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[jtbell]

It makes more sense if they're selling the bookcase.

Right, they sell bookcases/shelves and other home/office furniture. The books are merely props.

 

[Flyboy]

… I hate raccoons. They’re just smart enough to do some really stupid things… like run across the highway, basically get clear of my oncoming truck, and only then decide to make like a squirrel and head back the other way… with my truck at most a second away at freeway speed.

I’m just glad that the damage was limited to the loss of a single portion of the air dam under the bumper.

 

[pinball1970]

Trying to get a few autumn images in this weekend.

 

[jtbell]

It looks like nobody's managed to identify the home/office furnishings store that populates its floor-sample bookshelves with Swedish books. Here's another clue: it has a cafeteria where I had this for lunch:

 

[Ibix]

My "ah" was because I deduced Ikea from the Scandinavian bias of the authors and from your previous hint. The meatballs confirms, I think.

 

[jtbell]

Halloween is coming... boo!

 

[DennisN]

I'm on an overnight trip to a nearby city. Can anyone guess where I spent part of the afternoon?

I don't, but I can see that those are books in Swedish.

Edit: Ah, I see the other posts now, and my guess was in an IKEA store.

 

[Flyboy]

From a few hours ago in Central Iowa... tonight's auroras.

 

[nsaspook]

Repairing LINAC 13.56 MHz RF resonators. The tuning coil (inside the SF6 tank) compression gears are worn.

 

[AlexB23]

From a few hours ago in Central Iowa... tonight's auroras.

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Wow, the aurora are beautiful. My city has too much light pollution. :(

 

[pinball1970]

A Sunday walk into Hyde, i have been eyeing this church up for a while but should have focused on the bridge.

The sun was always too bright for this shot, 5pm in October is just about right.

 

[AlexB23]

A Sunday walk into Hyde, i have been eyeing this church up for a while but should have focused on the bridge.

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The sun was always too bright for this shot, 5pm in October is just about right.
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Both the church and bridge are beautiful. I guess we can say that architecture bridges the gap between science, engineering and art. ;)

 

[DaveC426913]

We've all seen sunbeams but how often do you see a shadowbeam?
Out sailing yesterday heading East with the sun low in the West. Passed under this contrail and caught this beam of shadow.

 

[AlexB23]

We've all seen sunbeams but how often do you see a shadowbeam?
Out sailing yesterday heading East with the sun low in the West. Passed under this contrail and caught this beam of shadow.
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I have only seen this phenomenon a few times in my life. This blows me away. :) Beautiful contrails and shadows here.

 

[berkeman]

What is wrong with this picture? Yikes.

 

[AlexB23]

What is wrong with this picture? Yikes.

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Looks like a fire hazard if you ask me, and looks AI generated.

 

[jtbell]

What is wrong with this picture? Yikes.

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The ceiling beams look oddly placed, to my eyes.

 

[morrobay]

I sure like the railroad ties table

 

[DaveC426913]

The ceiling beams look oddly placed, to my eyes.

I put that down to a wide angle shot which tends to distort 90 degree angles.

 

[jtbell]

Another stop on my road trip in August: the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Williamsport, Maryland. It operated from 1831 to 1924, and is now a national historical park that parallels the Potomac River from Washington DC to Cumberland, Maryland.

The steel bridge in front of the highway bridge is a former railroad lift-bridge. It's permanently fixed in its raised position, and serves as a pedestrian bridge.

An aqueduct carries the canal across Conococheague Creek which flows into the Potomac River a short distance downstream to the left.

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[AlexB23]

Another stop on my road trip in August: the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Williamsport, Maryland. It operated from 1831 to 1924, and is now a national historical park that parallels the Potomac River from Washington DC to Cumberland, Maryland.

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The steel bridge in front of the highway bridge is a former railroad lift-bridge. It's permanently fixed in its raised position, and serves as a pedestrian bridge.

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An aqueduct carries the canal across Conococheague Creek which flows into the Potomac River a short distance downstream to the left.

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Nice landmarks, brother. I wish the Midwest had more stuff like this.

 

[jtbell]

I wish the Midwest had more stuff like this.

There's the Ohio and Erie Canal, not the whole thing unfortunately.

 

[AlexB23]

There's the Ohio and Erie Canal, not the whole thing unfortunately.

Wisconsin sadly has none of these landmarks.

 

[jtbell]

On the way back to my car in Williamsport, I passed a hill with some cannons on top.

"Hmmm... Civil War, I bet." Yep!

You can see part of the highway bridge over the Potomac, which also passes over the canal in my previous post.

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[jtbell]

During the storm nearly three weeks ago, one of our neighbors had a tree come down behind their house. It ended up resting against the roof and the back wall. It wasn't noticeable from the street, except for the upturned roots which were visible behind the right side of the house.

A tree-removal crew finally arrived a couple of days ago, with the following result.

A large part of the roof and back wall on the left side collapsed. I haven't been back there to see the gory details. The occupants are now staying somewhere else.

 

[Borek]

I had to fully open to 2.8, so plenty of distortion on the edges, and slightly out of focus (setting focus in the dark is challenging), other than that reasonably good.

 

[jtbell]

We've been invaded by the Canadian Air Force!

 

[DaveC426913]

(setting focus in the dark is challenging)

?
Set focus to infinity.

Nice pic tho.

 

[Ibix]

Fog in the river valley, so the far side sits above the clouds. There's an industrial estate there, though, not a city with gorgeous blondes who admire Spock for his intellect.

Terrible photo, sorry. It was taken on my phone at maximum zoom over the heads of some workmen who were looking at me a bit suspiciously instead of wondering if I might be photographing something behind them.

 

[Swamp Thing]

It's all a matter of perspective...

 

[jack action]

We've been invaded by the Canadian Air Force!

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Our breeding ground is 2 blocks away from my house:

Not my picture but this is an old railway that has been converted to a cycle path that follows the edge of a lake (yellow line south of the lake in the image below). More cycle paths have been added around and across the lake and some geese stay there all summer to raise their young and then fly away in autumn. On any day, you are always stuck maneuvering around these birds at one place or another when biking there.

 

[jtbell]

And you have to clean your tires regularly, right?

 

[gmax137]

You guys do know they're "Canada Geese," not "Canadian," right?

I was sure I read that they were named after/by an ornithologist John Canada. But today I can't seem to find that again. More googling...

https://www.answers.com/birds/How_did_Canada_geese_get_their_name

There is an urban legend that a man named John Canada was the taxidermist who first identified and classified the Canada Goose from the North. He decided to name the bird after himself, hence the name Canada Goose.
To begin with, a "taxidermist" mounts the skins of animals. If the man was a biologist who classified new animal species, he would be a "taxonomist".
However, no record of a John Canada exists in either profession.
The first recorded use of the name, 'Canada goose' appeared in 1772 in Carl Linnaeus' 8th-century work, Systema Naturae.
James Audubon called it the Canada goose in 1836.

I like the taxidermist vs taxonomist angle!

 

[nsaspook]

 

[berkeman]

Must be low frequency, with all those 'scope probe ground clips dangling...