I knew I had taken these photos on the same day, but I thought it was the same bird hours apart. I was floored to discover it was just 3 minutes.
I posted this here, rather than the Show Birds thread, because I thought it might help someone else appreciate the power and moment-to-moment...
Just went to a gem and mineral show and came back with this cute little rock made of Willemite/calcite. Quite a transformation!
(UV image has blues dialed down and red dialed up a bit to make up for the fact that I'm not using 254nm UV for the reds, because I value my eyes :)
I can't believe there's no thread about this lens yet, so I'm starting it!
I just got back from a week-long trip to visit my grandkids in Washington State, and I took them again to NW Trek, a large wildlife park that we drove through this time. It was a bit frustrating, because I hadn't...
Every year, the Placerville Friends of Tibet sponsor a small group of Tibetan Monks from Gaden Shartse Monastery (backstory here) to come to this Northern California area to painstakingly make a beautiful sand mandala over a two-week period, which is then destroyed (to illustrate the cycle of...
There seems to be no dedicated turkey thread so I thought...why not (something something Dayton Allen)? Check out these rude snoods! 😺
I giggle at this one every time, because I keep thinking of it in one of those Revolutionary War 3-cornered hats with a musket by its side:
I couldn't find a current thread for this, so I figured this would be a good time (especially for those of us in the US).
Last night, we visited our local open-air mall, hoping to catch their fireworks display. Unfortunately, there was a huge crowd (personal fireworks are banned in my county...
So last Friday I spent the afternoon with some of the fine folks at Integrazers, who have been helping to do both weed abatement and fire mitigation here in California for years by leasing their herds of goats and sheep to landowners, industrial parks, and even neighborhood HOAs. Cue cuteness...
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