lordmarcovan Posted April 25 · Member Author Share Posted April 25 16 hours ago, jdmKY said: Last week my wife and I were in the Netherlands and saw the tulips. Added bonus - dinner with Martinus who brought several of his Antony fleet coins for me to see. Amazing shots! Thank you! The tulips in particular are stunning. 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benefactor Ancient Coin Hunter Posted April 25 · Benefactor Benefactor Share Posted April 25 On 4/22/2024 at 10:23 AM, Phil Anthos said: I love the Cascades. My wife and I used to hunt waterfalls, so we spent a lot of time exploring the mountains from Mt Shasta to Mt Baker. Being retired now my life revolves almost entirely around my boy Repo. He's an 11 year old flat coated retriever who rescued me when he was 10 months. At that time he had already been adopted and returned twice, hence the name. 🙂 Mt. Baker is about 30 miles away, the North and South Sisters, both with glaciers, are about 15 miles away. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted April 25 · Member Share Posted April 25 Mt Baker in Washington is about 250 north of me. The Sisters in Oregon are about 100 miles to the southeast. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordmarcovan Posted April 28 · Member Author Share Posted April 28 (edited) This happens fairly often when I’m texting or typing in bed, and lay my phone down for a moment. Edited April 28 by lordmarcovan The usual typos 4 1 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qcumbor Posted April 28 · Supporter Share Posted April 28 (edited) Some shots taken in our garden, and the hill seen from our garden late afternoon in autumn Q Edited April 28 by Qcumbor 11 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordmarcovan Posted April 29 · Member Author Share Posted April 29 (edited) On 4/21/2024 at 8:17 PM, lordmarcovan said: This guy was seen near our local Waffle House today. Big ‘un! (Not my photo- wife saw it on Facebook. I don’t get the juicy neighborhood news like she does, since I closed my FB account.) Heee’s baaack! Edited April 29 by lordmarcovan 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeandAcre Posted April 29 · Member Share Posted April 29 Yipe. Just hope that he doesn't mess with anyone's, um, for one, cats. ...They're about to start reintroducing grizzlies into the North Cascades. Grizzlies get to be on their own scale, literally and otherwise. (And they will outrun you!) ...Thank you, the North Cascades aren't just rural; they're the nearest to wilderness anywhere in Washington state. Kind of called for, especially in that case. But, to further wallow in the obvious, when wilder members of our extended family show up in towns, it's always because they've frankly (/been) run out of more appropriate habitat. When that happens, the most I ever learned is to at least be as chill toward them as they are by temperament. ...At least when they're not hungry! If this guy is even still in the neighborhood, both sides are doing something right. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordmarcovan Posted April 29 · Member Author Share Posted April 29 The ideal theme song for that alligator: https://youtu.be/dBN86y30Ufc?si=ZvuFzIy8OJu_fHpi 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordmarcovan Posted May 5 · Member Author Share Posted May 5 Wild roses on the back fence. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordmarcovan Posted May 5 · Member Author Share Posted May 5 Just now: Grace the Dachshund tried to escape having her ears cleaned, but Bean held her down. 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted May 5 · Member Share Posted May 5 Now I know where they grow... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordmarcovan Posted May 5 · Member Author Share Posted May 5 (edited) Just now: high tide in the Marshes of Glynn, shot from a moving car window at 55 MPH. (*Ladymarcovan is driving. I’m the passenger.) Edited May 5 by lordmarcovan 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akeady Posted May 5 · Supporter Share Posted May 5 (edited) I was in an anechoic chamber a while back, testing our MEMS microphone ADC. Fun day 😄 ATB, Aidan. Edited May 6 by akeady Fix photos 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordmarcovan Posted May 6 · Member Author Share Posted May 6 (edited) 53 minutes ago, akeady said: I was in an anechoic chamber a while back, testing our MEMS microphone ADC. Fun day 😄 ATB, Aidan. Are those pointy bits like foam rubber? I’d be powerless to prevent myself from playing with them and squooshing them every which way and bouncing myself off the walls, and other kidlike behavior they would likely frown upon. (I never fully grew up in some ways.) Edited May 6 by lordmarcovan Correcting autocorrect “correction”- it constantly changes “in” to “on”. Grrr. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonshaw Posted May 6 · Supporter Share Posted May 6 My main research interest is electrum Lydia lions, pre-Croesus. This lion decided to pay me a visit and got into my chicken coop the other day. He wouldn't leave until he had his fill, no matter how much noise I made. Not my favorite lion. mlione.mp4 1 5 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akeady Posted May 6 · Supporter Share Posted May 6 9 minutes ago, lordmarcovan said: Are those pointy bits like foam rubber? I’d be powerless to prevent myself from playing with them and squooshing them every which way and bouncing myself off the walls, and other kidlike behavior they would likely frown upon. (I never fully grew up on some ways.) They're soft - somewhat like the stuff used in flower arranging. You'd damage them if you bounced off the walls 😄 It's an impressive room which is also a Faraday Cage, so no 'phone reception or other radio reception inside. I was assured that the door opens from the inside and it did 😄 ATB, Aidan. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvk Posted May 6 · Member Share Posted May 6 (edited) Last summer was hot and arid. Happy to see some of our plants start coming up: Edited May 6 by rvk 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordmarcovan Posted May 11 · Member Author Share Posted May 11 The Northern Lights in Southern Georgia! (We're just a stone's throw from the Florida border.) Ladymarcovan was excited. She’d never seen them before. (I saw them once in Maine.) She said that checks one off her bucket list without even leaving home. This is her pic, from our front yard. She has a newer iPhone. (Mine would’ve just shot a black rectangle.) My friends in Western North Carolina captured some even more dramatic shots: 10 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPK Posted May 11 · Supporter Share Posted May 11 Yes we saw them here too, in central MO! A beautiful sight. Crazy that you got to see it even farther south! Last Wednesday we experienced some truly torrential rainfall - got about 5" of rain in an hour and a half. Plus hail - not terribly large, but more than I've ever experienced. There was some major flash flooding throughout the area. Later that evening, we walked down the road to a bridge and saw that the water had been over the guard rails - probably about 10' above the water level by then, which was still very high. There were quite a few places where it had scoured the gravel road surface clean down to the 6" base layer, and even washed some of that out, too, leaving huge drifts of gravel/sand out in the middle of the fields. 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordmarcovan Posted May 11 · Member Author Share Posted May 11 (edited) 3 hours ago, CPK said: Yes we saw them here too, in central MO! A beautiful sight. Crazy that you got to see it even farther south! This featured photo on https://spaceweather.com shows the aurora in Big Pine Key, on the southernmost tip of Florida! And according to that page, it was also seen in Puerto Rico, for the first time in more than a century! Edited May 11 by lordmarcovan 7 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegandron Posted May 16 · Supporter Share Posted May 16 On 4/29/2024 at 1:04 AM, JeandAcre said: Yipe. Just hope that he doesn't mess with anyone's, um, for one, cats. ...They're about to start reintroducing grizzlies into the North Cascades. Grizzlies get to be on their own scale, literally and otherwise. (And they will outrun you!) ...Thank you, the North Cascades aren't just rural; they're the nearest to wilderness anywhere in Washington state. Kind of called for, especially in that case. But, to further wallow in the obvious, when wilder members of our extended family show up in towns, it's always because they've frankly (/been) run out of more appropriate habitat. When that happens, the most I ever learned is to at least be as chill toward them as they are by temperament. ...At least when they're not hungry! If this guy is even still in the neighborhood, both sides are doing something right. Lived in Beaverton, OR, outside of Portland for a few years. Spent a lot of time in the Cascades from N Cal up to N Wash. Gorgeous part of the Country. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegandron Posted May 16 · Supporter Share Posted May 16 On 4/28/2024 at 6:43 AM, Qcumbor said: Some shots taken in our garden, and the hill seen from our garden late afternoon in autumn Q Gorgeous, Cuke. My wife used to do a lot of Macro Photography. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegandron Posted May 16 · Supporter Share Posted May 16 On 4/24/2024 at 1:08 PM, Phil Anthos said: In 1998 some friends of mine started a community garden at another friend's house not to far from me. I saw this as an opportunity to do something I'd always wanted to do, stand some really big stones on their end. My wife and I had recently watched a show on PBS about the stones at Stonehenge and the great obelisk at Alexandria, with two groups putting their theories to practice and I thought "we could do that". So I spoke with a friend who was a rigger for a local power company, and another who was a geological engineer. We decided we could do it, but we wanted to erect the stones with no modern equipment. A year later we erected the uprights (14 tons of columnar basalt), and 15 months after that we placed the lintel, (3.5 tons of granite). All this was done with ropes and simple pulleys, and a LOT of volunteers pulling on the ropes! Over the next decade we added smaller stones around to make a circle It was one hell of an experience which none of us will ever forget. ~ Peter NO WAY! I thought only ALIENS could do that! 😄 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegandron Posted May 16 · Supporter Share Posted May 16 Indy contemplating Ancient Coins, just being a typical disapproving Corgi... Dixie just hanging out (she is not the sharpest tool in the shed...) Dixie after being shorn 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Anthos Posted May 16 · Member Share Posted May 16 2 hours ago, Alegandron said: NO WAY! I thought only ALIENS could do that! 😄 You're point? ~ 👽 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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