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Getting ready for the winter trip to Yosemite this weekend, which led me to take another look at images I took there last year, to see what worked and what didn't.
We parked at El Capitan Bridge, and then walked along the river, and beyond the bend there's this cool vantage point of the Three Brothers. I loved the fact that there was frost on the ground. Too bad there was nothing in the sky, but it's still a beautiful vantage point.
Weather forecasts this weekend call for only a 10% chance of precip on Saturday, but maybe there will be some clouds.
Who cares though? There's never a bad time to be at Yosemite.
Starting out the morning, Black River & Western's 3B-1 crew drills out the NS interchange in Three Bridges, NJ, as they gather up their lumber loads for KB Reload in Ringoes. BDRV 1856, a former Conrail/NYC GP10 pauses under US-202 between moves, as viewed from River Avenue.
Not a great photograph, but an historic one! The Aer Lingus 737 taking off is the newest aircraft in this image - EI-ASL. A Dan-Air Comet and a 1-11 complete the image. Sorry about the quality!
These three hooded statues atop a building on California and Kearny streets in San Francisco are strangely reminiscent of characters from the game Assassins Creed. They are rather sinister looking, almost as if this is the headquarters of a sinister, shadowy empire!
"Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be alright!"
Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Saying', ("This is my message to you")
Our three gray cats, back on the bed today (as they were yesterday), without anyone wearing a tunic. The bright, white wee-wee mat makes the cats look darker than they really are, at least to my eyes. I'm still trying to get a good picture of the three gray cats in as close as I can get to natural color (and without any pesky white mats getting in the way).
Three more murals from Jackson's 2019 Bright Walls festival, on the walls of the parking lot behind Bella Notte restaurant. An artist who calls himself ZOER painted the wall on the left, George Rose decorated the long wall, with Ben Johnston's contribution between.
ZOER's wall used to look like this. The new artwork is quite a change.
Johnston apparently calls his mural RELAX, which makes sense. Couldn't locate names for the others....
this morning it rained, it was gray, it was almost a washout and then for three minutes, we got this.... totally worth the wait. (almost) sooc (sharpening doesn't count, right? lol)
bigger: farm3.static.flickr.com/2788/4351612267_1c8781c52c_b.jpg
There's a bunch more to come, but I must go to a four year old's birthday party.. ahh it's a glamorous life.. ;-)
Three almost-finished goldfinches, waiting to be turned into brooches. This design takes a while to sew (lots of small details!) so it's extra satisfying to line them up like this when they're finished :)
Dutch poster freecard by Boomerang, no. P25-03. Poster: A-Film / New Line Cinema. Poster for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003).
The Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, 2001-2003) is one of the greatest and most influential film series ever made. The trilogy is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's classic fantasy novel. The three film titles are drawn from the three volumes of the novel: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003). New Line Cinema and Jackson's WingNut Films produced the film.
Set in the fictional world of Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings follows the hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) as he and the Company of the Ring set out to destroy the One Ring, an artefact of great magical power, and defeat its maker, the Dark Lord Sauron (Sala Baker). The Company eventually separates, and Frodo continues the quest with his loyal valet Sam (Sean Astin) and the treacherous Gollum (Andy Serkis). Meanwhile, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), heir in exile to the throne of Gondor, along with the elf Legolas (Orlando Bloom), the dwarf Gimli (John Rhys-Davies), other hobbits Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd), and the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen), unite to rally the Free Peoples of Middle-earth against the forces of Sauron and the evil wizard Saruman (Christopher Lee), who has raised an army of Orcs against the forces of Good. The three films were shot simultaneously in New Zealand from 11 October 1999 until 22 December 2000, with pick-up shots from 2001 to 2003. It was one of the biggest and most ambitious film projects ever undertaken, with a $281 million budget (equivalent to $568 million in 2026). The series was a major financial success and is among the highest-grossing film series of all time, having grossed over $2.9 billion worldwide. The series won 17 Academy Awards out of 30 total nominations, including Best Picture for The Return of the King. In 2021, the Library of Congress selected The Fellowship of the Ring for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
J. R. R. Tolkien created the Hobbits, good-hearted, bustling, chatty little creatures who eat seven or eight times a day, like to take naps, have never been far from home and have eyes that grow wide at the sounds of the night. When they rise to an occasion, it takes true heroism, for they are timid by nature and would rather avoid a fight. In Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the Hobbits have been pushed off centre stage. The film is a modern sword-and-sorcery epic about powerful men and wizards who embark on a dangerous crusade, taking the Hobbits along. New Zealand director Peter Jackson masterminded the film and its two sequels in a $300 million undertaking. It is an awesome production in its daring and breadth. Jackson used modern special effects in several shots to great purpose. His film depends on action scenes much more than Tolkien did. The hobbits have the right combination of twinkle and pluck in their gaze–especially Elijah Wood as Frodo and Ian Holm as the worried Bilbo. Yet the taller characters steal the story away and reduce the hobbits to supporting characters. Ian McKellen is Gandalf the good wizard, Christopher Lee plays Saruman the treacherous wizard and Viggo Mortensen stars as Aragorn, the warrior known as Strider. The elf Arwen (Liv Tyler), the Elf Queen Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) and Arwen’s father, Elrond (Hugo Weaving), also tower like Norse gods and goddesses.
Roger Ebert in his review of The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (2002): "The Ring Trilogy embodies the kind of innocence that belongs to an earlier, gentler time. The Hollywood that made The Wizard of Oz might have been equal to it. But Fellowship is a film that comes after Gladiator and Matrix, and it instinctively ramps up to the genre of the overwrought special-effects action picture. That it transcends this genre–that it is a well-crafted and sometimes stirring adventure–is to its credit. But a true visualisation of Tolkien’s Middle-earth it is not." Ebert thought the third part of the trilogy, The Return of the King (2003), was the best: "At last the full arc is visible, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy comes into final focus. I admire it more as a whole than in its parts. The second film was inconclusive, and lost its way in the midst of spectacle. But Return of the King dispatches its characters to their destinies with a grand and eloquent confidence. This is the best of the three, redeems the earlier meandering, and certifies the Ring trilogy as a work of bold ambition at a time of cinematic timidity. (...) Jackson’s achievement cannot be denied. “Return of the King” is such a crowning achievement, such a visionary use of all the tools of special effects, such a pure spectacle, that it can be enjoyed even by those who have not seen the first two films. Yes, they will be adrift during the early passages of the film’s 200 minutes, but to be adrift occasionally during this nine-hour saga comes with the territory; Tolkien’s story is so sweeping, and Jackson includes so much of it that only devoted students of the Ring can be sure they understand every character, relationship and plot point."
Sources: Robert Ebert (RobertEbert.com), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Oftentimes cool power is broken up/disappears after one round trip over the Minneapolis Sub. In a pleasant surprise this set of SD60s has made at least 3 trips to Minneapolis this week. Clouds ahead of a storm front have moved in but the SD60s are a roster favorite of mine so I nabbed L516 cutting through a patch of spring greenery. May 17, 2019.