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I started my birthday weekend wearing a stupid birthday hat in public, so it only makes sense for me to finish the weekend the way I started.
My daughter took me out for dinner on Sunday to B.D. Mongolian, which is great if you just love chunks of meat (I do!). Naturally, she had to TRY to embarrass me with the silly birthday hat. She should know by now that making a fool of myself in public will not embarrass me.
This little one keeps me on my toes more than any other. Quinn is starting to look more and more like a girl and more and more like a little person EVERY DAY!! It amazes me!
Taken this morning along the River Stour in Iford. I loved the frost along with that dramatic cloud! Using a long exposure I smoothed the sky.... you can even see a peek of sunrise to the right!
Happy Friday guys!
Blame it on my becoming older, but I could not remember making this sunset photo when I found it on my camera. Further research revealed it as a Sunrise image!
Guess I won't mind a fading memory if I have images like this to give me a Beautiful Start to my days...
Nice to out and about early, sunrise at upper kananaskis lake.heading out towards fossil falls centre of shot.
Day 162 of 365 - Start Me Up
70-200 f2.8 is with full set of Kenko tubes
Lighting: 1 580exii below key 1/8 power. Triggered by Cybersync.
Yes I probably looked strange taking a picture of my key in the parking lot at work with a big ol lens and off camera flash.
Metroline West Volvo B5LH/MCV EvoSeti VMH2570 (LA68DWW) is seen in Uxbridge at the start of its journey towards White City on express route 607.
Kamiya. I agree its still fair first attempt. Nice Yoshino style neck, cool tail. Work with wings, head, body/adjust back legs proportion, and your done.
With reports of MACs, Dash 8s, Oriole trains, and hopes we'd get the CSX stone train returning to Hanover for a nice and round chase home, we went down to Baltimore. Starting at Jessup, we would move to St Denis and see a plethora of trains.
START POINT LIGHTHOUSE WAS BUILT BY TRINITY HOUSE IN 1836, MARKING ONE OF THE MOST EXPOSED PENINSULAS ON THE ENGLISH COAST. START POINT RUNS SHARPLY ALMOST A MILE INTO THE SEA ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF START BAY NEAR DARTMOUTH. THE LIGHTHOUSE - SITED AT THE VERY END OF THE HEADLAND - GUIDES VESSELS IN PASSAGE ALONG THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.
JAMES WALKER DESIGNED START POINT LIGHTHOUSE IN 1836 AND IT OWES MUCH TO THE GOTHIC MOVEMENT IN ARCHITECTURE OF THE TIME, WITH ITS BATTLEMENTED PARAPET. TWO WHITE LIGHTS WERE ORIGINALLY EXHIBITED, ONE REVOLVING AND ONE FIXED TO MARK THE SKERRIES BANK; A FIXED RED SUBSIDIARY LIGHT STILL MARKS THIS HAZARD. THE OPTIC USED WAS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND USED BY TRINITY HOUSE.
EVEN SO, THE LIGHT WAS FOUND TO BE INADEQUATE IN FOG AND A BELL WAS INSTALLED IN THE 1860S; THE MACHINERY WAS HOUSED IN A SMALL BUILDING ON THE CLIFF FACE AND OPERATED BY A WEIGHT WHICH FELL IN A TUBE RUNNING DOWN THE SHEER CLIFF. A SIREN REPLACED THE BELL AFTER ONLY 15 YEARS.
IN 1871 THE INTERMEDIATE FLOORS OF THE TOWER OF 1836 WERE REMOVED AND EXTRA ACCOMMODATION PROVIDED IN COMMON WITH ALL TRINITY HOUSE STATIONS.
COASTAL EROSION CAUSED THE COLLAPSE OF THE FOG SIGNAL BUILDING IN DECEMBER 1989; THE SITE WAS LEVELLED, A NEW RETAINING WALL BUILT AND A FREE STANDING FOG SIGNAL STACK PUT IN PLACE.
THE LIGHTHOUSE WAS AUTOMATED IN 1993. THE LIGHTHOUSE IS NOW MONITORED AND CONTROLLED FROM TRINITY HOUSE’S PLANNING CENTRE IN HARWICH, ESSEX.
Here we are mid-January in Fairbanks Alaska a month after the shortest day of the year and gaining over 6 minutes a day of day light.
A gain of 6 minutes seems like a significant gain, if you take into consideration the length of the summer daylight hours it's a drop in the bucket and we will take it.
... mit Volldampf ins neue Jahr !!
Was die Zukunft bringt, steht in den Sternen,
vielleicht wird manch ein Wunsch auch wahr.
Einen guten Rutsch euch allen !!!
(Inspiriert von einem Graffito an der Brücke B80-Ost)
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"Life begins the day you start a garden."
- Chinese Proverb
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Heading to the early light .Beautiful morning and promising catch www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMUmoBTkHtI&feature=share&...
Ready and eager to start the new week. Isn't it amazing that just one piece of clothing takes us from scandalously provocative to decent and respectable? The only ones who would guess what's beneath my dress are the few who saw my last pic. That must be only, let's see ...
Oh my goodness! There's never been as many views on a pic's first day! I'd like to thank all my friends for stopping by because I'm secretly very thrilled by the number of visitors.