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A quick photo in my garden before heading off to my friends for her birthday party at an even more amazing garden. It was indeed "The Enchanted Garden". Such a great place for a party!!!
Atlantis successfully took off today marking the last mission of the US space shuttle program. I'm sorry I never got to see a live launch. I always took it for granted that at some point I'd get around to it. We tried to catch Discovery last fall but there were numerous delays. Yesterday NASA announced that due to unfavorable weather conditions Atlantis might be delayed a day. It was good news for me because it would give us a chance to drive up after work tonight and if all worked out we would get to watch the last shuttle go up. Sadly it didn't work out that way.
Another life lesson to stop putting things on hold. Stop assumimg that such things will always be around - waiting for me to show up when I'm ready : )
HCS - cute kid with dreams of space adventures and alien encounters
On my trek out west to track down Ron, I drove around by Crane Hollow and stopped at his home. He wasn't there or at work and I always wondered what the abandoned barn out west of his place looked like close up. I headed out from Ron's place to do a survey of the area. Before I got very far, I captured this old railway box car that was used around the area to store agricultural tools and supplies. Farmer Broley added an attached shed for extra protection; pretty spiffaroony. This is a common sight across the prairies. This is not far from the rail line to Lyons. The walk on the roof pegs this as over 50 years old but it's construction takes it far further back. It has double formed metal end plates and wood sided construction. This car's construction involved assembling a lot of parts. Crews were discouraged from even using the attached ladders to climb to the roof and avoid sure accidents. The bottom corners sport poling pockets that were removed from cars after a raft of accidents. Poles of wood allowed crews to relocate cars by a simple push from engines but the pole often split and injured yardmen. The drawbar (coupler) assembly was cut from the car ends; I suppose that was for recycling.
I'd better get a move on from the look of the sky. The temps were back up as was the humditty. We'll, OK I would have turned in the distance at Golden Ponds anyway! There are plenty of gravel pond beyond here anyway.
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The gravel companies buy up the rights to recover the gravel but I am not sure they bought the rights to lay the land barren and strip it otherwise of any future production. People in India remind us that we are unlikely to get any milk from the recently slaughtered cow. I wonder what the price of gravel might be if the cost of the price of returning the ground back to production after removing the gravel were included. Willie Shakespeare's "pound of flesh" perhaps. I expect that the meandering ditch at my feet waters little but pastures any more.
...when farmer John refused to give him the facelift he wanted, old Fergy decided to take matters into his own hands.
Before heading to the car I couldn't resist this going shot. This really shows the grade leveling off right before the Golf Road bridge!
It's past time to take it off the map. This little pod of ice and snow has been labeled on maps as Schoolroom Glacier since topographic maps were first created for this area. While it still serves as a good example of many components of a glacier, it no longer has the mass and depth to meet the definition of a glacier. Many snow patches like this exist on our maps, labeled as "permanent snowfields." We could probably get a first edition, maybe two, of new maps with this designation. After that, we'll most likely have to remove the word, "permanent." But maybe not! A five-year cold snap could turn things around and start a new trend of cooling. My guess is that it's unlikely the human race will witness the next ice age.
I took this snapshot yesterday while descending the highest peak in the range.
Sometimes having super heroes at BAM HQ doesn't always run smoothly, especially when one of them is Logan!!
"Back off Bub!, I don't care what your the god of!"
A combat controller team from the 720th Special Tactics Group exits a C-130 Hercules during a high-altitude, high-opening jump during Joint Exercise Flintlock Feb. 28, 2014, over northeastern Niger. Flintlock is an annual, African-led, military exercise focused on security, counter-terrorism and military humanitarian support to outlying areas hosted each year by a different government in western Africa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Eugene Crist/Released)
Donta Autry takes the hand off from Javon Carter during the South View Tiger's 23-17 double overtime win against the Terry Sanford Bulldogs on November 1, 2019 at Randy Ledford Field at South View High School in Hope Mills, North Carolina.
The self is not the hub, but the spoke of the revolving wheel. In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender. God is the center toward which all forces tend. He is the source, and we are the flowing of His force, the ebb and flow of His tides.
-Man's Quest for God: Studies in Prayer and Symbolism by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Young woman on a window sill in and old house, lit by natural light, while in a Fifties style summer dress.
Here the female Stonechat has just taken off and is striking a shapely pose, caught with the Canon R5 and the 400mm with a 1.4x multiplier.
Around here, there was one last institution that still required masks. They recently dropped the requirement.
I've come up with two possibilities:
Option 1. Someone was riding the elevator, realized nobody else was wearing one and immediately took it off - and in their joy, left it here.
Option 2. Someone realized they had grabbed an extra mask and left it in case someone wanted to use it.
In both cases, seems tacky.
Central DuPage Hospital
Winfield, Illinois - near 41.8732, -88.1551
May 24, 2023
SOOC
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