I take this as Nature's cue to get planting. #Frogspawn on the #allotment pond and lots of it. So today in went some Broad Beans, it been far too wet in the UK to do this much sooner. #growyourown
And another #superbOwl
Eastern Screech Owl. December 2025
summer is on its way, I can hear it in the soil. the first of my tulips are already peeking their heads out of the ground.
#bloomScrolling #photography #red
Tom Brady reacts to closeup of Fernando Mendoza in National Championship game https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/23/tom-brady-reacts-to-closeup-of-fernando…
After printing a tool for respooling filament and printing a tighter closing extruder lever, I am now able to print the LAYWOO-D3 Wood Filament, famous to produce a temperature-dependent wood grain texture (https://github.com/MoonCactus/gcode_postprocessors/tree/master/wood
Fine tuning the Lego spectrometer more.
Using a maglite as the source eliminates the need for a separate collimating lens.
I also switched away from the very flaky variable slit made of a sliding brick that wouldn't stay in place if you looked at it wrong.
After some failed experiments with aluminum foil, I discovered that the round tree trunk Duplo brick was a tiny bit smaller than a nominal square 2x2 brick. When placed next to a square brick and locked in place with …
#silentSunday
Water Lily. August 2018
snow outside my window while I am looking at more of last year's flower pictures
#bloomScrolling #begonia #orange
These are the photos for my 2026 calendar. Got the proofs today. Should have the hard copies in 2 weeks. Always agonizing to pick 13 of my photos for the next one. The last few years I’ve had to use older ones too. I don’t get out to shoot as much anymore. I’m hoping that will improve. I’ve volunteered to be a photographer for the city park dept. I’ll take pics of people engaged in the parks and activities, and whatever else I see.