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WC 7606,6622 and 2555 are almost to the top as they near Byron with train 346 on a sunny June 23, 2001. I'll never forget the feel of SD45's blasting under you at the County Road F overpass. Pure EMD HP at its finest.
This is for Macro Monday's "Crack" theme. I'm finding these challenging, but really good to stretch the imagination & photography skills.
So this is a crack in one of the bricks on our house. Rotated horizontally for easier viewing. A couple of things this made me think about:
My wife is going to kill me because the first time I post a photo of the bricks that make our house, I post a cracked one. With a weed growing out of it. 😬
Isn't it cool the way nature takes over manmade items eventually, our house being 25 years old (this is probably more a testament to what a lazy handyman I am looking after the place). I love those old temples in Cambodia where the trees have consumed the temples. They look amazing! 😮 Must dig out some old pics of that.
Rotating the pic to horizontal made me wonder what if we lived in a horizontal world, you know if there wasn't gravity & stuff, what would humans look like? Would we be horizontal instead of standing/sitting vertically as well? Would we have 2 legs& 2 arms on the same side of the body? Would we watch TV sideways? We would look at contact's photos on Flickr laying down, in which case this photo would be the right way up. Or would it. Too hard to think about for this tired brain 🤔😵💫
Anyway I digress sorry, have a fantastic week ahead ✌😀
Against the bitter cold.
Canada Jays are well equipped to thrive in the cold winters in Canada. They even lay their eggs and raise their young in mid winter, feeding the chicks a variety of food that they have stashed during the previous summer and fall. By spring the chicks are well developed, giving them a head start on other birds.
Canada Jay
Renews, NL
Ok fine, you get a photo today because I have a feeling that eventually something will go right and I can replenish the vault. I also find few reasons to complain about this one.
OSEGL 3
April 4, 2025 - 9:00AM
Goff, OR // UP Portland Sub
This Carolina Wren was bouncing around in the flowerbed and went into the cone flowers. I thought it was cute how it popped out in the middle. My backyard, Central Bucks PA.
Or, simply photography; using my old Leica M8 and the Voigtlander AS 2.8/90 at close-up. In order to get a maximum DOF, a set the aperture to F22.
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.
As weather blows in from the west a trio of AC44s try to out run it with an eastbound grain empty. In the foreground the remains of UP's Encampment Branch lead away from the busy Overland mainlines and towards its namesake.
UP 6489 ~ GSEEMI ~ Walcott, Wyoming
Union Pacific's Laramie Subdivision
04.08.2017
Ok Christmas Eve, 4 Westbound BNSF trains sit lined up on the siding tracks at CP 550. Coal City, IL
Yeah we up up up for the glow show
Yeah we down down here on the ground
Yeah we up up up up above love
Yeah we up up up through the clouds
~Givers
This abandoned building is just outside the Wall, SD entrance to Badlands National Park. The graffiti on the side says Bondo MLS. Wall Drug signs are everywhere so it isn't surprising to find one here. Wall Drug still offers coffee for 5 cents and free water.
Beautiful rainy english lake district, looking down to Ashness Bridge.
Ashness Bridge is a traditional stone-built bridge on the single-track road from the Borrowdale road (B5289) to Watendlath, in the English Lake District, Cumbria. The bridge is at grid reference NY270196, and is known for being a fine viewpoint across Borrowdale towards Skiddaw, including views of Derwent Water nearby. It or its predecessor may have been a packhorse bridge hhconveying packhorse traffic from Watendlath to Keswick.
Taken from the cable car on the mountain Černá Hora. At down you can see The Treetop Trail, where we were before :)
Černá Hora (meaning Black Mountain) - 1299 m above sea level - mountain in Czech Republic in the eastern part of the Karkonosze Mountains, located in the area of the Karkonosze National Park, next to the spa town Janské Lázně. On the south-eastern slope there is a ski resort, which includes a gondola lift that can takes you to the top. On the top of the mountain there is a TV transmitter and an iron observation tower with a panorama of the Karkonosze Mountains.
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Widok z kolejki linowej na Czarną Górę. W dole widać ścieżkę w koronach drzew, na której byliśmy wcześniej :)
Černá Hora (Czarna Góra) - 1299 m n.p.m. – wzniesienie w Sudetach Zachodnich w czeskiej części Karkonoszy, położone na południowy wschód od Pecu pod Sněžkou, na obszarze czeskiego Karkonoskiego Parku Narodowego, obok miejscowości uzdrowiskowej Janské Lázně (Jańskie Łaźnie). Na południowo-wschodnim zboczu położony jest ośrodek narciarski, w którego skład wchodzi kolej gondolowa, którą można dojechać na górę z miejscowości Jańskie Łaźnie. Na szczycie góry znajduje się nadajnik telewizyjny oraz żelazna wieża widokowa z panoramą na Karkonosze.
LUXURY FASHION features their New Release "NADIA" @ the UP EVENT running from the 1st to the 15th of every month
A dandelion puff complete with a hair bow, necklace, and a little spider pin.
Backyard photography
Irix 150mm macro
After a vicious rain storm the sky cleared and I had to nail down this pair of stored turbines.
26 26B-29 29B
7-9-74
I know there's plenty of nice railroading and scenic places in Nebraska but this scene with the narrow strip of corn between the UP main and US Rt 30 describes the state for me. At the time I thought it strange to take advantage of every possible piece of land for planting corn. Now I read that it's not only that but leaving a few rows of corn by a highway (or railroad) act as a natural snow fence. Clever. I haven't been to Nebraska to railfan yet. I was passing through on a 2 week family trip from Ohio to North Carolina for a family reunion then to Aspen for a conference where I gave a talk. (4 kids from 4 to 10, 4000 miles in 2 weeks in a minivan. Great time) Not much railfanning but in Nebraska we took the slightly slower Rt 30 across the state to see the trains that UP was running. Having the best SD40 of the group leading helped this shot. July 15, 1995 east of Kearney, Nebraska
The Anna's hummingbirds over winter in our area. Last nite we had one of our rare snowfalls. This little bird was doing a lot of sitting probably to conserve energy. It has its feathers all fluffed up to make it look almost twice its usual size.
Eplore: Dec. 14/08 #434
Sunrise Success
It’s now 34 minutes after the sun has risen over the east horizon, the temperature near 20 degrees. My hands are frozen, my face is freezing, but my ability to press the shutter button still remains. It’s not always a guarantee I capture what I imagined in my head, but I definitely capture something. Here is a decent something. It’s one of 87 T4 ACes on the roster, and it is in charge of the daily Portland - North Platte manifest, today’s version being very short and overpowered.
The new scheme has stopped growing on me and I’ve decided I will never recover from the disappearance of the beloved wings. Considering the rather dreadful pace at which UP repaints their units, there is a good chance the wings return down the road long before the current ones ever disappear. Eventually two negatives make a positive.
MPDNP 11
February 11, 2025 - 7:49AM
Rowena, OR // UP Portland Sub