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the incredible canyon and river bed of the Jokulsa a Fjollum with its canyon made entirely from columnar basalt as result of volcanic actions. This shot was taken right after Dettifoss waterfall, where the river resumes its rather calm flow.
As with everyone, Covid has made people put there lives on hold. This is one of my son’s who has been locked down in London for months. To see him run down the beach and run into the sea was quite emotional. I have the feeling that the new normal has arrived. Childhood can be resumed under a new set of rules.
Take care out there.
All the best......
Even dead you remain the enemy and loser...................
The German militairy cemetry in Vladso (Belgium)
While the cemetries of the Allied troops have stark white colors, those of the German troops are gray- black and look dead and gloomy.
While the militairy cemetries are an example of discipline and structure, the German variants lack alignment and logic.
It was long be argued that this would be regulated in the Articles 225 and 226, from the Treaty of Versailles, but whoever reads these articles will find that this view is incorrect.
The real reason is that the French after the end of the insane war were ordered tot give the German dead their final resting place and collected the bodies in the sector of Ypres and burried them on free pieces of land, altough it was not obvious that they each received an individual tombstone.
So what we see here is in fact a mass grave, covered with granite slabs bearing their names.
Black evokes bad feelings and the Germans were in the eyes of the Allied the agressor, despite the fact that during investigations after the insane war it appeared that all warring parties had engaged in aggression and had committed atrocities. France, England and Italy had already secretly divided the territories of Germany and its colonies, the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire, in the heat of the battle!
It was of paramount legal importance that, according to the President of the United States Wilson's conviction, Germany should be held responsible but not blamed for the insane war breaking out. However they were incomprehensible responsible for the reparations!
The fact that the Germans and English soldiers at the front still had peaceful feelings towards eachother is evident from the inconceivable Christmas truce in 1914 that took place in the sector of Ypres.
This incomprehensible event of peace and fraternity during the heat of the battle took also place on field sites in many other sections at the front.
The German front soldiers started on Christmas eve 1914 by singing "Silent Night" and shouting "Merry Christmas".
When the British soldiers realized that this was well-meant, they came out of their trenches and even went to exchange their Christmas presents from home.
On Christmas Day, they played football together in the no-man's-land, the piece of land between the trenches of the warring armies; ordinairy soldiers who were tired of the war could momentarily throw of the yoke of the insane war.
When the army commanders, or rather the butchers, got wind of this, these fraternizing actions were officially stricktly forbidden from above and held out very severe punishments if the fightings were not resumed immedialy. The ensuing battles would claim millions of lives on the whole front.
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One of my very occasional winter trees series, I probably only manage a couple of these a year.
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While birding in Prince Edward County with my friend Paul, I had the opportunity to visit some great habitat and find birds unique to that setting. And then, because it is the migration time and lots of birds were moving in, we had some funny lucky breaks in odder places.
We had to drop off a calendar at a friend of Paul’s home, and we found the Cerulean Warbler (another lifer) while sitting in our cars.
To be fair: Paul’s friend lives on the shore of Lake Ontario, about a kilometre further toward mainland from the Prince Edward Point area. Paul lives another kilometre along the same shore, and as a result his backyard also hosted a bunch of wandering migrants.
As the sun reached its bleaching apex everyday, we would head to Paul’s backyard to rest and eat a sandwich. We generally abandoned both photography and birding during the peak heat/sun, resuming after 2.
And we saw a lot of birds in Paul’s yard. Many were skipping along the shoreline, having made land at the Point. They moved through quickly. And then a Northern Mockingbird showed up. A member of the Thrasher family, it completed our sweep of local Mimidae (along with Gray Catbird and Brown Thrasher).
Though not a lifer for me, this is still a pretty rare find in the County. And despite the blazing sun, or rather working with it, we managed a few decent images as it posed in the scrub Sumac and Lilac that separates his yard from his neighbour’s. The songs it sang were amazing; trying to identify the species it mimicked was a lot of fun.
One interesting part of this experience: Paul had been showing me the Merlin app, and how, in the early morning rush of inbound migrants, it identified several birds accurately at once. And then came the Mockingbird: Merlin failed several times.
This female Scorpion Fly fell and landed on its back, I am proud to say that I fired off a shot before it got up resumed battering itself against my window. After taking pictures I opened the window and it was gone :o)
Having been given permission back out onto the main, the engineer on the "Rosario Local" throttles up his two SD40s while the brakeman waits to re-line the derail once the short train is clear. They've just finished switching Nustar Asphalt, which can be seen in the far right of this shot. This track is part of the pre-1966 AT&SF alignment, which generally followed the Rio Galisteo from near its confluence with the Rio Grande towards Lamy.
This was the culmination of a one year long desire and about a four hour wait. I had seen this shot in my head ever since beginning my time qualifying out of Albuquerque, but it was either "they don't run up here anymore" or (once regular, predictable service resumed) I was always working when this job was working. Everything fell together today though, and it was worth waiting for!
518. Adirondacks. Pentax.
While convalescing at home after another total hip replacement, I haven't had much of a chance to venture out any great distance to photograph much of anything. Despite that this image is a few years old, it inspired me to do the required PT so to heal myself properly. When the fall colors start to brush themselves on the beautiful mountainous canvas we call the Adirondacks, I will be there, to resume painting landscapes from this glorious palette.
Of all my wildlife blessings over the years, this encounter has to be in the top three. While walking the beaches of Ft. Pickens Florida back in early April of 2021, I had a pod of 12+ Bottlenose dolphins frolicking some 50 yards off the beach.
Through my travels and my many years in the Navy, I have seen and photographed dolphins too many times to count. This morning, and these two dolphins in particular, were acting very differently than any other I have seen.
They were hovering just below the surface, making wakes that indicated that at least one of them was moving about while submerged. Then they would both rise, take a breath and resume the same action. Being a kid from Indiana, I had no idea what was going on. I thought she might be giving birth, but having only been around dogs, cows, horses, buffalo, alpacas and my bride (twice) while giving birth…I had no idea what dolphin labor, especially with 99% of it taking place under water and out of view, looked like.
This photograph captures the last time they broke the surface together. This is the breath taken to make that last push that grants birth.
The next photograph taken and already shared, was of the baby breaking the surface and taking its first breath.
Looking back now, the odd wake while submerged was her staying somewhat stationary while he swam circles around her…no doubt keeping one eye on his bride, and the other looking out for possible predators while she was at her most vulnerable.
Witnessing special times can be such a gift from God!
Every year we have been
witness to it: how the
world descends
into a rich mash, in order that
it may resume....
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Tung_Street:
Lee Tung Street (利東街), known as the Wedding Card Street (喜帖街; 囍帖街) by locals, is a street in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. The street was famed in Hong Kong and abroad as a centre for publishing and for the manufacturing of wedding cards and other similar items.
As part of an Urban Renewal Authority (URA) project, all interests of Lee Tung Street were resumed by and reverted to the Government of Hong Kong since 1 November 2005, and subsequently demolished in December 2007. The demolition was seen by many as causing irreparable harm to the cultural heritage of Hong Kong.
The site was redeveloped as a luxury shopping and housing development. As with all other URA projects, no original tenants have been resettled on site.
After the development, only small part of next to QRE Plaza is official there. The rest of street, rebuilt and rebranded as Lee Tung Avenue, is a pedestrian street open for public in the high-rise housing estate The Avenue.
The street was known for its printing industry, and Wan Chai was a longtime host of the headquarters of the Hong Kong Times, Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po. In the 1950s, print shops began to gather in Lee Tung Street between Johnston Road and Queen's Road East. Rumours had it that the government of Hong Kong mandated this in order to easily monitor illegal publication.
The poet and translator Dai Wangshu also established a short-lived bookstore in Lee Tung Street in the early 1950s.
In the 1970s, the print shops also began producing wedding invitations, lai see, fai chun, and other items, for which they became famous in the 1980s. Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong people visited the shops there to order their wedding cards, name cards, and traditional Chinese calendars.
Heads up.
Some sleep disturbing nocturnal thunderstorms coming through Southern Ontario tonight and the chance of some severe weather in Southwestern Ontario tomorrow.
Resume normal broadcasting :)
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Well with a couple of days to go before he resumed his travels, we managed to see Wally on a trip to Tenby. Such good timing...
While in the midst of this “wait a little longer” I am going to hush my incessantly worrying mind and harness opportunity. There is a “resume” button on the horizon. So here we go.
Time to press “resume” and move forward into this year with expectancy. Step into the future.
Do you need to recommence?
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Right as she raised her face off the sidewalk to look up at me the sun broke out from behind a cloud. Then with a very calm and coherent voice she answered, "Yes I am fine. I am resting here waiting for the train to pass." Then she resumed her nap and the sun went away again.
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It's new BJD portrait city around here right now... so still no Pullip photo >.<
This is my totally adored Supia Rosy SD... a dream girl that i jumped at the chance to adopt. It might be a temporary wig for her, but i wanted to take a quick photo because i'm crazy about the girl ♥ She's my new favourite BJD!
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Supia Rosy with AngelToast faceup
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Normal embers photo service will now resume... :) I just like to do a portrait when i get a new BJD, and because i've not had any 'proper' dolly time for weeks now but i've had a couple of new arrivals, i'm squeezing in the portraits!
I'm sticking with the four SD girls that i have now, and then still to come are an SD boy, a boy for the twins, and a Popovy Sisters girl :)
Happy weekend all
Au pays des fous.....In the land of fools
Au pays des fous
où se trouve la plus grande colonie au monde des magnfiques Fous de Bassans.
L'île Bonaventure tout près de Percé...au québec CANADA
In the land of fools
where the largest colony in the world of magnfique ¸Fou de Bassan The island near Percé Bonaventure in Quebec Canada ...
QUE LA NATURE S'EMPARE DE NOUS ET
QU'ELLE NOUS IMPRÈGNE DE SA DIVINE BEAUTÉ
PUISSE-T'ELLE NOUS TRANSMETTRE SA FORCE
ET SA SAGESSE AFIN DE NOURRIR NOS ÂMES ASSOIFFÉFS
QUE LA NATURE S'EMPARE
DE CE MONDE DÉNATURÉ ET QU'ELLE REPRENNE SA DIGNITÉ
PUISSE-T'ELLE NOUS GUÉRIR ET NOUS UNIR
DANS UN MONDE DE CONSCIENCE ET D'ÉQUITÉ
QUE NOTRE NATURE VÉRITABLE SE MANIFESTE
ET QU'ELLE NOUS GUIDE PAR SON INTUITION
PUISSE-T'ELLE NOUS ENGAGER SUR LA VOIE DE NOTRE DESTINÉ
THE NATURE AND WE seized
IT get a taste of her divine beauty
CAN WE SEND you it-STRENGTH
SA AND WISDOM TO feed our thirsty souls
THE NATURE TAKES
DENATURED OF THIS WORLD AND THAT HIS RESUME DIGNITY
May you it heals us and unite
IN A WORLD OF CONSCIENCE AND EQUITY
OUR NATURE truth was
WE GUIDE AND THAT BY HIS INTUITION
WE MAY-you it embarked on the path of our destiny
ASL Airlines ATR72 EI-FXK about to land at Glasgow from Newcastle. ASL Airlines operate a Glasgow-Newcastle-Paris CDG-Newcastle-Glasgow service on behalf of FedEx. The service has only only recently resumed after operations were paused due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
12 noon. on the final day of the Great Central Railway's (GCR) 2016 Winter Steam Gala, sees the 'Midday Sunday Brunch' departure for Leicester North in the very capable hands of guest engine - SR Bulleid 'Battle of Britain' 4-6-2 Pacific 34053 Sir Keith Park.
This coaching set is always very popular at Galas for it contains a 'Griddle Car', where you can enjoy an excellent 'Hot Food Menu' - superbly cooked & well presented. Especially at lunchtime you'd be hard pushed to find a seat - such is its popularity.
When at GCR this January, and enjoying my early morning breakfast with other 'Working Volunteers - on the train at Loughborough, I was told that GCR's 'All Day Breakfast' had been voted 'Best Heritage Railway Breakfast in the UK' in a poll recently undertaken.
When 'Lockdown' is over & assuming some form of normality resumes & GCR is fully operational again - you should come & try this breakfast too - it's great value and really very tasty!
After recrewing a quad of fresh Candian Pacific et44acs lead 181 through Nahant yard. Local railfan Jeff Toff gets some video of the train as they pass the south end of the yard.