Spring!!

[shooter]

FrogBridge, the 1^st non-tree cutting project this season.  The base got dragged home 20+ years ago
It’s the inner Bed for a GE MRI.  1^st idea was a hydroponic table, then a work table, then dragged it out to the inlet to kill vegetation for a year so I could dig out a channel in the swamp grass, black muck, peat, PITA!   $50 in inflated lumber, $10 in inflated screws and I have a bridge to nowhere 

[acheld]

It may be a bridge too far, to nowhere, but it's good looking!

[shooter]

 
the Tannins in the water patinaed it up nice, making it look like rusted iron instead of composite fiberglass!

[acheld]

Those MRI and fast CT components are really (really) well made.   

They have to be!  Some patients are just gargantuan . . .   

In a CT class I took, we had to calculate the G forces of the spinning  gantry, and I was astonished.

Anyway, your bridge looks great.

[shooter]

    Most of the tables in my day were spec'd 350lb moving, 450lb lift - hold
That one was a PITA!!! to remove, it's ~10ft long, 4 times a year, 5 systems so you can do a 10 minute tweak, 1hr assemble/disassemble!


you wanted to be on your A-game if you had to have your face near the rotating gantry.  spec was just under 1 sec over 360 degrees, set for 2 seconds for humans 
 I funded a few Summer trips for Sunday School teens from the scrap value of ~~ 1000lb of aircraft grade Aluminum per system, we bought 5
 for spare parts

[shooter]

I ordered the lumber last fall with stuff for inside work over the winter.  had a couple nice days so instead of the blue tarp from hell, I now have the "next year" overflow box, even had the wood waiting from earlier this year.


found some new growth also, maybe 8-10 scattered just beyond the mow line

[mresistor]

purdy flowers   

[shooter]

... and just like that, 68 becomes 28! 

[shooter]

remnants from a mile high glacier just North of here a bit

[shooter]

The Honeybees hatched today.  Zoom the 1st pic, the sky above the roofline is washed out, the hi-flyers were nearly as dense as the roofline.  The swarm didn't split, so no queen


input on the 2nd pic, did I catch wingbeats, or digital anomalies?

[acheld]

That's a lot of bees! 

I think your shutter speed was slow and you're just seeing the bees in motion -- twilight zone stuff.

Looks like a Stephen King set:  a grand old barn, swarming bees, a lawn tractor ready to go (but not until the bees disperse), a door to nowhere . . . what more could you ask for?

[shooter]

 
you missed the "woodchipper"


ya, the settings are 1/8sec iso120 F5.6 so ya blurred, but the "sawtooth" part of the streak is what i'm not sure of

[acheld]

I enlarged sections of the image, and I think the sawtooth pattern persists.  In addition, the sawtooth pattern is present both vertically and horizontally.   For these reasons, I "think" this is not a digital artefact.  Not sure what it might be . . . but maybe we're seeing the wing root as the bee flies?

  And yes, I did miss the woodchipper.   I need one of those . . .

[sluckey]

Blackberries are getting ripe. BOGO -- two for a quarter.