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The weather in 2011 has been strange so far. We've had 70 degree weather when most of the country is getting buried in record snow. Last week, all the trees blossomed. This week, things went back to normal and this storm brought with it snow accumulation in Redding, CA. Redding is known for heat, usually peaking in the high teens. Snow accumulation is unusual. It's been snowing all day and I suspect it will continue through the night.
Not one to miss this rare opportunity, I slowly buzzed up to Rock Creek on my lunch break with Aaron Patterson. I never thought I'd see this landscape with snow treatment.
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Kodak Cameo toy camera image on film - found and admired at Busch Wildlife Conservation Area, St. Charles Co. Missouri, USA
I saw a huge one of these "Serpents Blue Chalk Fingers" succulents at Green Thumb and loved it. I came home with a 3 qt. one and planted it in a big pot. Now all I have to do is wait.
Still no rain in Southern California, we got 1/3 of an inch from the "storm".
I shot this picture just 30 minutes after the previous post "The Other Side". I wasn't really expecting this after a more or less rainy day.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular. Born in Portsmouth, England, Dickens was forced to leave school to work in a factory when his father was thrown into debtors' prison. Although he had little formal education, his early impoverishment drove him to succeed. Over his career he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas and hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms...
...taken at the Mansion House underground station... commuters reflected on the window of the train...
London, United Kingdom...
I think this sign is dumb. What about moms with newborns? Or dads who tote them around for that matter? You can get some thin, first trimester Jazzercise instructor bopping in and out of this space, but the mom with the 3 month-old twins and 3 year-old tossing a tantrum has to park elsewhere? As long as stores are going to have signs setting aside preferential parking spaces for people, they should make them all say "Have Pity On Me Because I Need This Space More Than Most People" and let people decide for themselves if they truly want to put their fellow citizens out by snagging this space for themselves. Just because you've got a handicapped tag or, in this case, are pregnant, doesn't mean you have to take the fewest possible steps. I understand there's a medical study that actually says that exercise and movement is actually beneficial to humans. I park well away from these spaces, not because my car is so awesome (it's a minivan...ugh) but because I'm in good health. And a small way to stay that way is to not drive up and down rows of parking lots, with the blood pressure set to boiling, trying to save myself an extra 24 feet of walking to the entrance of Lane Bryant, the Big and Tall Store or the Cheesecake Factory. Next time I go to this store I'm going to help a pregnant woman and her child by parking here and letting her do a little extra walking.
Seen in Explore (believe it or not).
Photo of the Painted Hills captured via Minolta MD Tele Rokkor-X 135mm F/2.8 Lens. John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: Painted Hills Section (managed by the National Park Services). John Day/Clarno Uplands Area. Blue Mountains Region. Wheeler County, Oregon. Early April 2017.
Exposure Time: 1/30 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-200 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None
Photo captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 24-50mm F/4 lens. On the Nature Trail Loop # 1. Arcata Community Forest. City of Arcata. Coast Range. North Coast. Humboldt County, Northern California. Late July 2017.
Exposure Time: 0.4 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 5100 K
OK, everyone has to do this cliché shot sometime.... and I thought it suitable for Great Big Sea's Mari-Mac. I searched out our copy of Dickens's Great Expectations for this especially, given that this is what marriage is all about.
However it's also about Confrontation..... Any marriage that doesn't have "confrontation" in it probably won't last. Natalee & I have been together 27 years now (married for 20) and hardly a week (day?) goes by when we don't argue at some point. Much healthier for a relationship to work out differences when you need to. Some of our friends who are now divorced / separated used to say "Oh we never argue...."
TOTW - Confrontation
TRP - Musically Inspired
Musically Challenged - (This weeks list here) (p.s. It's my list !!!)
Great Big Sea - Mari-Mac
There's a neat little lass and her name is Mari Mac
Make no mistake, she's the girl I'm gonna track
Lot of other fellas try to get her on her back
But I'm thinking that they'll have to get up early
[Chorus:]
Mari Mac's mother's making Mari Mac marry me
My mother's making me marry Mari Mac
Well I'm going to marry Mari for when Mari's taking care of me
We'll all be feeling merry when I marry Mari Mac
MSH - Film Titles - Diamonds are forever - msh0810-10
My brother created a custom made escape room to play on our mother's 70th birthday.
It was the first escape room she ever played and to solve it, we had to use pieces of puzzles spread over multiple holiday cottages. A walkie talkie was used to communicate with the other cottages and piece everything together in a covid-safe manner.
The story involved a made up history of the wooded holiday park we were on. As my mother's birthday is on Halloween, it naturally contained a witch that was burnt on the spot in the Middle Ages and her ghost haunting the cottages ever since.
This took two seconds to edit. I just used a curves pre-set and it turned out great :) I'm so happy with the outcome.
Men waiting for time to pass near Jemma el-Fnaa, the main square and heart of Marrakech. This "stationary state" was quite common during our stay at the Medina. The clothes they were wearing were surprising for us tourists, because we were suffering to overcome the heat (around 40 ºC).
Name - Veluswami
Wife left him.
Sons don't care for him any more.
Cant see much.
He said "I need to change the glass, maybe i can see everything clearly again?"....
Why do people make fake promises while luring someone in? Why do they not show their real face until later on? Or is it perhaps unrealistic expectations that we have for others and therefore we do not see their true face?
This photo is part of my "Single in December 2013" Collection. The complete set can be found at www.flickr.com/photos/rensehaveman/sets/72157638246242726...