Sunday, July 21st

[Cornflake]

Good morning. 59°, 80s later. Coffee is good. Wordle in three.

[Marty]

Good morning.

67F-81F cloudy.

Breakfast with friends and then grocery shopping. Probably down to the shop for a while after that. Me thinks it will be a good night for tacos.

[drlj]

Woke up in Warsaw. My great-niece was married last night at a venue maybe 30-40 minutes away. We were bused there after everyone checked into the hotel and bused back after it was all over.
Now it’s breakfast and heading home which takes maybe an hour and a half. I haven’t been in Warsaw in quite a long time. It looks pretty different—at least this part of it. We will gain an hour going home as we leave Eastern and enter Central, the one true time zone!
Breakfast awaits.

[kenlarsson]

Good morning. The Open is on the TV. I'm having a cup of coffee and am contemplating a day of rest and relaxation. Life is good, for the moment....... Have good ones.

[paleo]

I slept in a little bit this morning. Last evening, Todd and I provided the music for the Benton County Conservation's, first annual, Firefly Festival.

Great evening, perfect weather and hundreds of people.

The rest of today is a big question mark.

[millring]

An acre of grass (and weeds) awaits. Until then it's coffee and cheap toasted coconut donuts.

Y'know that throat singing thing wherein the single singer makes it sound like more than one singer? There's a cardinal in my backyard doing the same thing.

[millring]

...if I had a dollar for every time I call up the Merlin app the second after Elvis has left the building.

[howard lee]

Jul 21, 2024 7:42:23 GMT -5 drlj said:

Woke up in Warsaw. My great-niece was married last night at a venue maybe 30-40 minutes away. We were bused there after everyone checked into the hotel and bused back after it was all over.
Now it’s breakfast and heading home which takes maybe an hour and a half. I haven’t been in Warsaw in quite a long time. It looks pretty different—at least this part of it. We will gain an hour going home as we leave Eastern and enter Central, the one true time zone!
Breakfast awaits.

So it will only take you a half hour to drive home.

[millring]

I'm guessing that this old oak has stood sentinel on this country corner for well over a century. It saw the roads that corner there change from dirt, to gravel, to oil/tar, and finally to paved. There's a railroad not 100 yards away from it. In its youth the tree watched steam engines pass. It used to watch every field around it flood in the spring until the men and machines tiled and ditched the thousands of acres around it.

It stood out away from the stand of trees to its north. Crops were planted all the way around it. It was a lone tree standing.

I don't think I ever passed it without looking over to my right to see what it looked like each day, each season, through every storm and every kind of lighting. I've seen the sun come up behind it while running packages in the pre-dawn hours of winter (postal peak season), and I've seen it brilliant red-orange, lit by the setting sun of late, late afternoon.

[epaul]

Morning!

There is a pair of Merlins that nests in the spruce trees across the street (falcon family, one size up from a Kestrel). For a raptor, they are almost musical. It's settled down now as the babies have fledged, but it very almost musical for a week or so that spanned the twix tween June and July. There a lot of Merlins in town. Several Falcons as well. Saw a nice white '63 just the other day. Sharp!

[epaul]

[billhammond]

Jul 21, 2024 9:35:50 GMT -5 millring said:

I'm guessing that this old oak has stood sentinel on this country corner for well over a century. It saw the roads that corner there change from dirt, to gravel, to oil/tar, and finally to paved. There's a railroad not 100 yards away from it. In its youth the tree watched steam engines pass. It used to watch every field around it flood in the spring until the men and machines tiled and ditched the thousands of acres around it.

It stood out away from the stand of trees to its north. Crops were planted all the way around it. It was a lone tree standing.

I don't think I ever passed it without looking over to my right to see what it looked like each day, each season, through every storm and every kind of lighting. I've seen the sun come up behind it while running packages in the pre-dawn hours of winter (postal peak season), and I've seen it brilliant red-orange, lit by the setting sun of late, late afternoon.

Great writing.

So what happened? Hit by lightning?

[John B]

Failed at Wordle.

My film rolls from my trip out East have been developed, and I have scans of the 1/2-frame shots. The panoramic negatives will arrive on Monday, so I can figure out how to scan those.

I really like this shot. Bar Harbor, looking West at sunset.

[TKennedy]

Final stage of the Tour, final round of The Open. One is a done deal, the other is up for grabs.

Gig at 1 PM, hope The Open is decided before I have to leave.

Played Royal Troon in the early 80’s. It pretty much had me for lunch.

[coachdoc]

Jul 21, 2024 9:40:08 GMT -5 epaul said:

This is the exact model I had while in high school and collitch. Friends fondly called it the Dirt Bomb. Served me well. It finally burned an entire case of oil driving back from Denver to Philly. Got towed off Chestnut St in center city and I never bothered to reclaim it.

[david]

Wordle 1,128 4/6

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A busy last two days. I changed the oil in my new motorcycle and took it for a forty mile ride. I am loving it.
I helped eldest son move gravel to create a pad for his to be constructed Tough Shed. A nice workout. We might get a thundershower today. Rain would be nice but Oregon doesn’t need any more fires

[millring]

Jul 21, 2024 10:10:32 GMT -5 billhammond said:

So what happened? Hit by lightning?

Blown over. We had 60-70 mph (some claims of higher) winds the other night. I'm sure this oak had survived worse winds than that. I'm not sure why those were what took her. A few miles away on my route there was a large maple that was blown completely uprooted. But this one cracked right through the trunk.

[John B]

Hard to tell whether this is a scan of one of Dad's old pictures from the 1970's or a recent picture. Acadia National Park, looking East.

[Marshall]

<Bah-hah-bah>

[coachdoc]

God I love Acadia Park and Bar Harbor. (And Boothbay Harbor) The hours I’ve spent driving US 1 between ‘em.