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Posted: Apr 10, 2024 - 11:18pm

 oldviolin wrote:


Beautiful time machine. 

My first kites were ones my dad would make out of sticks and newspaper, likely the way he had made them when he was a kid. Box kites too. The string was store bought but there were several rolls connected and wound around a different stick. The tail was likely a ripped up sheet or hated shirt. 
Across the street before they built apartments on the land there was a small hill. It was the perfect spot to get that kite aimed directly at the occasional jets overhead. Kites verses jets. String theory time travel.

Eventually it would get too dark to see it but I could still feel it tugging every wind I wound, every gust that winded. My sweet Mother, tired of calling me in for supper, would give that last call which was somewhat angry and included my middle name. I'm out there, all alone under a darkening sky. All the jet fights are over and I'm winding as fast as I can. I still can't see it but I can feel it getting closer. String theory time travel. My Mother is calling me in for supper, or else. I'm 12 years old...





cool.  that touched the child in me. 
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Posted: Apr 10, 2024 - 11:02pm

Mike Mosman

I spotted an especially unique and beautiful kite being flown in front of the Washington monument.  I started talking to the man at the end of the string, and discovered the kite was his own design and had won a national championship!
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Posted: Apr 10, 2024 - 4:35pm

 oldviolin wrote:


Beautiful time machine. 

My first kites were ones my dad would make out of sticks and newspaper, likely the way he had made them when he was a kid. Box kites too. The string was store bought but there were several rolls connected and wound around a different stick. The tail was likely a ripped up sheet or hated shirt. 
Across the street before they built apartments on the land there was a small hill. It was the perfect spot to get that kite aimed directly at the occasional jets overhead. Kites verses jets. String theory time travel.

Eventually it would get too dark to see it but I could still feel it tugging every wind I wound, every gust that winded. My sweet Mother, tired of calling me in for supper, would give that last call which was somewhat angry and included my middle name. I'm out there, all alone under a darkening sky. All the jet fights are over and I'm winding as fast as I can. I still can't see it but I can feel it getting closer. String theory time travel. My Mother is calling me in for supper or else. I'm 12 years old...





Wow, what a memory. I'm glad seeing these photos are bringing back such memories.
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Posted: Apr 10, 2024 - 2:27pm

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
face cloud



Mount Rushmore!
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Posted: Apr 10, 2024 - 1:39pm

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
kite day



Beautiful time machine. 

My first kites were ones my dad would make out of sticks and newspaper, likely the way he had made them when he was a kid. Box kites too. The string was store bought but there were several rolls connected and wound around a different stick. The tail was likely a ripped up sheet or hated shirt. 
Across the street before they built apartments on the land there was a small hill. It was the perfect spot to get that kite aimed directly at the occasional jets overhead. Kites verses jets. String theory time travel.

Eventually it would get too dark to see it but I could still feel it tugging every wind I wound, every gust that winded. My sweet Mother, tired of calling me in for supper, would give that last call which was somewhat angry and included my middle name. I'm out there, all alone under a darkening sky. All the jet fights are over and I'm winding as fast as I can. I still can't see it but I can feel it getting closer. String theory time travel. My Mother is calling me in for supper, or else. I'm 12 years old...



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Posted: Apr 10, 2024 - 12:27pm

kite day
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Posted: Apr 10, 2024 - 11:57am

face cloud
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Posted: Apr 10, 2024 - 11:30am

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Flying Lawnmower


ha, I remember that one. I have something a bit similar from when I stayed with the HobieJoes

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Posted: Apr 10, 2024 - 11:10am

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Flying Lawnmower

Very nice
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Posted: Apr 10, 2024 - 10:54am

Flying Lawnmower
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Posted: Apr 9, 2024 - 12:05pm

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Mid September. It was hot, and (believe it or not) incredibly humid. Every time I got out of an air conditioned Uber or stepped out from an air conditioned building, my glasses would fog up entirely.




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Posted: Apr 8, 2024 - 7:32pm

 oldviolin wrote:

in summertime or no?



Mid September. It was hot, and (believe it or not) incredibly humid. Every time I got out of an air conditioned Uber or stepped out from an air conditioned building, my glasses would fog up entirely.
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Posted: Apr 8, 2024 - 6:11pm

 thisbody wrote:
 fractalv wrote:
Just a candid moment at the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve, waiting for the tourists. I don't have many camera mistake type happenstance photos (oh, I take plenty, I just don't keep them), but this somewhat random shot of the people who are not often in the photos seemed like it fit the description to me.
Sorry, I don't know what s/o and s/w mean in this context.

Thanks for your answer. s/o someone - s/w somewhere
 
in summertime or no?
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Posted: Apr 8, 2024 - 6:09pm

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Takeoff
 
Those faces kill me. Great shot.
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Posted: Apr 8, 2024 - 6:07pm

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Posted: Apr 8, 2024 - 2:55pm

Takeoff
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Posted: Apr 8, 2024 - 11:47am

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

  cool shot though!

Cosmic happenstance!

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Posted: Apr 8, 2024 - 11:34am

 fractalv wrote:
Bali


At an outdoor stall in Bali. There was a butterfly there just now, I swear!



  cool shot though!
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Posted: Apr 8, 2024 - 9:52am

Bali

At an outdoor stall in Bali. There was a butterfly there just now, I swear!
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Posted: Apr 6, 2024 - 6:18am

 fractalv wrote:
Just a candid moment at the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve, waiting for the tourists. I don't have many camera mistake type happenstance photos (oh, I take plenty, I just don't keep them), but this somewhat random shot of the people who are not often in the photos seemed like it fit the description to me.

Sorry, I don't know what s/o and s/w mean in this context.


Thanks for your answer.

s/o someone - s/w somewhere

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