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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.

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Amazing shots!  Thank you!  The tulips in particular are stunning.

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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.  🙂

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Mt. Baker is about 30 miles away, the North and South Sisters, both with glaciers, are about 15 miles away.

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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.)

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Heee’s baaack!

 

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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.

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53 minutes ago, akeady said:

I was in an anechoic chamber a while back, testing our MEMS microphone ADC.

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Fun day 😄

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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.)

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Correcting autocorrect “correction”- it constantly changes “in” to “on”. Grrr.
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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.

 

 

 

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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 😄

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Aidan.

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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.)

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My friends in Western North Carolina captured some even more dramatic shots:


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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.

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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!

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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.

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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

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Gorgeous, Cuke.  My wife used to do a lot of Macro Photography.

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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 

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NO WAY!  I thought only ALIENS could do that!  😄

 

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