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[Michigan Tree Murderer]

Greetings, all! It has been a while. God, I have missed this place. *hugs everyone, even "new-faces"*

I have a new phone now, as my other one started failing to display any text options!

The boys are well!

The trees/plants are well!

Still throwing clay!!

Tree-huntin' season!

Here are a few images of the recent week or so

Looks like the phone takes great pics too! Glad to see you back. Don't be a stranger, or less stranger.

I used this today and thought of you.

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[vesper818]

Spring in Northern California....

 

[Frozentreehugger]

I’m no birder . But I think it’s a. Perigean Falcon he is eating a sea gull in the grocery store parking lot . He flew by and nailed it with amazing precision . It just drop dead. Instantly

 

[Bonsai Nut]

Hiking in Switzerland...

 

[Frozentreehugger]

Pinus strobus cultivar Niagara Falls . In training . Cones started last fall . Curious what’s going to result . Strobus normally has large cones 3 to 7 inches . These are about 1/2 inch long . Don’t seem to be aggressive growing larger . I’m going to leave them .there on a sacrificial branch . And see what the seeds produce . For S and giggles . The cultivar is a weeping form . Fairly new

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

98% anyone got 100%

 

[Frozentreehugger]

93 percent thru my welding glasses at work ottawa Ont

 

[leatherback]

98% anyone got 100%
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Cool! Wanted to be there for it, then saw the cost of flights and hotels..

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

Cool! Wanted to be there for it, then saw the cost of flights and hotels..

Yeah. I know some people who drove south to see totality, they are now stuck in traffic coming back. Plus I had to work & I thought the world was supposed to end so I charged up all my credit cards.

A friend of mine took this one.

 

[Frozentreehugger]

in case you doubt the earth is heated by the sun . Black pavement parking lot at work . Clear day , high of 18c pavement temp . No wind 26c measured with a laser temp gun . Became 1.4 c cooler before eclipse to peak at 93 percent coverage . That’s a surprising number to me . I have some experience with . Road temp from racing days . Track temp from sunny afternoon to after dark , but was unaware it can have so fast a effect

 

[Carol 83]

Yeah. I know some people who drove south to see totality, they are now stuck in traffic coming back

My son went about 45 minutes south of here and saw the totality but didn't take a picture. The event caused HUGE traffic jams. My husband was 2 hours late from work and that was when traffic had thinned out some.

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

My son went about 45 minutes south of here and saw the totality but didn't take a picture. The event caused HUGE traffic jams. My husband was 2 hours late from work and that was when traffic had thinned out some.

Yeah I saw a few stories about the gridlock the Eclipse caused. Glad I stayed home.

 

[BeepBeepBonsaiSheep]

98% anyone got 100%

Best I got was 53%. It was going to be a 20hr drive to the closest point within totality. I really really really wanted to go, but couldn’t justify a 20hr drive to TX, all that gas, then to turn around and drive 20hrs back and gas and possibly sleep deprived

 

[Frozentreehugger]

Out on a Yamadori dig trip . Wild acer rubrum . Northern red maple in flower . Most people think the tree is named. Because of its red fall leaf colour . That is not so . There named . For the fact that sone part of the tree is red at any time of year . Makes a nice visual . In early spring in a mostly bland colour . Hardwood forest