Picture Thread 2017

Gorram N.J. rodents...

After two months with no precipitation, we've finally had a snowfall.
This is me in a whiteout.

New year, new thread.

Clancy and Tennyson on the back of my reclining loveseat.

around 3am at work.

One of Lanzman's cats is doing the "one paw on top of the other paw" thing! I love when they do that.

Yeah, of the two of them Clancy is definitely the more chill.

Isn't New Jersey "The Garden State?" Seems to me having a garden there would a lost cause unless the garden is surrounded by a 15 feet tall fence. Funny story - guy I work with lives on the edge of the woods so of course he has a very tall electric fence to keep the deer out of his garden. But the deer would constantly stare at his garden and walk along the fence anyway. One day when he was at work some bushes near the fence grew tall enough to short out the fence making it of course safe to touch - and the deer invaded and destroyed half his garden.

Oh, we absolutely have neighbors with fences around their gardens!
And never mind the deer, my nextdoor neighbor has pictures of two bears climbing over their 4-foot fence to get at the bird feeder!

Yes I forgot New Jersey is knee-deep in bears too. You can't keep them away from bird-feeders and swimming pools.

Yes, it's the garden state, but I live in Marietta. These guys are welcome, they're strays from Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Natl Park just up the road.

oh I must have gotten your deer mixed up with Forbin's deer. Suburb deer are suburb deer though - they all adapt really quick to having humans around - except for the whole "moving vehicles" issue.

It's January 19th!! No 2017 picture thread yet?

Not my cat - just a visitor. His name's George and he lives a few houses down - he visits a couple of times a day to get dry kitty snacks and attention, and tease our two indoor cats at our back patio window. He doesn't have one shining green eye, though that would be pretty cool - it's just the camera flash doing it. Really nice cat, loves to roll around and get belly rubbed. If he's strolling around the street and sees my car coming on my way home he'll run down and get my attention to get his snacks!

I made one and moved the 2017 posts from of the 2016 thread into it before I realized @Lanzman had already made a 2017 pictures thread.

When I merged the threads, for some reason it shows that @steve2^4 created it.

Sorry, @Lanzman.

Russian hackers!

Holly and I enjoying dinner at Maggiano's last fall.

Maggiano's looks like a pretty cool place!

It's pretty good for a chain.

There's one not too far from my house and it always makes me smile to know that a convenient option for Italian food is locally owned by a Jewish family (their kids went to school with my kids).

I went to PF Chang's Chinese Bistro a couple of days ago - everyone working there was black! What'sup wit dat?

I've been busy.

Book nook? Nice!

My grandfather put in a ten floor fence to keep the deer out of his garden. It worked on them, not the woodchucks. They tunneled under the cyclone sense pretty fast.

Not many nice days these past three months. Today we had a beautiful day -- on a Sunday! So there were plenty of slightly shocked-looking people out. I went down to the lakeside.



Young swan scratching its bum.


Mont Blanc largely covered in a cap cloud --- just the peak uhh.. peeking out.


Les Aravis

The local street gang getting in the way:


(Sorry about the bad pan, I was trying to drive)

We had a lame deer camped out in the backyard for 3 weeks. Looks like he'd gotten whacked. He did a nice job trimming the ivy and then limped away. Sorry, no pics.

Nice town, that Lancaster.

Ferry in Lisbon harbour.



Pic from same spot at dusk.

I've been drawing pretty much my entire life, but when a friend took this picture of me the other night, I realized it was the first one ever taken of me doing it.

You should put that up as your avatar. You're present one kinda, y'know, weirds me right out. But hell, free country.