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I love the interesting planters you can buy these days
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I feel like giving up. Yesterday was not a great day (well, OK.... it sucked). Today started out alright but started heading south.... and this SHOULD be my vacation week in Maine... as you can see... I am NOT in Maine... and I am NOT happy... about a number of things.
I went out and ran this morning and I was tired and my feet and legs were tired and around 2 this afternoon I started thinking that I would go run a 5K. There aren't many that I can run because I work every weekend (every freakin' weekend) ...and it was a Flag Day run for homeless veterans and their families... so I figured that I should go....and maybe be happy for a bit, even though I knew I was really too tired to run it well... and I would have to go alone because I have only 2 friends that run and how do you ask someone to go run with you and then say.... be ready to go in 2 hours.... Ok, well I did ask one of them, but she had to work... I didn't ask the other... because they don't know me all that well... and they don't know that I do things like this with no prior thought or planning ( they don't know I'm crazy... although, they may have an inkling... but it isn't confirmed... yet. And they are way too fast anyway!) So, I went alone... which is probably just as well. And I rocked the first mile.... got a cramp before I hit two miles and had to walk for a bit... which was not unexpected because I ran this morning too, and ...really... I'm not a runner.. and never really will be. But... my time wasn't horrible.... and I finished strong, sprinting (Ok... MY version of a sprint... but it was my fastest...lol!) through the finish line. And there was Italian Ice... and I wore my awesome red, white and blue sneakers...and I love them... and I ran behind awesome people that were running while carrying full size American flags. It was good.... 34:08 minutes of good... the time is unofficial. ; )
I didn't give up. But I am buying lottery tickets this weekend... because there are a number of things that I would like to give up...
After meeting the eastbound UP Z train at South Omaha siding, the loaded grain train continues west on the BNSF Omaha Sub through Ralston climbing out of the Big Papillion Creek waterway.
Westbound Union Pacific passenger special crosses Gross Dam Road at Crescent, Colorado, on UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision, August 21, 2019. Engines 1943 and 9072. Photo by Joe McMillan.
Silhouettes of the Water Reeds
GÖLGESİ
Ağlasa da gizliyor gözlerinin yaşını;
Bir kere eğemedim bu kadının başını.
Kaç kere sürükledi gururumu ölüme
Fırtınalar yaratan benim coşkun gönlüme.
Cevapları o kadar heyecansız ki onun,
Kaç kere iman ettim, hiçliğine ruhumun.
Kaç kere hissettim ki, yine bu gece gibi,
Güzelliğin önünde, dolup çarpmadı kalbi.
Ne mehtabın aksine yelken açan bir sandal,
Ne de ayaklarında kırılan ince bir dal
Onun taştan kalbini sevdaya koşturmuyor.
Bir çiçeğin önünde bir dakika durmuyor...
UP GP40-2 No. 1480 leads train LBU51 at St. Francis, WI. The train will serve customers further south on the Milwaukee Sub. 2/6/2023
The sun is losing the battle with early morning clouds as an eastbound manifest crosses the West branch of Papillion Creek with a Tier 4 70 up front.
At the swimming hole on Beard Brook.
Hillsborough, New Hampshire
September 2020
Olympus E-420
Zuiko Digital 25mm f/2.8 pancake
At first glance I thought it was a junkyard, but upon closer inspection, I don't think there is a vehicle in the lot that I wouldn't want to take out for a spin. Taken at 300mm, so a good ways away (err above).
Thanks for looking!
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Comments and constructive criticism always appreciated.
A shot from me recent trip across the state of Texas. Combine city is similar to the nearby cadillac ranch but with combines instead, a field of 14 planted butt down in the dirt with their "headers" pointed up twords the sky.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to red, aquamarine and pink.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
Growing up I used to look at adults with admiration. Being a tiny little girl, practically most of them looked strong, clever and sophisticated. They seem to know a lot, understand things. And who was I? A kid with no experience. The whole thing was supplemented with a frantic desire of most adults to extract words of wisdom.
The more you observe people, the more you realize that everyone’s experience is such a unique and fragile thing that it couldn’t be compared. It is the same with books or, for instance, movies. Two books might be of the same genre, have characters alike or even the same plot twist, but yet they are different. You know as they say: no two persons ever read the same book. I couldn’t agree more.
That is why whenever I’m talking to someone, I see this person as a puzzle. The pieces of puzzles are the stories that this person consists of. These stories and life situations made us who we are today and the experience is worth sharing but in the form of a good old story and, by no means, a cold and foreign ‘I’ll teach you something!’.
I do not seek for pieces of advice or the ultimate wisdom (which doesn’t exist), to be honest. What I am always looking for is communication. You know, the good old chat with stories. Be they banal or bizarre.
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It's an oft-shot location - the Atrium of the British Museum in London - but I couldn't think of a better place to try out a new ultra-wide lens on a rainy day!
For the lens geeks out there, this is shot with the new Nikon 16-35mm f/4. Wonderful, wonderful bit of glass, even if it is rather long and hefty.
To my flickr friends - hello! Sorry I've not been online in a while, I'll catch up with your streams as soon as I can.
UP 3392 east is using track rights on the BNSF Trans-Con, passing the new connection at MilePole 185 in the Spring of 1998. Single boxcar must have been high priority to be on a stack train.
In the autumn, Queen Anne's Lace takes on a curled-up 'bird's' nest shape which holds its seeds. The seeds are spread by the wind and by sticking to animals as they brush up against them.
Mom was having a much needed snooze and the baby was just waking up with a big yawn tucked safely under her wing. Take a close look to see her chick.
Canon 1DX, F11, 1/640, ISO 1000
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Originally built as SP 9763 in 1991, this GP60 became UP 2062 in the early 2000's. In late 2018 it got a new coat of paint and a new number, becoming UP 1171.
Here, this well-traveled Geep lays over at the former MKT Eureka Yard in Houston after bringing in a transfer from UP's Englewood Yard.
UP GP60 #1171
Houston, TX
January 6th, 2024