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Exiled ancient Brit engineer living amongst horse carts and shoofly pies; conduit for creatives' dreams, explorer of edge cases, disciple of scale, envoy of the backend

All views and opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect those of my employer
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Going to take time tonight to rebuild this PC, so will say farewell a little earlier, with a touch of a fading sun that has so not been in the skies around here today.

Here's wishing you all a good night with whatever you have planned, safe and restful sleep and a great day tomorrow

#Photography
A late sunset over York County and the Susquehanna as seen from Lancaster County in the summertime
November 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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For those who found my #Bright piece a little mechanical and sterile, mayhaps an early morning friend may be a better fit. Common buddy to share a coffee with at Samuel S Lewis State Park and watch the sun rise.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #BlueSkyArtShow #Squirrel #EastCoastKin
Squirrel sitting on its haunches, paws crossed in front of itself, looking to the camera, lit brightly by the early morning sun in amongst grassy paths.
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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The brightness here is a side effect of having the wrong lens with me and not checking things as I was shooting ... cardinal errors. Forced me to try some faux vintage processing. In this case a 2/3rds scale home-built P51 Mustang.

#Photography #BlueSkyArtShow #Bright #EastCoastKin #Aviation
Color photograph of a Falconar SAL Mustang, a 2/3rds amateur build version of the historic plane, complete with a turboprop engine. Tucked under the tail of a C97 on the pan at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum at Reading Airport, PA
November 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Drifting back to warmer months and wild flower meadows thick with bees, a close up shot of wild bergamot, catnip to our pollinating friends, hence its other name ... bee balm.

#Photography #ClassicMono #BNWmacro #BloomScrolling #Flowers
Close up black and white shot of the bloom of wild bergamot, otherwise known as bee balm, with its delicate tendril tipped petals.
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Yellows, ambers and browns have largely taken over, so digging into September's archives for a #GreenSat image; Pinchot Lake in PA beneath a cirrus flecked blue sky in warmer days.

#Photography #Landscape #ColorADay
Bluey green waters of Pinchot Lake in the lower third give way to the deciduous treeline along its banks, beneath a cirrus flecked blue sky
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Sleepless Saturday morning here, so might as well get up and face the day, with a family outing 🦉🐦

#BirdPhotography #Birds #Nature #BirdOfTheDay #Ducklings
Color photograph of three ducklings on Kiwanis Lake along with a watchful parent
November 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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If I were smart, I would have ... not had so many typos in hashtags .... and also have tagged one of my avian posts today for #FlyDay. Alas, smarts evaded me; in recompense and penance, have a blue morpho on a window sill from Hershey's wonderful atrium.

#Photography #WildlifePhotography #Nature
Color photograph of a blue morpho butterfly keeping well away from the crowds and out on its own upon a window ledge at Hershey Gardens' butterfly atrium.
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Friday, so #Scaoe time is with us yet again. I have been a bad random snapper and done little these last 5 days, so back to last weekend I go, and a glance downstream on the Susquehanna from Bainbridge, PA; rendered to suit this weeks sky and mood.

#Photography #Landscape #ColorADay #BWFri
Black and white render of the Susquehanna River, looking downstream from Bainbridge in Lancaster County, PA. A near leafless tree and a hint of shoreline in left of frame, give way to a foreground of wind ruffled water, and just a hint of the tip of Haldeman Island on mid frame right. Across the bottle third runs the narrow strip of horizon and the gentle York County hills. All beneath a sky full of dancing high level cirrus from an approaching front.
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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After my last post, it would be churlish not to include an additional #BirdOfTheDay on a #Post, namely one of the territorial bluebirds - can't blame them, this post is within 10ft of a nesting box at Gifford Pinchot State Park they were living in with their young. 🦉🐦

#Photography #Birds #Nature
Color photograph of a bluebird on a post, body facing away, head turned to the left; against a green blurred background
November 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Grabbing a #HolidayRobin for today's #BirdOfTheDay as it also seems to be sitting on a #Post; well for now, as its the self same robin and post that the bluebirds saw off some posts ago. 🦉🐦

#Photography #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin
Color photo of an american robin atop a post at Gifford Pinchot State Park, looking up and around, against a blurred green backdrop
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Busy day, so apologies if I have been less responsive and not posting so much; would probably the last yellow rose from me this year be an acceptable apology?

#Photography #ColorADay #YellowThu #BloomScrolling #Flowers
Color photograph of a yellow rose, center yet to fully unfurl, so looking very caulifloweresque; taken at Hershey Gardens, PA in late October 2025
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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I tend to do a lot of ducks and one of my favorite, cleanest, sharpest duck I happened to post for the theme recently, so .... digging back to earlier last year, not long after I picked up a camera again ... not sharp, but cute

#Photography #DucksOutOfWater #BirdOfTheDay #Wildlife #Ducklings
Color photograph of three ducklings crossing a path at the edge of an urban lake to make their way back into the water
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Must be time for another glance at the changing leaves before they are all gone; this week's winds have tried hard to accomplish it, but sheltered valleys where this shot came from ... not so much

#Photography #Landscape #ColorADay #YellowThu #FallFoliage
Color photograph from south central Pennsylvania of tall slender trees with leaves of blazing yellow and amber, and a small cluster of greenery in the center.
November 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Those with a need ... a need ... for speed are not just the teens and young adults; the adrenaline craving goes way beyond age boundaries as this "youngster" on Lake Charles demonstrated.

#Photography #HumansOfBlueSky #ColorADay #YellowThu #SensoryArt #Loud
Color photograph of a not particularly youthful bald man, semi-crouched in "biker" stance atop a large fast jet ski (Sea Doo) traveling at high speed across Lake Charles, PA kicking up a large spray wake behind
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Time for me to be away, for the day, but before I go, a few conventional #WindowsOnWednesday in the form of those upon the historic roller mill, grain elevator and warehouse at Muddy Creek Forks Historic District, all dating back to the beginning of the 1900s or earlier.

#Photography #Landscape
Color photograph of, from left to right, the fertiilizer warehouse, grain elevator and roller mill at Muddy Creek Forks Historic District. Beyond them on the right of the frame, the rebuilt General Store which also serves as the station for the Ma and Pa Railroad these days. Behind them all, trees wearing fall browns and oranges beneath a blue sky
November 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Slightly different take on #WindowsOnWednesday, not those on a building, but the cluster of 19 glazed sections of the stranded C97 "Angel of Deliverance" cockpit. Look to the wing on the right, and the space where one of its engines should be can be seen.

#Photography #ColorADay #RedWed #Aviation
Peeking through the fence, beyond the red barriers to the tall red tail of the Berlin Airlift Historic Foundation's C97G "Angel of Deliverance", the world's last airworthy example, on the pan at Reading's Mid-Atlantic Air Museum awaiting an engine replacement/repair
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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For those who've seen Winter's Bone, yeah ... its that soul sucking oppressive grey skybox in place atm, so going to reach out for a vibrant red rose shot from a month or so ago on this #RedWed.

#Photography #ColorADay #BloomScrolling #Flowers #EastCoastKin
Color close up of a red rose bloom, heavy dark vignette applied. Shot at Hershey Gardens, October 2025
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Today has been cold and grey, and guaranteed to be the first really chilly night as, of course, its the one where my furnace failed to light.

Bring back the #BlueTue of a week ago; as seen from the aptly named Blue Rock looking out at Rookery Island.

#Photography #Landscape #ColorADay
Color photograph of the kayak and bird friendly lee side of Rookery Island on the Susquehanna and its fall colored trees, beneath a near cloudless sky
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Hopefully this doesn't trigger any recent pumpkin traumatic stress disorder in anyone, but diving a month back for today's art challenge and a piece for #AnimalArtTuesday in the form of this wonderful butterfly bench.

#Photography
Color photograph of a metal (copper/bronze?) bench in the shape of a butterfly, with seat at the mid wing position; metal oxidized and numerous cutouts where colors on the wings might be. Alongside it, straw bales, with pumpkins in oranges and white.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Mischief and Infamy

A summer evening peek for #PinkMon, the delicate riverside form of loosestrife, an invasive plant here. In the background, the towers of Unit 1, maybe resurrected for data center use ... and the infamous Unit 2, of Three Mile Island.

#Photography #Landscape #ColorADay
Color photo along the riverbank of the Susquehanna, downstream from Middletown, with delicate purple loosestrife in the foreground with half of the rest of the image containing blurred greenery; in the background the towers of Unit 1, maybe resurrected for data center use ... and the infamous Unit 2, of Three Mile Island, against a blue sky with cloud banks on the horizon
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Cool, grey day here today; not conducive weather for these beautiful heliconius butterflies, who are used to sunnier climes and thankfully nice and warm inside Hershey's atrium.

#Photography #Wildlife #Insects #MacroMonday
Color close up photograph of a heliconius butterfly, postman perhaps; thin wide wingspan, with a black base, red central section and white eyes/stripes a third from the tips.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Bit of crossover with the #birding folks for this #BlueSkyMonday. Folks were quizzing me about the egret and night herons back in the spring, and this 'urban lake' that I said I would see them at. Well, here's a little picture of the spot; Kiwanis Lake, in suburban York City, PA.

#Photography
Color photograph of Kiwanis Lake, quiet and deserted looking now, but come spring; different matter. The island in the center tends to get a lot of night herons hanging out, and those conifers beyond it, play home to the egrets
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I adore the complete insanity of it all
Am I glad there's no beam or baby ball limit ... yes I am ... crazy busy screenshot from Ball X Pit
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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I came from the sunny valleys
And sought for the open sea,
For I thought in its gray expanses
My peace would come to me.

I came at last to the ocean
And found it wild and black,
And I cried to the windless valleys,
"Be kind and take me back!"
-- Sara Teasdale

#ImageAndVerse #Stunday
Color photograph of the view upstream toward Garden Island and the Veterans Memorial Bridge across the Susquehanna River from the midst of Lake Clarke, PA at the beginning of October
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Meant to add a little gaming update this weekend; yes still playing and enjoying both BF6 and ARC; but if you're looking for a chill addiction and you've managed to pull yourself away from Balatro ... could do worse than saving Ballbylon. Ball x Pit ... vey, very good
Screenshot from the game Ball x Pit
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM