I guess both of my Asian Pear trees have a fungal infection. These black spots certainly do not appear to be insect related. I’ve treated with fungicide in hopes of salvaging these trees & this year’s fruit. #Yarden #HomeOrchard A budding Asian Pear branch with clusters of leaf green & white flower buds and some black spots on them. Probably fungus. The branch is attached to a tree with a rocky and mulched ground beneath. A drip hose passes through the mulch, which is encircled by river cobble.

Flew my hot-rod DHC-2 Beaver to the gravel strip at Lake Pillsbury. My landing was awful as I slammed my right wing into the ground. #XPlane #ThrandaDHC2 #FlightSim #macOS A simulated bright magenta and orange DHC2 Beaver is flying over a forested landscape with a lake below. The gray overcast sky has orange tint, as it’s sunset. Two instrument dials are overlaid on the scene, showing aviation gauges.

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The VA, Ruzek said, is full of people “doing their very best to serve our returning Veterans and reduce their suffering. Vought’s lack of awareness and cruelty is breathtaking.”

Super-duper niche but: if you fly X-Plane 12 with the Thranda DHC-2 Beaver with a Yawman Arrow controller, I have written a FlyWithLua script for multifunctional controller buttons. I am changing it frequently and YMMV with how much sense the bindings make. #XPlane #ThrandaDHC2 #FlightSim

Last Friday, this coyote had plenty of rabbits and birds to consider but instead wanted to check us out. Hope everyone can find the good in this week! #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Coyote #Fujifilm #SOoC A coyote walking along a gravel road in a rural area with a “Soft Shoulder” sign visible. The background features vegetation and an overcast sky.

Whoops #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #GreatBlueHeron #Birds A great blue heron in flight, captured from the back, with its wings spread wide. It’s blurry because the photographer wasn’t ready. The background is a grassy field under a partly cloudy sky.

The U.S. egg industry has forced us to find egg alternatives. Vegans know! For breading sweet potato & bean croquettes, we used a flour slurry. No differences detected and it was practically free.

#SilentSunday Snow-capped Sierra Nevada mountains with Mount Tom under a clear blue sky, with a valley and sparse trees in the foreground. The peaks are just lit by the setting sun.

My simple X-Plane 12 FlyWithLua scripts that enable aircraft specific multi-button functionality for the Yawman Arrow Controller are now on Codeberg instead of GitHub. Codeberg’s documentation is great! #XPlane #LuaScripting #YawmanArrow #Codeberg

A Northern Harrier from yesterday’s visit to the refuge #NorthernHarrier #Birds #BirdWatching #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm A Northern Harrier, mostly brown with a white bar on its back below the wings, is flying over a body of water with wings outstretched while looking down. In the foreground, there are bare branches, and the background features a distant shoreline with trees under a cloudy sky.

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