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Morning light.
(our front yard this morning)

The aurora this January 19th, from Rogers Lake, 20 minutes from Flagstaff. The aurora went from brighter to faded over that couple of hours. The last one is about the light pollution from Las Vegas, but the Milky Way, aurora glow, and Andromeda were such a pretty composition I shifted over a bit.

Sundogs and the 22-degree halo, a couple weeks ago. Flagstaff.

Woman in a Window

Ghost Readers

Diablo Burger mural (Flagstaff).

ICM, 50mm f/22 0.25sec iso 100

A metaphor:
1. this makes me happy
2. this makes me angry and sad

The Orange Pustule's First Year
                     - or -
The State of Democracy in the USA: a Timeline

(read left to right, top to bottom)
(ICM, ND10 + 70mm, f/3.5 0.3sec iso 100)

Stuart, on January 1, 2025, contemplating the year that was to come.. (The year watermarked on the third one is a typo.)

A view from 27 miles southeast of the San Francisco Peaks. The light was pretty magical that day (Dec. 14th).

... (of course!) none went through the field of view of the camera.

Flagstaff, Arizona
Canon EOS R7 + RF 16-28mm f/2.8
7x20sec, 17mm f/2.8 ISO 3200

...here. The winter Milky Way runs vertically through the field, left of Orion. A dozen or so meteors were bright enough to leave a visible, glowing trail of meteor smoke, but...

...on the upper left edge is due to Jupiter, off frame. Castor and Pollux were further off frame towards the upper left. The meteor streaks point towards the Geminid shower radiant, located near Castor. Thin cirrus caused halos around the bright stars (and Jupiter), making them appear bloated...

A few Geminid meteors, December 14, just after midnight. This is a 7-frame mean image (one frame had two Geminids), with the meteor trail brightnesses adjusted to appear as they did in the original individual images. The second image here has the bright stars labeled. The glow...

On the other hand, his last point is true and valid.

But it was always an empty show,
so waddle along, piggy, waddle along --
preferably to a grave.

Republicans have zero credibility. I'll only take it seriously when they've actually done it. Until then, whine on, crybabies, nobody cares what you say.

You voted for him, magats. Now suck on it. Being stupid has consequences.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Bloat it, Herr Shitstain.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Suck it, magats.

Sunset behind Bill Williams Mountain, 26 and a quarter miles from where I was to the radio towers. This happens only twice per year. (R7 + 106 & 500mm, f/10, 1/8000sec)

Lightning off to the east just after sunset, as seen from the Observatory. (Canon R7, 28mm, 0.6sec, f/14, iso 100)

And good riddance to both those despicable creatures. The world is the better for their absence.

The orange shitstain will never be held to account. We all know this.

Holy shit.

News flash: forty some-odd percent of the US population talks like -- and actually believes -- this.

I'm sure your 8-year-long exercise in appeasement towards McConnell and the Republicans had nothing to do with where we are today. You have zero moral authority to preach at us. STFU and go away.

Buh bye, fascist little prick.

Cowards. Gee, what a surprise.

Broad tailed hummer!
(500mm f/7.1 1/2500s iso 2000 34ft)