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I think Segovia could’ve taught a thing or two to all of those young guys.

I’m still going through my newly acquired cache of vintage jazz albums.

Leo Kottke Jerry Garcia Robert Fripp Christopher Parkening Stephen Stills

Very cool effect!

Having enjoyed seeing the many photos posted in the “Show Us Your Great Photography Thread,” I thought it would be interesting to see the absolute single best photo everyone has taken. As a rule, I don’t like rules but for this thread post only one photo (1x) - your very best photo ever. Feel free to edit and replace your photo as your opinion changes or if you capture a better image but one photo only. Feel free to comment but please only post your very best shot ever. I’ve posted this before but here’s mine - my once in a lifetime shot of the 2017 eclipse. I was able to find an isolated spot in the path of totality in an area near Shoshoni, Wyoming - not another soul on the horizon. Got the shot just at the end of totality for a “diamond ring” effect and hoping to see Baily’s beads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baily's_beads. I was shooting bursts of bracketed exposures at 4 frames per second and the frame just before and the frame just after this one we’re not as dramatic - luckily, a split second at the right exposure made a big difference. The actual image is sharper and more detailed than what displays here.

Yes, here’s a link to the Montana COVID map and our cases are spiking under Phase I re-opening and lifting the quarantine requirement for out-of-staters. https://montana.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=7c34f3412536439491adcc2103421d4b

I think it’s just weathering around the engraving - not vandalism.

Fortunately, with early shut downs, Montana has seen much lower infection rates than elsewhere; however, it’s beginning to spike again with more travel into the state. My county has the highest number in the state - around 200 cases and I think we’re around 700 cases statewide with around 20 deaths. Our medical directive for resuscitative measures on EMS calls is make no attempt to resuscitate known COVID infected individuals and provide only “limited“ effort for patients exhibiting typical symptoms and mask all patients regardless. We limit potential first responder exposure on medical calls by sending in a single “scout” paramedic in full PPE who will make an initial size-up and then direct responders staged outside as needed. Sounds kind harsh and not the way we used to respond but a couple of ambulance crews have been scolded by our medical oversight for not following the new directive as closely as it was outlined. I responded to a HAZMAT spill in NW South Dakota a few weeks ago. There have been virtually no COVID cases there or in SE Montana and, even though we were dealing with a HAZMAT situation, it was like going out into fresh air and sunshine after being in an underground mine. Yet, even in that area, the businesses were using very good isolation practices.

Agreed.

Don’t mean to ruffle any feathers but despite looking for a silver lining, WE are not living by the lessons WE should have learned. Sounds like a few posting here are physicians and certainly medical knowledge and treatment has advanced. Also, we were able to weather the first wave (or first part of a first wave) of a pandemic with less social upheaval than I ever expected. But, all that said, we need leadership that doesn’t contradict science and common sense. I serve as command staff in our local fire department, as a first responder and EMT, and I look at a crowd like that in the same light as a gathering of drunk drivers.

Beautiful morning here. I dusted off my nearly 40 year-old touring bike this morning for a short ride and took this shot a couple miles from home.

We may have learned a few things but the recent protest crowds and the rally in OK show that we’re not taking the lessons seriously. I count 3 people wearing masks in this photo, can anyone see more?

The last light of the sunset is fading over the mountains. The rest of the world is buzzing away out there somewhere but there’s nothing on the horizon here and it’s very still. This is one of my favorites for a quiet evening.

I remember those containers but we'd just steal the heavy glass mugs. One of the coolest parts of going to A&W was the belt coin changers that the car hops wore. I always wanted one of those and was finally able to get a nice one off of ebay several years ago. Let me know if anyone needs change for a dollar.

Grade A New Hampshire maple syrup over Kentucky salt-cured ham - I want me some.

Grade A, no doubt.

Here’s more than you want to know about what’s humerus. https://study.com/academy/lesson/humerus-definition-anatomy-fracture.html

There’s a lot of great comedy today but there are too many who don’t get humor that doesn’t begin with “ya know yer a redneck when” or end with “git ‘er done”

Yes, the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs 🧂 https://www.ucsc.edu/about/mascot.html but check out Scrotie from RISD https://www.risd.edu/news/stories/scrotie-responds-to-hands-on-attention/

The fighting Banana Slugs aren’t too far up the evolutionary ladder from the Amoebas but the Rhode Island School of Design has the scariest mascot. Our volleyball team in grad school was called “With Themselves” so our opponents were always playing With Themselves

Funny that you mention British comedy. Fox News 🤡 https://theweek.com/speedreads/920258/fox-news-took-antifa-monty-python-joke-literally-earning-laugh-from-john-cleese

Just watched it again. Very charming. The music was the perfect accompaniment. added: I think that I could become a Brooklyn Alexander fan.

Did you do your own stunt work?

Nicely done.