Sunday 2 August 2020

Work Still In Progress


In a WIP post a couple of weeks ago I showed some photos from work on the railway nearby. They are making progress. The photo above was taken from a footbridge, 25 July. The ones below at a level crossing a bit further away, 31 July. (The yellow train is involved in the process.)


 
The purple plant in the foreground in the last photo I think is called willowherb or fireweed in English. In Swedish it goes by a number of different names, including one (rallar-ros) that would translate as "navvy's rose" in English; referring to the fact that it often grows along railways.

As for myself, I'm still walking round pretty much in the same circles close to home; and I expect that is likely to continue for a while yet. (The corona-related statistics from our health authorities have kept improving a lot during the summer though.)

8 comments:

  1. Even the gravel looks new! This must be a lovely train ride.

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    1. Yes, the gravel is new, too. (Well for its use here, anyway!)

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  2. I love that second photo with the blue fence in the bottom of it. I 2 and walking the same circles over and over and I'm really getting sick of it but I'll just keep right on doing it until as far as goes away I just hope it does someday

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    1. Sandra, no doubt sooner or later they'll come up with a vaccine. It's still a huge project though, considering how many people will need it...

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  3. As you know, I travel on trains quite a lot and of course I have my favourite parts of each of my regular routes, where I never fail to look up from my kindle and out of the window.
    The purple flowers are, I believe, called Springbalsamine in German. Before I knew their name, I used to call them Eisenbahnblumen (railway flowers) :-)

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    1. Makes me wonder, Meike, where these flowers used to grow before there were any railways!

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  4. I think we have a similar purple flowers here, can't remember it's name though. I agree with you about the corona debacle, it could go on and on.

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  5. Amy, the situation here has kept getting better over summer, but we are reminded repeatedly that this does not mean being back to "normal" any time soon. Keeping distance etc is still essential.

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