What are your jeans doing today?

[anthonyoj]

Went to my local Blackberry Festival.

The foot ferry that runs from the boardwalk across the bay.

The old ship that stays docked down there.

Blackberry lemonade

Local Blackberry soda

Blackberry desserts

Scones

Blackberry pie (bought a whole one)

[roy6]

Donkeys hauling sand:

Very nice. You had me at "floating bar" though.

[Paul T]

Thanks for the postcard, ROy, I've been fondling it of course.

Up north for the weekend. Old, gas-lit pubs. More on the dirty dozen thread....

And some acrobatics this evening. An amazing experience. More photos on the d dozen thread, tomorrow...

These are Yak 50s, 70s soviet aerobotaic planes flown by an amazong group of pilots called aerostars.... on the ground are a few of the 16 Spitfires that took off an hour or so later. The biggest collection of these planes that I've ever seen.

[roy6]

Thanks for the postcard, ROy, I've been fondling it of course.

Don't mention it. I'm glad you enjoyed- er, are enjoying it.

[shubharamani]

Two WAYJDT posts in one day ! Well, Mum and I hopped over to San Francisco for a bit today -- lower Russian Hill.. (Polk Street). I'm wearing the same as before -- Oakland T from www.pure510.com, IH Super Tan Belt, IH 634S, Softwalk Sandals. San Francisco is about a 15-30 minute drive from my place in Oakland (depends on traffic). Most of the time, I take BART over (public transit) but today we drove.

Hope you enjoy the tour.

View down Polk Street, San Francisco:

Everyone loves Royal Ground coffee. I don't see what the big deal is. I much prefer Philz (a small Bay Area chain, San Francisco original)...but I needed some caffeine in my system after a big lunch.

I had no idea what www.vince.com was til I got on the website and saw for myself.

SF City train - Muni

Finally got my cup o' Joe. Coffee is pretty much my only addiction. Everybody's got something, don't they ?

Mum chatting it up with some Royal Ground patrons...

[-Z-]

haha, keep em coming shubharamani!!!

today we went to the great minnesota get together....STATE FAIR TIME!!!!

just some snippits from the fair. wasn't really in camera mood. more like eating everything possible on a stick mood. feel like a goddamn whale right now and I'm still up drinking beers...damnit tomorrow is going to suck!

First, had to hop on the free charter bus to get to the fairgrounds. I live really damn close actually, but I didn't want to pay $20 bucks to fucking park my car. rather spend that on food and beer...

Pretty cool shot as I was walking in. Smoke from a BBQ place was rolling all over through the sunset giving quite the backdrop. Not sure if many of you know this, but our fair is HUGE. only one bigger is in Texas I guess. The fairgrounds take up many city blocks, have their own streets, and exist year round. not your average Iowa state fair in cornfield middle of nowhere.

gotta sweet gondola for getting from one side of the park to the other.

bought a bubble gun for little S from these guys. they were great, the first one was broken, so they let us exchange it for a working one with no questions asked. usually stuff like that is impossible.

a little state fair bokeh

these are the best damn gyros I have ever had. get them every year at the fair.

didn't get cotton candy (actually I hate it with a passion) but I enjoyed watching the guy spin it...

Bayou Bob has some really good Gator bites, sausage, and other stuff on a stick, come here every year as well.

another random attraction i chose to skip, if I had a 3 year old boy however, I'm sure I would have been all over this place.

aaaaaand the finale, the best damn cookies in the world, and a glass of cold milk to wash it down.

[anthonyoj]

Random question, do you guys have scones at your state fair?

They're huge at ours and I've always wondered if they're big at others.

[ThinFinn]

@ -Z-: hey mate, i always enjoy your pics. is it possible to tell me what your setup is?...

want to get me my first DSLR but cuz there are just way too much to select of i really don't know what i should get as first camera!...

[therelativity]

love the page - pure joy~

[ranonranonarat]

haha relativity i bought the same thing two days ago. they were the ones from ACL though and got these as well..

[ThinFinn]

well at first me an my samurai (S0500XX) gave some of my other pairs a nice day in the sun and a lot of fresh air.

then we decided to clean my redwings

at first i've thrown the laces into the pool

then I've brushed off the dust from the boots

...

[ThinFinn]

...

interim result:

took the laces outta the water

then it was time to hit them with some water

now everything is drying

going to hit them with a shade of some red wing boot-oil later the day when they are fully dry...

[-Z-]

Random question, do you guys have scones at your state fair?

They're huge at ours and I've always wondered if they're big at others.

We don't that I know of...mainly ours is focused on food on a stick, the one thing that we have that's unique to Minnesota is Hot Dish (Casserole) on a stick, really bizarre stuff.

@ -Z-: hey mate, i always enjoy your pics. is it possible to tell me what your setup is?...

want to get me my first DSLR but cuz there are just way too much to select of i really don't know what i should get as first camera!...

yea man, thanks! I shoot a Canon 500D (T1i in the US) with a grip and two lenses. Canon 50mm f/1.4 and Canon 20mm f/2.8

this gets the job done for me, i don't have any zooms at the moment, but that's just personal preference. the kit zoom that came with my camera did just fine for the first few years for me.

[B-Dawg]

Exciting stuff and nice pics lately!

Helped a friend move...

Then tidepooling with the woman...

Low tide at the dock..

[Paul T]

Up in the clouds

Sunday, we returned from he North to London, via Duxford, an old RAF site, for an airshow that marked the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

WE found an excellent spot, directly in front of a row of Spitfires. LAst week we saw the Red Arrows, by accident. This time they performed their aerobatics right in front of us, framed by the planes produced a half century earlier.

Here a pair head for each other, over a Mustang, which followed them up in the air...

The Mustangs were escorting a B17 Flying Fortress, which heaved itself into the sky...

Lookout, bandits at six o'clock! I guess this Messerschmitt has had a Merlin or other engine fitted..

They were followed by a Lancaster, escorted by two Hurricanes.

More Hurricanes followed - there were a total of four in the air, of six airwortthy survivors. Altho never as famous as the Spitfire, these were the planes that downed most of the attacking bombers in the battle of britain. Avergae life expectancy of the pilots was three weeks - 25 per cent of them came from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Canada and elsewhere.

We got a great view - the nipper had borrowed my dad's binoculars, the same date as the planes, military issue... I was shocked how good the optics were, crisp, with a wide field of view... somehow they made watching these venerable planes seem even more on the edge, thrilling...

[Paul T]

A few more, later...

These guys are the Aerostars - they fly the Yak 50, an old Soviet job that's apparently the best bet for an affordable aorbatic plane, you can pick one up for $60k or so. Don't pull more than 9Gs, though, or the wings will fall off. Wonder how many Gs this is??

Have a heart!

Finally, all those planes right in front of us took off, until finally there were 16 SPitfires up in the air. If you're a brit, you'll remember all those schoolboys obsessions. THey are the most beautiful planes, their wings a perfect ellipse. But also brutal killing machines.

It was very touching... there were apparently a few of the original pilots of these in the show, of the 50 or 60 still alive. All these guys will now be around 90.

At the end, 15 landed. One was stil flying, glinting in the sun, arcing again and again into the sky, as if the pilot couldn't bear to leave it. It was beautiful.

[anthonyoj]

Paul T - +rep for some great pics and some great history on the subject.

[ashkaun]

Yesterday my flatheads and i got up at around 5 in the morning to go deep sea fishing for salmon in the Pacific. We only went about 4 miles out, but it was still pretty fun.

we chartered the boat of a fisherman named Greg and his grandson, who was also named Greg, in Florence, OR.

It was a pretty slow day, aside from the occasional whale sighting, but since most of us were getting seasick after a few hours, we headed back for land without much success.

Thankfully we didn't go back empty handed. About halfway out I managed to catch a 28 inch coho salmon, which was particularly delicious.

My uncle on the other hand, hooked a chinook salmon that was probably twice as big, but it got away. Then again it wouldn't really be a fishing trip without the one that got away.

On the way back we grabbed the crab pots we had set out in the morning, and got a nice helping of dungeness crab

We also got a starfish in one of the crab pots, but it had to be thrown back, along with all the female crabs and the ones that were too small.

here's a picture of me with the catch of the day (I got 9 pounds of filet from that fish)

along with the obligatory denim photo

[roy6]

(11 days ago)

My jeans and I were tired, so lazed around Waikiki and people-watched all day.

Dancing:

!0 year old girl Portuguese girl who tried to pole dance as well and got a good pinch on the arm from her father.

I saw her go in here right afterwards:

Japanese love-couple reenacting wedding vows on the beach moments before the shooting started:

She said the marriage would never last. So right:

You could barely hear the shots from here:

[shubharamani]

Me and my jeans (IH 634S) walked like a million miles today and snapped several photos of Lake Merritt, "The crown jewel of Oakland". NYC has got Central Park. San Francisco's got Golden Gate Park. LA's got Griffith Park in Hollywood ? And Oakland's got Lake Merritt Park ! Hope you enjoy !

There is an unlimited supply of *hot* people at Lake Merritt...

[Rob060]

hangin' tough.

takin pics ~100°F

[zeen]

@ashkaun Nice catch! I can't wait for my fishing trip next weekend. Going to fight some sailfish! Can't rep must spread.

[k4727]

This is Karachi Cantt train station, refugees displaced by the floods in the interior of sindh province are coming into karachi via its trains.

I was here to pick up the man coordinating the movement of regugees from the station to camps in the city. We were heading to a refugee camp in a public school in ghizri (i think i spelled that wrong)

Many families are living together in one classroom, the problem is what is going to happen as schools need to reopen for the next year.

Went to check on the beach on the east side of the city, a few years ago it was hit by a terrible oil spill caused by a ship running aground. There is significant improvement and people have returned but nobody is actually lying in the sand or going in the water.

[Farhad]

went on a hike @ Franklin canyon this evening

Almost ate it messing around

I Know it looks like I'm not wearing any denim, but in reality I'm wearing denim undies.

Cheers and have a great week

[ThinFinn]

@Paul T: must spread!...looks like a really great day...

@ashkaun+Rob060: plus rep. great catch ash... and great pics Rob

[Grim Ryan]

Met up with my sister in Manchester, NH the other day.

Awesome little sign she picked up at a thrift store:

Went to a place she had been wanting to try for a while. Mediterranean food that is mostly locally sourced.

I got a Chicken Confit what was delicious, Her husband got Falaffel Battered Cod and Chips, and she got a lamb sausage flat bread.

It was an awesome day. Good food. Good drinks.

[farmer]

Farm update via iphone. Been awhile.

Will be full of home grown vegetables and open to the public tomorrow morning.

Open. Selling them veggies.

Still have quite a bit of stocking to do.

Sure sign of fall.

Picked up a car full of pastries and candy from a family run bakery to stock the shelves. Nom

These coffee roll things are the business.

[dkatz]

^ Looking good, Farmer!

Today my jeans picked up the baseline surveys from the data entry company:

Pretty impressed with how much my little car can pack away. That's 2,812 surveys!

So proud of the little guy... 78,736 pieces of paper, and maybe half full?

In the office

And for context (surveys from other survey exercises in envelopes on the other shelves)

Kinda weird seeing such a tangible, visible result of so much fucking work. Looks so.... small.

Now to start working on sampled re-entry to see how fucking bad a job the data-entry company did (usually does).

PS. more vacation-with-the-family pics to come when I get time

[roy6]

Being jealous:

[ranonranonarat]

why doesn't he smile like that in WAYWT pics?

looking good though. is that a copy of free & easy?