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"... I ain't say that it will
But today looks like today in both versions of the story
So gon' grab you a quill, it depends what we do
There's only one person the future starts and ends with, it's you."
Marlon Craft - State of the Union
Hi All, With the current state of the union and Ohio's stay at home order I have fortunately been able to take advantage of the outdoor exercise exception. I have a wonderful marsh across the street from my house and wading in mucky marshes is indeed good exercise! Best of all, proper social distancing is guaranteed!
"There is a voice shouting in my head
And there is a voice
That is singing there instead
And there is a choice
To which one will I listen
For one the road is long and hard
The other yeah, the road will glisten"
John Stewart "Ticket To The Stars"
Brussels, Belgium, 2024.
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Enjoy!
Explored 9-17-2016
I uploaded this on Saturday,but I thought it would work well for slider sunday...
Union Street was once one of the busiest in Bodie,California,it led up to the Standard Mine which was the biggest and most successful in the area.Now the street is nearly empty-abandonment and the 1932 fire wiped out nearly every structure....
As for that other guy...whozit...fatso pumpkin orange quasi-hairpiece squished sun-hardened putty face. Whatever his name is, let it live in infamy and let him live on Rikers Island.
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"Behind Bars-a-Lago" -- with thanks to Peter Schultz!
Not sure if this is a Russian bear or if the old saw is completely accurate, but I will say that the state of the union at this point is completely insane, both sides contributing with increasing vehemence to the nonsense. It's pathetic and painful to watch such dysfunction within a political system that clearly is and has been broken for years, regardless of party control.
Not such a simple question anymore.
Lyrics from Arlo Guthrie's "City of New Orleans"
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The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a four-acre (1.6 ha) memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt that celebrates the Four Freedoms he articulated in his 1941 State of the Union address. It is located adjacent to the historic Smallpox Hospital in New York City at the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan Island and Queens. It was designed by the architect Louis Kahn.
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After about 85 pictures of Jimmy Buffett aka "Da Man", I happened to like this one the best. I won't bore you with the other 84 pictures, but I have them for my safe keeping and memories of the concert for myself!
"The Year of Still Here" Concert, St Louis, Missouri. Verizon Amphitheater. April 24, 2008.
This was on a sign next to the gate:
Reasons why Jimmy Buffett should be the next president!
1. He is totally laid back and not a stuffy man. You would never see him in a suit and tie. Imagine the oval office being ran by a man who wears flip flops, and very casual clothes.
2. He is very casual in his speech and his state of the union addresses will be filled with music, good times, cheeseburgers in paradise and happy people.
3. He pilots his own planes (yes as in more than one) and this would save taxpayers tons of money. That includes a seaplane and a private lear jet!
4. You could fire the entire secret service men because Jimmy Buffett has his own bodyguards in the form of 2 million or more parrot heads around the world.
5. You could save countless taxpayer dollars in campaign funds, because Jimmy Buffett is already a household name.
6. He could fill the cabinet and all other offices with parrot heads because they are by far some of the most laid-back people. Imagine all offices in the United States government being staffed by parrotheads? What a wonderful world this would be.
7. He has been putting out his music since 1970 and that gives him an almost 40-year career of keeping people happy. He must be doing something correctly.
8. The new location of the White House would be in Margaritaville, it has cheaper taxes and better scenery.
Sorry to bold the statement below, but this photograph is being used on a blog without my permission, hence my need to bold it for others to read.
Photograph © 2008 White Shadow Photography. All Rights Reserved. This photograph should not be used on websites/blogs or anywhere for that matter without my explicit written permission.
UP's usual LNA01 power is seen here giving the CWS passenger train a push towards BNSF's Gibson Yard. Once there they'll pull the train up the BN's Omaha Sub to finally transfer back onto UP trackage by the Amtrak/Burlington Station. As seen from the top of my apartment building too, which is a fun vantage point to have. The graffiti on UP 1990, ex-CNW 6857, is rather unfortunate, but at least for me it's hard to complain about it with SD40s powering the company passenger train. Omaha, NE.
Song Sparrow (Scientific name: Melospiza melodia)
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Migration. Present all year in many parts of range, but birds from northern interior move south to southern United States or extreme northern Mexico in winter.
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Song Sparrows are found in every state of the Union and Canadian province. They are the most common and widespread sparrow native to North America. There are 31 recognized subspecies of the Song Sparrow, more than any other bird species found in North America.
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This was taken mucking about with studio flash a water spray, glass and a mug, rather than a determine effort to be patriotic. Having accidentally got the image it made me think of patriotism as it was taken just a little after the new England football manager announced he wouldn't be singing the national anthem.
Nobody stands for anything any more: there are no firm principles which will not bend with the wind. In the case of football winning is everything. Had I the choice the manager of the England team would have to be English and I would exclude any player, even the best, who didn't lustily sing the anthem.
February 7, 2019: Arrest Trump. Rise and Resist sends a message before the State of the Union outside Grand Central Station.
The Popeye-like spinach infusion was a cartoon on the cover of "The Week" news publication after Biden's State of the Union address. I couldn't resist using it in a creation. Photoleap was used to add elements of other photos that I have taken.
President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 27, 2010. (Photo was shot with a tilt-shift lens) (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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Explored. I guess I still have it.
Okay so. (:
The last few days, we've had snow here in Ohio. Snow=snowdays.
We had two, and now are back in school.
My ears have been hurting. Just thought I'd let you know.
Both my eardrums ruptured. I don't even know how that happens.
This weekend is Valentines and I am going to see Valentines Day the movie.
Hopefully. With some friends.
I was able to get Photoshop CS3, so now I can edit my RAW images in CameraRaw.
That's the state of the union.
Oh and yeah I will probably still do self portraits, because it's either them or nothing,
because people are more dynamic and I am the only one around.
Slash I cut my hair can you tell?
The U.S. Capitol is among the most architecturally impressive and symbolically important buildings in the world. It has housed the meeting chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives for over two centuries. ... In addition to its active use by Congress, the U.S. Capitol is a museum of American art and history.
The most recognized symbol of democratic government in the world, the United States Capitol has housed Congress since 1800. The Capitol is where Congress meets to write the laws of our nation, and where presidents are inaugurated and deliver their annual State of the Union messages.
"There be dragons here"
Annotation used by ancient cartographers to indicate the edge of the known world.
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"On the page where McHenry records the events of the last day of the convention, September 18, 1787, he wrote: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin 'Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy'
A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it.”
Saint Augustine, Florida U.S.A. - October 31st, 2021
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Construction on the fortress was from 1672-1695. The native
coquina (soft shell) stone was quarried from a local island.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_San_Marcos
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History of Saint Augustine: Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain in 1513. (Christopher Columbus discovered North America in 1492 but actually landed in the Bahamas). Other Spanish explorers later found gold and silver in Mexico and Peru. The treasure was sent back to Spain in ships sailing in the Gulf Stream. Spanish settlements needed to be built in Florida to protect the Spanish Treasure fleets. King Phillip II of Spain sent Pedro Menendez to settle in Florida and drive out French garrisons recently established there. In September 1565, Pedro Menendez with 700 soldiers and colonists, landed here and founded St. Augustine, making it the oldest continually occupied European settlement in North America.
Menendez successfully destroyed the French Fort Caroline at the mouth of the Saint John's River 40 miles north of St. Augustine and ended the French incursion into Florida.
St. Augustine settlers, isolated and often near starvation, lived in constant fear of attacks by pirates who roamed the coast. Diminishing supplies and increasing hostility of the Indians made life treacherous for the early settlers.
Englishman Francis Drake burned the village and wooden fort to the ground in 1586. The town was sacked again in 1668 by pirate John Davis.
Spain's Queen Regent Mariana realized that St.Augustine was the keystone in the defense of the Florida coast, so she ordered the construction of a new fort made of stone. In 1672, the Castillo de San Marcos was begun and took 23 years to complete. Originally the fort was covered with white plaster, some of which can be seen today. The towers in the four corners were plastered red.
The fort was built of coquina, a locally quarried soft shellrock. Coquina was easily shaped by artisans and did not become brittle and crumble under cannon fire. The fort, the city gate, and many homes in St. Augustine were made of coquina which is still evident today.
In 1702, seven years after its completion, English troops from South Carolina besieged the Castillo for fifty days. Fiffteen hundred Spanish citizens fled into the security of the fort and refused to surrender. The British finally gave up the siege and burned the town. This event is why there are no buildings older than 1702 in St. Augustine today.
The Spaniards rebuilt their settlement and erected a defensive earthwork on on its northern limit, fortified the walls around the city and strengthened the walls of the Castillo.
The English attacked again in 1740, this time by General James Oglethorpe of Georgia. He bombarded the Castillo and town for twenty-seven days before he also gave up and left. The coquina walls held firm, absorbing the cannon balls without breaking apart.
England defeated Spain in the Seven Years War, and Florida was transferred to English control by the Treaty of Paris in 1763. England then divided Florida into two colonies, and St. Augustine became the capital of East Florida. During the American Revolution St. Augustine remained loyal to the crown. The entire Florida peninsula was returned to Spain as part of the negotiations ending the American Revolution in 1783.
They came back to an impossible situation. The border problems of earlier times were multiplied as runaway slaves from Georgia found welcome among the Seminole Indians, and ruffians from both land and sea made Florida their habitat.
Spain ruled for another 37 years known as the Second Spanish Period 1784-1821. During this time, the Spaniards had difficulty luring settlers from the mother country and other colonies to repopulate this area.
On July 10th, 1821, the Americans took over from the Spanish. In the1830's, hostilities rose between Seminole Indians and the Federal Government. In October 1837 one hundred Seminole Indians, including Osceola, were captured under a white flag of truce just south of St. Augustine. The end of the Seminole War made Florida safe again for visitors who came to take advantage of the fine climate. In 1845 Florida became the 27th state of the Union.
From 1875 to1887, Indians from the Great Plains and the Southwest were exiled to Florida and imprisoned in the fort. The government sought to educate the Indians and allowed them some freedom of movement. These activities led to more progressive Federal Indian policies.
During the winter of 1883-84 Henry M. Flagler, co-founder of Standard Oil Co., visited the city and was impressed with the charm and possibilities of the area. He later made a major impact on the architecture and economy of this historic city by building the Hotel Ponce de Leon, Hotel Alcazar, the Memorial church and more.
History, plus 43 miles of white sand beaches bring over three
million visitors a year to St. Augustine and St. Johns County.
(1565-1763 ~ 1st Spanish) - (1763-1784 ~ British Period)
(1784-1821 ~ 2nd Spanish) - (1821-Present ~ American)
Jan. 20, 2015
"Recently released from prison in Cuba, Alan Gross pumps his fist in the air from First Lady Michelle Obama's box after President Obama acknowledged him at the State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol." (Official White House Photo By Chuck Kennedy)
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