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

[Eric 951]

[porsche tech]

Tree work completed…money well spent…man, those guys work hard!

[p911dad]

[NY65912]

[Les Paul]

Looking down the street

[Crowbob]

[Skip Newsom]

^Seeing some great photos^

Summer has decided to visit the PNW finally!
packed up and drove a couple hours North to Baker Lake... found a decent camping spot and hit the lake early yesterday...
Just me and a loud Loon chastising me for being on his (or her) lake for the first hour and a half of paddling about.

Skip's eye view 24 hours ago:

[nvr2mny]

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Sad day coming.

The sad day was Saturday morning. It had to be.
But it really wasn't sad...Batman was eerily ready if that makes any sense. My wife washed and groomed him, spent the early morning with him which always delighted him.

The Vet, a good friend of my wife's, peacefully put him down and then we put him to rest.

We are getting a stone marker. The grave site is below, all in concert with regulations. If this upsets anyone, I'll delete everything.

Hard to do but harder not to.

To Batman, a wonderful horse who had a great run.

[rusnak]

[TimT]

We are getting a stone marker. The grave site is below, all in concert with regulations. If this upsets anyone, I'll delete everything.

Not all all, no worries....


I often wonder about whoever bought the house I grew up in... the back corner of the yard was a pet cemetery.. dogs, cats rabbits hamsters... all buried in cigar boxes or tin boxes..

At my house in Vermont, after a late afternoon thunderstorm..

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by TimT

I often wonder about whoever bought the house I grew up in... the back corner of the yard was a pet cemetery.. dogs, cats rabbits hamsters... all buried in cigar boxes or tin boxes..

[kevin993]

A light year is the distance that light travels in one year. Measured in miles, that distance is 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers).

Objects in the night sky are far away. By comparison, the distance between Mars and Earth changes as each has its own orbit around the sun, but the furthest that Mars ever gets from earth is 249.1 million miles (401 million km). An object a light year away is over 23,605 times as far as Mars is from Earth at its furthest point.

The closest star to Earth is a triple-star system called Alpha Centauri. The two main stars are Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B. They are about 4.35 light-years from Earth. A third star called Alpha Centauri C is about 4.25 light-years from Earth, making it the closest star other than the sun. 4.25 light years is about 25 trillion miles from Earth. 25 trillion miles is a long way.

For context, the stars in the Big Dipper range from 78 to 124 light years away.

Time is an additional another element beyond mere distance. The light we see coming from a star left its point of origin in the past. The light from a star, galaxy or nebula takes time to reach us. We are not seeing the object as it is now, but rather as it looked in the past – when it emitted the light. Because everything in space is located at different distances from the earth, the night sky is a historical composite rather than a single snapshot in time.

Photo at McDonald Observatory near Ft. Davis, Texas

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

The sad day was Saturday morning. It had to be.
But it really wasn't sad...Batman was eerily ready if that makes any sense. My wife washed and groomed him, spent the early morning with him which always delighted him.

The Vet, a good friend of my wife's, peacefully put him down and then we put him to rest.

We are getting a stone marker. The grave site is below, all in concert with regulations. If this upsets anyone, I'll delete everything.

Hard to do but harder not to.

To Batman, a wonderful horse who had a great run.

Very tough. Glad that everyone seemed to have made peace that it was time. Glad Batman got to spend time with you guys.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by kevin993

A light year is the distance that light travels in one year. Measured in miles, that distance is 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers).

Objects in the night sky are far away. By comparison, the distance between Mars and Earth changes as each has its own orbit around the sun, but the furthest that Mars ever gets from earth is 249.1 million miles (401 million km). An object a light year away is over 23,605 times as far as Mars is from Earth at its furthest point.

The closest star to Earth is a triple-star system called Alpha Centauri. The two main stars are Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B. They are about 4.35 light-years from Earth. A third star called Alpha Centauri C is about 4.25 light-years from Earth, making it the closest star other than the sun. 4.25 light years is about 25 trillion miles from Earth. 25 trillion miles is a long way.

For context, the stars in the Big Dipper range from 78 to 124 light years away.

Time is an additional another element beyond mere distance. The light we see coming from a star left its point of origin in the past. The light from a star, galaxy or nebula takes time to reach us. We are not seeing the object as it is now, but rather as it looked in the past – when it emitted the light. Because everything in space is located at different distances from the earth, the night sky is a historical composite rather than a single snapshot in time.

Photo at McDonald Observatory near Ft. Davis, Texas

being an astronomy hobbiest, I've heard/read this sort of thing several times before. The one new tidbit that I hadn't seen mentioned is that the night sky is a historical composite, which is a cool idea. That means that when you look at the sky, you are seeing a 4D view.

[masraum]

Some sort of wasp that, I assume, is eating the contents of the mason bee "nests" (mud-sealed tubes)



regal or bold (similar other than size) jumping spider eating a "wheel bug"


Never did figure out what this guy was, but he was big.


Interesting fungus


Regal (maybe bold) jumping spider feasting on a cicada. When I found them, the cicada was on the porch, and the spider was feasting from underneath so I couldn't see him. I tried to pic up the cicada to show the grandsons, and couldn't (easily) I kept pulling harder and harder until I heard a "click" which I assume was me tearing it out of the grasp of the spider. That's when I saw the spider in between the boards under the cicada. I apologized to the spider and set the cicada back down so he could finish. He thanked me by posing for a photo opp a bit later.

[masraum]

Both of the boys like tractors, but the 3 year old is REALLY obsessed with tractors and construction equipment (backhoes, dump trucks, front end loaders, etc....). A couple of weeks back, because of the dry weather, the field next door had the hay harvested to reduce the possibility of fire. The boys happened to be here the day that they were running the cut hay into windrows and then bailing it. We ran out and watched both tractors go past. The second time around, the lady driving the tractor that was doing the baling stopped to chat (hadn't met her before). After chatting for a bit, she offered to take the boys for a ride in her tractor. They both, but the young guy, especially, was over the moon and talked about it all day.





I had never really seen the full hay making process until last year, I got to see a full harvest which was pretty cool and educational. This most recent time, we were super dry and the hay wasn't nearly as grown as it was last year when harvested. They cut on a Fri and then on Mon, they raked and baled. Last year, it took a week or more. They cut, then tedded, then raked, and then baled.

[porsche tech]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Hard to do but harder not to.

It’s like losing a family member! Sorry for your loss.


Unrelated random:

[Gretch]

Thanks for sharing that with us Seahawk...........

Just "thanks".

[Racerbvd]