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Composition, Jomtien Beach
Sandy beach seen through palm fronds, with calm blue sea and a distant hazy headland under a clear sky, and a blue sunbed edge in the lower corner.
 
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Tropical Storm (formerly Hurricane) Helene blew through here a couple of nights ago. This was at 5 AM yesterday:

Radar precipitation map of the southeastern US with a legend from light to extreme, centred on Georgia and South Carolina, showing heavy bands over Atlanta, Augusta and Charleston.


Our power went out a half hour later. It’s still out, about 27 hours later.

We’re OK, no damage to the house that we can see so far, just a lot of litter in the yard, and some water came in through a leaky window frame.

Brick carport beside a white vinyl-sided house, its shingled roof scattered with leaves and debris, with a dark blue car parked underneath and tall trees and overgrown yard around it.


Several large trees are down within a couple blocks from here, impacting at least two or three houses.

This is probably what’s cutting off power to our neighborhood:

A large tree has fallen across a paved road, its trunk and branches lying over the asphalt, with broken limbs and leaves scattered on the surface and power lines sagging nearby.


Looking through the gap in the limbs:

Photo of a paved road in a wooded area strewn with fallen tree limbs and debris after a storm, with a large downed tree trunk in the foreground and a car visible in the distance.


It may be a while before we get power back.

Even our cell phone service was out from about noon yesterday until sometime last night.

At least our car has a full gas tank.
 
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A local team, 315 attendance at the game I attended. (About 1000 employees at Manchester United and 76,000 attendance for a quick comparison)

Entrance to Seel Park, home of Mossley AFC, with a welcome sign reading Mossley AFC above black gates and stewards by the turnstiles, hills behind.

A quick beer after the match.

Stone-built pub on a street corner with a red sign reading THE FLEECE INN, with a second sign on its side wall, under a blue sky with hills behind the rooftops.

A nice place to go for a football match Mossley, Pennines in the background.
Street view of a hilly town with stone walls in the foreground, parked white vans and cars lining the road, sandstone buildings on the right and wooded hills in the distance.
 
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Hyde, Cheshire

Photo of a tree-lined roadside verge covered in fallen autumn leaves, with a busy road of parked and moving cars on the left under a leafy canopy.


Hyde Town hall.

Large red brick Victorian town hall with a clock tower and dome on the left, slate roof and tall chimneys, set on a street with parked cars and a red traffic light.


Large red brick Victorian civic building with stone trim, a gabled central pediment with a circular window, tall chimneys and a flagpole, on a street corner under an overcast sky.

Ashton town square, I liked the cross in the sky.

Dusk street scene with an orange and grey sky crossed by two white contrails, a tall scaffolded building on the right and brick and stone buildings along the left.

Manchester.

City street in daylight with a red-brick office block on the left, traffic lanes and red bus lane markings, and pedestrians on the pavement. On the right, a pub with signs reading "AND APPLE", "LIVE Sport SKY TNT" and "SALSA classes MONDAYS".


City street receding into the distance on a sunny day, with tall trees and a lamp post on the left, a bus and cars in the middle, and stone Victorian-style buildings on the right.
 
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I drove around town yesterday to charge up our cellphones. Power was out everywhere. The only businesses open that I could see were a few gas stations, two hardware stores, and a Waffle House.

I haven’t been out yet today, but I suspect things are pretty much the same.

Lots of trees down at the college. Classes are cancelled until October 9; there was a scheduled fall holiday on the 7th and 8th anyway.

Brick building with white columns and a large fallen tree trunk on the lawn, with cut logs and an orange wood chipper beside it.

Large uprooted tree lying across a campus lawn and walkway, with its root ball raised on the right beside a red brick building and branches strewn on the grass.

Brick building with white columns on a sunny day, with large uprooted and broken trees and scattered branches across a lawn and walkway in the foreground.

A large uprooted oak tree lying on a lawn in front of a two-story red brick building with white-trimmed windows, its root ball exposed and branches scattered on the grass.

Storm-damaged street with a leaning wooden utility pole, tangled power lines hanging low over a parked dark sedan, and a brick building and trees behind.
 
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Manchester Deansgate.

I know these look a bit samey, I must have taken about 50 images at three locations but most do not come out. These buses just kind of lined up for me.

Street scene in Manchester at dusk with three yellow double-decker buses on a road junction, one showing route U2 to Manchester, beside a white corner pub labelled Sawyers Arms and red brick buildings.
Corner view of the Sawyers Arms Hotel, a white Victorian pub building with ornate detailing and a dark green-and-gold ground floor, on a city street with pedestrians and crossing lines.
 
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@jtbell I feel guilty posting these as we had some rain and wind in Manchester yesterday but that was it.

Rain-wet city street at dusk with red tail lights of stopped cars, brick Victorian buildings on the left, and red and white barriers on the right.

A few weeks ago.
Street view of a tram track running beside a large red sandstone Victorian building with arched windows, ornate ironwork balconies and topiary trees in front, with modern glass towers in the distance.



Red brick Victorian-style corner building with arched windows and a gabled roof, set between modern glass office towers on a city street in Manchester.


Red brick corner pub with the sign "A JD WETHERSPOON FREE HOUSE" above the windows, and "THE WATERGATE" on the adjoining building, on a narrow street with modern glass office towers behind.


Street-corner building entrance with a tall arch of silver balloons and a white tiered cake-shaped display, beside outdoor cafe planters labelled Caffe Orange and a sandwich board.


Photo of a wide city street with twin tram tracks running up the middle, lined by tall stone buildings, traffic lights on the right and a yellow tram in the distance under a cloudy sky.
 
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I went on another cellphone charging drive yesterday. Some traffic signals are now operating. In the next town, the county seat, some more restaurants were open, and one supermarket.

One of our friends who lives across the street from from the college reported that his power is back, so the city is making progress on that.

Most of the fallen trees have been cleared from side streets, including the one near our house that I showed you two days ago. They still need to be removed, however.

Paved rural road lined with green trees, with fallen branches and debris on both shoulders and downed power lines running along the left side.


Likewise for a neighbor’s driveway.

Suburban street after a storm: a large felled tree trunk lies across a green lawn beside the road, with an uprooted tree and debris behind it near a grey house with an American flag.


More power lines down:

Street scene with power lines drooping across the road and a utility pole leaning at an angle, brush and fallen branches piled on the right, and a brick two-story house on the left.
 
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Our power finally came back yesterday afternoon, after four and a half days. Everything in the house seems to be working OK.

This morning I saw power crews working at the college. They're from Santee Cooper, the company that serves the Charleston area. One of them told me that they've had crews from the Upstate down there many times, so they're glad to take a turn up here.

Two white utility trucks with bucket booms on a street, one with a lineman raised in the bucket working on overhead wires, and a worker in a yellow hi-vis vest and hard hat walking past orange traffic cones.

Utility workers in high-visibility vests and hard hats work near a utility pole beside a road, with a bucket truck boom raised to the top of the pole and a large fallen tree trunk and branches in the foreground.


The situation is still pretty bad a couple hours' drive north of here, in western North Carolina.
 
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More from the campus cleanup at the college today...

Tree-trimming crew at a brick college building with white columns, the name Georgia Hall on the pediment; a bucket lift reaches into a tree, a yellow wood chipper sits nearby, and cut logs lie on the ground.

White Kia Optima sedan with a shattered windshield and sunroof, its roof and hood covered in leaves and tree debris, parked beside a damaged grey pickup truck in front of a brick campus building.

A frosted glass urn with a lid stands on a concrete walkway in front of cut tree logs and a brick building with a white columned entrance.
 
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A view of Lake Lure, North Carolina, five years ago, from Chimney Rock State Park.

Aerial view over forested mountains and valleys, with a winding blue river and lake running through the centre and small buildings along its banks.


The Broad River enters the lake from lower left, with the town of Chimney Rock strung along its banks. Shops and restaurants hugged the road running through town, with riverside patios. You can see a couple of them at the right side of this picture from last spring.

Rocky river flowing past boulders on the left, with a gravel path lined with stones on the right, and a bare-branched tree in the foreground. A tall rock cliff rises behind the trees under a clear blue sky.


A week ago, tropical storm Helene flooded the river and pretty much washed the entire town into Lake Lure. The debris damaged the highway bridge near where the river enters the lake, and took out half of the adjacent old bridge which had been repurposed as the "Flowering Bridge", which I showed you last spring:

Panoramic view of a riverside town with a stone-balustrade bridge over a rocky river, a brick walkway lined with flowering plants, and a steep wooded mountain behind.


I saw a report on a local TV station tonight that the road and town will have to be redesigned because the river has carved a new path through the valley.
 
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Good raining afternoon
A woman with bright orange-red hair in a white shirt sits at an outdoor table on a balcony, looking down at her phone beside a glass of red wine, a small cactus in a white pot, and a dish of nuts.
 
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Autumn colors, all shot today:

Branch with reddish-orange autumn leaves backlit by sunlight, a fine spider thread stretched across the brown brick background and blurred blue building windows on the left.


Close-up of a branch with several autumn leaves backlit by sunlight, showing red, orange and green tones with visible veins and a dusting of water droplets on the leaf surfaces.


...and a white rose with morning dew, a shot I got very pleased with :smile: (also taken today):

White rose in full bloom with water droplets on its petals, beside two white buds and a red-tipped bud on a thin stem, against a dark blue background.


(Gear: Sony A6000 + Helios 44 (13 blades) + CPL filter)
 
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I'm on an overnight trip to a nearby city. Can anyone guess where I spent part of the afternoon?

Spines of about ten hardcover books standing on a shelf, mostly in shades of blue and navy, including two Combi Visuell volumes and several titles by Rolf Christerson and Leif Enger.
 
jtbell said:
I'm on an overnight trip to a nearby city. Can anyone guess where I spent part of the afternoon?
In a bookshop that specialises in having two copies of foreign language texts?
 
Ibix said:
In a bookshop
Not a bookshop, but another kind of shop... a big shop. :wink:
 
jtbell said:
Not a bookshop, but another kind of shop... a big shop. :wink:
Ah - I thought it was an odd layout for books if they were selling them. It makes more sense if they're selling the bookcase.
 
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I've been away from this thread for a while. Some random comments:

jtbell said:
Now I no longer say "I never saw a purple cow..."
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You should visit Williamstown, Mass

jtbell said:
From the Connecticut Trolley Museum in East Windsor, today:
I used to live not too far. A good buddy still lives just east of there.

jtbell said:
Today I took the train to New Haven from Windsor Locks CT. Surely this is one of Amtrak's smallest stations.
I have boarded there for NYC. My wife and I reserved tickets, when the train stopped we were the only ones there (early sunday morning). The train door opened and the conductor knew our names.


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Remember the fish-slapping initiation ritual we had for newcomers, a long time ago?
I have wondered why that tradition petered out. I think maybe @Evo was keeping it going.

pinball1970 said:
River Medlock.
I love photos of the old brick buildings. I used to prowl thru Holyoke and Chicopee Mass. Lowell is a real treat. All of my photos from those places are analog negs and prints, I will have to dig them out.
 
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Ibix said:
It makes more sense if they're selling the bookcase.
Right, they sell bookcases/shelves and other home/office furniture. The books are merely props.
 
… I hate raccoons. They’re just smart enough to do some really stupid things… like run across the highway, basically get clear of my oncoming truck, and only then decide to make like a squirrel and head back the other way… with my truck at most a second away at freeway speed.

I’m just glad that the damage was limited to the loss of a single portion of the air dam under the bumper. 😒

Underside view of a white vehicle's rear bumper and exhaust area, with a missing section of the air dam panel and a large tire on the right.
 
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Trying to get a few autumn images in this weekend.

Photo of a road lined with autumn trees, dark holly bushes and fallen brown leaves along the verge, with a couple of people walking in the distance.

Still canal lined with a red brick warehouse and wall, a weeping willow hanging over the brickwork, and reflections of the buildings in the water.

A narrow, dark river winds between dense trees with green and yellow autumn foliage, viewed from above, with rippling water reflecting the light.
 
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It looks like nobody's managed to identify the home/office furnishings store that populates its floor-sample bookshelves with Swedish books. Here's another clue: it has a cafeteria where I had this for lunch:

Lunch tray plate with meatballs in brown gravy, green peas, mashed potatoes and a dollop of lingonberry jam, next to a can of IZZE sparkling blackberry drink.
 
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My "ah" was because I deduced Ikea from the Scandinavian bias of the authors and from your previous hint. The meatballs confirms, I think.
 
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Halloween is coming... boo!

Two-story brick house decorated for Halloween with life-size props: a skeleton on the left, a mummy beside the porch, a pumpkin-headed figure and a winged dragon-like creature on the right.
 
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jtbell said:
I'm on an overnight trip to a nearby city. Can anyone guess where I spent part of the afternoon?
I don't, but I can see that those are books in Swedish. 🙂

Edit: Ah, I see the other posts now, and my guess was in an IKEA store.
🙂
 
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From a few hours ago in Central Iowa... tonight's auroras.

Night photo of an aurora over a flat horizon with a dark tree line: green curtain-like light on the left shading into a vertical red band rising toward the top of the sky.
Night photo of green aurora bands with vertical streaks across the sky above a dark treeline and flat field, with power lines at the upper left.
Night photo of an aurora in red and green curtains of light over a dark horizon with a line of silhouetted trees and a field in the foreground.
Long-exposure photo of red and green aurora with diagonal streaks across a night sky, with faint stars scattered throughout.
Night sky photo with a broad red aurora filling the left side and fainter green and yellow aurora bands on the right, with scattered stars visible.
Night sky with a broad green band of aurora low on the horizon and diffuse red aurora above, with scattered stars and a dark treeline and building silhouette at the bottom.
 
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Repairing LINAC 13.56 MHz RF resonators. The tuning coil (inside the SF6 tank) compression gears are worn.
Two cylindrical stainless steel tanks with black end caps and flanges, stacked on a wire shelf cart with blue and white striped handrail, in a laboratory with computer monitors and a tiled floor.

Photo inside a stainless steel vessel showing a mechanical tuning assembly with a toothed timing belt, pulleys, a stainless steel gear housing, a lever arm and a wired sensor on a bracket.

Photo of a row of cylindrical stainless steel RF resonator tanks angled diagonally in a machine room, with cables, pipes and flexible hoses attached and a yellow-tagged vacuum-style component in the foreground.
 
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