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glittersloth

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

@PackRat
Awesome. As someone with no plot of land whatsoever, I just want to convey how envious I am. Grrr…

PackRat

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Sector11

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

Cute little guy.  I like it.

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Gaucho

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

Cute little guy.  I like it.

A Carolina anole (aka green anole), it can change color from green to brown.

Not cheery facts...

Harder and harder to find here in Florida due to the invasive Bahamian anole (aka brown anole), which changes color from douchebag to asshole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anolis_carolinensis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anolis_ca … nservation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_anole

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Sector11

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

OH MY!!!!

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ratcheer

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

I have a lot of Carolina anoles in central Alabama. Sometimes in the hot summer, I will see a dozen or so of them on my patio.

Weird story: One afternoon a couple of years ago, I was sitting in a chair, reading a book next to our outdoor fire pit. I saw an anole on top of the fire pit wall. It stayed a while, and for some reason, I started singing to it. It looked at me and, after a minute or so, jumped over onto my foot. I kept singing, and it kept watching me. I felt like it was listening to my song.

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PackRat

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

I saw an anole on top of the fire pit wall. It stayed a while, and for some reason, I started singing to it. It looked at me and, after a minute or so, jumped over onto my foot. I kept singing, and it kept watching me. I felt like it was listening to my song.

Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon?
Doo, doo doo
A wondrous apparition provided by magician

Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door

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Sector11

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

I saw an anole on top of the fire pit wall. It stayed a while, and for some reason, I started singing to it. It looked at me and, after a minute or so, jumped over onto my foot. I kept singing, and it kept watching me. I felt like it was listening to my song.

Tambourines and elephants are playing in the band
Won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon?
Doo, doo doo
A wondrous apparition provided by magician

Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door

Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch
Imagination sets in, pretty soon I'm singin'

Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door

→ sorry it was a "HAD TO DO".

And of course he was listening.

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Gaucho

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

Taylor Creek where it meets the Indian River, Ft. Pierce, Florida. If you zoom in, those are birds in the tree, probably egrets.

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johnraff

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

^White Egrets are common here in Japan too, often seen in the ricefields.

(imgbox was very slow to load just now, had to do a second attempt)

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Gaucho

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

^ imgbox was down most of yesterday for me.

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Gaucho

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

^ Brown anole, I think.

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PackRat

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

Water lilies in bloom -

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Gaucho

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I have an amazing water lily shot I'll have to find.

I lounged for 2 hours on my "private beach" at 320 S Indian River Dr, Fort Pierce, a mile from my apartment (public kayak launch behind the parking lot at the Episcopalian school). White sand, I brought a chair.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/320+S … FQAw%3D%3D

Zoom out on that map, pretty cool.

The Indian River Lagoon. That's Hutchinson Island South in the first pick, and Europe and Africa beyond that. Some water droplets hit me from a mile away in the third pic. Those first two thumbnails look great lined up like that.

There's one pine tree there for shade. I shared it with a father and daughter for an hour, then an hour all to myself. I built her a drip-sand castle which she had fun flattening with her toy shovel. She then started filling in the water hole, I think she was trying to make it all look like beach again.

Ignore the angle, the beach just slopes hard south here in Florida.

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Gaucho

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2024, Savannas Preserve State Park, water lilies. Not flowering, still amazing.

https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks … state-park

That third pic, it's not even edited (none of them are). I like that one, I'm curious how the right edge stayed in focus but the left edge and middle are blurred. The blurred pads are slightly underwater, I suppose.

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Gaucho

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I have to say, living somewhere and not checking out public parks is like living in Manhattan and never going to the Statue of Liberty. Something like 80% never visit. I'm on a bicycle, but you can drive there, too.

To Savannas, that is, it's a ferry ride to Liberty Island and they don't take cars. I'm not sure if they'll let you take a bicycle, but probably.

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Gaucho

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

The latest version of the now year-old BunsenCycle, in single-speed mode (freewheel, the cog on the other side of the back tire is fixed).

Mr. Fox: But this one works just fine.

Bruce Wayne: Does it come in black?

Mr: Fox: Best I can do is metallic grey.

According to my landlord, that fire extinguisher was inspected just last week. The grey thing on the wall is an unused garden hose coil thingy, you can see a spigot below it. The blue thing with the white tube is the shutoff valve.

The whole pic is weird, the thick black thing behind the brake cable is the left break lever, but the entire left side of the handlebar and grip are hidden. You can see from the rock kickstand that the bike is several feet away from the wall, but the lighting is so flat and with the hose-caddy shadow there, it looks like the handlebar is leaning against it.

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unklar

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Re: Cheery Pic of the Day

^^@hhh, thank you for the beautiful pictures of your homeland.
Judging by your bike, you are a big and strong person. As an old person, I can no longer do this without power translation. Although... there are no mountains where you live.