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20085 and 20059 pass the withdrawn class 20's stored in the down yard at Stanton Gate on 4th April 1990.
Go as Far East as you can go in the United States and you reach this iconic lighthouse, West Quoddy Head in Lubec, Maine. On a clear day, the banks of Grand Manan Island in Canada are stunning.
SUNSET - #190 in Explore 8/28/21
Florida Everglades U.S.A. - 1/19/21
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
South Florida - Palm Beach County, FL
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - brown lines]
HNRC Railfreight liveried 20118 Saltburn-by-the-Sea and 20132 Barrow Hill Depot on hire to DC Railfreight arriving at Derby working 6Z21 Long Marsdon to Chaddesden Sidings on the 29/3/21
A pair of Railfreight Red Stripe liveried 37's approach Chinley station with the returning Hope Street stone empties, April 1988.
SUNSET - #172 in Explore 9/13/21
Florida Everglades U.S.A. - Winter
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
South Florida - Palm Beach County, FL
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - Red Overload]
*[Hot - Flaming Skyscape - horizontal red-skyscape]
This Car was built in 1932 and used an 4.886 ccm V12 with 180 HP. It´s one of three that still exist worldwide. Seen in the "Nationales Automuseum", Dietzhoelztal, Germany. For further informatiion check the website www.nationalesautomuseum.de/en
Architect Sir Norman Fosters` competition winning design to rebuild the Reichstag Building in Berlin, this evening photo ( enhanced) of a maintenance worker ( a lady) walking up the ramp within the dome caught my eye.
Explored September 19, #334. Thank u :-)
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And as the evening darkens, lo~! how bright,
through the deep purple of the twilight air,
Beams forth the sudden radiance of the light,
with strange, unearthly splendor in the glare~!
- Longfellow
The female red-banded sand wasp (Ammophila sabulosa), also known as the red-belted sand wasp, starts of by building several (up to ten or so) burrows in the sand. She then seals them up provisionally and go out hunting for caterpillars.
The prey is then paralyzed and transported back to one of the burrows - on foot if it is to eavy to fly with - and dragged down into it where it is left with an egg before she seal it up.
When the egg hatches, the larvae have fresh food to eat and after pupating, the then adult wasp will dig its way out.
As for the prey here - it is difficult to tell the exact species as there are several similar species, but a more knowledgable friend made a guess that it might be a catepillar of the moth with the interesting name "silver Y" (Autographa gamma), a name it has gotten from the small white/silver y on the wings.
Carl Linnaeus thought the Y was more a "γ" (the greek character gamma) instead so both the scientific name and the Swedish one (Linnaeus was a Swede) refer to it that way instead.
A couple of visitors from the north east pass Trowell Junction on 4th July 1989 with probably the Long Eaton to Port Clarence discharged tanks.
20122 and 20156 of Thornaby provide the power for the long journey home.
A well camouflaged yellow and red crab spider hiding with its dinner on the under surface of black eyed Susan petal. It looks like a very surgical strike, straight behind the head. I doubt if the fly even saw it coming. Probably an american green crab spider (Misumessus oblongus).
Day 173 of 365 - Camera Porn
Another lazy shot, but one I have been meaning to do for a while now.
I am finding the photo a day thing to be more challenging lately. I am almost ready to start 'cheating' a bit and posting images I have taken earlier rather than doing the photo every day :(
Shot with the 17-55f2.8 IS lens. Natural Light from window Camera Right.
Well, that's it for this sunset series. The intense sky
and water colors changed from minute to minute.
It was truly a magical night...and was fun to see.
SUNSET - Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
South Florida - Palm Beach County, FL
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - blue ripples]
For 'Macro Mondays' theme of 'Contained'
Just trying for simplicity - one small jar and one marble laid on a piece of material that also formed the background.
Slight texturing.
Russian Industar 61 L/Z 2.8/50mm lens ............. just about 3 inches
SUNSET - Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
South Florida - Palm Beach County, FL
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - heading home]
Choose your destiny.
Here's a Bar Joke:
A new guy in town walks into a pub and reads a sign that hangs over the bar...
FREE BEER!
FREE BEER FOR THE PERSON
WHO CAN PASS THE TEST!
So the guy asks the bartender what the test is.
The Bartender replies "Well, first you have to drink that whole gallon of pepper tequila, the WHOLE thing at once and you can't make a face while doing it. Second, there's a 'gator out back with a sore tooth...you have to remove it with your bare hands. Third, there's a woman up-stairs who's never had an orgasm. You gotta make things right for her."
The guy says, "Well, as much as I would love free beer, I won't do it. You have to be nuts to drink a gallon of pepper tequila and then get crazier from there.
Well, as time goes on and the man drinks a few, he asks, "Wherez zat teeqeelah?"
He grabs the gallon of tequilla with both hands, and downs it with a big slurp and tears streaming down his face. Next, he staggers out back and soon all the people inside hear the most frightening roaring and thumping, then silence.
The man staggers back into the bar, his shirt ripped and big scratches all over his body.
"Now" he says "Where's that woman with the sore tooth?"
Railfreight Red-striped 37677 and 37681 at Chinley with empty ICI PHV stone wagons bound for Tunstead. 9th December 1987.
BR Railfreight 'Red Stripe' liveried 37684 & 37680 after the run around manoeuvre at Latchford, blast out of town with the Peakstone empties returning to Peak Forest.
To the left Arpley Yard (now DB) and the Joseph Crosfield complex at Bank Quay.
SUNSET - Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
South Florida - Palm Beach County, FL
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - Heavenly Red]
A goldenrod spider (Misumena vatia) in "flight". it was unusual to see one on the move as female goldenrod spiders are usually stationary, hiding in a flower ready to seize unwary prey that comes to feed. When I first saw her, she was in ambush mode, motionless in a white daisy, and well disguised. I am not sure why she decided to leave and wander around. Perhaps she caught sight of the camera and looming beast attached to it. She seemed to have constructed a network of silk “highways” ahead of time to move on through the grass as she was not casting fresh lines forwards, although she was spooling new thread behind her, presumably for safety.
SUNSET - Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
South Florida - Palm Beach County, FL
*[left-double-click for a closer-look]
*[Flaming Skyscape - red water-stripes]
Railfreight Red Stripe liveried 37682 & 37680 back in the Peakstone empty hoppers while 37687 awaits its next move, October 28th 1987.
58047 passes Langley, Erewash Valley line, on the 31st August 1991.
This was one of the exports to Spain for further use, but is now scrapped.
©Dave Peachey.
It's Friday evening and I am dressed for an evening at home full of chili-making, dish-doing, floor-mopping, and knitting. Early morning runs and bike rides and 10-12 hour work days have turned me into a lame ass. I could go out, but I'd rather curl up in bed with a Red Stripe and a Tom Robbins novel.
SUNSET - Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
South Florida - Palm Beach County, FL
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - Heavenly Red]