Photography 2

[Commercial Floor Rep]

By the way, I learned something when we had our IMN class on mammals about whitetail deer. Their antlers are 100% bone, instead of like a cow horn that's made out of keratin (basically what your fingernails are made from). As a bone, they need a supply of blood to grow. The "velvet" that covers their antlers during growth provides those blood vessels. It's basically made up of a dermal (skin) layer and it provides blood and nutrients to the antler while it's growing. Then when it's time, the deer do their scraping to remove that dermal covering. This is why that always looks kind of bloody and raw when they start scraping it off.

 

[C.J.]

By the way, I learned something when we had our IMN class on mammals about whitetail deer. Their antlers are 100% bone, instead of like a cow horn that's made out of keratin (basically what your fingernails are made from). As a bone, they need a supply of blood to grow. The "velvet" that covers their antlers during growth provides those blood vessels. It's basically made up of a dermal (skin) layer and it provides blood and nutrients to the antler while it's growing. Then when it's time, the deer do their scraping to remove that dermal covering. This is why that always looks kind of bloody and raw when they start scraping it off.

Interesting. I know the wife has a decent camera somewhere, maybe I’ll have to grab it and snap a few pics.

 

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It's usually pretty quick. A couple of weeks at most and they are gone to their next stop. I'm hoping that I'll catch the American White Pelicans coming through the area right now too. I may have to drive down towards Indianapolis to see them this weekend. They tend to stay a little further south and west of where I live.

It's been over 35 years, but I worked nearby at a home on the coast..... Maybe 8 miles away.
There's a cliff side bunch of homes overlooking the beach, 70 feet below. It wasn't a permanent residence. The owner lived in Oakland California and ran the nuclear division of PGE. Wonderful couple and have since, moved here permanently. The home is two, 2 story octagons , both 23 feet in diameter.
The was vacant during the nearly 3 months I worked on the home. They only came twice and once was to spend Christmas for two weeks.
Once I had the upstairs done some furniture was delivered. A nice desk was put upstairs by the window facing the ocean and beach below.

...an absolutely one of a kind view. To the north is the entrance to our bay with a mile long jetty on each side. Towards the south, a lighthouse....... The most relaxing and also one of the mosy challenging and enjoyable jobs I've ever done. Back in the days of glue together Pergo Supreme plank and Wilsonart tiles.
I'm reliving a dream job right now

.....once the desk was delivered upstairs in the balcony, that's where I took a break, had lunch and kicked back after work.
One evening an hour before sunset, I was taking in the view and a half dozen pelicans flew by, maybe 50 feet away. They were flying into the breeze and the moved by as in slow motion...... almost coasting.
It would have made a fantastic video. They were like 50 feet away and the sun was slowly setting. The orangey colors in the sky , the ocean below and the super slow moving pelicans were a once in a lifetime moment.
I DEMAND A DO OVER!
........someone invented digital cameras when I wasn't lookin'

You don't realize how big they are until you see them this up close and personal. The slow motion movement from them flying into the wind was the cherry on top.

 

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Don't know why I thought of this, but on a work trip I walked across the Mississippi river. There is a lake in Minnesota where it starts and it is only a couple inches deep and maybe 5 feet across.

If ya want to be productive, you just proved that it's best not to start at the top.