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CP #7022, the Navy tribute engine, leads 243 into Maple Lake, Minnesota on the former Soo Line mainline towards the Dakotas with a healthy cut of auto racks on the head end.
I plan to work on this one-redo, redo,redo till I get a good reflection and a better balance in my compo. Mind you, I can always crop a bit.
Yosemite Valley, Yosemite, California
A bigleat maple tree in its bright autumn colors readies for winter in a mostly conifer forest on the floor of Yosemite Valley. A dry stream bed in the foreground is littered with granite cobbles. In the spring it will carry snow melt runoff from the valley's nearby El Capitan wall.
Lake Yamanaka, Autumn Festival
山中湖 夕焼けの渚・紅葉まつり
This is a photo of maple leaves in late autumn.
晩秋のモミジの写真です。
Yamanakako-mura, Yamanashi pref, Japan
This tree stands at the end of the driveway and is pretty old. Most of its leaves are gone now.Spent the afternoon raking up 3 barrels and 6 Home Depot bags of leaves. And that's just from the driveway and walkways. But a good day to be out!
This picture was scanned from a Kodachrome 64 slide taken in Groveland MA in the late eighties. Using a Nikon FE-2.
Kanaka Creek Regional Park is a regional park of the Greater Vancouver Regional District, located in the city of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, flanking both sides of Kanaka Creek from its confluence with the Fraser River just east of Haney and extending approximately 11 km (7 mi) up the creek to just south of the community of Webster's Corners. The Maple Ridge Fairgrounds are just east of the lower regions of the park, beyond them is the community of Albion. Derby Reach Regional Park is just across the Fraser in Langley.
A variety of plants and animals can be located in all 3 areas of the park and it is a popular spot for both Black Bear and Salmon populations. Kanaka Creek Regional Park has a rich history- the first purchase of land for the park by the City of Maple Ridge occurred in the late 1970s, and the land is the traditional unceded territory of the Katzie, Kwantlen, Matsqui, Musqueam, Semiahmoo, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Recently, misuse of the land has negatively changed parts of the park. To fix this issue, Metro Vancouver Regional Parks implemented a 20 year management plan in 2004 with the assistance of the Katzie First Nation among other groups, and the University of Victoria (UVIC) completed a restoration project in areas of the park in 2022.
Recreation
Kanaka Creek is widely recognized for its natural beauty, as well as recreational appeal. According to a local newspaper, the Daily Hive, Kanaka is the 8th most popular park in metro Vancouver, with 610,500 visitors in 2022. The park features walking, hiking, and biking trails publicly available to anyone who wants to use them. Along these walks there is plenty of flora and fauna to view. The park also has a lake in which visitors can fish, or canoe. The park is wheelchair accessible, and equipped with parking and public washrooms.
The 400 ha. park has three main areas. The Riverfront area adjacent to the Fraser and BC Hwy 7 has picnic tables and a boat-launch, suitable for launching canoes and kayaks for navigating the slow-moving waters of Kanaka Creek up as far as the 240th Street bridge. The Riverfront Trail winds along this stretch of the creek and has a number of three-story wooden viewing towers. Above 240th Street the stream is shallower and full of snags and not suitable for boating. Above that a popular swimming hole with slickrock slides is at Cliff Falls. There are twin falls on Kanaka Creek, one on each of its upper fork. Much of the upper area of the park is heavily forested, though hiking along the creek beds is feasible and a number of wooden walkways through the forest and along the creek have been established in the area.
Ref, Wikipedia
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Japanese maple at Shiojiri Gardens, Mishawaka, Indiana; Sony A7RII with Meyer-Optik Trioplan 100/2.8
I enhanced the saturation to identify the blue tubing more clearly.
The blue tubing is pegged into the Maple tree, the sap runs through it and runs into the thicker black tubing which carries the sap down the hill to the Maple Shack. Where it is boiled.
Yield: 40 gallons of sap = 1 gallon of Maple syrup !