We’ve been clapping and banging pots and pans here with our neighbors. But we do 7pm, you guys mountain time?
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When our assisted-living apartments were built, the developers gave the town a statue of the former mayor sitting on a park bench. (Kickbacks?) Traditionally people dress him in festive costumes during the Holidays. This week…
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Stuff from recent walks…
I took this with a phone, from too far way, but those are fox kits on either side of the tree trunk in the center:
I don’t know what kind of bird this is, perched in the tree. In this photo (if anyone else can see it) it looks like a mockingbird. However, this is next to a pond, which these birds landed in (like ducks but smaller). From that distance they looked like amphibious, large starlings (they’re at least robin-sized, if not as large as crows). Not gulls nor herons. I’m guessing a tern, rail, or bittern.
This is in front of the high school, across the road from the entrance to our neighborhood. I don’t know how long it’s been there, but I only noticed it a few days ago:
An as-of-yet unsigned sculpture in a nearby park:
Judging from this detail, it appears to have been hewn from whatever tree used to be here:
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No camera, but I took a bike ride around South Minneapolis this afternoon. Saw a lawn sign:
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI
2020
Make America Well Again
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Especially interesting if you’re Michel Gondry.
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Half the time my Always-On-Spying-Device can’t manage to accurately add peanut butter to my shopping list with me shouting directly into the screen, but all of a sudden when I’m giving an impromptu math lesson to my kids, it nails it (non-consensually) word for word…
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Thank you, that’s an excellent idea. I have been working from home the last six weeks, but am supposed to be back in the office in a week. Playing with this on my commute should keep me occupied and distracted from other people’s coughs and sneezes!
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The seattle area is finally putting up new mass transit trains following the major North-south interstate. Can’t wait to see how they’re used.
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Please post results, if anything catches your eye!
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I took a photo of the fingernail moon and Venus earlier this year, too!
Needless to say, photography is not my—nor my phone’s—strong suit. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Took a walk down to the beach yesterday and took some shots of some interesting rock formations. I have no geology knowledge but would love to know how the concentric circles form.
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Someone else can explain the tortoise-shell, but at the bottom you obviously have a very hard, very thin layer with softer (sandstone?) sedimentary rock on either side. Given the width I’d guess that it was in fact igneous rock forced into a large fracture, but I’m not a real geologist, I can’t drink nearly enough.
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That first photo almost looks like a decorative cobblestone. Very interesting.
I’ve seen swirly rock from metamorphic processes, but I’m not a geologist either.
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