jerzone

jerzone, 4 days ago to random

“First road trip, wish me luck!”

jerzone, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to hiking

Ten seconds on the trail and things are already out of control.
#hiking #slimeMold

jerzone, 6 days ago to random

A note on presentation: which elevation profile would you rather ride?

jerzone, 9 days ago to random

Bonus shots from the bike outing. Brand new baby deer, could barely walk, and a big ol’ snapping turtle laying eggs.
#turtles #deer

Mom waiting in woods right off the road
Large snapping turtle backed up to hole it dug on side of rural road laying eggs

jerzone, 10 days ago to random

#SilentSunday

jerzone, 12 days ago to MTB

Memory from Winter of 2022 on the fat bike. I don't like the insta360 go’s quality, but the feature where it keeps the horizon level makes some really interesting tire angles. Wheee!!

#mtb #FatBiking #Winter

https://youtu.be/8gFtZpQWEkg

jerzone, 13 days ago to Birds

Trail run near Dartmouth College this morning. Well, more like around the periphery with all kinds of water ways, side trails, and even a tiny bit of Appalachian Trail. The Cormorant was in a brook that feeds the Connecticut River and as I tried to get closer for a photo I noticed poison ivy surrounding me. Hope that doesn't backfire.

#birds #TrailRunning #AppalachianTrail

Single red rose getting ready to open surrounded by dark green
calm brook that is lined with ferns, flowers, and trees
A bit of the AT going uphill, bony with lots of rocks

jerzone, 15 days ago to hiking

Morning hike!
#hiking #RedEft #trees #ferns

Red Eft on downed log walking towards camera
Circle of ferns covered in rain
A split trunk birch with roots that looks like Ostrich legs and toes

jerzone, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

Been watching a number of storm trackers and chasers this year as the weather gets crazier. This has an interesting overview of the parts of a supercell, really breaking it down around 4 minutes in.
I’d like to find something that breaks down how/what is causing increased number and intensity of storms. Higher temps means more energy, but is it changing wind shear? Where’s the moisture driven or drawn in from, Gulf?
https://youtu.be.com/JNKAcDeBJbg?t=46

jerzone, 16 days ago to running

Something totally different on this morning's solo trail run: I didn't stop to take any photos! The few I took were while running. Also, comparing watch vs. phone recording times, see if you can guess which is which (answer in ALT).

#Trailrunning #running

The phone’s times, it’s using the Strava app set on trailrun. More details in the other Splits photo ALT
broody skies made it look like imminent rain, the trees are glowing green in that diffuse light

jerzone, 16 days ago to animals

Day two of walking cats. More grass to eat/upchuck later, more adventure, and the other brother got a turn (last two photos). Everyone survived: no chipmunks, chickens, or cardinals were harmed.
#CatsOfMastodon #cats

Cat jumped up on aging chicken coop for some reason. We’re trying to keep it together long enough for the last chicken so it’s pretty scruffy and worn
Portrait of the other brother in grass and dandelions just having heard something and being on guard
Other brother climbed the big boulder by our little pond, surveying where to go next.

jerzone, 16 days ago to MountainBiking

Family ride on back roads of NH this morning. It’s the kind of area where any opening with elevation provides a new perspective of Mt Ascutney.
#gravelcycling #biking

Wife coming down remote gravel road on her ebike
Telephone/power pole with old nailed in numbers and plaques

jerzone, 17 days ago to random

Undulations

Light green inch worm moving along edge of table by seemingly sending a ripple from one end of body to other

jerzone, 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago) to random

I think the LED connector is just a SIM card slot? More solid than most connections for light strips.
#LEDs

jerzone, 20 days ago to random

Apropos of nothing (I hope), Shawn Mullin's Beautiful Wreck has been swirling around my brain the last 24 hours. Making dinner last night, “such a beautiful wreck". 2am wandering to the bathroom, “what a beautiful wreck you are”. Walk the dog this morning, “but you make such a beautiful wreck”.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tokw8tbz2w

jerzone, 20 days ago to random

I've been wondering if something in the phone's camera system is visible or audible to bugs and birds. Like I can move around, get closer, but as soon as the camera app is opened that seems to spook them most of the time.
Just me?

jerzone, 21 days ago to MTB

Beautiful morning for a mt bike ride after overnight rain, which brought out a lot of Red Efts with birds in full song.

#mtb #biking #turtle

Big snapping turtle hiding in marsh next to trail
Tiny Red Eft alongside mt bike tire
A couple riders coming up pathway in very green woods

jerzone, 22 days ago to random

A long time ago I made a little pond in our back yard. Ostensibly for the indoor fish (Koi, Comets) to spend Summer outside, but then the scope (and pond) got bigger. Waterfall, rocks for frogs to sunbathe, and deep sections so fish could survive Winter. May 19, 2004 I got the idea to add local fauna to the pond in the form of a couple scoops of plants and bugs from a nearby vernal pool (i.e. roadside ditch). Enjoying water bugs and tadpoles noodling around I spotted a small clump of sticks ... moving.
Posted about it on my blog and a reader ID’d it as a Caddisfly Larva.
Flash forward to yesterday, checking out the frogs in our messy little pond, when a bundle of sticks walked by underwater.

https://lifeinfreshwater.net/caddisfly-larvae-trichoptera/

#caddisfly #insects #pond

jerzone, 22 days ago to random

Working outside and this bit of heavy equipment ambled past.

#toad

jerzone, 23 days ago to Mushrooms

Monday morning trail run had an unexpected "private land" sign half mile down one of the trails. Never fear, I've been practicing bushwhacking for years!
#TrailRunning #mushrooms #salamander #bear

Red Eft on top of an old tree stump that was cut unevenly and has a “cliff” which it seems to be contemplating climbing
Big boulder in the middle of the woods, about 4 foot tall, with a birch growing on the very top, large roots hanging down in a few different directions providing support and nutrients
red running shoe next to a fresh bear print in the mud on a wet section of the trail

jerzone, 24 days ago to 3DPrinting

Today’s quick 3d print of a “pill placer" for our old dog. Big enough for the capsules he has to take 3x a day and hopefully more accurate and less intrusive than my fingers, with less chance of a munched finger.

#3dprinting #DogsOfMastodon

slicer preview of the printed parts showing where 4mm rod goes through and connects

jerzone, 25 days ago to animals

Well, yes, dinosaur shape is unique.
“Behold, a long extinct carnivore is here to dispense medicine!”
[in pink or blue]

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #DogsOfMastodon

jerzone, 25 days ago to random

Question for any woodworkers: how resilient are electric planars to screws and does it even make sense to plane old deck boards to reuse? I was thinking of flipping them over.
#woodworking

jerzone, 27 days ago to hiking

Shots from this morning’s almost five mile trail run.

#TrailRunning #hiking #woods #waterfall

Trail named Gnomaste with a gnome in little house, legs crossed, fingers held in meditation pose (?).
Series of cascading little waterfalls along trail
What looks like a skiff of light snow is really lots of tiny flowers

jerzone, 28 days ago to random

Saw this well fed froggo soaking up rays yesterday afternoon and just had to capture all of its glorious textures.
#frog #pond