August Pictures

April, 4th, 1952, Placerville, Colorado

I bet Jer liked dogs

Those are some really nice guitar stands.

Not from today, yesterday or tomorrow.

Black Powder Pass

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44 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jZcZKO9Qt8

It was a wild moment.  Caught an owl a couple o' years ago.

Caught a dove today.

What's that owl throw, a knuckle curve ? Flew into your catchers mitt ? Snared in your blueberry bush netting ? 

One quick jerk of the neck and that dove breast is right on the grill.

Tell us more.

Only place to be with this heat, Nonnewaug Falls

Couple of my Jerry pics from old film days.......

Now all I do is chase around birds to photograph.............https://www.flickr.com/photos/dan_ward_photography/

^ Jaz is the zone Bird Whisperer....

It's not every day that a bug waves at you...

Jazfish. Whoa. Respect.

This thread excites me. So many good images.

Nice work, Jaz.

Hi Dan. Seeing a Northern Flicker (one of my really favorite birds) on a palm tree is very disorienting. I'm going to spend hours looking at your collection of birds and other things. (Say hi to Jan, please)

BUDBOY!!!!  I sure miss you guys.

Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano

Eastern Garter Snake on the rd to the falls this morning.

Taken yesterday 

Nice looking nugs, BK. Your autoflowers?

Yeah,  gelato. That kola clocked in at 15.8g wet.

1954

There were days. And there were days.  There were days between:

Where is that?

Hi Mark, it's at Edgefield, a McMenamins property east of Portland. Concert venue, great art on the walls and doors of the hotel, distillery, winery, gardens, bars, restaurants, spa, it's got it all. We stayed there a couple of times long ago. Greg liked it because he could walk around the gardens smoking dope without concern. That was before it was legal, and he was happy to be able to relax.

I know what day it is, but ....

1955

Do 48 year-old pics count???  8-9-74.

Seen Ozzy from old school Sabbath thru Zakk Wylde, and you know what never upset me ? 

Hearing the prince of darkness tell the audience, " God Bless You All " at least a dozen fuckin times a show. 

And He's Back !!!! Un fuckin real, he's gotta have the Big Guy in his corner.

For a sec, I thought that was a bad snap of Mariska Hargitay.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-12-mn-34243-story.html

Nice monarch mike, never seen so few as this year. We normally have a dozen or so pairs in the summer.

This year we've seen just one, this guy here. Not even one pair. Fuck. I grow a patch of milkweed every year just for em.

Importance of Milkweed

Milkweed is the host plant for the monarch butterfly. Without milkweed, the larva would not be able to develop into a butterfly.

Monarchs use a variety of milkweeds. Monarch larvae ,or caterpillars, feed exclusively on milkweed leaves.

Thanks, Ras. What's amazing about monarchs is that many of them migrate 3,000 miles to Mexico for the winter. I wrote a book about them last year, and learned that they can fly 50-100 miles a day, and one was recorded flying 265 miles in a single day. And while the their trip south is quite a feat, what's really amazing is that it takes four or five generations of them to make the trip back north.

Been trying to grow milkweed for a couple yrs now with zero success.

I caught the dove in a building at work. Dropped him off in the shade and waited till the bird did the ,Start Me Up/Mick Jagger walk.

I caught the owl in another building.  He flew in through an open door. Three or four coworkers and I were looking trying to figure out what to do when he flew full speed from one corner(decent size building)to the catty corner where he hit a window at full speed.

Poor guy was knocked silly so I grabbed him.

He's coming too a little. 

Now we're in my lab. He's awake and snapping his beak. Cool as fuck sound.

We called the local Animal Control and they took the bird to a rehab. He healed up and was released on Caddo Lake not far from here. 

After that day nobody fucks with me at work. 

*snicker

Very cool, jaz!! Those eyes are mesmerizing.  

The Owl Whisperer! Nice Work. Thanks for doing the right things for wildlife.

> Those eyes are mesmerizing.

And keep you from noticing the talons.

I'm in awe, Jazfish. Did you even get a scratch on you?

Thanks all.

Joe , if you look at the owl's eyes in the very first image his pupils are huge. Out coldish.

Mike, one scratch on the forearm. 

>>>Joe , if you look at the owl's eyes in the very first image his pupils are huge. Out coldish.

they truly are and those are the last things their prey sees, too 

Giving it a shot

Success!!

((((((Jaz!)))))))

I'd feel safe in your care as a dazed owl

Is that you?^

thinkinggivesyouwrinkles

thisguy

Clearly not an August photo ^^

Is that you?^ <<<

Nah, hijacked it from here ....

https://www.phantasytour.com/bands/phish/threads/4839012/just-saw-trey-i...

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Right on jazzfish, you da man,, the look on that owls face says it all, " thank you brother human, thank you, is this heaven ? " 

Good times with TTB and Los Lobos at the LA Greek last night.

bww-liz-cheney.j

Nice, Woz. Last night in Berkeley?

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7248-rolling-thunder-revue-ameri...

Nice, Woz. Last night in Berkeley?

Yes, it was a fantastic show! The LA set list looked fantastic too. Hidalgo also played the Alligator!

D

^ I at first read that as 'A Hemp Mat for My Potato' (was just in the Norway thread)

Ponyhenge is a patch of farmland off of Old Sudbury Road in Lincoln, Massachusetts where dozens of abandoned rocking horses have been left since 2010.
No one knows who started it.
 

We're so fucken cool

Goddamn

also: @bittycar on insta rocks 

some of my MIL's (RIP) fave flowers, with insects (:

Best check that Alligator Strat for monkeypox

it's been passed around and humped a lot these last few weeks

> Ponyhenge

Seems like that would be a good place for a toothbrush wedding.

Mike, check the garden thread in a week or two.

1969

Where is this?

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas.

https://archive.org/details/ILoveYouAliceB.ToklasByKrs947ParaZoowoman

Just when I'd almost given up hope, this afternoon I notice three new monarch babies eating up a storm on the milkweed, half a leaf an hour, each. Can you tell which one I posted twice ?

My friends painting with a little Beatles included.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.18172-8/332701_2391544313504_...

Mono County

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas.

https://archive.org/details/ILoveYouAliceB.ToklasByKrs947ParaZoowoman <<<

Didn't realize there are videos on archive.org!

Awesome Ras.  Been trying to grow milkweed to no avail as yet. Maybe next yr.

Those horses look almost real.

I had forgotten about Alice B Toklas.  Really enjoyed it when I was younger.  I wonder if it holds up over time?

Mark, it still has Peter Sellers in it, so I'm thinking it does.

> Didn't realize there are videos on archive.org!

Will wonders never cease? I sure hope not.

Did they have the whole set, Noodler?

https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/wvlv91/jimi_hendrix_at_r...

Milkweed roots grow deep, 1 - 2 feet or more, near impossible to get rid of once established, so make sure you plant it in a spot that you don't mind it taking over.

This droplet stayed on just long enough for me to grab the cell to take this shot.

I never realized Jimi had siblings until hearing his bro on Howard this day!

Northbound train in 1951 near Ophir, CO

A friend died in an avalanche almost 25 years ago in one of the paths seen in the distance above the caboose. 

That's a cool shot of Fred and Archie, Noodler!

There's something about the authenticity of their expressions sharing a bit of harmony ... in light of the characters they've played on TV 

Face> just found out that my friends grandma was the post master in Ophir in the 20's while her husband worked in the mine.

br:  that's interesting! 

Not sure if I posted this shot of the Ophir PO before (1969)?  There's an old-time mailbox now (which looks like it might be near the base of the flag pole) where the gas pump appears.

Still at least a couple decades away, but someone from that FB group I mentioned said Vera B. was postmistress in the late 50's and early 60's

Beauty Mike!

Beautiful nighttime pic, Mike! 

Nice Sativa there buddy.

Here's 2 of the 25 at last count, baby monarchs that showed up in the milkweed the last 2 days.

My diddly 10 plant patch of MW is a friggin monarch nursery.  Lets give these endangered little boogers an ol kickstart !

Amazing pictures this month,  good work here.

Good job on the milkweeds there Ras.

Just came across one of Judit's cards.

Bees need some love too. They're another threatened species.

Sept 6, 1941

Meanwhile, on this day:

All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star

Jews of Vilna Poland confined to their ghetto

Hugo Loudon, president-director (Royal Oil), dies at 81

Michael "Micky" Waller, British blues and rock drummer (Long John Baldry; Jeff Beck Group), born in Hammersmith, London, England (d. 2008)

That big red alien looking thing is a Love Lies Bleeding Amaranth

^ Drought Resistant

What's that on the far right in the center?

Haha Good eye.

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FOM> Vera B was a family friend of my friends....

that amaranth is GORJ

And all the children learning
From books that they were burning
Every leaf was turning
To watch him die
You know he had to die

^ Hey, You, get offa my cloud

Ozzy's had enough of our insane gun culture.

^I don't think he's too far off in that assessment but I had to laugh because his (& Sharon's) previously stated reason for selling out of CA (LA) and moving back to UK was the high taxes. Granted high earners and 'the rich' do pay much higher rates under the progressive tax codes of CA but maybe that was a ruse because it ain't cheap to live in and around London either. 

End of August dry 

I think I've played this gig..,