No tractors in that pic. There's a steam powered traction engine. I think it was a Youngs of Diss from about 1930.
Gotcha, there’s that trail on the north side of the I-8. Never been up it, drove thru there a handful of times.
Good eye on the thistle. It is an import from Western Europe—musk thistle. It’s an invasive species here. I think it’s a beautiful plant though…
This is a photo facing east in the afternoon. It looks like the woods are on fire. Just a reflection of the sunset.
Latest addition to the hangar - Great Wall Hobby model kit in 1/48th scale - F-15E from the 494th Fighter Squadron painted in the D-Day Heritage Scheme from RAF Lakenheath in Norfolk.....
D-Day stripes is an odd choice. Did the plane take part in an anniversary fly over or something? Where do you keep all your models? They must take up a lot of space and need a lot of dusting.
Hi mate, yeah there were 3 painted up in red, blue and yellow and they took part in the commemoration fly-by over Normandy in support of the 75th anniversary of D-Day 9th June 2019. They were also operational for a few months after and were also in the States for a few months on detachment. I'm thinking of doing all 3....mebbe.... The good ones are in a cabinet the others go into the attic....my wife's not one for having them round the house.... I don't mind. The fun is building and painting them but once they're done...well... I just move onto the next project and tend to forget about them...next on the blocks is a helicopter, SH-60F Ocean hawk and that's a big bugger...
Shame, I was imagining them hanging from wires in every room of the house. Centrepiece in the living room a dog fight between Spitfires and Bf 109s.
Not really a great photo, but my favorite birds. You know it’s spring when they start fixing up their mud nest in the barn. Their aerial acrobatics in pursuit of mosquitoes and other pests will entertain me all summer.
Yep. Barn swallows. They nest in barns and under eaves of houses etc. in mud nests. They learn to leverage human activities for feeding opportunities like raptors do, following tractors and equipment through the field as you work. The barn swallows will fly underneath working tractors and implements to catch flying insects disturbed by the equipment. I never get tired of watching them.
So you like my backdrop better than the birds! She’s actually one of my bigger standard Jersey cows so you are pretty close on weight. Don’t they call this photobombing?
