Random Picture Thread

[InspectorJon]

I was working in New Orleans after Katrina. A friend from California was talking to one of the locals about the wisdom of living where such natural disasters are a recurring event. The response was "well you have earthquakes in California". My friend responded "at least we don't have earthquake season every year". It is starting to look like we have fire season every year though.

My local view a few weeks ago:

 

[RocketBrewer]

I was working in New Orleans after Katrina. A friend from California was talking to one of the locals about the wisdom of living where such natural disasters are a recurring event. The response was "well you have earthquakes in California". My friend responded "at least we don't have earthquake season every year". It is starting to look like we have fire season every year though.

My local view a few weeks ago:
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I was actually a little closer to it than you, I'm in Garden Valley. Can sure be a little unnerving when they burn this close! Looks like another fire that can be chalked up to PG&E, the product of putting profits above public safety for decades. ABC 10 did a fantastic series about PG&E and thier actions that have caused so many Californians to loose thier homes and lives. It's called "Fire, Power, Money", and can be found on You Tube and probably channel 10's web site. Sheds a bit of light on on who the person running this state is as well.

 

[corkybstewart]

3 Rivers Petroglyph Site-what does this remind you of?

 

[camonick]

3 Rivers Petroglyph Site-what does this remind you of?View attachment 782847

 

[BongoYodeler]

3 Rivers Petroglyph Site-what does this remind you of?View attachment 782847

A beer.

 

[Pkrd]

Wedding cake.

 

[GrogNerd]

speaking of wedding cake... my mom & dad's

Feb 20, 1960

legend says there's still some left

 

[day_trippr]

Are those...google eyes?

 

[balrog]

I love the way that folks on this site can take any manner of possible image and see all manner of things in them!

 

[Tom R]

Are those...google eyes?

Google eyes, high-heeled shoes, gazebos, and picket fencing.
Epic.

 

[grampamark]

Warning label on the back of a growler from Red Lodge Ales.

 

[BongoYodeler]

SpaceX launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, carrying 55 Starlink satellites as seen from my back patio just a few minutes ago.

 

[grampamark]

 

[grampamark]

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Pic from early this year, but winter is coming...

 

[nobadays]

 

[InspectorJon]

Leviticus 23:22
‘When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the alien.

 

[balrog]

File this under “Why one might want to make one’s starter earlier in the eeek so one can crash and decant said starter”

 

[grampamark]

A friend who lives about 20 miles east of our farm posted this pic yesterday. She said that she and two young grandchildren had been out in the yard for about 2 hours. A few minutes after they went back in the house the cat showed up on the deck.

 

[ehall]

someone isn't eating well...

 

[grampamark]

someone isn't eating well...

Yeah. Looks a little scrawny.

We get quite a few critters around here which aren’t commonly seen in eastern MT. The most reasonable explanation for this is that this area is downhill/downstream from the only point of higher elevation, for many miles, which is just NW of here in the Cypress Hills which straddle the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The animals follow the drainages, which lead in this direction. We see moose and elk quite often in the summer months. They move back north in the fall. Wolves have been re introduced by the wildlife managers across the border, and they follow their dinner across the fence. Mountain lions were not reliably reported in this area until just in the last 2-3 years. One was shot about 2 miles from our farm 2 years ago. Presumably, the cats are following the same route south as the other critters.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Imma have to take some pics next time we have a bear in the village...

 

[McMullan]

Pic from early this year, but winter is coming...

Very 'refreshing' outside, when your breath starts to freeze inside your nostrils. A genuine 'WTF!' moment

 

[nobadays]

someone isn't eating well...

That's a dangerous cat. He/she is looking for a meal with little regard

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[Rodent]

 

[Rodent]

 

[Rodent]

A couple images taken while out wetting a line at sundown last night. The smoke from regional wildfires is providing for some outstanding sunsets this summer/fall

 

[soccerdad]

Catch anything?