Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #800 – April 04, 2020, 08:42:23 pm My cousin lives in Washington and sent me a newspaper clipping from November 1918. Ya just never know. Kent 5 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #802 – April 05, 2020, 10:47:41 am Thx, Kent. I really enjoy these sorts of personal connections to history more than the dry bones stuff in textbooks. I heard a piece somewhere on NPR contrasting the responses of St. Louis & Philadelphia, where St. Louis implemented much more stringent restrictions early on, but Philadelphia did not, & St. Louis emerged with significantly less spread; also, Gunnison, CO, where they pretty much pulled up the drawbridge--people could leave but not return during the four-month self-quarantine. Gunnison, Colorado: the town that dodged the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic |... In reading up on the 1918 pandemic, Ground Zero was in Kansas...so if someone were going down some of the unscientific/politically incorrect rabbit holes (perhaps in Kansas, gopher holes), it should have been called the Kansas Flu. https://www.kansas.com/news/local/article200880539.html#adnrb=900000 Also interesting to look at Missouri as a microcosm--Kansas City was like Philadelphia, rather than St. Louis (or perhaps the other way around: given the proximity to Ground Zero & being a transportation hub, KC's inaction probably helped the spread). Sadly, the inaction of Missouri's Governor Parson (who has a few college night classes from his time in the Army, but never completed a degree anywhere) is more reminiscent of 1918 thinking than one might expect in 2020. Here's a big "Thank You" to those of you in more proactive/forward-thinking places. We won't be here to remind anyone, but one can hope that the lessons of 2020 won't be forgotten/ignored the way 1918 has been. Lynne 3 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #803 – April 05, 2020, 08:25:41 pm Our first loaf of “beer bread!” 4 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #804 – April 06, 2020, 09:14:10 am The 2nd busiest intersection in Portland on a Monday morning at 8:15 or so........ 4 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #805 – April 06, 2020, 10:35:48 am Quote from: colddog - April 06, 2020, 09:14:10 amThe 2nd busiest intersection in Portland on a Monday morning at 8:15 or so........As an aside, one benefit of this coronavirus is improved air quality throughout much of the world. I guess we need to look for positives wherever we can find them these days! 4 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #806 – April 06, 2020, 01:38:35 pm The road to MT. Whitney. Taken by a friend who lives in Lone Pine. If you zoom in, it looks as if the road is blocked off. 2 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #807 – April 06, 2020, 03:44:11 pm Photo taken behind our campsite at Valley of Fire on the way to the GTG at Morro Bay.Harold 7 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #808 – April 06, 2020, 05:03:36 pm Great photo... "On the Way"? wow... you are retired! Where did you cross the Sierras?
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #809 – April 06, 2020, 05:24:56 pm Bill,14 to 58 west (past Greg's Rancho). We exited 58 at Comanche Dr. and camped at Kern River County Park, which we really like. Then it was just up 5 to 46 and across to the 101 south.Harold 1 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #810 – April 06, 2020, 08:20:35 pm When I was a little younger, but not by much, I had a “little” ride through Yosemite Valley.Kent 6 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #811 – April 06, 2020, 08:23:35 pm Of course when I came across this little fella, I picked up my pace.Kent 7 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #813 – April 07, 2020, 04:24:51 am Where we would prefer to be.Larry 2 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #814 – April 07, 2020, 04:33:34 am Quote from: Kent Heckethorn - April 06, 2020, 08:23:35 pmOf course when I came across this little fella, I picked up my pace.Nice shot, the few times we have run across bobcats, all we momentarily see is the tail.It's the unseen cougars I worry about when riding up in the hills.Larry
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #815 – April 07, 2020, 08:36:35 am Quote from: Larry W - April 07, 2020, 04:33:34 amNice shot, the few times we have run across bobcats, all we momentarily see is the tail.It's the unseen cougars I worry about when riding up in the hills.LarryLike this one I caught on my game cam. 1 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #816 – April 07, 2020, 09:36:59 am Sunrise over Midland LTVA.Camera Pixel 4Edit Google Photos 3 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #817 – April 08, 2020, 12:11:20 pm Lilac Breasted Roller bird in flight.Botswana 2019 © Bill Benson 4 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #818 – April 08, 2020, 01:03:56 pm Lilac breasted rollers are beautiful in flight and a little less so when perched. Getting a good photo of one in flight is very difficult. Here is one perched in Botswana last summer:Harold 4 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #819 – April 08, 2020, 04:58:11 pm Still waiting for the heavy stuff to arrive later today. Think we’ll stay home.
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #820 – April 08, 2020, 08:37:59 pm <smile> enough with them birds ........ 3 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #821 – April 08, 2020, 10:27:54 pm Good raw material for a nice pair of boots...Harold 3 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #822 – April 09, 2020, 11:17:13 am How about birds and crocs? A sixteen foot crocodile drags a wildebeest ( the size of a large cow ) into deep water in order to drown it ...Kenya 2019 © Bill Benson 2 Likes
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #823 – April 09, 2020, 11:33:13 am Quote from: BILL BENSON - April 09, 2020, 11:17:13 amHow about birds and crocs? A sixteen foot crocodile drags a wildebeest ( the size of a large cow ) into deep water in order tom drown it ...Kenya 2019 © Bill BensonBirds seem to be enjoying the show.
Re: What's In Your Camera? Reply #824 – April 09, 2020, 11:35:55 am I won't try to play 'see you an raise you one' with a globetrotting shutterbug. I'll just sit back and enjoy the view 1 Likes
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