***3/17/2019-3/23/2019 Weekly Show, Tell, and Critique***

Amazing shot! Is that for real or photoshopped?
These things can't be invented. One simply has to be at the center of the action.
Right.

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Drama always gets lost in the "Challenges." And, this is the proof. It needs a story and there isn't any room for stories in the challenges. Your entry placed as a "so-so" picture, according to sixteen voters, and some viewers. Incidentally, three voters gave it low, low scores. Those are the voters, allowed in by DPR, who ruin it for the rest of us. Some people call them, well, this is political talk, so I'll jus . . . . . fade.

I disagree with the system. So, if I'd voted in that challenge, I'd a given it a high five, buddy.

Did you put this pic in the "Interesting Skies" mini-challenge?
 
You know that it's possible to locate your camera's position, at the time of the photo, from the information available given your posts? I called it an "algorithyme." Guess work. Think about it; plane altitude, attitude, moon's pretention, exif data for gps, . . . hmmm?
The D810 doesn't have GPS and it's a set-it-yourself clock, so it's probably ~10 minutes of being correct; a pretty solid calculation would put the plane over the Inland Empire, so that narrows it down to 4.5 million people, or 11% of California's population..

The neighborhood
The neighborhood
"That's quite the neighborhood," said one blind savant to the other, as they investigated the "proberbial" elefant. I can't get my bearings. But, here goes: if I see mountains, from your roof, that means that the ocean is behind me. If I look South, President Lopez has his binoculars on me. If I look North, well, I'm a little soured on North right now.

That leaves a wonderfully, unobstructed view of the East. When the big pizza pie hits your eye, it's an illusion. Half a degree subtension, is half a degree, even when you place the pie high over your head, on the zenith. And, no never mind the romance.

At this distance, a one hundred yards long plane, will subtend to about the same apparent width as the moon. And, it would be a "wowzer." New word from the glib around me.

No coffee yet but the babe tells me that it snowed last night, again, bummer. I learned that word in the sixties, before your time, and Bill's.
 
I stayed there when our family was traveling when I was a little guy in the mid fifties.
 
I stayed there when our family was traveling when I was a little guy in the mid fifties.
Cool Traveling old Rt 66

I think it is in one of the Cars animations?

I did not stay there!
 
You know that it's possible to locate your camera's position, at the time of the photo, from the information available given your posts? I called it an "algorithyme." Guess work. Think about it; plane altitude, attitude, moon's pretention, exif data for gps, . . . hmmm?
The D810 doesn't have GPS and it's a set-it-yourself clock, so it's probably ~10 minutes of being correct; a pretty solid calculation would put the plane over the Inland Empire, so that narrows it down to 4.5 million people, or 11% of California's population..

The neighborhood
The neighborhood
"That's quite the neighborhood," said one blind savant to the other, as they investigated the "proberbial" elefant. I can't get my bearings. But, here goes: if I see mountains, from your roof, that means that the ocean is behind me. If I look South, President Lopez has his binoculars on me. If I look North, well, I'm a little soured on North right now.

That leaves a wonderfully, unobstructed view of the East. When the big pizza pie hits your eye, it's an illusion. Half a degree subtension, is half a degree, even when you place the pie high over your head, on the zenith. And, no never mind the romance.

At this distance, a one hundred yards long plane, will subtend to about the same apparent width as the moon. And, it would be a "wowzer." New word from the glib around me.

No coffee yet but the babe tells me that it snowed last night, again, bummer. I learned that word in the sixties, before your time, and Bill's.
There's mountains in all directions except west in the Inland Valley; the neighborhood pic is up near the San Manuel/Serrano tribe's gaming house, facing SW, the flat expanse of houses extending to the horizon in the extreme right of the image leads to Los Angeles and eventually the sea. My workplace is in the dead center of the image, kind of hard to miss a 1.3 million square foot building.

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Added the moon
Added the moon



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So I Choose my Battles
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Winslow Arizona
Winslow Arizona
Teepees made their way to California during the 1849 Gold Rush, but, not before some of them passed through Abiquiu. Most of the 1849 crowd took the Yuma route, but in many cases, those on the Santa Fe Trail, opted to skip the Colorado route, (see about Donner),
Cannibalism to stay alive!
given the snows on the passes, they swung down to Las Vegas, Santa Fe, thence, instead of going to Las Cruces (your route) they swung through Abiquiu, aided by opportunists (names withheld to build suspense) they embarked on the "Pueblo Trail" to California. (The "Old Spanish Trail" people would have you think this misnomer. But, it was really Pueblo Indians who blazed the trails to California, and then we became guides for the Spaniards. Funny thing, I discovered as I studied; the Spaniards, like the American forces later, didn't keep names of guides or others, close to the ground, you know the ones who get down and smell the spoor, and then follow it.)

The earlier crowd, lead by Brigadier General and Brevet Major General Stephen Watts Kearney, in their 1846 "manifest destiny rush" to build the wall, camped out in our Pueblo, a nation in itself, and began a campaign to conquer California. It is this section of history that brought out the best in "Kit Carson," a major bigoted "Indian Fighter," who decimated the peach trees of the Hopis, the Apache, and the Navajo. These folks didn't use teepees.

Teepees are more the mobile home style of the Plains, where they learned to chafe buffalo hide, given its abundance.

The pictured teepees are way, way, way, out of place. They exist on the opportunity, that while the tourist is still thinking about the "Indian Motiff," the tired ones will fall for the trap.
Another Tourist Trap
This photo would stand to improve, if it had five teepees. No it doesn't have anything to do with counting "ten little ones." "Five" brings to mind an oddity, and, a new Mini-Challenge; "Oddities."

Oddities; submit a photograph composed with odd, not even numbered, subjects. That's a hint for those of you considering flowers, hummingbirds, deer, stamps, rocks?, well, the list is inexhaustible, as are tourist traps. Some things really do look better as an odd couple, IMHO. (Insert winkie little dingie, here.)

Well, Mr. Borne, I'm assuming that I'm the "David" in mind, since your photo has a 1957 Chevy Dually. Now, that's something into which I could sink my teeth. Nice, truck. A little closer to your age youngster. And, so the saving grace on your photo is; five, count them, five oldies, and four trailers.

Thanks for sharing your Odd photo.
Welcome
ah ha ha ha ha

David, the abiquiuense

And, if I assumed something, well, I guess I just now made an . . . out of you and me. Thanks, Buddy, I got your back.

Did you know that Puebloensii raided the Plains to refresh the gene pool?


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Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
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Using Rx10 IV at Present
 
I wasn't too sure how well this little chap was as I was able to get very close to him. However, he was quick to fly off when I got too close, under three feet, so perhaps he just wanted his photograph taken.
Well guess his personal space is 3 feet?
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Regards,
David
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Growing old is inevitable; growing up, however, is optional.
And I have opted out.


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Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present
 
I stayed there when our family was traveling when I was a little guy in the mid fifties.
Cool Traveling old Rt 66

I think it is in one of the Cars animations?

I did not stay there!
Route 66..a tv show I enjoyed in my youth.
Regards,
David
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Growing old is inevitable; growing up, however, is optional.
And I have opted out.
 
Was that ever in the old Rt 66 TV show?
 
You know that it's possible to locate your camera's position, at the time of the photo, from the information available given your posts? I called it an "algorithyme." Guess work. Think about it; plane altitude, attitude, moon's pretention, exif data for gps, . . . hmmm?
The D810 doesn't have GPS and it's a set-it-yourself clock, so it's probably ~10 minutes of being correct; a pretty solid calculation would put the plane over the Inland Empire, so that narrows it down to 4.5 million people, or 11% of California's population..

The neighborhood
The neighborhood
"That's quite the neighborhood," said one blind savant to the other, as they investigated the "proberbial" elefant. I can't get my bearings. But, here goes: if I see mountains, from your roof, that means that the ocean is behind me. If I look South, President Lopez has his binoculars on me. If I look North, well, I'm a little soured on North right now.

That leaves a wonderfully, unobstructed view of the East. When the big pizza pie hits your eye, it's an illusion. Half a degree subtension, is half a degree, even when you place the pie high over your head, on the zenith. And, no never mind the romance.

At this distance, a one hundred yards long plane, will subtend to about the same apparent width as the moon. And, it would be a "wowzer." New word from the glib around me.

No coffee yet but the babe tells me that it snowed last night, again, bummer. I learned that word in the sixties, before your time, and Bill's.
There's mountains in all directions except west in the Inland Valley; the neighborhood pic is up near the San Manuel/Serrano tribe's gaming house, facing SW, the flat expanse of houses extending to the horizon in the extreme right of the image leads to Los Angeles and eventually the sea. My workplace is in the dead center of the image, kind of hard to miss a 1.3 million square foot building.
It ain't hard to miss, if you look at your post in other than "original." MyGAD! That's almost a quarter section of office space; a lap would be three miles! Do you have interoffice drones? Do you have those fancy, smanxhie, axled step ladders that zip here and there, and a "conn," with people wearing touch lapels that ring up the captains chair,

Somebody, hold me, . . .

Do you recycle the water on the roof and channel it to an indoor garden where you can . . . Ok, I told you folks to hold me . . .

Ok, last whistle, do you have a legal, and orderly procedure in which to negotiate over the terms and conditions of your contract?
 
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Was that ever in the old Rt 66 TV show?
I don't know. We didn't have running water (unless you consider the water in the acequia as running,) no indoor pottie, (unless you consider the sound made by my dad's yeller stuff hitting the porcelain, as indoor,) and, of course, no electricity. We got electricity because of the Rural Electric Cooperative Association. My grandmother bought a radio; at night I listened to Oklahoma broadcasts, that was before they went country. I invented dances for nascent rock sounds. Our two room house, not my grandmother's, wouldn't see a TV for a few more years, because, TV broadcasted from Alburquerque (no I didn't misspell it, your dictionary has a lot to learn) and there is a mountain range between us.

The community got together and they climbed a mountain; placed a translator station, and we got NBC.

Wrong channel; right? Nope, only channel. When the more savvy returned from high school, they started talking about color. Say what? No way? Get outa here!

Ok, . . .
 
Nancy has been working on her shooting. It's very rare we go there on a weekend, but we've been busy with the houses and family, plus dealing with crappy weather, so we went out to the hunting club last Saturday to see if we could find anything. Turns out the put-n-take hunters must have left quite a few behind.

Walking in on a rock-steady Joy point:

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Getting closer:

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Flush! Here, Nancy opted for safety and didn't shoot - she felt that Joy was too close to the line of fire. I would have taken this shot because the bird was plenty high over Joy to be safe, but I'm REALLY glad Nancy kept her head. Ten thousand birds aren't worth one dog. For those PETA types - no birds were harmed in the making of this one photograph. 🙂

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Walking in on a upwind Joy point:

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Nancy made a good open field shot on this one!! Dead in the air with the old 28 gauge Remington 1100 that I used to teach my kids how to shoot flying:

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A happy hunter:

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Walking in on another Joy point in a fence row by the woods (this place seems to hold birds like fish in a net):

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That bird ran down the row. Joy relocated; and, after a bit of work got it to hold for a point again. Nancy approaching the 2nd point on that bird:

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Nancy somehow snaked her shot through the thick trees and added one more to our day's take:

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This was the harvest on Saturday. Yeah,I managed to scrape down a few as well. This is more birds than I usually kill at any one time, but Nancy's son, his wife and their four kids were coming in for the weekend that night. So, we had a "pheasant pheast!" 16 birds. I had two big cast iron skillets going at once. Not a scrap was left.

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We went out again this morning. Got into a bunch of quail an Nancy got her first quail; plus we each pushed through over 6 miles of cover according to out FitBits; and Joy had a ball! I'll post some pics of today's hunt when I get a chance. Sadly, we are gettin' near the end of the season - only a week and a half to go - then we must count the days until Sept 1 rolls around again …. ☹️

Greg

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I stayed there when our family was traveling when I was a little guy in the mid fifties.
Cool Traveling old Rt 66

I think it is in one of the Cars animations?

I did not stay there!
Route 66..a tv show I enjoyed in my youth.
Regards,
David
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Growing old is inevitable; growing up, however, is optional.
And I have opted out.
I too enjoyed it
 
Sounds a lot like growing up in the poor, rural PA Dutch culture in the late 1940's and 50's. Much different world than today. Interestingly, my new partner, Nancy, grew up in even more primitive circumstances. She didn't have her first indoor plumbing until she was married. I'm guessing there are few, if any, kids anywhere in the US these days who have the "fun" of starting out each day in an unheated outhouse in below freezing temps. Let's just say ya didn't linger....

Still... an interesting experience.
 
Finally, it is 51 degrees and sunny this afternoon, a perfect day to try that hot tub out, or probably almost as nice tonight if the skies stay clear for the stars to show. Enjoy your new hot tub!
 
Sounds a lot like growing up in the poor, rural PA Dutch culture in the late 1940's and 50's. Much different world than today. Interestingly, my new partner, Nancy, grew up in even more primitive circumstances. She didn't have her first indoor plumbing until she was married. I'm guessing there are few, if any, kids anywhere in the US these days who have the "fun" of starting out each day in an unheated outhouse in below freezing temps. Let's just say ya didn't linger....

Still... an interesting experience.
I know you differently, Greg. You are an empath. You are someone's hero.

Kids come from everywhere, and are met by indifference. They are separated, from their parents, by indifferent people. Indifferent people squander their soul. The "mandate" is to continue what your forefathers started.

They liberated their oppressor. George Washington, and company, did that.

Think Carlisle.

Think Santa Fe Indian School.

Spiritual people thought differently. They thought to instill spirituality, through a new cultural model, but, they ended up with cultural genocide. That wheel has been invented. Time to shuck it.

You shucked it when you considered suffrage. You shucked it when you considered inequality. You're shucking it now because you can't help being critically conscious.

I'm so happy that you haven't been really tested.

Andale, hermano, levantate, y anda.
 
We have a used hot tub coming in late April/ early May which we've already bought. Snow has to disappear before we can get it delivered.

Heat is a pain reliever for aching muscles and joints. We had a spa years ago and my wife decided it was time we had one again.

This model has 2 massage motors and a smaller motor that runs continuously to keep water filtered and warm. The spas typically run at 100-103 in the cooler months and get set slightly below or at body temp during warm weather. The location of the jets and type of jets dictate which areas get massaged. This collage shows the tub and the various seats which all have different jet arrangements including a dome with jets on the floor to massage the feet.

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Beware overhead drones!

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Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present
 

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