.....A bit of off and on rain here in central Indiana this morning. Yesterday we had a beautiful day....more like it would be in May or June.
Reached 80 here and lots of sunshine. After our tractor was serviced yesterday morning I did the honors of my first mowing for the season. Really looks nice and green and thick.
Spring is a beautiful time of the year, and my favorite. Leaves and some blossoms adding to the beauty now.
Everyone have a good day.
Quentin
....Chris: From my nonprofessonal photogapher eyes, I like the composition and "color" tones and clarity of your Winter rural scene.
I hope Mookie comes back soon. There's no need to hide.
Quiet weather today with highs in the 70s, then severe storms and heavy rain Thursday through Friday. Up to two inches of rain are possible, so it's going to get exciting.
Willy
CopCarSS, I can understand where Bergie is coming from, me being a musician. If someone asked me to perform for them, I did a piece, and all I got was a "Yawn" in response, it would feel like I got smacked in the face. So I can relate
Now that we got all that off our chests, I suggest we move on...to lunch, ......Me? I am undecided Blah I guess a bowl of cereal, and orange juice for now. I am feeling rather, uninspired
Bring some rain our way, we need some of it! I looks like it might rain, but usually it likes to tease us
I've got lunch ready for you all now. In the cooler, you will find: BLTs, tuna salad sandwiches, ham salad sandwiches, PB&J sandwiches, and on the warmer bar is fries and onion rings.
Have to go pick up my medicine (had to have two of the four prescriptions refilled), so will try to dodge rain drops on my walk there and back.
Message From:The Cook
I'll take a ham salad sandwich please-
All of the conflict and hurt feelings/egos on the forum lately has me doing my best to keep a low profile, which has one bad side effect- I keep having to pick the eggshells out of the soles of my feet every night.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
I think I will take a tuna salad sandwich, with fries...a double order of fries...and some sweet tea.
No rain...*sigh* it's bone dry here, and we need some moisture. We need the weather machine back!
NightrainAFD1987 wrote: I think I will take a tuna salad sandwich, with fries...a double order of fries...and some sweet tea.No rain...*sigh* it's bone dry here, and we need some moisture. We need the weather machine back!
wow better check the news.matt and i had a good time.some odot workers had their hands full.they were taking the portable roadwork signs in the truck and mother nature decided to blow them across some fields.guess the road got fixed after we went by.were people fishing in the river for walleye today. no thanks but to each their own.thanks for supper CW.
stay safe
Joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Right down the street from North Yard...they could see some of the flames from the tower...had a softball game tonight, so didn't get to see the 10 o'clock news, but 2 firefighters were injured...will know more tomorrow morning.
blhanel wrote:I see Ed's neck of the woods is in the national news tonight- big office fire in Houston.
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I think Mookie and Tina were looking for one of these a while back...
Good Thursday morning, all. Turned out to be a nice afternoon yesterday. The rain left our area, and I managed to get most of my errands done. Still need to pick up my medicine though. But that will have to wait until after 9 a.m., when the pharmacy opens.
Coffee is ready, juice is made, and there is hot chocolate and hot tea available, also.
On the warmer bar, you will find: turkey bacon, sausage, sausage gravy and homemade buttermilk biscuits, oatmeal and toast.
Sure do hope the rigamaroll dies down, and things get back to normal around here. This place just doesn't seem right, without Mookie in here.
Everyone have a good day, and talk with you later.
morning
thanks for the breakfast.matts slow to wake up this morning.might still leave him and his cousin lucy with the monkeys at the zoo.
joe
Springtime in Colorado.
8-12 inches of wet snow this morning. (Weather liars guessed only 1-3 for later today)...Denver light rail having "issues" with its catenary.
Tornados (poor Holly, CO...Amtrak #3 at restricted speed through town, ABS signal system not getting power Syracuse-Granada), hail (1") and T-Storms out east.
Chugging a half gallon of hot cider and then heading back out.
slog-slog-slog
On the warmer bar for today's lunch: beef vegetable soup, tomato soup, and cream of broccoli soup with the following: hamburgers w/sauteed onions, grilled cheese sandwiches.
Desserts today: apple pie, peach cobbler and blackberry cobbler, along with chocolate cake and white cake w/white icing.
Mudchicken, have plenty of hot cider for you, and fixed you some hot beef vegetable soup, and a couple of grilled cheese sandwiches. Maybe that'll help warm you up.
Stopping in long enough for lunch - pretty busy at work, so no time to visit. That and meetings three evenings in a row - I just get on-line long enough to clean the spam out of my email boxes so they don't overflow....
I got something from firefighterclosecalls.com about the fire in Houston, but didn't really look at it that closely. That I got something at all from them indicates that firefighters were probably hurt.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Afternoon all.......
After a beautiful day on Monday, it feels like somebody forgot to pay the heat bill. Has not gotten above 50 since Tuesday afternoon, with occasional rain showers. Not supposed to get much warmer, but will get much wetter this weekend with rain and possible severe storms.
I see Mookie hasn't been around a few days, could use a cat right now to de-stress after a rough week at work. We're actually a little ahead of where we need to be, had to cut back a bit last night and concentrated on filling our assembly line up. Still has been a rough week.
Will grab some lunch and head out onto the deck, got a lap for you, Mookie, if you need it......
See everyone later.
Randy Vos
"Ever have one of those days where you couldn't hit the ground with your hat??" - Waylon Jennings
"May the Lord take a liking to you and blow you up, real good" - SCTV
Hot and muggy here in FL, so it's now time to crank up the air conditioner. Someone mentioned that they spent time here in FL, glad they liked the weather. I guess we aim to please Down by the beach is great, Inland it's just soupy...think...muggy....But, I would rather have this than shoveling snow every day.
Since it's so hot, I will have a plate of fries, a French dip, and a large glass of sweet tea, I think I'll eat outside though. watch the trains go by.
I miss the trains, I have to travel about thirty miles due west to avtually see them, and they are far and few between. Since CSX is re-tying the rails, no one can stop at the gates though, no trains....booo!
*leaves a bowl of chocolate cake out for Mookie*, Cats...they come in when they want...she'll be back, she's probably waiting for the contraversy to die. reminds me of my cats in a way *snicker*
EDIT I hate being pregnant, it makes it hard to type!
mudchicken wrote: Springtime in Colorado.8-12 inches of wet snow this morning. (Weather liars guessed only 1-3 for later today)...Denver light rail having "issues" with its catenary.Tornados (poor Holly, CO...Amtrak #3 at restricted speed through town, ABS signal system not getting power Syracuse-Granada), hail (1") and T-Storms out east.Chugging a half gallon of hot cider and then heading back out. slog-slog-slog
Look at the bright side. More great challenges for those who make a living promoting Denver as the place to live and visit.
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
//puts out plate of chocolate cake and milk//
Here kitty, kitty, kitty!
Dan
More on the fire in Houston - a fire captain was rescued in a very dramatic operation lasting upwards of 20 minutes or more as he ran out of air but still managed to lead rescuers to himself. Two other firefighters were also rescued during the operation. Unfortunately, two occupants of the building did not survive.
Maybe some <chicken> or an ankle next to the cake will bring the kitty out...
Whatever it takes...I miss the kitty. Moookieeeee....come hoooomeee....
For your supper tonight, you will find on the warmer bar: lasagna, garlic bread and Texas garlic toast, and mixed veggies. For dessert tonight, I've made some homemade ice cream: vanilla and chocolate, to go with the desserts I made for the lunch menu today.
Ia Brian, since you want to take off your shoes and socks, I think I'll serve supper out on the patio
As far as the weather goes, we're currently at 71 degrees, with plenty of sunshine! Absolutely gorgeous weather today!
//takes socks and shoes off
Maybe this will help! That dinner was awesome CW, thanks again for your tireless diligence!
CopCarSS wrote:Knowing Mookie, I'm sure she didn't. I'm just saying that I can completely see Bergie's perspective, and I don't think his reaction was out of line at all.Edit: BTW, Chad, forgot to mention your shots. Looking good! I especially liked the first two UP shots. So are you starting to figure out that bugger? I love my Pentax, and especially the lenses I've collected for it so far. Still, I miss the "look" that the D60 gave me. Canon has made some nice improvements in that line of bodies over the past few years, but if I were a Canon owner, the only way I'd upgrade the body is if the price of a full frame body dropped below $2K.Anyways, looking forward to see what else you post with that thing.
Knowing Mookie, I'm sure she didn't. I'm just saying that I can completely see Bergie's perspective, and I don't think his reaction was out of line at all.
Edit: BTW, Chad, forgot to mention your shots. Looking good! I especially liked the first two UP shots.
So are you starting to figure out that bugger? I love my Pentax, and especially the lenses I've collected for it so far. Still, I miss the "look" that the D60 gave me. Canon has made some nice improvements in that line of bodies over the past few years, but if I were a Canon owner, the only way I'd upgrade the body is if the price of a full frame body dropped below $2K.
Anyways, looking forward to see what else you post with that thing.
Hey Chris, I'm not haveing any poblems learning the camera (although I think the manual lacks some). I certainly have no regrets, I really like the Camera. The video output is really a cool feature too. What I had problems with was loading the canon software on my computers. I finaly got it working on my tower but I can't get it to load on my laptop. Anyway I have lots of non-train pix but I haven't done any railfanning lately except meeting Carl, Pat, and my dad in Cajon last weekend. But as far as the cam goes it's all good!!!
BTW- I have known a lot of junkies in my day, but you are the first lens junkie I've met
CopCarSS wrote:Ed,I think you're right about it being Mike and Erik's hobby, and that they choose to share it with us bi-weekly. Still, coming from a photographer's perspective, I also can understand the efforts that go into making a photograph, rather than taking a snapshot.I guess part of me automatically rallies to Erik's defense since I had a similar experience recently. I posted this shot on one of my photographic forums:and got the following post:"Ordinary. Dull B/W conversion. Should've been done in color."That bugged me a little bit for several reasons:Maybe it is ordinary. It was taken at Sprague Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park, which is one of the few trails that has virtually no vertical relief, so it sees a lot of visitors. Still, I tried to change it up a little bit by wading into the creek to add the tree limbs as a foreground to add interest to the shot.This was taken before the sun was even up (it's an 8 second exposure). So that means I was up way before dawn with a wind chill around 15ºF or so. I had to carry my equipment in. While this isn't a huge deal, since it was my digital stuff, it would have irked me mroe had I taken my new Large Format gear out with me.I spent a lot of time on the B&W conversion on this one. Generally speaking, I really dislike the look of B&W images converted from digital shots. Every once in awhile I do like one. This is one of those examples. I guess the image does lack a little "punch," which is probably the reason that he called it "dull." Still, I think it does well as a B&W shot. There's a good full range of tones (all the way from the blacks of the shadows in the water to the white of the snow on the peaks with a lot of variety in the grey tones between them). When I took the time to process and post the color version, he didn't bother to comment on it.Still, while his comment did bug me, at least it did contain some information why he didn't like it. Had I received "yawn.." as a comment, I'm pretty sure I would have been much more bothered. While it is a hobby (and one that I enjoy tremendously), it is a little frustrating to know that one's hard work garners nothing more than a "yawn."I guess one has to be somewhat thick-skinned in order to post stuff for critique. Quite honestly, I doubt I could do the Trackside competition every other week. It annoys me to no end that virtually half of the responses are "I voted for Mike/Erik because I like Railroad X." I don't think this is supposed to be a popularity competition, but rather a competition on the aesthetics of the photos presented. At least Mookie voiced her displeasure with the aesthetics of the shots, rather than the railroads involved.I guess it's all just a matter of perspective. Just my again. Back into the closet.
Ed,
I think you're right about it being Mike and Erik's hobby, and that they choose to share it with us bi-weekly. Still, coming from a photographer's perspective, I also can understand the efforts that go into making a photograph, rather than taking a snapshot.
I guess part of me automatically rallies to Erik's defense since I had a similar experience recently. I posted this shot on one of my photographic forums:
and got the following post:
"Ordinary. Dull B/W conversion. Should've been done in color."
That bugged me a little bit for several reasons:
Still, while his comment did bug me, at least it did contain some information why he didn't like it. Had I received "yawn.." as a comment, I'm pretty sure I would have been much more bothered. While it is a hobby (and one that I enjoy tremendously), it is a little frustrating to know that one's hard work garners nothing more than a "yawn."
I guess one has to be somewhat thick-skinned in order to post stuff for critique. Quite honestly, I doubt I could do the Trackside competition every other week. It annoys me to no end that virtually half of the responses are "I voted for Mike/Erik because I like Railroad X." I don't think this is supposed to be a popularity competition, but rather a competition on the aesthetics of the photos presented. At least Mookie voiced her displeasure with the aesthetics of the shots, rather than the railroads involved.
I guess it's all just a matter of perspective. Just my again. Back into the closet.
Hey Chris, don't sweat it, for every armchair critic like that i bet there are a dozen others like me that that think your work is outstanding and look forward to seeing your work and appriciate the effort (If you are like me just risking takeing the $$$ gear on a wilderness adventure deserves credit) Keep it up.
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