Friday Night Photos - Snowiest February Ever edition
Submitted by Bollox Ref on Fri, 03/01/2019 - 5:46pm
And more coming down this first day of March. There must be about two feet sitting on the ground, going nowhere fast.
Anyway, here's the latest from the Grubble Telescope. Apparently, this is the first shot of the farthest reaches of Donald Trump's 'mind':
And here's a shot of warmer times:
Shoveling duty beckons........
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Great shot of grump's mind
Looks like Elon Musk may have sent a McDonalds frappe out in his Tesla and it got away...
good luck with the shoveler
question everything
The shot from the Grubble
suggests that this part of his 'mind' calcified several billion years ago.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
I would have thought
a picture of DJT' mind would be a blank image.
This Red Shouldered hawk made a brief visit to my backyard the other day.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Oh wow
Great shot of the bird.
that is a beautiful bird
something in the eye appears to mean serious business
guess they don't smile much?
question everything
Most shots of this particular celestial body
have suggested nothing more than a white hole, but this latest communication from the Grubble indicates that there was some sort of cranial activity many eons ago.
Very pleasing shot of the bird. We once had a bald eagle sitting on a branch of our elm in the front garden. As I was standing directly below it, a run for a camera didn't seem quite the thing to do. They are rather large up close.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
great pix S.P.!
Great Red-shoulder pix S.P.! The California race or subspecies is "elegans", and they are the brightest prettiest Red-shoulders. Wonderful photos!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Trinidad, CA
Our snow is all gone after we had a heat wave. Abby is bummed.
With all the snow
and a possible March warm up, flooding might be our future.
Nice seascape.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Thanks
I've forgotten where your located? Do you normally get this much snow?
great pic SD!
Great pic SD, I love it. Can't quite make out the bird, but for arts sake it doesn't matter, it is a great composition.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Thanks
I spent two weeks on the coast and every day was just incredible and I had just gotten my first digital camera. I think that bird was a hawk or falcon? But I'm not good with recognizing them.
UFO ID
It kinda strikes me as a Turkey Vulture. Which is shaped like a big hawk. I guess it could be a Red-tailed Hawk, but seems a bit off in shape, more like a Vulture, or dare I say, an eagle. I don't see much of a head projecting which leans TV over hawk or eagle. Falcons have very pointed triangular wings and a long narrow tail, built for speed... These broad wings are that of a soarer.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
See?
I'm lousy at knowing what birds I'm seeing. Thanks for trying to identify it. How long have you been doing birding? Must take lots of time knowing what you're seeing. I used to know names of trees when I was doing bonsai, but those files have been rewritten over.
I birded all my life
and like a fool squandered the rest... I have been birding since I could walk, maybe before, which is roughly just after middle of the last century. My genetic defect extends to nearly all aspects of natural history and nature, the environment and ecosystems. I study anything that moves, save upright bipedal hominids. Butterflies and dragonflies are two of my favorite other terrestrial groups. I also do fish and marine invertebrates.
A secret to bird ID is to focus on a few key things. The 3 S's: size, shape and structure is one. Bill and feet shape and structure to get it in right family. Then behavior, or habits. What it does. These are what allows birds to be ID'd at what seem magical distances to novices. Go to a hawk watch and watch them ID hawks at a mile in a few seconds. At a seawatch we call birds a couple miles out while scoping (telescoping).
You can ID your friend at the airport by how he walks. Same with birds when you learn them. Plus all have unique calls and voices, just like we all do too. Every hawk or shorebird, is actually minutely shaped differently and acts differently because it makes a living in a different way.
There are local Audubon Society chapters in every decent sized town with free walks led by experts that I guarantee anyone would have a blast on, and there are great photo ops.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
It was the snowiest February ever in Tucson, Arizona.
Our back patio last Friday:
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
I'll trade you......
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
lol!
That's a lot of snow. This is what our winters used to be like, but it's been awhile since we've had that much. The weather patterns sure have changed. Good news for California though. The drought is over for most of the state.
I don't even want to tell you what I did today.
OK, I will. It was 75 degrees today and we had a Celebration of Spring.
I made a mesquite fire in that brick barbecue and grilled a couple of New York steaks on the coals.
I made a Pico de Gallo salsa for the steaks and some charro beans. It was delish, Spring is here.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Where is all this snow falling?
And even in March?
The ruling classes need an extra party to make the rest of us feel as if we participate in democracy. That's what the Democrats are for. They make the US more durable than the Soviet Union was.
Minnesota.
It's been several years since we've had this much snow on the ground. I think it's hip-deep in our backyard now; I had to have a path skid-loaded out just to get to the bird feeders. I don't remember ever seeing the gas tank nearly entirely buried.
This shit is bananas.
Great pix everyone!
Sorry about the snow B.R.! Been there done that, got the only snow shovel in my southern county no doubt. They don't even recognize it here. They think it is a (Arma)dillo scoop.
Donald Trumps mind: moron or oxymoron?
I got this brain analysis... due to your great detailed Grubble photo. The thinking part is clearly absent, and only the lizard brain remains. There is no gray matter whatsoever. The spirit and concience also appear to be missing. The pink band is that slime from too many Big Macs, the blue band is Fox News.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Armadillo scoop
That made me chuckle. Reminds me of driving through the south and seeing roadkill armadillos, with all four feet sticking up.
This shit is bananas.
armadillos are not adapted to cars
when an armadillo sees headlights, it gets so terrified that it jumps straight up in the air and gets slammed by a car that would otherwise have passed right over it.
question everything
The armadillo does look very shy there,
and easily terrified. An amazingly animated looking, for being still, photo.
this is an interesting theory on roadkill
just posted another link at a different essay...
a bit off topic
cheers
question everything
There’s lots of fascinating information
in this article to be considered.It’s so interesting to reflect on the intersections of nature and culture. Thank you for the read. I will spend more time with it.
Yeah, I thought the live link diagram was pretty good
question everything
that sounds like the angry winds we get round these parts
threatening, aggressive and down right pissed off
if you can attribute personality traits to nature's power
meant to reply to snoop's lonely wind comment. oops
question everything
Roadkill dillos - I got a Ph.D. in 'em
Roadkill dillos are abundant in Texas. For decades, a practice which declined greatly after the open container laws were enacted in the mid-1980's here, it was customary to stop and turn the armadillo over on its back, leaned up against rock, and place an empty Lone Star beer bottle between his paws. I saw dozens of these around Texas in the 80's. I have seen stuffed mounted versions for sale, complete with Lone Star beer bottle. Often with red bandanas and little cowboy hats of course, sometimes a holster.
Interesting though is that of all the delicious roadkill, dillos are the vultures animal of last choice. They will fight over an old hide and some bones before they will go over to that fresh killed dillo. Only hungry vultures eat them, both Turkey and Black. People do eat them a bit in the south, said to be greasy like possum (important to know), and the source of the 20 or so cases of Leprosy per year in the U.S., all handled fresh killed dillos. Estimated 20% of the population carries it.
We have them in the yard and they will tear your garden and flower beds to shreds. It all has to be dillow/rabbit/deer/pig fenced here. They are a nightmare if you want to grow stuff. You can bounce a .22 round off them too, at nearly point blank. They will grunt in disgust. They only invaded the U.S. from the south since about the 1950's or so, via Texas.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Garden fencing
Here it's rabbits, raccoons, skunks and opossums we have to keep out. We even put traps by the garden last year; caught a couple of 'coons in them.
Interesting, I didn't know about the leprosy thing.
I certainly wouldn't want to risk eating an armadillo! Thanks for the info.
This shit is bananas.
Thanks for the pix all!
Here are a few...
Here is one of the pink Anemone (aka Wind-flower) flowers I hardly ever see.
Here is a Black Rock Squirrel, one of the Ground Squirrels, not a tree squirrel like Fox, Red, or Gray Squirrel. They are actually kinda clumsy in the trees but can't resist fresh buds just breaking stems in spring.
Here is a crop of its head which I liked despite horrible light because that bad light lit up the monofilament like whiskers causing them to refract colors. Apparently I was at just the right wrong angle.
This is a little baby toad just over an inch long that wintered around the back porch. Methinks a Red-spotted Toad, juveniles can be tricky.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
We have a little toad house in the back garden
Once in a while a toad ponders new habitation.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Very cool close up of the whiskers
Was it just the reflection that colored them?
I am virtually certain it is refraction
I am confident this is refraction. The whiskers are clearish, the light enters them and is bent much like a prism. So not reflection, which is light just bouncing off them. It shows lots more to me, the quality reduction here took a lot of it away. But in places as the whisker bends the color does too, due to the angle changing. So refraction. As in iridescence.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Here's Fred
Waiting for his next talk show guest.....
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
He's probably wondering
Why you're looking at him that way. And what's with the camera, dude? Lol.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Fred is still photogenic
Love the way he composes himself around your house.
Oh my goodness!
His eyes are enchanting. Handsome boy!
This shit is bananas.
So, that's where he learned to pose ...
"Fred waiting for the next talk show host"
Actually he often looks more reposed and composed than anything else, looking quite satisfied, even if he is sometimes bored by the tv host. Is purfleet still acting immune?
gorgeous light snow falling on a windless night,
under black skies behind rink lights ... and i went and pulled a damned groin muscle.
shoulda been out chasing skirts instead of pucks, i guess.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
ouch!
I think both can lead to a pulled groin? I know it sounds crazy but most ladies are actually less dangerous than a speeding puck.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
i admit, if i had to pull a groin muscle, i'd rather
it involved skirts than pucks.
but pucks are a close second.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
What an entertaining POT to come home to!
Maybe we should rename it ‘Friday Photography and Other Entertaining Stuff’. From the return of the Grubble carrying Trump’s cranial matter, to mesquite barbecues and poetic nights with pucks, damn.
And of course the photos. Thanks all and enjoy the weekend.
You know it's still winter
And last weekend we had a nasty blizzard. A foot of snow blown around by 30 mph winds. Temps sunk to -17°F. Winds chills dropped so low that exposed skin could freeze in less than five minutes.
The way to survive is to stay indoors where it is warm. Looking out my office window as the cloud cover broke up, the beauty and power of a winter storm had me reaching for a video camera. Enjoy.
The sound of the lonely wind
Brrr. The video makes me cold just watching it. I bet with the wind chill it was below -30 or more. Guess I won't complain about the skiff of snow we got today.
WE have a row of pines
close to the house that really start howling at about 12 mph. It's a warning not to actually go out into that. Did you see those young men trying to shovel snow? Did you notice scoops of snow being just atomized by the wind? Trust me kids, there is nothing worth risking frostbite to shovel snow—even if it is just an excuse to get out of the house.
Unless you live on a farm
with animals that you have to go outside to care for. It still sucks though. If I had my druthers I would stay inside until it was safe to go out again. Half the year is too cold and snowy/icy, the other half is hot and humid. Ugh. As much as I complain about it I'd still rather be in MN than anywhere else though.
This shit is bananas.
Even taking care of animals is
often rewarding in winter. A barn full of cows was often the warmest place on a farm during a cold snap.
I agree that Minnesota winters are to be enjoyed. For most of my life, my winter activity of choice has been reading. Minnesota public libraries are superb. I cannot recall being unable to get any book I wanted to read.
Snow is much more beautiful in March than in November—mostly because there is so much more light. With all the snow we have this year, I hope it warms up very slowly.