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eyeinhand, to diy
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Even a little stone work is a lot of work. Been putting off finishing these posts for years. Finally got around to it.

Done!

Thankfully the pain in my back and hands won’t last as long as the posts will.





A craftsman style post seems to float on a cylinder of concrete next to a garden and porch.
Closeup of the concrete cylinder base with a poured footing ready.
Finished post with laid stone base next to lush garden plants.

eyeinhand, to Bloomscrolling
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Speaking of blues, working up to a very good year for Hydrangeas. Had none last year.




eyeinhand,
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@samhainnight Despite their name, they are not water plants, but seem to like consistent moisture like most plants, especially in the hot sun. They are happy here in dappled shade with a thick layer of wood chip mulch.

eyeinhand, to photography
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Last Summer’s Sea Oats

#photography
#landscapephotography
#Lowcountry

eyeinhand, to photography
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Not fishing hard.



eyeinhand, to photography
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Still shots of the shelf cloud.

#photography
#Lowcountry
#clouds
#weatherphotography
#landscapephotography

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eyeinhand, to photography
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Lowcountry Sunrise
The South Carolina flag makes sense now.




eyeinhand, to photography
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I don’t know what these are, but each plant is no bigger than a thumb, with little fruiting stalks, growing in a layer of lichen.



eyeinhand, to random
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Partial eclipse from central Virginia.


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Fiddleheads

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eyeinhand, to photography
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The better new cameras get, the more I love the imperfections of old analog tech. This was shot on film with a camera more than half a century old.





eyeinhand, to photography
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Schooner in the Sky
Hatton Ferry
James River, Virginia

Sometimes there's a whole armada, marching across the horizon. This day, just a single explorer, becalmed.



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Did you know you could fill a macOS volume so full, files can’t be deleted? And, due to Sonoma and Time Machine nonsense, a full restore didn’t work (though I didn’t try everything).

I told my tale of woe with a too-full drive on my 16 y.o.’s MacBook Pro over at @sixcolors. Read free at the member-supported Six Colors site! https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/03/a-disk-so-full-it-couldnt-be-restored/

eyeinhand,
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@glennf @sixcolors This is the main reason I hate,hate, hate that with Apple Silicon you lose the ability to boot from an external drive. There so many useful and legitimate reasons to do that – testing before updates, for example — but mainly easy recovery for things like this. And it was super easy. It was a huge advantage unique to Macs. We need that back.

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@glennf @sixcolors Wait, what? I tried and could not, info I could find said it was no longer possible (security reasons). But that was with an early M1 and older OS, so maybe that has changed. If so, that’s great to know. Now I want to try again. When I ran into this full disk issue years ago, I had to boot from external, then start by deleting small files one at a time, each half the size of available space. Then work up to bigger ones as space grew.

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@glennf Oh dang, no wonder. I was trying to create the boot drive from another (working) Mac. Which, you know, would sorta kinda really be useful when the internal drive of the one you want to fix is borked. Hmm.

Basically, you need to create one of those emergency boot disks BEFORE you need one. Do I have that right?

eyeinhand, to photography
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The Thanksgiving and Easter Cactus is right on schedule. Was mislabeled at the store as a Christmas Cactus, but that’s clearly wrong.

Not asking for a refund. 😎


Likewise, to books
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Not a beach read,
but one of my most
favorite reads.
#books #fiction #fediverse #photography @bookstodon

eyeinhand,
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@Likewise @bookstodon While he was writing that book, he lived around the corner from my parents on a South Carolina barrier island. Every evening he walked past to the beach with his little dogs to take a swim at sunset. Often sat in rocking chairs on the deck at the little grocery by the marsh, telling stories. Super friendly and sociable for a writer. It was fun to have him around.

eyeinhand, to random
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Awakening
Coast of British Columbia.

#SilentSunday

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Snow Moon

#RuralSouth

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Day four of self tutoring.

Had to throw away two before this one showed up. Paint, graphite, and fountain pen.

#Watercolor
#SilentSunday
#ChesapearkeBay

Detail of salt marsh in warm tones and black. Rough almost abstract strokes and washes.
Detail of salt marsh in warm tones and black. Rough almost abstract strokes and washes.
Overall view of watercolor painting on paper of salt marsh in warm tones and black. Rough almost abstract strokes and washes. Black line of trees on the horizon, creek runs through the middle.

eyeinhand, to photography
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Silos
Madison County, Virginia

On the way home, near a crossroads called Old Pratts. (Not to be confused with the new Pratts just over the hill, which consists of a closed general store and four houses.)

Snow coming tonight.

#RuralSouth
#landscapephotography
#photography

eyeinhand, to random
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Day three of watercolor self tutoring. Harder than it looks!
But progress is made; first one I’m happy with.

#Landscape
#Watercolor
#NewTricks

Detail of painting shows rough abstract rendering of ground and grass.
Detail of tree tops, evergreens and others, dark brush below.
Detail of marsh grass and brambles rendered in quick strokes.

eyeinhand, to random
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One of those wet Spring snows. Full of ambition and exuberance until the sun comes up, only to melt away before breakfast.

#RuralSouth
#Landscape
#SilentSunday

eyeinhand, to sailing
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Harris Downwind

Exhilarating sail back to camp on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The yawl was built by a craftsman in Maine.

#ChesapeakeBay
#sailing
#woodenboat
#handmade

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Foggy Forest

#SilentSunday
#RuralSouth

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