Hello and welcome to the weekend.
I am getting ready to head up north to our trailer.  My daughter and I are getting away for 1 Week.  Her last day of teaching was yesterday so hopefully, this getaway will be filled with some fun and R&R for the both of us.

Unfortunately, it means missing my photo club meeting this Thursday.  I have not shared the news with the club members yet, so SHHHHHHH!
One of the topics is a layered image using an object repetitively.  I am working on something else, but her is something that I shot earlier with this challenge in mind.  
I call it "TOO MANY MEN ON THE ICE"  

I hope you have a fun weekend.  Weather permitting, the photo club is meeting at an outdoor car show on Sunday morning.  We are expecting rain.  If the event is canceled, my daughter and I will leave earlier.  My DH is staying home with the dog and pool to keep cool.  They are predicting a real warm-up this week.
LORELL

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Here's your Daily, along with a photo of Plumeria taken in the early morning a couple of days ago...

   

While at a local mini-mall yesterday I saw these tough woody vines ascending a wide and tall palm. They had reached 12-15 feet up the trunk, but still had another 40 feet or more to go if the goal was to reach the top.

This is a full-color shot, pretty much how the vines and palm trunk looked under the gray morning sky that is typical in coastal SoCal in June...

   

Oh, my....it has been busy around here! My local electric company has decided to offer us high speed internet. ( I always thought the phone company would do it, but they stalled. 22 years ago they bought a 500 square foot lot off my property where they said they would put boxes when they ran high speed cable, never happened!)  So, the electric company spent time trimming all the trees near their power lines, that's where I got the wood chip mulch for free, delivered!!  They were glad they could dump it close to where they are working, and did not need to run miles to the dump......Now they are replacing any bad poles......I have 3 on my property!  It's amazing that they do it without turning off the current. Dangerous job!! I got a shot yesterday with my phone of the work in progress.....really nice men....and they are going to leave me a pole.....I asked them to....I might need to run a line out to my shed, and would be easier to not trench......OOOOPS...today, as they raised the new pole, they dropped it, and it broke the top cross piece.....had to replace the top piece, then raise it again! Those poles are only 6 feet inground. They pull the old one straight up, put the new one in the old hole...amazing.

   

Also, to copy Dave's post of blueberries the other day, one of my daughter's plants is really loaded!!  She has about 20 in large pots!  We got a pint two days ago, and I see more ready to pick. Love them blueberries!! 

   

   

Thought I'd start the thread anyway since otherwise I'm always talking at the end of yesterday. Better off starting with today and allowing you lot to catch up.



I believe they were heading off to join the facas. All the smaller birds go and harass a bird of prey if there is one about.

Morning FFs

Not really photography, but I just came across this explanation of the workings of a mechanical watch on a photography site. Seeing as how Peter MFI is much into clocks/watches I thought I would mention it here.

See https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

Amazing piece of work!

regards - Peter D

Wishing you all a happy, healthy, and productive weekend.

One of my potted Lemon Cucumber plants in front of dark ornamental grass and a small grey rock...


   

Michael suggested “something older, as in nowhere near new” .
Sounds good to me. 
Let’s see if we can top our nine pages from last month’s RED challenge. We got our work cut out for us.

I did this in color yesterday, thought I'd start it off today with a B&W version. I think I like this one better. Probably change my mind when I wake up again.

Good day all,
Here's a colorful shot to brighten the day. My view while grilling dinner last evening.

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