Patioboater

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The world is beautiful. The world is terrible. I like sunsets.

Trying to make a cheerful corner of the Internet with pretty pictures in the midst of [gestures […]

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@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 1:39 PM

Saturday night sunset on Woodward Avenue, a surprise door prize for me and my wife as we arrived at Orchestra Hall for our first concert of the new season. A lovely date night!

Saturday, October 10, 2026. Detroit, Michigan.

#photography #sunset #fall #autumn #michigan #art #MastoArt

Photograph of a busy city street with buildings, signs, lights, and traffic, and a pink sunset with horizontal streaks in the background.

@bigboppa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 10:30 PMReposted by @patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

My sister in law came up to the cabin this week to see the fall colors. The weather was mostly cold and windy until today so she was able to get the money shot early this morning when the lake was as smooth as glass.

#Photography

The tree line from across the lake with the leaves in full color and reflection on the still water in mirror image.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 2:29 PM

An MG TF at last night’s MG club meeting.

October 6, 2026. Farmington Hills, Michigan.

#photography #sunset #mg #car #cars #lbc #michigan #fall #autumn #weirdcarmastodon

Photograph of a white green MG TF in a parking lot seen from the front with a setting sun behind it.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 2:41 AM

The FUN MG at tonight’s Michigan MG T-Type club meeting. It was a splendid evening for a drive in an MG of any era.

October 6, 2026. Farmington Hills, Michigan.

#photography #sunset #mg #car #cars #lbc #michigan #fall #autumn #weirdcarmastodon

A black 1976 MGB next to an early 1950s MG TD in a parking lot with a setting sun behind them.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 1:44 PM

Another great blog post from @pluralistic. It gets both at one of the main economic drivers of the current AI finance bubble, and at why the underlying technology is still of interest to somebody like me who understands its limitations, but still wants to use it for my own purposes, hopefully […]

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 1:21 PM

Morning mist.

October 6, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #sunrise #michigan #fall #autumn

Photograph of a steel lake in the morning, surrounded by lawns and trees, reflecting blue skies, and clouds above with a layer of mist on the surface of the lake.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 4, 2026, 1:30 PM

I loved the sunlight on the fletching of these arrows.

October 3, 2026. Michigan Renaissance Festival, Holly, Michigan.

#photography #light #archery #fall #michigan #art #MastoArt

Photograph of a row of targets peppered by dozens and dozens of arrows. The targets are in shadow on a wall, but sunlight has lit up the brightly colored fletching at the rear of the arrows.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 1:43 PM

Still lots of green out there, though.

October 2, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #fall #autumn #car #classiccars #cars #lbc #mg #mgb #michigan #art #MastoArt #weirdcarmastodon

Photograph looking down the hood of a black MGB as it drives down a country road with green trees crowding in from either side on a sunny day.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 1:31 PM

Fall colors have begun to show. It made for a splendid lunchtime erranding drive in the FUN MG.

October 2, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #fall #autumn #car #classiccars #cars #lbc #mg #mgb #michigan #art #MastoArt #weirdcarmastodon

Photograph looking down the hood of a black MGB as it drives down the road with fall color trees on a sunny day.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 2:45 AM

Sunset martini.

October 2, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #sunset #martini #michigan #autumn #fall

Photograph of a martini with a pontoon boat, lake, and sunset sky in the background.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 30, 2026, 1:43 PM

Good morning, Mastodon. Here come some sandhill cranes.

September 30, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #sunrise #birds #cranes #michigan #fall #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography

Sunrise photograph of a pink and lavender sky with a tree in silhouette to the bottom, right and two small silhouettes of sandhill cranes flying towards the photographer at the top of the image.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 30, 2026, 1:59 AM

Another evening, another lovely moonrise!

Sept. 29, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #moon #michigan #autumn #fall

Close-up photograph of a waning 3/4 moon rising over treetops.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 29, 2026, 1:43 AM

Benny doing his impersonation of his favorite literary character: The Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar.

September 28, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #dog #dogs #beagle

Photograph of a beagle looking up at the photographer and attempting to convey a desperate need for snackums.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 28, 2026, 7:55 PM

A lovely autumn afternoon on the lake.

September 28, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #lake #lakes #michigan #autumn #fall

Photograph of a lake with a small island and trees with a hint of autumn color. Boats, docks, lawn, and a porch rail are in the foreground. A walnut tree frames the right side and the top of the image.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 28, 2026, 4:00 AM

@paco I’m pretty sure we’re all gluttons for punishment. It’s the #Monsterdon way.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 28, 2026, 3:29 AM

Full moonrise through the clouds.

September 27, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #moon #cloud #clouds

Photograph of a full moon peeking out through a crack in the clouds in a dark blue twilight sky.

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 28, 2026, 2:36 AM

And then because I’m a glutton for punishment, I went back and watched the scene where blue lady dies, and they have the strange confusing battle again to see if I could make any more sense of it this time.

Nope.

#Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 28, 2026, 2:27 AM

Wait! That was the end?! They just fucked off into time? We’ve had a lot of unsatisfying fucking off into [blank] on #Monsterdon, but man, that was a feeble ending.

I prefer to think that movie ended with rich dude stuck in a time loop blowing himself up over and over again […]

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 28, 2026, 2:20 AM

This is a terrible movie, but watching rich dude blow himself up was deeply satisfying. Literally worth watching this entire terrible movie for.

#Monsterdon #JourneyToTheCenterOfTime

@patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 28, 2026, 2:07 AM

While the lab is being attacked by a giant lizard in the past, I’m being attacked by a hungry beagle who wants snacks here in the present!

#Monsterdon #journeytothecenteroftime #dog #dogs

Close-up photograph of the eyes of a hungry beagle who thinks he deserves more snackums while the truly terrible time travel movie “Journey to the Center of Time” plays on a television in the background.

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