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Moments away from departure from Toronto's Union Station, Budd dome observation " Glacier Park" will carry the markers for the trip west across Canada on VIA #1.
B.N.S.F. tracks along Little Prickly Pear Creek. North of Helena,Montana. The tracks are idle. Used for train car storage only.
The track from Arpafeelie through Gallows Wood to Redcastle is ever changing. From fields with sheep and cattle to natural woodland, and then some lovely older plantations. Here we have Douglas Firs on the left and European Larches on the right, but there are self seeded and natural trees scattered throughout. The Firs are magnificent and straight like ship's masts. The Larches, too, are pretty special plantation trees that are a gorgeous colour this time of year, and are a front to more Douglas Firs and Scots Pines behind.
I fashion myself as a great tracker in the tradition of the old trail blazers like Jedediah Smith and Kit Carson. I have a keen sense of direction and the ability to notice the subtle markings along a trail. I've been known to track a four wheel drive vehicle for miles on a snow covered road. Just witness my latest big adventure where I was going after a monstrous four wheel drive down a rugged road with the excitement of Bob Marley looking for a doobie at a Reggae Concert. Sadly, I lost the trail on this one. Maybe I missed something along the way--the scat may have been a definite "red herring."
Better tracking capabilities to be had on black.
Nevada County, CA
I very rarely see any trains on these tracks
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The Overland Track is an Australian bushwalking track, traversing Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. It's walked by more than nine thousand people each year, with numbers limited in the warmer months.
Officially the track runs for 65 kilometres (40 mi) from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair however many choose to extend it by walking along Lake St Clair for an extra day, bringing it to 82 kilometres (51 mi).
It winds through terrain ranging from glacial mountains, temperate rainforest, wild rivers and alpine plains.
Monkton Farleigh ammunition depot utilised an old stone quarry below a plateau some 450 feet above the valley floor in which ran the main line railway that was its principal source of supply. Before the depot could be commissioned, an efficient means was need to bring in ammunition from the railway at Farleigh Down Sidings. The sidings were just over a mile from the depot as the crow flies but more than four miles by road along steep and tortuous country lanes.
In November 1937 the Great Western Railway were contracted to lay the sidings and build a 1000 foot long raised loading platform complete with a narrow gauge track to carry the ammunition wagons. Outline plans had already been prepared to drive a mile long tunnel from the heart of the workings terminating in an underground sorting yard built beneath the sidings in the valley below.
These photographs, taken in January 2016, showcase the building as it stands today.
Inspiration for the framing of the shots came from the 1975 New Topographics exhibition.
123 Pictures in 2023 - 105 Tracks
I was near the top of a hill on The South Downs, looking down at some tracks through the fields.
Highline Park, New York
The High Line is a train track that runs from 34th Street to Spring Street. It was constructed in 1934. Trains ran on the High line up until 1980 carrying cargo rather than passengers. Friends of the High Line campaigned for the High Line to be converted to a public space after its closure to trains and the space is now used as a public park with the first section opening to the public in June 2009.
The turn of bad weather has meant that visits of birds to the garden have been few and far between.
However although I haven't seen any at the bird feeders or the bird bath, but evidence of their unseen visits could be found on the ground in the mornings.
125 Pictures in 2025, theme # 40 Garden Birds
The journey continues .... Somehow this image calls to mind the poem in which each syllable of the Japanese hiragana writing system appears once and once only:-
いろはにほへと
ちりぬるを
わかよたれそ
つねならむ
うゐのおくやま
けふこえて
あさきゆめみし
ゑひもせす
or, if you prefer,
Colours are fragrant but they fade away
In this world of ours none lasts forever
Today cross the high mountains of life's illusions
and there will be no more shallow dreaming or vainglory
Please excuse this philosophical aside: the Captain will be himself tomorrow....
I think it's a rabbit. What's your guess?
Recovering from pneumonia right now, sorry for my absence.