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After frequent prodding by Garshna to check out Burroughs 3, I decided the hottest day of the year was the best time to set off on the driest, most exposed trail I've ever hiked.... :-) Karen Sykes called it a thigh burner and she was right. It's only nine miles out and back, but you have to climb Burroughs 2 twice with an elevation gain of 2,600 feet. On my way back a guy asked me if it was worth the hike since the view was so amazing from 2 already, I laughed, hesitated for just a moment because I'd already decided that I'm not going back unless my daughter makes me, but yes. If you can get there you simply must, the last bit is steep as heck and dang Burroughs 2 is between you and the parking lot, but the views are astounding...oh and if you wear shorts, put the sunblock on your legs too.... :-)
I hesitate to say 'blow it up' because it is a volcano so.... enlarge it and step into my little world. :-)
Winter essentials- gloves, boots, hats or hoods..
Severity: Extreme
Extraordinary threat to life or property
Weather Event Onset
1:00 AM (EST), January 23
Description
* WHAT...Dangerously cold wind chills as low as 25 below zero possible.
* WHERE...All of southeast Michigan.
* WHEN...From late Thursday night through Saturday morning.
* IMPACTS...The dangerously cold wind chills as low as 25 below zero could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...An arctic airmass settles over the region Thursday night bringing actual temperatures below zero late Thursday night and Friday night. Wind chills both nights into the following mornings likely to fall to 15 to 20 degrees below zero. There is chance feels-like temperatures fall further to 25 degrees below zero.
Action Recommended
Monitor the situation and take precautions if necessary.
Urgency
Take action in the near future.
Once again the Fast 5 were unsuccessful in their hunting this day. I often thought as I watch these many failed chases that all the vehicles moving around the animals affected their hunting success.
Masai Mara
70817 on the .6R38 1405 Aberdeen Waterloo Colas to Irvine Caledonian Paper cross Rossie viaduct near Montrose...cloudy...a non runner and finally in the sun(just)
At the third time of asking, 67002 Leads 67018 ’Keith Heller’ at Irthlingborough Road, Wellingborough with 22:12 Toton T.M.D. - West Hampstead North Jn. 11-11-2016.
No shelter here for man or beast where the animals and their handlers share the same harsh conditions under the desert sun. This was the scene at the desolate passing loop of Tmeimitschatt where the loco was shunting a mixed consist of wagons, perhaps unusual as an iron ore train had derailed some kilometres to the west blocking the line.
I couldn’t determine which direction the train was headed, but I guess most of the livestock only had a one-way ticket.
The iron ore railway line across the Sahara from Zouarat
to Nouadhibou in Mauritania.
Mauritania March 2022. © David Hill
Once again the Fast 5 were unsuccessful in their hunting this day. Here one of the 5 gives it another go.
Masai Mara
This was a third day of some decent sky along the waters edge. Little bit of wind also produced some nice wave action which is always thrilling to witness (at least for a prairie boy)
My website: In the Moment Creations
Looking south from Boulder, Colorado's First Flatiron one has a real sense of just how precipitous this perch is!
This species has phenomenal range from southern Canada and across two thirds of the United States from North Dakota down to Texas, from New England down to Florida, and the Gulf Coast to Central Mexico. It is a well-known species, but not commonly encountered. I was quite surprised to find it in Texas.
Family Nymphalidae/Nymphalinae
The tree is a pitch pine (Pinus rigida).
From Wikipedia:
Franklin Parker Preserve is an 11,379 acre natural preserve located in the Pine Barrens in Chatsworth, New Jersey. The preserve links Brendan Byrne, Wharton, and Penn State Forests. Franklin Parker Preserve is owned and managed by New Jersey Conservation Foundation.
Geography is typical of the Pine Barrens with sandy roads, pitch pines, cedar swamps, blueberry fields and tributaries of the Wading River. The 53 mile Batona Trail runs through parts of the preserve and the preserve provides habitat for rare, threatened or endangered species including bobcats, bald eagles, barred owls, northern pine snakes and pine barrens tree frogs. The area also serves as a filter for rainwater that makes its way into the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer.
Franklin Parker Preserve was a former cranberry farm that was once the third largest cranberry producer in the US. The farm was owned by Garfield DeMarco, an influential Burlington County Republican Chairman. He frequently opposed many of the pineland's preservation regulations but he decided to sell the land at a significant discount versus the lands estimated value in order to preserve it. The land was purchased by New Jersey Conservation Foundation in 2003 after they were able to raise the funds for preservation. After securing additional adjacent tracts of land from private owners in 2015 and 2016 the total acreage of the preserve is now 11,379. The preserve is named after Franklin E. Parker III, the first chairman of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission.
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SUNSET - Florida Everglades
Palm Beach County, FL U.S.A.
Spring 2020 - May 31st, 2020
*[left-double-click for a closer-look]
Happy Third Day of Autumn! - Fall
*[Autumn-Pumpkin-Orange - thanks for looking]
*[we don't get the intense Autumn colors that you
see 'north' of Florida...but we do get pumpkin-orange!]
*[almost done with this one - lots of 'orange' magic-moments!]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everglades
Free Fallin' - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (LIVE)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcgEf1kJ3wo
(I miss Tom Petty and Gregg Allman - RIP)
Flickr Friday: Support
Part of the "third hand" tool that I use to support backgrounds and hold items in tabletop photography scenes.
Explore No. 215, 27 January 2023
The plant that I posted recently has already sprouted two additional leaves, perhaps with one or two more on the way.
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