A teeny Blue-spotted salamander took refuge under the rolling trashcan overnight so I just had to take its picture. Luckily it held still for a couple of focus bracketing sessions. I still missed the very tip of its nose and the ridge of spine, but most of it is darn crisp.

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The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway station in Raton, New Mexico was built in 1903. The baggage house, a one-story, stucco and brick structure was built in the Mission Revival style featuring arched openings and curvilinear gables.

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Egypt.

"Abu Simbel is a historic site comprising two massive rock-cut temples in the village of Abu Simbel, Upper Egypt, near the border with Sudan. It is located on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about 140 miles southwest of Aswan. The twin temples were originally carved out of the mountainside in the 13th century BC, during the 19th Dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Ramesses II. Their huge external rock relief figures of Ramesses II have become iconic. His wife, Nefertari, and children can be seen in smaller figures by his feet. Sculptures inside the Great Temple commemorate Ramesses II's heroic leadership at the Battle of Kadesh." [All four statues on the exterior of the temple are of Ramesses II.]

"The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968 to higher ground to avoid it being submerged by Lake Nasser, the Aswan Dam reservoir. As part of International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, an artificial hill was made from a domed structure to house the Abu Simbel Temples.

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Dexter, MO

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Cape Girardeau, MO

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