Pictures

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A few days ago I heard a rattling outside my window in the very late evening and to my surprise I found this fellow sorting through the trash. Quite difficult to take a photo when the screen simply shows black, so I could not zoom and only hope that the little rascal was a) in frame and b) visible. later I found that there was more than one. On the oak tree on the other side of the lawn there was a whole group of three or four youngsters. Too far to get them even with flashlight in the dark.

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I had to cut the photos to size (them being 12 MP)

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Here it is half way over the lawn nibbling at whatever it took from the trash.
I am actually surprised that anything is visible at all.


Well, at my laptop I can see the animal, on this monitor I can't.

[pieces o nine]

I posted a couple pics of V's landscaping over in gardening. Here are a couple of my space:

Looking towards post-rain, walk-out patio (new garden space pic is just to the right) through part of my library. Oooooh, shiny new tiles and such after the Great Pipe Breaking Disaster back in March. Happily, no book casualties that time! That's a great whopping 'rain stick' on the left, which has moved with me everywhere; it has a really lovely sound.





Livingroom/study in my part of house, taken looking back the other way from above. I am getting ready to overhaul those c1930 throne chairs again; springs weakened in one in the last move. I cannot really see myself tying springs: planning to change it to a solid wooden seat with separate cushions, and perhaps a hidden drawer concealed in the old spring boxes.

Not seen in this photo:  Dom lying on his back, watching television (all that on wall facing the fireplace) upside down, as is his wont.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

What?  No clutter? 

Way too neat for the loikes of me, I'm afeard...

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I was thinking the same watching both your three screens and Pieces' neat arrangement. Mine is so bad I though of placing a picture of my three screens and thought better of it just by gazing to the unholy clutter on the desk...

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

I was thinking the same watching both your three screens and Pieces' neat arrangement. Mine is so bad I though of placing a picture of my three screens and thought better of it just by gazing to the unholy clutter on the desk...

Oooh, then it worked. 



I carefully composed those shots to avoid showing the clutter on my desk, and to be sure?  I filled up a bucket of loose miscelaneous cables... >>filled<< I say, that had been lying on my table-- then I scooted what was left to one side, when the table was exposed.... 

If I'd permitted adequate light, you'd have seen the cluttered shelf behind monitor 3 (the left-hand one)..... sneaky, ain't I?

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Here are some shots of my latest cat playground-- a literal high-way for my cat to play on.

Here's Galileo enjoying being in a superior position to me, perched on his overhead highway:


Here's a different angle, holding the camera high over my head, for a straight-on perspective.  Astute observers of cats will note the curved paw, indicative of pleasure (Gally was purring the whole time-- I'm paying attention to him, after all)


Here's a shot of the left-hand detail, and the cat-stairs I constructed along the wall.  The bottom "rung" goes away from the wall, to a wide platform which is positioned just above my bed.  Gally can literally step off that, onto the bed (no jumping down to the waterbed, please, even though I have 1" foam anti-claw mattress pad underneath the sheets...


And here's a detail of the right-hand step-- this permits easy access to the top of the bookcase, the formerly highest place to be (if you're a cat)

[pieces o nine]

What?  No clutter? 

Way too neat for the loikes of me, I'm afeard...

Why duz ye finks oi aint posted pitchers ov me studio?   

FWIW: that's actually the *second* shot of my living room, after a quick removal of assorted cat toys, magazines, art supplies, perhaps a large-ish margarita ... heh heh heh ... while selecting pics to upload. I was to take photos for co-workers who were interested in how I had optimized my studio space as inspiration to tackle theirs. But: a couple clutter-catch-spots that I haven't found the zip to de-clutter yet. I told them I'd need a box to sweep clutter off with one hand, while shooting with the other, as I moved around the room...

Here's Galileo enjoying being in a superior position to me, perched on his overhead highway:

It's Ceiling Cat!!!! 

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

My birds would love that arrangement (sans the cat, obviously), but that would be too unsightly for my wife.

In fact one of my birds has the bad habit of stooping on the blades of the ceiling fan despite several attempts to discourage it from doing it (if he entered and the fan were accidentally on it could kill him)...

[anthrobabe]

I love the cat arrangement--- I just think it is great that you have them an overhead highway-- cats love being able to be above and see all.

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It may take some time before I can upload my own pictures from the visit to the leadership bunker of the Eastern German Navy.
Fortunately some more professional people already did.
So, this in advance.

Oh, and here is some report in English.

[pieces o nine]

I was struck by the oxidation on the metal door in the first shot -- it's really quite beautiful, to my eyes.  I'm always trying to achieve textures like that, and here is one in such an unexpected place.

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You should have seen our (calcifier) lab oven at the university after someone put a sample in that was still soaked in organic solvent. What the flames did with the outer coating was a pure work of abstract art 

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Those remind me of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. That's soviet infrastructure to you...