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This HRD image of a disused slate mine in Cumbria brings out all the colour and tonal qualities of the structure.
The scenic beauty around some of the mines is unparalleled, but would it make a difference if you have to carry and cleave heavy stones, all day long ?
Taken at Cwmorthin quarry.
Part of the series:
"Welsh slate quarries":
www.flickr.com/photos/fransvanhoogstraten/albums/72177720...
This picture was taken during the Magic Birding Circuit of Ecuador, in San Jorge de Milpe gardens.
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With the exception of Red-winged Blackbirds, Slate-colored Juncos were the most numerous bird seen on the New Year's bird count at the old abandon airport at Beltsville Agricultural Reserach Center. I counted one-hundred and twenty-five Slate-colored Juncos during the half day I spent birding. Prince Georges County, Maryland.
Lüntenbeck / Vohwinkel / Wuppertal / North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany
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Slate-throated Redstart
Myioborus miniatus
Abanico pechinegro
Familia (Family): Parulidae
Taxonomía (Taxonomy): SACC
Lugar (Taken in): La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia
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A passage leads to some wonky but solid steps made from slate. In this area of Wales, it seems that slate is everywhere. Wales produced over four-fifths of all British slates and dominated world roofing slate production. In 2021, UNESCO added North West Wales' slate landscape to its World Heritage list.
Provo, UT.
An early hike heading up the trail as the sun was rising. A cell phone shot so the quality wasn't what I normally like, but you use what you have, right?
Have a great weekend.
Mike
So excited to find my 2nd ever sea slater! Shame it was dead!! Thought I'd keep it, until I smelled it.....! Lol!
Portholland - Cornwall
Ventral shot below - viewable large
A warbler that will not be coming our way. Like the Painted Redstart -- this warbler belongs to the family of Whitestarts. Tandayapa.
And the sunshine is coming through the gaps in the slate fence.
This is the old railway trackbed of the padarn four foot gauge from Penscoins near Portdinorwic to Gilfach ddu in Llanberis.
CSX Q17627 heads north through Slaters Lane with a pair of SD70MACs, one each representing the newest and oldest orders on the CSX roster. These single stack intermodals still run up the RF&P and EMD power is again becoming more common here, but this afternoon northbound move is a thing of the past. The equivalent I032 today will generally pass at the crack of dawn.
This is one of Lakeland’s ancient pedestrian bridges...Not far from the mystery summit.
Historically Little Langdale was at the intersection of packhorse routes... Slater's Bridge, which crosses the River Brathay in 3 spans supported by a large mid-stream boulder and stone causeways, is a 17th-century, slate-built, former packhorse bridge on one of these routes. Today metalled roads from Little Langdale lead west over Wrynose Pass and Hardknott towards Eskdale, northwest by Blea Tarn to Great Langdale, northeast to Elterwater and east to the Skelwith Bridge - Coniston road.