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This is how we are in Makati. Makati is a senior citizens haven. Every senior citizen are given a cake by the City Mayor when their birth month come. We are also given a thousand pesos every June and another thousand in December and also a bag of groceries. Movie admissions are free. There are also health benefits. Makati is the envy of other cities surrounding the City of Manila.
The cake icing read:
Greetings
from
Councilor Junjun
Mayor Binay
This is not a political advertisement. I will vote for the guy who I think will do the best for the country.
"What shall we use
To fill the empty spaces
Where we used to talk?
How shall I fill
The final places?
How should I complete the wall"
Pink Floyd
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I'm really not so with you anymore.
I'm just a ghost.
So I can't hurt you anymore.
- My Chemical Romance
I took a walk today for about an hour. I didn't even travel a mile from my apartment and there were so many things to discover and capture. I found spiders, moths, caterpillars, and a world of tiny things that I would have overlooked normally. I took around 400 shots and ended up with 11 usable, this macro lens has a steep learning curve especially hand held. I am instantly enamored with macro photography! It helps me to appreciate and pay attention to all the beautiful little things around us.
This was how I rolled in early 2012.
I remember the time and place and events very vividly.
Being a traveling tranny is not without it's complications especially when your mode of travel is air. I mean how much can you get in one bag and will my spiked heel puncture my boobs and will those pesky TSA baggage inspectors take a peek inside and make a note of the name on the claim tag and use it to blackmail me in the future. In any event I don't really worry about that stuff I just hope I get their safe and all my visual aids arrive with me.
On this particular night I was in the last training week for my 30th Marathon and I had arrived early and taken a 6 mile run rushed to get a shower and get ready for whatever was to come. I had a great spacious room with a few nice appointments like artificial plants, leather pillows and wine glasses. Believe it or not it was a Hilton Property. Leather pillows? So I got dolled all sensible like, looked at myself in the mirror and was pleased and confident. I made my way out in search of a healthy drive thru and settled on baja fish tacos from Baja Fresh. The girl at the window seemed confused by the name on the AMEX not matching the face in the car. I assured her it was me and my parents named all the girls with boys names including my sister Frank. She handed me food with a smile and I drove back to my spacious room. I really wanted to go out and be seen but it was getting late and I decided to t snap a few pics and call it a night.
Another challenge of being an air traveling transvestite is being prepared. This particular trip I had everything I needed except something to remove my french nails. Having an early morning meeting the option to leave them on was really no option at all. Oh well I guess I'll be seen after all. I had noticed a Walgreens earlier so I made my way to it. Park car, take deep breath, purse on shoulder go inside. I walked in and an older lady asked "can I help you find anything?" (Now I need to stop for a second and explain, I've been out and about many many times dressed as a woman, most times if I just act normal no one seems to notice me If I have to speak well sometimes I can pass sometimes I don't but it takes a lot of concentration and is not second nature for me.) I answered "acetone" "I'm not sure what that is" I answer back "it's for removing fake nails!" "Oh yes" she directed me and we walked together me in flat sandal still 3 heads taller than her. She then said to me "they're so pretty, why do you want to take them off?" I just looked at her and said "you really don't know do you?" "Know What?" "well I'm not a woman" she just stared at me for a while and finally realized what I had said to her. "Oh My God, I would have never known" I wanted to hug her. She was so sweet and complimentary when others may have just been happy to get me out of the store and be done with my perverted foolishness but she thought I was in her words a Doll. It didn't end there, she wanted to show me off to Karen in the Pharmacy a tall leggy brunette. She was bubbly and almost flirtatious and asked If she could take a picture. I told her only if she was in it too. Inez the sweet little lady took our picture together with Karen's phone and I'm sure within seconds of leaving the store my picture was plastered all over Karen's Social Network.
All in all it was a fun evening.
This would be my contribution to throwback Thursday.
This intriguing observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a gravitationally lensed galaxy with the long-winded identification SGAS J143845+145407. Gravitational lensing has resulted in a mirror image of the galaxy near the center of this image, creating a captivating centerpiece. A third distorted image of the galaxy appears as a bridge between them.
Gravitational lensing occurs when the mass of an enormous celestial body – such as a galaxy cluster – curves spacetime and causes the path of light from distant objects to visibly bend around it, as if by a lens. Appropriately, the body causing the light to curve is called a gravitational lens, and the distorted background object is referred to as being "lensed.” Gravitational lensing can result in multiple images of the original galaxy, as seen in this image, or in the background object appearing as a distorted arc or even a ring. Another important consequence of this lensing distortion is magnification, allowing astronomers to observe objects that would otherwise be too far away or be too faint to see.
Hubble has a special flair for detecting lensed galaxies. The telescope's sensitivity and crystal-clear vision let it see faint and distant gravitational lenses that ground-based telescopes cannot detect because of the blurring effect of Earth's atmosphere. Hubble was the first telescope to resolve details within lensed images of galaxies and is capable of imaging both their shape and internal structure.
This particular lensed galaxy is from a set of Hubble observations that take advantage of gravitational lensing to peer inside galaxies in the early universe. The lensing reveals details that allow astronomers to better understand star formation in early galaxies, which gives scientists insight into how the overall evolution of galaxies unfolded.
Text credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Rigby
For more information: www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/hubble-captures-a...
Why are the colors of sunset so fleeting. One moment, you are overwhelmed by the breathtaking beauty of the sky and in literally the next instant it is gone. I get it I think. A day of spectacular beauty would be taken for granted, unappreciated, and offers nothing to look forward to at the end of the day. That makes sense. How clever was the architect that dreamed this cycle up for us.
While sorting out some old color negative film from the 1970s I ran across this image that I believe I made in February 1977. It is noteworthy because the Ozark Air Lines DC-9 sitting at the game at Lambert St. Louis Airport is wearing the livery in which it was delivered. Ozark tweaked the livery by making its name at the front of the aircraft more prominent and modifying how much gray there is in the lower level of the plane. The gray was darker in the original livery and extended all the way to the nose, but in the later version it did not. The newer livery also had less gray. Compare this plane with the two nearby DC-9s. The tail design is unchanged. (Scanned from color negative film)
This is what happens if I'm let loose with my DSLR on "Dogwalk". Jim and the dogs get a tad hacked off having to wait for me. "20 minutes to photograph one fungus? It'll better be worth it." I kept the poor trio waiting quite a while on several occasions today as there were so many fresh specimens of slime moulds too. I lose all track of time when I'm out in the woods. Quicker with Optio W10!
If you're ever in the lake district Tarn Hows is well worth a visit. There is an easy 1¾ mile circular walk around the Tarn and as you can see on a bright clear day it's a beautiful location. To bring out the colours in the scene I fitted a polarising filter onto the lens.
The SD40-2s served the C&NW well all over their railroad from their purchase on into Union Pacific ownership. I certainly saw a lot of them. The 6847 retains its original "stagecoach yellow", the attendant nicks and rust are just how the units that hadn't cycled through the paint shop looked in the last years of the C&NW. Pulling past the signal and through the switches it gains speed with its first coach train trip of the day. August 10, 2024.
The Song for the Picture:
How it Feels to be Lost by Sleeping with Sirens
Lyrics:
Life is walking on a tight rope
With nothing but a blindfold
It's a long way, it's a long way down
I'm, yeah, I'm a little crazy
But can you really blame me?
It's a long way, it's a long way down
For every step that I take
I take two steps back
It's like a punch to the face
It's like a knife right in the
(Knife right in the, knife right in the, knife right in the)
It's like a knife right in the back
Like a bullet to the head
Why can't I understand?
The blood is on my hands
Now I'm standing on the edge
With nowhere to go (to go)
This is how it feels, this is how it feels
How it feels to be
Lost, lost
I've been stranded in an ocean
Treading water but it's hopeless, hopeless
It's a long way, it's a long way down
Why am I always on the brink of
Losing it all? Am I just wasting my time?
It's a long way, it's a long way down
For every step that I take
I take two steps back
It's like a punch to the face
It's like a knife right in the back
Like a bullet to the head
Why can't I understand?
The blood is on my hands
Now I'm standing on the edge
With nowhere to go (to go)
This is how it feels, this is how it feels
How it feels to be
Lost, lost, lost
And it's a long way down (it's a long way down)
And it's a long way down (long way down)
Why do I do this to myself?
Why do I put myself through hell?
And will I ever understand
The blood is on my hands?
(Knife right in the, knife right in the, knife right in the)
It's like a knife right in the back
Like a bullet to the head
Why can't I understand
The blood is on my hands?
Now I'm standing on the edge
With nowhere to go (to go)
This is how it feels, this is how it feels
How it feels to be
Lost, lost
How it feels to be
Lost