A place for the discussion of garden railways and any garden style/scale portable and/or indoor layouts
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by ge_rik » Sun Nov 06, 2022 3:09 pm
Andrew wrote: ↑Sun Nov 06, 2022 11:35 am
Fantastic photos! It's hard to tell that one of Taliesin emerging from the cutting isn't the real thing, absolutely brilliant!
Andrew beat me to it. Exactly what I was going to say.
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by invicta280 » Sun Nov 06, 2022 4:47 pm
This really is looking great.
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by Hydrostatic Dazza » Sun Nov 06, 2022 8:28 pm
ge_rik wrote: ↑Sun Nov 06, 2022 3:09 pm
Andrew wrote: ↑Sun Nov 06, 2022 11:35 am
Fantastic photos! It's hard to tell that one of Taliesin emerging from the cutting isn't the real thing, absolutely brilliant!
Andrew beat me to it. Exactly what I was going to say.
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Thanks. When the ballast gets done (one day next year as the 2-3mm chips are here and awaiting me and good weather and after all the other tasks of the back yard clean up)
and I fiddle with the camera get better perspective the pics may even look better. I really do not spend much time with the camera as I am absorbed watching trains move at realistic smooth speeds through the garden. For MAM and myself it is as much an excuse for a different style of gardening as it is the civil and mechanical engineering.
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by Peter Butler » Sun Nov 06, 2022 10:52 pm
Terraforming on steroids going on there. 'Hero' is well named and must have been a challenge to capture from its original location, which you described previously. It will make a striking focal point from your viewing area.
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by Hydrostatic Dazza » Mon Nov 07, 2022 8:36 pm
Peter Butler wrote: ↑Sun Nov 06, 2022 10:52 pm
Terraforming on steroids going on there. 'Hero' is well named and must have been a challenge to capture from its original location, which you described previously. It will make a striking focal point from your viewing area.
Peter, this area's hero rock has been placed. The rock was rotated 180 degrees to the original intention because the it looked more interesting.
This is the original thought.
The last night it ended up like this
A wee bit more done last night. Little by little it will be filled in and clarity emerges from the chaos and then the garden can be planted.
Looking at this rock last night set my mind back to TV show from the 1980's and the intro was,
"In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heavens sought order. But the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, as endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essence of Heaven, the moisture of the Earth, the powers of the Sun and the Moon all worked upon a certain rock, old as creation. And it became magically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought". Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, "With our thoughts, we make the World". Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it came a stone monkey. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!"
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by FWLR » Tue Nov 08, 2022 6:31 am
I remember Monkey, very funny program at times.
Love your photos Dazza and I think MAM is hitching to get planting again.
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by Hydrostatic Dazza » Tue Nov 15, 2022 8:16 pm
Heave, shove, push, shift again and again. Getting hot now and humid. Moans are heard. "I am over this Rock caper, I want to be done with this %#21*71##1*!$"
More concrete mixed, most of the big rocks have found a location.
Now long till the first soil will be shoveled into place along the back. Might even be this weekend.
Then the sections in front of the track will be done, should be much easier.
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by ge_rik » Wed Nov 16, 2022 10:31 am
Taking shape, Dazza. Will the bridge/trestle be spanning a dry creek?
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by Hydrostatic Dazza » Wed Nov 16, 2022 9:25 pm
ge_rik wrote: ↑Wed Nov 16, 2022 10:31 am
Taking shape, Dazza. Will the bridge/trestle be spanning a dry creek?
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Yes, a dry gully is the intention.
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by FWLR » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:10 am
Coming along nicely there Dazza.
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by ge_rik » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:16 am
I like the way the dirt road curves up into the great beyond. Surprising how much soil is needed to fill a few gaps.
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by Peter Butler » Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:04 am
That is going to look so good! I guessed you wouldn't hang about once you got started.
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by Hydrostatic Dazza » Sat Nov 19, 2022 7:41 pm
Peter Butler wrote: ↑Sat Nov 19, 2022 11:04 am
That is going to look so good! I guessed you wouldn't hang about once you got started.
We hope it looks good. The hot and humid summer has arrived and it was 35* and water and electrolyte consumption was high on one's mind. When done I showered, two cold beers and had a nap. We are trying to have some order about the place before the holiday run events. Every thing is grity, dirt here and there and stuff. Messy. All the weekends driving at the Rattler has slowed progress but I must drive full size steam while I am still able to.
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