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Ed Suominen (edsuom@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 07:56:14 JST Ed Suominen

All right #Mastodon, show this #twitterexodus refugee what you can do.
Walked away from 6700 followers because I won't provide content (not directly, at least) or be in the same space as a destructive & dangerous narcissist. This new (for me) place is cool but I do miss being able to post a special #nature #photograph & know it will get seen thousands of times.
I guess that's my #introduction. I rant about #covid #CovidIsNotOver & #LongCovid & I live in a beautiful place. With a foot of snow.
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1. Forest cover of unusually well preserved inland Pacific Northwest Ponderosa pine and fir, covered with snow from a recent epic snowfall. The ruts in the driveway were originally from my Jeep driving and not bothering to plow. The additional depths is from blueprints of myself and pawprints of Leo the cat walking outside to take pictures. But it's deep; a foot of fresh snow in the last day. And it's beautiful. The overall color tone is muted blue with a hint of more reddish light lower in the frame, from the flash. (This is as I saw it, not as the camera mistakenly registered the color temperature.) While there is not much going on in color space (and that's what makes it look cool, literally), the intensity part of the visual is what is most striking. There is the curvature of the ruts in the driveway combined with the curvature of snow -weighted conifer branches, contrasting with the straight vertical lines of the big Ponderosas, which are 6 feet around at the base. (I have hundreds of them and they are as well cared for as is possible with a changing climate.) Their trunks have a vaguely diamond-shape roundish checkerboard pattern, formed by the inelastic bark cracking over a century of growth, unable to expand with the growth of the trunk. (This leaves the oldest bark at the peak of thousands of little pyramids, which I didn't even realize until I thought of it just now.) The sky is overcast and without definition, providing a nice clean background for the Ponderosas.
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An Independent inventor and retired electrical engineer with a home in the backwoods of Eastern Washington. Been talking to machines for forty years, first in Assembly, now in Python.I post pictures of my trees and info about the forgotten coronavirus pandemic of the 2020s.

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