Random Picture Thread

[grampamark]

Green grass and a rainbow. It must finally be spring on the frozen tundra.

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[GrogNerd]

can't believe we just saw Kix for the very last time

(date is incorrect. last show will be September 17)

 

[BongoYodeler]

I'd honestly have no idea what to expect here....

 

[BongoYodeler]

Umm...

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[pvpeacock]

 

[pvpeacock]

 

[balrog]

Technology plays an important part in modern agriculture.

 

[balrog]

Umm...

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[beermanpete]

 

[day_trippr]

So many questions...

 

[balrog]

 

[grampamark]

Deviled eggs?

 

[GrogNerd]

I'd suggest giving the man back his red Swingline

 

[BongoYodeler]

I'd suggest giving the man back his red Swingline

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Hard to imagine that's the same guy. The mark of a great actor.

 

[GrogNerd]

Hard to imagine that's the same guy. The mark of a great actor.

the mark of a man 24 years older

still a great actor. loved him on Justified

 

[grampamark]

 

[day_trippr]

Have had lots of time over the last 10 days observing "nature" around the property while waiting to get this stupid leg brace off. The annual Eastern Phoebe nest building under our 2nd story deck proceeded to where the "Missus" had one nest all set to go only to discover a parasite House Finch had dropped some eggs in it. So she immediately abandoned that nest to build a second, and as of today she had totally over-achieved in the egg laying department.

Meanwhile - no pictures of this - a Robin had built a nest in the crown of a foundation shrub barely 3 feet from a bedroom window and had hatched five chicks last Thursday. Things were proceeding well until the nest was apparently raided and emptied by a hawk this morning, leaving a single feather below.

Then all day today we've had a fantastic maple tree spinner fall - just clouds of the spinners coming down like snow - and collecting in windrows on our little pond. I looked out there around noon and there were two pairs of Mallards scooping the seeds off the surface like so much candy. And an hour later noticed a Canada Goose couple with their half-dozen kiddies had walked to our pond from one a 1/4 mile north (as is pretty common here) and stopped by for dining and rest.

Not a great pic shot from 100 feet away. One Mallard couple is to the right of the geese and goslings.

To top off the afternoon's wildlife entertainment a local River Otter traveled through the street drain from the same pond the geese had walked from and popped out of the overflow pipe to tour the pond for a snack. All the birds got out of the water until the otter left, which wasn't long as the otters had cleaned out pretty much everything in the pond weeks ago...

Cheers!

 

[grampamark]

This bald eagle was surveying its domain from a tree just before the intersection where we turn to enter the subdivision where our daughter and SIL live.

 

[jschein]

 

[balrog]

Some synapse in my brain fired and made me think of this:

 

[InspectorJon]

@jschein

 

[Dland]

Willow tree I've been keeping shaped for a while, next to the hops. The ones on the pole near the tree that are already up the pole are Cascade, no surprise.

 

[InspectorJon]

The ones on the pole near the tree that are already up the pole are Cascade, no surprise.

Growing hops on a pole seems pretty simple…how do you get them down from the top?

 

[Dland]

Growing hops on a pole seems pretty simple…how do you get them down from the top?

The tall bamboo poles with lines on them are strapped to the shorter locust poles in a way that they can be lowered to horizontal position when it is time to harvest.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Best store name ever???

 

[grampamark]

Normally, we can see to infinity and beyond from our yard. The smoke from the fires in the Great White North have reduced the visibility considerably. What appears to be the horizon in this pic is about 1/4 mile away.

 

[Dland]

Liking the picture and local insite, not that you have to deal w smoke.

 

[balrog]

Yup.

'Bout sums it up.

 

[day_trippr]

Such a deal!

 

[corkybstewart]

Yup.

'Bout sums it up.

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I thought that was Taco Bell?

 

[balrog]

I thought that was Taco Bell?

THat's for explosively unloaded bowel.

 

[corkybstewart]

Home sweet French home. We've got the interior done, this summer we focus on the exterior and landscaping. Starting with a metric ton of weeds to pull

 

[balrog]

Home sweet French home. We've got the interior done, this summer we focus on the exterior and landscaping. Starting with a metric ton of weeds to pull

Those look like flowers, not weeds.

Me
AKA Husband Who Manages To Pull Flowers Not Weed All The Time

 

[corkybstewart]

Those look like flowers, not weeds.

Me
AKA Husband Who Manages To Pull Flowers Not Weed All The Time

Those are flowers, native and non native poppies mostly. The really bad weeds are on the backside of the garage. My FIL put a layer of asphalt on the courtyard that causes flooding into the old farm kitchen so my pickaxe and I will bust that up. We'll build a short wall and bring in topsoil to level the courtyard so rain soaks in instead of running off.

 

[balrog]

 

[balrog]

Now that takes me back.

Can't you read the sign?

 

[day_trippr]

For youngun's...

And the sign said
"Long-haired freaky people
Need not apply"
So I tucked my hair up under my hat
And I went in to ask him why
He said, "You look like a fine upstandin' young man
I think you'll do"
So I took off my hat and said, "Imagine that
Huh, me workin' for you"
Whoa

Sign, sign
Everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery
Breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that
Can't you read the sign?
...

Signs
Song by Five Man Electrical Band
1971

Cheers!

 

[Dland]

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I agree, but if one does not have common sense too, lessons learned won't likely be applied anyway. ;]