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ATSF 5326 west meeting UP 4234 east at Ottawa Kansas 7-29-1993 on the UP
Hoisington sub both trains were detours from flooding around Kansas City.
Hoy toca una pequeña recreación de una peli muy recomendable "Up" para niños y mayores, y si es acompañandola de unos caramelos mejor ;)
Here you go. The only decent light we get here in Kansas anymore is high sun. We have 97 degrees and stupid high humidity coupled with all the smoke in the air from the western half of the US burning faster than the US government can print money. So the morning and evening light has been absolute trash for a couple weeks now. Makes for some cool looking sunsets, but doesn't make for great train photography.
So Cade sends me a text with a cell phone shot of this train rolling past the sod farm out by his shack. So I waited the usual 25 minutes and headed towards 24.5 to see what was shaking.
UP was backed up like a kid who has ate cheese and crackers for his meals for the last week. Train parked at 14.1, 17.3, 20.8, 24.5 and 3 more that I could see west of MP 28.1 . I have no idea if the UP 1995 is in the front or the rear of that pack west of 28.1.
So the DS must have used a little Imodium and things got rolling to the east slowly. Each time the signal would light up at Linwood I figured that was my guy. Nope. It's the rear train of the pack that I can see, and with each passing train another train rolls right up behind the next. It's a great big rolling railroad...rolling at the speed of PSR.
I drive into Linwood to take a look and that's where he is sitting, so I popped the bird up and got a aerial wedgie. Blah. Then I saw that the DS was lining EB trains up at Z10 and Z20.8, so I high tailed it back to the barn at MP 25.5 and setup. He was rolling at restricted speed so I popped him about 3 times as I keep the drone ahead of him.
Doesn't matter. We're all going to die from the Delta Variant of the Wu-Tang flu which is now being linked to the vaccine as source for why it is spreading so rapidly. So the 'cure' is gonna kill folks now too. Isn't it great when we rush things out that used to take 10 years to complete so we knew the side effects?
I'm glad I'm packing antibodies produced the good old fashioned way by almost dying from Wu-Tang Flu. Damned if you don't take the shot. Damned if you do.
Don't worry so much about your kids. Even though they seems to be little babies in your eyes, they would suddently GROW UP one day since LOVE...
Udaipur @ India
UP 949 and 951 were in the shop today to get there rotary beacon changed. Walthers put the wrong type on these units. So they were changed out to the western cullen type which is what is on the prototype units today.
We came across two females by the side of the track, they had full stomachs and were only really interested in sleeping.
Never thought I would be this close to a lioness in the wild.
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The Flickr Lounge-Reflection
This is the passenger side window at the rear of my Jeep. The windows are very dark and reflective. What you are seeing is the window in the Breezeway Door and the jackets hung up inside.
Looking up, from the beach at Gibralter point, Toronto Island.
expired film 01/2015
from wiki:
Cirrus is a genus of atmospheric cloud generally characterized by thin, wispy strands, giving the type its name from the Latin word cirrus, meaning a ringlet or curling lock of hair. This cloud can form at any altitude between 16,500 ft and 45,000 ft above sea level.
I used a 583A close-up kit on a 350 camera. the kit came with a 250 camera I bought the other day (which I need like a hole in the head)...but it needed a battery so I used the 350. It is really hard to focus, so all you polaroiders out there...will this close-up kit work on anything but the 250 ???
Polaroid 350 land camera.
Fuji FP-100C film.
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I'm a non-smoker. I am a product of parents who were very much a part of the smoking generation. Most of their friends seemed to smoke, too, and living in New York where the windows are closed about 8 months out of the year, was no fun for a kid with weak lungs.
I was born premature, weighing in at 4 lbs. 6 ounces. Preemies are usually struggling with things that develop in that last month or so, like nails, lungs, and basically much of the fine tuning. For me, the lungs seemed to take a direct hit from all the second hand smoke, and by the time I was two, I had bronchitis so often and so badly that I was almost diagnosed as chronic. No one ever seemed to get the fact that all the smoke was making me sick. When my parents separated and Mom moved us down here to Florida where the weather is warm 8 months out of the year, the bronchial attacks dramatically improved, but Mom, like most smokers, resented when I complained that the smoke bothered me.
A couple of years before we moved to Florida, Mom had tried to quit smoking. I remember a new smell in the ait- one of the oil paints in the paint by number kits she bought to keep her hands busy so she wouldn't pick up a cigarette. She made four paintings, but couldn't bring herself to quit. I still have the paintings, but I don't have Mom.
In 1994, when Mom found out she was going to become a grandmother, she DID quit. She was 70 years old, and by that time, we could find her in stores by her cough! I was very proud of her, because I knew what a monumental effort it had been after 53 years of addiction. It wasn't soon enough, though. Emphysema was already taking hold, and despite all the ads that say your health improves drastically when you quit smoking, too much damage had already been done.
On Christmas Day, 2008, my mother passed away, suffocating to death in a hospital bed in a hospice facility. I watched as she laid there, gasping for breath, doped up on morphine, with her glassy, unconscious eyes wide open, like a fish out of water, shaking and frenzied, suffering, but unaware of it on a conscious level. With enough morphine, she simmered back down to a calm, unconscious state for another day, and then shortly after I fell asleep on Christmas Eve, in the middle of the night, she drew her last breath.
What has this to do with flowers? Why up in smoke? When I was taking these last shots, a young woman walked up and went to sit on a park bench. She lit up a cigarette, and no matter where I went, the smoke seemed to follow, and made me choke. I wanted to go up to her and knock it out of her hand, and say, "Don't you know what you're doing to yourself?! Can't you see that you're killing yourself!?" I didn't, though, but the memories that were associated with that harsh smell of burning tobacco flooded back, and I had to leave. It wasn't just to escape the smoke, but to escape the memories.
People are the most remarkable things in all of nature and creation. We are God's handiwork, and we have value. If you smoke, stop. If you're thinking about smoking, don't. Except for her lungs, my mother was healthy, and she might still be with me if she had managed to quit when I was a child. I miss her every day. Don't deprive your kids of their parent, or your parents of their kid! Let the fragrance of nature be that of flowers, not smoke. It may look cool in a pic, but it's not very cool in your lungs, or the lungs of those around you! Don't let your life go up in smoke.
Rice Krispy Treat Cake covered with fondant.
Case design is heavily based on Debbie Brown's make up case from 50 Easy Party Cakes.
Whilst the fondant make up items are all me, and lots of black colour paste and luster dust, and glitter.
Cake board is embossed pink fondant.
Old mate's truck is "Parked up" havin a few beers at a good ol mates shack... Step back in time....
HDR Image 3 Exposures 2 stops either way, processed on Photomatix Pro, tweaked in Photoshop, captured on the Canon 7D teamed up with the Tamron 10-24mm Lens down at Tailem Town, South Australia.
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Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley
A single unit manifest (AC4400CW) waits for lights to enter Salt Lake City, UT.
Shot on 120 Fuji 160 H.
Shot at Varanasi, UP, India.
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Have been busy working and looking after cats that I have neglected flickr so here is a Critter update for all those missing him :-) ....you know who you are lol
I will catch up with commenting on your posts.
The view from St James Station, looking straight up the Clarence River Valley, Northern Canterbury.
At 230km long, the Clarence is NZ's 8th-longest river.
This shingle road (Tophouse Rd.) will eventually lead you to Lake Tennyson, a small glacial lake on the eastern edge of Nelson Lakes National Park.
And if you were suitably equipped and skilled (and mad!), you could continue on this road until you reached Nelson...!
I got to do a big project on a CP Lishe ^^
It's actually a project that I did before. Maybe you remember this girl with her facial leopard tattoo.
But the face-up got damaged a little while ago, and my friend asked if I could do it again, plus some extras.
I redid the leopard print on the face and even made it smaller and more detailed. And the print now also goes from her neck to her lower back.
I also did a tattoo on her arm. It was so tiny!!
It's actually an illustration I made of another doll's character.
The character is called Neobe, and is a doll of another friend.
The doll in the photos (Mylo), and Neobe are lovers, so Mylo really needed a tattoo of her sweetheart on her arm haha ;)