My three-year-old got ahold of my phone.
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Many years ago, my grandfather gave me this tip for reusing newspaper sleeves.
I thought of it again given the current events.
(He would’ve kept a garbage bag full of newspaper sleeves. And another full of sugar packets. And another full of ketchup packets etc., etc.)
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Not sure it’s very visible in this photo, but the ground beneath this holly tree eroded. It’s growing in the air suspended by its roots.
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My wildlife biologist friend made this, using a survey boat with a multibeam sonar. Details:
The river was high on the day of this survey; the discharge at the U.S. Geological Survey streamgage in Boonville, Missouri about 30 miles upstream was 175,000 cubic feet per second. It was an excellent day for a survey. The rock, wing dikes were submerged under 3–4 meters (10–13 feet) of water. This allowed us to pilot our survey vessel from bank to bank; mapping every feature of the bottom in detail. There is a large scour hole on the upstream end of the reach near the south bank which was 21 meters (69 feet) deep that day. Downstream from the scour hole is a submerged wing dike and further downstream is a sandbar. On the north bank of the river, Perche Creek enters the river. Downstream from the creek mouth, smaller dikes, bank revetments, and bedrock can be seen under the water. The deeper parts of the river along the north bank are around 12 meters (40 feet) deep. Sand dunes of a wide range of sizes can be seen in this reach of river. The largest sand dunes are about 2.5 meters high (8 feet) and 120 meters (400 feet) long.
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I like monuments
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I’d like to think maybe it’s for something I’ve done.
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Yeah…this one is a sewer access lid…
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It’s named ‘Pink Supermoon’ because it often rose when meadows were blooming with swatches of moss phlox, which is native to eastern North America.
The colors and patterns in the sky were unbelievable, but not capturable. This globby gray mess was a beautiful medley of pinks and purples:
Here’s the, quite pink actually, pink supermoon:
Sunset
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I tried to capture the amazing moon tonight using my phone. Could hardly see it so I kept zooming in.
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Damn, do you have an actual zoom lens for your phone? (Got one for my wife, but it’s in a box somewhere.)
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It was from a Huawei p30 pro (10x optical then 50x with digital zoom).
The final shot was 50x and handheld so the moon was bouncing around all over the place, I imagine it would be sharper if I had a mini tripod.
It blows me away what can be done with a tiny lense and software these days.
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That’s a first! A wild turkey in the backyard. It kept walking back and forth looking for a way into the park. (Not too bright.) Finally a kid in the park scared it, and as god is my witness, it flew away. So much for Sunday dinner!
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Heh. Still more evidence it seems, that the wild ones have been lurking all this time, just waiting for us to abandon places that used to be theirs.
And yes, I’ve seen them fly (in “wilder” areas). It’s the preternaturally fattened domestic ones that can’t get aloft.
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Without a helicopter.
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My favorite episode!
ETA: @Ratel
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That’s kind of how they fly: like a helicopter. It’s amazing to watch them take off from a forest floor and fly straight up into the tree branches.
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