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I finally have a proper rake of goods wagons, open gondolas here, to run with my British locos on45mm track. Today's train has a live steam, coal-fired Wrekin on duty.
We're so lucky to have an incredible stand of ginkgo trees in our neighborhood. They can't help but bring a smile to your face for several weeks every autumn.
Taken by a camera atop a 20 foot pole.
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Pepper is wearing a crocheted hat I made. The leaves are actually wood stickers. Puppers is vintage. I wanted to get outside before the weather gets super cold and take a quick picture. Just made it before the wind started!
My freight rake! Well, I do have a 2nd plank wagon, but that didn't fit on the tracks.
Yes, the highlight isn't actually the rolling stock which I've already shown at some point, but the scenery. I don't want to show you too much though, I'll do a good presentation at some point.
Misty back road in Dummerston, Vermont. First place at the Newfane Fine Arts Show , July 2010. Selected for the 2010 Northeast Prize Show at the Cambridge Art Association Gallery in Cambridge, Ma.
Rakes Mill pond is located directly off the Blue Ridge Parkway about 15 miles north of Mabry Mill in Virginia.
I'm running behind and will catch up tonight after work!
this past saturday mom asked me to come over and rake up all the leaves from her yard so i tossed on some old clothes that i didn’t care if they got dirty and my hi-top Reebok princesses and set out to clean up mom’s yard without tying my shoelaces. Mom hadn’t noticed until it had gotten too dark to keep working and called me in for a hot ziti dinner. By then i’d clipped my left shoelace five times, had to shift my stance twice because I was standing on the same said shoelace and even tripped once because I stepped on the same left shoelace. Fortunately I never fell or got hurt but my laces sure are dirty from dragging about in the dirt as I worked.
Large wooden hay rake with 76” handle, 1 1/8” diameter and 27” head containing 14 wood dowel tines, 3 1/2” long. Handle is cleverly divided 16” from lower end to support rake head. 2 tines missing.
Donated by Madison's Judith Young from her late mother's collection, Feb 2021
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Hay rake in a shed at the former location of the community of Abbeyville, Virginia (in Mecklenburg County). Abbeyville no longer exists.
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With a uniform rake of wagons with new ballast, a pair of GBRF 66's are seen working 6S48. Seen in glorious afternoon sunshine, 66737 leads 66733 with the Tyne Yard to Mossend Departmental working on the 12th February 2016. This was taken at 1430
I just declared a weird and seldom seen implement, "Scrape the skies," at Ramey to be a haying rake. This is an entirely different rake design and it's easy to see that this was designed to be hauled, first behind horses or oxen and later behind a tractor, possibly steam. The Ramey rake was a push rake that was used to skid across a previously mown pasture to pile the cut hay atop its tines. The gathered hay was transported to a Beaver slide and piled on a carrier at the bottom. A second draft animal would pull on ropes attached to pulleys and the carrier which itself would ascend the slide and dump the hay onto a stack over on the back side. The Beaver slide could be crudely built from local materials. At one time they were scattered about pastures in the West.
I just drove out southwest of town and turned off the Diagonal Highway to search for more flood destruction on Oxford Road and northwest of Niwot toward their cemetery. I caught this beside the road on the way to the cemetery. I kind of like the warm afternoon light that streams over the mountains. I just hit the partly open Golden Ponds and other local sites. I got caught up in a project chasing autumn leaves falling in a breeze. This at least qualifies for the color. We've had pretty good color and pretty good breezes but I never have hit both in the perfect "fall" this year. I'd say autumn shots are about gone by now.
Strangely, we had a summer that was closer to normal, if high in humidity, but I think ignoring climate change or pumping petroleum into the atmosphere won't make rougher weather go away. That is at least until the looming petroleum wars are settled and the Koch Brothers and their political tea investments are put away in their place. Until then, CO2 levels in the atmosphere which are at an 850 million year high, will not be turned around. Actually, all anti-fracking proposals passed in Colorado. Hope perhaps. I guess most of America has learned what can happen because climate change has weakened the jet stream this winter. I expect NO odds for the spring and summer weather.
Not built for walking on the ground, for sure! She was very awkward about it. A friend found her and brought her by for a photo shoot. She wasn't too fond of my slick plastic white background, but it kept her from scurrying off too fast. After we were done, I put her on a plant outside where she immediately set up a web, hanging upside down from it.
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Spined Micrathena, Micrathena gracilis
Alexandria, VA
Our Daily Challenge 18-24 October : Low Tech.
I have lots of rakes, and use them. I absolutely hate leaf blowers! They are energy consumers and noisy.
Some of my neighbours employ so called gardeners who blow the leaves out into the street, from whence they are blown straight back in the wind. Fancy paying someone to do that ! They could use a garden vacuum and then make a leaf mold heap to use later.
CSXT 3101 and a mate lead Q140, (Intermodal, Jacksonville, FL - Philadelphia, PA) stirring up fallen autumn leaves as they near Elk Mills, Maryland on the former B&O main to Philly.
This is an enhanced version of this garden scene. Detail adjusted with Topaz Adjust. A little dodging and burning thrown in for good measure.
Mardi Gras 2016 - New Orleans
For anyone who doesn't understand the nature of the Mardi Gras beast- these are shots of the cleanup crews in action. A remarkable thing to see, too! Lots of people hang around just to watch the incredible job they do!
It's not just the crowds that generate trash- consider the fact that each float is tossing tons of stuff! Plastic cups, trinkets, beads, stuffed animals, frisbees, but there are also the bags that the throws come in and everything in between that goes over the side of a float!
It is just how it is, so while it may seem awful, take a second look- the clean-up crews rake and sweep and gather trash, frontend loaders pick up the trash and load it onto dump trucks to be hauled away, and then the sweepers come along and EVERYTHING is cleaner than most city streets on a normal day!
And this happens at the end of EVERY parade day; when the last parade of the route rolls, the cleanup crews follow closely behind, and when you hear the horns blaring after the last float has passed, you had better grab you stuff and get it off the curb because you have to be BACK and out of the way!
The haze you can see in some of these shots is dust from the crew raking up trash furiously, and sometimes, the haze is about humidity as the cleanup equipment sprays the streets down with water for cleaning! :)
AN INTERESTING LOOKING WATERFALL WHICH IS QUITE TALL BUT NARROW. THE WATERFALL IS FORMED OVER AN OLD GEOLOGICAL FAULT MAKING A LOVELY CASCADE.