@JimRain Hah! I hadn't thought of that, but I happened to take this in the same roll...
Blue, blue windows, behind the clouds.
@danielpunkass golf clap
@joec Yum.
@the Thank you, this scene always gets me out there with the camera.
Shadows cast from clouds and Wheeler Crest onto the rolling bubbles of the Volcanic Tablelands make for interesting geometries.
Sometimes there are only fragments of a rainbow, and it always feels like a ghost struggling to appear and communicate.
@maique ..sat on a park bench like bookends.
@JohnPhilpin Yahoo Finance page was all about Trump last week, Traders Planning Big Changes, blah, practically had him elected. It looks very different this week. I've been using their page out of habit; time for an update.
The nice thing about a spring and summer with a reasonable amount of rain is that we get good clouds as well.
@ayjay So refreshing. We had a thunderstorm yesterday and I showered in the runoff. Cold, but fun.
It’s gonna be a bright, bright, sunshine-y day.
@maique Yeah, I know that feeling.
@maique i love this one.
@mbkriegh Terrific.
@amerpie Aye, the "interesting times" curse really sucks. On the other hand, today I feel hopeful, energized, and a little poorer (donations increased.)
Triangular granite sub-peaks on Wheeler Crest.
People complain that Presidential election campaigns in the U.S are too long, something I agree with. I suspect it correlates with the shift in population from rural to urban passing the balancing point. Well, this cycle we get to test drive a shorter version.
@Miraz Yes, they do that here, too. Except one time my friend walked out the front door, saw a quail on the railing, the quail saw him, and bam Cooper's Hawk, leaving a cartoon-like ball of feathers in the air. My bird expert says the hawks know how to wait for them to be distracted by something.
@Miraz They are cute little birds, but they sure are fast when they want to be.
A California Quail commuting at dusk. #birds
Contrasting geometries, lacewing on window screen.
@maique Ahhhh, so nice. The hats and magazines, just terrific.
Rain falling on the Buttermilks, rocky hills so named because they had enough water to support a dairy, a welcome relief to stage coach passengers thirsty from crossing the great basin and range.
@Archimage Far too vague a question. Either is fine, given the construction, documentation, and purpose.
Big pastel.
Summer dawns often seem minimalist. They presage a hot day, but in the moment, they are cool on the skin, the eyes, and the mind.
A praying mantis decided to watch me through the window.
When the sky is thinking about generating a thunderstorm, but it just doesn’t have the energy to follow through.
Greybear’s toe beans, for #caturday.
@maique I laughed when she took it to school.
@mineinmono Oh, I like "Xitter", especially with the right pronunciation. I had not seen that before.
@maique Yup, I got all that and that's what I loved.
@maique Sticker spotter has hit a new level.
@tinyroofnail That makes sense. I spent some time looking at genomics and realized quickly that, although you can think of it as programming, the programs have no requirement that a single mind can understand them, nor that the actions of the program be clear and maintainable. On the contrary, the forces that construct those programs favor crazy resilience, redundancy, testing in the wildest circumstances. I think it's no coincidence that viruses, the software most popularly named after biology, are specifically things we are terrible at controlling.
@pip Oh, yes, yes, yes.
Puffballs over Long Valley.
@joelhamill The wild hacker lures its prey...
Clouds over the White Mountains, from Little Round Valley. The whole thing sort of screams western, doesn’t it?
@annahavron I love a good cu-nim.
@jtr Not new, no, used to listen in the late 80s early 90s. Not so much these days, since i can make my own collections on streaming services. On listenability, a friend who introduced me to it and I were working at a Linux distro in the days when configuring sound drivers was a crap shoot. We were talking up the station (two Easterners in California, you understand), so the President tuned in at midnight during a late night testing session, because we had told him sound should work now. Well, he got sound, but it was crazy garbled stuff, so he trued a different machine…and got the same crazy garbled “music”. 3AM NY time is when WFMU schedules the really experimental music. We did not convert him to a regular listener.
@jtr Ah, good to see someone discover the, Ken Freedman used to say he was proud that their programming was so diverse, even he had to leap to turn down the volume several times a day..
I feel like these clouds are spelling out a message in a language I can’t read.
Lines and rectangles on the slant. I guess this could be a #VisualPuzzle.
Opposing granite.
Watching Jacob Collier’s logic breakdown of Bridge Over Troubled Water, and found this tidbit:
We had to go to E-flat Major for that, as sometimes you do, but E-flat Major is a fine place to be, so no problemo.
More firework photos. The first gap in the trees was blocked by a tree. A pretty one, but we needed to move on.
There was a crosswind from the north that provided nice blurring effects.
I thought this one looked squid-like. Not sure why, now.
We found a spot outside town to watch the fireworks, a gap in the trees on a dirt road, facing west.
The first fireworks started when you could still see the mountains, which made a good background.
Chewy outside, crunchy inside.
A stack of clouds over Mt Tom, from light to dark, increasing moisture along the way.
LADWP Water and Power installation lit up on the tablelands.
