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What a beautiful day this was while visiting my brother's ranch! It was my husband's birthday and 100% rain forecast for this day. And look what God gave us instead!
iPhone Panorama
(private ranch in north Florida)
Bridges over the River Tweed at Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Berwick-upon-Tweed, a town that was fought over between Scotland and England for some 400 years, changing hands several times before being taken by Richard Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III) in 1482.
Berwick is closer to Edinburgh than it is to Newcastle and the population marginally tend to see themselves as rather more Scottish than English, helped by both rugby and football teams playing in Scottish leagues.
However, locally it is said that the majority call themselves Berwickers ahead of Scots or English.
The nearest bridge is the Old Berwick Bridge opened in 1624, behind which is the Royal Tweed Bridge of 1928, then the Royal Border Bridge, which has carried the railway across the river since 1850.
For more info, see:
www.coostie.co.uk/notes-from-northumberland/discover-berw...
Anaklia (Georgian: ანაკლია) is a town and seaside resort in western Georgia. It is located in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, at the place where the Enguri River flows into the Black Sea.
The earliest settlement on Anaklia's territory dates back to the mid-Bronze Age and is typical to the Colchian culture. It is the Classical Heraclea of Colchis, Anaclia of later authors, and Anarghia of Archangelo Lamberti and Jean Chardin (both the 17th-century travelers). After the fragmentation of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 15th century, it was an important fortified town, sea port and fishing station within the Principality of Mingrelia. In 1723, the town was captured by the Ottoman Empire and converted into its maritime outpost and slave-trading locale. Western Georgian kingdom of Imereti regained control over Anaklia in 1770, seizing the opportunity of Ottoman Empire being at war with Russia (Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)). Solomon I, the king of Imereti, was supposed to be supported in this endeavor by a small Russian contingent under General Totleben, but the Russian troops retreated before a clash against the Turks.
In 1802, Kelesh-Bey Sharvashidze, the pro-Turkish ruler of the neighboring Principality of Abkhazia, capitalized on the internecine feuds in Mingrelia, and forced Prince Grigol Dadiani of Mingrelia into surrendering Anaklia, taking Grigol’s son and heir, Levan, as a hostage. When Mingrelia accepted the Russian protectorate in 1803, the Russian commander in Georgia, Prince Tsitsianov, demanded that Kelesh-Bey release Levan. On his refusal, Tsitsianov sent Major General Ion Rykgof into Abkhazia. In March 1805, the Russians took hold of Anaklia and threatened to march against Sukhum-Kaleh, forcing the Abkhazian prince to release Dadiani. The capture of Anaklia drew an Ottoman protest, however, and Tsitsianov hastened to disavow his subordinate and even apologize for his action, removing a Russian garrison from Anaklia. However, the incident added to an increasing tension between the two empires. When the next Russo-Turkish War broke out in 1806, the Russian forces restored Redoubt Kali and Anaklia to the Mingrelian prince Levan who would later relinquish the control of these forts to the Russian administration. (See Russian conquest of the Caucasus#Black Sea Coast.) In the 1850s, Anaklia was a small but strongly fortified seaport, which had a custom-house and carried on a considerable trade with Turkey.
Subsequently, the importance of the Anaklia port significantly reduced, but it remained a minor Black Sea Fleet base in the Soviet times.
After the War in Abkhazia (1992–93), a Russian peacekeeping post was opened at Anaklia in 1994. In 2006, the Ministry of Defense of Georgia reported numerous damages inflicted by the Russian soldiers upon the 17th-century fortress of Anaklia and accused the peacekeepers of installing latrines and baths within the walls of the fort. Following a series of protests by the Georgians, the Russian military post was withdrawn in July 2007.
A monument has been erected in Anaklia on May 21, 2012, commemorating Russia's expulsion of the Circassian people from the region following the conclusion of the Caucasian War in the 1860s. The May 21 date was chosen to coincide with the day on which the Circassian people themselves commemorate the expulsion, which the Georgian government has recognized as an act of genocide. The monument was designed by Khusen Kochesokov, a sculptor from the North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria.
The parking lot was empty. The idea of bears in the area kept us singing loudly and laughing as we walked through the forest. When our group peeked out from the trees we were struck by a dazzling scene of glorious light hitting the tops of the larches that rimmed the lake. The grand, snow-dusted mountains reflected pristinely in the water. We quite literally gasped at the sight. What a thrill to see such astonishing beauty. Those who had been there before smiled knowingly, at our reaction. For them, it was as much a joy to see our response, as it was to take in the amazing view. An hour later, when the raindrops started to fall we had to tear ourselves away, oh so reluctantly. How fortunate we are to share together, in these magnificent, stumbled-upon moments.
"A statue removed from an Islington park more than 30 years ago has been officially reinstated. 'Upon Reflection' is a self-portrait of artist Kevin Atherton, first unveiled in the Philip Noel-Baker Peace Garden, in Elthorne Park, in 1985.
But the statue, which depicts the artist gazing at his reflection in a pond, was vandalised and eventually removed after less than two years. The plinth has remained empty since.
The sculpture was thought to be lost, until the council’s heritage team found it in the basement of Islington Town Hall last year." (source and date of article unknown😭possibly 'Islington Gazette')
Originally when the Statue was Installed was plain Silvery Bronze colour. It was painted Silver (as here) but the Date that it was Painted Gold was sometime in 2024 (to be updated)
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sliders sunday: some slight changes to pump up the color ~grin~
the flickr number for this pic is ...20212210022
look at all of those lovely 2s :)
ANSH scavenger18 (replacing the dent reflection one)
Epiphyllum ("upon the leaf" in Greek) is a genus of 19 species and over 100 hybrids of epiphytic plants in the cactus family (Cactaceae).
Common names are climbing cactus, orchid cactus, leaf cactus, yellow tang, moon cactus, rickrack cactus, fishbone cactus, and queen of the night.
The Epiphyllum species are some of the most spectacular flowering plants, that typically open in the evening and bloom for a few days.
The flowers are large, 8 - 20 cm diameter, with numerous petals in the colors white, yellow and pink to red.
The Epiphyllum habitat ranges from Mexico and Central America with some extending into Northern South America and the Caribbean islands. Most grow in trees where they tuck their roots into pockets of decaying vegetable matter which settle into nooks and crannies of tree branches. Their tropical environment provides them with lots of warmth and high humidity and most important… shading from full sun. They share their habitat with orchids, bromeliads, ferns and mosses.
Epiphyllum is een geslacht van 19 succulenten en honderden kweekvormen uit de cactussenfamilie (Cactaceae).
Er is geen Nederlandse naam voor deze lidcactus of bladcactus. Soms zie je de naam koningin van de nacht, maar die naam geldt eigenlijk voor maar één van de 19 soorten (Epiphyllum oxypetalum).
Epiphyllum behoort tot de meest spectaculaire bloeiende planten, die meestal 's avonds open gaat en een paar dagen blijft bloeien.
De vaak grote bloemen hebben een diameter van 8 à 20 cm met tal van bloemblaadjes in de kleuren wit, geel en roze tot rood. Gekweekte soorten kunnen ook tweekleurig zijn.
Epiphyllum komt voor in Mexico en Midden-Amerika, en een paar soorten in noordelijk Zuid-Amerika en op de Caraïben.
Ze groeien in de bomen van tropische regenwouden tot een hoogte van circa 1800 meter. Ze vestigen zich in hoeken en gaten van boomtakken waar ze zich wortelen in rottend plantaardig materiaal. De tropische omgeving biedt een hoge luchtvochtigheid, veel warmte en het belangrijkste ... schaduw van volle zon. Ze delen hun habitat met orchideeën, bromelia's, varens en mossen.
Deze foto is gemaakt in het vlinderhuis in de Botanische Tuinen van de Utrechtse Universiteit.
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It was a time for reflecting - going back to the ancient Inverfarigaig Forest. The last time I was there, the girl I was with was my girlfriend - this time she was my wife and we had our 2 children with us!
hff everyone....blimey I haven't done a fence in forever, I'll be offline on Saturday and Sunday so I'll wish you all a fantastic weekend now...eeeek we may even get some sun.
Upon learning that a trio of GP9s had been paired for one of the Hamilton sets, there was only one reasonable and logical thing to do. Wake up at 3am and drive to Hamilton for sunrise of course. When I arrived in Hammer town I was greeted by a group of friends who had driven overnight from even further away than I, who stayed the night at a rest stop. In these days, the 0700 worked the industrial sector of Hamilton called "the hole", and the 0800 just switched the yard on the weekend. When the 0700 job crew walked over to the less desirable GP38 duo (crazy to think that's undesirable) there was a unanimous "groan" from the crowd. The trio was not a guarantee, and it was a gamble that we all chose that looked like it wasn't going to pay off. We chased the duo into the hole to Bunge where they started switching food grade tank cars. While watching them switch we all came to the conclusion that to salvage the day, we would shoot mainline trains with the searchlights on the Dundas Sub. We were about to leave when we heard "0800 job CN 4116 looking to enter the hole". We all looked at each other with smiles and "hell yeahs". A few minutes later the 0800 crew passed the 0700 crew next to Bunge, and the morning chase of a somewhat rare 0800 hole morning commenced. Photographing two CN jobs in the hole at the same time is also a fairly rare occurrence. Moral of the story, stick it out. The line "so you're telling me there's a chance" from Dumb and Dumber is sometimes truthful. Later that afternoon we still ended up on the Dundas and got a nice SD75I leader on 271 at Paris. www.flickr.com/photos/130272127@N07/53344865097/in/photol...
Train: CN 0800 Job with CN 4116 (GP9rm), CN 7052 (GP9rm), and CN 7016 (GP9rm).
Train: CN 0700 Job with CN 7512 (GP38-2) and CN 4709 (GP38-2).
Hamilton, Ontario
CN N&NW Spur
The picnic pavillion and little pond at the Flyin' B Ranch open space park. We didn't get a whole lot of snow but it sure was pretty! The fact that there is no ice on the pond is a testament to how mild this winter has been.
Trees getting their feet wet at Stratford-upon-Avon.
A new processing of a shot I posted at the time.
Pulled up an image from a while ago - a secret fishing hole in Wyoming that the light hit just right that day.
With a little snow an cold weather - felt I needed a quick hit of summer to take the chill off my wintery March bones.
The Port of Liverpool Building reflected on the Building opposite.
I have wanted to take this shot for ages, but the lighting has never been that great, and there are usually Buses in the way, but yesterday the scene was perfect.