The first one is lovely… but… me brain…
I love making these faux 360 panoramas.
[How to MAKE TINY PLANETS WITHOUT a 360 CAMERA! (youtube.com)]
This event topic is raging in Squamish/Whistler/Vancouver right now amongst climbers and outdoor types for good reason.
The light flare to the right is not related that I know of. Just coincident until further info comes in. [Update Sep 28: probably northbound vehicle lights.]
Yes, my daughters climb there. No, they are not perturbed as this coincides with a weather event aka atmospheric river, of which Squamish is a prime target. Am I relieved to hear that?
I’ve been talking about us being in Frankenmuth MI in a tiny campground on some church property in the middle of town.
Most people come here to shop, eat a famous chicken dinner, and visit the world’s largest Christmas store.
Not us, we go find some dense woods and take a 4 mile hike.
It’s a pretty rustic trail, very over grown, a couple spots were barely a trail with thick tall grass.
About a mile in thoughts of ticks and poison ivy entered my head but onward and upward.
We normally walk a leisurely 18 minute mile. this was about 30 minute miles because we were cautious and lots to look at.
I don’t know if this counts as outside recreation: a few shots from a whirlwind 4 days in Paris for my wife’s birthday (a big one 
The campground we’re staying at is owned by a huge Lutheran church.
They have a cool wooded trail that’s about a half mile, we walk it a couple times a day.
They call it a prayer trail. It has inspirational sayings and prayers all along the trail.
The best thing about this place is the caretaker, he’s an older man with one leg, and practically blind. He drives around in a golf cart or a mobility scooter maintaining things, get people settled in, collecting money, and just all around being nice.
He’s a treasure and a wonderful human being.
Everyone loves the guy on the scooter.
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That is lovely… we need much more of that kind of Christianity in this country, and much less of the kind promoted by people like Vance…
Yesterday a nice ascent to Monte di Cambio, in the Terminillo area.
First ‘real’ one with my Titan augmented ankle.
More than 1000 m elevation, with some climbing included as we didn’t go along the “normale” but through the “Valle Lunare”, a strange V shaped area of friable rocks, pinnacles and coarse sand that seems dropped in the middle of the otherwise soft dome shaped grassy summit.
The ankle hold up quite well, especially considering the elevation gain and loss were along very steep paths, also in the climbing part, a few very short passages between II and III degree, with fixed nylon ropes in some case - very, very wet due to the previous bad weather.
Wonderful day in good company.
It had been raining for some days, so plenty of mushrooms, some “quite probably” very good (what we call “mazza di tamburo” = drumstick), but none of us is an expert, so we did not pick them.
These are on a fallen tree:
Our destination in view:
The Lunar Valley
Looking back, notice the stark contrast of the LV with the rest of the landscape:
Coming out of the LV, wife is always 20 steps ahead of everyone else.
“She doesn’t even tie her boot for less than 1200 m elevation”:
Finally on top
Starting the descent on the opposite slope:
Welch Spring, Missouri, USA
Old hospital at the spring. It was thought that the cool air from the cave and spring would help patients with TB or emphysema.
Cave Spring
No auroras
I believe so, this must be the same fish described in the Wikipedia article. The fisherman told me the local name of this fish, but I forgot. His friend confirmed that this fish has a lot of bones, which makes eating it very difficult.
The big head of the former president/dictator Getúlio Vargas.
St. Sebastian posing a la Mishima.
Mr. Baden Powell the First Boy Scout.
Definitely a bonefish. 
In Hawaii, people turn them into fishcakes to bypass the bones.
those guys are abundant on the shallow flats here. they are a blast to hook into and try to boat, but are not kept, unless for trophy size. much loke tarpon and snook, they are the fly-fishing prize, due to their particular appetite and tremendous fight.
i don’t think anybody eats bonefish here, but the backcountry fish guides make big bucks taking fly fishers out to the 10,000 Islands in florida bay and the 'glades.
bonefish make for bragging rights. a fat grouper makes dinner!
