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As the sun slips behind the distant mountain range, our night in the desert begins.
My Karen Sue has put up with a lot from me over our 35 years together, and this has to range near the top of her list. We both trudged the two miles through the desert to set up a bare-bones backpack tent site, just so I could take some photographs. Her biggest worry was the critters, I believe. The idea of rattle-snakes, scorpions, tarantulas, and other beasts and insects of the desert had her creepy meter pegged to the far right of ugh. I was happy to go it alone, but she insisted on being my guardian angel. We ended up having a pretty good time of it. This is just one of many images that we stored up for future enjoyment.
Seeing how it's now dipping near the 0 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind chill nearing minus 15F predicted, I thought this view of the desert sunset would be one way to warm up. At least the concept of warmth comes through in the image.
For the record, none of those aforementioned desert critters appeared in our sight during our night among the sand and stars. We only saw beetles, mosquito-like insects, and a few butterflies. The butterflies had me looking at their flight in wonder.
Nature sure is interesting.
It slips away...and all your money won't another minute buy.
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
Image #6 in My Lyrical Imagery Project
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I'm counting each day as this life slips away.
It's time to let go of the past.
The things that I feel, they no longer seem real;
I walk in the shadow I've cast.
(Rick Miller ~ The River Lethe)
English: A documentary image - Dr. Ingrid-Maria Gregor (ZEUS/DESY) talks to Berlin S-Bahn passengers on the "World Machine".
On June 14, 2008 the "Long Night of the Sciences" took place in Berlin. More than 60 universities and institutions presented their scientific work to the public. One of the events is shown here: dozens of German particle physicists talked to metro train travellers about the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which will become the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. The train was the "LHC Express", a regular model of the Berlin Circle Line S41 equipped with information panels and images. The length of the S41 is in the same order of magnitude (37 km) as the underground LHC tunnel (27 km). There were dozens of LHC talks around me during the hour the S41 takes for one trip around Berlin city. - I took part in a sweepstake, the name of Peter Higgs had to be guessed who postulated the Higgs boson in 1964 which physicists hope to verify in LHC experiments.
From October 15 to November 16, 2008 an exhibition on the LHC will take place in the future subway station of the German parliament: World Machine.
Thanks to Dr. Gregor for corrections.
Deutsch: Ein dokumentarisches Bild - Dr. Ingrid-Maria Gregor (ZEUS/DESY) spricht mit Passagieren der Berliner S-Bahn über die "Weltmaschine".
Am 14. Juni 2008 fand die achte Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften in Berlin statt. Mehr als 60 Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen präsentierten der Öffentlichkeit ihre wissenschaftliche Arbeit. Eine der Veranstaltungen ist in diesem Bild zu sehen: Dutzende Teilchenphysiker aus ganz Deutschland unterhielten sich mit Reisenden über den Large Hadron Collider (LHC) am CERN in Genf, der in diesem Jahr seine Arbeit aufnehmen soll und dann der größte und stärkste Teilchenbeschleuniger der Welt sein wird. Die Veranstaltung fand in einem regulären Zug der Berliner Ringbahn S41 statt, der mit LHC-Fotos und Informationstafeln ausgestattet war. Die Länge der S41 bewegt sich mit 37 km in der gleichen Größenordnung wie der Untergrund-Tunnel des LHC (27 km). Während der einstündigen Ringbahn-Fahrt waren um mich herum Dutzende von Gesprächen über das Projekt zu beobachten. Ich nahm an einem Gewinnspiel teil, bei dem der Name von Peter Higgs zu errätseln war, der das Higgs-Boson 1964 postulierte. Eines der wichtigsten Ziele des LHC ist die Verifizierung dieses Elementarteilchens.
Vom 15. Oktober bis zum 16. November 2008 wird im U-Bahnhof Bundestag eine weitere Ausstellung über die Weltmaschine stattfinden.
Danke an Frau Dr. Gregor für Korrekturen.
Links (sorry, German):
Wikipedia: Large Hadron Collider
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
Chris Quigg: Teilchenphysik vor dem Umbruch
Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Sonderheft 30 Jahre SdW, Oktober 2008
www.spektrum.de/artikel/967468
Gerhard Samulat: Ring der Erkenntnis
Spektrum der Wissenschaft, September 2006 (PDF-Datei)
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/
Die schnellste Ring-Bahn der Welt stellt sich vor (S-Bahn Berlin, 12. Juni 2008)
www.s-bahn-berlin.de/aktuell/2008/150_lndw_teilchenbeschl...
Volksfest der Forschung - Besucherrekord bei Langer Nacht der Wissenschaften (Tagesspiegel, 16. Juni 2008)
www.tagesspiegel.de/magazin/wissen/Wissenschaften;art304,...
i do not like this at all. except for her hair which i like regardless of its' precence in a photograph.
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As the summer slips away into Fall, nothing more comes to mind that trying to spend a weekend surrounded by the granite peaks and alpine lakes where the thin air can melt away all the worries and discomferts of modern life and where nothing else matters but the enjoyment of the current place. Well, nothing else except for the mosquitoes that you are busy swatting.
Perhaps thats what Young Lakes in Yosemite National Park afforded me the year before. Serene lakes, green grass meadows, beautiful ragged treeless granite peaks and formations surrounding a towering Mt Conness - and all a reward for my very first backpack into the Sierras. I couldn't have been more truly gratified.
The sunset was decent - the lack of clouds plagued me then, the mosquitoes, were however, aplenty. The night was calming. No strong winds, no snow, no extreme colds. And the following sunrise was exquisite. Some of my more defining compositions were taken during this trip.
Oh, how I wish I could go back there. Nothing sizzles and energizes me more than being amidsts the mountains, my calling.
Below are a few other shots from that morning, including one from later day while hiking back, when the calm surface of the Middle Young Lake beckoned a shot.
Yosemite National Park
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RICHMOND -- Each day, when the General Assembly is in session, 81-year-old Bud Roderick slips on a pair of white gloves. At precisely three minutes before the gavel bangs in the House of Delegates, Roderick -- dressed always in a blue blazer, gray slacks and a white shirt -- opens a glass case, tenderly removes a golden mace and carries it on extended arms into the chamber.
In a Capitol rich with pomp, few things embody it more than Virginia's solid silver, 24-karat-coated ceremonial mace.
Weighing in at 10 pounds plus, measuring nearly 4 feet long with a head that's shaped like a crown, the staff is a throwback to the days of kings and queens.
"It seems unusual in an American setting, I know," says Mark Greenough, a Capitol historian. "But tourists find it fascinating."
To Roderick, it's the best part of being sergeant at arms in the House, a position he's held for eight years.
"The mace is everything," Roderick says reverently.
Its every movement is escorted by an armed Capitol police officer. Its display case is double-locked and outfitted with a pressure-sensitive alarm. Gleaming in a wooden cradle where Roderick lays it at the front of the chamber, the mace signals that an official session is under way.
It's also a symbol of authority and order, a significance that traces its origins to ancient kings and the clubs of their bodyguards.
No one can say why Virginia's Senate doesn't have a mace -- only that they're usually associated with lower houses of assembly, and today, even that's rare. In Washington, the House of Representatives opens its sessions with one, but among the states, only five still cling to such ceremony.
Once, all 13 colonies claimed official maces, each presented by a royal governor as an emblem of ties to the British empire. But only South Carolina still has its genuine article.
Virginia sold its original after the Revolutionary War, when anything that smelled of nobility was shunned. A Richmond silversmith paid $100 for the 7-pound sterling silver mace in 1794, money that went into the public treasury.
"It was probably melted down to make punch bowls and ladles and tea pots," Greenough says with a sigh. "What would it be worth today? I often wonder."
For 180 years, the nation's oldest representative assembly did its work without a mace. In 1974, the Jamestown Foundation presented the House with the replacement.
Crafted in Britain in 1938 for a wealthy Englishman, the mace had changed hands several times and been stolen at least once, only to be recovered by Scotland Yard mere moments before it was melted down. The Jamestown Foundation bought it from an art dealer for $4,625. Colonial Williamsburg restored it and then, the mace was "Virginia-ized" with a couple of inscriptions about the legislature's history.
"Since it wasn't made from scratch for us," Greenough says, "it has some of the things you might expect -- the royal coat of arms, Tudor roses, oak leaves -- all good English stuff. So we customized it with engravings and things like that."
Theoretically, the mace has the last word inside a chamber. Debates can get heated, and when members get too passionate, the sergeant at arms presents the mace to restore order. In Washington, fistfights have been halted by sheer respect for the mace.
"We've never had to do that here, though," Roderick says. "Although, long ago, there was a sergeant at arms who used to tap legislators with his cane."
As for the tangible, Virginia's mace is valued at $70,000 for insurance purposes.
As for the intangible: "It doesn't matter what its worth," says Greenough. "It's a symbol of the best ideals of representative government transmitted from England to North America. We sold it once. We're not going to make that mistake again -- for any price."
The blank to-do slips are held in with a re-uasable Rapesco Supaclip. The clip can only be attached with a dispenser, but holds the slips very tightly. I can pull them out, if I don't overload it, and if I am careful. I only use this jotter when out and about and to record a job I may need to do, or an idea if I don't carry my hipsterPDA. There is no need to move pages about, and back home I can remove the clip to deal with the slips and add more blanks.
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20250131 - Playground slips into darkness and nothingness - some of the last lights flash faintly on the screen
The Trans Canada Trail slips away from Chilliwack Lake Road like a soft invitation — a narrow ribbon of snow leading you deeper into the valley, following the river’s voice toward S⨱ótsaqel. In winter, this stretch becomes a world of its own, hushed and bright, where the mountains feel closer and the forest holds its breath.
The trail winds through dense evergreens, their branches heavy with fresh snow. Every step is a soft crunch, every sound muted except for the steady rush of the Chilliwack River running cold and blue beside you. The air is crisp, carrying that faint metallic scent of deep winter.
Light filters through in pale shafts, catching on ice crystals and turning the forest into something almost luminous.
The trail gradually opens, the trees thinning as the valley floor widens. The river slows, the air cools, and the mountains begin to lean inward. Snow deepens near the shoreline, softening every edge. Then the forest parts — and the lake appears.
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Like many CD's I started trying on my Mom's slips, panties, bra and stockings when I was about 12! As a granny tranny, I am posting these in her honor for helping bring out my very important femininity! Love and miss you Mom!
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Slips A & B at Baytowne Marina in Sandestin, Fl. Was a beautiful day with great cloud coverage, had to take advantage. Enjoy!
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