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Merry Christmas & Best Wishes for a Happy New Year :: 2010

I hope that everyone has a warm, happy, and wonderful Christmas. If you live in the Northeast like me, we actually have a White Christmas. Most unusual according to the statistics. I’m very typical of my standard behavior again this year… a bit nostalgic and melan­choly missing my folks and my brother. I have the blessing of my wife Sue’s compan­ionship and my stepdaughters who are always “enter­taining”.

Had a couple unexpected bumps in the road recently and I’m glad that I’m here. I don’t take it for granted. I feel a need for a few days of quiet that I’m unlikely to see — but I think perhaps that isn’t a physical quiet but instead a quiet that you carry with you inside. The animals feel a peace now. Maybe it’s the snow. Things are a bit more muffled than usual. That is okay. I’ve listened to the Christmas Carols on the radio and I’m in the mood. I’ve been drawing and designing a whole lot of stuff lately and right now I’m working on a series of portraits. I’ll be done with them soon. I really don’t want to run out of projects. But if I did — I’d update this blog with lots of new things.

I hope that everyone here in Bucks County takes a piece of their Christmas break to go to the Visitors Center to see Daniel Troy’s exhibit of Railroad Photography entitled “ON TRACK”. It runs until January 9, 2010. Go to the Visitor’s Center website for additional info and direc­tions and also see lots of Dan Troy’s work at his website. It’s a good show. Image below ©2009 — 2010 Daniel Troy.

ON TRACK Promotion

ON TRACK

Photographed some Freight Trains in NJ –

Norfolk Southern runs not too far from me here in Holland, PA and it also ran fairly close to where I used to live in New Jersey. I went out with Dan Troy and some rail fans and enjoyed seeing the big freight go by a couple times. Once near Manville and around Flemington the same day.Union Pacific Locomotive near Flemington, New Jersey

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Fourmile Canyon Fire

 
The Fourmile Canyon Fire continued to burn west of Boulder, Colo., in this image taken on Sept. 7, 2010, casting a long line of smoke to the east that was visible from NASA's Aqua satellite in its orbit around the Earth. MODIS, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of the fire at 2:40 p.m. local time (20:40 UTC) on Sept. 7. The red outline corresponds with the unusually high surface temperatures associated with an active fire. The thick smoke plume flows eastward. Over the plains northeast of Denver, the smoke plume casts a shadow to the north. By early morning on Sept. 8, thousands of people had abandoned their homes while the battle against the blaze continued. Image Credit: NASA/MODIS
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Thursday, Sep 9
Fair
Currently: 60˚F
Feels Like: 60˚ F
Hi: 76˚, Lo: 56˚
Wind: 9, Gust: N/A MPH
Wind Direction: WNW (290)
Fair

Tonight: 56˚
Sunset: 7:19 PM
Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent
Partly Cloudy

Friday, Sep 10
Hi: 74˚, Lo: 53˚
Wind: 14, Gust: N/A MPH
Wind Direction: NW (323)
Mostly Sunny

Saturday, Sep 11
Hi: 79˚, Lo: 60˚
Wind: 6, Gust: N/A MPH
Wind Direction: NNW (339)
Sunny

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digitech camera repair

You never really finish the design on one of these blogs. Something can always be improved and made better.

I feel relatively certain that text here can be read more easily than over the paper texture that I had created before. Yep.