I have been working for a couple of years to get a long-neglected part of my yard in shape to build a new garden railroad. About three years ago, I began to use herbicide to eradicate the massive amount of ivy that had taken over a couple thousand square feet of the yard. This is […]
Displaying the most recent of 42 posts written by
Russell Shilling
This past weekend, I was thinking about cut optimization. This is a method for planning cuts to produce the most pieces of given sizes out of a quantity of material of some length with minimum waste. This was brought about by the planning process involved in building a new garden railway trestle. (I’ll cover the […]
Our eclipse photos were taken with a Pentax K-50 using a 200 mm lens. Right after start of occlusion. Totality. If you click on the image, I believe that Mars and Mercury are visible (about 3 o’clock and 8 o’clock, respectively). “Diamond Ring.” Near end of eclipse.
We spent the (long) weekend of August 17-22 in Madras, Oregon so we could see the 2017 eclipse. Madras is in the path of totality, but just out of town there was Solar Town, dead center in the path. We got a “Glamping” (Glamorous Camping) package, which got us a very large tent (including set-up […]