Yay!!!
Visited some unpronounceable caves in Wales with the family. Kids had a blast. Digging for fossils and panning for gold (i found a lump of fools gold the size of a knuckle and slipped it over my daughters shoulders into her pan and made her day)
Dinosaurs everywhere and some very very Mild caving. Interesting day out!
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Awww! I want to go there!
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This past weekend, Tennessee had an early season for velvet antlered deer. So I spent Saturday and Sunday mornings out in the woods. Didn’t see any bucks, but enjoyed the time anyhow.
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It looks like the Mediterranean - very dry. Nice pics! Thanks.
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Not surprising tbh. This summer was very dry but overall Europe has been suffering from pretty severe droughts over the last 3-4 years.
Two years ago I was cycling home from work in 43°C heat. Not a very fun experience. The hottest day this year was 39°C which is still bearable if you drink enough but not fun. 25-30°C is my favourite temperature range for cycling 
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We had a great big pile of clay from exposing the sides of the house for waterproofing and drainage etc. - so figured might as well build a retaining wall and use the excess soil to make part of the backyard flat.
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Is that wall wood? Is rubble or disused pavers, broken masonry available to you? Soil is essentially a liquid. That wall is going to have to take a lot of pressure as it slowly decays…
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It is wood, treated pine - the way they seem to do non-engineered (sub-1.5m tall) retaining walls here. 100x100 posts laid in concrete 1m apart and rough sawn 45mm thick planks for the wall.
What’s your mitigation plan with the rubble?
Went and saw the Scorpions last night. It was a great show, despite a couple of rude drunk guys right behind me. I have all the luck.
You guys should definitely see them before they go kaput, as it were.
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Epic shot bro. Talk about standing room only …
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If the rubble has many flat bits, like pavers or broken walls, even better as that will stack neatly. It is less ‘flowy’ than the clay is and will help keep the forces in check by directing them away from the wall.
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Oh pretty cool. They’ve got equipment on stage that has gone through my hands xD
Their guitar tech ordered some stuff when it was clear that there would be stage shows again.
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Couple of weeks ago my boss came to and said “we have to send someone on an anti terrorism course and I thought of you”…not sure what this says about what my boss thinks of me … but there we go … so off I went and took some pics of London whilst I was there
Mostly around Kings Cross area and from the Google building where the course was.
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My skyline collection doubled in size this morning. Obi bought a lamborghini to race against me and is absolute horror that i refused to take it out the box
Just realised i left the price on it. So trashy. I apologise
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Love the RF 100mm F2.8 Macro
A fly at its closest focusing distance (1.4x magnification):
Perseid meteor:
Baltic Sea
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Lol, Rockin’ and Rollin’
https://earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2022-09-03-17-04-55-utc-3-6-11https://goo.gl/maps/zMxfab6jdcJ6yw6c6Started out as a 3.9 and has already been downgraded to a 3.6. Epicenter was about 5 miles from Planes of Fame, near Riverside Drive, Milliken Ave, and the 60 Freeway onramp, as the crow flies.
12747 Milliken Ave, Mira Loma, CA 91752
Wheels
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