“Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.” ― Richard Carlson

new -edit painting 2004

Union Pacific's Denver & Rio Grande Western heritage unit leads NS 205 by the depot in Wauseon.

in the Convention Centre Dublin atrium

This male ruddy duck is all dressed up in his finest breeding plumage and sky-blue beak, ready to woo some lady duck. Good luck, Mr. Ruddy.

White pink azalea

Four SD70ACes shove a westbound BNSF freight up Mullan Pass at Skyline Trestle.

Photo taken with Nikon D810 camera. Location: Gibraltar.

Bella, on my lap. She usually wriggles around when she wakes, just to make sure I notice her.

Happy Caturday & happy New Year.

Created for the Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces 111th MMM SIZE MANIPULATION Challenge

With a thumbs up from the friendly hogger, also a friend of mine, repainted blue devil IC 2458 leads train 406, as they approach Passekeag, New Brunswick on a beautiful Fall afternoon.

November 12, 2018.

The daily MEWFP-17 passes under US 59 and through the crossover at CP Nance on the West Belt, beginning its run down to Freeport.

Houston, TX 1/17/2022

The sun sets on another day in the Cienega Creek Preserve southeast of Tucson AZ.

UP 7435, on main 1, leads a stack westbound across the The Cienega Creek bridge that was built by the El Paso & Southwestern in 1912. Seen in the foreground is main 2 , the original ESPEE alignment that follows the creek.

Thank you for your visits / comments / faves!

Thema für Happy Crazy Tuesday: Something BLUE,

Keine bezahlte Werbung!

Quarantine shots.

Grant, San Francisco, California, USA

Hibiscus

Kingham, Gloucestershire, UK

Hamburg - Moments

Up close.

Zwolle

Netherlands

Museum De Fundatie

Escher Inspired

Neighborhood #4

Walking around at an ungodly hour fills the heart and soul with Misty smiles and a memory card of peace and quiet. Video coming soon… #Loughrigg #Nikonz7 @Nikon

zuccotti park, financial district, lower manhatten, nyc

This downy woodpecker may have been making an effort to hide but, instead, gave me a great chance with the camera.

Adult bald eagle in hoar frost, glad he stayed so still for me!

Diese fünfeckige Wendeltreppe fand ich zufällig in einem sehr schönen Geschäft in Friedrichshafen am Bodensee, und der freundliche Inhaber ließ mich dankenswerterweise ein paar Fotos machen.

looking west ( note water building up on the floodplain)

TRYST Adult Playground - live where you play ♥

Taken a while back, but some recent reviewing showed this one had something I never noticed at the time. How many birds can you spot in this one?

RawTherapee was the work horse for getting this one right. Used an older GIMP to get the hues more interesting and palatable too.

Smile on Saturday.

Green.

Sweat shirt to wear today.

[note: flickr is really doing a disservice of not fixing a widespread issue of not displaying latest contact photos in a timely fashion. please check this thread www.flickr.com/help/forum/63201. As a workaround suggested in the thread, if you are a firefox user, install greasemonkey add-on and use the greasemonkey script written by steffen found here www.flickr.com/photos/steffenj/2263344796/]

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