Random pictures. - Let's try to have a random picture thread.

[Crazyraceguy]

We don't get the temps that Paul does, but can certainly wind that hygrometer up to well beyond that "normal" range. Today was a bit cooler than it has been. It was 74 degrees, when I left the house at 5:30am, and only made it up to 90 degrees in the afternoon. However the relative humidity was over 85%. That will put a hurt on ya.  [scared]

 

[Cheese]

I got into evening sky photography several years ago.  This one is of a tree along the Skyline Drive south of Front Royal.

This could be considered evening sky photography even though it was taken around noon.  [eek] 
Pretty cool...as the eclipse approached totality, natural sounds subsided, things became weirdly quiet, the breeze and the bird chatter went away, temperatures cooled down and the lack of noise/sound was deafening. And then for about 3 minutes you were in a nether world.
I'm sure there's a Greek word for the experience as they probably experienced this same feeling a countless number of times throughout their history.
And then as the point of totality starts to recede, everything gradually returns to normal, the wind returns and the sounds of birds return. So for about 3 minutes, it's like the world stopped.

Experiencing a total eclipse is better than owning any Festool item, a feeling that will last a lifetime and one you'll never forget.

February 26th, 1979 Manitoba

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[Sparktrician]

Sweet shot, O Cheesy One!!!  [big grin]

 

[Michael Kellough]

Excellent eclipse photo!

This is the best I got this past April 8 in southeast Missouri with zero prep (just popped a plastic solar filter out of a pair of glasses and held it over my phone).

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[Michael Kellough]

Back to bugs.

Found a silk moth in the street in a very urban area.
Picked him up and drove him to some woods to release.

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[Sparktrician]

If anyone is interested in Blue Hour, I got a shot at Meadowlark Gardens in Northern Virginia some time back during morning Blue Hour. 

 

[semenza]

On the Monarchs  ^^ .........................

    When I was a kid, one year where I grew up was in the migration flyway. We had no idea it was coming until it happened.  For a few days there were millions of Monarchs in the area. So many that they covered roads to the extent that it was impossible to drive without running over hundreds. We did have a lot of milkweed during that time period. I remember getting that stickiness on me when running through the brush. And we always had a few Monarchs around, a couple here and there, but not remotely close to that one year.

Seth

 

[rmwarren]

Every time I'm doing a project that involves welding I end up musing about why the heck the craft is called "welding". I spend an hour cutting filing grinding drilling bending sanding jigging clamping and then BZZZZZZZTTTTT like 12.5 seconds running a bead and I'm back to grinding.

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Screenshot from a YT retrospective on Doug Jackson/SV Seeker.

RMW

 

[Cheese]

Every time I'm doing a project that involves welding I end up musing about why the heck the craft is called "welding". I spend an hour cutting filing grinding drilling bending sanding jigging clamping and then BZZZZZZZTTTTT like 12.5 seconds running a bead and I'm back to grinding.

RMW

Don't question God's order Richard just accept it.  [smile]

That same order is in effect when I mud drywall, I'll mud for 2 hours and use 2.00# of the stuff only to sand off 1.95# of the stuff within 15 minutes...then the dance begins again when I need to apply an additional 1.90# of mud over the stuff I've already sanded off.

 

[rmwarren]

Every time I'm doing a project that involves welding I end up musing about why the heck the craft is called "welding". I spend an hour cutting filing grinding drilling bending sanding jigging clamping and then BZZZZZZZTTTTT like 12.5 seconds running a bead and I'm back to grinding.

RMW

Don't question God's order Richard just accept it.  [smile]

That same order is in effect when I mud drywall, I'll mud for 2 hours and use 2.00# of the stuff only to sand off 1.95# of the stuff within 15 minutes...then the dance begins again when I need to apply an additional 1.90# of mud over the stuff I've already sanded off.

[thumbs up] [thumbs up] [thumbs up]

 

[leakyroof]

Back to bugs.

Found a silk moth in the street in a very urban area.
Picked him up and drove him to some woods to release.

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  Moth Uber?..... [wink] [wink]

 

[six-point socket II]

Little Japanese edge chamfering tool.

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Kind regards,
Oliver

 

[sawdust-samurai]

I'll share some of mine...

 

[sawdust-samurai]

Here are some of my elk photos.