Random Photos

[jtbell]

Nice! Is that near Clingman's dome? We were there (and Asheville) a few months prior to Hurricane Helene; how does everything look now?

The turnoff to Kuwohi (formerly Clingman's Dome) is a short distance ahead down the road. You can zoom in on the directional sign at the right side of the photo. I didn't go there for lack of time, and because I'd been there already some years ago.

The park looked OK to me, at least along US-441. The NPS has surely done a lot of cleanup work along there. Also, there are still a lot of fallen trees etc. throughout the region. I've gotten accustomed to them so they don't register with me unless they're huge or there's a large cluster of them.

On the way up to Knoxville I made a point of driving along the river through Asheville, through the River Arts corridor. There are many empty lots, foundations of buildings that were washed away, and some badly damaged buildings that haven't been torn down or repaired yet. The ritzy Biltmore Village neighborhood seems to be mostly up and running, though.

 

[DennisN]

Working on some firmware for a Solar data collection system. It used a 8-bit controller to collect data from a energy meter and solar charging data. One of my retirement projects to keep busy.

Looks fun!

 

[DennisN]

A couple of sky shots from August last year...

All heavily edited using gamma correction to get more drama .

(Lens used: the trustworthy vintage Canon nFD 35mm f/2.8)

 

[pinball1970]

 

[Point Conception]

And sky in Bali with inlaws

 

[jtbell]

 

[DennisN]

A couple of more newly processed photos from last year...

Rosebuds

Ivy and a brick wall

Daisies

Vanilla Leaf (1)

Vanilla Leaf (2)

(Lenses used: Canon nFD 28mm f/2.8 (photos 1-3), Canon nFD 50mm f/1.4 (photos 4-5))

 

[jrmichler]

We had a snow storm with strong winds last weekend. The wind lined up perfectly with this cottage to snow in the front door and make a big snowdrift on the road. The plow pile from that snowdrift is right on their driveway. A town plow got stuck near my house. Cell phone camera, slightly cropped.

 

[Andy Resnick]

We had a snow storm with strong winds last weekend. The wind lined up perfectly with this cottage to snow in the front door and make a big snowdrift on the road.

Thumbs-up for the photo, thumbs-down for the snow :)

 

[Andy Resnick]

Pine tree sap icicle (sap stalactite?)

[Edit] Up close, it really looks like an icicle-icicle: