Not here

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It's the usual dark colour on my mobile.

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Why is this tread showing up with a blue background on the Cafe SETI page? It's the only one like that.

It's back to normal today.

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~Sue~

All our cameras must be broken. ;-)

Here's one of my cats, Finn, looking out the window. He is an indoor/outdoor cat.


When it's hot outside and it rains, the windows steam up. I get to see where the slugs have been "slugging" on my patio window. These trails are completely invisible when the window is dry.

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~Sue~

Well no both of my cameras work fine, and I take lots of pictures however I am just going through a slightly "slow" period.

Not really used to high temperatures and no rain for weeks on end, that doesn't happen in the UK!!


Sorting them and uploading to website takes time and effort. I am trying to start to get things in order, so here is the sunset tonight from my kitchen window..



The one thing I really miss about the Isle of Wight is I have no horizon here, but that shot was quite a good one.

Owls are spooky in their own right.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

That's a great shot of the owl, Gnu. Amazing that it's so sharp. If I'd tried that I'm sure it would have been blurry!

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~Sue~

Really great shot of the owl :-)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Can anyone identify this bush. I noticed it this summer on the side of our new home. It has a light lavender color and the blooms resemble a hibiscus. I didn't know what these were and that they would bloom at all until last month.

Possibly Rose of Sharon.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

A Google image search suggest they are Floribunda roses. Pretty nice !

Can anyone identify this bush. I noticed it this summer on the side of our new home. It has a light lavender color and the blooms resemble a hibiscus. I didn't know what these were and that they would bloom at all until last month.

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Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

There is a privately owned, open to the public, 15,000 acre forest about 25 miles south of me, and I decided to roam around in it, this morning. When I was a kid, my parents used to take me there occasionally for a picnic.

Entrance to the forest:



Walkway into the tree canopy:



View from the walkway in the trees:



This deer spotted me. I wanted to get closer.



This was in a meadow. Reminded me of SETI:

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

There is a privately owned, open to the public, 15,000 acre forest about 25 miles south of me, and I decided to roam around in it, this morning. When I was a kid, my parents used to take me there occasionally for a picnic.

This was in a meadow. Reminded me of SETI:

It reminds me of Stargate.

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~Sue~

Yes, it reminded me of a portal, too. I liked it.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

My mother started walking around Louisville's public water reservoir(Crescent Hill) back in 1982, after my died. The walks were psychologically therapeutic. She continued that routine every day, no matter the weather, up until a few years ago. It's a very nice place to walk; it has good feng shui. I try to go up there, myself, in honor of my mother, who died last year.

It's about a mile or so around, and about 33 feet up on a hill. There's two basins holding water(about a 100 million gallons) that are pumped in from the river. Louisville goes through that much in less than a day.

These pictures are of my walk, today. It was hot, so no one was up there, but me. ;~)

First one is of the steps up the hill to where the walk around the reservoir begins:
(my mother's Toyota Camry in the foreground)


This one is the "Gate House" at the top of the steps. This is where the water comes in from the river, about 2 miles away. Inside the building are valves that control the flow.


A view toward one basin:


And a view from the far side:

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Great shots.
Love the architecture- from when utility buildings didn't have to be ugly.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Is that the one Gordon that has the huge sand filter built into it?

Cheers.

Is that the one Gordon that has the huge sand filter built into it?

Cheers.

Well, the water intake pumping station at the shore of the river probably does have some massive sand filters. (I'll go back tomorrow or the next day, and take some pictures of the intake facility, on the river.) It goes from there, underground through a 30 inch diameter main pipeline to the Reservoir basins in my pictures.

The water then goes from under those basins, into another set of basins across the street, for pre-treatment, and then, under another street to the actual treatment facility before getting sent out to everybody's homes.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

My mother started walking around Louisville's public water reservoir(Crescent Hill) back in 1982, after my died. The walks were psychologically therapeutic. She continued that routine every day, no matter the weather, up until a few years ago. It's a very nice place to walk; it has good feng shui. I try to go up there, myself, in honor of my mother, who died last year.

It's about a mile or so around, and about 33 feet up on a hill. There's two basins holding water(about a 100 million gallons) that are pumped in from the river. Louisville goes through that much in less than a day.

A beautiful place for a water treatment facillity!

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~Sue~

I wanted to take pictures this morning to show the actual intake facility on the river. The river is behind these Louisville Water Company pumping buildings:



By the looks of the scaffolding, they're apparently doing some renovation on one of the buildings.



This grassy median starts just in front of those buildings above. A 30 inch main water supply pipe runs under the median for about two miles, and then empties into the Reservoir in my first set of pictures.



I went over to the other side of the river to show how the water plant is situated on the shore:

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