The new Random Pictures Thread:

[engineear]

For those of you who don't remember Gary Larson

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He's working again, so I hear.

 

[EricTheCat]

This is how my fingers feel right now. Incidentally it is also how my storm door looks.

The driveway this morning.

 

[newmisty]

This is how my fingers feel right now. Incidentally it is also how my storm door looks.
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The driveway this morning.
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Nature, the G.O.A.T artist.

 

[Goldhedge]

What's a gigatron & why did u post it? Is that something to do with the post you quoted Eric in? I've only read a few recent posts havent made it to the earlier ones. Actually sounds like something I might be interested in

https://www.goldismoney2.com/threads/the-new-random-pictures-thread.290548/post-2070353

 

[newmisty]

https://www.goldismoney2.com/threads/the-new-random-pictures-thread.290548/post-2070353

Ty

 

[newmisty]

At a clients house

 

[newmisty]

Was Jam night for the first time in moons. Who can spot "the new drum"* and correctly identify it(not hard)?

(Fyi played with filters in pic edit program just because)

*(Not a drum not was it ever struck!)

 

[Goldhedge]

Bass drum?

 

[Goldhedge]

Inside a violin by Adrian Borda

 

[EricTheCat]

Something tells me that new "drum" might have an unusual tone for a drum.

 

[engineear]

Was Jam night for the first time in moons. Who can spot "the new drum"* and correctly identify it(not hard)?

(Fyi played with filters in pic edit program just because)
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*(Not a drum not was it ever struck!)

That round yellow doughnut...you sit on that because you have hemorrhoids...or it's a percussion device.
My 1st thought was the floor toms with pristine looking heads.

 

[specsaregood]

After 20 years of carting my wifes records around and having no where to put them where they could be used, nor a record player to play them on. I finally got our new living room emptied out, and some shelves and a record player for her for christmas.

Lots of good stuff in there.

 

[Brio]

This is sorta neat. A friend was driving around looking for dead trees to cut up for firewood and happened on this interesting building. It's on top of a hill, (in BC it isn't a mountain unless it has snow) I think it's something to do with the airport which is ~ 10 miles away, not sure.

 

[Someone_else]

It looks like a VOR. It sends a radio signal that changes as it rotates, and a receiver in the plane can show which radial you are on.

 

[Brio]

Yup, that looks like exactly what it is. Thanks!

 

[Brio]

Last couple winters I've been running a small log yard at the Northern tip of Williston Lake. Took this pic one morning. Bizarre, some of the things we saw up there.

 

[Unca Walt]

Forgot to post this... As I enter the springtime of my senility, I find myself stiff in every joint but one.


Found this guy holding on for dear life in the high winds we are having right now, I thought he was a decaying leaf stuck in the rough wood...

...until I got closer:

 

[Unca Walt]

Last couple winters I've been running a small log yard at the Northern tip of Williston Lake. Took this pic one morning. Bizarre, some of the things we saw up there.

Good heavens. Some sort of rocket launch?

No! Wait!! I see it now -- it's a Tyrellian cruiser heading to the North Pole to fire a warning shot that we have one Tyrellian week to... to...

...I dunno. I got nuthin'.

 

[Bottom Feeder]

Don't they call those things 'sun dogs'?

 

[newmisty]

Forgot to post this... As I enter the springtime of my senility, I find myself stiff in every joint but one.


Found this guy holding on for dear life in the high winds we are having right now, I thought he was a decaying leaf stuck in the rough wood...

...until I got closer:

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Wow!
The envied inspiration of aeronautics and science fiction designers world wide.

 

[Unca Walt]

Don't they call those things 'sun dogs'?

If you go to the original posted pic and expand that to your best level... you'll see it is, well, structured.

Here... I'll do it for ya. Fargin weird. I'm still goin' with the Tyrellian Cruiser. We gotta tell the MIB.

 

[Uglytruth]

Yesterday at lake Erie with my flip phone.

 

[BackwardsEngineeer]

Hey UT,
That pic reminds me of my years as an electrician at the Conneaut dock, equipment covered in ice, damp cold until the lake froze... always dark and dreary... No part of me misses that... moved from Folly to oceanfront Kiawah yesterday. Slightly foggy mid sixties, gentle breeze, bicyclists everywhere

 

[engineear]

Grew up in Cleveland...usually grey/overcast. Miss summer and fall...that's all.

 

[TomD]

Yesterday at lake Erie with my flip phone.

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For those of us like myself, who live and grew up in the South, that picture is a reminder.

 

[TomD]

I finally figured out where they're coming from. Now I can set the traps.

 

[PhucilliJerry]

Ribbon snow? Reminds me of the ribbon candy my Grandmother used to have at Christmas dinners, although less colorful and not nearly as sweet.....

 

[newmisty]

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Ribbon snow? Reminds me of the ribbon candy my Grandmother used to have at Christmas dinners, although less colorful and not nearly as sweet.....

Your pic?

 

[PhucilliJerry]

Your pic?

Yeah, off the slide of my kids’ playset in the backyard.

 

[Scorpio]

that is cool as heck

 

[PhucilliJerry]

that is cool as heck

I sure thought so. Would have been cool to see it in action. Makes me wonder what came together to make it happen like that. We had snow over night, then a mix of rain/snow/sleet until early afternoon when the sun made an appearance.

 

[Scorpio]

that is the thing, to maintain that elasticity without breaking as it folded is curious for sure,

 

[Unca Walt]

Yesterday at lake Erie with my flip phone.

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Oh, God.

You pore sod. It was 82f and sunny here in South Floriduh. Butterflies everywhere. There's one kind that just seems to play-float in the air. We always called them "Painted Ladies".

I just found out they ain't. They are what is called a "Florida Winter Butterfly". And they have the rather ominous name of "Nemesis Bird".

But they're still gorgeous, and will let you approach them. They pair up, flying around each other. Dozens.

 

[Goldhedge]

"Painted Ladies"

Got this off the net...

 

[EricTheCat]

Here is a painted lady from my collection, taken August 2019.

I think Uncle Walt's moth is a Pandora Sphinx. I found this one on my lilac a few years ago.

 

[Bottom Feeder]

My fellow GMers never fail to entertain me. Ya lead me off on such flights of fancy I may never know where I wind up: in the cosmos or in the back yard.

What's the difference between a butterfly and a moth, I thought after y'all posted those cool pics.

Led me to search to find out, and at the Library of Congress, I found a very nice presentation on just what those little bugs are all about.

Take a look, you'll like it
Butterflys & Moths

BF

 

[EricTheCat]

Can you guess which this one is?

 

[Bottom Feeder]

fuzzy antenna = moth
BF

Lepidoptera (from the Greek lepis meaning scale and pteron meaning wing).
see what ya made me do?
<grin>

 

[specsaregood]

Can you guess which this one is?

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Is that a lobstertail moth? Tough to tell from that angle. Cool critters if so.

 

[vichris]

Ocotillo Bloom near Trinity site.