What would you do with a house that big?

I guess you need rooms for all the virgins.

Thanks grav :)

I have a Cannon powershot in about that price range. I haven't used it much. I'm not sure if I can eek out good photos like that even with tweaking. You might just be a natural.

I try not to be around virgins....

Personally? I'm into virgins.

Air show season is coming up quick. Here's a couple from last year's up on the lake in Cleveland:
A-10 cannon
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Blue Angels
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http://pruett.smugmug.com/Airplanes/..._2pGMj-L-1.jpg

http://pruett.smugmug.com/Airplanes/...10_YKyzA-L.jpg

My dad used to own a lake where we camped where the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds did their turnarounds for the Dayton Air Show. Once the Angels came over, almost snuck up behind up and we looked up and it almost seemed you could touch them. We were cheering and teary, grandparents, parents, us, kids...very cool stuff!

I grew up in southern Cal, so I remember going to a lot of air shows at Miramar, etc. Watching the Blue Angels, seeing Navy SEALs rope down from helicopters into the water, it was awesome to watch as a kid. Still is.

Gotta love that close-up of the GAU-8 muzzle.

Awesome pics, btw, Bullitt.

it sounds like a 50s space flick around here ,
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DSCF7147 by zippyt, on Flickr
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DSCF7149 by zippyt, on Flickr

Roast 'em up. nom nom :D

Freaky looking things. I would get a kick out of shaking a tree branch with them in it. Watching dozens come shooting out.

But seriously, your tomato plants are already reaching to tops of their cages?!

I'm going to have to look into that hay bale thing next year.

Here are my pics from when they were in my (and glatt's) neck of the woods. With audio, for those who want to hear the 50's space flick soundtrack.

Not much of a picture, but here you can hear Earth's defence against the invaders from outer space: frogs, thousands of them.
(recorded about a month ago in a disused quarry in my area)



ETA: A better picture to go with it.

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Caught this old Ford (1940?) at Wendy's the other afternoon. Pretty neat.

The other pic: Bravest Little Bluebird, Evah.

Probably not neat to anyone else.
But I was really intrigued by this pattern on the carpet the other day. And the sunshine on the Christmas Cactus.

I don't get out much, it's true.

That's awesome Sundae! I've read so much about it, to see it at last is a fantastic treat. I hope someday to be able to see it for myself. This "sunshine", so beautiful.

Thank you for sharing!

Cheeky monkey.
Come over here. You have a chance of seeing it for four months a year.
Intermittently.

ETA - did you see Bride & Prejudice yet?
Just come across Jai Ho on Youtube (which our Reception children danced to as part of the Nativity in 2010 - well.... why not?!)

Might have to put in in the good music thread. It's uplifting anyway, but of course for me it also has an emotiponal connection now.

I think it's a very pretty picture! But then again, I don't get out much either. :rolleyes: Hihi....Teasing you. It is very neato! :D

Taken in New Haven, CT w/ iphone4.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3622/...e4b712ae_o.jpg

The art is very impressive but I can't say much for the carpenters/architects in your area. Do you know what a right angle is?

I've been there!

I was working in the electric substation adjacent to this grafitti wall. The only thing I liked about my short stay in New Haven was a delicious eatery called Johnny Salami's!

At the Udvar-Hazy, the centerpieces.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/...86ca042c01.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2051/...256d7c160d.jpg

That's pretty.

Why is it that I no longer stare open jawed at the Space Shuttles, yet, the Blackbirds still strike me as the most awesome things to have ever flown?

I took this photo across our pond. It seems a new species has made its way to my farm. . .

Woody, is that stitched panorama pic, or just a single photo?

Nice.

Nirvana, those are extinct! How'd you find them? You're very very lucky.
guess I was wrong, yay!

Should be posted in the What the hell is this thread:

sincerely,

cheeky monkey.

ps: I mowed the front and sides, and *almost* broke a sweat. sunny but not actually hot. wonderful!

They better not eat my wild raspberries and I hope they won't breed much. I am not sure there is a market for them in N Indiana ;)

Thanks!
It's a stitched panorama. Taken using a $3.00 app. The app does all the stitching!

Killa.

BigV, I thought your pic was Les Stroud for a sec...

thanks man, you flatter me.

Garett, PA
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Another
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76...h/035480a6.jpg

Digging that areoplane pic by HM.

I bet Les Stroud never built no bad-ass bamboo bunk beds, though.

Big Woody. Those are so NEAT. I like the second one especially .
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A Barn Swallow is from sometime in May. There were two of them and they hung around for a couple of days. They were looking for a good nesting spot. They decided against the the porch light. Now,they are up under the eaves.

Today, a beautiful day for spying on the crows. I suppose. If you're a cat.

"Today is a beautiful day for spying on the crows
I suppose..."

is a good start to a poem!

It felt like the start of something 'prosey', when I was typing it too.

I was over in the Luce Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, going for a walk on my lunch hour and checking out the art in some nice air conditioning. Walking down the row of displays, I noticed one of those old cigarette vending machines. It was selling art. I simply couldn't resist.

I'm a notorious cheapskate, and this vending machine was asking $5 for a cigarette pack sized work of art. But I figured if I took pictures of the exchange, it would make it worth while.

So here it is, the Artomat.

It was obvious to me that you couldn't really be sure what you were getting. The machine is like one of those vending machines you remember from your childhood at the grocery store. You put your 25 cents in and hope to get the super ball in the egg and not the crappy smurf sticker.

Well, I figured that the selections that were almost out of stock were the most popular, and might therefore be the best. I looked at those few, and decided the one with the American flag peeking out looked kind of cool. I knew I didn't want the Dick Cheney portrait.

That is super cool. :D

So Days in America it was! I fed my $5 bill into the machine. There was the whirring noise of the motor taking my money, and a satisfying clunk from deep within the machine.

I pulled the knob. And tada! The flag image didn't come out. There was something else under there. And now it was mine.

Here's my art. I'm an art collector now. I hope Alejandro Mazon becomes renowned. I'll make a killing on this art in 10 years.

Wadjaget? wadjaget? wadjaget?

There's at least one Dwellar who'll kill him for you. You know, just to help his art appreciate.

That is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. Yeah, I'd be plunking way too much money in that machine.

I was sitting here anxiously awaiting the next picture! :)

the flag one that caught my eye is now on deck to be next. It sort of half fell out of the display and into the mechanism. But $10 is way too much for me to blow. I'm very intrigued by the other ones. Maybe once a month or two I'll treat myself and go buy another one from a different artist.

I like the piece I got. And when you google this guy, he's a real artist. He's had shows and everything.

When I was a kid, sometimes the counter person at the store closest to my house wouldn't sell me the cigarettes I so desperately needed to grow up healthy and strong. But, there was a laundromat a bike ride across town that still had a cigarette machine.

That machine never once refused to sell me cigarettes.

:blunt:

Why do you hate America? :lol:

Whenever I hear Dick Cheney's name I picture the "Family Guy" scene where Cheney is reduced to working at Wal-Mart as a greeter:

Oriental lily. Taken with an amateur level, compact, LCD-only-viewfinder-equipped, $90, point-and-shoot camera.

:D

Feeding Time
 

These were taken last year. After several failed attempts at putting her nest on top of the porch light - we kept getting rid of it because it is inches away from the back door - she finally built it on a top beam of our deck. I was only about 10 feet away on the other side of the deck when I took these pictures. She never seemed to mind. This year she got one over on us and got the nest built and her eggs laid before we could do anything about it. Im sure she hated it this time, because every time the door opened she flew off and gave the alarm.

Close-ups.

Great pics.

foots knows how to take care of that problem.

awww...some