Salmon fishing. The fish are down there. 🤷🏼♀️
Maria Langer | 📝🛥️💎
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writer • silversmith • jewelry artist • boat captain • commercial helicopter & drone pilot • traveler • maker • weather nerd • independent thinker Don't blame me; I didn't vote for him. I TRY to maintain a No Politics Zone. (Failing lately.) I have a low tolerance for bullshit. I want to follow interesting people who share stories and images from their own lives. Original quality content rocks. Make some. .
- Personal Blog
- http://www.AnEclecticMind.com/
- Boating Blog
- https://www.MyGreatLoopAdventure.com/
- Helicopter YouTube Channel
- https://www.YouTube.com/c/FlyingMAir/
- Jewelry Site
- https://www.MLJewelryDesigns.com/
Replying to @kboyd@phpc.social
@kboyd That sounds like fun, too!
Replying to @Dolphinchaz@mastodon.scot
@Dolphinchaz This isn't colonies. It's just birds like around marinas, etc. Lots of gulls. Or my home; we have a variety of hawks, magpies, crows, etc.
Replying to @Dolphinchaz@mastodon.scot
@Dolphinchaz I'm mostly worried about birds. I am within 3 miles of an airport here, but not on the approach path. And seaplanes aren't landing here this weekend because the bay is full of anchored boats.
Replying to @BenjaminHan@sigmoid.social
@BenjaminHan @LingLass Data poisoning risk? Or opportunity?🤔
I think this is the best shot from this morning. I went out too early and had four flights. This was on the last flight when the sun was fully up. We're staying in the marina in the foreground. The boats that were anchored for the weekend are starting to leave now. This bay has a very narrow, shallow entrance channel so most folks can't leave at low tide, which will be at about 2 PM today.
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Replying to @mappingsupport@m.ai6yr.org
@mappingsupport Looks backlit. Is it? I like backlighting of foliage.
@Bredroll Lol. Feta cheese. It came out good.
Janet made a red white and blue salad. #HappyBirthdayUSA
Replying to @Dolphinchaz@mastodon.scot
@Dolphinchaz 400 feet is our max, too. Most of my shots are taken from under 300 feet, but I went to the max on this one. Big scene!
Up early enough on a perfectly calm morning to send up the #drone for some first light shots AND have my coffee before I go out. Yesterday, the wind didn't calm down until after sunset — it was brutally windy all day — so all I got were blue hour shots like this one. I have never seen so many boats anchored in Fisherman Bay on Lopez Island. We got a good view of the fireworks from the marina, but the folks at anchor were right in the action. Stay tuned for this morning's shots.
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Replying to @firephoto@mastodon.social
@firephoto Starlink losing another one? 🤔
Here's the scene from 300 feet AGL where I am, waiting for the fireworks. I'm in the marina in the middle of the photo. The fireworks will be launched from the isthmus of land in the distance. The body of water full of boats is Fisherman Bay on Lopez Island. Everyone is here for one thing: fireworks. They should start in about an hour. It's been windy all day so I just got the #drone up to get a few shots.
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@FranceskaMann Thanks. 🇺🇸
I watched the parade here at Lopez Island. There was a model T that had a "Happy 250th Birthday" banner on it with a photo of Donald Trump at the bottom. I booed. Loudly. And then I yelled "No Kings in America!" numerous times so loudly that I made myself hoarse. My throat still hurts an hour later. Afterwards, some women who had been watching from across the road came over to thank me. I felt patriotic.
Remember that this country started when we just said NO to a tyrant.
This gentleman has written the words I've been thinking (but couldn't possibly post on Mastodon because of my instance's 500 character limit). #HappyBirthdayUSA #RebuildAmerica #MakeItBetter #EndTheHate
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@msbellows@c.imYeah, I know I'm being a buzzkill this July 4th. I vividly remember the bicentennial, when I was 14 years old. The vibe was completely different. This frog
has lived long enough to understand that the water has gotten hot, and it pisses him off.
America is not good enough. She was founded on a rotten foundation, and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. "God bless America? No, no, no, no, God damn America."
But that doesn't mean I don't love this country! I'm like am adult kid who finally recognizes his dad is an abuser, and will not stand for it anymore, but also sincerely loves him and is willing to take steps to get him the help he needs and to welcome him back into his heart IF HE DOES THE WORK AND BECOMES BETTER. But not until then.
I want our country to be better. We had a Second Founding when the Reconstruction Amendments were passed in the 1860s. It took us a century to begin actually implementing them, and now the Roberts Court is tearing them apart. Now I want a Third Founding, an America I actually can be proud of, the America I thought we were finally creating back in 1976 when the Vietnam War was over and Jimmy Carter was president and racism seemed to be declining and women finally had rights.
The old America died in 2025. That's sad, and also good, because that America was a profoundly mixed bag. There is no America right now. I am dedicated to crafting a profoundly better America in the future.
Happy Independence Day, fellow patriots. Let's stop worshiping a red white and blue idol, and begin laying the foundations of a nation that actually lives up to its supposed ideals. "Work as if you lived in the early days of a better country." -Alasdair Gray
@GSteffanos @Arapalla Nice shot.
@ingalls I've been in weather that hot. Bullhead City, AZ one day.