Random Picture Thread

[BongoYodeler]

 

[Rodent]

cherry season has begun here in Hoptropolis

First picking of Rainiers this year, and MANY more of these to come

 

[corkybstewart]

cherry season has begun here in Hoptropolis

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First picking of Rainiers this year, and MANY more of these to come

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Those look so much better than the sour cherries a friend dropped off for us yesterday. And he just called to say he's bringing more. Rainier are by far my favorites.

 

[GrogNerd]

noticed these on a neighbor's tree the other day. figured they are some kind of cherry

 

[balrog]

The berries, flowering bushes & tress, went crazy this year.

I fear how that portends for the 5 black walnut tees in my yard, and it makes my lower back twitch

 

[Rodent]

noticed these on a neighbor's tree the other day. figured they are some kind of cherry

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I don't see a red blush on those, so likely not Rainier or Royal Anne (Queen Anne)

Might be Nugent, another variety of sweet cherries that makes a good pollinizer as well as fruit bearer

 

[balrog]

My kids know this about me already:

 

[corkybstewart]

Carcassonne

 

[GrogNerd]

digging this AI stuff.

where did the people go?

 

[GrogNerd]

I couldn't resist

 

[Ki-ri-n]

I couldn't resist

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[balrog]

 

[GrogNerd]

you don't have to outrun the bear. just have to outrun one of your friends.

I'd be so effed.

1) no friends
2) old, fat & slow

 

[El Whedo]

I took the hardtail into Cimarron Canyon State Park for some nice twistys!

 

[GrogNerd]

if you ever get to the east coast

https://tailofthedragon.com

I took the hardtail into Cimarron Canyon State Park for some nice twistys!

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[day_trippr]

And if you survive RT129 you can head up to "Motorcycle Weekend" in Laconia NH for merrymaking and mayhem...

https://laconiamcweek.com/2023_events/
Cheers!

 

[El Whedo]

The next village over just had a BIG motorcycle rally over Memorial day weekend. I skipped it like I skip all bike events. It's a good thing too because the Banditos did some bike mounted drive-bys and killed several guys, and injured more.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-mexico-motorcycle-gang-shooting-memorial-day-red-river-rally/

 

[Pkrd]

 

[Pkrd]

Now I have a headache.

 

[day_trippr]

That is so trippy.

 

[El Whedo]

We finally got up in the sixties F so I planted a blackberry and a raspberry cane in my yard.

I also gave my hardtail it's first wash, and conditioned the leather saddle and batterybox cover. As best as my butt can tell, the coefficient of friction on that saddle is approaching zero!

I changed into my hunting buckskins to stick to the saddle and take a ride.

 

[balrog]

 

[corkybstewart]

Statue of Joan of Arc crushing English soldiers in the main free parking lot in downtown Chinon.
She met the King of France in the fortress here and was given support for her army. Later the kings of France and England worked out a deal and barbecued her. Or so the story goes.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

It might be a sweaty night's sleep, almost 9 in the evening here and it don't seem like cooling down anytime soon...

 

[corkybstewart]

It might be a sweaty night's sleep, almost 9 in the evening here and it don't seem like cooling down anytime soon...

In our area of France it's been hitting 30C with very high humidity all week. But today we had a decent rain shower that dropped the temperatures and the humidity so it's very comfortable right now.

 

[corkybstewart]

 

[doug293cz]

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What's going on here? Training exercise in your vicinity?

Brew on

 

[ba-brewer]

parking enforcement

 

[lschiavo]

Russian. Looks like he's checking google maps on his phone.

 

[corkybstewart]

What's going on here? Training exercise in your vicinity?

Brew on

There's a huge armored cavalry training area just west of here and they use the back roads and small villages for training all the time. Mostly it's just a few of these tanks and some jeeps chasing each other around. A few years ago it was nighttime howitzer training from a field just down the road-that was a very, very long sleepless night.