The world is beautiful. The world is terrible. I like sunsets.
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Last Notes npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Good morning, Mastodon. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater A pretty 1974 Jaguar XKE at this weekend’s Motor Muster at Greenfield Village. My brain understands that my desire to one day own an E-Type can only lead to financial disaster. But then I see a nice one on a sunny day, and … well, the heart wants what the heart wants. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Sic transit gloria mundi. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater The first test image from my new (to me) Canon EOS 90D DSLR camera that I bought off eBay. My venerable Rebel T3i had gotten a bit glitchy, so I decided to spring for the high-level end-of-the-line DSLR instead of trying to leap into the mirrorless world. I think I’m going to like it, once I figure out a few more of the many, many options. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Saturday night sunset. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater And then I thought, “Maybe I shouldn’t be out here on my little metal paddleboat.” npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Home for a quick stay after a difficult week, just in time to catch this sunset. It was a lovely way to be welcomed home. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater @nprofile…ume6 Benny Beagle worked my Mom over for a treat. Who could say “no” to this? npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Swans at sunset. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Pretty good sunset tonight, if you like that sort of thing. And as we know, I like that sort of thing. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater When your Mama is your umbrella. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater The Belle of the Ball in her full attire. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Family outing. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Oooh, shiny. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Surprise sunset! npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Sunsets happen where you find them. This evening in the Costco parking lot. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Benny Beagle knows well that the “head tilt with single ear flopped” maneuver is one of the most devastating of snackum-acquisition tools. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater A fun picture from last Sunday's Kimber Run: big trees and little MGs. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Spring is springing! npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Handsome boy. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater April 26, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Good morning, Mastodon. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Morning reflections. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Benny Beagle celebrating #NationalBeagleDay in appropriate beagle style. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Having tricked my lovely but gullible wife into Second Breakfast, Benny Beagle tries to work me over for an unprecedented Third Breakfast. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Sunset island. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Surprise sunset after a rainy day. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Another from last night’s surprise sunset. It was really just a sliver of sunset beneath approaching storm clouds. In the wide-angle view I thought it looked like a comet streaking across the horizon. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Sunset reflections. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Sunset pillars. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Power-pole silhouette. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater @nprofile…ume6 Speaking of cool rain clouds tonight…. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Also from tonight’s surprise sunset. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater After a long rainy day, a Saturday night surprise! npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater A few of my favorite signs from today’s No Kings protest in Farmington Hills, Michigan. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Day 1 of Benny Beagle’s new diet is going every bit as well as I thought it would. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Lake level for this morning's sunrise. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater A pair of rare pre-WWII MGs, both with the Tickford drop top: a red MG SA and a slightly larger green MG VA to the right. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Good morning, Mastodon. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater @nprofile…ume6 Benny Beagle seconds the motion. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Done fishin'. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Benny Beagle performing his famed impression of a red curling stone. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater [Looks outside at snow still falling.] MUST. BAKE. MORE. COOKIES. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Another Top 25 Sunsets honorable mention, ducks flying into the mouth of an enormous shark. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Green flames. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Another summertime sunset reflection. Just amazing shapes and colors. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater We live in a topsy-turvy world. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Sunset light reflections. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater The void screams back. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Biggest crowd I’ve ever seen in more than 25 years of living in West Oakland County, Michigan. A few photos from the Novi #HandsOff demonstration today. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Another pretty sunset photo from mid-March on the Benstein boardwalk, this one from Thursday, March 13. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Benny Beagle and I had a fun expedition yesterday. We stopped by a Beagle Meet & Greet hosted by the Midwest BREW beagle rescue organization. Benny gets nervous when he meets new dogs, so we’re working on socialization with other dogs this year. This was a good chance to let him meet some dogs his own size. Here he is being briefly well behaved before giving everybody the benefit of his incredibly loud baying. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater One-legged wonder. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater So begins the snowy three-day weekend. The weather forecast calls for 48 hours of snow with occasional heavier bands of precipitation. The personal forecast calls for indoor puttering with occasional shoveling and a high likelihood of a hot bowl of soup. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Sunset and wind spinner. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Nothing like a good sunset on a Friday night to give me hope. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater My mother-in-law passed away this weekend after a long and often happy life.mshe loved the Moon and often called herself a “lunatic.” npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater Here come the tulips! npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater 22. Duck Trails. April 25, 2023. Lakeshore Park, Novi, Michigan. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater We had a spectacular Sunday sunset last night. I am not ready for summertime to end. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater An osprey enjoys the view of tonight’s sunset. npub1tmd3zld33fksaxplra0yt2qxxzqwg74de4m2cgxh74jz8egy4gws5h35ej Patioboater After a few days of rain and clear skies, the smoke wrapped back down into Michigan this evening.
