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Casting off. L’étoile du Roy leaving the harbor for an errand in the roadstead of Brest with tourists.
Columbus Police Officers both on duty and off stopped by the station last night April 4, 2015. Traditionally, Saturday nights at the station we make pizza and invite family and the area police in for a little fellowship. Last night was a special night as it was my last pizza night and I am retiring very soon after 33 years. The officers gave me a little plaque in appreciation of our hospitality over the last 14 years at Station 18. Of course we joked about it being "donut night" at the station and yes they hung around until the cinnamon rolls came out of the oven. They all wish they were firefighters and we tell them if they scored 5 points higher on the civil service exam they would be firemen.
A picture of an Anahinga drying off on one of the river banks in Tortuguerro National Park, Costa Rica. These birds can be seen drying their feathers after diving for fish.
This osprey did the turn and go..
Spent a nice weekend out on Rehobeth Bay on my friends boat with friends. they were nice enough to take me around to some great spots. I was thrilled eveyone else was bored... Just a great weekend...
Cut Off, Louisiana is a small community located in coastal Lafourche Parish. The population is about 6,000 with a local Cajun culture that is unique in Louisiana itself. The climate is semitropical and influenced by the Gulf of Mexico. The community lines Bayou Lafourche and the Intracoastal Canal, most of the land is low at around sea level surrounded by a levee. Coastal erosion is a big issue and threatens the very existance of this one of a kind place.
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Some of the best places I have been have not been accessed by tracks or trails or roads and have involved a little exploration in to the unknown. It is not always a given that going off track will mean you find that special place but when stumbling out of the rugged wilderness in to a place that few if any have ever been it's like stumbling on a new world.
This was from a recent trip out in to the trackless forest where I discovered a new three teared waterfall and a new canyon area. Hoping to get back to these spots now with a rope and a camera to push into the unknown even further. Now turn the computer off and go explore ;)
A New England Central Railroad concuctor climbs down from a loaded ethanol tank car while knocking off handbrakes on his train. The train is about to leave Willimantic, Connecticut, headed for New London, where the cars will be handed off to the Providence & Worcester.
A bit of a rewind as I remember the first splash park my kids visited.
As you as you clean your shoes they manage to stick more stuff to them.
Here is Charlie the Pelican taking off from the Ocean Beach Pier ~ The little white dot under the tip of his beak is part of Camp Pendleton ~
Oceanside ~ California ~ USA ~
Zac Brown
Three-time GRAMMY award winning American country music troupe Zac Brown Band brought their huge stage show to North West London's Wembley Arena for a one-off UK show as part of their Jekyll + Hyde tour in support of their fourth major label album of the same name.
Playing a stage that had drums, additional percussion, backing singers and a three-piece brass section elevated both in front of one massive screen and above a second, the core eight-piece band were extended for this production, with a three-piece brass band and backing singers.
Bursting out onto the vast stage, Zac Brown and his band opened with Jekyll + Hyde track Homegrown, the audience immediately leaving their seats, those at the front giving them up permanently for the duration of the show.
Next up were number one singles Toes from 2008's The Foundation followed by Keep Me In Mind from it's follow-up You Get What You Give.
The fourth song of the night Day for the Dead from 2013's Dave Grohl-produced The Grohl Sessions, Vol. 1 brought with it a tale of how on Halloween, it is believed that a person's ancestors come back to visit them, just for one day.
Following Colder Weather, the extensive group moved to stools set up on the end of a short extended runway section, about ten rows into the audience for a short acoustic set.
Uncaged track Sweet Annie opened up the quietened-down section before Brown and co. launched into their rendition of Red Hot Chili Peppers hit Under The Bridge, which had the entire audience screaming along to every word.
"The next song is for our daughters" the Georgia native said as he introduced final song of the acoustic section, Jekyll + Hyde's I'll Be Your Man. "If you're a Dad and you have a daughter and you don't know what to tell her, this is for you."
Rather than ploughing straight into another track, the band broke for a brief intermission, so I decided it was time to grab myself a beer. Little did I expect, however, to join a conversation about the 1980's movie Labyrinth with Lennon Stella - one half of Lennon & Maisy, the Canadian music duo who star as sisters Maddie and Daphne Conrad in the Country music drama series Nashville. And it wasn't long until the gracious elder Stella was joined by her younger sibling and their mother, before it was time to head back into the arena for more from Zac Brown Band.
Following the intermission, the Country rockers carried on their high energy assault on Wembley Arena was a string of their own hits interspersed with Country-tinged covers of Bruno Mars chart-topper Locked Out of Heaven and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, which featured a live rendition of the original's famous music video appearing on the vast digital screen stage backdrop.
"We do not take this night for granted" the 37-year-old bellowed, in awe of the massive UK crowd. "We're here for one reason" he said before charging into Chris Cornell-collaboration track Heavy Is The Head, Brown taking on joint vocal duties, nailing Cornell's dynamic range, which is no mean feat given the Seattleite's four-octave vocal range.
Led Zeppelin's Kashmir was the next song to get the Zac Brown Band cover treatment, heavy rock being represented dutifully.
The cheesy pop of Jekyll + Hyde track Beautiful Drug opened the two song encore, the merry band utilising the extended stage to dance around arm-in-arm before show closed with debut single Chicken Fried, an army of plaid shirts, jeans and cowboy hats in the audience lapping up every second of this rare exposure to American Country music royalty.
It's safe to say that Country music has an enamoured audience far from the Southern American states it calls home. And the expanding UK Country Music scene is opening up a brand new market for acts both big and small.
A Great Egret in the salt marshes of Huntington Beach State Park.
Hope to get some new pictures this weekend, but for now it's off to work. Catch up tonight!
This is a pier at a local camp the kids dive off of in the summer. In the off season, its a good place for sunsets.
My Morning Jacket concert, July , 2022 at Huntington Bank Pavilion. Yes those are folding chairs, secured to one another.
It sits on the land that was once Meigs Field Airport. When the airport closed, "Hizzoner" Mayor Richard M. Daley proposed the space become a lakefront park and nature reserve. Because the venue sits on nature preserve land, no permanent structure can be build on it. Thus the facility is taken down and stored after the summer concert season ends.
The Chicago Park District operates the venue.
A side on image with the same train as the previous image showing how Union of South Africa is doing little work. 60009 is seen blowing off climbing Shap at Salterwath with 1Z60, 0444 Bristol - Appleby. DB Class 66, 66172, is doing nearly all the work climbing Shap due to the high fire risk.
11/8/18
NJT 1001 comes off the Montclair-Boonton Line into Denville. This is the first train of the afternoon to continue west of Montclair and rejoin the M&E here at Denville.