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This was one of those nightmarish days you only dream about.
It began at 7:30 with that crazy park lady. I walk far away from her now. I park in a different place and walk a quarter-mile from her. But when she sees me, she walks directly at me, no matter where I am and who I'm with. Today, I was picking raspberries. I stopped when she walked toward me. I walked in the woods. I think she followed me, but I went fast, came out on the other side, and walked in the road. She is really ruining my days when I see her, which, fortunately, is once a week.
I came home and worked on cutting glass for awhile, and then I went skating. I also dropped some things off at the post office and attempted to buy stamps, but my card wouldn't scan, and the post office REFUSED to enter the number manually. They said it was against store policy. I asked for the manager. He wouldn't come out. I banged on his door. He wouldn't come out. A supervisor came to talk to me. She couldn't answer any of my questions. All she knew was, "They wouldn't take mines, either."
I went home angry and found a message from my mother that the travel agent wants to make sure my daughter has a passport confirmation. Except that I have tried that every day, and it hasn't worked. It still didn't. I called the passport office once again (I called last week, and a woman said she'd e-mail DC to put a rush on it), and I was told to press one and three and zero, and then the machine told me there were too many callers waiting, and it hung up. Seventeen times. And then when I finally got through, I was on the phone for 59 minutes.
The woman at the passport office told me there's no record of my daughter's application, that I can try to make an appointment for one of the three days this week that it's open before the trip, but she won't guarantee that I get an appointment, and no one's reimbursing us the thousands of dollars for the tickets.
Then I called the post office, and I was told, "This is what I can do for you, ma'am. I will call myself." I asked about the canceled money order, and the woman said, "I just told you what I could do for you. Don't try to tell me what I can do for you. I am doing what I told you I would do, now let me do that without telling me...."
She said she'd call in the morning. Meanwhile, I can pay $5 to put a trace on the money order.
I wrote to my congressman. I sent a third e-mail to the passport office, and it was actually answered today. There's no record of my daughter's passport. The person who wrote told me to call the passport office again.
I went to a self-defense class tonight. I punched the bag very, very hard. It was a very, very bad bag.
(But the instructor's son, holding the bag, was truly a hottie.)
(For 365 Days. This is Day 262. )
I skated for one hour today. It was my only pleasure. I didn't even enjoy the beers.
I can still laugh, as long as there's Engrish.
Dacelo novaeguineae
On of the most photogenic Australian birds, and a very common sight (and sound) in most woodlands and neighbourhoods bordering woodlands. Photographed at Benalla Recreation Reserve.
Just back from a planting morning at Cobbledicks Ford. Quite a few birds around but the high wind and rain showers made photographing them difficult. I made the most of the sunny breaks. We saw eight Kookaburras.
Laughing Kookaburra (immature)
Dacelo novaeguineae
March 11th, 2018
Launching Place, Victoria, Australia
Canon EOS 1D X Mark II
Canon EF 600mm f4L IS II USM lens
Canon 600EX II-RT flash
Check out this cutie! This little fella was one of our resident Kookaburra's offspring from last Spring. From an early age it was quite confiding & would often drop down & hang out with me while I was splitting logs to pick off the juicy worms, grubs & bugs that would pop out!
Autumn Colors
Laughing Whitefish Falls
Alger County
Michigan
Laughing Whitefish Falls, nestled in the serene wilderness of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, is a hidden gem for photographers and nature lovers. This stunning cascade, one of the most picturesque in the state, it gently tumbles down a 100-foot rock face in a delicate fan shape. Surrounded by lush hardwood forests and accessible via a short, scenic hike, the falls offer visitors a tranquil escape or anyone seeking a moment of peaceful solitude.
This is Laughing Whitefish Falls, just outside Munising, MI in the UP. It was one of the more secluded falls of the many I visited, but was more of the more unique ones as well. It was well worth the hike to get there! I loved this waterfall.
Side story: An old man was at the bottom taking pictures. I said, "Getting any good ones?" Frustrated, he barked, "No!" I noticed he was taking the photo from a terrible angle, with the sun glaring directly into the lens. I attempted to give him some pointers when he suggested I try and take a photo. "Did you get one?" He asked. "Yeah, look," I replied. Without looking at my camera screen, he gave a forlorn grunt and headed up the trail...
---- some short stories, collected while walking down the street ... offering a last goodbye to the street artist video maker & photographer Gaetano: together we shared many beautiful moments in search of those fleeting moments .... that many times made us laugh because funny, damn because too fleeting, think because life is not always makes discounts .....
goodbye My friend.....
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---- alcune storie minime, raccolte camminando per la strada ... porgendo un ultimo saluto allo street artist video maker & photographer Gaetano: insieme abbiamo condiviso tanti bei momenti alla ricerca di quegli attimi fuggenti....che tante volte ci hanno fatto ridere perchè buffi, dannare perchè troppo fuggenti, pensare perchè la vita non sempre fa sconti.....
addio amico mio.....
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Darkest Hour - Official International Trailer (Universal Pictures) HD
Non prenderanno mai Piccadilly
L'ORA PIÙ BUIA - Scena del film in italiano "L'hai vista questa foto?"
L'ORA PIÙ BUIA - Featurette "L'uomo dietro la leggenda"
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Explored Apr 18, 2010 #79
Bokeh-Baldur ;) He loves running through the woods, chewing on each stick he can find and smelling every inch of the ground. I love the velvet green of this moss, and somehow I think he does too (or maybe he just loves the way it feels under his paws?)
Here, the evening sun is setting and Baldur is not quite ready to go home yet.
Eos 400d 100mm f2.8 Macro
ISO 400 F\10 1/160 Pp: Yes
strobist info:
- one 430EXII 1/2+0.3 at 24mm w/ CTO gel through white shot thru umbrella on the left
best VIEW ON FLUIDR
From this morning at Wrightsville Beach. The first three are of a Least Tern. The last shot shows some of the harsh realities of Nature - A Laughing Gull flying away after capturing a chick (a Skimmer I believe). This happened as soon as I got here, just a little before the sun came up.
This waterfall is very long from top to bottom, and hard to photograph. Trying to include the whole thing in the frame just wasn't giving me an appealing image. I finally found this shot from the stairs leading to the bottom of the falls.
While photographing this young bride a bug flew into her mouth and the shot before this she was making faces and trying to spit the bug out…I said to her the picture of her spitting and sputtering was going to make a really good picture that she and her husband would really be proud of and she started laughing…I chose not to show the most embarrassing picture for her sake.
I saw these girls today walking over the Millennium Bridge in London.
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breeding plumage - a handsome gull - looks like it has eyeliner on - and I don't know why I'm always surprised you can see right through beaks