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Nora Wild, born as Lady Elonora Weathley-Huntington of Dorncastle, was one of the most popular girls among the ranks of nobility. Her parents, ambitiously trying to marry her to the pince of Kolbergen, failed to notice young Elonoras growing interest in steam car racing. At the soft age of 19 she fell in love with the successful race car driver Oscar Wilde and shortly after they got married secretly. Being trained by her secret husband, Elonora soon started her own career as a steam car driver. Despite diguising herself and taking up the nickname Nora Wild, her escapades were soon noticed by her parents and the rest of the nobility. Refusing to end her career and unwilling to divorce her husband, she was expelled from the ranks of nobility in a never before seen inofficial trial. The following years Nora spent becoming the most famous steam car driver of the known world. As time went by there was only one opponent left, who, obviously, was her husband Oscar. They faced off in a one to one race in the newly built sky city racing drome. After an almost two hours long, head to head race, both of them were on their final lap. Oscar, having always been known for driving economical, saving as much fuel and tyre profil as possible, was much better off at that point and would have won the race, if his car, never before showing any technical problems, wouldn’t have catched fire shortly before reaching the last turn. Blinded by smoke and flames, Oscar lost control of his vehicle, leaving the track, somersaulting several times and finally crashing into a solid brickwall. His body was later recovered from the wreck, however the cause of his death couldn’t be speified, due to the numerous injuries and severe burnings. Nora however, took over at that exact point, finishing the race in first place. When she was told about her husbands death right on the winner’s podium, she didn’t even stop smiling and continued celebrating her success. After the race was investigated, experts demanded the removal of Nora‘s trophy, since sabotage was suspected. Nora tried everything to keep it and become known as the best race driver ever. Eventually she was allowed to keep the controversial trophy. Still, she rather was known as a saboteur and criminal, blinded by success afterwards. Promotion contracts were refused and her wealth and glory faded with every year. Nora Wild spent the later years of her tragic life, driving around the streets in a small steam cycle, scaring pedestrians and trying to establish herself in the street racing scene. However, she never reached her old status ever again and eventually died after an extreme car chase with the police, crashing her steam cycle into a brick wall after somersaulting several times. This incident was viewed as her divine judgement by most people, since it bore an interesting resemblance to her husbands death. Her death was only marginally mentioned in the newspapers though, since by that time the public interest had shiftet from race car driving onto steam plane races.
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The character portrait for the steam cycle driver.
The steam cycle is my entry for VehiJuly and was featured in my recent vignette "The age of steam".
I put quite some effort into the describtion, I hope you enjoy it !
Male Wild Turkeys provide no parental care. Newly hatched chicks follow the female, who feeds them for a few days until they learn to find food on their own. As the chicks grow, they band into groups composed of several hens and their broods. Winter groups sometimes exceed 200 turkeys.
TS-1641 TNI-AU Lockheed-Martin F-16CJ "Wild Weasel" on static display in "Bulan Dirgantara" of Indonesia Airforce Day at Halim Perdanakusumah AFB. HLP/WIHH
This was the last photograph I was looking at before I fell asleep last night, which may be why it is dark rather than bright and sunny. I might create a bright and sunny version sometime, but I quite like the detail and slightly impressionistic feel to this one :)
A big, big thank you to all my Flickr friends for their kind comments, emails, and support. It's really helping me get through the stress-related illness that has laid me low since the end of June :)
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Various sources quote this plant's western range as SE Louisiana. This is in the Wichita Mountains, considerably west of there. Also saw Wild Purple Indigo. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
Prince Edward Island is covered in apple trees. You can find them growing wild almost everywhere. I spotted these blossoms beside the Confederation Trail near Emerald, PEI where I was walking on a nice sunny day.
This photo was taken with the Canon EOS R and TTArtisan 100mm f/2.8 manual lens at f/2.8..
the joys of summer include finding wild raspberries ripe for picking, pop them in your mouth and enjoy the juicy surprise of each little passion fruit. A yummy and sensual gift of mother nature that is often abundant around the middle of July.
I was able to walk the creek because of no rain and the creek didn't have water in it..except in curves where the water collected. These wild bamboo seeds amazed me, so beautiful they drape down . I saw many deer tracks and even saw where a turtle had swirled around on the sand and made imprints in it with its body and feet ..We call them loggerheads but they are snapping turtles. The average years of age is 20 to 30 years and they get huge..It even left its scat , for those that don't know what that is it is the poop..;-) We made a joke it must be an alligator which could be possible but if you have been walking these creeks for many years and know the signs you know different..When the water of the creek is down you can also find lighter pine which we use to light our campfires with ..Another story about how that happens but you can bust the pine up and use small peices of them to ignite fire. It is the resin of the pine that ignites...