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Bugs like tulips

I haven't seen a lot of bee action around the tulips this year. I'm not sure if its the time of year, my timing or the flowers.

I have seen a lot of smaller flying insects in and around them though.

Buckets of tulips

All of the tulips are popping right now. I am taking lots and lots of pictures and just limited on time. I added over 366 photos yesterday [*], which sounds like a backlog, but maybe I will clear them all out today.

tulips in felt Buckets

The aforementioned buckets of flowers (some of them)

[*]This …

Bees are getting active

Spring is here. Warning now, there will be a lot of bee and flower pictures for the next couple of months.

Cool Trucks

It was a good weekend and I took this cool picture of a tonka grader that Eric gave to our oldest from his personal collection.

A Nighttime Visitor

We had a visitor last night. The chunky boy was in there for over 10min, I sped that part up because it makes a boring video.

Wordle 303 4/6

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A new toy

It's my Canon RF100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM. It's my longest lens and the most money that I have ever spent on a lens.

My best lens is still my EF 70-200 f4, and I probably could have added an RF 2x teleconverter and had a sharper lens kit at …

VIM is cool

But VS Code is practical.

I am running Debian on my Framework laptop for 6 months, it's a trip. So many "normal" things are just a haul. Maybe if I went with Ubuntu I would have a "better" time, I already tried Linux Mint. As it is, I would like …

Spring is gone

I will be closing the curtains and pretending that it hasn't snowed yet. So I did a Quordle, and I think I figured out the formatting, so I will post some more.

BTW, I still share my wordles on twitter too, but hey, why not. I actualy like that it …