"It's that time" displayed nicely in the Autumn image you posted, but sadly in the top lead image of Florida. I have many memories and personal feelings about Florida, having traveled there many times starting from age 16 until not too long before I came to China - going there with my parents, or with my friends and eventually with my own family. Those memories include staying at a golf condo in Hallandale, west of Hollywood, that was owned by my parents and then inherited by me and my brother.
Now that I am living in south-western China where frost, snow and ice are extremely rare, the leaves do not turn colour, so the only pics I have that I took are from when we were living much farther north in Zhengzhou. You've probably seen them before, but hopefully it won't bore you.
When I look at the image of the empty bench and the fallen leaves around it, it makes me think of the song "Autumn Leaves" and the last line of it: "But I miss you most of all, my darling, when Autumn leaves start to fall."
I've been to lots of islands east/south of America. Nantucket, Honeymoon with my first wife in Barbados (considered buying a small hotel there with a partner), Jamaica, Nassau and Paradise Island, Eleuthera, Bermuda....On the other side, The Hawaiian islands of Oahu, Kauai, The Big Island, even toured Alcatraz (well, THAT's an island, isn't it?) Does Manhattan count?
The swath it cut through Florida is unbelievable. Orlando has major flooding and on the east coast of Florida, massive flooding and tornados...The path it cut was over 400 miles wide.
Half the morning CGTN half hour newscast was about Ian in Florida - the reporter Solidad Perez was standing in Fort Myers. Saw that top image and others, and the collapsed bridge to Sanibel. I was concerned that you might at the very least lose power and we wouldn't hear from you. What happened where you are?
We live in Ocala 100 miles NE of Tampa and we got about 4 inches of rain over two days and nothing else, no hurricanes, no tornados, or flooding. The vast majority of Florida wasn't so lucky.
Morning..went for a drive the other day to a small town nearby to go to the butcher and baker...they have the nicest jam donuts and lamb cutlets...
A lot of small towns paint their water towers and wheat silos as tourist attractions which bring in thousands of people... especially further north up in the Wimmera and Mallee which are massive wheat growing areas..
The Kooris who have been painted one is of the first commanding officer in the Australian army from WW2..which in those days was extremely rare as they were treated extremely poorly, even while defending this country from the Japanese....
Those are outstanding, shona. Silo as an art form.
In 1990 when Australia flew surviving soldiers to Turkey to celebrate Gallipoli and Lone Tree was when I was introduced to the tremendous contribution of the aboriginal people and found out that 34 fought at Gallipoli, and 12 were KIA. From there I did a lot of research on the subject and like American Indians, they were always there to stand up and fight for Australia. They fought for 87 years in many wars before they were recognized as citizens of Australia.
Yes true, but we also feed the world with what's in them..a necessary evil I guess...
Bur if we can beautify them, why not ..
Afraid heights are not my thing and how they work out where they are in the painting gets me... certainly are a massive tourist attraction now and has been the life line for some bush towns....
Tonight's sunset over Lake Arlington (actually a pond) Stone Creek, Ocala FL. After the devastation in much of Florida hopefully, this will be seen as a sign of a new beginning.
A little brown bat that for some reason made the back of a gutter spout his bed for the day.
Different angle, tweaked and zoomed to make his face visible. I didn't realize he was awake and watching me when I was taking the pictures.
Several shots of the first monarch I've noticed in ages, maybe a decade or more.
A couple of monster butternuts from this year's garden, with a soup can for size reference. I haven't picked them all yet, but think I got more than fifty from my usual three plants this year.
Yeah, same thing. We call them butternut squash, you call them butternut pumpkins. The specific variety I grow is Waltham Butternut.
In my opinion, you have the more proper name for it. The canned pumpkin people buy for pies comes from something much closer to butternuts (species Cucurbita moschata) than the bright orange jack-o'-lantern things people in America usually think of as 'pumpkins' (species Cucurbita pepo). All of the Libby's canned pumpkin out there comes from a patented strain of the Dickinson pumpkin that they've developed over the years, which is itself thought to be a strain of Kentucky field pumpkins, and they tend to look a lot like butternuts.
Here's a pic of Kentucky field pumpkins from the internet. See how the skin looks the same as butternuts? It's because they're both C. moschata.
Great photos, Dig. Love the stick bug and the bat one of my favorites and perhaps seeing a monarch for the first time in years could be a sign of more to come.
perhaps seeing a monarch for the first time in years could be a sign of more to come
I've been looking at various milkweed seeds for sale online. I think I'm going to order some for next year and plant a bunch around that little pond I have out front.
I haven't seen a stick bug since I was a kid - it can recall that it fascinated me that it could even exist. As for bats, although they do away with so many mosquitoes, they don't have a very good reputation these days. Teriffic shots of the Monarch. Guess you'll be eating a lot of squash this fall.
Yep, you got it about the bats. I eat lots of squash - my wife, who grew up on a farm and really knows her stuff goes almost every day to tend a small vegetable garden she staked out near the mountains that are close to where we live. Many citizens have little gardens there, about the size of yours, respect each other's territory, and often trade different vegies between themselves. She brought home lots of greens I can't identify, sweet potatoes and some super-sized squash already.
Those gardens remind me of being in Boston many years ago and seeing that on a boulevard between the streets there was a common area (was it called a "Commons"?) where ordinary citizens did the same thing.
my wife, who grew up on a farm and really knows her stuff goes almost every day to tend a small vegetable garden she staked out near the mountains that are close to where we live.
I didn't know that. That's great.
Those gardens remind me of being in Boston many years ago and seeing that on a boulevard between the streets there was a common area (was it called a "Commons"?) where ordinary citizens did the same thing.
I've always thought that having places for city-dwellers to garden is a good idea. I don't know what it's called in Boston, but in Britain I know that many cities have land set aside and divided into plots for people called allotments. Pretty sure they do something similar in Germany, too.
Speaking of.... I made a quick one last night after posting that. I already had pie shells, evaporated milk, and some mashed roasted butternut in the fridge, so it only took a few minutes to throw together and toss in the oven.
Good stuff. I had a piece for breakfast earlier, lol.
I just took some shots of what might be a hummingbird moth. I was out watering things and it was checking out some flowers. I don't know if I'll have time to sort through the bursts I took and post anything today. Pretty soon I have to go run some errands for an aunt who just had cataract surgery and can't drive for about a week. I might just save any good ones for next week.
Those gardens remind me of being in Boston many years ago and seeing that on a boulevard between the streets there was a common area (was it called a "Commons"?) where ordinary citizens did the same thing.
A Restoration from an Original Magic Lantern glass slide.
Good restoration. So yes, it IS called the Boston Commons where the citizens have little garden plots. It's a wide and quite long swath of land between the two directions of a main road.
Went to see The Book of Mormon yesterday at a very ornate theater. Funniest show I’ve ever seen, but certainly not for anyone religious. This was a shot left of stage.
Sure. It’s surprisingly simple and all done on my iPhone with the PicsArt app. There is a mirror function that allows you to mirror any image horizontally or vertically by just sliding the mirror axis wherever you want, and the axis is seamless. In this case I did it first across a vertical axis and then across a horizontal axis. Then I finished it with my signature framing, which is a vignette of a color that blends with the photo, followed by a thin frame of a bright color and a slightly thicker outside frame of a color that works well with the colors in the photo. I think this combination provides an almost neon framing effect. The PicsArt app is an amazing editing tool.
The mirror effect is geometrically awesome, and the ornate masonry of the theater is spectacular. Do you know if it's real stonework, or some kind of false stage facing meant to look like it?
I believe it is all real stone. It’s in Hershey PA, and the whole exterior of the building is quarried stone. Milton Hershey spared no expense in his works. Hershey Park is one of the best amusement parks in the country, imo. There is also a private boarding school in Hershey that has a 15.91 billion dollar endowment.
Oh, that's fantastic. I imagined if it was real it must have come from a wealthy philanthropist. Thanks for the link. The whole building is like a work of art.
Man years ago in our local newspaper there was a short article about the health benefits of eating chocolate. It noted that the story originated from Hershey, PA. Imagine that!
I have to run to town right now, but if you want I can explain how to do image searches when I get back. Only if you're using either the Google or Bing browsers, though. Those are the two that I'm most familiar with.
I mentioned explaining image searches earlier, so here we go. Not sure what browser you use, so I'll do both Google and Bing. I hope it's one of them.
Search for an image found online
Bing browser:
Right click on the image and select 'Search the web for image'
Scroll through the results and hopefully discover a match.
Open the match and look for whatever information you need.
Google Browser:
Open a new tab. If the new tab isn't Google Search, then navigate there.
Click on 'Images' in the upper right.
A new search page loads. At the right of the search bar there are three icons: a microphone, a camera, and a magnifying glass. Click on the middle one, the camera.
Go back to the previous tab and find the image you want to search for. Left click and drag the image up to the new tab at the top of the page (which is now named Google Images) and hold it over it for a moment (don't let go of the left mouse button). When the new tab page reappears, drag the cursor down to the search box and drop the image onto it by releasing the left mouse button.
Scroll through the results and hopefully discover a match.
Open the match and look for whatever information you need.
Search for an image you have saved on your computer
Bing browser:
Open Bing. Make sure you have the Bing search bar at the top of the page (the one with the microphone and magnifying glass symbols on the right of it). If you've changed the home page and don't see the bar, then navigate back to the regular Bing home page.
Minimize the Bing window and go find the image on your computer.
After locating your image, check the file size. If it's huge (like in the megabyte range), then resize a copy of it to something smaller that will load to Bing much faster (again, make a copy, don't resize the original). You don't absolutely have to resize a copy, but it makes a difference if you have slower internet like I do.
When ready, grab the image with the left mouse button and drag it down to the Bing icon on the task bar at the bottom of your screen (don't let go of the left mouse button). The Bing page should reappear. When it does, drag the cursor up to the Bing search bar (not the Windows address bar at the very, very top of the page) and drop the image there by releasing the left mouse button.
A new tab should open displaying the image.
Right click on the image and select 'Search the web for image'
Scroll through the results and hopefully discover a match.
Open the match and look for whatever information you need.
Google Browser:
Open Google. If you've changed the home page, then navigate to the regular Google Search page.
Click on 'Images' in the upper right.
A new search page loads. At the right of the search bar there are three icons: a microphone, a camera, and a magnifying glass. Click on the middle one, the camera.
Minimize the Google window and go find the image on your computer.
After locating your image, check the file size. If it's huge (like in the megabyte range), then resize a copy of it to something smaller that will load to Google much faster (again, make a copy, don't resize the original). You don't absolutely have to resize a copy, but it makes a difference if you have slower internet like I do.
When ready, grab the image with the left mouse button and drag it down to the Google icon on the task bar at the bottom of your screen (don't let go of the left mouse button). The Google page should reappear. When it does, drag the cursor up to the search box and drop the image onto it by releasing the left mouse button.
Scroll through the results and hopefully discover a match.
Open the match and look for whatever information you need.
I hope this helps you identify your other photos, Mac. If you have any questions about the instructions, just ask.
Many thanks! I just acquired more than 3000 old slides which will take forever scan, digitize, to clean up, restore and most frustrating of all, in some cases, to identify subject. Your post is a blessing!
First-things-first. Check the article at the link below.
Mostly stick around home when not harvesting firewood in the winter.
Firewood isn’t environmentally responsible.
It's that time.
Morning..
Or for some of us walks in the surf, sun and sand....🏄☀️⛱️
Ok then …
© A. Mac/A.G.
Superb - would make a great desktop background image.
Beautiful. That's a really good one.
I get some nice sunsets where I live. But that is one hell of a sunset!
"It's that time" displayed nicely in the Autumn image you posted, but sadly in the top lead image of Florida. I have many memories and personal feelings about Florida, having traveled there many times starting from age 16 until not too long before I came to China - going there with my parents, or with my friends and eventually with my own family. Those memories include staying at a golf condo in Hallandale, west of Hollywood, that was owned by my parents and then inherited by me and my brother.
Now that I am living in south-western China where frost, snow and ice are extremely rare, the leaves do not turn colour, so the only pics I have that I took are from when we were living much farther north in Zhengzhou. You've probably seen them before, but hopefully it won't bore you.
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Love the color and fallen leaves, Buzz. I'm looking forward to some of that here before long.
When I look at the image of the empty bench and the fallen leaves around it, it makes me think of the song "Autumn Leaves" and the last line of it: "But I miss you most of all, my darling, when Autumn leaves start to fall."
Have spent time in Jamaica having fun.
If one can play a reggae bass line on 4 strings, life is good in Jamaica.
Once smoked pot with Bob.
Bob and I spoke about this and the other. He was a very smart guy.
I've been to lots of islands east/south of America. Nantucket, Honeymoon with my first wife in Barbados (considered buying a small hotel there with a partner), Jamaica, Nassau and Paradise Island, Eleuthera, Bermuda....On the other side, The Hawaiian islands of Oahu, Kauai, The Big Island, even toured Alcatraz (well, THAT's an island, isn't it?) Does Manhattan count?
Nanjing © G. Gam
Beautiful
Thanks, Buzz.
Powerful colors. Pretty cool.
Thanks, Dig.
Nature's beauty can be replaced by its power and we once again learn that humans are no match for Mother Nature.
Fort Meyers Beach a working class and retirement town no longer exists.
I can't even begin to imagine the feeling of loss happening down there right now. It's so crazy!
The swath it cut through Florida is unbelievable. Orlando has major flooding and on the east coast of Florida, massive flooding and tornados...The path it cut was over 400 miles wide.
and not many far right wing fascists believe in anthropogenic global warming.
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Desantis has denied anthropogenic global warming since day one.
Thanks to Desantis, Florida is drowning in its own excess.
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Half the morning CGTN half hour newscast was about Ian in Florida - the reporter Solidad Perez was standing in Fort Myers. Saw that top image and others, and the collapsed bridge to Sanibel. I was concerned that you might at the very least lose power and we wouldn't hear from you. What happened where you are?
We live in Ocala 100 miles NE of Tampa and we got about 4 inches of rain over two days and nothing else, no hurricanes, no tornados, or flooding. The vast majority of Florida wasn't so lucky.
Everybody lost power and had to start thinking about drinking water.
Here's my granddaughter on her birthday at the aquarium. It was damn hard to get photos of her as it's so dark and she never stops moving.
The exposure is fine - cute kid. What's she got on her head?
It's an Ojibwe headband, Buzz. Since EG is an honorary member of the Anishinaabe nation it extends to all family members.
This, of course, is a true story.
One of the few that worked.
I forgot to tell you her Anishinaabe name, its Banjii Waabigwan. (little flower)
An apt name too.
My son says we should rename her (I'm guessing) Maji Waabigwan (evil flower). Hahaha.
LOL, little girls can't be evil, well some can but she is probably wiiyagishkeniindaagozi. (mischevious)
Ha! Got a facetime at lunch today. She was walking around with some cheerios and had no time for Grampa Evil.
my granddaughter has placed me subordinate to herself and the 2 dogs in the family ranking...
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Very cute!
Morning..went for a drive the other day to a small town nearby to go to the butcher and baker...they have the nicest jam donuts and lamb cutlets...
A lot of small towns paint their water towers and wheat silos as tourist attractions which bring in thousands of people... especially further north up in the Wimmera and Mallee which are massive wheat growing areas..
The Kooris who have been painted one is of the first commanding officer in the Australian army from WW2..which in those days was extremely rare as they were treated extremely poorly, even while defending this country from the Japanese....
Those are outstanding, shona. Silo as an art form.
In 1990 when Australia flew surviving soldiers to Turkey to celebrate Gallipoli and Lone Tree was when I was introduced to the tremendous contribution of the aboriginal people and found out that 34 fought at Gallipoli, and 12 were KIA. From there I did a lot of research on the subject and like American Indians, they were always there to stand up and fight for Australia. They fought for 87 years in many wars before they were recognized as citizens of Australia.
Morning...if you google "silo art trail"...there are heaps of silo paintings of farmers, people to sunsets etc..
How they do it beats me...
Some are just brilliant and the trails go for hundreds of kilometres visiting small towns and silos up north...
Not my photos off the internet...
Thanks, I'll be checking the link out.
Sheep Hills, Victoria
It certainly does add interest and beauty to what could have just been a dull imposition upon nature.
Yes true, but we also feed the world with what's in them..a necessary evil I guess...
Bur if we can beautify them, why not ..
Afraid heights are not my thing and how they work out where they are in the painting gets me... certainly are a massive tourist attraction now and has been the life line for some bush towns....
These have now spread across Australia, go to the link that shona provided and it will have a map showing each one in Australia plus numerous photos.
They are all really cool.
© G. Gam
I used to stay at the Oriental Hotel on the river.
Well done, G.
Thank you, Kavika.
A very colourful sight to see.
Bangkok is a very colorful city.
Tonight's sunset over Lake Arlington (actually a pond) Stone Creek, Ocala FL. After the devastation in much of Florida hopefully, this will be seen as a sign of a new beginning.
You definitely lucked out in your area. I'm very happy for you.
I wonder if it's possible to get bored of the outstanding sunrises and sunsets where you are day after day after day....
Never..😃😃
Never, Buzz.
LOL. I guess not.
Peace...Mother Nature is taking a breather..
A stick insect.
A little brown bat that for some reason made the back of a gutter spout his bed for the day.
Different angle, tweaked and zoomed to make his face visible. I didn't realize he was awake and watching me when I was taking the pictures.
Several shots of the first monarch I've noticed in ages, maybe a decade or more.
A couple of monster butternuts from this year's garden, with a soup can for size reference. I haven't picked them all yet, but think I got more than fifty from my usual three plants this year.
2022, the year of the squash.
Morning Dig...
Great photos love the Monarch...I like the Campbell's tomato soup just bought a can the other day..
Thanks, Shona. I like their tomato soup, too, especially with grilled cheese.
The photos of the squash, is that the same as a butternut pumpkin??
It looks the same as what we get here, but referred to as a butternut pumpkin....
Yeah, same thing. We call them butternut squash, you call them butternut pumpkins. The specific variety I grow is Waltham Butternut.
In my opinion, you have the more proper name for it. The canned pumpkin people buy for pies comes from something much closer to butternuts (species Cucurbita moschata) than the bright orange jack-o'-lantern things people in America usually think of as 'pumpkins' (species Cucurbita pepo). All of the Libby's canned pumpkin out there comes from a patented strain of the Dickinson pumpkin that they've developed over the years, which is itself thought to be a strain of Kentucky field pumpkins, and they tend to look a lot like butternuts.
Here's a pic of Kentucky field pumpkins from the internet. See how the skin looks the same as butternuts? It's because they're both C. moschata.
So butternut pumpkin is probably the better name.
Great photos, Dig. Love the stick bug and the bat one of my favorites and perhaps seeing a monarch for the first time in years could be a sign of more to come.
And the Andy Warhol photos are great.
I've been looking at various milkweed seeds for sale online. I think I'm going to order some for next year and plant a bunch around that little pond I have out front.
I haven't seen a stick bug since I was a kid - it can recall that it fascinated me that it could even exist. As for bats, although they do away with so many mosquitoes, they don't have a very good reputation these days. Teriffic shots of the Monarch. Guess you'll be eating a lot of squash this fall.
Why is that? I haven't heard anything.
Many of the bats around here were wiped out by some disease a few years ago, so I was glad to see it.
I already am,
— as a side dish topped with a little butter, as pumpkin pies, and mixed with oatmeal and spices to make pumpkin pie oatmeal.
It's great for you. Check out the health benefits... WebMD. I love all the heart and blood friendly stuff.
*facepalm*
Nevermind. Because of the coronavirus. Duh.
I was thinking it was from pangolins, but yeah, I guess the virus itself came from bats.
Yep, you got it about the bats. I eat lots of squash - my wife, who grew up on a farm and really knows her stuff goes almost every day to tend a small vegetable garden she staked out near the mountains that are close to where we live. Many citizens have little gardens there, about the size of yours, respect each other's territory, and often trade different vegies between themselves. She brought home lots of greens I can't identify, sweet potatoes and some super-sized squash already.
Those gardens remind me of being in Boston many years ago and seeing that on a boulevard between the streets there was a common area (was it called a "Commons"?) where ordinary citizens did the same thing.
I didn't know that. That's great.
I've always thought that having places for city-dwellers to garden is a good idea. I don't know what it's called in Boston, but in Britain I know that many cities have land set aside and divided into plots for people called allotments. Pretty sure they do something similar in Germany, too.
Speaking of.... I made a quick one last night after posting that. I already had pie shells, evaporated milk, and some mashed roasted butternut in the fridge, so it only took a few minutes to throw together and toss in the oven.
Good stuff. I had a piece for breakfast earlier, lol.
Good thing I had just eaten breakfast before I saw that. LOL
I love the butterfly photos.
Thanks, G.
I just took some shots of what might be a hummingbird moth. I was out watering things and it was checking out some flowers. I don't know if I'll have time to sort through the bursts I took and post anything today. Pretty soon I have to go run some errands for an aunt who just had cataract surgery and can't drive for about a week. I might just save any good ones for next week.
Those gardens remind me of being in Boston many years ago and seeing that on a boulevard between the streets there was a common area (was it called a "Commons"?) where ordinary citizens did the same thing.
A Restoration from an Original Magic Lantern glass slide.
© A.Mac/A.G.
Good restoration. So yes, it IS called the Boston Commons where the citizens have little garden plots. It's a wide and quite long swath of land between the two directions of a main road.
Went to see The Book of Mormon yesterday at a very ornate theater. Funniest show I’ve ever seen, but certainly not for anyone religious. This was a shot left of stage.
Wow. Magnificent.
Exceptional! Care to share any aspects of the process with the Group, Hal?
Sure. It’s surprisingly simple and all done on my iPhone with the PicsArt app. There is a mirror function that allows you to mirror any image horizontally or vertically by just sliding the mirror axis wherever you want, and the axis is seamless. In this case I did it first across a vertical axis and then across a horizontal axis. Then I finished it with my signature framing, which is a vignette of a color that blends with the photo, followed by a thin frame of a bright color and a slightly thicker outside frame of a color that works well with the colors in the photo. I think this combination provides an almost neon framing effect. The PicsArt app is an amazing editing tool.
Many thanks!
That's really cool, Hal.
The mirror effect is geometrically awesome, and the ornate masonry of the theater is spectacular. Do you know if it's real stonework, or some kind of false stage facing meant to look like it?
I believe it is all real stone. It’s in Hershey PA, and the whole exterior of the building is quarried stone. Milton Hershey spared no expense in his works. Hershey Park is one of the best amusement parks in the country, imo. There is also a private boarding school in Hershey that has a 15.91 billion dollar endowment.
More about the theatre here:
Oh, that's fantastic. I imagined if it was real it must have come from a wealthy philanthropist. Thanks for the link. The whole building is like a work of art.
Man years ago in our local newspaper there was a short article about the health benefits of eating chocolate. It noted that the story originated from Hershey, PA. Imagine that!
"Many". I really hate typos!
The bigger problem is never noticing them.
Can anyone identify this?
I can, but only because I used an image search. I won't say unless you want me to, because I cheated, lol.
Please tell me; it’s a restoration I can’t identify … and I have others as well.
Okay. It's the Palais de Chaillot in Paris.
Here's the Wikipedia page about it.
I have to run to town right now, but if you want I can explain how to do image searches when I get back. Only if you're using either the Google or Bing browsers, though. Those are the two that I'm most familiar with.
Most grateful; thank you. Others to come.
LOL
I mentioned explaining image searches earlier, so here we go. Not sure what browser you use, so I'll do both Google and Bing. I hope it's one of them.
Search for an image found online
Bing browser:
Google Browser:
Search for an image you have saved on your computer
Bing browser:
Google Browser:
I hope this helps you identify your other photos, Mac. If you have any questions about the instructions, just ask.
TinEye is another reverse image identifier. These sites are the reason I don't use screen shots as clues for my movie quizzes.
Many thanks! I just acquired more than 3000 old slides which will take forever scan, digitize, to clean up, restore and most frustrating of all, in some cases, to identify subject. Your post is a blessing!
Oh sure, it's my summer cabin.
My neighbor's Dragon Fruit plant bloomed last night and it's very fragrant.
Morning...wow that is stunning... never seen that before...
It's quite amazing, Shona...The fragrance is just heavenly.
I don't want to say my first thought....
Now is the time to keep that thought to yourself, Ender...If for nothing else self survival.
Wow. What a big MOUTH it has. "The better to eat you with, my dear."
Feed me Seymour.
Thanks to all, see you Thursday night.