I recently moved into a new suburb, and I was apprehensive about one of my neighbours who always seemed to have a bunch of crazy crap all over their driveway. However they put up this Christmas display this week and now I think I have severely misjudged these people...
(They also had a sweet Halloween setup earlier and cooked hotdogs for all the trick-or-treaters, so this only really cemented their awesomeness)
This hare also now lives in my backyard and is super chill with my presence. Named it Snowball.
They opened a park here a few years ago along the bluffs overlooking the ocean, and in the winter when there's storms going by it gets rather spectacular. I've been taking pictures on walks over the last few months and finally dumped them to the computer the other day to post some dog pictures in the holiday forum.
No photos, but -- if anyone else a:has a bunch of photos on flickr, b:isn't going to pay for the pro flickr subscription but has more pictures than fit in the new free tier on flickr, and c:has those photos sorted into albums, then when you do the 'download all my stuff' from flickr, you don't get them back in albums, they're in a huge flat list. So I wrote a little tool that uses the flickr metadata you get to put the photos back into folders for easier storage / re-uploading elsewhere.
(I'm slowly moving everything over to google photos, because while their free tier is maxed out at 16mp, my camera is just under that anyway so it doesn't make a difference to me.)
I don’t have anything as awesome as that but there was a bird on the steeple of the building I work at, and it cut a majestic-type figure:
Any ornithologists reading the forums know what it is?
I'm not an ornithologist, but it might be a Cooper's Hawk. I've got one that lives in my back yard here in MA, and I think they also live in TX. They're generally smaller than other hawks, but I can't really tell it's size in your photo.
Did you hear it's call? They make a KEK-KEK-KEK sorta call.
"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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I don’t have anything as awesome as that but there was a bird on the steeple of the building I work at, and it cut a majestic-type figure:
Any ornithologists reading the forums know what it is?
I'm not an ornithologist, but it might be a Cooper's Hawk. I've got one that lives in my back yard here in MA, and I think they also live in TX. They're generally smaller than other hawks, but I can't really tell it's size in your photo.
Did you hear it's call? They make a KEK-KEK-KEK sorta call.
Yeah it was a lot like that. I expected some kind of hawk!
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
So I found some old pictures I took on my grandma's farm back in the day. They were taken on one of those giant digital cameras with a floppy drive in them, and they're in black and white because of art.
Job Thread regulars will know that this is the family cemetery I will be buried in one day. If I have won more stupid bets than I have lost at that point, it won't be the loser plot next to Uncle Jimmy.
This looks like a Ken Burns-ass Dust Bowl tractor, but I can confirm that I was still using it to mow corners as of 2001.
The old feed barn. When I was a kid, we had a secret club house in the loft. The loft was a four-foot-wide plank platform, and you accessed it via a chain ladder nailed to the front of the barn, which had been removed as of this photo.
In my imagination, Oklahoma is a black and white state. Like, literally after you cross the Missouri/Arkansas border, and leave behind the green of the Ozarks, it's just B/W.
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"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
That's actually New Mexico! But yeah, 4 miles from Texas and about 60 miles from Oklahoma, so you're pretty spot on.
"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Neat cloudscapes this morning. Spring in Oklahoma is really pretty pleasant, aside from the fact that the sky tries to murder you at unpredictable intervals.
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Neat cloudscapes this morning. Spring in Oklahoma is really pretty pleasant, aside from the fact that the sky tries to murder you at unpredictable intervals.
Lethal weather still blows my mind. I would have a very hard time adjusting.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
You can adapt pretty quickly once you grasp the math involved. OKC is the most-tornadoed city in the US, but a house within the city limits would still need to stand for around three millennia before it had even odds of being struck by a tornado. Folks living in that same house would be twice as likely to die in a heat wave, and almost exactly as likely to die from a lightning strike.
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Oregon Coast at sunset. It's a stitched photo so it's not perfect, but goddamn was it beautiful yesterday.
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(They also had a sweet Halloween setup earlier and cooked hotdogs for all the trick-or-treaters, so this only really cemented their awesomeness)
This hare also now lives in my backyard and is super chill with my presence. Named it Snowball.
I see you found a hareball.
The sky was decoratively cloudy around sunset:
but it cleared up very nicely later on:
It's like, I don't want to look at this, but this is for you. While you're frying your eggs in the morning, this is just for you.
Can ya pick up some pizza on the way to D&D tonight.
https://github.com/djmitchella/flickr-data-folderify if anyone else needs this.
(I'm slowly moving everything over to google photos, because while their free tier is maxed out at 16mp, my camera is just under that anyway so it doesn't make a difference to me.)
Any ornithologists reading the forums know what it is?
Sundown over the Luberon
Hoh River sunset:
Victoria sunset:
Colorado. This one's a sunrise, but don't tell anyone.
I'm not an ornithologist, but it might be a Cooper's Hawk. I've got one that lives in my back yard here in MA, and I think they also live in TX. They're generally smaller than other hawks, but I can't really tell it's size in your photo.
Did you hear it's call? They make a KEK-KEK-KEK sorta call.
Oh god, it's from /pol/? Put it out of its misery...
No, this thread is for good things
Yeah it was a lot like that. I expected some kind of hawk!
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Western Oregon. Its beautiful Country for sure.
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Not terribly sure what sort of tree this is.
It's also cherry blossom season! My own trees are only just starting, but this one at the gardens was in full bloom.
So pretty
Job Thread regulars will know that this is the family cemetery I will be buried in one day. If I have won more stupid bets than I have lost at that point, it won't be the loser plot next to Uncle Jimmy.
This looks like a Ken Burns-ass Dust Bowl tractor, but I can confirm that I was still using it to mow corners as of 2001.
The old feed barn. When I was a kid, we had a secret club house in the loft. The loft was a four-foot-wide plank platform, and you accessed it via a chain ladder nailed to the front of the barn, which had been removed as of this photo.
Lovely day in New England
Neat cloudscapes this morning. Spring in Oklahoma is really pretty pleasant, aside from the fact that the sky tries to murder you at unpredictable intervals.
Lethal weather still blows my mind. I would have a very hard time adjusting.
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Heres some Godrays to go with it.
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My daughter and I were looking for froggies, but mostly got eaten by black flies.
On the bright side: meep meep!