Photo a Day 365 X 12/2022….

[Yeadon]

Go to "Artist Point" and look in the direction away from the lower falls. It's down below your sightline, and a bit to the right.

[Paul Pless]

Donald R. Currey

dork

[J P]

dork

And the effing Forest Service gave him permission to cut it down.

[J P]

Thanks Jim. There are different variations of the story out there. In all that I have read or listened to, it seems to me Currey was at least culpable.

A RadioLab podcast had a segment on the story. (Starts at 00:15:00.)

[JayInOz]

The wasp has come back and sealed the hole in the top. Maybe they let the mud dry before risking damaging it while laying the egg inside.

Jimmy it takes a while for them to collect enough food to fill the pot before they seal it. Some of the mud wasps here fill each chamber with a row of paralysed spiders. Occasionally a spider will recover. They can't get out so they eat everything else in there and then die. I've found a few like that. Most of the wasps collect mud on the edge of water holes and bring it back to the nest site, but a friend of mine has a species of huge mud wasps that bring back water and use it to create their own mud. We worked together for a year building his mud brick house and studio, and the wasps removed a thick surface layer from the walls over several square feet. JayInOz

[L.W. Baxter]

The beets will continue until morale improves.

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[L.W. Baxter]

Jimmy it takes a while for them to collect enough food to fill the pot before they seal it. Some of the mud wasps here fill each chamber with a row of paralysed spiders. Occasionally a spider will recover. They can't get out so they eat everything else in there and then die. I've found a few like that. Most of the wasps collect mud on the edge of water holes and bring it back to the nest site, but a friend of mine has a species of huge mud wasps that bring back water and use it to create their own mud. We worked together for a year building his mud brick house and studio, and the wasps removed a thick surface layer from the walls over several square feet. JayInOz

I continue to be amazed that human beings even live in Australia. Everywhere you folks turn it seems like nature is telling you to "get out!"

[JayInOz]

Saw my first eastern brown snake for the season yesterday Lee, just up the road from the house. I was actually pleased to see it The most dangerous thing here at the moment is the missus- and of course the Jersey bull. And speaking of Jerseys we started keeping milk for the house yesterday. First day after the cow calved I milked out a couple of gallons of colostrum, froze some for future emergencies here and gave the rest to a friend who raises a lot of orphaned lambs and the occasional calf. The next three days I milked the cow and dumped the milk. Now, even with the calf on her, she's giving more than ten litres a day- ten times as much as we use. The wife offered free milk to anyone who wants it on a local community page, and instantly received warnings about the dangers of raw milk, and of selling it to the public. Despite her stating that it's been heat treated and it's free. Dips###ts. Anyway, she just received a message from a woman a few miles down the road who owns a vineyard, asking if she'd be interested in swapping milk for wine- absolutely Tomorrow I'll have almost three kilos of scalded cream to turn into butter using my century old butter churn, and the missus has already made one batch of soft cheese. Life just got busier! JayInOz

[Jimmy W]

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[Yeadon]

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Ghosting along in East Passage.

[Jimmy W]

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[Yeadon]

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Hiking through the “dog hair.”

[Jimmy W]

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[Jimmy W]

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[L.W. Baxter]

passover already, jimmy? lovely shot.

we ain't had vis'tors roun' here in many a moon...

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[Ted Hoppe]

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[Ted Hoppe]

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[Yeadon]

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Leica / Fomapan 100

[JayInOz]

We now know that three days worth of cream from our Jersey cow equals two and a quarter pounds of butter

[Breakaway]

Nice, Jay.

By the way, here we would say: two en cor-tah-pound a buttah.



Kevin


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[L.W. Baxter]

too bad i can't just walk across the field with a bag of sweet corn, jay, we could put that lovely, er, kilogram of butter to good use.

actually, could have traded for some milk. i am still bottle feeding this bugger with replacer which has me spending more than his actual value, never mind the effort. ah well, the things we do for love. just now:

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[Yeadon]

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Old Faithful

[Yeadon]

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[Yeadon]

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One more from Old Faithful

[Spin_Drift]

Saw this arch cloud driving to Anchorage a couple of days ago. Thought it unusual.

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[J P]

Did some volunteer work today finishing up a fencing project at a U.S. Forest Service facility. There were five of us oldfarts from our local backcountry horseman group doing the work. The fenced area is about a two acre enclosure for containing pack and riding stock.

Old hay barn within the enclosure:

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There is a cabin on site that was built in 1914. It was originally a guard station used by Forest Service fire watchers, but now, like many of its kind, it is available to the public on a reservation/rental system. We’ve only rented this one once before in the winter and had a great time x-country skiing there with a cozy base camp to come back to.

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This was the only volunteer project that I was able to help out on this year, but small as it was, it feels good to ‘give something back’.

[Breakaway]

Did some volunteer work today finishing up a fencing project at a U.S. Forest Service facility. There were five of us oldfarts from our local backcountry horseman group doing the work. The fenced area is about a two acre enclosure for containing pack and riding stock.

Old hay barn within the enclosure:

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There is a cabin on site that was built in 1914. It was originally a guard station used by Forest Service fire watchers, but now, like many of its kind, it is available to the public on a reservation/rental system. We’ve only rented this one once before in the winter and had a great time x-country skiing there with a cozy base camp to come back to.

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This was the only volunteer project that I was able to help out on this year, but small as it was, it feels good to ‘give something back’.

Good on you and your buds, JP.
Nice post!

Kevin


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[chas]

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My woodcarving sweetie picking up some blanks on our last day on the hook. Bittersweet moment for us as we are moving away from the coast. New challenges ahead! / Jim

[Breakaway]

Oooooooo!


Touristamous plaidatosis. In full seasonal plumage!




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[Yeadon]

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A painting of Walter Cronkite, $475

[Yeadon]

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Evening at the dock with Bruce, Jan, James

[Yeadon]

Painted over a portrait of Marlin Perkins. Painted over a portrait of Captain Kangaroo.

Priceless.

What is this from? Is that a Hunter S Thompson reference?

[Yeadon]

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[lupussonic]

Loving your photos Yeadon.

[MoePorter]

Loving your photos Yeadon.

Yes there's something striking in your B&W's. Not sure what it is but it keeps me looking...