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Conrail is only a few months and a real mix of colorful units sits at Norpaul IHB yard waiting for a new Conrail crew .
I know it isn't perfectly apt for this image but I do love this wonderful poem by Denise Levertov. It is a hot day today and Chloe is coming to stay for the week-end. This is for all of you who love reading. Have a very fine Friday wherever you are and whatever time it is.
Suspended
I had grasped God's garment in the void
But my hand slipped
On the rich silk of it.
The 'everlasting arms' my sister loved to remember
Must have upheld my leaden weight
From falling, even so,
For though I claw at empty air and feel
Nothing, no embrace,
I have not plummeted.
Honestly it had never been brought to my attention that there was still an interlocking tower here until a post on one of the R&N Facebook groups (Friends of the Reading and Northern is my preferred one) so after Josh and I shot the RDCs and the LGSR arriving in an incredibly busy downtown Jim Thorpe on Saturday morning we ventured up into the state park. I started day drinking pretty early and had this walk in mind. This should've been the tail end of the 1pm Jim Thorpe departure and I think I was already 5 or 6 genny's deep.
This is the final photo of a senior session that ended a couple hours ago. Fun night with a full moon that lit up the hills beyond.
Oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm, 2021.
In the reading rooms I wanted to represent a very simple idea, namely how much the content of a book can acquire reality for those who are reading it, becoming as present as the true reality. For this reason the rooms have a view towards the outside and the concrete world. Only by painting them, I realized that those windows are not an opening, the external landscape does not count at all, and the room is a refuge. The reader is somehow protected from the outside world as in a shelter, and his reality is only inside the book.
This original painting is available for sale. Contact me in case you are interested in more information about my work.
The new GWR livery on 43188. Not sure about this . Hopefully they will have a rethink before anymore are painted.
Seen in Bracknell in July 2020 is Reading Buses Green Line express-liveried Alexander Dennis Enviro400 / ADL H47/33F 1212 DU61FVY. This bus was new to Lloyds of Machynlleth as LC61WYN in 2011 and joined the Reading Buses fleet in 2016 having also ran with Go-Goodwins of Eccles as GO60ODY.
Catching up on some essential background reading for my Principia mission on World Book Day, been a while since I read Latin! www.worldbookday.com/
More about the Principia mission: www.esa.int/Principia
Credits: ESA/NASA
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~Mary Schmich
I found this young boy reading under this tree on the drive home from work the other day. He was so relaxed and content... Luckily, my camera and zoom lens were by my side and there was a driveway across the street I could pull into to get a shot. I felt like a stalker, but I don't think he noticed.
This image speaks volumes about the importance of reading and starting at a young age. Unfortunately, I didn't value reading as a child and to this day, I'm still not a reader. Sure, I can read, I just don't take time to enjoy books and because of this, my writing suffers as well.
I'd love to begin reading...do you have any books you'd like to recommend?
macromonday: the theme for this week is "when i was a child....." got a couple of possibilities but probably my fave is the cat :)
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Seen in Reading in February 2019 is Reading Buses Scania N280UD / Alexander Dennis Enviro400 City H45/26D 711 YP67XCF.
Reading's second Tiger, number 415, seen on the 7 to Reading Station in Hartley Wintney this afternoon...
Seen in Winkfield in August 2019 is Reading Buses Green Line express-liveried Alexander Dennis Enviro400 / ADL H47/30F 1208 GO11LDN. This bus was new as SN11BRX.
Forbury Gardens
A public park located on what was once the site of the outer court of Reading Abbey
Reading Abbey was founded in 1121, by Henry I, and for the next four centuries, it dominated the town and was one of the most influential establishments in England.
Like other monasteries, Reading had a Forbury, or 'borough in front’. A Forbury was an area of open land that provided a meeting place between the Abbey and the town.
The Forbury in Reading was part of the outer court of the Abbey and provided the town with both a meeting place and a marketplace.
The abbey was largely destroyed in 1538 during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. The last abbot, Hugh Cook Faringdon, was tried and convicted of high treason and hanged, drawn and quartered in front of the Abbey Church.
After these events, the buildings of the abbey were extensively looted, with lead, glass and facing stones removed for reuse elsewhere, and the focus of the town moved away from the Forbury.
Fairs were held on the site three times a year until the 19th century.
The gardens are listed as Grade II in the English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbury_Gardens
King Edward VII Box – Type WB2092/1
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Abbot's Walk Gateway
There are perhaps no days in our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ~ Marcel Proust
she has gotten into reading these days...her love for books has finally come, so i wanted to make sure and capture it. lucky for me she wasn't expecting me. if she knows I'm there, i very rarely get a good shot.
Our Daily Challenge 21-27 December : Everyday Objects Up Close
This is a revelation to me as I can't see how pretty they are without wearing them.....
Reading Buses Green Line liveried Alexander Dennis Enviro400 / ADL H47/32F 1214 DU62FHK passes the White Bus of Winkfield depot with their 5 new Enviro200 MMC buses on parade in August 2018.
Reading Buses Enviro 400 City YP67XCS 721 is seen arriving at Reading Station on a 17 service, 28th April
On September 3rd 2018 Reading Buses relaunched their recently acquired former Stagecoach route 7 (Fleet-Reading) as the Tiger. It wasn't until September 24th that the first of what will be 2 rebranded buses appeared in service. Scania K270UB / Alexander Dennis Enviro300 B42F 414 YR13PMV 'John Vaughan' is seen in Swallowfield on its first full day in service as a Tiger.