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@aferguson.bsky.social

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Retired but not retiring taker-of-photographs and scratcher-of-dog-bellies

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · Feb 13

Reminder: if I haven't followed back or have unfollowed you, it's probably because
your timeline has few posts or mostly retweets
you're following thousands of accounts
you're selling something or asking for money
your timeline is full of things I'm not interested in
you post images without ALT text

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Jim Ferguson 🫘 @jimferguson.bsky.social · 1h

One of the large cottonwood trees that line the banks of the Driftwood River and the East Fork of the White River in Mill Race Park in downtown Columbus, Indiana. #photography #ThickTrunkThursday #Support_Public_Lands

The bark of this cottonwood is gray-brown and deeply furrowed. This one is nearly 40 inches (1 m) in diameter at breast height and nearly 100 feet (30 m) tall.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

New Braunfels Independent School District (TX) has just banned middle and high school students from using their school libraries. Why? So officials can go through the library and remove any books they deem inappropriate, per the state's SB 13 law.

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A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

bookriot.com

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 1h

In all fairness, when it comes to bad weather, I'm usually the dragger, not the dragged.

AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 1h

The woods can look very different from day to day, like going from a sunny day to a rainy one.
#photography #woods #trees #light

Leaves glow in bright sunlight that appears in streaks between the trees.

Soft green leaves fill the photo with misty green behind them, the result of a light rain.

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 2h

True. That was a bit obvious. I should've just complained about shedding and made it "dragging you outside on walks".

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 3h

We have one on our property. A geologist from our state geology department came to get its coordinates for the G.I.S. database; it's his hobby. He thought the indigenous people did them as wayfinders and then the settlers & their descendants borrowed the idea. Ours is near a long abandoned road.

A tree with an unnatural 90-degree bend stands on a snowy hillside, overlooking the valley & creek below.

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Stefan’s Lens on the North @sts63.bsky.social · 20h

Black against White

Flying Arctic Fox vs. Icelandic Horse

#Iceland #Arcticfox #Fox
#Animalwildlife #Nikon #Heydalur
#Westfjords #Icelandhorse
#horse

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 4h

Great counterpoint shot to mine in May. Brrrr.

You might wonder if after a particularly brutal winter, some folks fell into a berserk rage just to have a reason to leave.

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 4h

I don't know why anybody has dogs. All they do is shed on your clothes while snuggling with you and want to go on walks in the woods. What a nuisance.

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you -- though the waterfall did most of the work.

AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 22h

I thought the area between Seneca and Cayuga Lakes and Michigan's Upper Peninsula were contesting for greatest waterfall density but Iceland blows them both away.

Watkins Glen, though, would still probably win for most waterfalls in the shortest distance.

AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 22h

I'll have to bookmark this in case I ever need to explain chutzpah to someone.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 1d

I would suggest that he get therapy but that would be so cruel to therapists.

AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Öxarárfoss is the last waterfall we saw on our #Iceland trip so it's quite apt for it to be the last #Iceland waterfall photo I post for #WaterfallWednesday.
#photography #waterfalls #WaterfallsWednesday #hiking

Öxarárfoss is in Þingvellir National Park. It is about 44 feet (13 meters) tall. The waterfall drops over a ledge onto a jumble of large rocks. There is a mist giving a gauzy look to the bottom 2/3 of the photo.

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Jim Ferguson 🫘 @jimferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Look, but don't touch.
Leaves of three, let it be.
#photography #plant #autumn_color #Support_Public_Lands

A poison ivy vine is growing up the trunk of a tree in Columbus, Indiana's ‎⁨Mill Race Park⁩. The leaves are changing from green to maroon. Even when they are dried and on the ground the irritating chemical, urushiol, can cause those who are alergic to break out in a rash.

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 1d

I loved this one because it was a surprise, not on the map and no name that I could find. It was just there along Road 62 in Westfjords and we were only there because the Stykkishólmur ferry had been shut down on short notice for maintenance. So glad that happened because the entire drive was great.

A mutli-tiered waterfall goes the over the edge of what looks like human-made stacked terraces but it actually narrow horizontal layers of lave.

AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 2d

I like your glacial erratic theory.

AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 2d

In fact it looks like rock slabs we've seen in the US that have broken off in avalanches or earthquakes and then slid down slopes

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 2d

That it doesn't look like any other stacks we saw is what made me curious.

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Jim Ferguson 🫘 @jimferguson.bsky.social · 2d

Victoria Glacier, ‎⁨Banff National Park⁩, ⁨Alberta⁩, ⁨Canada⁩ #photography #B&W #Support_Public_Lands

Victoria Glacier is flowing between two rock faces. Lake Louise is at the end of the valley the glacier has carved.

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 2d

I'd like to be able to tell you something about this huge solo monolith on the beach at Lækjavik Nature Preserve but there's nothing about it in my #Iceland geology book and my google-fu failed to turn up any geologic information.
#photography #ocean #beaches

A huge lava monolith stands by itself on a black sand beach in eastern Iceland. The slopes of mostly bare lava mountains/hills are visible in the background. The waves are close to the monolith suggesting the it is surrounded by water when the tide is in.

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 2d

It looks like we'll be in the 4-7C range later this week. Still warm enough that the herbs can stay outside.

AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 2d

No below freezing nights yet but cool enough that I can get a walk done in the morning without bugs. It was cold enough we've had the heat come on a couple of nights.

Have you had any below freezing temps yet?

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 2d

I hope so too -- if for no other reason than there's almost nothing to take photos of on my walks. I was hoping that day of rain we had was the end of the drought but we've gone right back to blah, dry days (I think part of the reason Flit is getting in the pond is because the creeks are dry).

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 2d

He looks like he's trying to figure how to 'attack' that pillow so he ends up on top of it.

The weather has been pretty nice but there's almost no color. I wonder if all the leaves are just going to go straight to brown this year.

Happy War of the Worlds Season to you.

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