Random Photos

Winterberry Holly berries:



And since it's still December, some rather confused/premature daffodils



Both Canon T2i.

Plenty of that cold, nasty, white crap in Buffalo yesterday. Fruitphone 6 Plus, through glass from a VIP suite:

(Jets stopped for a loss of 2 yards)


(Pre-game snow in seats)


(Stadium crew shoveling)


(Jets long-snapper and kicker practicing punting from their own endzone during warmups)


(Just another winter day in Buffalo until the lake freezes)

I moved over the break. Had a 6x12 open trailer behind the Touareg and made several trips. All of the pics in this post are from my LG G3 phone.



The small ferry goes from the town of Steilacoom (oldest town in WA state if you're into trivia) to Anderson Island. A smaller passenger ferry goes to McNeil island which is a state pen.
In the distance in the second picture you can see the Olympic mountains across Puget Sound.


The road north out of town. I may have exceeded the speed limit on this road a time or two.

Successfully moved, my new commute drops me down from North Tacoma to the waterfront. I took these next two this morning. Ice and snow on the road, me on a my motorcycle, etc....


Just guessing, but I would say alcohol was involved in the placement of the bicycle.

Today's commute. I started out the door about an hour earlier than usual. From my house I drop down a hill, a twisty road marked 15mph and at this time of year (tar snakes, wet leaves, slush, man hole covers, etc) that's a good choice.

I had an odd feeling and then the bike behaved as if it were in neutral. Tried a couple of gears each way from neutral and they all behaved the same. Coasted to a stop at the bottom and thought my chain must have come off. Got off and looked and it was fine. Checked the gears again and nearly came to the conclusion that my transmission had eaten itself. Got out my flashlight and looked more carefully at the front sprocket. WTF. The jesus nut had backed off and was trapped in a perfect spot by my high dollar Touratech sprocket cover. So much for the concept of Loctite working as well as hammering that metal tab over.
So I McGivered the job, had just enough tools to remove the sprocket cover and lever the sprocket back onto the splines and spin the washer and jesus nut back on. No ability to torque it, so I hopped on and rode back up to my house where I torqued the shit out of it and hammered two ears down to the flats on the nut.
So, in the middle of the whole thing, prior to getting the sprocket back on the splines I looked up and this was my view:


After torquing and using WD40 as a quick hand cleaner (couldn't resist), I went back down the hill and along Ruston Way.

You're looking East and that is Mt Rainier to the right in the image. It looms much larger as you head that direction but I had already burned up my "extra" hour so I didn't stop for more pics.

Edit: LG G3 phone.

winter has come to town...
some scenery fom my city, last night.
nikon d700

^^^^^^^^ Anyone else catch the golden arches in Bulgaria?????

heh, they've been here since forever... one of the first (except coke, which never left) brands of the "rotten capitalism" which came, feasting on the corpse of the "bright communism"...

vaskoto1 said:

heh, they've been here since forever... one of the first (except coke, which never left) brands of the "rotten capitalism" which came, feasting on the corpse of the "bright communism"...

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Don't tell anyone, but the spread of McDonalds around the world is America's secret plot to conquer other countries by making all of the people fat and lazy.....

did you watch "SuperSize Me" documentary? A guy eats Mcdonald's 3 times a day for a month.

Crazy how a human will eat garbage. Yes, i eat fast food once in awhile because i am in a hurry, but feel gross/sick after.

My wife and I took 2 weeks and drove around British Columbia in search of waterfalls last summer. Here are some of the pictures.

I guess CNT wasn't available.

Hiking this weekend:


Canon Rebel T1i

Ice on the Hudson River. Fruitphone 6+, way too much digital zoom.....

I took this pic to illustrate a minor reloading issue but it came out pretty cool for an iPhone 6S Plus. No editing other than cropping the image.

Success! Finally got these to upload. Taken in China in 2010 with a Kodak Easy Share with 5 mega pixels. It's an old camera but it takes great pics. These 2 are from the "hotel" (really a farm house in the middle of no where) where we stayed overnight during our Bamboo forest tour.


These 2 are on the side of a mountain. There are actually people that live there all year round.

More from China. Same camera. A very cool building along the Yangtze river but I don't remember the name or what it was.

All those lights in the center of the pic are a shopping mall built into the side of a mountain along the Yangtze also. This is in Chongqing and the whole city in built in/on/around mountains. There were shopping malls underground but someone didn't think to take pics of that....dang it!

Boss called me in for few days of welding! I wanted to go home when i saw what he wanted me to fix!


Cut out and replace post and bottom pieces on the far cabinet. fixed the cracks in corners.


cut the back quarter out and the smachedtool box. cut a new fender.


rebuilt posts and bottom for back toolbox. straightened out the back wall.


that was my 8 hr work day today. tomorow rebuild inside of the rear toolbox. then start making new aluminum doors for the tool boxes.

What camera?????

My Samsung phone camera. Dropped a few times...now the camera sometimes doesnt focus right. plus i had resolution down to 8MP for small file sizes for posting cars for sell on kijiji.ca. and emailing.

if you want i will take next pics with 16MP and HDR on and stabilisation on,

Welder75 said:

if you want i will take next pics with 16MP and HDR on and stabilisation on,

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Use whatever you have handy at whatever settings you think are appropriate; this thread has just one rule:

Uwe said:

Original pics only. State what device you took 'em with.

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