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Totally amateur phone camera pics thread.

Looking at the shadow from the streetlamp across the street, I realized it's a pretty good makeshift sundial! I wanted to do this on the summer solstice, but here's July 1. I plan to do this on every equinox and solstice to see how different the shadows are.

The first two pics are 9:00am, then 9:30am, 10:00am, 12:00pm, 3:00pm and 6:00pm.
1. 9 o'clock streetlamp sundial - 7-1-2023.jpg
1. 9 o'clock streetlamp sundial - 7-1-2023 - Closeup.jpg
2. 9-thirty streetlamp sundial - 7-1-2023 - Closeup.jpg
3. 10 o'clock streetlamp sundial - 7-1-2023 - Closeup.jpg
4. Noon streetlamp sundial - 7-1-2023 - Closeup.jpg
5. 3 o'clock streetlamp sundial - 7-1-2023 - Closeup.jpg
6. 6 o'clock streetlamp sundial - 7-1-2023 - Closeup.jpg
 
Eas central Alberta yesterday. Mostly farm and ranch land, with lots of oil infrastructure scattered about.
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Canola is the highest paying common crop. Subject of much visual art. This is a healthy looking field, I saw many thin and short, affected by drought.
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We have lots of wheat, barley and hay.
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Driven by scenes like this many times
 
Costco came through, excellent meat. 4 of us ate 2 steaks, melt in mouth. Fresh garden salad incl lettuce tomato cucumber strawberry we grew, the first pull of garden peas, garlic mashed, garden onion in the fried mushrooms. The garlic butter from above is in potatoes, on buns, in the mushroom/onion mix. Life isn’t this good that often :cool:
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Annual trip to see my mum in Guildford, home of Andertons. I’ll go in later in the week to try out a Mustang and see if I can get a selfie with Lee or Nathan. For now, here is Dapdune wharf where the barges and narrowboats used to offload Their cargos of wool and coal. The building is an old alms house, Abbots hospital. Built in 1619 by the Abbot it was a shelter for eldery men and women of the town.
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Wanna know what’s hella awesome? Legos. Legos are hella awesome. My oldest (5) and I have been enjoying ourselves quite a lot lately. Takes me back to being a kid with all of my Legos sets.
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A Lego Countach would've blown my mind in the 80's. Sharing them with your kid is indeed all kinds of hella awesome.