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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.
Temporarily out of real stuff, so relegated to digital diddling.
Explore 1 Dec, 2012, best position #349
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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.
Sunwing Airlines and Air Transat aircraft stored at Hamilton International Airport (YHM) during the COVID-19 shutdown
Sunwing Airlines B-737-800 C-FLSW / C-FTDW
Air Transat A-321-200 C-GEZD
Mattemburgh was built between 1851 and 1854 by order of Mary Mattemburgh.
A major restoration was started in 2010.
Commentary.
My birthday, midsummer, 25/07/2013.
I had visited Scotland with my son, then 19.
He had had a very challenging and difficult year.
A trip to the incredibly beautiful and natural West Coast of Scotland might allow him to re-boot and find himself.
It has certainly worked for many others, including myself.
It has now become an accepted fact that nature can do that.
Here we are on the ferry from Oban to Craignure on the Island of Mull.
Just before passing Duart Castle on the south-east corner of Mull, this view is the Hebridean Sea south-west down the Argyll seaboard.
The weather had been very kind.
Still warm and balmy the cloud had temporarily bubbled up to present a sky and sea of many hues of silver and grey.
The light here is so varied, penetrating and long-lasting in summer, that even the lack of stark, prime colours made for a mystical scene.
A pewter grey sea broken by the boat’s wake, endless skerries and islands, ends up a hundred tones, as the water reflects and refracts colours, hither and thither.
It is captivating, almost surreal.
Down the Firth of Lorn we see the Island of Kerrera, opposite Oban. Seil, with its bridge over the Atlantic.
Luing and Scarba are fading into the distance.
Masked by cloud the Paps of Jura make up the furthest horizon.
The Hebridean Sea is a tantalising and beautiful place.
It has an ambience and magic that is impossible to define
and impossible to forget.
Hey-ho – happy days!
we are back to black (well, zebra-striped) mountains and brown fields for exactly ONE day — snow in the forecast tonight and back into the negative teens for temps…
10113 LX12DCZ seen approaching Whipps Cross working on route 20 towards Leyton, Baker's Arms.
This bus and 10114 LX12DDA are loaned to CT Plus for around two weeks.
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
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.
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...
Roadworks site set up at the Welland Steam Rally.
The vehicle is a 1926 Ford Model TT,registration BF 8147.
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.