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Yesterday, I got off my fat ass, sat down (!?) and scanned another baggie of slides. They were basically a record of someone's trip to Russia in 1985 (Leningrad, Moscow and Yalta), and were...to be honest ... only slightly interesting.

And then this slide appeared. Different mount, and unconnected with the USSR selection.   And it's great. A lovely calm forest lake...somewhere. Anywhere. This could be Wales, or Siberia, or Canada, or Montenegro, of Finland or ... anywhere.

And it's lovely.

Bonus - a recent estimate for the number of trees on Earth exceeds the highest estimates for the number of stars in the Milky Way.

Bonus 2 - Curse of the Axe: Rewriting American History (2015) - European axe found (likely) prior to arrival of settlers, a story about Indigenous trade networks. Looks like an interesting watch.