The Coffee House

[jcdeboever]

This is for @limr fuji color is splendid
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A cat on LSD.

Yup, it was far out. I've got a trippier one that I took, reflective window shot. They had one on display and the owner came out and asked me what the hell I was doing.... Being of good cheer and in my happy zone, she invited me in the store to get a wall display shot. She kept touching me the whole time though, I think she was the waitress @smoke665 was talking about from the Greek restaurant. Geez, old ladies and gay guys flirting with me that day....

 

[table1349]

Gary has never been to Wichita.

You have not missed much. If you want to experience it, put a piece of cardboard on a flat table, spread some dirt on the cardboard and place the table in front of your oven, turn on the oven with the door open, put a fan in the door blowing out across the cardboard and sit on the opposite side of the cardboard facing the oven. If you want the full experience plant some grass seed in the dirt and watch it grow.

For a change, as Kansas weather changes wildly at a drop of a hat, turn you air conditioner down to 60, strip off you clothes and watch the grass go dormant until the weather gets hot again.

If you want the total complete authentic experience, cut the cardboard into the shape of Kansas before you set it up and put one small hill in the far south central portion of the dirt.

What, no coastline? (I bet you live on that hill ...)

Au contraire mon frere, We live on a bump, not to be confused with a hill. A hill you can sled down in the winter. A bump you slow for when driving. We sit proudly on the top of the bump.

Define coastline. Do lakes, ponds and streams count?

 

[table1349]

Gary has never been to Wichita.

You have not missed much. If you want to experience it, put a piece of cardboard on a flat table, spread some dirt on the cardboard and place the table in front of your oven, turn on the oven with the door open, put a fan in the door blowing out across the cardboard and sit on the opposite side of the cardboard facing the oven. If you want the full experience plant some grass seed in the dirt and watch it grow.

But you don't have traffic, air pollution, high taxes and over population. You do have affordable housing and plenty of water.

We have people that couldn't drive in traffic to save their souls, we do have air pollution as it is range burning time, instead of taxes the state can't meet it's debt because we have a total moron for a Governor, our water is like yours, weather dependent. We were in a state of drought just two years ago (remember the dust bowl, you grew because we dried up).

As for housing you are oh so correct. When we were in San Diego last I got to talking to a realtor and after telling him about our house, showing him some pictures and telling him of the 1/4 acre it sits on he said that our $250,000 house here would go for around 5, million there. Here we buy houses to own them someday, there you buy houses to live in.

Had to throw this in. When did this happen in California???
All at fault in Kansas Turkey hunting accident in which man shot brother, friend

 

[Gary A.]

Gary has never been to Wichita.

You have not missed much. If you want to experience it, put a piece of cardboard on a flat table, spread some dirt on the cardboard and place the table in front of your oven, turn on the oven with the door open, put a fan in the door blowing out across the cardboard and sit on the opposite side of the cardboard facing the oven. If you want the full experience plant some grass seed in the dirt and watch it grow.

For a change, as Kansas weather changes wildly at a drop of a hat, turn you air conditioner down to 60, strip off you clothes and watch the grass go dormant until the weather gets hot again.

If you want the total complete authentic experience, cut the cardboard into the shape of Kansas before you set it up and put one small hill in the far south central portion of the dirt.

What, no coastline? (I bet you live on that hill ...)

Au contraire mon frere, We live on a bump, not to be confused with a hill. A hill you can sled down in the winter. A bump you slow for when driving. We sit proudly on the top of the bump.

Define coastline. Do lakes, ponds and streams count?

No. (With all due respect to Michigan.)

 

[Gary A.]

Gary has never been to Wichita.

You have not missed much. If you want to experience it, put a piece of cardboard on a flat table, spread some dirt on the cardboard and place the table in front of your oven, turn on the oven with the door open, put a fan in the door blowing out across the cardboard and sit on the opposite side of the cardboard facing the oven. If you want the full experience plant some grass seed in the dirt and watch it grow.

But you don't have traffic, air pollution, high taxes and over population. You do have affordable housing and plenty of water.

We have people that couldn't drive in traffic to save their souls, we do have air pollution as it is range burning time, instead of taxes the state can't meet it's debt because we have a total moron for a Governor, our water is like yours, weather dependent. We were in a state of drought just two years ago (remember the dust bowl, you grew because we dried up).

As for housing you are oh so correct. When we were in San Diego last I got to talking to a realtor and after telling him about our house, showing him some pictures and telling him of the 1/4 acre it sits on he said that our $250,000 house here would go for around 5, million there. Here we buy houses to own them someday, there you buy houses to live in.

Had to throw this in. When did this happen in California???
All at fault in Kansas Turkey hunting accident in which man shot brother, friend

LOL ... that is like a SNL skit.

Yeah, $250,000 wouldn't go very far here.

 

[table1349]

It makes me so proud to live in the Midwest: Why do mushroom hunters keep finding dead people?

At least we are providing some kind of service.

 

[table1349]

Gary has never been to Wichita.

You have not missed much. If you want to experience it, put a piece of cardboard on a flat table, spread some dirt on the cardboard and place the table in front of your oven, turn on the oven with the door open, put a fan in the door blowing out across the cardboard and sit on the opposite side of the cardboard facing the oven. If you want the full experience plant some grass seed in the dirt and watch it grow.

But you don't have traffic, air pollution, high taxes and over population. You do have affordable housing and plenty of water.

We have people that couldn't drive in traffic to save their souls, we do have air pollution as it is range burning time, instead of taxes the state can't meet it's debt because we have a total moron for a Governor, our water is like yours, weather dependent. We were in a state of drought just two years ago (remember the dust bowl, you grew because we dried up).

As for housing you are oh so correct. When we were in San Diego last I got to talking to a realtor and after telling him about our house, showing him some pictures and telling him of the 1/4 acre it sits on he said that our $250,000 house here would go for around 5, million there. Here we buy houses to own them someday, there you buy houses to live in.

Had to throw this in. When did this happen in California???
All at fault in Kansas Turkey hunting accident in which man shot brother, friend

LOL ... that is like a SNL skit.

Yeah, $250,000 wouldn't go very far here.

It can get you a nice 1 car driveway and some lawn seed.

 

[Gary A.]

It makes me so proud to live in the Midwest: Why do mushroom hunters keep finding dead people?

At least we are providing some kind of service.

Sounds like The title of the TV series ... "The Mushroom Hunters of Wichita County", (Gary knows Wichita County is in Texas ... but "County" sounds better than plain-ol' Wichita.)

Law Enforcement out here say that if you ever disc the Mojave Desert, that you would resolve all the unsolved murders in LA.

 

[Gary A.]

This is the first time for Gary to process RAW files from the new Fuji 24mp sensor. I am totally blown away by everything. Gary has twice the number of keepers shooting the XT2 than he ever had shooting 1Ds w/ L lenses.

The files are so clean, the color so accurate, the exposures so spot on ... Gary may soon evolve to shooting JPEGS only.

 

[table1349]

It makes me so proud to live in the Midwest: Why do mushroom hunters keep finding dead people?

At least we are providing some kind of service.

Sounds like The title of the TV series ... "The Mushroom Hunters of Wichita County", (Gary knows Wichita County is in Texas ... but "County" give better than plain-ol' Wichita.)

Law Enforcement out here say that if you ever disc the Mojave Desert, that you would resolve all the unsolved murders in LA.

I am happy, and a bit sad, to say that this is a problem for our border neighbors in Missouri. Happy because it fits in with the state we all call Misery. Sad in the fact that in my yard we have 3, yep that is right THREE trees. In Kansas that is a forest.

 

[jcdeboever]

This is the first time for Gary to process RAW files from the new Fuji 24mp sensor. I am totally blown away by everything. Gary has twice the number of keepers shooting the XT2 than he ever had shooting 1Ds w/ L lenses.

The files are so clean, the color so accurate, the exposures so spot on ... Gary may soon evolve to shooting JPEGS only.

That's what my experience is as well. Haven't shot a raw on vacation yet.

 

[snowbear114 46]

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Psychodelic Kitteh!! Far out, man.

 

[snowbear114 46]

Typical MD storm - 15 minutes of distant thunder, 5 minutes of intense rain & hail, now some sunshine making the leaves look pretty (except those knocked to the ground). Ten minutes until go-home time.

 

[table1349]

Typical MD storm - 15 minutes of distant thunder, 5 minutes of intense rain & hail, now some sunshine making the leaves look pretty (except those knocked to the ground). Ten minutes until go-home time.

I can relate. Cooler this morning, turning into a thunderstorm that got everything nice and wet over about a half hours time. By noon it was sunny but still cool. Shuffle on to 3 p.m. or so and it clouded over again and has been an on and off drizzle. Much cooler tonight with thunderstorms predicted. Cooler and rainy tomorrow. We just can't decide what weather to have around here this spring.

On the bright side, this is the first daytime rain since we put in the new electric skylight. It has a rain sensor that is supposed to close the skylight in the event of significant moisture. The sensor works and the skylight closed. Yeah.

 

[table1349]

Lord I love people. You just can't make stuff like this up. And of course it had to happen at of all places Walmart.
Man sets underwear on fire while passed out in Walmart bathroom