Those are great photos, regardless of the lens. Nice work!

Nice shots. We have a lot of them in Boulder, they love to pick at roadkill. They are very skittish, though, and I only got one photo of one that was preoccupied with another (probably mating).

Just-In-Time is a concept for local supply chains. The Japanese companies that pioneered its use had local suppliers and transit time was just hours (or minutes), not days or weeks. Extending the concept to international supply chains has been a problem for many years already. Companies hired and promoted managers whose bonuses were based on minimizing inventory and they perverted the concept. The pandemic has only exacerbated the problem.

As far as non-delivery of Christmas gifts go, imagine the post-holiday sales!

I do love backlit flora - this one is beautiful.

Very nice!

I saw a trick to create a custom foam case for anything by placing the fragile object in a plastic bag, choosing a box large enough to commodate packing, then using expanding foam to fill the box around the object. If this is done with bags for the foam, top and bottom separately, then it can easily be re-used.

Beautiful!

I would have but I think she was put off by the string of curse words coming out of my mouth.

It was pitch black, just like other black holes! However, here it is.

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They must have thought I was just an extra-smelly coyote.

I've done that too. It's proof that we need coffee to think clearly after awakening.

I'm glad nobody was around to hear what I was saying.

Yesterday I could see early signs of a beautiful sunrise developing, so I headed out to the edge of the open space near my home to try a time-lapse video using my phone. It was quite warm though the wind was gusty. I set the phone on a fence post using a Pocket Tripod, then turned my attention to using my DSLR to shoot still images. After a few seconds, I heard a noise and looked to see the phone was gone - the wind had blown it off the post. It was still very dark, and I had trouble looking for it on the ground. Then I noticed the prairie dog hole - sure enough, the phone had slid down into it! I could see the ghostly glow of the "record" button, the phone still dutifully recording the interior of the burrow. I had to insert my body between strands of barbed wire and reach deep into the hole to get the phone. After sunup, I returned with a gripper pole to retrieve the Pocket Tripod, which had fallen off. Murphy's Law!

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Beautiful color! I saw that there were many plant species that thrived with the mix of spring moisture and dry fall. The sunflowers were especially plentiful.

Thanks! I wish that I'd had time to set up a tripod and get another lens. Oh well, the moon and Venus will be around for a few more years.