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necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

1218-571-20

 

Fort Necessity

 

The Battle of the Great Meadows during the French and Indian War took place during the summer of 1754 and was the only surrender for George Washington in his career, winter conditions here would have made it more difficult.

Opportunities to get out and make new pictures are, of necessity, limited during the COVID-19 outbreak so, from 1st April 2020, I've been hunting through my archives to find images taken on the same date in previous years. I've tried to choose eight each day. They've mostly not been published here before and potentially cover the period 1980-2021. I hope you enjoy them.

European Bear at Whipsnade Zoo

shot with the leica m8 and LLL elcan 50mm f2.0. out of cam jpeg

lightened 1/3 of a stop, white balance moved towards magenta for a bit.

 

NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION, RIGHT?

Actually, not in the case of the lightbulb. Thomas Alva Edison had an inexplicable, unyielding obsession over heirloom tulip bulbs and onions. Indeed, so much so, that his first incandescent lightbulb was fashioned after a large red onion. Once prototyped, Edison could be seen sitting there in his Menlo Park laboratory for hours, LOOKING THROUGH A GLASS ONION.

I chose this title because we need to respect just how essential bees are to our everyday life - and recognize the dangers of their prominent reduction in numbers. Bees are necessities. Which also makes me think of a great Jungle Book song.....

 

Look for the bare necessities

The simple bare necessities

Forget about your worries and your strife

I mean the bare necessities

Old Mother Nature's recipes

That brings the bare necessities of life

 

Wherever I wander, wherever I roam

I couldn't be fonder of my big home

The bees are buzzin' in the trees

To make some honey just for me

When you look under the rocks and plants

And take a glance at them fancy ants

And then maybe, well, try a few

The bare necessities of life will come to you.

  

Ernst Fischer - The Necessity of Art

A Marxist Approach

Pelican Books 632, 1970

The cover design by Frederick Price represents a sculpture by the Soviet artist Neizvestny photographed by John Mohr, and the 'Dancer in Animal Disguise' from the cave of Les Trois Frères, after Breuil, reproduced from Paolo Graziosi's Palaeolithic Art by kind permission of G.E. Sansoni, Florence

Alice Cooper Rock Show - 'Shock-Rock' over 50+ years!

Band: Alice Cooper - all lead vocals, harmonica, guitars,

percussion, synthesizer - (1974–present) - Show Age: 77

Rock Legends Cruise Headliner - deck-stage - Day Four

Last Night - Sunday - 2/16/25 - 8PM - dramatic 2nd show!

 

--------------------Vertical Portrait Series----------------------

 

Real Name: Vincent Damon Furnier

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cooper

alicecooper.com/

 

*[left double-click for a closer-look - Superb Theatrical Performer!]

 

*[major 'theatrical-show' during a very cool 'guitar-band' rock show!]

 

this cruise - deck-stage show - 2/14/25:

youtu.be/QmaibJH8OTI

youtu.be/BAKCpcf90OU

youtu.be/JhHLs2bQjFU

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tecbZlQQpqo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fph2dwkXNGY

 

Rock Legends Cruise XII - February 13th - 17th, 2025

Independence of the Seas - Royal Caribbean Cruise Line

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_of_the_Seas

Miami, Florida - Coco Cay, Bahamas - Miami - (five days)

19 Bands! - Five Day Party - three stages! - 58 Shows!

Concerts all day-and-night from 10:00 AM to 2:00 AM

 

2025 Bands:-- Alice Cooper -- STYX -- Blackberry Smoke

Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening - Burton Cummings

Don Felder - Robin Trower - John Waite - Gregg Rolie Band

Colin Blunstone of the Zombies - Foghat - Gary Hoey Band

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter - Robert John & The Wreck - Two Wolf

Nikki Hill - The Damn Truth - The Cold Stares - Sam Morrow

 

*Rock Legends VII - (Feb 2019) - Cruise Video Montage

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pIMWuGq2WI&feature=youtu.be&...

 

*ALL proceeds from ALL the Rock Legends Cruises go to NAHA :

Native American Heritage Association, a non-profit organization

dedicated to fighting hunger and providing basic life necessities

to families living on Reservations in South Dakota, U.S.A.

 

*2025 Rock Legends Cruise XII slide-show: flic.kr/s/aHBqjC5YGD

 

*[this was our 8th consecutive (annual) Rock Legends Cruise

(1-year postponed w/ covid). We already booked RLC XIII 2026

rocklegendscruise.com/rlc13/

 

"And in the end, the love you take, is equal

to the love you make" ---Paul McCartney

Men's room, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Necessity of all of us is to have some land, what makes interesting composition in the landscape around us. At some places are these edges static for centuries and on the other hand exist edges of our property, which are different by each one coming generation. We are coming with different priorities for our lifes, somebody wants more and somebody who's modest want less, this apply in the presence of people, regions and states under the geopolitical control in small, or big scales.

Without these stores staying open late into the night, our lives would be miserable. In a busy metro like NYC it seems like almost all the stores need to be open 24/7. Life here doesn't go by the 9-to-5 schedule. Get on a train at 3 in the morning and you still see people either returning home from work or going to work.

Virginia Co looses to the French and "indians"

90mm x 60mm photograph still affixed to an album page. Note beside image (title).

 

"Rifle with mirror-sight"

 

Also known as a Spiegelkolbe, the „Spiegel-Visier“ was a small periscope attached to a rifle-stock. The apparatus was then fitted to the stock of a regular Gewehr 98 which allowed the user to aim and fire the rifle from below the parapet as we can see here.

 

A more familiar version of the sight was invented in May 1915 during the Gallipoli campaign by an Australian soldier, Lance Corporal William Beech.

Usually I drive past sightings in Yellowstone when there's a group of "watchers" with binoculars and scopes. I don't know what made me stop for this one but I ran into someone I knew there and was told they had just seen a grizzly and were waiting for her to come back.

 

Next thing I knew....something came over the ridge and it was NOT a bear. A wolf started walking down the hill and reaches the flats in front of me while I struggled to grab my camera and take a couple of shots. I had time for two frames before the Black Lamar Female walked behind the bushes and I lost sight of her. Both photos are blurry black blobs. D@#m.

 

Not even a minute later, this beautiful bear appeared right in front of me. She had no interest in us and was busy eating clovers. This was the bear the others had seen and misidentified as a Grizzly.

A landscape eye-sore or a necessity? Much of our world is driven by power and electricity - our homes, our businesses and our personal lives, with all the technology we rely on on a daily basis (computers, TV's, cell phones, iPhones, gaming devices, etc.). But... what would the world be like without all this? I have been to faraway places that don't rely on electricity and they really do get by perfectly fine and seem incredibly happy.

 

Could YOU live for a day, a week, a month without the technology you're attached to? Would life be harder or easier? I would like to give it a try to see how long I could go. My camera doesn't count though, right?... it runs on batteries. :-)

 

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Opportunities to get out and make new pictures are, of necessity, limited during the COVID-19 outbreak so, from 1st April 2020, I've been hunting through my archives to find images taken on the same date in previous years. I've tried to choose eight each day. They've mostly not been published here before and potentially cover the period 1980-2020. I hope you enjoy them.

We're here, and although we were always told not to play with our food, today we throw caution to the wind!

These are our "bear" necessities.... har har har. The theme this week was necessities... Ironically we both chose bears, and hers is sitting on a book as well :)

 

#AB_FAV_COLOURS_🎨

AND #AB_FAV_SUMMERTIME_🌞

 

So different from Winter.

So much more colourful!

Buckets, spades, Summer-hats.

 

With love to you and thank you for ALL your faves and comments, M, (* _ *)

 

IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved

 

summer, sand, spades, buckets, toys, tools, hats, coast, beach, necessities, colours, vertical, horizontal, NikonD200, "Magda indigo"

Virginia Co looses to the French and "indians"

Large strips of insulation hang from what is left of the ceiling. I assume that critters were using it as a ladder of sorts. It appears one may have momentarily lost his grip.

Whitney Museum, New York, USA

 

Art: Burger (2021), Charles Ray

#2222 - 2014 Day 30: A necessities kind of day: chores, unavoidable tasks, errands, loads done but nothing achieved. You know the kind of day ...

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