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This series is about those places that become our own for a short period of time, but for that small time we make them ours.
28 October 2019: temperature is -10C (windchill -21C!) and it is snowing. These arctic air blasts are never pleasant. I noticed that there is snow in the forecast on a few of the coming days this week.
Well, I'm certainly glad that my daughter and I made this trip on 24th and not 25th October. Extreme winds on 25th, up to 172 km/hr along parts of Highway 22, with several huge container trucks/trailers flipped over on their side. Also, grass fires in fields, fueled by the strong wind. We were down in that whole area - it would have been dreadful the following day. The weather forecast for 26 October 2019 was for snow and strong winds, so I knew where I would sensibly be - home and hibernating!
On 24 October 2019, it was partly a repeat of my day three days earlier, which I had thoroughly enjoyed. This time, however, was my favourite kind of day - a day spent with my daughter and our cameras : ) I always try and think of places we could go where I know she will see some interesting and beautiful things. I knew that she would be able to see an old grain elevator, beautiful scenery, old barns and sheds, and anything else that we might come across. She also mentioned to me that Bragg Creek had their Scarecrows day, with some of the locals competing for the hand-made, life-size Best Scarecrow.
So, we combined everything into one great day, with sunshine and white clouds (that are always a bonus). Almost forgot to mention the wind that was just the same as three days earlier.
Maybe it is always windy down south.
We set off just after 9:00 am and headed south, where we could find the grain elevator. From there, we headed west, coming across several things that I had completely missed on 21 October. Obvious things, too, so I'm not sure how that happened. Once we reached the place I wanted to get to, we then turned north and headed for Bragg Creek. Such a contrast from wide open prairie farmland to forest. By that time, we were both feeling hungry, so we called in at one of the little restaurants in Bragg Creek for lunch.
My daughter had mentioned that Bragg Creek was holding a Scarecrow day, so we walked around the shops in the hamlet, looking at the various Scarecrow displays outside. We drove a few of the roads, too, discovering some different ones.
From Bragg Creek, we drove down Highway 66/Elbow Falls Trail as far as Forgetmenot Pond, stopping briefly at Elbow Falls en route. I knew snow was in the forecast for Calgary and the places we went to this day, so we made the most of the sunshine and clear ground while we could.
Thanks so much, Rachel, for a great day spent together! My favourite kind of day. So glad you had a free day.
This is the temporary jetty built on Raa. Dhuvaafaru by Singaporean construction company Lian Beng, who are building 600 housing units funded by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The project, which is a donation for Tsunami victims will cost approximately 24 million US dollars.
We are still living in a tremendously weird time. Who would have thought that 2020 was going to pan out like this. Since lockdown the bus network has been seriously reduced to accustom for the lack of passengers. This has also meant more buses covering not their usual route, including here when Lothian Buses 42 which is a marine based bus is covering Longstone service 30 to Clovenstone. Seen here at Princes Street.
Butler, NJ
NYS&W Silver Heritage Unit 3024 awaited guests at the Butler Museum (the former train station) as part of the Morris County "Pathways of History" event.
SmugMug: donaldwinship.smugmug.com/Rail-Photography/i-NNJkrmw
Advertising signage from decades ago revealed by the demolition of a building beside it. A new building going up will probably bury it once again, this time forever.
DEL2163 (LK16DDZ), Route U2, Uxbridge (Friends Walk)
NOTE: These DELs are ON LOAN to Uxbridge.
Some bus stops in Uxbridge were closed, resulting in routes 607 A10 and U2 to use this fomer bus stop by Friends Walk to start their journey.
Amherst Town Tomb.
Commonly seen in older New England cemeteries and built in the mid to late 1800s is what was known as the "receiving tomb". Previous to this when grandma kicked the bucket in the middle of winter you would store her in the barn until spring and the ground was soft enough to dig a grave. But in the 1800s many cemeteries built these tombs to receive the dead and store them until warmer weather (or for whatever other reason the final resting place wasn't ready) at which point their graves would be dug and the bodies moved to their final resting places. With the invention of the steam shovel and other powered digging tools there was no longer as much of need for these and they are not seen in newer cemeteries.
However they have not completely fallen out of favor. The one at Lowell Cemetery built around this same time frame is still used for this purpose today sometimes including holding bodies temporarily for other nearby cemeteries.
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For a few weeks at least, a Class 92 is temporarily a rare sight on the Highlander. With the Mk5s rolled-out on the Lowlander and all bar one CAF-modded Class 92s converted to 1500v ETS to work them, it has been almost all hired-in Freightliner 90s working the old stock on the Highlander.
Fresh from a rare trip to Dollands Moor/HS1, Class 92, 92 010, was stepping in whilst the 90s undertook A Exams. Working 1M16 south through Acton Bridge in the dawn light, there won't be too many more occasions to capture 92010 (or any 92) on the old sleeper stock.
The cicadas arrived in droves but they won't be here for long. They only live a short time once they leave their subterranean lives behind.
Towards the western edge of Guelph Lake these temporary docks are extended into the lake. There were several people at the ends of the docks fishing on this particular day. The lake's water level is quite lower than normal at this time of year as the Grand River Conservation Authority has adjusted the water levels of the lake and the Speed River in Guelph with a number of dams. In this picture, it's easy to see where the regular water levels normally are, abutting the tree line. On another note, the picnic table is not normally located there! Haha.
This series is about those places that become our own for a short period of time, but for that small time we make them ours.
The remains of the temporary scaffolding railings along the promenade during refurbishment of the Knightstone Island complex and the Marine Lake. The recent weather and storm surge probably responsible...
R694DNH rests in our Poplar Farm Depot, a temporary fleet addition owing to the demise of DD85, it will run on schools duties for us until our new double deckers arrive!
The White noize music festival.
Chupa village, Medvezhka peninsula, Northern Russia, Republic of Karelia.
This "love lock" is locked on a rope, on top of an active volcano. Eternal love (or until next eruption...)
Bonkers, freshly washed (with a damp pet wipe) and groomed with a nice comb, resting on the bed. He was purring gently while I cleaned him up (lately, he’s fallen into the litter box and smells a bit like urine - the pet wipe helped with that particular issue but his tunic needs to be washed). He’s still purring softly next to me...
It was amazing to see what the tide would do to the water level ... In the morning, you could jump from pool to pool - in the late afternoon, you could kite surf at the same spot. Just amazing! #Tanzania #beach-life
Venturing out in the rain is so much fun when you have a rainproof camera (Olympus EM1.1 and 12-40 Pro lens) ... let's not talk about the supposedly waterproof shoes, though. Anyhow, this little stream bed is usually empty and just a trickle of water flows off the hills into the river. But during yesterday's heavy rainfall, it suddenly swelled up into raging rapids ... just for an hour, but it still made for a very interesting subject.