Caveat: Tree #1662 “Beside a runway”

This tree was beside a runway at an airport where a friend coming to visit landed earlier today. The plane that Wayne was in is the one on the far left of the photo – it had just touched down. It was raining. It’s been raining a lot. You can click the pic to see it bigger.

A panoramic shot of a small airport runway, many trees in the background in silhouette, a plane just landed is on the left, another plane is staged on the taxiway a bit closer to the camera's viewpoint

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Caveat: and all the birds are suspended in flight

The End

Not every man knows what he shall sing at the end,
Watching the pier as the ship sails away, or what it will seem like
When he’s held by the sea’s roar, motionless, there at the end,
Or what he shall hope for once it is clear that he’ll never go back.

When the time has passed to prune the rose or caress the cat,
When the sunset torching the lawn and the full moon icing it down
No longer appear, not every man knows what he’ll discover instead.
When the weight of the past leans against nothing, and the sky

Is no more than remembered light, and the stories of cirrus
And cumulus come to a close, and all the birds are suspended in flight,
Not every man knows what is waiting for him, or what he shall sing
When the ship he is on slips into darkness, there at the end.

– Mark Strand (Canadian-American poet, 1934-2014)
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Caveat: Tree #1661 “Cypress”

This tree is about one inch tall. I think I germinated a cypress tree seed in my greenhouse. I’m not completely sure on the identity, but it’s the only thing I planted in that bucket. I will try to grow a cypress tree.

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Caveat: Tree #1660 “The sky”

This tree looked up.

Some trees (mostly conifers) against a striking pattern of clouds and a distant mountain

I labored quite a bit today, moving a pile of stored stuff from one spot on my lot to another, in preparation for Richard coming out with his excavator to excavate trenches for plumbing stuff.

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Caveat: Midesapa

[This is a cross-post from my other blog.]

My low-effort brag-post for this week is the central part of a city called Midesapa, in the northern part of the state of Makaska. It’s a rust-belt city on a river that connects two large lakes, so in that sense it occupies an economic position similar to Detroit, but it’s a much smaller city, with maybe 200k in the metropolitan area. There is still much detailing to be added but the basics are there.

Screenshot of the map window on the OpenGeofiction site, showing an urban area mapped along a river running from south to north, with lots of detail, including some freeways and a paper mill and locks and rapids along the river

This neighborhood is found on the opengeofiction map here: https://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/-41.3257/147.3513&layers=B

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Caveat: Tree #1658 “우림보보”

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I guess I mean one of those barely-visible, scraggly-lookin trees growing out of the sidewalk in front of that building. That building was my first apartment building when I moved to Goyang City, South Korea, in September, 2007. This is possibly the first photo I took there – I was still using a digital camera, then, no such thing as a smart phone. Although I lived in quite a few different buildings and locations in South Korea during my 11 years there, that building was also the last building I lived in before I moved away in July, 2018, and overall the one I occupied the longest, at around a total of 7 1/2 years occupancy. It’s the closest to a sense of “home” that I had there.

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Caveat: Tree #1657 “More practical trolleyology”

This tree saw that I had repaired the boat-trolley.

A view of a 'boat trolley' used to lift a boat out of the water on a ramp, with the boat in the water at the dock in the distance, and a tree to the left side

This is the boat trolley that Arthur engineered and built some decades ago, that allows us to put the boat into the boathouse without having to use the boat trailer or a regular boat launch ramp.

I had to fix the bolt-axles for the wheels. They were badly corroded.

Four cast aluminum wheels for the boat-trolley

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Caveat: Whatever that means

Cloud Marauder

He is the cloud marauder,
whatever that means.

He said he was,
and if it's less than true,
what else could he be?

He said he was the cloud
marauder, marauds clouds.
It's good enough for me.

- James Tate (American poet, 1943-2015)

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Caveat: July, 2023, User Statistics for OGF

[This is a cross-post from my other blog.]

Here is a detailed user summary data for July. These results are ordered from highest number of objects touched to lowest number. I think number of objects touched (nodes, ways, relations) is a more meaningful way to evaluate user activity than changeset counts, which are highly variable depending on how individual users use available tools to connect to the database (iD vs JOSM, etc).

newflanders 3228 64 396146 1806 331 398283
Arlo 10218 539 224823 11204 367 236394
admin 215 48 188857 3655 1736 194248
Izaland Terramorphing Committee 15584 96 182807 7828 221 190856
UN1TY 2194 179 122649 10758 1099 134506
tars 10312 110 111864 2204 197 114265
Rustem Pasha 4928 12 87252 12534 102 99888
oneofbeatlefan 6427 20 89920 8645 140 98705
Liadrien 17542 48 93313 2216 209 95738
Davieerr 8029 52 94041 1393 43 95477
Geoc3ladus 14788 27 72715 5325 40 78080
Aad 22426 72 61943 3792 363 66098
Imperator 1141 92 55236 4793 332 60361
Glauber 14612 56 53974 5641 66 59681
ratsoff2u 1017 62 45375 7126 2 52503
jl06 18719 26 50507 1732 50 52289
JHolger 26671 31 45172 5388 0 50560
Bixelkoven 16933 30 43390 3193 173 46756
BMSOUZA 954 72 36613 7024 0 43637
Huachachi 15931 79 38691 3690 306 42687
lankusiek 23807 37 38879 1910 37 40826
sergjack 26317 208 35527 5086 69 40682
Toadwart 2322 23 31417 3216 94 34727
J33 26562 29 32794 1523 79 34396
Luciano 294 7 28657 3614 68 32339
sudo91 22243 35 27140 4518 50 31708
Otto Yamamoto 1368 78 25249 2664 9 27922
geoboi 5230 24 26980 598 55 27633
waterstealer 24870 82 24032 2293 34 26359
Juan&don 26552 87 22657 2498 61 25216
Taka 14001 43 22526 2100 332 24958
Enderbyte09 25083 21 23994 923 7 24924
clik 942 61 19527 4044 79 23650
Kalh79 401 54 20025 1900 18 21943
ItsTybear 17286 105 16952 4178 59 21189
elindio23 8153 25 18547 1836 68 20451
Aces California 759 24 16546 3502 22 20070
indyroads 344 48 17086 2831 4 19921
ruadh 2725 33 17877 1870 66 19813
plainoldbread 3272 17 18346 1428 13 19787
Timboh 324 10 18063 920 72 19055
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wangi 468 4 17302 53 6 17361
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Lemuria 26719 145 13754 2833 9 16596
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2amCereal 18270 7 13941 1321 18 15280
joebro 2580 6 14432 834 3 15269
Mie 22733 18 13863 1330 63 15256
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forkymapper 14790 8 12454 368 2 12824
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Pawl 1294 68 8420 2624 686 11730
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infinatious 12340 26 6566 1593 9 8168
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Reece202 1514 11 6889 802 42 7733
tparigo 1747 10 6101 1603 19 7723
Sarepava 239 19 6627 1083 4 7714
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ante44 1822 12 6194 1187 20 7401
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super_empath 25865 8 5501 1164 1 6666
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faru 24926 8 5586 1008 0 6594
Fluffr_Nuttr 6846 8 5780 680 25 6485
Γιάννης 4 2275 37 4994 1373 42 6409
QuartzSpoonOGF 26623 31 4964 1228 0 6192
Boge 224 12 5753 328 3 6084
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PortCal 1477 40 5132 785 16 5933
anjn 24787 23 4437 1212 0 5649
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yoyo21 1559 6 4528 98 7 4633
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cartographersurgeon 25890 38 3430 976 19 4425
beclabito 25726 11 3746 629 0 4375
Infrarrojo 9678 11 3396 944 0 4340
Christiaan de Vries 1228 58 3272 1037 6 4315
Ūdilugbulgidħū 1602 3 4136 37 27 4200
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sude 15789 25 3341 597 131 4069
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skquinn 1192 105 2716 1064 5 3785
LemonKing 8378 11 3095 618 0 3713
RobertTBS 26656 23 2887 809 6 3702
acv 24879 5 3415 199 1 3615
Stephenplays 7055 27 2941 645 7 3593
ElefantMapper 25653 15 3350 184 1 3535
jjrc1996 20575 2 2818 590 1 3409
ADB52 4597 24 2975 275 8 3258
theCubic 24412 1 2962 288 8 3258
Gubble 2713 4 2420 706 1 3127
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ParAvion 3527 5 2873 236 4 3113
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bootmii 2615 16 1951 548 0 2499
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TheMayor 14026 9 1090 442 16 1548
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r23 26718 25 1041 275 24 1340
JJat 26743 18 916 423 0 1339
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trabantemnaksiezyc 2161 13 861 300 3 1164
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