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Interesting pictures
- Thread starter olbriar
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Okay... these mature eyes have seen something I didn't expect to ever see:
I was on the deck this morning, hunting satellites moving overhead, and saw what appeared to be a TRAIN of freshly launched Starlinks trucking across the sky in a long line! I tried to grab a picture of it (you can make it out in the treeline) and Samsung's night mode did as well as it could given that it was really dark out there... but I broke my record with 16 satellites...
I was on the deck this morning, hunting satellites moving overhead, and saw what appeared to be a TRAIN of freshly launched Starlinks trucking across the sky in a long line! I tried to grab a picture of it (you can make it out in the treeline) and Samsung's night mode did as well as it could given that it was really dark out there... but I broke my record with 16 satellites...
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
From a week or two ago, Iknow you can see the back of my house, but take another look at the sun, I know it is about usually noon when I take my walks but the tree lines look like they disapear.
Looks probable...
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
Photograph this morning.
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
Same time of day, but only a minute longer.
I'm feeling extra old after seeing this.
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
Yeah I photograph it, mom knows it is a cabbage,but looks like a rose.
BrickHouse
Android Expert
I've never seen a rose that looks like that.
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
The original photo of it is black, do you want to see it?
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
BrickHouse
Android Expert
Still looks like food t' me.
But I'll confess ... I've made a living (wayyyyy back when) in landscaping. Had several customers with extensive Rose gardens.
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
Well that is my mother's volenteer work at the campus garden,called Idea Garden.
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
This Black eyed butterfly.
Milo Willamson
Android Expert
I snapshot through my glasses.
rootabaga
Android Expert
^^^ I have watched and read much about that tragedy, in the process gaining greater respect for Gordon Lightfoot. Indeed, I often sing that song on dog walks, and the lyric "Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" are perhaps the most haunting ever penned.
I can't help but think how many families were affected by that unexpectedly accident, and while there have certainly been many, many tragedies of greater scope and effect, for some reason the sinking of "Big Fitz" stays with me.
I can't help but think how many families were affected by that unexpectedly accident, and while there have certainly been many, many tragedies of greater scope and effect, for some reason the sinking of "Big Fitz" stays with me.
Gordon Lightfoot brought the tragedy awareness to me and burned it vividly though his lyrics into my memory. That entire verse that you quote is very moving.
A friend of our son's was up north and drove two hours out of town to get shots of the aurora. He got this one, with Andromeda in the center!
BrickHouse
Android Expert
I doubt it'll last. It took close to 100 years to stop using the "half cent".
They should have quit minting the cent when it started costing more to make than it represented. I understand that the nickel also costs more than five cents. I am as guilty as the next person. I often use cash for purchases but I never carry change. Tonight we went out to eat. I tipped and paid with cash. When I was given change, I took the paper and refused the coins. I have two containers at home. One holds silver and the other pennies. I'm not collecting, I cash it in ever few years. I love cash transactions but I hate change. They can round transactions to the nearest dollar and do away with all coins for all I care.
I read that the penny will continue to be recognized as legal tender with a value of 1/100 of a dollar. There isn't any way they can remove it from circulation. I suspect it will survive for many decades with it's worthless value.
I read that the penny will continue to be recognized as legal tender with a value of 1/100 of a dollar. There isn't any way they can remove it from circulation. I suspect it will survive for many decades with it's worthless value.
Well now, what can I do with my 2 cents in the future.
BrickHouse
Android Expert
The discussion can go in many directions.
Back before high tech "security strips" were added to the paper bills, there was a report I read about it costing a little over $5 to print one bill. The price could only get more expensive with time.
I too use cash for a vast majority of my transactions.