towers or suitcases, but regardless, I'm still happy with the outcome of this pair.
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Counting the years as they whiz past seems less fun than it did at twenty. And, whizzing past they are. It's a pity that life speeds by so quickly as you get close to whatever is at the end. It feels as if I've had the pedal to the metal since I was thirteen and now I'm running flat-out in the fog at night with my hair on fire. The thought, "Pretty soon I'll be dead." intrudes daily into my otherwise manageable world.
Well, there is no sense in crying over milk that has yet to be spilt. It's not that death frightens me. I made peace with death a long time ago. Accepting The Big Sleep as something that is as natural as life itself, indeed, defining life, has removed the heebie-jeebie factor from the death equation for me. There's some kind of Big Plan. My death is simply a part of that. I've been inches or seconds from death so many times that I've lost count. I've lost interest in counting. Death is the biggest tease of all. How close can you get?
No, I'm not going to off myself. I'm having way too much fun for that. I've been sitting here listening to Pink Floyd for about three hours now. That's enough to make anybody ponder darkly the meaning of life.
Today I'm feeding you a stew of images that don't fit anywhere else. Butter up some bread and have a seat:
That was Wongat Island which just flew past and is left in the wake of Mike Cassell's boat, Felmara, on our way up to Blueblood on Christmas Day. It has a very nice beach and is the only place that I know of where you can pick up magnificent specimens of weathered blue coral. I'll have to do a post on it someday.
This is a much prettier island image. I think that it is Sinub Island, the outline looks right. I wasn't really paying much attention to navigation, since I wasn't driving: The sun lit it up nicely and a polarising filter over the lens darkened up the sky just as it is supposed to do. The big Cumulonimbus cloud is casting a lovely shadow on the sea.
Here is an example of how to blow out your whites. The little sensor in my Canon G9 simply can't handle the dynamic range of brightness levels in this shot: The rest of the image was recoverable, except for the blocked blacks which I can live with in this image. However the bright area in the centre was blown out to pure white. I couldn't get any detail out of it. This is where a US$5,000 camera comes in handy, if you have the moolah for it. I had to fake something in there, so Photoshop saved the day with the Selective Colour tool set on Absolute. Choosing Whites as the colour, I tweaked up the Yellow slider and added just a touch of Red. It looks a little fakey, but hey, what do you expect for a tenth of the price?
This shot fits my mood today like a glove. It's raining and cold outside today; Eunie would say that it's 'winter' today in Madang. The Finnisterre Mountains are glowering in the distance as rain tumbles down from the gravid clouds: Mind, when we say 'cold' were talking maybe 24°C (75°F). I never sweat any more. My body has fallen deeply in love with tropical weather. In Indiana, at this time of year, I'd be dead in a month - I'm sure of it!
I gave you a frame of this series of sunrise over Astrolabe Bay in another post. I like this one better: The canoe man is more clearly visible here. I also used a different mood for the colours. You can compare them, if you like.
Since I seem to be wallowing in the ephemeral nature of life today, here is a perfect image with which to illustrate the principle:
When I named this image Ephemeral Mushrooms, I thought that I was being very cute and trippy. Then I Googled the phrase and got 731 hits. So much for originality. Among other scholarly titles was, The Predictability of Ephemeral Mushrooms and Implications for Mycophagous Fly Communities. That will give you the gist of the subject. I didn't even know that mycophagus flies had communities. I thought they were like wandering hunter-gatherers.
Okay, okay, I'll wrap up this orgy of self-pity and random fluctuations with a Guest Shot by our fine friend and enthusiastic fellow photographer, Ron Barrons of Hamilton, Ontario. Ron, like myself, is a waterfalls buff. Here is his latest shot of Princess Falls.
I call the image above Princess Falls Mugged. That's because it's my interpretation of the image that Ron sent to me. As I do, Ron struggles with 'flat light'. He emailed the image to me with the remark that the lighting that day was very flat. My addition of a blue sky at the top seems to contradict this, but it's fake. Punching up the contrast and increasing the γ of the image did wonders for it. Lightening only the shadows and changing the water in the pool from sickly green to deep blue put on the finishing touches. Actually, I liked the shot the way Ron sent it to me.
By the way, Ron said that Princess Falls only works when it rains. Otherwise it is dry. A dry waterfall. Hmmm . . . Is it a waterfall, when it's dry? Anyway, Ron said that he was going out to try again, but it will have to wait until all the ice is gone. Thank heavens I don't have to deal with that!
I simply couldn't resist "improving" it.
Ron is a forgiving guy.
For many years Alexcars ran service A1 between Tetbury and Cirencester, linking both towns to the delightful railway station at Kemble. The route number was from the old Gloucestershire CC series which allocated an appropriate letter prefix to independent operators’ services. As the number of operators gradually reduced to manageable levels, so the alpha-numeric route numbers were replaced by a simple numeric series.
ACH 69A (formerly PVL 159W)
Former Delaine Bedford YMT / Plaxton
Tetbury
23rd September 1992
January 3, 2023: Today’s prompt from @rachelastorauthor’s @dailyom program, WRITING TO UNCOVER THE AUTHENTIC SELF, asks: “Can you reframe the most pressing #obstacle as a to-do list? In other words, in order to overcome this, what do you need to learn? What tasks do you need to perform? Who do you need to convince?”
I believe I can reframe each of the 4 obstacles I explored over the past few days into more manageable #tasks. But at the same time I know I need to be very consistent at doing this.
For example, I was up past 3am today completing a few loads of #laundry (this included putting the #clothes away after taking them out of the #dryer), a load of #dishes, & also filling up half a #blue #recycling cart from @thecityofsurrey with #recycling from Mum’s garage.
But I still woke to criticism, as my dog looked for the right spot to leap off my bed at the guest room of my Mum’s to head outside at just after 9am. “Your room is a filthy disgrace,” are the words my Mum barked at me today. “And you live like you like it!” It’s odd how her words echo the ones my monkey mind is already so gifted at hurling towards myself.
When we argue & she says things like this, I snap back, “I don’t need you telling me how useless I am because I’m well aware of it already!” As such, both my Mum & my monkey mind are the ones I need to #convince that I am capable of up this mess I’ve created.
I finished my night around 4am taking this selfie inspired by a chapter in @mattzhaig’s book, NOTES ON A NERVOUS PLANET. Specifically, he says: “So this is the attitude to #sleep: something to be suspicious of because it is a time when we are not plugged in, consuming, paying. And this is also our attitude to time: something that mustn’t be wasted simply by resting, being, sleeping. We are ruled by the clock. By the light bulb. By the glowing smartphone. By the insatiable feeling we are encouraged to have. The feeling of this is never enough. Our happiness is just around the corner. A single purchase, or interaction, or click, away. Waiting, glowing, like the light at the end of a tunnel we can never quite reach…. Something has to give.”
This is day 3/365 in my #subverted #selfie #project.
This photo was also posted on Instagram.
May 2008
Kemp Lake was a manageable walk from our house, and it was a sanctuary during the two years we spent in Sooke, BC, for me, our two dogs, sometimes our son, and occasionally, a gaggle of geese.
I had the pleasure of attending the Carnevale in Venice in February 2011 - what a great experience! This was about my 4th or 5th Carnevale and they keep getting better. Many of the masked characters recognized me from prior years and gave me great access for photos. I also had the chance to shoot with many others; some in masks and costumes, some face paintees, and some faces in the crowd - great fun. Because of the large number of photos I took during the Carnevale I will use a separate set for each day to make it manageable. These photos are from my first day there, Sunday, 27 February 2011.
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
Instant Study Area areas are primitive and natural areas formally identified by the BLM. Instant Study Areas are a specific category of WSAs. The units are less than 1,500 acres and generally not adjacent to other WSAs or a designated wilderness. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act -- FLPMA -- required an accelerated wilderness review of these Wilderness Study Areas. In Oregon there are five Instant Study Areas comprising 9,560 acres.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
When the Newhouse Tunnel, later called the Argo Tunnel, and its tributary gold mines were initially drilled, they were backbreakingly done so with a hand drill and hammer and black powder was used for blasting. Soon, pneumatic drills were developed. Compressed air was fed into the drill, which operated a piston that hammered the bit into the rock as it rotated in the chuck. Once the hole was deep enough, explosives were placed inside to break the ore into more manageable pieces. water was not used in conjunction with this particular drill to lubricate the bit so a huge amount of dust was created. The drill earned the nickname “widowmaker” because many of the men who operated the drill died from illnesses related to inhaling too much dust. Sometime later the drills were modified with a hole in the center of the drill steel and bit to allow pressurized water to turn the dust into a slurry. Dynamite became available and the tunnel was getting deeper and deeper. When electricity finally came to Idaho Springs, the tunnel had lights and the mules that had been used to pull the ore cars were replaced with electric locomotives.
The Argo Gold Mine and Mill, at 2350 Riverside Dr, is a former mine and gold that opened on April 1, 1913 at the entrance of the 4.6-mile Newhouse Tunnel, later called the Argo Tunnel. The Tunnel was built between 1893 and 1910 to drain the gold mines in Virginia Canyon, Gilpin Gulch, Russell Gulch, Quartz Hill, Nevadaville, and Central City. The mill, one of the largest and most modern in Colorado, was built by R.E. Shimer to strip the valuable metals like gold, silver, copper and lead from the ore extracted from the tunnel. Following a flooding accident in 1943 that left four miners dead, the tunnel was closed, and Argo Mill ceased operations.
The five-story mill sat abandoned until 1976 when it was purchased by James N. Maxwell, who renovated it and opened it to the public as a museum. The bottom level of the mill serves as a museum displaying mining and milling artifacts, old payroll records, milling receipts, and old photographs. After touring the Dougle Eagle mine, and the Argo Mill, visitors can pan for gold and gems.
National Register #78000836 (1978)
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
I followed the recipe in the River Cottage Meat book but I just found the recipe listed here: www.rivercottage.net/recipes/gills-chinese-ribs
• 1 lb Spare ribs of pork
• 2 Pig’s trotters
• 2tbsp Sunflower Oil
• 50g Light brown sugar
• 6-8 Large garlic cloves, crushed
• 5cm piece of fresh ginger root, freshly chopped
• 100ml Cider vinegar or brown rice vinegar
• 150ml Apple juice (or pineapple juice)
• 50ml Dark soy sauce
• 100ml Light soy sauce
Step 1 First you need to cut the spare ribs / trotters into manageable sections.
Step 2 Chop through the chine bone with the cleaver. Repeat for each section until you have several pieces of meat. Then split each piece into halves, again using the cleaver. Continue chopping up the ribs into halves until you have bite-size, chewable pieces.
Step 3 If you don’t have a cleaver, your butcher will happily chop the ribs up for you.
Step 4 Clean up the trotters using a knife. You can singe off hair with a Chef's blowtorch or over a gas flame. Using the cleaver, chop each trotter into 6 pieces. First cut the trotter in half lengthways (this may take a few goes!) and then chop each half into thirds.
Step 5 Heat up the sunflower oil in the frying pan. When the oil is hot, place the rib pieces and trotters in the pan. When they are lightly browned, turn them over. The rib pieces will be uneven, so keep moving them around to ensure they colour all over.
Step 6 When all the meat is lightly browned, take each piece out of the pan and place it in the large pot.
Step 7 Now it’s time to add the sweet and sour ingredients. Add the sugar, garlic, ginger, ginger syrup, cider vinegar, apple juice and soy sauce to the pot. As the dish cooks down all these flavours will mellow into a sticky, rich sauce.
Step 8 Top up the pot with water so that the pieces of meat are just covered. Add a couple of dried red chillies for heat.
Step 9 Cover the pot and cook for 2-2½ hours until the meat is tender. Then pour into a serving dish and serve.
This is currently my favorite photo equipment. The Canon 5D classic with a 24-105L lens. This is a versatile combination and produces excellent image quality while keeping the weight of my equipment somewhat manageable.
I thought that my Hispanic Barbie would be more difficult to fix up. But surprisingly, she didn't turn out to be a hassle at all. Whilst her face originally looked super greasy and was caked in layers of crud, I was able to refresh it with a quick scrub with baking soda and dish soap (granted I did repeat this scrub two or three times, just to be sure all the dirt was off of her lovely face). Her original skin tone is so much more radiant looking than I would have expected. It is amazing how different a doll looks when she's been cleaned and properly cared for. I opted not to be as adventurous with Hispanic Barbie's hair cut, as I had been with Sun Lovin' Malibu P.J.'s. This doll's hair cut was not too bad, it just needed some evening out. I don't personally think her previous owner should have cut her hair in the first place--it originally was only a tad bit longer, and perfectly manageable. This blunt, shoulder length hair cut has a lot of weight to it, even after I thinned it out. I personally think Hispanic Barbie's hair was more flattering at a longer length, but at least this hair cut wasn't overly dramatic!
Tutorial: How I Clean Dolly Bodies & Faces
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Tutorial: How I Boil Wash Doll Hair
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Tutorial: How I Fix Butchered Dolly Hair Cuts:
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Here's some photographic evidence of the free gondola rides down this Winter. Quite warm this weekend and this has made the hike up Sulphur Mountain much more slippery, but still manageable with just hiking boots and trekking poles. We again counted 28 switchbacks from sign to top, so that's the number we're sticking with.
On Friday, we made our way down to Okotoks for the Light Up Okotoks event. We've been going for the past few years and this year was much better than the bitterly cold 2013 one.
We spent Saturday and Sunday out in Banff and had an overnight stay Saturday night. This is probably the last of the cheap rate weekends with December coming next week, we'll be well into the Christmas party season and the ski hills will probably all be opened. Fantastic weekend, will not be soon forgotten, definitely one for the ages.
# of free gondola rides down this Winter: 4
www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/as-cases-rise-americans-a...
As cases rise, Americans are ‘checked out’ on COVID-19
COVID-19 cases are on the rise, but many Americans are over thinking of the virus as a crisis.
Even in blue cities, restaurants are packed with people, and many Americans don’t wear masks even on the subway or on airplanes.
Amid this national attitude, it may be extremely difficult for local or national leaders to try to reimpose any COVID-19 restrictions.
An Axios-Ipsos poll this week found just 36 percent of Americans said there was significant risk in returning to their “normal pre-coronavirus life.”
At the same time, cases are rising to over 100,000 per day.
About 18 percent of the U.S. population now lives in “high” risk areas where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urges everyone to wear masks indoors, and another 27 percent lives in “medium” areas where higher-risk people should consider wearing masks.
But experts say that the average American is not constantly checking the CDC risk levels in their area.
“People have checked out a little bit,” said Chris Jackson, senior vice president at the polling firm Ipsos. “People aren’t as tuned in.”
While CDC Director Rochelle Walensky this week called on Americans in “high” risk areas to wear masks, there has not been a similar push from President Biden, who has the biggest megaphone in the government.
Unlike earlier in his tenure, Biden has not been issuing sustained warnings about COVID-19, instead focusing on the war in Ukraine and efforts to fight rising prices.
This week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D), often seen as an ideological ally of Biden, declined to reimpose mask mandates despite the city rising to a “high” COVID-19 level.
“It appears as though there’s a new norm that is settling in our city and our country,” Adams said. “Variants are going to come. If every variant that comes, we move into shutdown thoughts, we move into panicking, we’re not going to function as a city.”
Andy Slavitt, the Biden administration’s former senior adviser on COVID-19 response, acknowledged the difficulties in responding given current attitudes.
“You have to understand that at this point in time that you can’t make people necessarily care more than they do,” he said, saying there are “fewer policy levers,” available.
He called for a “middle zone conversation” on masks, where people could be encouraged to wear them in certain instances even if they are not mandated.
Unlike in the early days of the pandemic, there are tools available that help make the virus more manageable and reduce the need for tighter restrictions.
Vaccines and booster shots provide strong protection against severe illness and hospitalization. The Pfizer treatment pills known as Paxlovid reduce the risk of severe illness or death by roughly 90 percent if taken within five days of the onset of symptoms.
But even funding in Congress to boost supplies of treatments and purchase updated vaccines for the fall is stalled, a sign of the diminishing political appetite for the COVID-19 response.
The U.S. passing 1 million deaths from the virus this week did little to shake up the environment.
The fall and winter pose an even greater risk as the weather gets colder, and as the virus continues to evolve. There is a potential for a new variant to circulate that evades the current vaccines’ protection even more.
Jackson of Ipsos polling said there is at least some room for attitudes to change if the situation gets significantly worse, noting that only about one-third of Americans said the pandemic is “over.”
“It’s not necessarily something they’re going to shut their lives down about, but when we ask point blank, ‘Is the pandemic over?’ two thirds say, ‘no,’ ” he noted.
Hospitalizations are still relatively low, compared with spikes earlier in the pandemic, but they are on the rise, with over 20,000 people in the hospital with the virus, according to a New York Times tracker.
Deaths are at a relative low, but there are still around 300 Americans dying from the virus every day.
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha this week said deaths have not risen along with cases in part because of the effect of treatments like Paxlovid, but those stores are at risk of running out without new funds.
“We’re using therapeutics to save lives; we’ve got to continue doing that,” Jha said. “At some point, we’re going to run out of the treatments we have. And without additional resources, we will find ourselves in the fall or winter with people getting infected and no treatments available for them because we will have run out.”
Slavitt said the administration’s main focus should be getting funding from Congress and working on updated vaccines.
“My own view is a little bit soured that human nature is such that, you know, whatever science makes easy, people might do,” he said. “But whatever requires even the slightest bit of sacrifice, or compromise for the sake of some other unknown person getting infected, is a much harder stretch and a much harder messaging.”
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Shanghai makes way towards COVID lockdown exit, Beijing plays defence
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Shanghai cautiously pushed ahead on Saturday with plans to restore part of its transport network in a major step towards exiting a weeks-long COVID-19 lockdown, while Beijing kept up its defences in an outbreak that has persisted for a month.
Shanghai's lockdown since the beginning of April has dealt a heavy economic blow to China's most populous city, stirred debate over the sustainability of the nation's zero-COVID policy and stoked fears of future lockdowns and disruptions.
Unlike the financial hub, Beijing has refrained from imposing a city-wide lockdown, reporting dozens of new cases a day, versus tens of thousands in Shanghai at its peak. Still, the curbs and endless mass testing imposed on China's capital have unsettled its economy and upended the lives of its people.
As Beijing remained in COVID angst, workers in Shanghai were disinfecting subway stations and trains before planned restoration of four metro lines on Sunday.
While service will be for limited hours, it will allow residents to move between districts and meet the need for connections to railway stations and one of the city's two airports. More than 200 bus routes will also reopen.
Underlining the level of caution, Shanghai officials said commuters would be scanned for abnormally high body temperatures and would need to show negative results of PCR tests taken within 48 hours.
Shanghai found 868 new local cases on Friday, compared with 858 a day earlier, municipal health authorities said on Saturday, a far cry from the peak in daily caseloads last month.
No new cases were found outside quarantined areas, down from three a day earlier, health authorities added.
The city of 25 million has gradually reopened shopping malls, convenience stores and wholesale markets and allowed more people to walk out of their homes, with community transmissions largely eliminated in recent days.
Still, Shanghai on Friday tightened curbs on two of its 16 districts. On Saturday a third district in central Shanghai increased restrictions on residents and businesses.
The authorities "urge enterprises to strictly implement safe production, which is their responsibility, especially in meeting some epidemic prevention and control requirements," an official from the city's emergency bureau told a news conference on Saturday.
Delta Airlines said on Friday it would resume one daily flight to Detroit from Shanghai via Seoul on Wednesday.
DRAWING COMPARISONS
Most of Beijing's recent cases have been in areas already sealed up, but authorities remained on edge and quick to act under China's ultra-strict policy.
In Fengtai, a district of 2 million people at the centre of Beijing's counter-COVID efforts, bus and metro stations have been mostly shut since Friday and residents told to stay home.
A Fengtai resident was stocking up on groceries at a nearby Carrefour on Saturday, uncertain whether restrictions would continue.
"I'm not sure if I can do more shopping over the next week or so, so I've bought a lot of stuff today and even bought some dumplings for the Dragon Boat holiday" in early June, she said, asking not to be identified.
On Friday, thousands of residents from a neighbourhood in Chaoyang, Beijing's most populous district, were moved to hotel quarantine after some cases were detected, according to state-run China Youth Daily.
Social media users on China's Twitter-like Weibo were swift to draw parallels with Shanghai, where entire residential buildings were taken to centralised quarantine facilities in response to a single positive COVID case in some instances.
While unverified accounts from residents of the Nanxinyuan neighbourhood garnered thousands of comments and shares on Weibo, a related hashtag could not be searched on the platform on Saturday, suggesting online censorship.
"Perhaps... except for Shanghai people, no one will feel for Beijing's Nanxinyuan. However, I don't actually know whether there are people who will see this sentence," Shanghai-based director and actor Xie Tiantian wrote on Weibo.
Sun Shuwei, a tech startup employee, told Reuters the situation at Nanxinyuan, just 2 km (1.2 miles) from his home, has prompted him to consider leaving Beijing.
"This has left me very agitated," Sun said.
(NOTE: At the peak, on April 26, 2022, Mainland China had 93890 new case with a 7-day average of 30,368 new cases. On May 20, 2022, the number of new cases dropped to 5,54 with a 7-day average of 5,454.)
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Locked-down Shanghai finds new cases, breaking "zero COVID" streak
■ Shanghai had 5 days of no cases outside quarantined areas
■ Curbs and mass testing imposed in two districts
■ City plans to lift lockdown in June
■ More cities in China bring COVID under control
SHANGHAI/BEIJING, May 20 (Reuters) - Shanghai announced its first new COVID-19 cases outside quarantined areas in five days on Friday and imposed stricter curbs in two districts, but did not signal any change to the planned end of a prolonged city-wide lockdown on June 1.
The commercial hub of 25 million, in its seventh week of lockdown, has been slowly allowing more people to leave their homes in recent days, with many residential compounds issuing passes for brief walks or trips to the supermarket.
Day 178 - 11 june 2012
I loved growing up in the 90s. My favourite things were without a doubt: coco pops that made the milk really chocolatey, chocos the crunchy bear and his cho-chocolate cereal, getting up waaaay early on saturdays to watch cartoons, using my imagination, my little ponies, moomin and gummi bears and playing outside till mom called us in. I love ski pants and oversized tops and never wearing shoes, I miss writing chain letters by hand and my mom's perm. I miss never wearing shoes and playing stuck in the mud and hide-and-seek. I loved the spice girls and taped their movie spice world to watch repeatedly...
So, Hereios this is what I miss and love from the 90s. A speck compared to everything that I do miss. Alas, my wardrobe has been deridded of anything 90's related. So I had to throw all them spicy chicks together to form a manageable one, and found some replacement band members...
Canon EOS 550D
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
Time lapse sequence of Milky Way and endless celestial wonders, seen in Big Meadows Campground, high in Sequoia National Park, within California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. The air is chilled but manageable with a few layers; make sure to wrap your camera setup in one of those layers to keep your lens from fogging up!
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
I took this a while back at the tail end of our R.A.T.S. 'Pub Crawl'. We called into the 'Seven Stars' in 1 Thomas Lane, Bristol and this young lady was 'wowing' the crowd with her brilliant style of playing / singing ...
Processed using Topaz 'B+W Effects' & 'Clarity'.
I am at my maximum / manageable (for me) number of people on my 'Contacts List' so I will not be adding any more people at present - but many thanks for the interest.
Cheers ... Dave
We were looking forward to a good hike with mild temperatures and little wind. The winds were much higher than predicted, but manageable. There was much less snow than we would have thought, considering we've above average snowfalls for this year. While the wind was annoying, the fact that wet snow would often clump to our boots was very frustrating... With all the ups and downs, we gained just over 800 m's on this very undulating 10.3 km return distance hike, but took 6 and a half hours to complete. The loveliest surprise was herd of Rocky Mountain Sheep near the true summit.
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
Graffito (singular).
Spotted this near the entrance to the 'Printhaus' in Cardiff where they were holding a 'Secret Cellar Pop-Up' Beer Festival on Sat. 3rd Aug ! I've toned the image and applied Topaz 'Clarity'.
I am at my maximum / manageable (for me) number of people on my 'Contacts List' so I will not be adding any more people at present - but many thanks for the interest.
Cheers ... Dave
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