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Totally amateur phone camera pics thread.

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This is in the back parking lot of a building I'm working on. Real Florida!
 
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bholder said:
I love Irises. I used to have some beautiful ones, but they're rather high maintenance (they tend to die out if you don't spit the bulbs when necessary).
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Funny you should say that. This one has been in the same 10" pot for 10 years that I top with 1/2" of horse manure every year. It flowers spectacularly every other year but does very little in the 'off' years. The 'bulb' was 2" long back then, but now it covers the entire top of the pot. It seems hsppy so I'm loathe to pot it on... Here's another shot, with the pot...
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SteveCS said:
Funny you should say that. This one has been in the same 10" pot for 10 years that I top with 1/2" of horse manure every year. It flowers spectacularly every other year but does very little in the 'off' years. The 'bulb' was 2" long back then, but now it covers the entire top of the pot. It seems hsppy so I'm loathe to pot it on... Here's another shot, with the pot...
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Ah, maybe I didn't fertilize enough. Whatever it was, love 'em, can't grow 'em.
 
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There's this place in northeastern PA where I go kayaking a lot (Promised Lands State Park, lower lake) that has this lovely inlet stream that's just filled with wild Irises. Was just there recently, but unfortunately, they weren't quite in bloom yet, but here's a couple of snaps to give an idea. Lovely idyllic spot (me in the red boat):

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bholder said:
There's this place in northeastern PA where I go kayaking a lot (Promised Lands State Park, lower lake) that has this lovely inlet stream that's just filled with wild Irises. Was just there recently, but unfortunately, they weren't quite in bloom yet, but here's a couple of snaps to give an idea. Lovely idyllic spot (me in the red boat):

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That's beautiful!

The Fingers family does a lot of kayaking. We have a couple huge sit-on-top tandem models. They don't slice and dice, but they're stable with the kids onboard. I'll have to find some phone pics to post (I probably already have at some point).
 
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two fingers said:
That's beautiful!

The Fingers family does a lot of kayaking. We have a couple huge sit-on-top tandem models. They don't slice and dice, but they're stable with the kids onboard. I'll have to find some phone pics to post (I probably already have at some point).
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That particular lake is also of interest because it's a traditional Bald Eagle nesting site, with an extended family living in the area. Unfortunately, this year, they didn't nest in any of their usual spots on the lower lake, but they're still in the area because we saw an adult fishing. :cool:
 
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bholder said:
That particular lake is also of interest because it's a traditional Bald Eagle nesting site, with an extended family living in the area. Unfortunately, this year, they didn't nest in any of their usual spots on the lower lake, but they're still in the area because we saw an adult fishing. :cool:
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We have a local catfish farm that is supposedly one of the highest populations per square mile of Bald Eagles in the country. A friend's father owns it. We recently took our girls out there. They were blown away by how large some of them are. Good times.
 
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two fingers said:
We have a local catfish farm that is supposedly one of the highest populations per square mile of Bald Eagles in the country. A friend's father owns it. We recently took our girls out there. They were blown away by how large some of them are. Good times.
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For some reason reminds me of a spot near my friends house in the very bottom of W.Va's Eastern "panhandle", right near the top ridge of Appalachians where the trail runs. At the very top of the ridge (trail goes well around this one), there's a huge pile of rocks and boulders full of nooks and crannies - supposedly containing the biggest rattler den on the East coast. The eagles also like the spot - nothing like some hot snake right off the sunny rocks! :woot:
 
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this is coventry spon end railway bridge known as the spon end arches
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it was built in 1848
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this is veiw then it was built with sandstone and this is how it looks today 171 years later
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in 1857 there was a bad storm in which the bad weather brought down some of the arches and they rebuilt it with a more weather friendly blue bricks in these next pics you can see the old sandstone arches and the blue brick repair
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