I'll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours Sun Aug 31

casey_nfld

9 years ago

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jim_1 (Zone 5B)
9 years ago
Learning to stand-up-paddle on Oahu's north shore.
murraysmom Zone 6a OH
9 years ago
I love seeing pictures with bodies of water in them. I often wish I lived near a place with a large body of water close by.
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Schoolhouse, you live in Paradise, but then so does Casey...such beautiful scenery posted today. :) Thanks everyone!
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Thanks for that info triciae. There were signs on the ship that contained some of the same information, but since we were pressed for time because I had to get back to my father-in-law's place to start prepping for the shrimp/mushroom risotto dinner I had planned, I only briefly read the first few signs, and after that just took pictures of the signs. I had heard that the vessel was based out of New London, but never heard the state mentioned. One of the signs attempted to answer why the Coast Guard keeps and maintains a sailing ship, and uses it for training when none of the other ships it uses are sailing ships. They had a longish explanation mentioning "learning the sea", "learning to work together", but I think the real reason is its beautiful and cool and it maintains a tie to the past. I had been sailing on a sunfish the previous day, and was imagining the Eagle trying to chase down smugglers and gaining until the ship had to tack or the smugglers turned into the wind and got away. "Dang it, they escaped again." :-) Edited to add picture of sign: This post was edited by bob_cville on Mon, Aug 11, 14 at 11:31
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Thanks Casey. The smokey skies from the Yosemite fires really colored a lot of my photos. At times the sun in our area burned a hot, bright orange and left an eery look to the landscape. I don't know where the jays were finding peanuts but I saw a number of jays with them. Someone at the campground must have put them out. This guy was trying to hide the peanut from me in a dirt hole. Jodi-
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Our first evening on Block Island we wen to the beach to relax. This guy climbed up my wife's chair, walked across her leg: It then jumped over to her brother, and climbed up to his hat.
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bob_cville
9 years ago
These three pictures are from the Rockland Lobster Festival in Maine a few week ago.
nicole__
9 years ago
USAF "Wings of Blue"...parachuting...

Parachuting with smoke....
Jodi_SoCal
9 years ago
Near our home. Newport Harbor, California.

Jodi-
murraysmom Zone 6a OH
9 years ago
Jodi, does that sign say "Welcome to Balboa"? Oh, I clicked on it and it does. I had the greatest of pleasures to spend time there two years ago. What fun!! We took that ferry over. We stayed on Linda Island, I believe. Just loved it.

Nicole, I love that first picture. The colors are electric and the flag is really neat.

The Lobster festival looks like tons of fun too!

Nice pictures today.
Jodi_SoCal
9 years ago
Murraysmom, yes, that is Balboa peninsula. You stayed on Lido Island (not Linda) ... both are at Newport Harbor. We live just a few miles inland from this area. It's a beautiful and fun place to visit and I've done a number of photo shoots there. This photo was shot from a whale watching boat on its way out to sea.

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bob_cville
9 years ago
I think I've determined that the wasps flying the pasture yesterday were Scoliid Wasps (Scolia dubia) which are are described as:

You DEFINITELY want this wasp in your yard. The favorite food for the larvae is the Japanese Beetle Grub. The female somehow locates an underground grub, digs underneath it and lays an egg on it. The egg hatches and the grub is doomed! If you see these in your garden, you also have an infestation of Japanese beetles.

They are also very timid - you can brush them off a plant and not get stung.

so despite being scary they are mostly harmless, and may help to control the japanese beetles that have been eating everything.

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