I had assumed. It was some sort of trick photography, but it turns out to be an image from a 2016 book called “Plato’s Dogs”, by photographer Thomas Roma, featuring his photos of dog shadows.
From a review in The Huffington Post:
“Over the past two years, photographer Thomas Roma spent countless mornings running around Dyker Beach Dog Run in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, holding an eight-foot-long pole attached to a camera. This contraption, which he’d rigged using supplies from Home Depot, allowed him to photograph the shadows of dogs from a bird’s-eye view.”
Here’s a caption from a railroad history site… I’d guess there’s a word or two missing, cos it doesn’t quite make sense to me:
“Maryland Midland 201 enters Farquhar Street on its way to switch the Leigh Cement Plant at Union Bridge Md. July 2007.”
To switch at the cement plant, maybe?
Anyway, two other sites also said the photo was taken in 2007, and there was another showing the train on a track running right down the middle of a street.
Yes it was going to switch at the cement plant, but it was also going to switch the cement plant. They both mean the same in railroading terms. Over here we’d say ‘shunt’ rather than switch.
Youtuber ‘Jaw Tooth’ has videos of street running trains, I like his videos. He quite often tags on ‘Live Action Pets’ on the end as he has a couple of cats and dogs.
Another good (In my mind being a Brit) producer of railroad content is ‘Distant Signal’. He’s in Florida and gives good information on the lines, infrastructure, and history.
Yes. Yes i am.
I pulled or strained something in my back tonight picking up Penelope.
I doubled up on the muscle relaxers (as per my NP) as soon as i could stand up again.
Actually the effect is quite momentary… I think you’d be okay. LOL
I bought a keyboard like that for my last desktop.. I loved it!
I didn’t use the all three colors mode, which made a (more of less) vertical section of each color, because the red bothered my eyes, so I usually kept it on all blue.
I, personally, wouldn’t call it a foot, nor would I call it a leaf… but I can see that, the way things have been described or labeled in some of these puzzles, somebody may be calling it a foot shaped leaf.
For now, a verbal description… I’ll try to replace it with an image in a little while…
Spoiler … IF this is it …
Halfway up from the bottom, halfway between the tree trunk and the right hand edge. . The color of the leaves… like a footprint with no toes.
Since that’s the only movie I know of where they appear together, I recognized it at once.
And thank you for the link! It’s amazing how many excellent old movies one can find online legally for free in very good quality.
What caught my attention was the name – Oxley. Not very common, yet that’s in our family. Only two left – Rob doesn’t have any kids, so it’s just him and his wife. (His dad is my uncle we just had a memorial for last week.)
Maybe Robin needs to talk a little more about that robbing from the rich stuff… and leaving out the bit about giving to the poor, if he’s even thought of that yet.
Tell them about being free, running about the forest, playing in the mud…. no collars, no leashes…. except I think they’ve never heard of collars and leashes…
Okay, how about… um… gosh, they already sleep on the ground… And um…. why would they want kibble, when they can hunt now?
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I had assumed. It was some sort of trick photography, but it turns out to be an image from a 2016 book called “Plato’s Dogs”, by photographer Thomas Roma, featuring his photos of dog shadows.
From a review in The Huffington Post:
“Over the past two years, photographer Thomas Roma spent countless mornings running around Dyker Beach Dog Run in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, holding an eight-foot-long pole attached to a camera. This contraption, which he’d rigged using supplies from Home Depot, allowed him to photograph the shadows of dogs from a bird’s-eye view.”
So, a doggy stick?
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“Well, I was going to say I saw a ducky and a horsie, but I changed my mind…”
You might as well … Linus isn’t here.
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I sense a theme?
Not till now? LOL
1979… But this isn’t the first Snoopy balloon to join the Macy’s parade…. nor, if I understand correctly, even the first appearance of this one.
(Sometimes the search results are a bit conflicting.)
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Not fast enough. Get me off of that thing!
Yikes!! That’s awful!
I think they called that bridge Galloping Gertie.
I think I understand why there was no pedestrian traffic across that bridge.
My search says this is a floating bridge, on Hwy 520 into Seattle, during a storm in 2015. I’m not sure which way we’re facing.
I’ve never seen a floating bridge… but there’s another on I90, crossing at another spot, a few miles north.
This one has been replaced since this picture… The newer one has 6 lanes instead of 4…. but it’s also a floating bridge.
Considering the look of that water…. I’m not sure I like the idea.
Then again, I suppose it can’t fall down like the bridge in Steve’s video.
When I posted I didn’t know they were both Seattle bridges!
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Here’s a caption from a railroad history site… I’d guess there’s a word or two missing, cos it doesn’t quite make sense to me:
“Maryland Midland 201 enters Farquhar Street on its way to switch the Leigh Cement Plant at Union Bridge Md. July 2007.”
To switch at the cement plant, maybe?
Anyway, two other sites also said the photo was taken in 2007, and there was another showing the train on a track running right down the middle of a street.
Yes it was going to switch at the cement plant, but it was also going to switch the cement plant. They both mean the same in railroading terms. Over here we’d say ‘shunt’ rather than switch.
Youtuber ‘Jaw Tooth’ has videos of street running trains, I like his videos. He quite often tags on ‘Live Action Pets’ on the end as he has a couple of cats and dogs.
Another good (In my mind being a Brit) producer of railroad content is ‘Distant Signal’. He’s in Florida and gives good information on the lines, infrastructure, and history.
Jaw Tooth’s playlist of street running trains:
Looks like it starts on the latest video rather than just give the playlist.
Thanks… I’ll have to get back to it though… 40 minutes is a bit long for the moment.
Meanwhile, here’s a picture from Oshawa, Ontario, that was posted here a couple of years ago, plus another view that I found.
I saved them to send to my sister, whose friend grew up there. I don’t think that train still runs, though.
And this… There was also one of it coming down the middle of a small street but I guess I don’t have it.
Are you going to make me search the archives for Len Norris’s cartoons of the PGE* Railway running through the middle of houses?
(It was the Pacific Great Eastern, but in Norris’s lexicon it was “Prince George (BC) Eventually…”
You’d have to keep your eyes open when cutting the front lawn!
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Yes. Yes i am.
I pulled or strained something in my back tonight picking up Penelope.
I doubled up on the muscle relaxers (as per my NP) as soon as i could stand up again.
Wow… I was going to say “no fair” for those of us who only have virtual keyboards…. But it works on those too.
I’m sure there are other things it would work on, anyway… Anything with printed text, or probably pictures.
I didn’t wait 30 seconds, either… I was afraid I might be hypnotized, and fall in, and there’s nobody nearby to pull me out. 🙂
My keyboard is backlit in blues, reds, and greens. So I’m not going to do that as I’d like to keep my breakfast down!
Ivy will help. Cats know!
Actually the effect is quite momentary… I think you’d be okay. LOL
I bought a keyboard like that for my last desktop.. I loved it!
I didn’t use the all three colors mode, which made a (more of less) vertical section of each color, because the red bothered my eyes, so I usually kept it on all blue.
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“Meal time for the lumberjacks at the Scott and Graff Lumber Company in Minnesota, 1913.”
I guess they’re all about 130 to 145 years old now.
Here in NYC, we have a number of voters that age still on the registered voter lists. That does not explain the recent mayoral election outcome.
Looks like good, hearty fare. And they needed it. I imagine they burned 5,000-6,000 calories a day.
I spent a decade working in a woodworking mill. Nasty job – lost over 40 pounds the first year. Ate everything in sight. Yeah, those guys needed it.
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Give that man some sort of award.
And a clean pair of shorts.
kitty has some speed!
I’ve heard that’s what you do with bears – make yourself BIGGER. Me, I’d rather make myself gone.
He’s running off towards the little village… I hope the others are safe too.
the slowest is in trouble
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“I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more, Toto…”
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Just laying down for a little nap…
One of those rich princes Should recover it and put it in a museum.
They don’t care about rusty old trains. They’d rather spend their money on new, flashy things.
Maybe if they could shine it up, and put some diamonds and a designer logo on it.
then there’s the problem of transport
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“A little help here, please…”
He does look a bit worried… but hopefully, he’s not.
Or if he is, i hope it’s more about the photographer than the impossibly sheer rock wall.
Yeah, rock walls, he’s used to. Photographers, probably not.
You could probably capture a lot of them if you put out a salt lick.
Wow!!
I never knew you could trap the paparazzi with salt!
There are celebrities who could really use that information!
Good One!!!
can you find a foot-shaped leaf?
Whose foot?
I found… something.
I, personally, wouldn’t call it a foot, nor would I call it a leaf… but I can see that, the way things have been described or labeled in some of these puzzles, somebody may be calling it a foot shaped leaf.
For now, a verbal description… I’ll try to replace it with an image in a little while…
Halfway up from the bottom, halfway between the tree trunk and the right hand edge. . The color of the leaves… like a footprint with no toes.
Here’s the image….
That’s what I found, too.
Same here. But it looks more like a big green chile pepper to me.
Zooming in it looks like there are little toes floating above the foot. Maybe a higher resolution image might have been easier. to tell.
I tried to see toes but I couldn’t.
Yeah, weird little dots above the foot, more like a footprint. And I didn’t see dots on any other leaves, so I assumed toes 🙂
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I give the little guy a lot of credit for being willing to try. Hopefully he didn’t hurt himself too badly.
Little kids bounce somewhat better than adults.
Totally. Last time I went down, I stayed down. For months.
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You may
The movie seems
It’s Monkey Business, from 1952
But if you’d like to watch it, one of the links that turned up in my search said it was, surprisingly…
Since that’s the only movie I know of where they appear together, I recognized it at once.
And thank you for the link! It’s amazing how many excellent old movies one can find online legally for free in very good quality.
I realized reading the description that I’ve seen it, but many years ago… The title didn’t ring any bells, though it should have been obvious.
good movie. Ginger Rogers plays Grant’s wife and for a non dancing, comedy role, she is excellent
What caught my attention was the name – Oxley. Not very common, yet that’s in our family. Only two left – Rob doesn’t have any kids, so it’s just him and his wife. (His dad is my uncle we just had a memorial for last week.)
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it looks like he’s saying:
“I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse!’
Maybe Robin needs to talk a little more about that robbing from the rich stuff… and leaving out the bit about giving to the poor, if he’s even thought of that yet.
Tell them about being free, running about the forest, playing in the mud…. no collars, no leashes…. except I think they’ve never heard of collars and leashes…
Okay, how about… um… gosh, they already sleep on the ground… And um…. why would they want kibble, when they can hunt now?
Y’know….I’m thinkin’ this is a hard sell, Robin….
We’ve been Rick-rolled!
Well… maybe it’s not really being Rick-rolled if you know what it is and click on it willingly.
Eilean Donan Castle, Western Highlands, Scotland.
The most beautiful place… I used to have a calendar with nothing but pictures of Eilean Donan.
I especially like the ones from a bit farther off, with more water and mist. It’s magical looking.
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“…dave’s not here…”
This is Dave!!
I like Alton… but PLEASE stop with the hot sauce!
I don’t like mustard (not even on hot dogs!!) (though you need a wee bit for egg salad and devilled eggs) and I can’t eat strong hot sauce any more.
These might be good with garlic and Parmesan.