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Easter Bunny?

I know I have shared this photo in the past but I don't recall if I have done so on this Forum. I took it back in 2017 but it still remains one of my favorite shots of "backyard wildlife".

Anyone have any captions that would fit for this Easter day?

Jim

04/09/23 04:09 PM

#12436

Great pictures, Jim!

04/09/23 05:13 PM

#12437

Joseph D. McCarthy

Jim

What comes to mind is "Friendships found."

04/09/23 06:53 PM

#12438

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

Beautiful photo, Jim! Caption option: Bunny: "Alright, guys! Come on in----let´s see if they hid the Easter eggs in the bushes."

I may have posted this a couple of years ago. I took it at La Tamarita Park during a walk near home.

04/09/23 07:31 PM

#12439

Great picture, Donna. Thanks for sharing. joe

04/10/23 09:23 AM

#12440

Michael McLeod

wow and thanks and awwwwww! geeeeze! on the pics of the pretty garden and the fuzzy does and the bunny wabbbit

04/10/23 10:46 AM

#12441

Donna,

Nice shot and what a great place for a walk!

I can almost smell the flowers in your photo!

Jim

04/11/23 11:34 AM

#12442

Janie Albright (Blank)

Today is Eight-Track Tape Day.

Trivia fans: In 1964, eight-track tapes were developed by a jet airplane manufacturer, William P. Lear, who also founded the Lear Jet Corporation.

Celebrate all outmoded technologies today by dancing to some old eight-track music - if you can find any!

04/11/23 03:06 PM

#12443

Thanks for the teminder Janie.

I'll see if I can dig out mt old Jerry Vales' Greatest Hits 8-track.

Or maybe something from Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gourme.

or maybe this guy.......

04/11/23 11:49 PM

#12444

OMG!

There have been so many times over the last 8 years where I have said to myself, "Wow, it can't get any crazier than this", only to see something even crazier a few days later.

But I may have just seen something that tops everything. (so far, at least)

Comrade Tuckerio Rose Carlson interviewed "the Donald", and it was just supposed to be about the New York indictment, when Trump goes off in this rather emphatic description of how attractive Chairman Xi Jinping's interpreter was - and trying to almost restrain himself from getting too sexual. I was absolutley stunned.

But did you see the look on Tucker's face?

"Unhinged" is way too mild a word to describe this guy - he is absolutely bonkers.

In a week where he is indicted for a sexual affair coverup that has Melania refusing to be near him, and facing a potential rape case in another trial in a few weeks, he goes off about this Chinese lady,,, in a public interview?

The guy is simply amazing!

04/12/23 04:51 AM

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Michael McLeod

Janie:your post reminds me of how antique I feel when I use my cell phone to record an interview and I say: "I'm just going to tape record this."

04/12/23 08:44 AM

#12446

I found it funny about Janie's comment regarding the 8-track 'cassette'. I went kicking and screaming before I got my first computer. I did the same before I got my first cell phone. And again when I went to an android smart phone. Then there is the 'smart TV' which I had trouble getting it to work. I had to call my computer guru and pay him $108/hour to come and program the darn thing. Sad to say, but I had to have him come back again to show me again! I hesitate before I get any new technological device as I am so 'technically challenged'. Supposed to make my life easier, but it doesn't.

I remember when we got a new TV and couldn't hook up the WiFi or whatever to play games. Our 7 year old grandson said, "oh, Pa Joe and Pappaw, I can do it for you.

A big lesson in humility!

04/12/23 11:15 AM

#12447

All This Tech Stuff

Fortunately my wife, Janet, is our "techie" - self taught and takes care of our computers, televisions and smart phones. I use them but she knows how to maintain, update, program, install, and all that other stuff that keeps me from messing them up.

The only thing I play with is my digital photo editing software. We all are aware of how the world has been changed with this electronic age and how it can be as frustrating to us "seniors" as it is useful. It still amazes me when I recall the difference between the film/slide days of cameras to the current digital ones.

I used to take a lot of Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides (limited to 36 per "roll"), send them in Kodak mailers to Dallas for processing, receive them back about 1-2 weeks later, find that only a few were what I considered "keepers", take them to Colorado Color (a local lab, now defunct) for printing enlargements (expensive!) and hope they were what I had pre-visualized when I picked them up a week later.

Today I drive into the mountains, take multiple shots of the same scene from different perspectives, check them on the camera's LED display, delete those that I don't like, drive home, upload them to my computer, crop and process them, blow them up and can print out a glossy 13X19 inch copy of my favorite before the sun sets that same day. Oh yes, and I can erase the digital film to be used for my next photo foray into the forest!

Jim

04/12/23 11:35 AM

#12448

Joseph D. McCarthy

Jim you do realize that the proper term is "HIDE" the unselected photos. Just like all computer systems, you do NOT remove the file (photo, etc.). They are still taking up space in your storage system and a good technician can usually RETRIEVE them if wanted. Eventually your storage card will be used up, just like a 36 roll of film, when you find that once in a life time shot.

Joe M

04/12/23 12:48 PM

#12449

This really caught me by surprise.

According to Congresman (and I use the term "man" lightly) Jim Jordan (of Ohio), New York City has a "soft on crime" D.A. (Alvin Bragg) Yes, we all know NYC has a lot of crime.

But here are some stats that caught me completely off guard;

In the past year NYC murders are down 14%, shootings are down17%, burgleries are down 21%%, and robberies are down 8%.

AND in the same past year NYC's murder rate is only about one third as much as ---- wait for it ---- Columbus Ohio!

Mr. Jordan, have you ever read the 10th Ammendment to the US Constitution? And BTW, why not spend a little time in your own back yard ?

04/12/23 12:52 PM

#12450

Joe M.,

Thanks, I was unaware of that fact. As I said, my tech knowledge is limited!

Fortunately, over all these years I have never run out of space on any of my digital film (SD, CF, etc) cards. Perhaps that is either luck or I am more selective about what I shoot.

On most of my foto safaris I will click the shutter about 100-200 times. Since I program my camera to take both RAW and JPEG format on each click that would more than double (RAW is very dense) the space used on the card . I guess that goes to comment on how much data can be stored on these very small but high gigabyte storage cards. Again, an amazing technological advance over the old film days!

Jim

P. S. Regardless, I always carry extra cards in my camera case just in the event of that "once in a lifetime" shot happens to occur, like an approaching mountain lion or bear 🐻! But first I'll grab the bear spray and hope for the best!

04/12/23 02:10 PM

#12451

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

Urgent question for Joe G: Does your grandson have a passport and does he make housecalls?

04/12/23 04:32 PM

#12452

Hi Donna, my grandson lives in South Carolina now,

BUT my computer guru lives in Beechwald here and below is his contact information. He is great and he does make housecalls!! Tell him that I referred you to him (not that I make any money for that). Hope this helps, Joe

Justin Brown

Fix-IT Computer

601 East Beechwald Blvd.

Columbus, Ohio 43214

419-733-5809

601 East Beechwald Blvd.
Columbus, Ohio 43214

04/12/23 04:57 PM

#12453

Donna Kelley (Velazquez)

Hi Joe,

Thanks, that is sweet of you but I was joking. I still live in Barcelona which is why I asked about a passport.

I will pass on the info about Justin to my Cols. people though so again thanks.

04/12/23 05:40 PM

#12454

Hi Donna, you fooled me - ha. I doubt he would make house calls there. How is life in Barcelona? joe

04/12/23 11:40 PM

#12455

I fall into the same category of Joe and Donna - but my computer literate grandkids live in Washington and Oregon.

So what do you say we get our congressperson to pass a bill requiring any tech savy grandchildren be require to live close to, or requently vist their grandparents.

P.s. Jim, which photo editing software program do you use? They all seem so complicated and intimidating. I'm tempted to start with one of the simple free programs unti I can get a grip on the whole process.

04/13/23 02:21 AM

#12456

Dave,

Your age is showing 🙄as that was the same question you asked before. See my answer on Post # 12221.

Jim

04/13/23 09:29 AM

#12457