Photo of the Day | August 2025

[OldMacs4Me]

Don't know the variety. It was at the Lethbridge Rose gardens, unlabelled. Google search tried to ID it as an orchid or variety of bamboo. I think Google was trying to bamboozle me.

 

[OldMacs4Me]

Seth Thomas mantle clock, c 1920. This was my grandmother's clock that sat on her side table in her living room. When my mother passed, it fell to me. I had the movement rebuilt, and it functions perfectly.

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My Grand Dad had a very similar clock. No idea what happened to it, Perhaps given to a neighbour when my grandparents moved into a seniors apartment.

 

[svish]

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

 

[mollyc]

we took our dog to the beach for the first time this year. she liked the water way more than we expected, but her favorite thing was that she was allowed on the furniture and her chair was right by the window.

kodak portra 400

 

[splifingate]

I've only lived in Florida three years, and this was actually my first trip there. Lots of hurricane damage on Sanibel in the three years I've lived here, including the destruction of the causeway. They've clawed back from last year's storms for the most part. SW Florida could use a year or two off from catastrophic storms, but I doubt we'll get it.

Still, Sanibel/Captiva is a beautiful place.

Life on a sandbar
Is quite like three steps forward,
Then two steps backward.

Much of my life's memory is consumed with time there....

 

[_timo_redux_]

nevermore
1/1600s 343mm @ f/7.1

 

[oblomow]

CityHall, Stockholm.

 

[squawk7000]

looking towards Roque Bentayga from Tejeda, Gran Canaria

 

[stillcrazyman]

 

[sparksd]

Cannon Beach, OR.

 

[TechRunner]

Walkin' in the sand. Sanibel Island, FL.

 

[dwrufus53]

She’s not actually “in” bed, but nestled in between the plethora of pillows.

 

[dimme]

Pacifica-250726-3.jpg by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr

 

[mollyc]

I haven't seen any caterpillars this year, but I do feel like I have a considerable uptick in butterflies around. To be fair, I only look for monarch caterpillars, which this would not have been. But the monarch flew away before I got a shot, so then I found the swallowtail.

portra 400, taken yesterday

 

[Snowlover]

 

[OldMacs4Me]

 

[svish]

 

[Blackhawk]

 

[Allyance]

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You have a Russian Blue too? I had Bear for 12 years, he was 2 when I got him.

Last photo of him on the day I had to put him to sleep.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Summer fruits.

 

[tizeye]

Vintage firetruck with original wooden ladders.

 

[Blackhawk]

You have a Russian Blue too? I had Bear for 12 years, he was 2 when I got him. View attachment 2540136
Last photo of him on the day I had to put him to sleep.

We where fostering two of them, both were very special......

 

[_timo_redux_]

Squibnocket Pond
1/640s 500mm @ f/11

 

[goldmac2006]