Friday Night Photos Small World vol 6 Edition
Happy Friday everyone. I hope everybody is doing well. As always, post any photos, memes, or music you like.
It's been a hot one this week. On Tuesday the thermometer on my patio hit 100°. The high temps sparked a nearby wildfire requiring the use of 3 aircraft (2 helo's and a tanker) as well as ground equipment to put out. The flames were visible from my house. Thankfully there were no Santa Ana winds so the fire was quickly contained and extinguished. This is the fourth time in the seven years I've been living in this house there has been a fire that close. Between fires, floods, droughts, extreme cold and other weather events, no matter where you live in the world these days, it's never a dull moment with Mother Nature.
On a less dramatic note, I spent a little time in the rose garden at Balboa Park Tuesday morning photographing the little critters.
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Larger world
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What’s Sam so excited about?
The sheep covered the road in front of us and we had to creep along in the middle of them. Took about 20 minutes to get clear of them, but Sam just loved watching them. I couldn’t get a decent photo because of the light and the windshield was smeared.
This didn’t quite capture how cool this scene was and I’ve manipulated the scene a bit. This is in Wyoming and I could dream of how many buffalo there were back when they roamed the plains.
I forgot to post this.
Great photos SP even though insects are not my favorites. A friend who lives on an island outside Washington the state says that her area has been invaded by the catapilars this year.
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Hi, snoopy
Thanks for your images from the large world. Love the perspective of Sam in the car mirror. Hope the snow in the high country has finally melted. I know how much you like to get up there.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
There is still lots of snow on the peaks
but none where I was and some people who helped me with a big problem said that they were camping much higher and there was no snow there.
I took this last week and it is very unusual for any snow to be left on the west facing mountain in July. There’s a little bit on the right side of the peak. The backside has even more.
I forgot to look to see if it’s gone now.
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All that green looks inviting
Around here most everything is brown this time of year.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
I remember the brown of California
Going over the Altamount pass in the spring when everything is nice and green and then in the autumn it’s all brown. On my first trip to California in the 80's I think we drove from Santa Clara to Santa Rosa and it was all brown then.
The mountains do turn brown by fall and then bright red and then white if we’re lucky. I dreaded moving back to Utah, but now I wouldn’t leave again. It just has so much to offer.
I’m sure you remember that during your trips to Morgan? I love that area and wish I could move there. I’m always amazed at how much the mountains there change. From green ones to the limestone or granite to the sandstone ones up by Echo. Are you per chance going to visit your brother again any time soon?
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I know I'll be in Utah
again in Oct. 2025. I'm not sure If I'll get out there before that.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Hi snoopy and Sam
I love the coloured layers of your photo from Wyoming.
The picture lost clarity during the upload
There is a large group of cows just under the trees and the hill is much steeper than it shows here. I knew that I wouldn’t be able to capture it right and again wished that I could draw. The ridge extends lots further to the right, but those pictures came out even worse.
Love your new abstract photo. I’m glad you didn’t explain it so we could decide what it is.
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Thanks for hosting SP
Model railway........
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Hi, BR
Nice shot of the model railway. Where did you take this?
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Hi Bollox
You have a knack of transforming a sort of dreary looking city into something of great interest. I like the composition and geometry of the photo , and its subtle colours as well.
Hi Social
That second fly is other-worldly. Your detail shows its segments in such an interesting way. Thank you.
Hi, Janis
That fly was a first time find for me. I'm hoping dystopian can ID it.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Hi everyone
This is whatever you want it to be
Have a good weekend all and be well.
I don't know what I want it to be
but I do know it's interesting. What exactly is it?
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Hi Janis!
Hey J! Great image as always. And great advice, be whatever you want to be!
For the 'main thing' I am going with lines of dripping water. The white areas look like a light and reflection thereof. Final answer for the whole shebang.
It is just as neat to see something you can't figure out, as something you can. Good work!
Take care!
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
Yeah, I got the water drips part
maybe pebbles and a blossom - a mystery
good image imagination Janis B!
Thanks Q
At this point I don't dare say what it is ; ).
It is manna from heaven ...
Great images from all of you. Thank you all. What a relief to what I see here in my woods on the news.
Be well and healthy, all.
Hi mimi
I've very much enjoyed the responses all have offered.
Your response is so much a reflection of your warm and loving self.
Hi dystopian
I love that you took the obscurity to a very sweet and affirming place - "be whatever you want to be".
Thank you
hmmm...
cactus?
Interesting joe
that was one image that came to mind when I saw the image on screen.
I'm gonna be strange...
err strangER than normal. Is it black leather or vinyl or something clothing and jewelry? Yea, that is strange. My punk is showing.
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
Sima,
your Punk-self is so close.
Cheers!
A woman dressed for a formal occasion
by wearing a beautiful sparkling black dress and jacket, a beautiful pin, seated at a table with a glass top, and a lucky photographer who happened along.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
It must be time to reveal
I hope you're all not too disappointed.
It is a black velvet dress, with sparkling glass buttons, shaped like a flower, down the side. It was my mother's dress, which I wore once or twice and use for a background drop to some photos.
Hi all, Hey SP!
Hi all, Hey SP!
Hope it's all good out there... I hate those fires, why I never moved into the chaparral foothills and their wonderful canyons. It is an awesome habitat, built on a fire cycle. Glad it didn't get too close!
I think that second down pic of the fly, the narrow-waisted fuzzy-butt fly, might be one of the fruit flies, as Platysomatidae (family) and maybe genus Revellia or somesuch. Of which they know just about nothing. Picture-winged flies can look similar. The one above the butterfly is a Crane Fly of course (family Tipulidae). Birds love them. Not sure on the butterfly, It is a sulphur of some sort (family Pieridae), and looks fairly like Little Yellow but I did not think they were found in CA. Maybe they are now. Giant Swallowtail was not known there until the 1980's and is now widespread and common. I would go moth, not butterfly on the cat.
Anyway, awesome shots as always. Great bug work man! Good music too! Thanks for the OT!
have gooduns all!
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
Hi, dystopian
As long as there's no Santa Ana winds the wildfires are easily contained. If the winds are up, all bets are off. It's much like living in hurricane or tornado country, you hope they don't happen, but when they do you cope with it the best you can.
I don't know how large fruit flies get, this fly was noticeably larger than a Blue/Green Bottle fly.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Hi pixelators
Howdy y'all!
Here is a quick something I saw today.
It is a juvenile Tricolored Heron. Formerly known as Louisiana Heron. Common all along the Gulf coasts, and along S.E. Atlantic. Rare soon going inland though, and especially in the hill country of central Texas. I had not seen one here in over a decade, so a fun find here. The adult loses the rufous chestnut on neck and wing, this plumage is only held by young birds about a year at most. This one still has downy filoplumes in places, so has only very recently fledged for them to not have all worn off yet. I have a slide of one from FL with a black and yellow Seaside Dragonlet dragonfly in its beak which it stabbed out of the air!
Have good ones all, countin' on ya!
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
Nice shots of the Tri-colored Heron, dystopian
I haven't seen any here, but they do reside along the US-Mexican border, so I'm hoping one day I'll see one.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
south moving north
Hi SP! Here is more than you wanted to know about them...
In the 1960's and 70's less than one Tricol. Heron per year occurred in California. We would chase them to see one. It was a real rary. Nearest populations were western Mexico. It is an interesting situation with that group of herons that were formerly closest to CA in western Mexico. Tricolored Heron, Little Blue Heron, Reddish Egret, and Yellow-crowned Night-Heron. Starting about the 90's they all started occurring more frequently in socal. Now they are all regular, the YCNH nesting now, and I think Little Blue has a few times too. All have expanded north from Mexican populations. As have Black Skimmer and Elegant Tern, both also formerly rare in socal, nearest nesting in western Mexico, both now also breeding a couple decades. South is moving North at an incredible pace actually and the expansion of bird populations is a great way to document it.
I see occasional reports of all these herons/egrets around the San Diego Bay area. The I think maybe its a yahoo groups for San Diego Birding that has current sightings of whatever is going on there, and a great way to know exactly where something is, in real time.
I'll look into the fly more...
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 for the info, dystopian
Two paragraphs is definitely not more than I need to know. Now, if it had been 100 pages, that would be another story.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
You have wonderful visitors
I'm sure you never get lonely ; ).
looking again at the Heron
your photo resembles a sculpture, and displays it's steady and intense concentration.
The green bug
crawling out of the rose has an amazing looking eye
Thanks for the close-ups!
Hi, QMS.
The green bug is a Grasshopper, and yes, it does have some amazing looking eyes.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
I'm shyly posting this..
Inspired by Janis! This is the sand at Kallaloch beach. Took the pic years ago, and just found it again!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
Hi, Sima
No need to be shy about posting that photo. It's an excellent shot of patterns and textures. Glad you found it again.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.
Hi Sima
Those are beautiful sand shapes and textures. I find it fascinating to consider what created them. My first thought was wind blown footsteps, but then I thought they're too uniform and sculptural. Anyway I figure wind has something to do with the image. Thank you for posting.
The pic is from a part of the beach
that is near a river outflow. Maybe the design was made by some ebb and tide and river interaction? Not sure. It was unusual enough that I took a pic of it though
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
Thanks Sima
I see the river effect now.
Nope no need to be shy
I love beach art like this. Just ask Janis. Hawaii?
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Hawaii... I wish!
Kallaloch is part of the Olympic National Park/Forest on the Olympic Peninsula in WA state. It's on the Pacific coast, just a bit south of the most north-western part of the 'lower 48'. Back in the 1930s the government made an encampment and shacks so that loggers and other could work there as part of the CCC and the WPA. Anyway, now, those shacks are little cottages and there's a little lodge one can stay in at Kallaloch. We used to stay there every December. It was GREAT! Although getting there can be kinda iffy in December
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
great pic Sima!
Hi Sima! GREAT photo! I love your lines in the sand! Looks like some Bigfoots were dancing there? Final answer.
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
first reminder was a view from a satellite
on a distant planet's mountain range
could there be intelligent life there?
Great photos and comments. It's
second nature for me now to cruise right on this site for this diary every weekend.
Rec'd!
Glad to hear no Santa Ana winds when that fire hit, Sp. Plenty of tunes have described those winds. Desert version of hurricanes at times. As far as finding a safe space to live? Nope, not with international climate crisis--no can do. Hope you all are well, cool, and staying sane. So far, so good, here on the slowly sinking sandbar Peninsula State regarding storms. However, August is right around the corner. Funsies.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Good morning, orlbucfan
Glad to hear things are good in the sunshine state. I read on the interwebs recently that climate scientists think the hurricanes wont be as severe this season because of the El Nino conditions in the Pacific. I hope they're right.
I woke up this morning determined to drink less, eat right, and exercise.
But that was four hours ago when I was younger and full of hope.