tell me they have air conditioning!

(ty sir!)

Rachael Mother Fucking Johnson

Where is that, Woody? At first I assumed it was a bridge/overpass, but after a bit I noticed it's a roof. Maybe inside, or maybe a shed roof, up against a building.

It's an old fruit stand on the side of a boring road that cuts through the pines in south jersey. It's been abadoned for as long as I could remember. I like to take pictures of it whenever I take that road. It might not be there the next time.

Here are some more...Motherfucking Rachael Johnson

Ha, like that. :thumb:

70 ft up a sugar maple tree:

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Skippy the Skink.

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I just learned that the blue tail (and sometimes the lines) on an American Five-Lined Skink indicates a juvenile.

I wonder: if skink-predators vision is hyper-blue-sensitive,
maybe it's a survival trait so the predator goes for the tail
and it breaks away allowing the young'un to escape and grow
up to be a big skink.

I also learned that skinks can voluntarily/spontaneously pop-off their tail, or any section/length thereof, in order to evade predators. I thought it pulled off only when they were caught by it.

Also, the tail continues writhing/wriggling to draw the predator's attn from the escaping skink.

Looking out my back door

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Very nice. You have an excellent view.

I guess to a guy from Washington, only seeing three bullshit machines must be a relief!

laff

The picture isn't all that neat, but I'm just happy I manage to capture a balloon.
We were ready with the cameras because we thought it was going to come over our house, but the very slight wind which we couldn't even feel on the ground sent it away to the South-West of us.

Good catch, Sundae! Better than mine.

The mannequins in the storefront window of Red Light, a consignment shop in the University District are showing their Pride!

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Bah, noobs... The Queen's been doing it for years.

NICE!!

So the sunset was reflecting off of the underside of the clouds the other day...

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beautiful sunset photos. here's my pics of Carolina wrens in the nest and a hatchling in my hand

Here's a photo of another juvenile wren. He flew into the window screen and got his feet stuck. He was hanging upside down when I found him.

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Sunset during T-storms, off J's balcony on Sunday.

very cool pic UT!

Okay, who opened up the portal to another dimension? Own up now. Wolf, was that you?

With rollcloud goodness.

My attempt at one of these pano's
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Cool, you got one leg longer than the other? :lol2:

:blush:

I got a little wonky there at the end...lol

No matter, still a great picture. :D
Are they leaves or crabs on the deck?

There are some crab parts from the gulls dropping them on the bridge. There is also old bait on terr too

That is a neat pic, well done!

Thanks! :)

Very cool!

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:yum:

Looks close.

Think she'll be hanging out that close when hunting season starts?

~75 yards + 24x optical zoom. ;)

She's a daisy if she does! Bow season starts tomorrow (9/7) here in KY!

You'll have the chance to take that perfect shot ... the one where the doe raises her head, looks toward you ... you've drawn, and now you release ... she bounds forward, stops, hesitates, lowers her head and grabs a mouthful of grass ... raises her head and looks back at you ... then drops, the grass still in her mouth, not comprehending what's happened. She dies with no anticipation of danger, no fear, no stress. The perfect shot.

Or so I've been told ...

You left out the part where you give thanks.

To the doe, for her scarifice...

To the forest, for the doe...

To God, for the forest...

Multnomah Falls
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Dayum.

Made from truck. Mid 70s

Nice waterfall pics. I like the vintage one. Old pictures rock.

I can't document this, but I feel you don't have enough fingers to count
the number of people that have fallen off the trail that runs up to the top of the falls.

Dogs too.

Sometimes one causes the other to slip... sometimes Darwin plays a role.

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No, feet...he said old pix rock, not old rock pix.

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium (Home of Jack Hanna!)

I fell in love with the Polar Bears. They were all above water and I was watching them (from the above ground viewing) as they went towards the water. I knew they were getting ready to jump in so I hurried down to the underwater viewing area. I was using my video on my phone and ALMOST caught the first one's jump, but I freaked out. I do have video of one eating up a fish he just decapitated.

They're amazing creatures. They were sitting on top of the curved plexi-glass in order to be right in front of the aboveground viewing level. Like they wanted to have their pictures taken! Yes, I know they just wanted to eat us all but they look so darn cuddly.

I have to figure out how to get my video onto my computer...file is too big to send through gmail.

More Bears! And Jack!
 

:)

Those are cool shots! We have no polar bears at our zoo.

Ah yes, they look so cute, like big fluffy dogs with soft pleading eyes, begging you to come innnn and joinnnn them .... so they can eat you. :yum:

I've been told (by a friend who's lived all his adult life in the arctic) that polar bears will actively hunt humans. They're not afraid of anything; they don't have to be. Everything (everyone) is on the menu.

I've always heard that the polar bear is the only animal that will willingly, and, knowingly hunt a human. Other instances of human-hunting are usually wounded animals, or rabid, or otherwise diseased, or starving.

That is an apex predator, right there.

I can't remember the guy's name, but, the old man used to watch a hunting show on one of the outdoor-type channels, where the guy's motto was "I won't hunt anything that can't hunt me back."

I guess importing via the USB/charging cable is out of the equation?

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This house is truckload.

ORLY?

Does this look scary to anyone else? Can you see the dragon's teeth? :O

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I see them. Neat!

Spencer took this one. He said it was so big that he could see it breathing.