1945 Vaught/Goodyear FG-1D Corsair at the Connecticut Air and Space Center.
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1945 Vaught/Goodyear FG-1D Corsair at the Connecticut Air and Space Center.
Our temperature is only 10C (feels like 7C) and I have my heating turned on again today, 12 September 2024. Still raining, which is great! Extremely overcast. The more rain, the better, with Calgary's indoor and outdoor water restrictions at the highest level. We still have to wait till 23 September for the water main damage to be completed.
Five more photos taken on my last drive, on 9 September 2024. All my photos of a Pika are of the same individual.
No chance for capturing beautiful mountain views on 9 September 2024. When I reached the highway, it was obvious that Kananaskis was blanketed in smoke from wildfires. So tempting to turn around and head back home. It's not good to be breathing in the smoky air, either. My decision was to carry on, but make this drive a bit shorter than I would have otherwise done. Seven hours, with a total distance of 315 km.
Our weather forecast was for rain for a few days, except for this day. So, rather than wait, i thought I would get a bit of fresh air before staying home on the rainy days. There were two main things that I was hoping to see - a Pika, which I have seen many times before, but you can't see them too many times. The other thing was a Shaggy Mane mushroom. Two or three years, I have found them at a certain location. The dates have varied a little and I really didn't want to miss them, as they last only a short time. All I saw were three or four small ones just starting to emerge from the soil, plus the one in yesterday's posted photo. Enough to feel happy, though I couldn't get a decent shot of them.
Taking the back road route out to the mountains, I eventually came to where the Pikas can be found - if you are lucky and patient. Just when I was beginning to think that I would be going home without seeing one and being able to get a few photos, a little one appeared not too far away. I had heard a few squeaks, so I knew it/they were around.
These little Pikas/Rock Rabbits are only 6-9 inches long and are usually seen far away, running backwards and forwards over the scree (talus) slope that they call home. Very occasionally, one happens to come closer, usually for just a quick moment. While I was watching, this one was busy picking a few leaves to eat on the spot, rather than collecting plants to take back to its cave.
"The American Pika is a generalist herbivore. It eats a large variety of green plants, including different kinds of grasses, sedges, thistles and fireweed. Although pikas can meet their water demands from the vegetation they eat, they do drink water if it is available in their environment. Pikas have two different ways of foraging: they directly consume food (feeding) or they cache food in haypiles to use for a food source in the winter (haying). The pika feeds throughout the year while haying is limited to the summer months. Since they do not hibernate, pikas have greater energy demands than other montane mammals. In addition, they also make 13 trips per hour to collect vegetation when haying, up to a little over 100 trips per day." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_pika
A couple of short YouTube videos in case anyone wants to hear and see these absolutely cute creatures:
youtu.be/US_Hy_eGPtg
youtu.be/OQ2IgcjVIfc
The usual small herd of Bighorn Sheep was doing what it always does - stand on the highway, licking salt (and other minerals) off the road surface. No matter how many times they are moved off the road, they keep returning. Talk about stubborn!
So few birds to be seen in Kananaskis. A Swainson's Hawk was seen on a hay bale, once I had driven south and then crossed one highway in order to reach my main highway home, going north. A few familiar barns were a welcome sight.
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Hooglandse Kerk is a Gothic church in Leiden dating from the fifteenth century.
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De Hooglandse Kerk is een gotisch kerkgebouw in Leiden. Doordat het schip en de toren lager zijn dan het koor en het transept heeft de kerk een zeer karakteristiek silhouet. De Hooglandse Kerk is in gebruik bij de PKN (Protestantse Kerk in Nederland).
Submitted: 18/11/2018
Accepted: 20/11/2018
Published:
- Apple Computer Inc - Maps (CALIFORNIA) 24-Jan-2023
Do you remember the windows it had.
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In downtown East Liverpool, Ohio, on May 14th, 2020, the side wall of 124 E 5th St (built circa 1920, a "contributing property" in the East Liverpool Downtown Historic District, 01000591 on the National Register of Historic Places) off the south side of East 5th Street, west of Washington Street.
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After dinner and happy-hour drinks at Coast on Friday, November 25, 2016, Mike and I decided to have a few more drinks at nearby Numero28 Pizzeria & Vineria (452 W. 2nd St.). Their new bartender, Leonardo (Leo) is a true artisan; I love the way he decorated my cocktail with fresh grapes, lime, and a spiraling lemon peel. He even stuck a straw on the side of the martini glass for added interest...
Among the highlights of our excursion to Nice was a visit to the Marc Chagall Museum (36 Avenue Dr. Ménard). The museum houses the largest public collection of works by the Russian-French modernist artist Marc Chagall.
The painting shown here -- ''Jacob Wrestling With the Angel'' -- is one of Chagall's ''Biblical Message'' paintings that form the core of the museum's collection. A few details on the work from its accompanying placard:
Jacob Wrestling With the Angel
1960-1966
Oil on Canvas
This painting uses a deep purple in a continuation of the nocturnal atmosphere of Jacob's Dream. Dawn will soon be breaking, and Jacob falls to his knees before the angel after a battle that has endured the night. The angel appears to be blessing Jacob as it touches his forehead. Pushed to the outer edges of the painting are various scenes from the patriarch's life: in the upper left-hand corner is his encounter with Rachel at the well, while along the right-hand side, his son Joseph appears stripped by his brothers and thrown into a well. The sorrow of a father sobbing into the tunic of the son he believes to be gone is communicated through Jacob's stooped position and prostration. Chagall generally uses this stance for the prophets announcing the misfortunes of the Jewish people.
Blackbelt grading at Robin Park, Wigan. April 2016
This flock of Dunlin was photographed at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in Oak Harbor, Ohio in May 2010. Dunlin breed in the Arctic and circumpolar regions and migrate to those areas after spending winter along the coasts in the northern hemisphere.
Monday I was at a customer's home and there were a few dozen of these Common Redpolls at and near their feeders. Since I had never photographed them before (and had only seen them one time before) I asked if it would be OK to stop by and photograph them. They kindly agreed. This afternoon I stopped over to their home and took several shots. This is #147 for my North American Birds photo life list. www.flickr.com/photos/hamilton_images/sets/72157632628485...
Dockrillia striolata subsp. striolata (streaked rock-orchid) flowering in the RTBG Nursery. Within Tasmania Dockrillia striolata is represented by two forms. On mainland Tasmania the endemic subspecies Dockrillia striolata subsp. chrysantha (yellow rock-orchid) is found on the north and east coast.
Dockrillia striolata subsp. striolata is restricted to Flinders & Cape Barren Island, but is more common on mainland Australia.
Fin d'après-midi, Place des Droits de l'Homme, des centaines de manifestants, syriens pour la plupart, sont venus agiter un immense drapeau et protester contre la répression sanglante de Bachar el-Assad contre son propre peuple.
