3/7/21

 It's Steamy Sunday!  Today's post digs back quite a ways into the archives.  I saw a video recently about the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore Maryland and remembered I had some images from a visit there before I started to do a Blog.  Here is the firs locomotive from there with a view of a bit of the museum itself, it is housed in the original Roundhouse.

This is an Allegany type locomotive, meaning it is a 2-6-6-6 ( 2 pilot wheels, 2 sets of 6 drivers and 6 trailing wheels).  It competes for largest US locomotive with the UP Big Boy.  This is Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad locomotive 1604.  It was built in December of 1941.  This Allegheny type is only one of 2 remaining, the other is at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan and I had shared an image of it after I visited there.  It was donated to the B&O museum in 1986.  I believe this locomotive is now housed indoors.

3/6/21

 With the days getting longer it has been a bit more difficult to take advantage of beautiful sky photo ops of the sunsets as it is occurring during dinner time.  😀  This beautiful sunset occurred during the very first week of February.

3/5/21

 TGIF!  We made it to Friday!  My Gazebo pond had several Dragonfly visitors this past year.  This is an image of a 12 Spot sitting on a reed that I captured late this summer.  The reeds provided some nice bokeh so this image was shared today because Friday's Are Bokehlicious!

3/4/21

 We are having quite the different week than a couple of weeks ago when it was bitterly cold, it is not hitting close to 70s F!  Crazy weather!  Anyway, it won't be long till I hopefully see sights like this once again.  This is a Giant Swallowtail Butterfly on my Lantana flowers from this past summer.

3/3/21

 It's Wildflower Wednesday!  This is a new one that I had not seen before or if I did, did not realize what it was.  This is Macoun's Hedge Bindweed.  It has larger flowers than Field Bindweed and is not as aggressive.  It usually blooms May to July here in Kansas.

3/2/21

 We have had a Carolina Wren staying around all winter.  I heard it chirping, they have quite a distinctive and loud chirp, and I watched it for a moment before I decided I liked the light and went to get my camera.  It stayed there for a while longer while I got some shots.  They are so cute the way they kind of bob up and down while they chirp too.

3/1/21

 It's March!  The year seems to be going fairly quickly, Spring will be here soon.  Just 2 weeks ago we had very cold temps and snow, seems so long ago in a way.  I captured this group in a 21 image focus stack during that bitter cold snap.