Trompetenpfifferling (Craterellus tubaeformis) rather than Pfifferilnge (Cantharellus cibarius). The former come out later and carry on through to December.Quote:
Originally Posted by panama hat
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Trompetenpfifferling (Craterellus tubaeformis) rather than Pfifferilnge (Cantharellus cibarius). The former come out later and carry on through to December.Quote:
Originally Posted by panama hat
They used to be my favourite - there was a forest near my grandmother's place and I'd stay with her on long week-ends (weekdays was boarding school) and I'd go hunting for Butterpilze, Pffferlinge, Steinpilze, Parasolpilz usw . . . she'd throw some butter in the pan, add the Pilze and - beautiful. Maybe a Pilz-omelette, Käsepilzomlelett oder wenn etwas besonderes zu Hand war - Pilz-Omelette mit Lachs.
Here in NZ we only find Wiesenchampignons - nice, but a bit boring.
A while back I visited the Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen.
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It is right next to a small regional airport. They have regular flights with a blimp. Didn't get a good shot of it.
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This is how comfortable air travel looked back in the early days. The Do X
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A water plane. At that time there were no sufficiently large airports. It was over 200km/h fast.
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^ An aircraft with the luxury of an ocean liner. Zeppelin museum is not far away either and another piece of glorious luxury.
After far too long being undecided, I finally bought the Nikon 200-500mm zoom today.
This is my standard 35mm lens (50mm equivalent), without cropping, to get an idea:
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This is a cropped in view of that red sphere on the 500mm (750 equiv)...
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That's taken hand held at 1/13s as a quick check giving an indication of how good the VR is on the lens.
...and a random pic of the woods for those that are missing winter...
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Is that the lens with a single f-stop, Troy? f5.6
^ Its max aperture is f5.6 throughout the 200-500 range but you can stop it down all the way to f32.
It's heavy and is going to take a bit of getting used to as I expect to use it hand held most of the time.
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Originally Posted by Troy
Santa arrived last-night exactly 4 weeks early, to the hour, in the form of an email at 1.00am from a numerical [email protected] email address which I recognised as being a Chinese email saying simply 'hello'
I was going to ignore it, assuming it was Chinese spam, but my curiosity rover got the better of me and I searched my email history. Turned up a hit from April - Miss Mini Minx!
A quick surge of excitement pulsed through my veins as she is a regular favourite in the imagination hall of fame wank bank
By the time I had worked this out though a second email had arrived saying 'I am outside your house'
It was at this point that I remembered that we had parted on rather testy terms following her discovery of Miss Mindanao's abandoned flip flops in the cupboard and her jumping to nefarious conclusions and storming off with her little coal black eyes smouldering.
I feared she might have brought some brothers to offer me a cold serving of vengeance and locked the downstairs doors to greet the arrival party from the safety of the balcony.
But it became clear from the little torch bobbing slowly along the driveway through the forest that she was alone so I went downstairs and outside. She then ran the last 20m towards me in the dark and I scanned her swinging hands nervously in the moonlight for a glint of a silver blade but she just threw her arms around me.
It was only as I looked down at the top of her head that I remembered how hilariously tiny she is.
Thank you Santa...
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This was Venus rising in the east as she fell into a pre-dawn slumber and shepherds watched their flocks (really needed a fixed f5.6 telephoto to do the dawn display justice)
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This morning she was gone and is not replying to any messages today
If I had not taken any photos I would have suspected I had dreamt the whole thing.
Yesterday the US National Dog Show was televised. A new breed/category was announced.: National Dog Show 2020: List of all breeds, all groups competing - Home - The National Dog Show
Shelter Dogs. The winner……….
Christmas elf vehicle driving preparation:-
Seat fully forward - check
Seat fully raised - check
Cushion added for extra ass elevation - check
Shoe with cushion sole for crucial 1cm extra pedal reach - check
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Thunderbudgies are go...
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Portraits of a mini-minx in rainbow-unicorn land
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Lucky bugger!
That's a nasty looking brown stain you've got on your pillow there, by the way...
Same size as the bite on his shoulder....must have drawn blood.
Christmas elf serenade on a g-string arranged for a suitably goblin-gauge guitar
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Teaching a western cultural novice the traditional seasonal parlour game of eyes-closed hunt the Christmas cucumber
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getting warmer...
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It looks like a ukulele to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Looper
Cute pics.
Reminds me of my last year in Chiang Mai...
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So creepy.
^^Christ! Is that Za??!! :)
Got lots more, but that's for onlyfansQuote:
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I'll skip that, thanks.Quote:
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Daily walks and a slice of normal and some sanity
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It's only -22 tonight-balmy!
We're currently on a 5 year world trip of hiking and deep cave exploration.
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13km hike carrying the scuba tanks and cave exploration equipment.
A thank you to the Fredorici Di Stephano Deep Cave Exploration fund and its patrons.
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STOP!
You Shall Not Pass...
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Was looking through pictures and found this one of when we brought this little guy home ,
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^^ Give it a try... I would!
We did in NZ last month . . . but it looks a bit wilder in your case - plus you sadly have a Jag. :smile:Quote:
Originally Posted by Looper
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Poster on top of a hill during one of my Myanmar bike trips.
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^^Respect to the Hat for going off-road and even wading in a regular car (which I have done myself although not on this^^^^^ occasion).
The opposite of the current contagion of muppet plum-brains that buy an SUV because they want to 'sit up a little bit higher' (blocking other drivers views, causing more damage to others in accidents, burning more fossil fuels, consuming more of everything that a perfectly adequate regular car would consume) and then never take it anywhere except the shopping centre.
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It's a 4WD Subaru Wagon?
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+1 I love the ones who buy the ones with chromed wheels and low profile tyres to look good.
That said, if they tow boats, 4WD is handy on the wet, slippery boat ramps.
Fessing up, I do own a Holden/Chevy Captiva. 4 cyl petrol 2WD 7 seater. Bought it for a song.
The 7 seats come in handy doing the sports Team taxi runs.
Plus the seven seater is slightly longer and helps with the maintenance work I do.
The other area it's good with is for older people, especially with disabilities.
My partner has a tall, 80+ yo with movement disabilities client she has to transport and he can reasonably easily egress the Captiva, but struggles to exit the 'normal' car.
^Elegant orchid Lu
Gotta watch where you are stepping after this deluge of rain. Check out this nasty fooker I caught running around the leaf litter driveway debris...
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Nasty . . . preparing to fry him up?
^He looks like he would make a sizeable tapas or entree
Remnants of the La Nina December storms blowing away and leaving some froth for the surfers to enjoy
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Is that what it is?Quote:
Originally Posted by Looper
Big leaves. No sign of a flower when bought. Then Snow White (the flower's given name) budded and took about two weeks to open.
Then one morning she was open with a drip of liquid on what could really only be described as her clitoris, at the top.
Edit: Also kinda looks like a cobra.
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^Elegant orchid
I thought it is a Calla lily. They look very similar but not exactly the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edmond
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Peace lily?
Thanks, but not really the same, other than being big and white.Quote:
Originally Posted by Takeovers
The inner part is less feminine, more medieval implement of torture.
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Where's Nev when you need her. :)
She's a lovely plant, whatever she is.
It's a White Anthurium.
Sir PAG.
Edit: And Sir Troy - also known as a Peace Lily.
Saw this guy when we were walking back from the pool the other night.
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