Gravdigr's Photo Safari

Thought I would put my non-topical pics in one place, á la Bbro. That way I won't be polluting the entire Cellar. If anyone doesn't want to see them, they'll be easier to avoid, and, if I can't decide where to put a pic I want to share, I can put it here.

Momdigr came in the other afternoon saying that if I went out to go a certain way and "look at all the buzzards".

She wasn't joking. American Black Vultures were attending a buffet provided by a car and a deer trying to occupy the same space at the same time.

The deer lost the contest. Deer shouldn't come to town.

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Nature, happening right thar on the side of the road. In town.

No one said they would be 'good' pictures.;)

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vvvTaken a few days after halloween, waaaaaay out in BFE.
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vvvAbandoned pink houses for you and me. For you and me.
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Nice! :D

Thanks!

Passed 250k miles on GC1 the other day!

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:cheerldr::celebrat:

Sweet. That's impressive.

Take care of them and they will go over 300K. There are million mile Volvo's out there.

Just broke in. :thumb:
Hmm... 50 lbs oil pressure at idle, and just over 100 degrees, did you just start it, notice the mileage, and get your camera out to take that picture?

That pic was taken towards the end of a photo safari. So, it'd been running/driven for a couple hours. It was pretty cold that day, iirc. Popdigr's replaced the thermostat, so it runs a little cooler than it should when it's cold out, heater still works well, though. In summer it runs right around 200, like most of your more modern vehicles.

I'm fairly pleased w/oil pressure, for 250k miles. It'll leak about half a quart between changes (every 3k miles), around the valve cover gasket.

I had this pic,

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and it reminded me of something, but, I couldn't put my finger on it.

Finally, I think I've figured out what it reminds me of. This:

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It's the blue, to the right of the white 'bolt', that combo that's making me think of the Steal Yer Face thingy.

I think...:neutral:

That pic was pic number 1001, btw.

I bought this camera in June 2017.

I love that one!

Shit that's easy, just go out and find a sky like that, over scenery like that, and take a picture with the right framing and exposure. :lol:

That's what I did!:jig:

Did it good too.

Quick and dirty edit job, may redo it at some point in the future:

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What the hell, this isn't instagram where you post pictures of your supper. :lol:

I like the colors. What did you edit? I still haven't ventured too much into that. It seems so overwhelming.

I only chopped it down to size and took just a bit off the highlights to darken the pic a little. Sharpened the focus a little, also.

I'm gonna try to go a little darker but still keep that 'honey' quality to the lighting. Might change the cropping, too, to give the deer a little more 'presence' in the pic.

As far as the editing seeming overwhelming, ya just gotta jump in and play with the program. Just make sure ya don't save over the originals, when ya still got the original, ya ain't messed nothing up. If I'm editing a pic named IMG_1068, I rename the edited pic IMG_1068a, at the least. I never edit the original.

Very cool. I always save it as a separate file. I've tried using an open source editor (GNU maybe?), but I can't recall the name. It's just so many functions and I don't know what any of them do. I try them and I am not seeing any difference. Or I try them and I can see the exact edges where the edit happened.

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Nicely done.

Thank you, sir.

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Lazy hunters.

That is unlawful everywhere I've ever lived.

I'm not sure they were 100 yards off the road, either. KY's law may say 50 yds, come to think of it.

That was a muzzleloader weekend hunt. Don't think it makes any difference in KY or WI, though.

Was byooful today. 75 degrees, mostly sunny...Safari time!

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The things that see ya when ya ain't gotta bow in ya hand...

But this way you get to see them again later. ;)

I'm not so much concerned with seeing them again as eating them once.

Gravdigr;1003748 wrote:

I'm not sure they were 100 yards off the road, either. KY's law may say 50 yds, come to think of it.

That was a muzzleloader weekend hunt. Don't think it makes any difference in KY or WI, though.

One of my Uncles was a notorious good shot. Unfortunately, he set up on the hood of his pick-up this one time and shot, his truck.

Did he eat it?

A friend of mine took his son deer hunting. Arriving before sun up, getting their gear together one of the rifles felt like it wanted to jam.
He opened the truck door for the light to check the rifle and promptly shot his transmission through the floorboard. :haha:

ha!

Undertoad;1004173 wrote:

Did he eat it?

Euell Gibbons would tell you that many parts are edible. :rolleyes:

Again, I never said they would be good pics...:rolleyes:

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ominous

That's a good picture. Not great, but good. Crisp, sharp, light and dark. I like it.

I like it!

Was there rain?

Thanks guys!

And there was wind and rain aplenty.

Threeleg is alive and well!!

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We hadn't seen her for several months, and feared she was no more. Stoked.:devil: She's at least 8 years old.

We've given up on seeing Bobtail anymore, he is officially listed as MIA.

It is fun to get a visit from an old friend.

So...

I usually turn right at the fork in the road, but, this time there was a fork in the road!

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In the last two weeks this giant fork has come to be. In the middle of nowhere. I can't find anyone who knows anything about it.

I'm going to try to secure Popdigr permission to metal detect this place.

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Five minutes after taking this pic I was in fear for my life.

I had to stop dead in the road cuz I couldn't see the end of my hood. And then it started raining hard. I thought it was raining hard. I was wrong. GrandCherokeeOne started trying to fly. Sideways.

It was bit weathery for minute.

Wow.

That's outstanding.

GrandCherokeeOne snatched him from the ultimate, possibly fatal, blowjob. :mg:

That happened to my brother and I in 93. We just left the house and it rained so hard I couldn't see my wipers. Later I found out a tornado had touched down behind us then skipped over the car and came down about an eighth of a mile away. I had pulled to the side at least I thought it was because it was bumpy.

I have been on a few roller coasters and have been married twice, but that scared me. It is one of those memories not forgotten.

AWESOME capture! :eek:

Also, you know, good job staying alive. :p:

Thanks!

I got some other pics of the same cell, I guess that's what you'd call it, from a different angle. I'll post one or two of them later.

Thanks for posting that image, Grav.
It's quite astonishing how storms like that boil up and bite the unwary and even the wary.

On one trip I did to the US I thought that I was about to be caught up in a tornado.
I was staying in Torrington Wyoming and tornado warnings had been issued for western Nebraska which was a handful of miles distant.
The wind suddenly increased and a storm warning appeared on the TV.
Meteorological violence ensued for about the next thirty minutes, and the motel rattled somewhat, but thankfully it didn't develop into a tornado.

That trip hadn't got off to a good start. The first leg of the flight was from Heathrow to Newark but had to return after about twenty minutes when a large quantity of glassware fell from stowage in the galley and injured a flight attendant. She needed hospital treatment so the delayed flight was of secondary importance in the great scheme of things.
However, late arrival at Newark meant a re-booking of flights and to make matters worse there was a very strong headwind all the way to Denver.
If things had gone according to plan I would have arrived in daylight as I didn't want to drive in darkness after a long flight but it didn't happen.
On my first night I was staying at Brighton CO a few miles from DEN and my discombobulated body clock did not allow me to sleep so I watched 'Are You Being Served?' on TV.
I think I suffered enough on that trip.

I've only been remotely close to a tornado once. It hit Raleigh in 2011 (I think). It was only a few miles outside of downtown....where I was. I believe there was even damage downtown. On my side of town, I had my mother calling me to ask about it. She is usually watching the weather channel so she thinks things happening hours away are in my backyard.

Turns out, it was coming right for me. One made landfall less than a mile from my apartment. Right on the other side of the river that was in my back yard.
For the first time ever, I experienced the calm in the storm. It was freaky. I wish I had been taking pictures like I do then.

And yes, I called my mother afterward and apologized.

ETA: From wikipedia

The tornado continued to track northeast, in the direction of downtown Raleigh; by this time a very sharply defined hook echo was visible on local radar. The tornado began passing through suburban subdivisions on the southwest side of Raleigh as it approached Downtown. Many homes sustained damage, mostly to roofs and from falling trees.[25] The tornado maintained EF1 intensity as it passed through neighborhoods into downtown Raleigh. Severe damage was reported to many commercial businesses in the South Saunders Street (US 70) area south of downtown near Interstate 40. Many local thoroughfares and neighborhoods were rendered impassable due to building debris, tree damage, and downed power lines. The Shaw University campus was badly damaged by the tornado. Live WRAL camera footage showed [26] a rain-wrapped tornado approach the city from the southwest and cross I-40 at South Saunders Street, accompanied by power flashes and flying debris. Many homes and businesses in the Raleigh area were badly damaged. Damage in the downtown area was rated EF1.[24]

After striking the downtown area, the tornado continued northeast, damaging Oakwood Cemetery and the St. Augustine's University campus. The tornado intensified again to EF2 strength as it passed through Raleigh's northeastern neighborhoods and subdivisions. Many homes were badly damaged, losing roofs and walls. Many trees and powerlines were downed and some homes were nearly destroyed. Still on the ground, it continued to track northeast through the northeastern suburbs, tracking along Capital Boulevard / U.S. Route 1 and U.S. Route 401 before tracking through a mobile home park at 4:05 pm EDT, producing severe damage, and killing four people

Weather.

It can be a bitch.

Great for picture taking though!

Word!

Another angle...Head on:

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Gravdigr;1009881 wrote:

Another angle...Head on:

Yikes! How long were you stuck under that lot when it all started?

Oh it was moving right along. I was threatened with meteorological violence for about ten minutes, then it was just a fairly strong thunderstorm that lasted for about 15 - 20 minutes longer.

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Ya been mooned!

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Great shots! For the black and white, do you set that on your camera or do it in editing software?

Very nice, I like that one a lot.

xoxoxoBruce;1010882 wrote:

Very nice, I like that one a lot.

bbro;1010878 wrote:

Great shots! For the black and white, do you set that on your camera or do it in editing software?

Thanks!

I used editing for that one. I use ArcSoft Photo Studio 5. It's a really old tool, but you might can still find it somewhere on the webz. Try some of those old software archive-type sites. It's pretty basic, not a real steep learning curve, but it has it's limitations.

I have a Canon EOS Rebel T6, and it has the setting to shoot black and white, but I haven't used it.

Gravdigr;1010224 wrote:

Ya been mooned!

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Now you're shooting pictures through a telescope?

No, I shot that one through a tree.

:D

300mm, handheld, through a maple tree. Over-sharpened in post.

A Simpsons sky behind a barn:

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John Ford called puffy, white, cotton ball clouds like that "a director's sky".

Nice. But if those clouds drop any water that barn won't help.

The roof is most of what's left. I'd like to know how that much of the rest of it went away and the roof stayed.

"Reclaimed wood" is popular. "reclaimed rusty corrugated sheet metal" less so.

"reclaimed rusty corrugated sheet metal" brings more $$ at the recycler.:p:

I was gonna make picture frames outta old barn wood, and sell them at the flea market.

Till I found out what the flea market stalls were going for.

Yeah, the walls of that barn are a floor in some rich man's house now.

Gravdigr;1012398 wrote:

"reclaimed rusty corrugated sheet metal" brings more $$ at the recycler.:p:

Depends on whether the recycler knows they can sell the wood to a lumberyard or contractor. Of course, if you're bringing wood to a recycler, they'll figure you don't know that, and may well offer to take it off your hands for nothing.

Gravdigr;1012358 wrote:

The roof is most of what's left. I'd like to know how that much of the rest of it went away and the roof stayed.

The sides are easier to remove than the roof.

I believe that one of the four winds reclaimed the wood from that barn.

Yup probably or the roof would be on the ground.

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And through a filthy windshield, no less...

[size=1]Resized, and sharpened just a tick.[/size]

Looks nice! You can't even tell it's through a dirty windshield!

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Hippie tractor, probably used for growing peyote and mushrooms. :haha:

It's art. Someone is painting all over town. Same-ish style.

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xoxoxoBruce;1017336 wrote:

Hippie tractor, probably used for growing peyote and mushrooms. :haha:

And avocados

Wouldn't avocados be hipster food? I'm not sure because I'm out of touch and don't care as long as they stay off my lawn. ;)

xoxoxoBruce;1017516 wrote:

Wouldn't avocados be hipster food? I'm not sure because I'm out of touch and don't care as long as they stay off my lawn. ;)

Avocados, or hipsters?:p:

Oooh shit...Hipster avocados!!!

It's a wafa!!!! A ten inch wafa!!!

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Is that rock under the ice on the near side?

That crick was served up neat.

No ice. But it is on the rocks.

:D

That's not ice on the near side after the falls? Fooled the shit outta me. :smack:

Nope, just bare, dry-ish rock. It was almost 60 degrees that day.

Nice! I would have been tempted to chill on the rock there.

Didn't anybody ever tell ya sitting on cold rocks'll give ya piles?

~Martin Riggs

From April 2011:

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I like that

High enough for terrorists and escaped slaves to hide, but it sure is pretty. :thumb:

glatt;1020258 wrote:

I like that

It's my desktop wallpaper atm.

xoxoxoBruce;1020269 wrote:

High enough for terrorists and escaped slaves to hide, but it sure is pretty. :thumb:

That's wheat, btw. I thought maybe ya thought it was grass.

The other side of post #79:

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They've put Xmas lights on it, btw.

It's so simple, it's profound:

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Popdigr said "How old ya reckon that fence is?" I said "About 75 - 100 years, give or take." He said "Aw, it ain't that old."

Then I took him to the other side of the cemetery to show him this tree, a sugar maple:

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Big pic apologies.

Gravdigr;1020598 wrote:

That's wheat, btw. I thought maybe ya thought it was grass.

I didn't know it was wheat but pretty sure it was a crop.

I posted this pic a good while back:

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I liked the lighting, the honey sunset, and all, but I started experimenting with editing the original pic, and came up with this:

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I weighted the color balance heavily toward the cyan side of the slider (too much), and my honey went a way, to a degree. Then I sharpened a bit.

I ended up with a pretty noticeable outlining effect on the does backs, though. Don't know whether I like it (the pic) better or not, but now I know how to counter honey-colored sunsets, if I ever want to do such a foolish thing.:)

From April past:

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From June 2017:

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I was the at park looking for a picture to take the week before Christmas.

And I found one.

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This turkey is a dead duck.

He isn't pining for the fjords.

This birb is no more.

Not a mark on him. There is an active rock quarry just across the crick from where I found him. I thought, at first, that maybe they were blasting, and debris struck, and killed him. But, no marks of any kind on the birb. I wonder if blasting might have scared it to death? He was about two feet from the base of a tree, like he just fell dead outta the tree.

He either had just died, or he'd been there a good while, as there was no apparent rigor mortis.

There may not be an external cause, he could have just croaked. Might have been a smoker, or drinker, or sexual deviant... not like that's a bad thing. :headshake

Maybe he had... Tubirbculosis

Just hope it wasn't the birbonic plague.

Whatever the cause, I think it's safe to say that he's stuffed.

Maybe he was just done. Did you check his popup button?

Clodfobble;1022339 wrote:

Maybe he had... Tubirbculosis

It was just the one birb.

Onebirbculosis, maybe.




That was outstanding, btw.

Diaphone Jim;1022364 wrote:

Maybe he was just done. Did you check his popup button?

Also a good one.:D

lumberjim;1022355 wrote:

Just hope it wasn't the birbonic plague.

Frealz.

He damn sure didn't have the flew.

OMG. You people stop right now with all the cleverness. You are KILLING me.

:lol2:

Yeah, if this bunch ain't good for nothing else...:D

Gravdigr;999577 wrote:

No one said they would be 'good' pictures.;)

So, this RR crossing has a sign that says to be prepared for up to a 30 minute wait. The train sometimes stops to let another train go by.

I came upon such a situation:

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Aw, c'mon, man...Eight cars? Ya couldn't pull up eight car lengths?? Looks like they'd have some way of knowing if they've cleared the crossing.

Maybe this was a longer than normal train, idk. I waited about 15 minutes, I had nothing better to do, I was on Photo Safari.:D

There's a house on either side of the road about 75-100 feet beyond those tracks. I would lose my mind (repeatedly) if I had to hear that clanging bell for a half-hour.

Or, as the real estate agent would say, "charm".

I use to live 50 ft from the tracks in the station at Secane. Electric commuter trans, didn't make that much noise. But every morning at 1:20 AM, a diesel work train came through doing about 12.3 mph. Because it had to cross North Ave then pass through station they were required(or just took perverse pleasure in) blowing the air horn steady from a quarter mile before the street/station, til a quarter mile after it.

By the way, did you notice the 2nd car from the right? There's the problem, we gotta build a wall along the border up north.:tinfoil:

I stopped in Torrington, WY, on several occasions and huge coal trains trundled through the town over a level crossing about every twenty minutes.

The air horns weren't too much of a nuisance but I was slightly alarmed that the building shook as trains passed.

I've just looked at Google Earth and the motel is 175 yards from the track! :eek:

Around here the protocol is apparently three short blasts of the horn, followed by three long blasts, followed by three short blasts when approaching a crossing. Every crossing.

Every. single. crossing.

There are seven crossings within 3/4 of a mile of my house.

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They blow the horn there (nine times), and there (nine times), and there (nine times), and there (nine times), and there (nine times), and there (nine times), and there...nine times.

No matter the time.

There's a major thoroughfare RR crossing a few miles from our house that's right in the path to the kids' school... And more importantly, immediately parallel to the highway. When a train comes through, it backs up traffic a few miles down the road toward our house in one direction, and on the other side it stops all traffic on both the access road and the highway for up to 3 exits back. And the trains routinely come to a dead stop just like that rural one above.

Anyway, they have a major construction plan to fix it that will elevate either the train or the traffic (couldn't tell from the blurry specs in the local paper) to keep them flowing independently, and also somehow involve a roundabout. Plans call for something like 2.5 years of construction, but they assure us they will keep the minimum 2-lanes-in-each-direction open during that time. I'm just going to keep taking the back way home, myself.

Clodfobble;1025189 wrote:

Plans call for something like 2.5 years of construction, but they assure us they will keep the minimum 2-lanes-in-each-direction open during that time.

Oh ye of little faith... you be smart. :yesnod:

What do ya call these things?

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It's a garage, of sorts, covered with a tarp-like material. I thought it was framed with PVC pipes, but they're steel, I believe. I call 'em fake garages.

Anyway, Asshole Neighbor (the loud one, not the kittehnapper) got one to cover aaalllll the vehicles they have to have.

He's had it about two months. As you can see, the wind took issue with the structure. Actually, what you can see left of it, left with the most recent stiff breeze. I'm not sure that Beemer has any paint left on the passenger side. What was left of the roof flapped and beat against it in the wind for about two weeks. He don't know where the first bunch of wall/roof went, and he don't know where what was left went when it left, either. All that's left is the skeleton.

I damn near danced when I saw it tore to hell that morning. I don't usually revel in others' misfortune, because Karma, but this is a special situation.

Got any idea what those things cost?

My buddy has two small one car jobs, they were under $500.

Harbor Freight sells those garages pretty cheap and there are plenty of Youtube videos on how to mod them to make them more "windproof".

I'm hoping he got it at Lowe's. Theirs, that size, is about $1800.

From put up to blown away wasn't quite two months, btw.

That feeling, it's called epicaricacy.

Own it.

Use ten times and it's yours. #readersdigestwordpower

Two unrelated pics:

Max zoom, moving target, handheld not well lit. Over-sharpened in post:

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And some Bambis:

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'Nother Bambi...Maybe Aunt Ena.

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Wonder why Bambi's mother is just 'Bambi's Mother', and the other characters have names? Reminds me of 'Epstein's Mother' on Welcome Back Kotter...

Bootsy (not Fargon's, this one's mine, kinda):

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Neat mailbox:

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Laws of Photography

612. If the Sun is out, it's in the wrong place.

287. If your camera takes interchangeable lenses, you have the wrong one on the camera for any given pic.

1. Cats rarely cooperate for photo ops.

A young buck, ya can see the pedicle between his ear and eye.

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He went across the road and up the ridge. He took three full-length strides dang near straight up.

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Thanks for those pics, Grav.

Reminds me of my US trips when seeing wildlife was at the top of my list.
I remember visiting the Railroad Interpretive Centre in Douglas WY, walking around a mighty locomotive and coming face to face with a White Tail(ed) Deer.
We stood and looked at one another for what seemed like an eternity and eventually he bounded off across some nearby open land.

Happy memories!

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The deer just inside the wood line is the buck from the above post (#136).

I didn't see him when I took the pic.

Carruthers;1028445 wrote:

Thanks for those pics, Grav.

Reminds me of my US trips when seeing wildlife was at the top of my list.
I remember visiting the Railroad Interpretive Centre in Douglas WY, walking around a mighty locomotive and coming face to face with a White Tail(ed) Deer.
We stood and looked at one another for what seemed like an eternity and eventually he bounded off across some nearby open land.

Happy memories!

Most people don't take such pleasant memories from their trip to the U.S. I'm glad you enjoyed us.

And these pics.:D

Gravdigr;1028447 wrote:

Most people don't take such pleasant memories from their trip to the U.S. I'm glad you enjoyed us.

I've never met anyone who has been to the US and didn't enjoy their visit.
Air travel and the associated buggeration factor at both departure and arrival airports is a bit of a pain, but you know what you're signing up for. :D
I was fortunate enough to have visited four times but sadly I don't think that I shall be able to make a fifth trip.

Maybe I shouldn't have said 'most'... Maybe I should have said 'a lot', or 'some'.

We, the people, don't make a great impression sometimes.

Squrl peter?

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Squrl peter.

Dis a different squrl:

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Hmm...

I didn't give it to him :headshake, he had it when I met him.

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Fess up, those are paid models aren't they. :eyebrow:

I was thinking the same thing! They probably work for peanuts though.

They're high as shit all the time!

How about some [strike]Wild Turk[/strike]--I mean--wild turkey?

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Nice,

I like your pictures, Grav.

I'm glad you do.:D

Gobble Gobble!

You're getting pretty good at this, and obviously serious about it if you take your camera to the mailbox with you. I'm closing my curtains. :unsure:

Heh, I coulda worded that better, couldn't I?

I saw it (the DreamLifter) on the way back from the mailbox. I wasn't armed at the time...:)

We have another one!!

The others were named some form of Willie Whistlepig, II, III...

Ima call this one Big Bad Bill. I mean look at him...He's all "Bro, do you even lift?"

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This motherfucker did not skip leg day!

Watch for signs of roid rage!

Yeet.

Big Bad Bill again:

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Better stay away from that boys left hook.

Not really a good pic, but it's the one he/she let me get:

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I don't think he liked the giant eye (telephoto lens) ogling him/her. Every time I pointed the camera at him/her he/she took off for parts unknown.

He/she really likes that perch, it's just a few feet from the feeder.

Such a cool shot

I guess mature male ruby throat.

That's a great shot! I love taking pictures of birds. I think I've taken a total of 0 pictures this year. I need to get back out there!!

I have a great old Rollei and two good 35mm SLRS.
I use them for doorstops.

I have an old workhorse Asahi/Pentax K1000SE.

I use it for collecting dust in the top of the closet.





Sidenote:

I recently found six rolls of 35mm film. I'd use it up if I didn't think it would a PITA to get developed...

Yet another pig pic:

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Pig cute.

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Gravdigr;999577 wrote:

No one said they would be 'good' pictures.;)

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Way over-processed...

I, too, shot a heron today.

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Careful, they're a protected species.

Yes, and well camouflaged.

I'll have to take your word for it.

I can't see for shit now.

Fall.

It begins.

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That's peak right there

We are at 70% right now up heah

Aminals in m'backyard:

I first thought this was a downy woodpecker, but, due to the length of it's bill, I now think it's a hairy woodpecker. Anyway, ya can see his pecker in this pic:

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Mr. Squrl:

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This pic wasn't worth keeping, so I played with it. And then I worked on the pic.:

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Caught Rocky The Vampire Squrl at the front yard feeder:

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"Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln":

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So...Seems we have a cat...

Cellar, meet Monster(<--:D):

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I guess we belong to her now. She's adopted us in full it seems. She shows up in the yard one morning, been here ever since.

And, for the first time this century, at least...

I bought a car:

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I've known the car for several years. About 7-8 yrs ago, the woman put a new top on it, and the next year she had it painted, and . She'd had the car for years and years. Then she sold it about 18 months ago to a mutual friend, who'd done most of any mechanical work she'd ever had done. A coupla months ago he hit a Cadillac in the door, and tore off the right front of the bumper cover, tweaking the actual bumper underneath. He knew I liked the little car, and gave me first shot at it.

I call her Cherry Bomb. Cherry red on the outside, and sorta bombed out on the inside. Interior looks like what it is, a 27 year old 90's Chevrolet. Motor/trans run like a champ, a/c blows cold, power top works well. There's something weird with the rear brakes, it needs struts, and only one window rolls down (driver's, thank God).

93 Chevy Cavalier RS, btw.

Neat car.

Hello Monster. I think I like your attitude.

What a beautiful car. It’s a convertible! I see trips to the river with the top down in your future.

Hmm manopause, you got a little black pussy and ran out a bought a flashy red convertible.

I've been uber-paranoid since I bought this car. Paranoid about rain. Hail. Thieves. Wayward tree limbs.

The top is reasonably quiet. I saw a pad kit that's supposed to fit my top, that will make it even quieter, but ya have to remove the pads when ya put the top down. Thinking about getting it anyway, $149, though.

I had the twin to this car (93 Cavalier RS Convertible, red, black top, light gray interior) found in a junkyard about an hour and a half away, and was going to get a laundry list of parts off'n it, but sometime after the pics were taken, they moved the car to the crush lot, and tore the bumper cover off of it in the process. No, no I don't still want the other parts. I hope whoever moved it got fired. I got m'doubts.

I was considering getting the whole car, but, where to put it?

Cute car!
My sister had a red hardtop. It failed her in NYC and a cop bumper pushed her into Harlem. She was out of her element.

wait what?

hi cat. look Grav bought you a nice car to bask on.....

glatt;1053963 wrote:

What a beautiful car. It’s a convertible! I see trips to the river with the top down in your future.

Yeah, no. Not without a fair amount of dozer work on the road to the river from the paved road. Ain't no Cavvy gonna make that trip.
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So, I hadn't had the top down til today.

I had a 73 Scout, Popdigr had a 77 Scout, as well as a 79 CJ-5, so I've ridden/driven without a top before. I never really got 'the convertible thing', too much like a motorcycle. Too much of the time, ya can't really enjoy it, it's raining, it might rain, too hot, too cold, something.

This afternoon, I was in the back of beyond, and stopped at a stop sign. In five seconds I made the decision to put the top down. About 15 seconds later, I drove away with the top down. In less than a quarter-mile I said out loud, alone in the car, "Ok, I get it now."

I finally get 'the convertible thing'.

Thinking 'bout changing my name to Wind In His Hair (from Dances With Wolves:D)

That's the thing about ragtops, you can change your mind and put the top up or down in a minute, unless you get all preppy with a snap on boot.

Sometimes I'd leave my CJ-7's hard top at home without a soft backup... fun wet fun

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That's the thing about ragtops, you can change your mind and put the top up or down in a minute, unless you get all preppy with a snap on boot.

I'm looking for a used one.:lol2:

150 smackers, new.



I was surprised at the top up/down speed.

My truck takes 30 seconds up or down.

I give you hummer:

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And a wainbow:

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The wainbow isn't as processed as you might think. It was pretty bright against the overcast.

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I give you hummer:

Hummers aren't that smart apparently.

Pete's been getting regular thank you visits from a lady hummingbird here. neat

From falseknees:

The gladiola stem snapped, dead hummingbirds everywhere?

Hummingbirds, I tell ya.

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I ferget the name of it. I'll hafta ask Momdigr when she gets up.

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Looks like a pretty daisy to me.

Pete's guess, zinnia.

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I call her Cherry Bomb.

Hello Daddy. Hello Mom. I'm a CH-CH-CH-CHERRY BOMB!

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What did Mom say when you aster?

She's been a little under the weather the last coupla days, haven't asked her yet.

I saw what you did, btw.;)

I aster this morning and she said it was a Mexican Sunflower.

Stealing sunlight from American sunflowers, no doubt.

Some of them, I'm sure, are good flowers.

Seedy characters slipping through Trumps wall.

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Seedy characters slipping through Trumps wall.

Ouch. That left a mark.

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Some of them, I'm sure, are good flowers.

I've heard here are good flowers on both sides.