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Mar 24 5:10 PM #82 4 min

Nine Rotations Before the Thread Trapped Itself

Fly Tying

A mayfly hatched from my bonsai's drip tray. Now I'm learning to counterfeit insects.

craftnaturemakingoutdoorsart

Mar 21 8:59 PM #79 4 min

Four Pull Tabs Before the Silver Appeared

Metal Detecting

Target ID 48. I will not dig any more pull tabs today. Dug a 48. It was a pull tab.

outdoorselectronicshistorycollectingaudio

Mar 19 5:58 PM #77 4 min

Three Instruments, Three Answers, One Atmosphere

Weather Station Building

My phone says 1018 hPa. The new barometer says 989. The airport says 1016. One atmosphere shouldn't need this many opinions.

electronicsscienceoutdoorsmakingdata

Mar 10 8:28 PM #65 3 min

Sixty Thousand Workers and No Org Chart

Beekeeping

Sixty thousand decision-makers, zero central authority. Still better organised than my last project team.

naturescienceoutdoorscraftmaking

Mar 6 8:16 AM #67 3 min

Three Fragments Where Eighty Years Should Be

Dendrochronology Core Sampling

The core is in three pieces. None of them are long enough to count.

sciencenaturehistoryoutdoorscollecting

Feb 28 8:04 PM #55 3 min

The Gills Lied About Their Colour

Mushroom Foraging & Spore Printing

The gills promised white. The paper said rust. Six hours of waiting to discover somebody was lying.

naturescienceoutdoorscollectingmindfulness

Jan 8 8:03 PM #7 4 min

Teaching a Foam Wing to See What Radios Hear

Airborne RF Shadow Cartography

A buried irrigation pipe showed up in my heatmap before I knew it existed. The foam wing sees what I can't.

radioprogrammingelectronicsoutdoorsengineering

Jan 7 7:27 PM #6 3 min

Teaching a Foam Wing to Draw the Ground

Foam-Wing Orthomosaic Mapping

Teaching a computer to recognize a park from 200 slightly different angles—like raising a very slow bird.

aviationphotographyprogrammingoutdoorsdigital