mycotropic

mycotropic, 4 days ago to random

Hyles lineata drinking it up in the back yard (Boss).

Hyles lineata, better show, in flight
Hyles lineata sideways

mycotropic, 5 days ago to random

I just found out that a friend of mine who I've known since the early 1980's just passed after a reasonably long fight with pancreatic cancer (that's not long by the way). I looked at my last text with her and it was "you know the supreme Court is complicit in insurrection right?" She replied "yes" but that was at the end of February and she was already having issues with surgery and treatment.

She was a Judge, a mom and my friend and the first person I ever went out on a "real date" with.

Keep track of your people, people, you never know when they may not be there anymore.

mycotropic, 5 days ago to random

In case you're not from 1995 The Internet I'd like to introduce you to a PC video game from LucasArts called The Dig, 16 bit so you'll be in DosBox emulator land but still, hell of a game which you can apparently play on the Way back machine;

Https://archive.org/details/TheDig_1020

This may be just a prequel version, I'll find a full copy. EDIT, okay it's on Steam.

mycotropic, 7 days ago to animals

There's floof on my sofa!

#Caturday.#CatsOfMastodon

mycotropic, 8 days ago to random

If you're the person who designed the charting function in Excel please never tell me because I really don't want to have to come to your home and kick you in the crotch over and over and over.
That is all, thank you.

mycotropic, 9 days ago to random

For those of you following me, I award myself one grappa glass of #Amontillado each time trump is held accountable by the justice system. It's getting light but not quickly enough, I may need a really, really good bottle for election night.

#NazisRaus #EndFascism #trumpIsGuilty

mycotropic, 10 days ago to photography

Poppies, valerian and more roses! Great light today, it's clouding up but the sunlight leaking through is an interesting color. I don't touch up any of these pics, I just take each view 20 or so times and discard all but the best.

#Photography #BloomScrolling

A red rose with a bunch of roses from the same bush blurry in the background
A startlingly orange poppy in a mixed background
Valerian flowers, lots of them!

mycotropic, 11 days ago to random

Opium season has started in Denver!

gbraad, 11 days ago to gaming

Have to admit that I never liked the Nintendo SNES. However, for such a low spec'ed CPU (a slightly more powerful 16bit 6502, the 68516), it did deliver a very good arcade-like experience for Mortal Kombat 2!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FSaUIKIDs0

I remember playing this at a friend's house.

#gaming #youtube

mycotropic, 12 days ago to random

The fate of the carnivores
#Catstodon

samhainnight, 13 days ago to random

Reading up on electric fences to keep bears out of the yard, as you do. So far, I haven’t found anything that would keep bears out that wouldn’t hurt the dogs.

mycotropic, 15 days ago to random

All whiskers deployed for a sprinkler that's just out of range of her face.

mycotropic, 15 days ago to photography

Today I tried working with f stop and a sprinkler. 3.2 is pretty as is 32 but 14 was kind of ugly so I didn't post it.

#Photography #BloomScrolling #Iris

Same basil plant at f stop 32 the water droplet pathways leave a line across the image
A purple iris is shown up close and personal

mycotropic, 15 days ago to random

Part of our summer is driving from Colorado to Maine and back with my kids. We usually stop at Mammoth Caves and other national parks but this year my daughter is already in Maine working for the summer so it's just me and a 17 year old and a 14 year old. I'm already catching flak from the older one for how boring it is to drive across the country and visit national parks so I thought I'd change it up and make them ride this all day on the third day of the road trip;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RTXTbzctl0c

#Rollercoaster #Rollercoasterdon

mycotropic, 16 days ago to photography

I warned you that there would be roses didn't I?
#Photography #BloomScrolling

An out of focus bumblebee hangs on purple comfrey flowers
A pink rose is in focus where various other buds are out of focus against a clear blue sky

mycotropic, 18 days ago to denver

If you're in Denver on of for a month after June 7th you could attend these art shows!

#Denver #Colorado #Cannabis

The first (Grow Up) opening night reception will take place on Friday, June 7th from 6:00 - 9:00 PM at Bell Projects. The second (HEAR/SAY) opening night reception will take place on Friday, June 14th from 6:00 - 9:00 PM at BRDG Project.

Another Denver art exhibit, this one titled Grow Up

mycotropic, 18 days ago to random

San Diego Museum Of Art, I'm at the #AmericanThoracicSociety meeting but I had time for art! Yay art, no science for another three hours!

San Diego Museum of Art, Emil Filla abstract, brown on grey on more grey
San Diego Museum of Art, Jasper Johns, carved lead wall sculpture is a light cord

mycotropic, 22 days ago to random

I guess I never flew over the #TheGrandCanyon before!

mycotropic, 24 days ago to photography

180mm macro, most at 3.5. get ready to be incredibly bored by rose shots though, once this bush wakes up we have hundreds and hundreds!

#Photography #Bloomscrolling

A poppy bud is shown, it's not open yet but I think I'm seeing red in there
Heck if I know, it's a lovely purple flower closeup but I don't know what it is
Purple comfrey flower is shown, again a macro shot, nice purple color though

mycotropic, 24 days ago to random

I'll just use the other bathroom then.......
#Catstodon

mycotropic, 28 days ago to random

#Caturday

mcc, 28 days ago to random

My ex had this rule, or sort of a philosophy I guess:

"Never feel bad about spending money on books."

And this made a lot of sense to me, at the time,

but this was before I actually realized

just how much money I am capable of spending on books

elaterite, 28 days ago to california

I decided to roll the dice, that my CV joint on my car wouldn't blowup, for a run up north out of city lights to see the aurora--& I'm so glad I did! Two shots from northern California: First is from Doyle & the second is from Frenchman Lake. What an amazing display! For a time the aurora covered a 180 degrees from east to west & was overhead & could be seen in the south! I shot these photos with a 15mm f/2.0 30sec ISO400.

#Aurora #California #Lake #Solar #Sky #NightSky #Photography #Darktable

Color photo of an aurora. The landscape is forested mountains with a tongue of a lake going from the lower left to lower central frame. A distant body of water can be seen past the tongue. In the sky there are stars. On the horizon, just above the low mountain ridge line, is a band of yellow-green. Blue is above that. Then red. Then purple. There are numerous vertical streaks as well.