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The label at the historical society in Astoria, Oregon, didn't explain what was behind this astonishing chamber-of-commerce style flight of fancy. I have a feeling it was the grandiose idea of a local political candidate with the surname Jackson.
Clatsop County Historical Society, Astoria, Oregon.
They predicted a big storm here in Sweden for last weekend. This was taken on friday, the day before. And it was really calm out there on the sea.
Cloud study has been an art since biblical times and has come to represent Gods's pending judgement. For cloud watchers today they help us predict the weather, warning of storms, promises of rain. This sequence of 11 shots were taken over a period of 5 to 10 minutes and you can see the changes and mood quite clearly.
This is straight out of Woo Woo land...
I was in college on a Geography Club field trip somewhere in Maine in 1957, when our group came upon this bit of graffiti. I (Roger) had a female friend who I called Sam (later softened to Sammy). We were classmates but were definitely not "an item," had never gone out on a date together, and in fact, at that time, Sam thought of me more as a pest than a friend. Obviously, the creator of this graffiti had someone other than us in mind, but all the guys and gals on that field trip decided he was psychic and that my destiny had been sealed. Turns out he was right... Poor Sam was very upset that I had taken this photo and shown it to fellow classmates. The thought of us in any kind of a "relationship" was downright repulsive to her, and she didn't find this in the least bit funny and certainly not even remotely predictive of the future.
We were married three years later...
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As the predicted Omicron Covid outbreak in December 2021 was about to go rogue the Perrotett NSW government removed most restrictions. Public and business backlash saw the NSW Government quickly reinstate some of the previously existing restrictions, like mask wearing in public spaces. Common sense was sadly lacking because the initial relaxation made no sense at all yet was hardly surprising given the abominable manner in which the NSW Government handled the Ruby Princess debacle as well as the June 2020 Bondi Junction outbreak.
At the same time as Omicron was arriving on the scene support services for contact tracing and PCR testing were being wound back and the Federal Government said they would not fund subsidization of Rapid Antigen tests (RAT) probably because they did not want to undercut their donors, among them Chemist Warehouse and Harvey Norman. Electrical goods and furniture retailer Harvey Norman, was very likely tipped off as to the government's intended policy, or indeed they lobbied for it, and immediately ordered many thousands of the Rapid Antigen tests which are now being sold. At the time of writing (5.1.21) online ordering of RAT tests via Chemist Warehouse yielded a nil result with tests out of stock as is the case, as I write, with most pharmacies and supermarkets. Some of those commercial sales outlets with stock have been guilty of price gouging with prices as high as $40 for a single test. The tests actually cost under $4 each to produce and the manufacturers say they can produce 15 million tests in a day.
The current dire shortage of tests is a legacy of callous and indifferent, if not incompetent management, by the Federal Government who failed to heed warnings issued by the Australian Medical Association in September 2020 that RAT tests would be an essential tool in managing the predicted tsunami of infections to occur from January 2022. Most health experts are of the belief that the Federal Government should be making the RAT tests free as a means to help minimize the impacts of the predicted explosion in cases of Omicron covid.
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Around 74% of the current NSW Covid ICU cases are of the Delta variant indicating that since Perrotett removed most restrictions before Xmas 2021 Delta has become rampant in the community. The situation is made much worse because the government has stopped tracking infections and our political leaders are selling the message that Omicron is the problem and it's less virulent, deflecting from the impacts of Delta which for now is much more problematic.
We have here a massive case of political failure to protect the Australian people. One could only imagine what would have happened if condoms had been made so ridiculously expensive during the AIDS crisis from 1981 onwards.
Chaos is increasingly the state of play in the NSW health system as hospitals begin to struggle with a lack of staff and rising Covid admissions which are detrimentally impacting on the opportunity for other urgent life-threatening procedures. Health workers are even being pressured by hospital administrators to come back to work even though they have Covid 19.
On the 5th Jan 2022 NSW recorded 35,054 cases a day but this is not an accurate assessment as it has become very difficult to be tested if an individual feels they have been exposed or have symptoms. The actual infection figures are likely to be up to 10 times higher according to some experts. People, some with Covid symptoms, are lining up at testing centres for up to 7 hours to get tested. It should come as no surprise that many just give up waiting. Drive through queuing is of a similar wait time. Many testing laboratories have become overwhelmed and understaffed due to some staff becoming infected with covid rendering them unable to work. For these reasons the labs are unable to return test results in a timely manner. Some tests results appear to be taking 4-7 days to be returned and there are almost no RAT tests available to buy anywhere in NSW.
The shambolic mismanagement by the Perrotett and Morrison Governments is there for all to see. Both governments, imbued with a business first ideology (or should that read donors first) are of the mindset to 'let it rip' and this ideologically driven approach has seen the virus escalate its intrusion into all other states of Australia, despite their best efforts to keep it at bay.
The failure to manage this health crisis appropriately is not only impacting people's lives and health but in fact doing immense damage to the bottom line of many businesses as well as the economy.
It might seem like I am stating the obvious when I say it's very unwise to catch covid yet many people appear to be confident in their trust in the effectiveness of triple dose vaccination. Hopefully this trust is proven to be correct in the coming months.
From my own limited observations, it appears some people out there on the streets are naively unconcerned about the risks to their own, or their family's well-being, believing they will catch covid, Delta or Omicron, eventually and that they'll survive it.
If Seal Rocks was any example on Boxing Day 2021 there are plenty of people in that category. I've never seen so many cars lining every road, occupying every parking space and indeed many illegal ones. It was 'wall to wall' people, like I'd never seen before.
Despite these crowds my solitary walk through the rainforest brought me out at the southern end of Number 1 Beach from where I took this shot. Most people had located themselves on the beach further north from this point while many had returned to their cars for lunch. To be fair though it was clear that many people were social distancing from strangers but not necessarily in their family groups.
As we enter 2022 the game is changing rapidly, the 'let it rip brigade' appear to have won the war, for now, at least in NSW.
It has been reported that Omicron may well be more infectious but the jury is still out as to whether it's as potent as Delta. Even if Omicron turns out to be less potent the sheer growth in Omicron infections to come may yet result in significant growth in ICU admissions and potentially, in more deaths.
With many children going back to school in a few weeks not having had their 2nd jab, let alone their boosters it appears 2022 is going to be one big game of Russian Roulette.
The ship is rudderless so good luck folks.
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While predicting where the birds will overnight on this refuge is an iffy proposition, this shallow lake just off the tour-route road is a regular hangout. The trick is to check it out early to see if any pathfinder birds have already selected it. If so, they will continually vocalize to the overflying birds trying to entice them to drop down and join them (increasing safety in numbers). There are several blinds here that you can select for different vantage positions. It's still early, and this lake was eventually completely filled with overnighting birds.
IMG_4248; Sandhill Cranes
I'm best at predicting the old year, she said, and; you'd be surprised how many people are even sceptical about that
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We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together
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I have received SO many Jacquie Lawson cards this Christmas AND for New Year that I can't stop smiling....
I MUST now get my own subscription! They are just TOO ENCHANTING....
Thank you all dear friends - you picked up the discreetest hint and delighted me with many, many wonderful cards, messages, songs, lines, photos and mails, private and officially.
May God bless you for every kindness you offered - to me and to anybody out there.... May you be rewarded with serenity, joy, and friendship in return and may your 2010 be a richly filled and happy one!
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It was a cool, overcast spring day in Toronto. With rain and showers predicted for all day, it was too wet to encourage me out for a bike ride or a photo walk. The rain paused long enough near noon that I went out to pick up a couple of items at the grocery store and I carried my camera “just in case.” “Just in case” happened as I was crossing the street and it took the form of this attractive young woman with an explosion of blond curls. We passed one another as we were crossing the street and I turned on my heel to catch up with her on the sidewalk before she reached the subway station. I thought she might be ignoring my introduction and request but she was just tuned into her earbuds. When she realized I was talking to her, she pulled an earbud out and listened with interest. She said she would take a few minutes to participate in my Human Family photo project. Meet Yori. I asked about the origin of her name and she said her father told her it has its origins in Jerusalem. Google told me that one version of Yori has Japanese roots and means “reliable.” There are also some references to Hebrew versions.
My challenge was to come up with a suitable location to photograph Yori, given that we were on a busy streetcorner with only a bank and the subway station – both of which were rather unappealing. Between the two buildings was a small alley with a fence at the back. The dark, wet wood of the fence had potential, but it was complicated by a parked car and No Loitering and No Smoking signs. These are the challenges of doing street portraits.
I squeezed Yori and myself between the parked car and the fence and worked to avoid the signs on the fence. My first test shot had to be taken quite close in because of the confined space and although I was very happy with it, Yori surprised me by saying she didn’t like it at all. The same thing happened with my next couple of attempts. I tried to understand what would make her feel better about the photos and we ended up with me leaning back over the wet hood of the car to get a bit more distance. I had to laugh at the spectacle me and my gymnastics must have been presenting to anyone passing by on their way to the subway. To finish painting the scene, city buses were idling noisily to my left as they prepared to leave the station and they were belching diesel exhaust. I had little choice but to plunge forward because I could see that Yori was an excellent subject. Oh, and did I mention the smear of pigeon poop on the fence? I assured her that I could remove that later with Photoshop.
As I was giving Yori a bit of direction regarding looking at the camera, she adjusted the zipper on her jacket and I told her the inclusion of her hands would add to the photo. I took a photo of her with her hands on the zipper and I liked it. Suddenly she said “I have an idea, can I just do my own posing?” I said “Of course you can. If you have an idea, go for it.” To my surprise, she removed her backpack and started shedding her coat. I was concerned about her things getting wet on the ground but she was a young woman on a mission and who was I to interfere. She struck a pose in her yellow tank top and when we looked at the photos she said she was pleased with those. Relieved that we had finally come up with some portraits Yori was pleased with, I proceeded to find out a bit about her.
Yori is 19 and she was born in Sudan which borders Egypt and the Red Sea in North East Africa. She and her family came to Canada when she was 9. I had met her as she was heading home from the nearby Adult Learning Centre where she is completing high school. Her goal in life is to finish high school and college and train for a career as a pilot. She said “I know it will be a lot of work but that’s my goal.” Her interests outside school are art and photography. “Like you” she said with a smile.
Yori’s advice to her younger self was “Don’t let anyone tell you what to do – or who you are.” Her message to the project is “Stay strong and stay motivated.”
Once we exchanged contact information and were parting with a friendly handshake, I asked to take one more photo with my cell phone to demonstrate the location we used to make the portraits. I already knew that the challenges of the location were going to form a significant part of this story and I wanted to illustrate that. Yori looked at that photo on my phone and wanted to make sure I would send her that one as as well. I did.
This is my 832nd submission to The Human Family Group on Flickr.
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As Roger had predicted, a small squad of Loreesi, about 8 soldiers and 2 noblemen, came to the oasis at about 2:00pm the following day. The Outlaws ambushed them. One nobleman was shot, and 2 soldiers were cut down before Gavin called a halt. The Loreesi huddled together, wondering what would happen to them. Gavin noted their terror, so he spoke to them.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you. I'm holding you for ransom. It's not much, honestly. My men are hungry and we want food and money."
The remaining nobleman gulped.
"I have money and food, please may I send two of my soldiers back to my castle to get it?"
Gavin agreed and the two soldiers set off. They said they'd be back in about a week.
Gavin and his men brought them to their stronghold, back in the mountains, to wait out the week.
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So this is my dio. It's also an entry to Mark's contest, but it's last minute so I'm not worried I'll win. : P
And yes, that is my real name on the border. Don't ask what the A stands for, because "wild anchovies wouldn't drag that out", as my friend says.
Before you ask, yes. She's a homeschooled Christian conservative and yes, at the speech group we're involved in, we're a little crazy sometimes.
Before you ask, no. She's not my girlfriend. I don't have one, don't plan to anytime soon.
Inspired by Mark of Falworth, and the palm trees were added just for him. ; )
-IronBricks
I predict that the vast majority of people that see this would agree this looks like a magical place to visit… or even live! You definitely get your legs a daily workout going up and down these hills to eat Italian food and drink Italian coffee. And if you go uphill and downhill enough, you can even get a bit of Italian desert!
- Trey Ratcliff
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As predicted, the Pretendolino lives!
WB64 could perhaps be NC64, the set is on open ended lease to Greater Anglia as cover during the overhaul of the entire GA mk3 fleet. Presumably one of the DVT's is going as well.
25 October 2014 and 57302 leads the set with 37419 and 37682 on the rear through Glan Conwy station on the Conwy Valley branch. Silly train ain't gonna find Crown Point down there...
With warmer temperatures predicted for Calgary and the front range mountains of the Rockies, we opted for trip to Lake Louise and the Great Divide Trail. The Divide is a part of the Continental Divide, where the rivers on one side feed the Pacific, while those on the other side feed the Atlantic.
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Google Trends Proves That Beards Aren't Dead (Or Even Dying).
Predicting the death of the beard has become an annual tradition for so-called style experts all over the internet.
Here are three tips to stay at the top of the beard game.
1. Don't be afraid to try a new style
One of the worst things we can do is get complacent with our style.
If your beard starts to look tired and dated, it makes you look like you have stopped caring, even stopped paying attention to the world around you.
Even a moderate style change can make a huge difference.
If you've been keeping a 3 or 4 inch beard, try keeping the same style, but bringing it down a couple of inches so that it more closely hugs your face.
Tighten up your look by keeping it short along the sides of the face, fade it into your hair at the sideburn, and make sure you're taking care of stray hairs by trimming regularly.
Had a goatee for years? Let your full beard grow out. Give it a bit of length and make sure you are grooming it daily. If you can't make it work, keep the full beard but try a stubble length.
If you're rocking a full beard, the possibilities are endless, but a more sleek, refined style like the Verdi is an easy first step into shaping your beard.
2. Pay attention to the little things
Attention to detail can make or break a man.
When people see that there are fly away hairs, a poorly trimmed (or not at all trimmed) neckline, or that you simply do not groom your beard at all, they're going to assume the worst.
If you can't even give your beard the attention it deserves, they'll think you don't pay attention in other areas of life, too.
Imagine the consequences when you're interviewing for a better job. Or trying to impress a potential mate.
You could lose out on a job or business opportunity, and even a relationship, because of your bad beard habits, so create a daily routine and make it a habit.
3. Condition daily with a balm or oil
Perhaps the most important method of your grooming routine, the foundation on which everything else rests, is the daily conditioning of your facial hair using a balm or an oil.
If you do nothing else, you will see significant results just from giving your beard a bit of moisturization.
Of course a balm helps control your beard and allows you to style it while keeping stray hairs in place, but your personal preference will dictate whether you use balm or oil.
The health, the shine, the overall cleanliness of your beard will be evident to all who look at it if you simply apply a bit of a natural moisturizing conditioner every morning.
Beards are not dead.
And that means more men than ever will be growing beards.
It's no longer enough to just grow a beard. You need a good beard to keep up with the competition. Get serious about your grooming habits and make sure that the more beards other men grow, the more yours stands out.
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Candid street shot Toronto, Canada.
Taken at Knab Rock , Mumbles today with my phone after watching hail and rain showers pass furiously across the bay,
Come to Ireland. Say "It's going to rain".
Both umbrellas were confiscated shortly afterward by a banker, in a serious case of mixed idioms.
Weather reports predict the so called "Beast From The East" is due to revisit the UK over the next few days, today the 16th of March 2018 I visited Collieston Bay, its the first time I have witnessed the impact unusual weather has had on the area, it really was exhilarating and offered great photo opportunities.
Collieston is a small former fishing village on the North Sea coast in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The village lies just north of the Sands of Forvie Special Protection Area, between Cruden Bay and Newburgh.
The earliest recorded history of Collieston is of the arrival of St Ternan, a Columban monk on a mission to convert the local picts to Christianity. There is, however, evidence that people lived here during much earlier times.
Collieston was established as a fishing village by the 16th century, and it provides the first safe harbour in over fifteen miles of beachesand dunes stretching north from Aberdeen.
Fishing for herring, haddock, whiting and codflourished in the 17th century and 18th century and was the foundation of Collieston's economy. The village became known for 'Collieston Speldings', salted and sun-dried haddock and whiting, a popular delicacy throughout Britain. As drift netting developed during the mid 19th century, the fishing began to decline and the focus of the industry shifted to places like Peterhead because the harbour at Collieston was too small to safely accommodate the larger boats needed.
The numerous sea caves in the nearby cliffs, and small coves with shingle beaches provided ideal terrain for smugglers. In the late 18th century it was estimated by the Excise that up to 8000 gallons of foreign spirits were being illegally landed in the area every month. In 1798, the notorious village smuggler, Phillip Kennedy, was killed by a blow from an exciseman's cutlass. His grave and tombstone still stands in the village graveyard.
A ship from the Spanish Armada, the Santa Caterina, carrying arms for the Earl of Erroll is said to have sunk just off the rocky point of St Catherine's Dub in 1594. In retaliation for the Earl's involvement in the Catholic plot against him, James VI blew up the Earl's castle which stood on the cliffs, a mile north of Collieston. The Earl went on to rebuild Slains Castle, six miles further up the coast, in 1597.
Collieston is now mainly a commuter village serving Aberdeen, and is largely given over to tourists during the summer months.
This ESA/Webb Picture of the Month shows eight stunning examples of gravitational lensing. Gravitational lensing, which was first predicted by Einstein, occurs because massive objects like galaxies and clusters of galaxies dramatically warp the fabric of spacetime. When a massive foreground object lines up just so with a background galaxy, the light from the background galaxy bends as it navigates the warped spacetime on its way to our telescopes.
Depending on how perfect the alignment is, the light from the background galaxy can be bent into an arc, a circle (a phenomenon called an ‘Einstein ring’) or even split into multiple images.
Arcs and circles are prevalent in these gravitationally lensed galaxies, which were identified in data from COSMOS-Web, a 255-hour Treasury programme (#1727). COSMOS-Web aims to understand the formation of the most massive galaxies in the Universe, identify galaxies that were present when the first stars and galaxies reionised the Universe’s hydrogen gas, and study the relationship between the mass of a galaxy’s stars and the mass of its galactic halo across cosmic time.
Using these data, researchers carried out the COSMOS-Web Lens Survey, or COWLS, to search for gravitational lenses. The researchers inspected more than 42 000 galaxies by eye and picked out more than 400 promising lensing candidates. This Picture of the Month feature presents a collage of eight of the most spectacular lenses identified by the research team.
This collection of gravitational lenses spans an incredible range of cosmic history. The foreground galaxies give us a glimpse of galactic life when the Universe was 2.7 to 8.9 billion years old. The background galaxies, whose shapes appear visibly distorted, stretch back even further, with one source nicknamed ‘the COSMOS-Web Ring’ (top row, left of centre) letting us peek all the way back to when the Universe was barely more than a billion years old. Several rarities appear in this collection, including an unusual case in which the galaxy acting as the gravitational lens is a flattened disc galaxy rather than an elliptical galaxy (bottom row, second from left).
These images demonstrate Webb’s ability to uncover and reveal never-before-seen details in gravitationally lensed galaxies. Some of the lensed galaxies were previously discovered with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and are now seen by Webb in an entirely new light. Others, including those that are especially red due to either dust or distance, were first spotted by Webb. These discoveries open a unique window into the early days of the Universe and enable the study of exquisite details within distant galaxies like individual star clusters and supernovae.
Individual images of the lenses are also available. From left-to-right then top-to-bottom: COSJ100013+023424, COSJ100024+015334, COSJ100018+022138, COSJ100024+021749, COSJ095914+021219, COSJ100025+015245, COSJ095921+020638, and COSJ095593+023319.
[Image Description: A collage of eight Webb images of gravitational lensing are shown. Each of the images show various distorted galaxies in the centre of each frame, including arcs and circular shapes.]
Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Gozaliasl, A. Koekemoer, M. Franco; CC BY 4.0
A glorious weekend is predicted here. I hope you all have the same. Our beautiful summer here in Vermont continues. Only hit 90 once, maybe again tomorrow.
Midwest Tornadoes A well-predicted tornado outbreak swept across the Midwest on a Sunday afternoon, Nov. 17, 2013, wiping out the town of Washington, Illinois, just east of Peoria. These animation of GOES-EAST cloud top images on November 17 from 1300 to 2200 UTC/8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST verify the hundreds of severe storms that were reported across Illinois and Indiana, but do not identify which ones had tornadoes beneath them.
Credit: NASA GOES Project/Dennis Chesters
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As i predicted in my Magical player shot, Rogers Federer took his revenge against Novak Djokovic yesterday by beating him (7-6,7-6, 6-4)
By winning this game, Federer achieved:
1) His 4 th straight US open (2004-2005-2006 and 2007). It's a new record.
2) 12 th Grand Slam titles (the second after Sampras who has won 14 Grand Slem titles
3) 2,4 millions dollars for just the US open title (poor of him)
To see my tennis set
Have a great week !
Weather.com predicted cloudy skies on Sunday evening. Good thing I ignored their forecast and decided to shoot anyway. Turns out, the skies were clear enough for a pretty decent sunset, captured from East Boston in the LoPresti Park area. Admittedly, the composition is a bit busy, but I had little else to work with, so here you go.
SkyFire predicted a decent chance of a colorful sunset on this day before the remnants of Hurricane Rosa arrived, so I decided to check out the Burnham badlands in NW New Mexico. Not as showy or well known as other hoodoo lands in the Bisti and Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah, there was still plenty to see and photograph. Best of all, my pal Colorado Plateau photographer extraordinaire Cecil Whitt & I had the place all to ourselves.
This Sunday was an exciting day at the flea market! Funnily enough, I predicted that we would find treasures. It was Colleen's last day of sort of summer vacation (meaning she would go back to working both jobs instead of just one). On top of that, we had plans to hang out with our friend, Lisa, in the afternoon. It's always on those busy days that you find cool stuff, but don't have the chance to enjoy it. I just knew we would finally have a fruitful weekend at the flea market on the day we had other plans in the afternoon. Despite the gloomy weather, there were exciting things to be found. The pieces of American Girl clothes were all super cheap--$1 to $2 each. The seller had seen us at another booth nearby looking at doll clothes. When we passed his table, he beckoned us over asking if we collected American Girl clothes. It seriously pays off sometimes to be very open about collecting dolls, because I never would have noticed the AG clothes on his table if he hadn't motioned us over. The coolest thing about these pieces is the fact that we completed two of our outfits. We FINALLY got the diaper and a pair of shoes to go with Billie Jean's "meet" outfit. Colleen also noticed that a pair of the shoes were the ones that went with Bitty Baby's Pretty Pink Outfits (both getups were ironically purchased at the flea market back in 2014). There were a few other AG odds and ends we snagged too, like Samantha's gaiters.
In the lower portion of the flea market, down the hill into a somewhat muddy area, we walked by a booth with vintage toys. I studied the table as we passed, but didn't see anything worthwhile. However, on the ground on the right side of the booth I spotted an open vintage case (looked like a hatbox almost) and a cardboard box beside it. At first it just looked like a bunch of figurines from the 60s. But as we started to continue onward, Skooter caught the corner of my eye. Immediately I pounced. It turns out there was another Skipper there too. She was a Twist 'N Turn Waist doll with a mutilated leg. Colleen picked her up too for purchase. The Ideal Toys dolls caught my attention as well. I knew they weren't Tammy, but I couldn't figure out if they were from her family/friend line or were different dolls altogether. When Colleen inquired about the price, the man said he'd unload it all for $20. Normally, with the amount of stuff and condition of it, we wouldn't have paid that much. But with 60s doll items, sometimes a singular dolly will be marked that much (I think Colleen paid $25 for her first Skooter doll at an antique store in a handmade outfit). It turns out that we got Misty, Tammy's friend, and Pepper, her little sister. Additionally, there was this awesome Supergirl included! Ironically, I almost left Todd behind because he was so grotesque. I had been wanting a Todd or Tutti doll since 2011, when we got back into collecting. 60s Barbies were some of the first thing that really excited us in those days. Todd was so foul and covered in goop, I mistook him for a freaky figurine. But something told me not to leave him behind. The moment I held him at home, I lost it when I realized who he was. Plus, he was wearing his original outfit!!! Who doesn't love a doll who needs all that TLC?!! The little doll house furniture will work well for our mini houses we've had since we were kids. It's from the Ideal Toys Petite Princess Furniture line. Many of the pieces were broken beyond repair, but these were the things we could work with. Plus, we found two 60s Barbie clothing items--Ken and Ricky's jackets (I seriously would have died if Ricky had been included...he's in the top ten cutest boy dolls ever list).
The two Babysitters Inc Skipper dolls were from the elderly couple we always buy from. I also snagged an Ever After High body donor from them. The poor girl had a missing eye that was sharpied over. But she was still wearing her outfit AND had both hands. It was cheaper buying the donor doll than getting a pair of hands from Mattel's Replacement Part website (this is why it makes more sense to use dolls who are too far gone as body/part donors rather than trying to fix them all).
As for the Cabbage Patch boy, he is without a doubt my favorite find. I was feeling the Cabbie Fever on Sunday...so was Colleen. At the flea market there are always sellers who put boxes and containers of random junk (literally) on the ground and on tables. They do not take any of it out, you are meant to dig through the bins. Usually I do a quick once over of these booths since they have boring things (like homeware). But as we finished an aisle, I saw a yarn head in a clear container. Immediately my doll senses tingled...I knew it was something cool. From a distance the hair color reminded me of my 1985 Twins. I tried to not get overly amped, knowing it was probably a very similar doll to one I already had. However, as I neared I noticed his legs looked abnormally long and like a slightly different texture. When I turned this guy over I saw the freckles and the cheaper looking head/hair. Immediately I thought to myself, "This is one of the foreign CPKs. Jesmar perhaps?" Sure enough he sported the Jesmar tag (his outfit is also original--tagged Jesmar too). The poor fella was foul, covered in stains and smelling like a dumpster. His condition alone warranted a rescue. The seller was super nice and only wanted $6 for him. I suppose he could have been cheaper, but since sellers at our flea market want $25 for a CPK doll usually, it was a deal. We named him Picasso, and he was a wonderful addition to our CPK family.
Dolls in photo from left to right:
-1984 Cabbage Patch Kids (Jesmar)
-1977 Charlie's Angels Sabrina
-1965 Tutti's Tiny Twin Todd
-1966 Pocketbook Doll Jan
-1967 Super Queen Supergirl
-1965 Tammy's Best Friend Misty
-1965 Tammy's Sister Pepper
-1964 Skipper's Friend Skooter
-1968 Twist 'N Turn Waist Skipper
-2018 Babysitters Inc. "Stroller" Skipper
-2019 Babysitters Inc. "Bedtime" Skipper
On night of August 26, 2017, I checked and there are only a little over 1,500 views to go; so this is going to happen sooner than I thought, like maybe August 27, 2017.
My thanks to each and every one of you for each and every one of them. Dorothy Delina Porter aka Pixel Packing Mama
Delina is pronounced with a long *i* sound if you are saying it out loud in your brain right now. Actually, it is still pronounced that way whether you are or are not saying it out loud in your brain. *grin*
"ARTSY sign for reaching 25 Million Views"
Weather reports predict the so called "Beast From The East" is due to revisit the UK over the next few days, today the 16th of March 2018 I visited Collieston Bay, its the first time I have witnessed the impact unusual weather has had on the area, it really was exhilarating and offered great photo opportunities.
Collieston is a small former fishing village on the North Sea coast in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The village lies just north of the Sands of Forvie Special Protection Area, between Cruden Bay and Newburgh.
The earliest recorded history of Collieston is of the arrival of St Ternan, a Columban monk on a mission to convert the local picts to Christianity. There is, however, evidence that people lived here during much earlier times.
Collieston was established as a fishing village by the 16th century, and it provides the first safe harbour in over fifteen miles of beachesand dunes stretching north from Aberdeen.
Fishing for herring, haddock, whiting and codflourished in the 17th century and 18th century and was the foundation of Collieston's economy. The village became known for 'Collieston Speldings', salted and sun-dried haddock and whiting, a popular delicacy throughout Britain. As drift netting developed during the mid 19th century, the fishing began to decline and the focus of the industry shifted to places like Peterhead because the harbour at Collieston was too small to safely accommodate the larger boats needed.
The numerous sea caves in the nearby cliffs, and small coves with shingle beaches provided ideal terrain for smugglers. In the late 18th century it was estimated by the Excise that up to 8000 gallons of foreign spirits were being illegally landed in the area every month. In 1798, the notorious village smuggler, Phillip Kennedy, was killed by a blow from an exciseman's cutlass. His grave and tombstone still stands in the village graveyard.
A ship from the Spanish Armada, the Santa Caterina, carrying arms for the Earl of Erroll is said to have sunk just off the rocky point of St Catherine's Dub in 1594. In retaliation for the Earl's involvement in the Catholic plot against him, James VI blew up the Earl's castle which stood on the cliffs, a mile north of Collieston. The Earl went on to rebuild Slains Castle, six miles further up the coast, in 1597.
Collieston is now mainly a commuter village serving Aberdeen, and is largely given over to tourists during the summer months.
This brings us to Sir Doktor Professor Karl Raimund Popper’s attack on historicism. As I said in Chapter 5, this was his most significant insight, but it remains his least known. People who do not really know his work tend to focus on Popperian falsification, which addresses the verification or n...
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Predicting your call on the extra board can be a bit like long division, needlessly complicated and never really sure you got it right... until the phone rings. Today I thought I had it all dialed in, a phosphate train off the CSX coming north on the Superior Sub was showing ordered for 1230 out of Pokegama with no north pools available for several hours, got it. Just before that call was expected to come in, the phone rang. CN Crew Caller... well shit. “Mr Hennessy are you qualified on the T-Bird?” Yes. Yes I am. So off to Keenan I went. Left a little early in hopes of catching some iron ore action, timing was great as I paced a northbound limestone train from Alborn up to the range, unfortunately the sun was shit for northbound moves. Coming up to Fairlane I spied a load of pellets ready to head south, hedging my bets that he would get the light clearing the limestone train I parked. Sure enough the limestone blazed past and the pellet loader was headed to the docks in Duluth. These standard cab dash 8’s hold a special place in my heart as I made my first solo run as an engineer in one (CN 2019) on a Q119 several years prior. Most fans up here loath the toasters and covet the sd40’s, a sentiment I certainly understand but anywhere else in the country finding standard cab dash 8’a leading trains in 2021 would be constitute a miracle from christ himself... on the range, just another reason not to take the lens cap off. I should get out more often to shoot these dinosaurs, but CN is very good at finding ways to occupy my time and my daughters take up the rest. These old GE’s may have another couple years left in them but the kids only stay 5 and 3 for another couple months. Priorities... It does make me appreciate the rare moments trackside that I have however!
I first profiled the Goodman-Malone Taco Bell in early May 2020 (www.flickr.com/photos/l_dawg2000/49964758913/in/album-721...), and sure enough six months later, work is underway to transform the location to the latest Taco Bell look. Thankfully (and contrary to first reports), it looks as if this will just be a repaint and sign update however, as opposed to the somewhat more drastic changes that were done at the similar Church Rd. location. Sadly, that remodel wiped away much of that Taco Bell's original, very cool exterior traits.
I'm going to keep adding these to my general "Taco Bell Tour" album, instead of giving this location it's own space, since I don't believe there will be much reason to do dozens and dozens of photos of this exterior refresh. But heck, might as well start doing a few photo tags at least :P
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Taco Bell, 2008-built, Goodman Rd. at Malone Rd., Southaven MS
Weather reports predict the so called "Beast From The East" is due to revisit the UK over the next few days, today the 16th of March 2018 I visited Collieston Bay, its the first time I have witnessed the impact unusual weather has had on the area, it really was exhilarating and offered great photo opportunities.
Collieston is a small former fishing village on the North Sea coast in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The village lies just north of the Sands of Forvie Special Protection Area, between Cruden Bay and Newburgh.
The earliest recorded history of Collieston is of the arrival of St Ternan, a Columban monk on a mission to convert the local picts to Christianity. There is, however, evidence that people lived here during much earlier times.
Collieston was established as a fishing village by the 16th century, and it provides the first safe harbour in over fifteen miles of beachesand dunes stretching north from Aberdeen.
Fishing for herring, haddock, whiting and codflourished in the 17th century and 18th century and was the foundation of Collieston's economy. The village became known for 'Collieston Speldings', salted and sun-dried haddock and whiting, a popular delicacy throughout Britain. As drift netting developed during the mid 19th century, the fishing began to decline and the focus of the industry shifted to places like Peterhead because the harbour at Collieston was too small to safely accommodate the larger boats needed.
The numerous sea caves in the nearby cliffs, and small coves with shingle beaches provided ideal terrain for smugglers. In the late 18th century it was estimated by the Excise that up to 8000 gallons of foreign spirits were being illegally landed in the area every month. In 1798, the notorious village smuggler, Phillip Kennedy, was killed by a blow from an exciseman's cutlass. His grave and tombstone still stands in the village graveyard.
A ship from the Spanish Armada, the Santa Caterina, carrying arms for the Earl of Erroll is said to have sunk just off the rocky point of St Catherine's Dub in 1594. In retaliation for the Earl's involvement in the Catholic plot against him, James VI blew up the Earl's castle which stood on the cliffs, a mile north of Collieston. The Earl went on to rebuild Slains Castle, six miles further up the coast, in 1597.
Collieston is now mainly a commuter village serving Aberdeen, and is largely given over to tourists during the summer months.
just because……
my SIL dearest gave me this for some special occasion and we both think it’s so pretty. (And not just because it’s blue!)
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Btb, I figured out how to make this my “screensaver” welcoming screen on iPhone Able— how cool is that!!
It’s actually calledasto glass
As predicted by the prophet Zacharie Delaplaya, the Four Surfers of the Apocalypso will soon emerge to sound the death knell of summertime. Splitting the sea foam from atop their mounts, they’ll arrive at great speed to announce to the sun-lovers and terrace dwellers the end of this lovely season. So enjoy the time you have left to knock back a pint and live each day as if it was the last act. Carpe diem!
The width of the black strip was supposed to predict the kind of winter we were going to have. ( old folk tale ) We used to see how many we could find with wide bands. That was a predictor of how much snow and cold we would have. ( snow days were always something to look forward to ) Instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic, we'd be sledding.
We did thing as kids that the current generation of brainwashed kiddies would probably never consider.
This little iris is a sure predictor of rain. First the bud swells and then when it opens you can be sure that 24-36 hours later it will rain. Never fails.
Since Woodtick predicted that I was about to unleash a deluge of Milwaukee Road shots, I'd hate to disappoint. In the early '80s, recently shed of its "Pacific Extension", the Road found itself short of power (or at least power that worked.) Trains started to sport CN power on other parts of the railroad, but the trains that connected with DW&P in Duluth were a likely candidate for power pools - or just borrowing when short! Milwaukee Road had a longstanding agreement for trackage rights on the former Northern Pacific "Skally" to Duluth; by the '80s it had become rights on the former NP up to Hinckley where the NP crossed the former Great Northern from Minneapolis to Duluth. By this time the NP was mostly gone from that crossing on to the north, so the through trains used the former GN to complete the trip to the Twin Ports. This route was fairly active with BN trains (most of their through trains would use the GN all the way up from Northtown Yard in Minneapolis) and also the MILW and C&NW trackage rights trains...and then the Soo Line, too. This train is on the BN's Minnesota Division, the Sixth Sub that connected the wye at "Division Street" (and the Milwaukee's "Pigs Eye Yard") with the Wisconsin Division, Second Sub, at White Bear Lake. From there it's the ex-NP route to Hinckley (a.k.a. "the Skally.") The tracks in the foreground belong to the C&NW - the "Omaha" - going to and from Chicago. I think that's "East St.Paul" yard around the curve on the Omaha. I believe that practically all of this, except the Union Pacific that was the Omaha, is gone. Now the CP and the UP use the former GN through Northtown all the way to Superior with their trackage rights trains.
This column is believed to represent the four seasons of the year – one on each side. The images on the closest side show a representation of the rain god – Chac shown with the nose of an elephant. Chac is one of the most frequent images that we saw throughout Chichen Itza.
Obviously, rain was extremely important to the Maya culture. I assume this was primarily because the Yucatan peninsula is very hot and they would have been highly dependent on rain for drinking water and agricultural irrigation. On our visit, we have been more concerned with the over-abundance of rain related to hurricane Irma. Either way, it is obvious that predicting the weather has been a chief concern of people for a very long time and we still don’t quite have it figured out.
Nikon D7100
Tamron SP 10-24mm F/3.5-4.5 Di II
10mm @ f/10 – 1/800 sec – ISO 400