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May 13, 2023
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We currently have 87 forest fires burning in Alberta, Canada.
The closest fire is about 110 miles away from us but this is what it's like in Calgary, the sun is no longer visible and the visibility is half a mile in smoke.
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Oh dear. Great photo, though.
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Dear Steve,
that is terrible! And so early in the year, too. The termperatures look crazy. Hotter in Edmonton than in Calgary. And in Washington and Oregon States even hotter, according to Ventusky.com...
I suppose that, unlike here in central Europe, you havent had any rain...
Keep safe!
David
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David,
The rose flower was seen in that forest near there, probably about 100 feet away. Yes, this is an out-of-the-camera JPEG.
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Dunlin,
Thanks. 😀 Some of the flower petals are a little soft, but some people like them that way. I should have used maybe F11 or something.
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Steve,
I'm sorry to hear about all the forest fires in Canada. We had horrible forest fires in Oregon also about two or three years ago. I did the same as you did; I documented it by taking pictures of all the smoke.
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As promised, a photo that I took yesterday of a plant that I do not recognise. Not a large plant, growing in a pot on a wall yesterday. I am sure you experts can identify it for me.
David
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Bluebell Railway
I recently visited the Bluebell Railway, a Victorian train station that rescues and restores old steam trains, and runs train rides through a bluebell wood.Filling the watertank:
This is a steamed banana carriage. The bananas would be ripened using this steam filled carriage, en route to their destination.
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Nice pics, Dunlin. Real Thomas the Tank Engine stuff!
David
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Gracias David.
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David,
You got me.... 😀 I'm not sure of the flower ID. Would a google search help?
Separate from flower IDs, the only way I know bird identifications, is I have a book for Oregon birds. That covers about 90 percent of the birds that I see. For the rest, sometimes I get lucky with a google search or some smart person here tells me. 😀
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Nice, I'm not an expert and not really sure. Its leaves look like some kind of viburnum, what we call in English 'lace cap' style blossom, but viburnum are normally more of a bush or shrub rather than a potted plant.
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Dunlin,
That Bluebell Railway looks really cool. I'm sure that would be really popular with the kids. We have a small train at our zoo that the kids love.
As a big kid, I was on it once. 😀 Of course, I had to snap photos from it. 😀
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Hi Sandy!
From Wikipedia, the leaves look like viburnum, but clearly only some of the petals are open. I shall have to go back there again later and check.
Thanks!
David
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Thanks Digirame.
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So, inspired by the first shot in the thread by @davidwien I finally managed to shoot some Lilies of the Valley as well... or, rather ONE, pretty close:
Light is back, with bells on! by simple.joy, on FlickrShot with a tiny (1 inch in diameter and 1 inch long) Agfa Colostar N 42 mm f/4.5 lens.
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simplejoy,,
How did you mount that lens on your camera?
Steve Thomas
