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[ID: Martha Wells reading from a book, with robots - mechanical contraptions slightly smaller than most cats, with huge treads - surrounding her, positioned to look like they’re listening attentively. Text reads “Martha Wells reading to the search and rescue robots at the TEES (Texas A&M University Engineering Experiment Station) Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR).”]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate this photo from Martha Wells’s website (Your picture was not posted)

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scene, the expressions!

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Gerlion energy peaked in Baptism of Fire, what else can I say.

Two high intelligence low wisdom lads loose in the woods. (Your picture was not posted)

is it western or central ny, or the fingerlakes? or the southern tier?

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it’s like in the venn diagram that is new york state, dude and i cannot quite figure out where we are.

Here’s yesterday’s activities. Watkins Glen, mainly. Cut for some photos, including a goat.

this is Watkins Glen from like halfway up. [Image description: A dramatic winding channel in the rock filled with rushing water, with some greenery clinging to the rock edges.]

this is something directly next to the highway. some_stars https://tmblr.co/m0l4iDjxkB7VuWm6d1vXtOQ​ looked it up and it’s called like “Aunt Sarah’s Viewing Area” or something, and i just kept calling it different aunts. Aunt Mabel’s Observation Spot. Aunt Maria’s Beholding Zone. Unforch I now can’t remember what it’s really called. It’s purdy! Literally it is directly next to the road and you pull over on a little gravel turnaround and there it is.

[image description: a waterfall spilling down a slope of little bands of rock sediments, and then falling in a kind of veil to a shallow pond beneath, with moss bedecking the rocks.]

Our AirBnB hosts are goat farmers. They invite all their guests to come see their goats. This one was named Heidi. They’re Nubians and they milk them, but not to sell, just mostly for personal use.

[image description: a brown Nubian doe goat with black and white markings is side-on to the camera, showing her rectangular pupil. She has the distinctive downward-hanging crescent-shaped ears of Nubian goats, and her ears are delightfully speckled.]

And in the evening we went into Watkins Glen for supper, but first we went and hung out at the beach at the southern end of Seneca Lake, to enjoy the golden hour before sunset.

[image description: The upper half of the image is a cloud-dappled blue sky, with a large seagull cutting through it. Then there’s the black band of the far shore of the lake, and against it is the white of a multi-sailed schooner. The foreground is the mirror-like surface of the lake, roughly reflecting the clouds.]

Today was Ithaca, and i have apparent sun hives, so I’m lying here for a moment before I collect myself to go back out and retrieve food. (Your picture was not posted)