A variety of Gaillardia (Mexican blanket flower)?
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Mail call
EDIT: It’s AMAC, hot on the heels of my AARP invite a few days ago… well I know for sure which one I won’t join…
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Newt Gingrich is a judge?
Cuz the current republican strategy of “take all power by all means available, even if it completely destroys democracy itself” is his fault and not very honorable.
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Hon(ky) Newt Gingrich
That Tiffany’s debt must be mounting again.
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Thank you! The wiki link was fascinating. Mine was given to me about 12 years ago, without identification. So TIL!
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Also @Wayward; yes, looks like a type of daisy to me. Maybe a gerbera (which I believe is also called African daisy)? 
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This could be a time to remind the class of the difference between Could and Should…
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Cleaning out my Mother-in-Law’s house who passed away. Found her 1954 year book with prophecies of what the students would be…
She was an exchange student to Mars.
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Fire retardant stripe on the western Catalinas
Fire helicopter loading up from Rose Lake:
Second helicopter immediately following:
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Camped for three days near Rose Canyon Lake, helicopters coming by every 20 minutes from about 9 AM to dusk every day. In that time Bighorn Fire has never been more than 10% contained. When we came home (yes, we were camping about 10 miles from home, first camping experience for our 3-year-old) we could now see it from our back yard.
Cell phone though binoculars
(That red thing at the bottom is actually a flower from my wife’s pollinator garden.)
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At night the fire becomes obvious (Google “Nightsight” shoots with digital zoom, so crappy), but it is also definitely moving down the mountain.
Ironically, one of my parents’ friends is a veteran firefighter involved with education and planning for the units being brought in to fight this fire. I say ironically because his house is, well hopefully still, just below that fire line on the mountain.
Update:
Further update: wife just in a Zoom meeting with her gardening group ended early because the host got the evacuation order.
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Fragaria vesca, commonly called wild strawberry, woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, Carpathian strawberry, European strawberry, or fraisier des bois
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From where we are things look mostly extinguished, but I presume the fire must have moved north, behind the peaks we see.
However, it sounds like the foothills communities at the base of the mountain are still under some threat.
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