random pics that YOU have taken.......

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

One more



I took this photo when we were going through the Panama Canal. We were in Gatun Lake and the CO opened it up. All four turbo shaft engines to go:

Very impressive!!!! Amazing what thousands of turbo shaft horsepower looks like in action.




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[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Oddly enough, she now rests under the same waters I took those pictures:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Valley_Forge_(CG-50)



The ship was decommissioned on 31 August 2004 at San Diego Naval Station, the first ship with the Aegis combat system withdrawn from service. Valley Forge was sunk on 2 November 2006 as part of a target practice on a test range near Kauai, Hawaii



One last time:

22 years seems a short service life for her..... then again, I have no idea what the norm is for Navy Ships either.





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[daepp]

Possible repost, but Paul made me do it:

4 turbines at max power spinning 2 variable pitch props = 10' wake off the bow and and 50' spray off the stern:

[daepp]

Re: the xray, my poor wife's 3rd outing on a street bike, she hunkered down (mimicking her instructor) and began to power through a yellow light. The instructor, with no warning, changed her mind and stopped abruptly. My wife's right handle bar hit the instructor's left (fully stopped) handlebar, and my wife was thrown sideways (to the left). At the ER I noted she had no road rash, which at the time I thought was a blessing. Unfortunately I learned later that rather than slide forward, all her momentum went to her left elbow (maybe a bit to her left knee too) and the rest... is history.

CT Scan - the pie-shaped piece is just one of the breaks:





Additional bad news was we were scheduled to get on a plane 6 days later for a week-long graduation for our daughter from the Naval Academy.

We found a specialist - an orthopedic - and he said we needed a specialist. WTH? He referred us to a hand-and-elbow ortho surgeon, who worked us in and worked his magic, and today she's (nearly) as good as new. I was AMAZED at the ability of the doc to put that back together again. Side note - he had to cut a perfectly good bone in two just to get to that joint and put it back together again!)

Our medical insurance system may be messed up in this country, but our medical care is amazing! My $.02.

[BE911SC]

[BE911SC]

[masraum]

Circular rainbow made from ice instead of rain.



double, maybe even triple rainbow

[daepp]

[daepp]

DMB - one of the very last concerts at the Irvine Amphitheater.
(And might I add, more pot there than all the Dead shows I ever saw - put together!)

[carolinawillys]

[Jolly Amaranto]

[GH85Carrera]

Our brand new Macan on the showroom floor, and my 1985 911 in the background.

[gchappel]

A really bad day- if you are a raccoon.
Probably a pretty good day if you are the alligator.
The sequence I saw lasted 30 seconds- swallowed him whole.
Gary

[Baz]

^^^ Wow...hell of a photo! Better a Gator than a freaking car.....RIP Rocky.....

Couple vultures taking care of business with a squirrel who was probably a victim of some idiot driving by in front....

[daepp]

A good day for a So Cal King Snake:

[Willem Fick]

So here I was, thinking the painting crew would pitch up with at least some scaffolding. Turns out ladders are just fine...

[Racerbvd]

[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by daepp

A good day for a So Cal King Snake:

Go KINGS!!




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[bugstrider]

Originally Posted by Willem Fick

So here I was, thinking the painting crew would pitch up with at least some scaffolding. Turns out ladders are just fine...

Quoting "Evolution", the movie.

"Great Goongamoonga!"

And I won't let my dad even use a step stool..... don't ask.




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[MBAtarga]

Originally Posted by Willem Fick

So here I was, thinking the painting crew would pitch up with at least some scaffolding. Turns out ladders are just fine...

Don't let Hugh see that!