Thursday, May 15, 2008

Locomotive In The Sky

64 comments:

Anonymous said...

A beautiful sky watch photo with the weather vane. Nice.

Daniel J Santos said...

Excellent perspective,great sky watch.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful locomotive and smoke sky.

Anonymous said...

Now here's something worth seeing ... and old train locomotive that endend up there!

imac said...

Nice setting to show off your great sky.


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Flying Solo said...

It is fabulous, both the photo with the title!
It reminds me those of the pigeons.

dot said...

I love this shot! Also enjoyed looking back at some of your photos. I'm always going to add you to my bloglines but in the process of trying to decide which blog to add I forget. lol.

Anonymous said...

Very interesting photo! Nice job.

This Is My Blog - fishing guy said...

Champ: How neat, a engine in the sky.

Michele said...

Oh boy, this is a sweeeet photo... it's as if two locomotives were racing each other and one zoomed past the other... hehehe...
Rocky Mountain Retreat

Carletta said...

WOW! I love it! The way the train is poised as if to come around reminds me of the Professor's train in one of those "Back to the Future Movies."
I'm with Michele - the contrail being there is as if another steam engine just went the other way!
Excellent Skywatch!

SandyCarlson said...

That's a wonderful vane! Great photo.

david mcmahon said...

Like Carly Simon said, you're so vane.

GREAT shot.

Cape Cod Washashore said...

Lovely jet stream... I wonder whether the jet was flying TO or from Florida! (If I were on it, it would be flying TO Florida!)

Anonymous said...

Fun shot. I've been on a quest to photograph all the weather vanes I see. Have a wonderful weekend.

Louis la Vache said...

New competition for the airlines? :-)

"Louis" thanks you for visiting San Francisco Bay Daily Photo

Tom said...

Ha! now that is a first.... a Sky Train... never seen one like that before so thank you for showing this today

nina at Nature Remains. said...

Interesting weathervane.
If that contrail was a slightly different angle, it would look like its track!
Great photos!
Nina at Nature Remains

Anonymous said...

Nice

alicesg said...

Lovely skywatch photo. I love the locomotive on the roof top. Thanks for visiting my blog. :)

Anonymous said...

Gotta love the perspective of this picture! :)
Have a good weekend~

Neva said...

The bar is high in this group! Hi GTB.....nice shot of the clock tower(I think!) and sky!

Small City Scenes said...

Engine number 9 -- track 21-- All Aboard!! WHOooooooo WHOoooooo

Good shot, George.

Texas Travelers said...

Love the old train and the modern plane.

Thanks for the visit,
Troy

Janice Thomson said...

Love the contrasting ideas here - this is one superb shot George!

Scotty Graham said...

great eye! A unique skywatch shot!!

Angie said...

That's great!

Nova said...

another jet passes by the sky and leaves a print on it...


great shot....

Gerald (Ackworth born) said...

Great composition - full steam ahead!

Jules said...

Toot, toot - how cute!!!!

mrsnesbitt said...

LOL @ Ackworth's comment!
Yes, a great one for a Friday, it is amazing what we see when we look up!

Merisi said...

Oh, the Little Locomotive
that really DID it! :-)

Thanks to David at Authorblog http://david-mcmahon.blogspot.com/
who guided me over here!

Anonymous said...

first time here via the blog of david mcmahon. you have a very interesting blog and very beautiful shots. well done

Sharon said...

I love wind vanes! I've never seen one with a locomotive. This is wonderful against the clear, blue sky! And the con trail.

 gmirage said...

Beautiful! with a bonus vane and jet tracks! HAppy Sky Watching!

Janet said...

Looks like it is gonna catch that vapor trail...great photo.

Anne-Berit said...

That`s a great shot!

Liz said...

Unique and beautiful!

Train and Plane...

Anita said...

We are all VERY fond of trains in our house, this is a beuatiful weathervane - and a gorgeous shot!

Thanks for stopping by Prairie Visions!

BTW - the 4 mast ship in your sidebar is GORGEOUS!

Anonymous said...

This is really a very nice and unique photo! An original scene cleverly captured! :-)

Andrea said...

A TRAIN? How unique, usually it is a rooster. Love it. Gorgeous sky too.

Quiet Paths said...

This is clever and fun! I love it.

Diane Vogel Ferri said...

Love the whimsy of your photo this week.

sonia a. mascaro said...

The photo you chose for today is wonderful! You have a good eye for the unusual. Well done!

Profile Not Available said...

Beautiful! I love the weather vane!

Dick said...

Nice skywatch, good perspective

maryt/theteach said...

Your pictures are beautiful! All of them/ It was fun perusing them... Have you every come face to face with a 'gator?

LiseH said...

Beautiful!

Petunia said...

A very nice shot:)

Petunia's SWF

Unknown said...

Excellent perspective, well done!

Anonymous said...

wonderful zoom and blue sky!

Travis said...

I love weather vanes! We are studying weather right now with my second grade class and have been discussing them Wonderful photo

Pernille said...

Very nice and fun shot. Love it:D

Anonymous said...

wonderful shot!

Anonymous said...

This is nice, but I loved the hot air balloons and the ufo picture. That was just too funny!

Anonymous said...

wonderful find!

Anonymous said...

HA, what a funny place for a train to be! Hey .... think it's moving!!

Anonymous said...

I think that was the flying gator!

Anonymous said...

OHH, Did I saw a readhead running?

EG CameraGirl said...

This is definitely the first sky train weather vane I've ever seen.

Champ Townboy said...

Thank you all for stopping by and leaving such wonderful comments!!

Anita: The CREOULA is beautiful and just had a birthday! Please visit the blog - a labor of love by Miguel and Raquel!

The Teach: Thank you so much!! I haven't come face to face with a gator yet ... but I'm trying! LOL

Sandy's Notes: I'm glad you liked that one!!

dot said...

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Lilli & Nevada said...

Love that weather vane, Great sky watch

Anonymous said...

Wonderful pictures..
I am late visiting SWF participants, but we have a holiday weekend in Canada.
Thank you for your visit.
-Cheers.