Beautiful

Waiting for dr, looking at pics...

you know, i just found a picture and it's an awkward one at that.......dunno if i should put it up since it is 9/11, cause on the picture it literally says 9/11/01????

thoughts??

now i don't know the reality of the picture or if it's authenticy either.....

I've been feeling pretty melancholy today & about an hour ago I finally put my finger on it.

9/11

I mean, I knew it was the anniversary but for some reason I hadn't put the two together.

yeah me too.....a lot of emotion going around bout today. And as well as it should be.........

but what's weird is i'm see al ot of people spreading a lot of fake picture around too....i picked off one that's been going around. i just found out what the picture is.....

can't people people are capitalizing on this day........just make me wonder bout people sometimes

GreatwhiteNorth said:

I've been feeling pretty melancholy today & about an hour ago I finally put my finger on it.

9/11

I mean, I knew it was the anniversary but for some reason I hadn't put the two together.

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killer tribute

Andy Goldsworthy: a selection

I first learned of him as a maker of utterly beautiful cairns and other exemplars of drystone masonry. Some examples follow.

He often builds a "beehive-teardrop" sort of shape.



A near-parabola in undressed slate.



What a craftsman.





This is so much harder than it looks



A transitional piece showing what he might do with other media ... color/shading gradation for the win

Andy Goldsworthy: leaves















I love his stuff

cannabineer said:

This is so much harder than it looks

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Looks impossible.

SSGrower said:

Looks impossible.

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No way I could do that. He has both skill (born of vast experience) and a talent for reading how rocks join.

cannabineer said:

No way I could do that. He has both skill (born of vast experience) and a talent for reading how rocks join.

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Thanks for sharing, inspirational, I'd love to build a cairn like those.

SSGrower said:

Thanks for sharing, inspirational, I'd love to build a cairn like those.

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I'd love to have somebody build a cairn like that, here. Let's combine our futile fantasies. There's no limit to the free fantasy ale and bud I'll provide while you're plainly working hardly

Andy Goldsworthy: stems and seeds

Lastly, Andy Goldsworthy: ice.

now i see why you like his stuff, awesome shit.....nice to see on a rainy morning like i'm having...

morning btw....

got some new stuff on florence i'll put up here in a minute, just waking up......

damn really nice.....

This is a natural and very rare ice disk. The headline cracked me up: "Nature Imitates Andy Goldsworthy".

ok new update with Florence here, these are current NASA picts of the storm. She's a beauty, but she's a dangerous one. Hoping like heak it doesn't turn into another Harvey event, or a Katrina event cause of the warm coastal waters......without further adue....here she is....



some close ups of the eye wall in the next 2 pictures.....



now for a really close up, those camera are bitchin in the station, surprised they don't put a telescope on it....hmmm


that's the actual ocean at the bottom.......

Flyby by ISS


if you have family, friends or others, please tell them to get out, and at least take shelter, when this is done. Hopefully the people in the area will help like we in texas did with Harvey.......prayers are out there for those people.....

ColoradoHighGrower said:

A HUGE mama spider carrying her babies on her thorax crossing the trail while walking the dog.. about the size of a tarantula, no joke:




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Poop bag for scale lol:

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wolf spiders, they can jump. you should see when i weedeat the field out back, they jump like giant crickets

BudmanTX said:

ok new update with Florence here, these are current NASA picts of the storm. She's a beauty, but she's a dangerous one. Hoping like heak it doesn't turn into another Harvey event, or a Katrina event cause of the warm coastal waters......without further adue....here she is....

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some close ups of the eye wall in the next 2 pictures.....

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now for a really close up, those camera are bitchin in the station, surprised they don't put a telescope on it....hmmm

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that's the actual ocean at the bottom.......

Flyby by ISS

if you have family, friends or others, please tell them to get out, and at least take shelter, when this is done. Hopefully the people in the area will help like we in texas did with Harvey.......prayers are out there for those people.....

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when you see the scale of it, it puts things in perspective. we're tiny and inconsequential. just clouds, just the most insubstantial of things, can devastate our whole society. and we keep doing everything we can to make things worse.

Roger A. Shrubber said:

when you see the scale of it, it puts things in perspective. we're tiny and inconsequential. just clouds, just the most insubstantial of things, can devastate our whole society. and we keep doing everything we can to make things worse.

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compare to that storm....we are this:



a grain of sand.....