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[jtbell]

Also in Port Jervis, the Tri-States Monument, which marks the point where the boundaries of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania meet. It's the marker on the rock at the water's edge.

We're looking southwest down the Delaware River. The left bank is New Jersey, the right bank is Pennsylvania, and we're standing in New York.

I didn't feel secure enough to walk out onto the rocks to get a closer look at the marker. This closeup come from the linked Wikipedia article.

Turning 180 degrees, we can see that we're at the tip of a cemetery, underneath highway I-84.

I drove across that bridge last week, on my way to Hartford.

Map from Wikipedia:

 

[jtbell]

Scranton has the remnants of blast furnaces for producing iron, built in the 1840s-1850s, and in operation until 1902.

Looking down into the top of one of the furnaces:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scranton_Iron_Furnaces

 

[jtbell]

I can't resist showing one of today's sightseeing stops, even though it's out of sequence with the rest of this trip. It's an old-fashioned tourist trap on highway US-522 south of Winchester, Virginia.

Remember the fish-slapping initiation ritual we had for newcomers, a long time ago?

"What's your favo(u)rite fish?"
"Megalodon." [the final pic above]
"OK, here's a nice megalodon for you!" [WHAPPP!]

(skip to the next post in this series)

 

[Point Conception]

Squall line, Pattaya Bay

 

[Flyboy]

Little late to the party with this, but saw this absolute monster of an eggplant at the Iowa State Fair this year.

I had no idea they could get that big.

 

[Point Conception]

Main selling point in this country - no bones about it

 

[docnet]

Main selling point in this country - no bones about it View attachment 350401

how do you read the signs (thai?) if you moved from the U.S.? It doesn't seem an easy language to learn

 

[Point Conception]

That's why I always like to go to restaurants with my Thai girlfriend. And for that matter with any other type of transaction

 

[Point Conception]

Fresh tuna from seafood market. Check out the Cambodian fish vender

 

[pinball1970]

Hydrangea in my garden. It is past it's peak so the colours have faded.

 

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[pinball1970]

Not even sure what these are. The petals seem a bit big for hydrangea.

 

[pinball1970]

There is always one, taking an image of the flowers this spider caught my eye. Typical for UK garden.

 

[BillTre]

I was inside of a giant hedge like this once in California. It was about 30 feet wide and about 40 feet tall.

 

[jtbell]

I was inside of a giant hedge like this once

How did you squeeze in among all those branches?

(When I was a little kid, my friends and I sometimes went to a nearby park, literally crawled inside the shrubbery that surrounded it, and circumnavigated the park.)

 

[berkeman]

(When I was a little kid, my friends and I sometimes went to a nearby park, literally crawled inside the shrubbery that surrounded it, and circumnavigated the park.)

While the dogs in the park went nuts barking at the shrubbery and their owners were baffled at their unusual behavior.

 

[BillTre]

How did you squeeze in among all those branches?

There were holes in the shrubbery surface where you could get in.
A lot of people had gone in there for quite a while before me.

 

[BillTre]

This is impressive:

 

[jrmichler]

This little guy was hiding under the deck, and came out to look around. It was so young that it could barely stand. All four legs were wobbling. Photo taken 5-21-2024 looking out the living room window.

A few days later, it was running around the yard. Another doe in the area had twin fawns. Those three fawns have been running back and forth through our yard all summer.

 

[Point Conception]

how do you read the signs (thai?) if you moved from the U.S.? It doesn't seem an easy language to learn

In this 2nd/3rd string (with some Upscale 5 star enclaves, international seaside resort most restaurants have a photo / English menu. Just tried this restaurant way down in South Jomtien. And the best Tom yam kung ( Thai equivalent of Bouillabaisse) I have seen in long time. This is the small size, about $4.50

 

[BillTre]

 

[pinball1970]

Rush cart festival at weekend in Saddleworth Oldham.

 

[pinball1970]

Lancashire Cheshire boarder walk today. I had a little help from @Astranut

 

[pinball1970]

 

[pinball1970]

The Canada geese followed us around, after food. The Tame river is the boarder of Cheshire and Lancashire.

 

[docnet]

In this 2nd/3rd string (with some Upscale 5 star enclaves, international seaside resort most restaurants have a photo / English menu. Just tried this restaurant way down in South Jomtien. And the best Tom yam kung ( Thai equivalent of Bouillabaisse) I have seen in long time. This is the small size, about $4.50View attachment 350532View attachment 350533View attachment 350534View attachment 350535View attachment 350538

does it come with the grilled fish? not a fan of crustaceans, but looks scrumptious

 

[berkeman]

Beautiful photos: National Geographic's 25 best photos in the WORLD.

 

[jtbell]

As I was driving towards downtown late Tuesday afternoon:

Most of downtown was blocked off, so I could only circle it and view the pillar of smoke from various directions. I could see that it was on the main shopping street.

When I got home, the TV stations in nearby cities were reporting that a restaurant had caught fire, and it was spreading to adjacent buildings.

Early the next morning (yesterday) I walked downtown for a closer look. Fire crews were still cleaning up. One building was completely destroyed, a restaurant where I've regularly eaten. Three adjacent buildings were severely damaged. Apparently the fire spread through the basements because of a lack of firewalls. Fortunately there were no casualties except for minor injuries among some firefighters.

 

[Point Conception]

does it come with the grilled fish? not a fan of crustaceans, but looks scrumptious

Sure or you and can buy at seafood market and have it grilled