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Potato Patch Falls
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Michigan
October 2007
Potato Patch Falls is a beautiful, though often unadvertised, seasonal waterfall in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, within Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
The helpers of a westbound train cut away at Sand Patch in the summer of 1978. No photographer listed, JL Sessa collection.
Cisticolas are among the most challenging of birds to identify. There are around fifty species that are all small and streaky. The name Cisticola means Cistus-dwelling, referring to the shrubby habitat of many species. Nearly all are found in Africa, with one species on Madagascar (Madagascar Cisticola) and another (Golden-headed Cisticola) in Asia and Australasia. We even have one species in Europe that we used to call Fan-tailed Warbler (Cisticola juncidis) but now call it Zitting Cisticola, and that has occasionally strayed to Britain. DNA studies have revealed that they are not closely related to the Old World Warblers, but are close to White-eyes (Zosterops spp).
So onto Pectoral Patch Cisticola (Cisticola brunnescens) which is patchily distributed on mountains in two well separated areas; West Central Africa and West Central Africa. There aren't many correctly identified photographs on Flickr (some are even the wrong family eg larks). Breeding males have a rufous crown with little streaking but non-breeding males, females and immatures have black-streaked crowns like this. Sometimes they show some darker colouration on the sides of the breast, hence the name Pectoral Patch Cisticola. They feed mainly on the ground in upland (1650-3000m asl) grasslands and moorlands in Ethiopia where I photographed this one. I know it has a cluttered background but it shows the habitat well and there really aren't that many photographs that show the bird as well as this.
In these here parts, this time of year, skies spend almost all of their time grey or rainy or both. But a brief interlude to the damp gloom this week drew me downtown to try to find some abstracts in the urban reflections.
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4 Shot Joiner. The village of Lumbsden middle distance and the Don Valley right (near Mossat).
The lush colours of summer note it's high ground hill farming so mostly grass but one field in the centre has been harvested and re-ploughed already.
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Patch had to tidy up her room before she could attend Pat's tea party. With a clever shifting of "occupants on the floor" to "occupants on the bed" she was done in no-time.
Patch: Ta-da!! I am both quick and smart.
Ow: (The bear) Weeell... What if mum lifts the bedspread?
Patch: She can't. That's why I put the toy box there.
Ow: Ah. How about all the bits under the bed then? What if she looks under there?
Patch: She won't. She hates bending her back.
Ow: Oh. . . Perhaps you should at least wet the cloth in the bucket and spray a little in the air with the cleaner so it seems like you used them.
Patch: Jolly good idea Ow! You are the bestest bear!
Ow: Aww... I know.
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Patch got a new pajamas from Du Didier, a gold patterned top and trousers, matching socks and the most splendid "gingerbread" robe. He also made red slippers with bells on them!! Love it!!
This is my first flickr picture and it is work in progress :-) . Since some days I'm stitching together some vintage fabrics to cover a wall in the living room.
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Conrail GP7 5814 (ex-Reading 624) and Reading SW1001 2601 and 2609 sleep away the weekend in the small yard at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA, 29 October 1976. Photo by Bill Wilcox.
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This shot is unusual as it was taken midday. Most activity for almost any mammal is around dawn and dusk.
Weird double split on this one - haven't seen that before. Unusually there's also rubber still visible. I'm really interested in how rippled it became as it retracted.
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Strobist: SB600 on camera left and below, gobo'd, on 1/64th power. SB800 on camera right and above, gobo'd on 1/64th. Balloon with blue dyed water. Retouching / correction in Aperture.
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2010-07-09 EDIT > Explored #28! thanks all!
One of five of QGRY’s Mac’s that was purchased from BNSF (#4017) is the lead engine on QG 502 coming from CP’s St Luc yard, back to QGRY’s Ste-Therese yard, just north of Montreal.
Luckily a patch of reasonable sun appeared as 37402 'Stephen Middlemoor' tnt 37218 leave Parton about 09.20 on the 1st July 2015 hauling 2C40, the 08.42 Carlisle to Barrow in Furness.
Nancy: -Hello I'm "Nancy in the city". You're sooo cute!
Patch: -Hehee... Hi! I'm Patch the Brave Knight. You look like Godzilla with your big legs and mini arms!
Nancy: -How rude!
Patch: -But it's a compliment! I love godzillas, I even have a baby one as a pet. He's over there -Yooohoo Zillo! Say Hi to Miss Nancy-, I'm teaching him how to chase asian hornets. They are a real threat to biodiversity, you see.
Nancy: -That's cool! What a great Brave Knight you are! Can you help me find the nearest city?
Patch: -I'm afraid I'm really bad at geography, Milady. But I can tell that you are on the famous DuDidier street, it goes from here to there, both inside and outside.
Nancy: -Ah. I think I heard that already.
Patch: -I love your outfit! It would look great on Zillo. Can I borrow it sometime?
Nancy: -¡absolutamente no!
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I'm so fond of Patch the Brave Knight that I can't bring myself to change her outfit. I might need another Patch who will be wearing it all the time (and possibly build an army of brave knights lol). After all we never know when we'll need the help of a Brave Knight.
A well loved Patch doll has finally made it to Cooperstown. I got such a sweet note from the 70 year old seller, who played with her as a child. In the lot were some clothes that her grandmother made for her dolls. I will keep them (even if they're not genuine Sindy items) and cherish them for what they are.
Patch needs a cleanup before I introduce her to her Sindy sisters. Though I doubt she'll stay clean for very long...
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Patch is Sindy's rascal of a little sister, produced by Pedigree from 1966 to approximately 1970ish.
I believe this one is from 1966. It says Made in England on the back of her neck and she has no markings on the torso.