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Ground level shot, from my walk this afternoon. Winter is over, summer is coming 😁

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Alain De Vos said:
Lots of sun today in Belgium.
Still i wonder it would be nice to have a moving background.
I tried python scripts but weather provider did not liked my credentials...
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You could construct an animated gif every hour from the last 12 image updates, and play it in the background with something like imagemagick's animate program. Personally I find a moving background too distracting, I prefer the static image.

imagemagick Tutorial => Create an animated gif

Learn imagemagick - Create an animated gif
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I had xearth as a background for some time. And after a long coding session, you suddenly see your capital city come up on the right and you watch the horizon getting lit. That's when you put the coffee away and start looking for your bed. Now if a new version of xearth could use sattelite feeds and maybe one of the constellation trackers for the star background...
 

Xplanet

Download Xplanet for free. Xplanet is a solar system simulator which calculates accurate positions for the major planets and satellites. It displays multiple bodies, eclipse shadows, and customizable labels and markers.
sourceforge.net sourceforge.net

Last source code update seems to have been 4 years ago, perhaps it will still work ok.
 
blackbird9 said:
Ground level shot, from my walk this afternoon. Winter is over, summer is coming 😁

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Which is why I love Britain. So many little back trails through the country with beautiful nature and preserved ancestral air and architecture (beautiful masonry, stone fences, old houses, bridges, things like that). It's a dream to be able to come visit one day - and not just stay in big centers but go out in the country, take some local trails through places like this on the photo and just absorb the atmosphere of generations of amazing people that come before us. I heard that there are lots of such hiking trails all over?
 
It's the same in places like Normandy, and in fact much of north-west europe. All those little footpaths and trails used to be the routes that people used to walk to work in the fields, and of course for trade; some of them literally date back thousands of years. And we stil have areas of common land that date back to before land enclosure, those are also very old. We have lost many of the paths, sadly, but many are also still open. preserved for public use by various acts of parliament. My friend who went to NZ said that's one of the biggest things she misses, despite all the open countryside they have, there aren't the same number and density of ways to access it, she said it's all just fenced off farmland.

One very old route in the south of england is the chalk ridgeway. This guy thinks it may even have extended out to 'doggerland', which is the shallow area of the dogger bank between the uk and europe, that was land when sea levels were lower. Fishermen have dredged up old stone age tools and remains of fires from the sea floor. So it's quite possible that the ridgeway originally went out across the north sea to the continent, which would make it perhaps over 10000 years old, stretching back into the mesoolithic. Routes like this followed the natural topography and once they were established remained in use for very long periods.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO2eEGARfms
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DECwfQQqRzo

en.wikipedia.org

Prehistoric Britain - Wikipedia

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That's how it is right now, the bluebells are all over the forest at this time of year, that photo looks like a beech wood. Everything is on a smaller scale here than the US. :-)
I'd love to see your california redwood forest some day though, and the autumn colours in the appalachians... and the oregon coastal path...
 
astyle said:
You mean US Highway 101?
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I was actually thinking of the coast trail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Coast_Trail . It looks pretty nice! I found some good photos here: https://oregonessential.com/best-hikes-oregon-coast/
(Over here we tend to call a 'trail' a 'path' or 'public footpath', its basically the same thing.)

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There must be some good coast walks in Calif as well. I'm sure its pretty nice driving along the 101, maybe you can see the whales swimming up the coast. :-)
 
blackbird9 said:
I was actually thinking of the coast trail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Coast_Trail . It looks pretty nice! I found some good photos here: https://oregonessential.com/best-hikes-oregon-coast/
(Over here we tend to call a 'trail' a 'path' or 'public footpath', its basically the same thing.)

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There must be some good coast walks in Calif as well. I'm sure its pretty nice driving along the 101, maybe you can see the whales swimming up the coast. :-)
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If you're willing to fly, it's about a 10 hour flight from LHR. And in US, they do drive on the right side of the road, while in UK they drive on the left.
 
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