Mundane Thread Photographic Edition

[Balderdasha]

Me and my daughter found daffodils blooming today, on January 1st. I think that's the earliest I've ever seen them.

[Sits]

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[Third rate Leszno]

Frozen natterjack toad breeding ponds in the dunes by our village.

[Third rate Leszno]

It's not 4pm yet, but the moisture on our conservatory roof is beginning to freeze.

[Lang Spoon]

[Lang Spoon]

Mordor looking snowy.

[Uncle Ethan]

Down at the dog beach an hour ago. Smoke is from bush fires to the north. Pic by Danni.

[elguapo4]

Are they the Mourne mountains?

[Lang Spoon]

Aye, photo doesn't do it justice, but they were so clear yesterday.

[Sits]

First time I ever went to Boston for work I was put up in this ugly mock timbered hotel on a major road outside the city. I was working in Framingham and the hotel was next to a Bose HQ, if that gives any geographical clues. Saw a chipmunk in the grounds.

Anyway adjoining the hotel was this horrendous eatery called Molly Malone’s Irish Pub, and one of their signature “dishes” was called the Mountains of Mourne Sandwich.

[ursus arctos]

The infamous Sheraton Tara

[Sits]

Yes!

Is it still there?

See this is the great thing about OTF (and ursus tbh). I posted that after sitting down to breakfast, and have the answer before I even get up from the kitchen bench.

[Sits]

Was up for auction last month.

[ursus arctos]

Foreclosed on and sold at auction in December

https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/s...el/3901916001/

It has a sibling in Parsippany, New Jersey

[Antepli Ejderha]

Yes!

Is it still there?

See this is the great thing about OTF (and ursus tbh). I posted that after sitting down to breakfast, and have the answer before I even get up from the kitchen bench.

That's ursus arctos for you, he'll never let you down.*

*Actually his team of researchers won't. Winky thing.

[Antepli Ejderha]

[ursus arctos]

Lovely, AE

That view has changed so much since I first saw it in the late 70s

[ursus arctos]

The Tara really was infamous

Nothing really looked like that on that scale, and it was hard to miss if one was driving between New York and Boston, which is a very well travelled route

One of my friends at uni had her prom there

[Femme Folle]

I had forgotten about the Tara. I think I went there with someone from work once, but it's just a very vague memory now. I think it may have been one of those events where they sell hotel paintings, but they also served drinks and hors d'oeuvres? That would have been sometime in the late '80s or early '90s.

[Sits]

We didn’t meet then. I stayed there in 95.

In 97 I went for two weeks and went up in the world, Marriott Long Wharf.

[ursus arctos]

I think it may have been one of those events where they sell hotel paintings, but they also served drinks and hors d'oeuvres?

This is almost too perfect to be true.

Almost.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Lovely, AE

That view has changed so much since I first saw it in the late 70s

Thank you. It's my stock photo as it's only ten minutes from my house.

I've mentioned that it's also changed so much in the time we've been living here, at least after dark the buildings light up and give some character, in the day it's just a mass of skyscrapers.

[Third rate Leszno]

Heading out of the village to pick up a stepladder from Screwfix this morning.