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More from Jackson Falls

I took these snapshots yesterday at Jackson Falls.

water moving through part of the falls water moving through part of the falls
water moving through part of the falls water moving through part of the falls
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My 86-year-old mother went with us to Madison Boulder today. The 0.6-mile round trip gave her and her rollator quite the workout. “Us” today means my granddaughter, her parents, and both sets of her grandparents.

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Jackson Falls

Jackson Village, New Hampshire, this afternoon

looking downriver: granite and water, some of the water white; trees, green with spots of yellow, orange, and red; mountain in the distance; blue sky and white clouds looking across the river
sapling with red leaves, seen on path near the river and falls looking up the river at more of the falls
Another view down the river and falls, the water and stones much more prominently in frame Fall foliage with a calm river below – this was taken at the bottom of the falls
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Tree Trunks

Seen around North Conway recently

a pair of old white birch tree trunka, one of them covered in some kind of white fungi a pair of mossy, somewhat knotty red pine tree trunks
a bending white birch surrounded by green from its neighbors a pair of pines, one of the trunks with quite a few holes, perhaps made by a woodpecker
two pines and one white birch entangled at their common base an old pine with a fairly large burl growing out of it.
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Red and yellow foliage, as well as some green. A small bit of a waterfall.
granite at the falls, but the water is not visible in this image, which includes a blue sky, and some green and yellow leaves
Was back at Diana's Baths today.
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Boulder in the forest with a thick coat of moss on top
Boulder with a refined hairdo

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Late Afternoon Walk

Whitaker Woods, North Conway, NH

The woodsy path I walked in the late afternoon sun. The woodsy path I walked in the late afternoon
The woodsy path I walked in the late afternoon The woodsy path I walked in the late afternoon
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Moss- and lichen-covered granite, ferns, and red pine close to a series of small water falls called Diana's Baths on September 30, 2024.

Granite boulder with moss on the sides and ferns on top. More moss-covered boulders and trees visible. A granite slab with soil, pine needles, and more, forming a part of the forest floor with trees growing out of it.
A big boulder in the woods with moss, lichen, and ferns growing on it. This image shows a granite boulder with a flat vertical face with some moss and lichen on it. On top of it is a luxurious coat of moss visible from the side. Above that grows a red pine. More red pines are in the background, and one is to the left of the boulder.
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As we near the election, I’m sleeping about as well as I did in the early months of the pandemic. 😱

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Given how much JD Vance lies, I don’t see why we should believe any of his denials about having a weird couch fetish. 😉

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More fall colors

Leaves on trees that are beginning to turn. The colors are green, yellow, orange, and red.
Very red section of a maple tree viewed from below. Bits of green are still visible on the edges.
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Groovy, Far Out Coffee

Here is a two-minute psychedelic promo for "Good Strong Coffee" (1968) from the BFI National Archive: https://youtu.be/ozxZCENVaVE.

Screenshot of the final scene: two white mugs, a sunflower on each, next to the text 'Good Strong Coffee'
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Fall colors in the White Mountains include the light blue and light lavender of wild asters.

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Russia Wants to Muzzle Childless Cat Ladies

The Russian parliament is discussing a law to ban so-called “propaganda of childlessness” with fines up to $4,300 for individuals. Will that help to solve the country’s demographic crisis?

“What’s behind Russia’s plan to ban ‘child-free’ ideology?,” DW, Sept. 28, 2024.

It’s almost as if they were pandering to Vance – or drinking from the same batch of Kool-Aid.

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There is a lot of red pine in this area. The tree bark is fairly distinctive. (4/4)

Going back down, there is only indirect sunlight left. The camera focus on the trunks of two red pines that have grown together at the base. Other trees and plant life is visible, including green moss on the bases of the pines. There are long brown pine needles on the ground.
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Heading back down, so no more sun on the ground. (3/4)

Here I am looking up again, enjoying bits of blue sky and sunlight on the leaves, needles, and tree trunks before the sun disappears. A lot of the tree trunks are red pine.
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From the same walk. More sun is visible because I gained elevation (2/4)

Further up the hill, the sun reaches the trees and even parts of the ground. The foliage is still green, the tree trunks brown, white, and gray. On the ground: small leafy plants, moss, dried leaves and pine needles.
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Seen on my walk late this afternoon. (1/4)

Looking up at fairly young, still leafy trees with splotches of sunlight on them, taken just before the sun disappears behind the mountains. Colors: blue sky, some green leaves, but also a large spot of yellow foliage partially lit from behind, as well as other small bits of yellow and orange.
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Boulder Loop Trail

Large granite boulder in the woods
Here is one of countless granite boulders that I saw in the woods while on the Boulder Loop Trail two days ago. I’ve posted twelve snapshots of this granite to Pixelfed.

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Has the past decade of information war, alternative facts, and bothsidesing journalism been about conditioning us to believe we need crappy output from Silicon Valley’s LLMs?

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Ten seconds of sounds at dusk last week via an iPhone SE.

Probably need a microphone, but I thought I’d give it a go.

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water and plant life a short distance from the pond, a kind of marsh that looks like beaver territory, late in the day, and hints of fall coming

A few more impressions from my walk in the Pudding Pond area on the 19th

moving closer to the pond, brush and tree trunks in the foreground that recall a marsh or swamp, water behind them trees in regular earth in foreground, the pond and marshy bits partly visible through the dark trees
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Russia lets African migrant laborers enter on tourist visas. From there, they can look for work, but sign a contract that lands them on the front lines in Donbas. The Kyiv Independent has excerpted interviews with two African POWs held by Ukraine. https://youtu.be/PM9DnRxxWC0 (12 min)