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Brazos Bend State Park is a 4,897-acre (1,982 ha) state park along the Brazos River in Needville, Texas, a little over 30mi from Houston. This was my first opportunity to see (live) Alligators (zoo’s don’t count), Also seen: Great Egret (spear fishing), and Box Turtles.
Brazos Bend State Park occupies land bordering the Brazos River and includes within its boundaries low-lying areas left over from the river’s previous meanderings. Pre-Columbian inhabitants included a series of Native American groups, most notably the Karankawa.
On Sunday night (Sept 27), there was a “Super Blood Moon”. A Super Blood Moon is a combination of phenomenon (Supermoon1 and Blood Moon2). A supermoon happens when the moon is closest to earth in its orbit. A blood moon frequently happens with a Lunar Eclipse. When the two happen to coincide, you get a reddish moon that looks larger than normal. The last Super Blood Moon happened in 1982, and the next one won’t happen until 2033.
Exporting Overview This is a quick post with an overview on how I export photos from Adobe Lightroom. I have created a group of specific exports, because I want to keep my settings for each export from getting in the way with any others. I make use of several plugins for these exports including LR/Mogrify2, and jf Metadata Wrangler. LR/Mogrify2 lets you add borders and/or text annotations to photos during an export.
I recently took an afternoon and visited the Painted Hills, near Mitchell Oregon. Some of the hills in this area are banded with color (reds, yellows, lavender). The black soil is lignite that was vegetative matter that grew along the floodplain. The grey coloring is mudstone, siltstone, and shale. The red coloring is laterite soil that formed by floodplain deposits when the area was warm and humid (this was not recent.
Accories for Tractor 851 These are from the Ideas Book 8888. They are various accessories for Tractor (851). They don’t use particularly rare or expensive pieces, and don’t have very high part counts. You should be able to find them for between $10-$50US ea.
Hay Rake A hay rake takes the recently cut hay (it can also work with grass) moves it from where it has been cut into a windrow.