| as seen 2:39am 21 December 2010, through a hazy sky over Stafford, Virginia. Click the pic to enlarge. Also here’s a link to some pictures on the BBC website. |
 |
Science and Technology
High traffic light
 |
Rocky Mountain National Park, hand-held shot from the driver’s seat through the front right passenger window. Click the pic to enlarge. |
Caution, wide load
A 78,000lb fermentation tank on a 96-wheel truck moving along a farm road in King George County on Thursday, November 3, 2005:
 |
A barge carrying five of the tanks had arrived from Germany via Norfolk, Virginia, bound for the Coors brewery at Elkton, in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star) |
They moved these things through Fredericksburg in the middle of the night on successive Wednesdays. Every set of traffic lights had to be pulled up higher just to let them pass, but it was for a noble cause. (See this Free Lance-Star link to make it bigger.)