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'Twas noontide of summer,
And mid-time of night;
And stars, in their orbits,
Shone pale, thro' the light
Of the brighter, cold moon,
'Mid planets her slaves,
Herself in the Heavens,
Her beam on the waves.
I gazed awhile
On her cold smile;
Too cold- too cold for me-
Inspired by the gown made for "A dream within..." by Irina Strazytski - Poet's Heart
This is a preview for a gown that is truly inspired as is the event it has been designed for.
"A Dream Within..." is a charity event benefitting Crohn's and Colitis UK (info: www.crohnsandcolitis.org.uk/)
50% of the income of each exclusive gown design will go to Crohn's and Colitis UK as will the donations raised during the event itself which is hosted at Azure Island - FINESMITH (Running for a week commencing 9th Nov from 1pm SLT.) maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Azure%20Island/128/100/8
Pose : Couture Crawl (Made by me)
Additional Backdrop Composite : webtaj.com/images/outer-space-stars_1201882.jpg
More dets soon.
For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
Kahlil Gibran
Photo Mirna Bronić © All rights reserved
A viaduct in the university district of Utrecht, supported in the middle by a concrete slab with circular openings. Each of these circles forms a window within which, stripped of the din of its immediate surroundings, a framed scene is playing, like a small film.
Bamburgh Castle, sunrise...
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks.
I've had them; everybody has had them.
But obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
I'm trying.... I swear I am....
visible on right side - many large A frame racks for drying fish
svolvær, austvågøya island lofoten isles, nordland norway
perhaps you know simple line
perturbations come from opinion within
in morning light you see her face
floating in reflecting mind
without care within her sane
in morning light she remains
Tucked deep within Southwestern Minnesota’s Coteau des Prairies, the Rapid City Pierre & Eastern’s Huron Subdivision meanders around geologic obstacles sculpted by the natural might of glaciation some ten thousand years prior.
The circuitous trackage outside Lake Benton was selected by Charles W. Irish and his team of surveyors for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad in the early 1870s, who sought the most efficient route into new markets throughout present-day South Dakota. Today, RCPE isn’t hellbent on the livestock business or prospect of Black Hills gold mining as 19th-century CNW was. Rather, a steady flow of agricultural carloads, such as grain and ethanol, has generated enough traffic to warrant three weekly round trips between Mankato, MN, and Aurora, SD. Today’s MMNAU is a fairly sizeable train, and is making good time across the road.
This segment of the CNW was once known for a fleet of Alco locomotives, captive to these rolling hills and open prairies. The subsequent formation of the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad would then usher in a reliance upon Electro Motive products, many of which can still be seen today sporting the livery of a new owner.
However, with hand-me-down GE C44-9Ws arriving to undermine the railroad as a purely EMD operator, scenes across this Class II’s 743-mile network will soon look much different. With changes on the horizon, I’ve been diving deeper into the history of power currently rostered by RCPE.
Interestingly, all three EMD SD40-2s in this consist spent time on the Union Pacific’s roster to some extent. Leader RCPE #3458 was built for UP in March of 1979 in what would be their largest order of the model.
Trailing SD40M-2 MNA #2762 has been roaming the RCPE system since its former owner, Missouri & Northern Arkansas, was absorbed by the rail conglomerate, G&W. Originally built as a straight SD40 for UP in December of 1966, this unit is slated to be scrapped nearly sixty years after rolling off the production line.
The third and final unit powering the westbound freight, RCPE #3444 was built in August 1978 for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. Starting life as MKT no. 605, this locomotive was part of the Katy’s first order of SD40-2s, with four additional orders from La Grange placed between ‘78 and ‘81 for a total of 37 units. The 605 was later renumbered to UP 3814 after the company assumed control of MKT in 1988.
Woodlawn, Michigan
W. Swainston's place on 10 acres alongside the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad in Woodlawn, Michigan
(1913 George Ogle Plat Book)
“What lies behind us, and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Explored #42 2017-10-27
The great egret (Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret or (in the Old World) great white egret or great white heron is a large, widely distributed egret, with four subspecies found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern Europe. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world. It builds tree nests in colonies close to water.
The great egret feeds in shallow water or drier habitats, feeding mainly on fish, frogs, small mammals, and occasionally small reptiles and insects, spearing them with its long, sharp bill most of the time by standing still and allowing the prey to come within its striking distance of its bill which it uses as a spear. It will often wait motionless for prey, or slowly stalk its victim.
This beautiful Great Egret was photographed just after sunrise at the Hyena Dam in Nairobi National Park, Kenya.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durlston_Castle
Durlston Castle stands within Durlston Country Park, a 1.13 square-kilometre (280-acre) country park and nature reserve stretching along the coastline south of Swanage, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset.
History
John Mowlem[1] (1788-1868), a Swanage-born man, was a stonemason and builder. He was the founder of the quarrying and construction company Mowlem. He and his nephew and business partner George Burt[2] (1816-1894) wanted to give something back to their home town, which was the source of their Portland and Purbeck limestone, popular for building at the time. John Mowlem built the Mowlem Institute, a reading room and public library, in 1862. George Burt purchased an undulating tract of land covering Durlston Head during the same year. This estate, the Durlston Estate, included quarries that supplied their firm with limestone. Burt developed this estate as a tourist attraction.
Burt established the Durlston Estate upon the crest of the hill and here he built his folly Durlston Castle. The castle was designed by the Weymouth architect G.R. Crickmay (1830-1907) and built by W.M. Hardy in 1886-87 entirely of local stone. The 'castle' was never a real castle: it was purpose-built by Burt as a restaurant for the visitors to his estate.
The castle played a part in the evolution of radio and telecommunications. A team of Marconi's engineers used the roof of the castle in the 1890s for some of their early wireless experiments to transmit to the Isle of Wight.
The castle passed through the hands of many owners until in 1973 it was bought by Dorset County Council.
Description
The side wall of the castle features a sundial and two stone tablets inscribed with various statistics such as clock times and tides around the world. South of the castle is the Great Globe, built by Burt in 1887.[3] The footpaths around the Castle and Great Globe are lined with cast iron bollards that were brought from London. All around the estate there are further stone plaques carved with quotations from Shakespeare and the Bible, maps showing the English Channel and the United Kingdom, and further facts about the natural world. These surrounds were placed during the period 1887 to 1891.
Also within the Durlston Country Park and within walking distance of the Globe are Durlston Bay, the Tilly Whim Caves and the Anvil Point Lighthouse. The Park is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.
Restoration
Durlston Castle and the Great Globe were both restored during 2010 and 2011 by the Council.[4][5] The castle now houses a new Visitor Centre to Durlston Country Park and National Nature Reserve, and stands as a gateway to the Jurassic Coast.
Open your eyes in the sunshine.
Let all the splendour of the world shine deep within you, until all your heart is shone through it, and even you are a piece of the sun, that resists warming from itself, and even dull days of gold painting.
My wonderful wife in front of a bright window.
Can´t say how much I love this woman and this photo.
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Appearing within the boundless darkness of space in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope snapshot, NGC 34 looks more like an otherworldly, bioluminescent creature from the deep oceans than a galaxy. Lying in the constellation Cetus (the Sea Monster), the galaxy’s outer region appears almost translucent, pinpricked with stars and strange wispy tendrils.
The main cause for this galaxy’s odd appearance lies in its past. If we were able to reverse time by a few million years, we would see two beautiful spiral galaxies on a direct collision course. When these galaxies collided into one another, their intricate patterns and spiral arms were permanently disturbed. This image shows the galaxy's bright center, a result of this merging event that has created a burst of new star formation and lit up the surrounding gas. As the galaxies continue to intertwine and become one, NGC 34’s shape will become more like that of a peculiar galaxy, devoid of any distinct shape.
In the vastness of space, collisions between galaxies are quite rare events, but they can be numerous in mega-clusters containing hundreds or even thousands of galaxies.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Adamo et al.
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a enormous curved reflective surface in the middle of one of the most beautiful cities on earth can never be a bad thing.
explored- thanks!
My Muse is buried in four places within this piece but I can "see" six counting those within the clouds. (Look at the larger photo to see if you can find them all.) Click on the upper right corner of the view larger picture and it will fill your frame. They are singing "Here Comes Peter Cottontail". Not the right season but this popped out as I was trying to still trying to create that surreal piece. Enjoy!
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Camera: Canon T3i.
Lens: Canon 50mm f/1.8
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