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Photo of the Day August 2020

hang time ... 200 mm, 800 ISO, f/5.6, 1/4000 s
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After watching these two chasing each other around the deck time after time, I never thought I'd see this! Smaug and his competitor warily dining together from the same tray:

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(Note the sparrow standing at the edge of the deck ready to sound the "all's-clear!" when both squirrels have departed and the sparrow gang can descend en masse upon the deck again to have their turn at the food.....)
 
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Darmok N Jalad said:
Yes, I see a lot of arts and crafts style homes in the not great parts of town going abandoned and in disrepair. I once had a 1920s bungalow, and the oak flooring was 16 feet long in some places. You’d be hard-pressed to find such building materials anymore, and if you did, it would be very expensive. Sadly, many of these types of homes get let go to the point that they must be vacated and bulldozed.
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My parents owned an apartment building in New York City many years ago and when they were doing a renovation on one of the apartments they found that the door trim and floor moldings were oak, something you rarely see nowadays. All of that trim and molding had so many layers of paint on it that it wasn’t cost effective to salvage it, it was cheaper to replace it with cheap pine.
 
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georgeinnj said:
My parents owned an apartment building in New York City many years ago and when they were doing a renovation on one of the apartments they found that the door trim and floor moldings were oak, something you rarely see nowadays. All of that trim and molding had so many layers of paint on it that it wasn’t cost effective to salvage it, it was cheaper to replace it with cheap pine.
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That stick built construction of days past was true craftsmanship - now it is chip board and drywall.
 
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