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Did this in extreme HDR just for fun and to show the "clowns" that we are :) Also Ray's new bike and his lovely girl friend Ley. Also along for the ride are my new friends and new owners of my store Dawson and Trisha in the back :) We had a great ride :)
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Change the Locks - Tom Petty!
Colorado Desert Sidewinders (Crotalus cerastes laterorepens) inhabit the sandy desert flats and dunes of Southwestern Arizona and California. This large adult was found sitting outside a kangaroo rat burrow in the mid morning near Yuma. It's amazing how well they blend into the sand as they lay in ambush.
It is always nice to get venomous snake pics through glass. ;)
I hope everyone enjoys this image! :D
Austrian forces continue to push towards the Croatian Capital. The assault is coming to an end. Croatia is about to fall.
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The main canyon is a couple miles long. However, there are several side slot canyons that are very interesting. The slot canyons require scrambling up and over ledges and crawling through tight spaces. The erosion in the conglomerate here is quite amazing. However, I would not want to be in these canyons during a rainstorm.
The main Sidewinder Canyon is a couple miles long. However, there are several side slot canyons of varying lengths that empty into the main canyon. Wilbur is making his way up one of the "drops" in a side canyon. There are lots of rocks in the walls to step on and hold onto, but there is always a concern that the rocks will suddenly loosen. We made it up quite a few of these obstacles. Getting back down was no easy feat either!
Another shot from the gull session on Sunday morning. I was planning on taking Wedensday off as it's my birthday. But the weather looks way better for tomorrow so I've taken that off instead. Going to head back to this site then, if it gets warm enough go looking for adders and then a final visit and say good by to Worlaby Carrs.
This image is different to the other gull shots so see what the flickerverse thinks!
Cheers for all the positive comments on the images over the weekend.
The BNSF PHX105 job (which is nicknamed the sidewinder) makes it way down 11th Ave in Phoenix, AZ with it’s train for the industries all along this spur. This train runs out of BNSF Mobest Yard in Phoenix. Here he is going under Interstate 17 w/ an original BN GP38-2 in charge. I was glad I was able to bag this train on my non-train vacation!
While exploring the Namib Desert near Swakopmund we came across this tiny snake, the Peringuey's Adder (aka Sidewinder) buried in the sand.
With specially adapted eyes on the top of its head, they can stay like this for long periods of time.
This juvenile sidewider is just as venomous as its adult form. But don't move if it starts coming at you! It senses movement as prey. So you better believe that when this one sidled up right along the outer edge of my shoe, I made like a statue.
My recent encounter with the rattlesnakes has got me obsessing with snakes in general. Never mind that I stepped right over a snake that was coiled and ready to strike. And never mind that he was in my garage. I still find snakes, and the rattlesnake in particular to be quite fascinating creatures.
Here, a Sidewinder Rattlesnake gives me the snake eye behind a plate of glass in the Desert Museum near Tucson. I guess on balance, I'd rather view a snake this way rather than in my garage. Still I think snakes are like any other creature on earth, they just want to be safe and free from harm.
Tucson Arizona
Built for New Elementary, included my review of the Lego Technic 42123 McLaren Senna GTR!
Read it here: www.newelementary.com/2021/01/lego-technic-review-42123-m...
My neighbor found this rattler warming itself on their driveway, since the temps at night are now getting cooler. It’s the end of October when the rattlesnakes usually start hibernating here in the lower desert, reappearing in Feb/early March depending on the temperature. It’s nice in these 3-5 months not worrying about being careful where you step.
Sand patterns everywhere! Out of five or so sessions photographing these dunes I’d never encountered the deep, pronounced patterns covering the entire dune field like this before
This is the same Mushroom but aged 2 days. I did a 71 image stack due to the size of the cap and lens that I was using @ f/3.2 to capture the gills. It amazed me how quickly the gills (under the cap) had deteriorated.
In the Suiattle Valley near Glacier Peak we encountered a microclimate that looks a lot like the coastal one where we live, with huge red cedars, banana slugs, and pacific sideband snails, all of which were otherwise pretty rare elsewhere on the trail. Pacific sideband snail, on the Pacific Crest Trail , in the Suiattle Valley, Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington Cascades.
The Racetrack playa in DVNP is known for its moving stones, but during my last visit I tried hard to ignore them and find other interesting things.
A desert manifest at it's finest.
Union Pacific 8978 leads a pair of General Electrics with another SD70ACe in the fourth spot for a nice bookended consist, as they pull a Tucson, Arizona to West Colton, California manifest train through Rillito in the setting sun. The train looked pretty uniform up front with a cut of feed for Yuma, Arizona against the power followed by big blocks of Crown Imports (HighCube Boxcars) and Copper Concentrate loads (Gondolas) followed by a more typical mishmash of dead freight.
This train and few others have a companion video available here: youtu.be/t5IYfvVH4Jk
After a day of chasing storms the evening brought on a grand display that went on for hours.
Sierra Vista, Arizona Monsoon 2020
We watched a nature documentary last night that showed footage of a Greater Roadrunner attacking and eating a Sidewinder Rattlesnake. A lot of people think of these birds as somewhat comical as they skitter around the desert floor at high speed and from their portrayal in cartoons. But they are efficient predators. Found in Saguaro National Park, AZ.
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A pretty fresh looking C44ACM takes twenty-one thousand tons of Iron Ore from Southern Utah through the S-curve just to the east of Hodge. The train is maintaining decent speed over this portion of the Cajon Subdivision, after picking a four pack of mid-train DPUs at Yermo for it's trip up and down Cajon Pass.
Similar to the reptile, If you follow the marks it leaves in the tracks and you'll find where this train goes.