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This cormorant was working one part of the lake, then evidently was dissatisfied, so moved to the west end. Fortunately for me, I was well situated for the flight.
It's still "Mother's Day" in my time zone so I'm sneaking this one in under the wire. Long-tailed Weasel mom relocates her youngster, half dragging half carrying. She's probably saying something like "I TOLD you not to play in the street". I'm sure our hard-working moms of the world can relate.
Had to relocate some mantises that were protecting our cucumber patch so I could remove the old and plant some new. I was worried about doing so thinking it would freak out and move on. It didn't. Just after putting this one down it immediate caught a bug and proceeded to have lunch like business as usual.
Eagle pair that was mating relocate to somewhere else at Bombay Hook NWR, Delaware. The eye sockets look dark, but that is what they look like in several photos.
On one of the roads towards the great freshwater lake named Tonle Sap, central Cambodia. Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia flooding a vast area in the rainy season and retreating significantly in the dry season. Small homes are often relocated closer to the waters edge in the dry season.
With rain and clouds approaching and good light waning I scrambled to get into position to capture a reflection of Cathedral Rock in a tranquil pool along Oak Creek, only to be stymied by two ducks muddling the surface. Instead I relocated below the waterbird kerfuffle and obtained this composition.
At Fernald, Lodge Pond is a sure-fire spot to observe many ducks. if one is patient, afternoon light hits the ducks flying in or simply relocating across the pond. The dry weeds on the banks provide great background.
I was thrilled to see this bird standing in the upper most pond of Fernhill Wetlands mitigation area. I got as close as I could without scaring it, took numerous photos of it sitting still and hunting, but I really wanted a flight shot. I don't intentionally disturb birds, so I waited and waited. Finally after about an hour, two people walked up to the pond even nearer the bird, and loudly said, "I WONDER WHAT THAT PHOTOGRAPHER IS LOOKING AT?" Seconds later I had my shot!
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BNSF 6643 heads down the BNSF Hannibal Sub. just north of Elsberry, MO. with 25 CitiRail Gevo's in tow. Running in a 1x2 formation to haul the units at this point of the journey under the symbol D-ALNSTL3 05T. This is 1 of 4 planned moves to relocate the units from Alliance, NE to St. Louis, MO. The units are headed for the Prairie Lines yard for storage in St. Louis, MO., I'm guessing that Citi got tired of paying BNSF for storage.
CitiRail units in this move: 1333, 1410, 1212, 1350, 1429, 1303, 1332, 1434, 1412, 1347, 1318, 1435, 1213, 1208, 1325, 1338, 1210, 1310, 1345, 1415, 1411, 1314, 1419, 1316, & 1201.
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The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino is a five-diamond luxury hotel and casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States, on the site of the old Sands Hotel. Designed by KlingStubbins, the hotel tower contains 36 stories and rises 475 feet (145 m). The Venetian is owned and operated by Las Vegas Sands. The Venetian also serves as the seat of the corporate headquarters for its parent company.
The Venetian resort complex is (together with the adjacent Sands Expo Convention Center and The Palazzo Hotel and Casino Resort) the world's second-largest hotel, with 4,049 rooms, 3,068 suites ranging in price from $169 to $10,000 per night and a 120,000-square-foot (11,000 m2) casino. Since its opening, The Venetian Macao is now the largest casino in the world, beating The Venetian, Las Vegas.
In April 1996, Sheldon Adelson announced plans to create on the property the largest resort on the Strip. This project would be situated on the former Sands property. On November 26, 1996, eight years after it was purchased by the owners of The Interface Group—Adelson, Richard Katzeff, Ted Cutler, Irwin Chafetz and Jordan Shapiro, the Sands Hotel was imploded to make way for The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino. Groundbreaking for the hotel began on April 14, 1997.
The resort opened on May 3, 1999, with flutter of white doves, sounding trumpets and singing gondoliers, with actress Sophia Loren joining The Venetian Chairman and Owner, Sheldon G. Adelson, in dedicating the first motorized gondola. Built at a cost of $1.5 billion, it was one of the most expensive resorts of its kind when it opened.
On June 27, 2003, the 1,013-room Venezia Tower opened. It was built on top of the garage parking lot.
in 2010, it was announced that it will be affiliated with InterContinental Hotels Group.[2]
In October 2011, the Cantor Race & Sportsbook opened, which was the only Las Vegas sportsbook that was open 24 hours a day. On June 11, 2012, the Venetian opened Carnevale, a summer-long festival that is anchored by a nightly 3-D projection show on the clock tower. In September 2012, The Blue Man Group show closed and relocated to the Monte Carlo, after being at the Venetian for six years.
The hotel uses Venice, Italy, as its design inspiration and features architectural replicas of various Venetian landmarks, including the Palazzo Ducale, Piazza San Marco, Piazzetta di San Marco, the Lion of Venice Column and the Column of Saint Theodore, St Mark's Campanile, and the Rialto Bridge. The design architects for this project were The Stubbins Associates and WAT&G
Praying Mantis
A species of Mantid that I don't see very often. You can see some yellow colouring. This year we have cleared the garden alongside our driveway where these appeared from time to time. This one was on our Wisteria, looks like it has found a new home.
I was looking for a tiny Butterfly that I had seen flying around the Polygala bush, when I came upon this Katydid, well hidden between flowers and a lovely, clear raindrop on the left of the insect. Zoom in.
The Katydid was relocated after the photo was taken :) /
Je recherchais un petit Papillon que j'avais vu voler autour du massif de Polygale, lorsque je suis tombée sur cette Sauterelle, bien cachée entre deux fleurettes, ainsi que sur une jolie goutte de pluie pleine de reflets, a gauche de l'insecte. Agrandir l'image.
La Sauterelle s'est vue relocalisée après la photo :)
The Signalbox at the Wells and Walsingham railway was relocated from Swainsthorpe in 1987. The lower floor is the cafe. The GE six wheeled third 995 built at Stratford has seen better days
Early morning view along the main street of the Higashi Chaya district in Kanazawa, Japan.
The city of Kanazawa has three well-preserved historic chaya ("teahouse") districts, and Higashi Chayagai, or the Eastern Chaya district, is the largest. The chaya offered food, drink, and entertainment by geisha. The buildings here date from around 1820, when the chaya were relocated from the central part of the city to their current locations. Traditionally, the houses featured lattices on the exterior of the ground floor, and guestrooms above. Some of the chaya are today preserved as semi-museums, still offering tea and sweets and geisha performances, while many others are now cafes, restaurants, and shops.
The Higashi Chaya district has been designated as a Japanese cultural asset.
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
77mm; 10 sec; f/16; ISO 100
Marsh Life 11
Spring returns to the Fobbing Marsh. A swan, sensing a presence, relocates 100 metres downstream. No panic, no drama.
Fobbing, Essex, England
That relocated headlight lets you know the leader on Norfolk Southern's train 290 wasn't always a thoroughbred. NS 3553 was built in 1979 for the Burlington Northern; BNSF sold it as surplus at the turn of the Century. Helm Financial had it in leasing service until 2013 when Norfolk Southern bought it and others to add to their fleet.
Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan
It is the relocation project of a three-span arch bridge. The work had been carried out over approximately three years, and it was successfully completed two days after this day.
At 2359 hours the CMQ will join the ranks of Fallen Flag's being taken over by the CP. To my friends on the CMQ I offer this advise, follows the rules, do your job and ask questions if you do not understand. Boy's you have graduated to a Class 1, hang on, nothing will be as it was. I made a couple of trips to the Moosehead Sub before relocating to Virginia as this was where my career started back with the CP. Back then there was a siding at Tarrantine that went through crossing and you can see its footprint to this day. It's Christmas Eve and the boys are headed home.
Relocation of a puffin (Fratercula arctica) conference
Umzug einer Konferenz von Papageitauchern (Fratercula arctica)
It's embarrassing how many cobwebs and dog hairs the small animals find behind our furniture. Here I bring this stag beetle girl outside. Yesterday we had a cornu aspersum with cobwebs and dog hairs. We've put it outside. Fun fact is, that the giant house spiders don't collect dirt before I find them and scream (I would be good in a bad horror movie). Two days ago, I saw a giant house spider in the bathroom. I screamed, and the brave husband caught the girl (it was a girl) in a glass and threw her outside. I'm sure she comes right back inside to look for a cosy spot for to make a cocoon. She was completely clean!
CAST
Marina Vita: TB
Tristan Vita: Erebus
Costume Design: Bailey
Hairstyle: Bailey
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TWELVE Easy come, easy go
(Mari grins at Tristan as she collects her things, ferrying them into the cabin, intending to continue working on her current painting while Tristan carefully relocates the paintings outside to their Jeep. When he finishes, he goes inside the cabin.)
Tristan:
You know, I just realized, none of your paintings have people -- (breaks off when he sees Mari standing motionless in front of her easel) Baby girl?
Mari:
(looks at him with tears in her eyes) It's gone.
Tristan:
What is?
(Mari dabs the paint brush into a blob of yellow on her palette then reaches toward the canvas. Her hand begins to shake, and the closer the brush gets to the canvas, the harder her hand shakes, until she finally gives a cry of despair, dropping the brush and covering her face with her hands. Tristan hurries to her, pulling her close.)
Tristan:
No, no. Don't cry, honey. You got it back, but maybe you just worked too hard at it? It came back, it'll come back again.
Mari:
(sadly speaks against his chest) But I thought I was okay again. I thought I was good again.
Tristan:
You ARE good, honey. Don't let this get to you. Hey, I just put seven paintings in the van that Stefan is going to FAINT over! Let's say he sells them all, including the lilies, at $30k. That's $240,000 dollars! Baby, we can put some of that down on a nice little house, and still have enough to build on with my job. You can take all the time you need to get back your mojo, okay? Zero pressure.
Mari:
I guess ... I guess it's a pretty good nest egg?
Tristan:
Egg? Baby girl, it's a whole nest!
Mari:
(manages a small chuckle) If I just have these little bursts, we'll probably do okay, won't we? (she looks up at him)
Tristan:
Yeah, we're gonna be okay. (kisses her) Hey, why don't you shuck the smock and we'll go into town for dinner?
Mari:
That ... that might be nice. (smiles)
Tristan:
I'll have to work on making it lit! Make haste, milady! Your Jeep carriage awaits!
Mari:
(laughing) You're ridiculous. Give me two minutes!
Tristan:
You may have all the minutes. I will always be waiting for you. (kisses her forehead, and Mari chuckles, hurrying to the bedroom to change)
Last week, the Eagle Street Pier, a precinct of restaurants along the Brisbane River, nestled under some very tall high rise buildings closed after about 30 years of being one of the city's prime entertainment and dining areas. The whole area is being wiped away and replaced by an entirely new facility, including even more high rise blocks, restaurants, an upgraded river walk - all of which will take many years to build but should hopefully be done and bedded down well before the 2032 Olympics.
The two paddle wheelers, Kookaburra Queen and KQ II have been based here for years so no doubt these two floating restaurants will be relocating. Not too far beyond where they are tied up, Edward Street comes down from the centre of town and meets the City Botanical Gardens and it is at this point that another of what the Brisbane City Council calls its "green bridges" for pedestrians is being built across to Kangaroo Point.
Even now the city feels like a gigantic construction site and sadly is not always an attractive and easy place to walk around because of that. I guess we can't stop progress and in these difficult economic times, I doubt we should provided it is done tastefully and with recognition of the heritage places.
Outside St Tanwg's Church In The Sand, is a quiet peaceful area where people place pebbles from the beach there.
They are dedicated to loved ones lost, people and pets [ mainly dogs ] who loved this beautiful peaceful, serene beach, Marina, and Church.
They left footprints and pawprints behind.
I was looking at them and reading them, and I came across a person I knew many years ago,
from Staffordshire before I relocated to this beautiful area of Wales.
His name was John, and his family have made him a pebble decorated with a boat and figure.
Sometimes this is a very very small world 🌎 we live in.
music
Pictures & video of the East German uprising of 1953 accompanied by the first few minutes of the second movement of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony.
Pictures & video of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 accompanied by the last few minutes of the second movement of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony.
Pictures & video of the "Prague Spring" uprising of 1968 accompanied by the last few minutes of the fourth movement of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony.
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Biserica Bunavestire - Schitul Maicilor, Bucuresti
"The Annunciation" - Schitul Maicilor ["Nuns Skete"] Church
finished in 1726
www.monumenteromania.ro/index.php/monumente/detalii/en/Th...
One of several Bucharest churches moved from their original location during the communist dictatorship and dumped behind new highrise buildings.
After the devastating earthquake of 1977 Nicolae Ceausescu realized that he can remodel Bucharest on a large scale. An area larger than historic Venice [250 hectares] was demolished to make way for a new administrative center. In total 27 orthodox churches, 6 synagogues and 3 protestant churches were demolished all over the town during that time. After a unique, brave and singular protest of several historians only 7 historically important churches were "saved" by relocation behind large buildings, to make them "invisible". The translation was technically done by first pouring a reenforced concrete foundation underneath the church and then slowly moving it to the new location on rails.
People used to joke back then that Bucharest was the only city in the world to have its own unique traffic sign: CAUTION, CROSSING CHURCHES [like the deer crossing sign]
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CeauÅŸima [Ceausescu+Hiroshima]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceau%C5%9Fima
CeauÅŸima ("Ceaushima") is a vernacular word construction in Romanian, sarcastically linking former communist leader Nicolae CeauÅŸescu to Hiroshima. This portmanteau term was sometimes coined in the 1980s to describe the huge urban areas of Bucharest that CeauÅŸescu ordered torn down, comparing the results with the nuclear attack on Hiroshima.
Statism [etatism]
Architecture and Power
Arhitectura și Puterea
[1993 Romanian documentary about Bucharest from 1930s to 1980s]
youtu.be/vuyoRpmPnZU [trailer]
THE SOVIET STORY [2008 documentary]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soviet_Story
Nineteen Eighty-Four [George Orwell]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
Brazil [1985 movie]
Tomb KV2, found in the Valley of the Kings, is the tomb of Ramesses IV, and is located low in the main valley, between KV7 and KV1. It has been open since antiquity and contains a large amount of graffiti.
A hieratic ostracon has been discovered mentioning the initiation of the tomb, its location selected by the local governor and two of the pharaoh's chief attendants in the second year of his reign. Ramesses IV ascended the throne late in life, and to ensure that he would have a sizable tomb (during what would be a relatively brief reign of about six years), he doubled the size of the existing work gangs at Deir el-Medina to a total of 120 men. Though sizable, KV2 has been described as "simplistic" in its design and decoration. The tomb was excavated at the base of a hill on the northwest side of the Valley of the Kings.
Like other tombs of the 20th Dynasty, KV2 is laid out along a straight axis. The successors of Ramesses III from this dynasty constructed tombs that follow this pattern and most were decorated in a similar manner to one other.
The tomb has a maximum length of 88.66 m and consists of three slowly descending corridors labeled B, C, and D. This is followed by an enlarged chamber (E), and then the burial chamber (J). Past the burial chamber lies a narrow corridor (K) flanked by three side chambers.
The tomb is mostly intact and is decorated with scenes from the Litany of Ra, Book of Caverns, Book of the Dead, Book of Amduat and the Book of the Heavens.
The sarcophagus is broken (probably in antiquity), and the mummy was relocated to the mummy cache in KV35.
Buckingham Branch RR's Mountain Local is passing the 1947-built station at Goshen. It was erected when the C&O Ry relocated the main line through here to eliminate or ease the curvature of the track.
Sitting along the Northeast Corridor in Harrison, NJ under a fresh dusting of snow is a handful of AEM-7 AC rebuilds waiting to complete their trip to their new home in Connecticut for storage.
The night before there were nearly twice as many but due to a multiple lite engine restriction on Metro-North's New Haven Line the collection of retired motors had to be cut in half to complete the move.
Unassigned Power @ Hudson Yard, Harrison, NJ
AMTK AEM-7AC 905
AMTK AEM-7AC 941
AMTK AEM-7AC 917
AMTK AEM-7AC 919
AMTK AEM-7AC 920
AMTK AEM-7AC 908
AMTK AEM-7AC 935
With Canada Day and the concomitant fireworks coming, I decided to experiment with previous fireworks photos. I took a 2023 fireworks photo from one location and merged it with a daylight phone photo from 2026 from another location. Obviously, I darkened the daylight photo.
HSS
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