I've done the search a few times but mostly I see people are discussing how they are/were always on backorder.

I have been using the 300mm version and like the size, light weight, and results.

Thanks to Uncle Sam's stimulus checks and 5% back on the credit card, I will only have to spend $17.10 of 'earned' money. After a year of being cooped up, I see a lot of walking in my future. A pair of light lenses should be a good fit.

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When I was a kid, I built a crystal radio, and it picked up a lot of stations (on Long Island, NY). It didn't cost $60, though. Up here in the mountains, it's hard to get stations on a real radio.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/392656589303?norover=1&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]&siteid=0&ipn=admain2&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-157687-929634-7&mkcid=4&placement=529728&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpMCZ2JS17wIVH18VCB2PigYkEAEYASABEgIRZvD_BwE

EDIT: This is more like it, except for the shipping charge.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mars-Crystal-Radio-Kit-Restoration-Hardware-New-2-in-boxes/284220871849?hash=item422ce254a9:g:KzMAAOSwcMNgT4tg

The Capilano suspension bridge is a bridge crossing the Capilano river in north Vancouver, BC, Canada. It has 460ft long and suspended at 230 ft above the river. Throughout history since 1889, the year the bridge was built, it has had several owners. The last one bought the park in 1983. Today on the west side of the canyon we can enjoy walking the footbridges suspended between the trees 100ft above the forest floor. The photos are self-explanatory and the two birds, the owl was part of the forest and the hawk was there with the instructor. This last photo is a composition in PS because the original background was terrible.

The quickest way to find honey is to follow bees.

Denver Botanic Gardens by Paul Sager, on Flickr


Honeybees pollinate 80 percent of the United States’ insect crops -- over $20 billion worth of crops each year.

Chicago Bee


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Chicago bee and flower


Honey will not rot or ferment when stored under normal conditions, but it will crystallize over time. Although crystallized honey is acceptable for human use, bees can only use liquid honey and will remove and discard any crystallized honey from the hive.

Busy Bees


Honey is a biological mixture of inverted sugars, primarily glucose and fructose. It has antibacterial and anti-fungal properties.

Chicago Bee


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Chicago’s longest string of subzero days is 10, logged more than a century ago in January 1912.

Frozen Lake Michigan by Paul Sager, on Flickr


Chicago is currently in a stretch of cold where temps are forecasted to stay below 40F well into late February 2021, a cold stretch we haven't experienced since 1985.

Frozen Lake Michigan


Ice balls can usually be seen in late December and early January when temperatures fall into the teens and single digits. Cold temperatures cause heavy lake-effect snow to form a layer of floating slush on the lake. Wave action sculpts the slush into spheres.

Frozen Lake Michigan


All images shared in this post were captured starting around 7:00am Saturday February 6, 2021 along the shore of Lake Michigan at Chicago's Belmont Harbor. The RAW images were processed in Adobe Lightroom 6 with an HDR effect from Topaz Adjust. The EF 70-200mm f/4L was used with an EOS 5DIII.

Frozen Lake Michigan


Chicago's Lake Park was renamed to Lincoln Park in 1865 after Lincoln’s assassination.

Frozen Lake Michigan


Archery exploded in popularity in the 1870s and several locations were founded in Lincoln Park. The Lincoln Park Archery Range has been located near Belmont Harbor since the 1930s.

Lincoln Park Archery Range


During the Great Chicago Fire, started on the night of October 8, 1871, the fire swept through the city along a four-mile corridor. Three hundred people died, 100,000 were made homeless and 17,500 buildings were destroyed. Chicago roared back to life following the disaster. The city centre was laid out on a new grid. New forms of fireproof construction went rivet-on-rivet with the latest building materials and components.

Frozen Lake Michigan


Charged with bringing their city back to life and pre-eminence, and to outdo New York, Chicago’s architects used the newest mass-produced, high quality, low-cost steel to build sky high. Until the mid-19th century, five stories had been the normal maximum height of commercial and residential buildings. The world’s first skyscraper was the 10-story Home Insurance Company completed in 1884. Chicago now has 52 building standing 600 feet or taller (183 meter). The former Hancock Tower is 100 floors and is now the 5th tallest building in Chicago and the 13th tallest in the USA.

Frozen Lake Michigan


Snowmen appear in European literature as far back as the 1300s. In North America they tend to have three spheres representing the head, torso, and lower body, while in the UK they tend to have only two.

Future so bright gonna need shades


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Navy Pier
Chicago, IL
Feb 2014

2014 Snow Days Chicago by Paul Sager, on Flickr


Snow sculpture is comparable to sand sculpture or ice sculpture in that major events are practiced outdoors, and often in full view of spectators, thus giving it kinship to performance art.

2014 Snow Days Chicago


Snow sculptures are usually carved out of a single block of snow about 6 to 15 feet on each side and weighing about 20 - 30 tons. The snow is densely packed into a form after having been produced by artificial means or collected from the ground after a snowfall.

2014 Snow Days Chicago


The Saint Paul Winter Carnival (St Paul, Minnesota) is the oldest annual winter carnival in the world, with the first one being held in 1886.

2014 Snow Days Chicago


In 1885, a New York reporter wrote that Saint Paul was, "another Siberia, unfit for human habitation" in winter. Offended by this attack on their city, the Saint Paul Chamber of Commerce decided to prove not only that Saint Paul was habitable but that its citizens were very much alive during winter, their most dominant season

2014 Snow Days Chicago


The U.S. National Snow Sculpting Championship, Winter Fun USA, is held during the annual Winterfest, in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, just a bit north of Chicago.

These images from the 2014 Snow Days Chicago were captured with an EOS 5DIII and EF 28-70mm f/2.8L. The RAW files were processing in Adobe Lightroom 6.

2014 Snow Days Chicago by Paul Sager, on Flickr


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