Random Picture Thread

[balrog]

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I don't see the 16 circles in that...

 

[BongoYodeler]

I don't see the 16 circles in that...

Nope. So, what do you see?

 

[balrog]

Nope. So, what do you see?

She swims in stone.

(high wall blends with sidewalk it's beside)

 

[day_trippr]

 

[corkybstewart]

Who doesn't love the gargoyles

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[VApatriot]

here are pics of the custom made quilt our neice made for us. I think she did an awesome job. Great work Samantha!

 

[corkybstewart]

Some peaceful picturesque pics

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

The mosquitoes are waking up...

 

[corkybstewart]

The mosquitoes are waking up...
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I have killed 3 in our house but I haven't seen any outside.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

It's been dry and fairly warm for the last 10 days or so it's not that bad during daytime unless you're deep in the woods or something.
But towards evening when the sunshine is not as intense and the air cools off a little they come out to feast...

 

[corkybstewart]

It's been dry and fairly warm for the last 10 days or so it's not that bad during daytime unless you're deep in the woods or something.
But towards evening when the sunshine is not as intense and the air cools off a little they come out to feast...

In our part of France it's been anything but warm and dry-mornings are 11-13C, it rains every day(raining very hard right now).

 

[corkybstewart]

"Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair"

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

@corkybstewart we don't have any cold weather issues here atm...

 

[corkybstewart]

@corkybstewart we don't have any cold weather issues here atm...View attachment 849715

We went to the south of France and had one day that warm, but the high the next day was 13C. In our area we've had a couple of days around 20, but nothing warmer than that. It's scary that your temperature is so high so early.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

I mean, it's not really anything out of the ordinary.
You have to keep in mind that for the past month the sun has never set here, so when the summer warmth comes, it comes quick and unstoppable like a freight train.
We had the coldest winter here in about 20 years this winter so I don't really mind...

 

[day_trippr]

One of The Spousal Unit and my trips to Italy in May it snowed twice in two weeks, so I gather cold at this part of the year isn't that unusual in western Europe. Waking up to snow atop Montepulciano was not what we expected

Then we spent a week in Venice and got baked in more ways than one...

Cheers! (THAT was what we expected )

 

[balrog]

Pretty much. Yep.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

One of The Spousal Unit and my trips to Italy in May it snowed twice in two weeks, so I gather cold at this part of the year isn't that unusual in western Europe. Waking up to snow atop Montepulciano was not what we expected

Then we spent a week in Venice and got baked in more ways than one...

Cheers! (THAT was what we expected )

This have been a cold spring in most of Europe, we've definitely noticed it up here with the trees taking a bit longer to bloom and the last little bits of snow being later to melt away than usual.
Where in Italy did you stay? I and my wife went a few winters ago and stayed a few nights Florence, but what was really fun was driving around the Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna country side with no real goal and sleeping at farmstead b&b's in small mountain towns etc. You kinda experience the "real" country you visit that way.

 

[day_trippr]

We spent a few days in Rome, then drove to Montepulciano and stayed for a week in a villa above the owner's restaurant Osteri Del Conte Montepulciano right on the main street a couple blocks from the Museum Of Torture We did a lot of touring by rental car to lots of mountain top towns all over Tuscany before driving to Venice.

In Venice we stayed at the Hotel Moresco...Everything was walking or water taxi to the other islands...

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[balrog]

"made with bits of real panther"
"60% of the time, it works every time"
"that smells like pure gasoline, and I don't mean that in a good way"

 

[balrog]

My late FIL and did wood working together with me, built the cradle for my first, etc. Every time I use something of his, he still works wood with me. I love this slicer for picture frames.

 

[pvtpublic]

My late FIL and did wood working together with me, built the cradle for my first, etc. Every time I use something of his, he still works wood with me. I love this slicer for picture frames. View attachment 849948View attachment 849949

Those slicers are frickin' cool!

 

[pvtpublic]

I went to the hardware store on Friday...

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Cherry spring PA, if ya know ya know.... unfortunately I have no night time pics because I don't have the proper equipment... yet... but we had 2 clear nights and the moon was below the horizon until after 1am. The skies were incredible at a bortle scale 2.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Looks like a place that's mosquitoe city during the nights/evenings and cloudy, damp weather.
Reminds me of where I live...

 

[balrog]

Cherry spring PA, if ya know ya know.... unfortunately I have no night time pics because I don't have the proper equipment... yet... but we had 2 clear nights and the moon was below the horizon until after 1am. The skies were incredible at a bortle scale 2.
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Looks great. And in all my years of owning a telescope I'd never heard of a bortle scale.
[Edit: Ah, it did not exist until 2001, that makes more sense that I missed it in Sky & Tel]

 

[Dimax]

Cherry spring PA, if ya know ya know.... unfortunately I have no night time pics because I don't have the proper equipment... yet... but we had 2 clear nights and the moon was below the horizon until after 1am. The skies were incredible at a bortle scale 2.
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[Dimax]

This is supposed to happen this month "Parade of Plants"

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Looks like a place that's mosquitoe city during the nights/evenings and cloudy, damp weather.
Reminds me of where I live...

They actually weren't horrible, it was in the low 40f which helped

 

[balrog]

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

I used to get these guys on our bedroom sliding door all the time, but it's been a couple years. Last night they dropped in for a visit, don't mind the glass that desperately needs cleaning, it was right after a heavy rain.

 

[Rish]

^^frog porn?

 

[day_trippr]

Only to another frog

 

[balrog]

Now now. No judging.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

My wife has a deep love for frogs, I'll leave it at that.

 

[GrogNerd]

my mom loved frogs. I inherited most of her frog tchotchke collection & have a few of my own.

why I do things like this with AI.

introducing... FrogNerd

 

[day_trippr]

Flyfishing friend posted this, from https://www.facebook.com/alexlexobx1

 

[balrog]