Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I appreciate the birthday wishes. Thank you.

Prayers for those in need. For rain in the dry west. And for our country.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, cloudy and warm.
Got RM43 down for the areas I don't want growth and the Milestone Specialty down for the Stilt Grass, which is everywhere and hard to control-comes up through bushes and ground cover...

Drew - glad to hear the shoulder is getting better-
RNG - can you fill up the tank for just in case, even though not inspected?

Stay safe and be well

Refurbished Doylestown theater :

 

[wngsprd]

RNG, thanks for sharing all that info and pix...pretty amazing the fire makes its own weather.

Don, my roaster capacity is 1 kilo, but I rarely roast more than 454 grams (1 lb) per batch.

Saw on the clickbaits that there is a petition signed by 185,000 people to NOT let Bezos come back to earth.

 

[ronjhall]

Ron, awesome picture, did you take that in a kind of portrait mode?
seems like a perfect representation of summer
fly away bee, don't land on me

I was watching bee move from one Hosta flower to the next. It would move up into flower so far I could not get a picture of it. Then it landed on a flower that was not fully open yet. What you see in picture. These are the settings on camera.
f/6.3 1/2500 115mm ISO 1000. I cropped picture to only show what you see.
This is original picture.

 

[txdon]

Ron did you post the original picture in a different way? I cannot see it.

 

[PJSprog]

66°F and clear-ish skies this morning, going up to 88° today. We had a hazy red sunrise this morning. A friend posted a picture of it on Facebook that looked like one of those matte red golf balls.

Made dinner last night, but no one else came home in time to eat it. Leftovers for tonight, I guess.

Spent a fair amount of time tweaking stuff in the studio. I'd downloaded an update for my recording program (or is that called an "app" these days?) on Sunday, and it has all kinds of new bells and whistles to play with. Lots of new metering options now.

Stay safe out there, RNG. Hate to see you having to deal with that yet again. What a mess.

 

[Eric Salop]

These last few days have been hot for a country that has very little air con except in cars (and tractors!). Lots of people complaining, I am just relieved that thunderstorms have stayed away. Hay is ready and the bailing contractor should be here in about an hour. Looks like we will be stacking and covering bales into the night.

.lot's of joking around...mainly on getting a "dead man switch" for in my office

Roy, only thing likely to mortify you is discovering dead mans switch not made to ISO9001.

 

[daugen]

that looks pretty fast Ron, it's the foreground focus and background out of focus that I wonder if the camera autofocuses for that specific effect or you
do it by eye for the best focus on target and that's what the camera does automatically. Just curious about the mechanics of focusing here.
Iphone has portrait setting for clear front, fuzzy back so just wondered if today's high tech cameras do that too, and I know you have a good one.
I think this has to do with depth of view but I'm quickly getting over my head here.

I'm glad Paul doesn't have to pilot around this stuff...
Probably what is making Ron's sun so red

The Bootleg Fire in Oregon is so large, it's creating its own weather | CNN

As hot, dry weather conditions continue to fuel wildfires across much of the United States, the Bootleg Fire in Oregon has become so intense that it's creating its own weather.

www.cnn.com

which means it's coming in this direction...
maybe that explains why there is an air quality warning out now.

 

[ronjhall]

Ron did you post the original picture in a different way? I cannot see it.

I changed it. Posted same way as orginal.

 

[ronjhall]

that looks pretty fast Ron, it's the foreground focus and background out of focus that I wonder if the camera autofocuses for that specific effect or you
do it by eye for the best focus on target and that's what the camera does automatically. Just curious about the mechanics of focusing here.
Iphone has portrait setting for clear front, fuzzy back so just wondered if today's high tech cameras do that too, and I know you have a good one.
I think this has to do with depth of view but I'm quickly getting over my head here.

That Landscape option on iPhones has editing built in to phone. I focus on what I want as center of photo. Then anything else will be out of focus. I can set up camera to focus using multiple focus points. But to me the item I want to be most in focus never is as good as single focus point.