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An exhibition of anatomical art selected from the University of Birmingham's Special Collections department. Lecture provided by Professor Alice Roberts, Clinical Anatomist and Professor of Public Engagement in Science.
Sesión de Fotos Nocturna. Nocturnal Photo Session.
Bogota. Colombia.
América del Sur - South America.
Andrew Gallacher with DVR's 8792 is seen shunting DVR's heritage carriages in the East Yard. The carriages had not been out of their storage road for 12 months. The carriage behind the loco is a rebuilt Chelsworth Park Railroad Straddle car and the four carriages behind it are the "coffin cars" that are the only surviving examples of the type of carriages used in the early days of the railway.
The Chelsworth Park Railroad in Ivanhoe (1948-1959) was the predecessor to DVR, when that railroad was damaged by flooding it was moved to Eltham and became the Diamond Valley Railway opening in 1961.
Diamond Valley Railway 58th Birthday Day 1.
“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.”
-Jorge Luis Borges
"Setting Introspection" should be the title of the photo, I suppose, though I'm not sure what that means. Perhaps it's about suppressing those idle details. ("Sister got bit by a copperhead snake in the woods behind the house...") So, it's just "Setting...," which seems more appropriate on a night when my mind busies itself with numerous setting suns. Clifton's memory seems to be flying around the house, and following me down the street and about the neighborhood this weekend, which may or may not be related to this particular month of the year. ("Nobody was home so I grabbed her foot, and I sucked that poison out...") On Friday, I learned that my childhood friend Paul lost his father last week, and, having watched Catcher's mama and one of our closest friends face that same loss last year, the knowledge of his pain, however natural and necessary, does strangle and kink the old intestines a bit more than usual. ("Sister got better in a month or two, when the swelling it went down, but I started off my teenage years with a poison in my mouth...")
Ah, but I am confessing much too much for such a public forum. One would think I seek attention, when, Lord knows, I avoid it as a general rule. I simply wanted to post this photo as a tribute to my friend's father, but elegies, good ones anyway, seldom focus on the dead. The elegy evokes the lost relationship of the author, real and imagined, to the dead and to those who mourn. The elegy evokes the changed landscape, the future moved to the right or the left or back or forward just a bit, and, sometimes, moved cross country or even out of country. So, in that spirit, the photo and the long sentiment goes to Paul. Peace be with you, my friend.
Still, I'll leave a second Borges quote, with all the recent dead in mind:
“Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.”
-Jorge Luis Borges
Oh, and Paul, "Sing this with me, this is '40'..."
(Note: Song lyrics in parentheses from "Summer of Drugs" by Victoria Williams.)
A series of 13 raw images from Cassini, taken October 18, 2010, has been looped together to create this animation showing Titan "setting" behind the nighttime limb of Saturn. Watch the interaction between the moon and Saturn's upper atmosphere! Very cool.
The frames have been level-adjusted to create an even black background, but some detail was lost in the process...and there's still plenty of sensor specks and CR hits because I didn't clean those up yet.
Images: NASA / JPL / SSI. Animation by J. Major.
some 40 minutes late, as a couple had not handed in their boarding passes, nor told their guides on an afternoon jaunt that they were returning by an earlier bus. The captain was not amused.
Incidentally, all the people on this video turned out to be most of the friends we made on the trip.
What drew me in is the basketball hoop.
This circular cul-de-sac is at the end of our side-street. The evergreen at the far lower right is at the end of our property.
This used to be part forest and part open field. The original developer finally sold the un-developed part of our neighborhood to a new developer after 20+ years of laying dormant. The trees came down, and houses went up. We had it so good for so many years, it was hard to give up the complete feeling of living at the edge of a forest for us.
We lived, and still have a wonderful yard, with many trees to fill our views with nature. We're still at the edge of a densely wooded area, and the coyotes and deer can be seen and heard at times.
This looks like the setting for a neighborhood pick-up basketball game. I can just about hear the voices making claims of skill and shouts of missed swishes. The street-lamp is perfectly placed to illuminate the game late into the night. Burning off that adolescent energy and making memories with lifetime friends.
The setting is perfect.
All that is needed is the teams.
Most of the neighborhood youngsters are just a wee bit too young for this yet. Soon, i imagine that the contests of skill and bonding of friendship will blossom.
The stage is set, waiting for the players to arrive.
All in due time.
High Tension work in Chicopee. PAR and Burns & McDonnell pulling "samson rope" for new 345kw lines by helicopter. (over Memorial Drive)
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What’s better than one sun dog? Two The one on the right was much less prominent, but you can make it out between the lamp posts near the right edge of the shot. The skyline of suburban Maynooth is silhouetted along the horizon.
Lots and lots of hot glue...finally made the leaf garland that I have wanted to make for about four years... :)
2013 TAMU Applied Biodiversity Sciences Amazon Field School on the Tambopata River in the Peruvian Amazon
A friend held a party over the weekend, and two hours before the party was scheduled to begin, we overhauled his living room to create a stunning magazine ready room, complete with beautiful ambient lighting.