I’ve got 2 lines, my landline for 40 years that I use for robo calls and an occasional call from an old friend who doesn’t have my cell phone number. I also keep it because I read that if you call emergency 911 they know your address instantly, where as with a cell phone that can only tell where you are within a small area.
I use the cell for all my other calls.

Nice picture, it brings back old memories. I spent almost a year in Christmas Valley in 1964-65 working on a transmission line survey. I was the only single guy with a new car within 50 miles 🤣🙄🤣

I agree, my IPhone 11Pro has 4 cameras and I get great photos with it. Actually I gave my grandson all of my older camera gear a few years ago, now I notice that he’s using his older iPhone too.

The new ‘66 GTO I ordered in late ‘65, was just like the song ‘Three duces and a four speed, and a 389.’ Mine was white with tan interior. I traded it in on a ‘69 Dodge Charger, the best look’n car I ever had and the worse for reliability. The last time I saw the GTO the new owner had wrapped it around a telephone pole ☹️
I’ve always wished I had kept it.

I doubt that Sigma Sreedharan Photography, Seattle, would post something that they had modified. I think they may have taken many photos, perhaps every 1/100 of a second as the planes zoomed by to get that perfect shot.

A fantastic picture!

I just attach them to an email to myself, then I can save them to my laptop.

I hope someone else posts an easier way.

It’s a motorcycle helmet for my girlfriend’s birthday next week, so it should have survived if they did that. 🤣🥴🤣

I had a bad experience yesterday with FedEx. They left my package outside exposed to the western Washington weather, 3’ from my 30’ long covered porch.
I wonder if a delivery person could get any lazy-er!

He’s gone back to his Illinois summer home and I don’t know him.

I have an old high school friend who now lives in Tucson and we trade pictures back and forth; sunsets/sunrises, scenery mostly. She has a boyfriend who is really interested in astrophotography and the stars. She sent me one of his along with his comments about it wherein he mentioned the following: “4-frame mosaic, "Art" lenses, no obvious gradients after subtracting and flat fielding in Sequator, APOD.”

I have no idea what he means by those terms, can anyone give me a layman’s summary of what he’s doing to to photographs like this.

PS the image I received has deteriorated so much the star pinpoint are not sharp, but on their end it is.

I too have reduced my car mileage this past year, however I ryde my tryke a lot more. 7,500 miles during the first 9 months of last year. The best way for me to get out alone, get fresh air, and see the countryside.

I love it! I ryde a Can-Am Spyder RT 3 wheel motorcycle and this has so much more class.

I gave out 500 pieces of candy in 2 hours. We gave doubles to a few little kids with cool costumes and one of each kind to my grandkids, so the estimate is 450-475 truck or treaters.
The block I live on has churches with 2 Trunk or Treats so I get all of those kids too.
Luckily my gf and another friend came over to help me distribute the candies, otherwise I might have spent all night doing it. 🤪😜🤪

Dane004, wonderful picture of the Wyoming Coal Power transmission lines.

I suspect that this is of the three parallel lines running from the Jim Bridger power plant near Superior, WY, then westerly to the southern Idaho area before they split off into single lines. I was the lead surveyor for the route survey to establish the alignment for those lines in the early ‘70s. Our portion of the project ran from Superior to the Idaho border. Later on we did other portions of the route across southern Idaho and southern Oregon into Medford, Oregon.

During the surveying I remember seeing ruts in the desert, somewhere north of Rock Springs, from the Oregon Trail wagon trains of the 1850’s. From a surveyor's point of view, it was interesting, at least one portion of the line ran 28 miles between angle points with minimal geodetic control markers (pre computer and GPS era), hot & windy in the summer and bitter cold in the winters.

We did the surveys for these three parallel lines over several years. The towers were unusual, having a center pivot point ball that sets in a socket on the ground and guy wires to the ground to support the tower. Survey crews would figure out the length of each of the guy wires depending on the terrain along each proposed guy wire.

The towers were assembled in several yards near highways or railroads, then, when enough were pre-built, a big, really big helicopter would come in for a few days, latch onto a tower, cut to length guy wires and all, with a cable and fly it to its location, hover over the center point while ground crews set the ball into the socket and attached the guy wires to their previously set anchor points. I don’t remember if the helicopter or a ground crewman released the cable from the tower.

A couple of perhaps interesting tidbits from my feeble memory, during construction of the third line a dozer operator ripped out a guy wire on the second line and towers fell like match sticks, 5 or 6 if memory serves. Normal inline towers had 4 guy wires while some angle point towers had up to 16 or 32 depending on the stresses the tower had because of the horizontal deflection angle or even the vertical rise or fall to the next tower.

Larry