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What's outside of your picture window today?

Posted by John, Volunteer Mentor @johnbishop, Nov 25, 2020

As we get ready for the real winter to show up and COVID-19 still playing a major part in our lives I like to spend moments of my day de-stressing about what's going on in the world today. All I have to do is look out the window and observe some of natures beautiful creatures, how they interact and ponder how small it makes my troubles seem. Sometimes I may even get the opportunity to take a photo or two. How about you? Anything going on outside of your window(s) that you want to share?

For those members that have the ability to size your photos before you upload them to the discussion, may I suggest using the following sizes:
– 500 x 335 pixels (landscape)
– 210 x 210 pixels (square)

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Lori, Volunteer Mentor | @loribmt | Aug 9, 2021
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I need to dig into last year's photos and find the pictures I took during the first of the pandemic lockdowns. In April 2020 we were confined to our 100 acre community - couldn't even walk on the public road - but fortunately it is connected to a private bird sanctuary, where we walked every morning.
Interesting about the wasp nest "paper" - last fall we made dolls out of burrs, and pine cone bird feeders. Tomorrow we will be collecting acorns for a fall project, and to feed the local squirrels and chipmunks.

Nature is so endlessly fascinating.
Sue

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Oooo if you find any paper wasp nests, you can carefully start peeling off the layers. The outer layers are quite large and can be literally used as paper for writing little notes. Also used watercolor or gauche watercolor to paint on the ‘paper’ and it can be stitched. It’s really tough paper. If it’s wrinkled or bowed the paper can be wet and pressed.
Post your fall projects!

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Chris, Volunteer Mentor | @auntieoakley | Aug 9, 2021

They need to add a delete comment for those of us that leap without looking. I have no idea how to resize the photo I was planning to post, and all my efforts have failed. Oooops.

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John, Volunteer Mentor | @johnbishop | Aug 10, 2021
In reply to @auntieoakley "They need to add a delete comment for those of us that leap without looking. I..." + (show)
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They need to add a delete comment for those of us that leap without looking. I have no idea how to resize the photo I was planning to post, and all my efforts have failed. Oooops.

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Hi Chris @auntieoakley, Are you trying to upload a photo from your phone or is it one taken from a camera and uploaded to your computer? Lots of helper friends here if you let us know the specifics 🙃 Normally no need to resize unless it's larger than 5 MB or you are just cropping it to make it look better.

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Chris, Volunteer Mentor | @auntieoakley | Aug 10, 2021

It was taken with my Nikon and uploaded to my computer and then saved to my tablet. It is 6.4, I tried to crop it a bit but it did not change the size. I am late to the digital photo thing and not very savvy about it.

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John, Volunteer Mentor | @johnbishop | Aug 10, 2021
In reply to @auntieoakley "It was taken with my Nikon and uploaded to my computer and then saved to my..." + (show)
@auntieoakley

It was taken with my Nikon and uploaded to my computer and then saved to my tablet. It is 6.4, I tried to crop it a bit but it did not change the size. I am late to the digital photo thing and not very savvy about it.

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Here's free online photo editor (PIXLR) that you can open the photo, resize/crop it and save back to your tablet or computer. Easy to use if you want to give it a try. I just did a photo and the larger one was 4.17 MB and after cropping and choosing web size it's 113 KB. https://pixlr.com/x/
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Chris, Volunteer Mentor | @auntieoakley | Aug 10, 2021

Thank you @johnbishop , that worked. I had to crop out quite a bit of the plant. This is the one plant I continue to water more than once a week in our drought, that isn’t a tree or a food producer. I bet you can see why.
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John, Volunteer Mentor | @johnbishop | Aug 10, 2021
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@auntieoakley

Thank you @johnbishop , that worked. I had to crop out quite a bit of the plant. This is the one plant I continue to water more than once a week in our drought, that isn’t a tree or a food producer. I bet you can see why.

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Nice photo Chris!

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Lori, Volunteer Mentor | @loribmt | Aug 10, 2021
In reply to @auntieoakley "Thank you @johnbishop , that worked. I had to crop out quite a bit of the..." + (show)
@auntieoakley

Thank you @johnbishop , that worked. I had to crop out quite a bit of the plant. This is the one plant I continue to water more than once a week in our drought, that isn’t a tree or a food producer. I bet you can see why.

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Beautiful!! What a capture!!

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Chris, Volunteer Mentor | @auntieoakley | Aug 10, 2021

Thank you, we try to have plenty of natural food for them, scarlet runner beans, and honeysuckle. The honeysuckle smells great but the scarlet runners give us dry beans as well.

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John, Volunteer Mentor | @johnbishop | Aug 12, 2021

I knew there was a reason to leave that thistle bee.

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