Reading in public
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I went to the basement to look for a particular matchbox which I had in mind but then I came across these tiny matchsticks which I didn't even know existed. They are less than 3cm long and the little pot is maybe 1.8 cm high. I have no box for them so the pot will have to do. I combined the matches with other items that are just as tiny (a candelabra, a good book :) and a cup of something hot and comforting). Not that the weather calls for a hot drink at the moment, but it went with my theme :) I used Xmas wrapping as wallpaper. I found lots of good tiny things today, I need to get them out and use them. MM is perfect for it. I sacrificed one matchstick to see if it would burn and yes it definitely does. A surprisingly bright flame and the "stick" burned slow enough not to burn my fingers. I did not try to burn the candles :)
NS 191 led by 'Reading Lines' Heritage Unit approaching Savannah River Bridge and crossing the State line at Augusta, GA.
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The inscription over the entrance to one of the Etruscan tombs at the Necropolis del Crocifisso del Tufo (my husband was pointing as he was reading it to me - yeah, he can read Etruscan).
The necropolis is situated below the town of Orvieto (which sadly we did not have time to visit), made by tufa rocks and in use mainly from the middle of the 6th century B.C. and then some hundred years (though the area actually was in use in total from the 8th to the 3rd centuries B.C). There are some 70 family tombs, built almost like small houses, with an entrance and straight walls and a door-opening (and inscriptions over the doors, telling who is buried where).
So, I really like this headpiece. I knew I wanted to do a second idea with it. Something a little more refined and less saturated than the other one. Simple, still clever? I own everything.
Really should have been Diana Vreeland, though.
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Behind a market stall in Kunming, the capital of the Chinese province Yunnan
Getting a side view of Rena isn't easy for some reason - she likes to stare at me when I'm around. But she got sleepy yesterday as I was reading and she interrupted.
By the way, the book was a page-turner. It was a fictionalized account of what really happened to the author, Agatha Christie, when she vanished for over a week and never told where she was or what happened to her. A super read. "The Christie Affair".
A westbound Herzog "candy cane" train blasts out of Montgomery tunnel with the Reading heritage unit in the lead.
3-9-2022
Holly is our advertising model today for reading, and for choosing fun and appropriate books! I am not so sure she should have picked a book about a mouse . . . Hmmm. :)
Taken for the Happy Caturday! group: cat models and brands
Happy Caturday!
Since I am home most of the time now, I am looking for things around the house to shoot. These are my reading glasses.
The weekly Conrail power move from Reading to Enola approaches its destination as it crosses the Rockville Bridge. This assemblage of local power from Reading, usually predominated by former Reading SW900’s, SW1500’s, and MP15’s, could also include GP10’s, GP15-1’s and GP38’s. These locos were mostly assigned to five-day a-week jobs, and were serviced at Enola on the weekends. This day’s lineup included eight SW900’s, an MP15, a GP38-2, a GP15-1, and an outlier SD50.
The Reading & Northern “mountain job” serves Universal Forest Products in Gordon, Pennsylvania. The customer’s lumber business is located on the one-time site of the Reading locomotive facility. Gordon gained notice as the base for steam’s last stand on the Reading, when the last active T1 4-8-4’s were assigned to helper service here until 1957.