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This is not my best protest photo but in a city where ICE is cracking down in force, I could not risk outing someone who could be put in a camp/deported just to put a more personal human element into a movement. There's a whole set of photos like that you can refer to if you really want. I'm not posting this because it's a good photo (it isn't) I'm posting this because it's a reminder that we all have a choice to say no to corruption and to say yes to human rights. We must do these both simultaneously and with every molecule in our body.
I wanted to talk a little bit about what is happening in America right now. If you did not already know, there have been even more for profit concentration camps set up for people who have come here fleeing persecution, seeking a better life. This is an abomination paid for by our tax dollars and many of our politicians are invested in these camps, making money to inevitably fund their next campaigns and the viciousness continues and profit over people continues to be the theme. We've lost our souls.
I don't know how to be more hopeful. The good people in this country, the 70% of us are being held hostage against our wills by a hostile treasonous fascist who literally doesn't even know they didn't have airports back in 1776, an idiot who couldn't pass preschool and yet, the fact that he is a serial rapist and a treasonous coward is even worse. He is an unforgivable murderer. If he truly represents America, all I have left instead of my patriotism is true horror for what this country has become.
These deaths are on our hands. Their blood is on our consciousness. It is a gift to receive an immigrant. And all these people who are pro death camps all happen to call themselves "pro life" It's laughable. They just merely want to control women's bodies.
Every day, I wake up a little more hopeless and helpless, I have to be honest. Over the last three years, I've been to protests downtown, in airports, I've called congresspeople in multiple states, donated money to progressives, signed too many petitions to count, done phone banking, and tried to be a genuinely kind person to all in my every day interactions.
Above all is the narrative stream in my mind, is the kindness enough? Is it? I don't know. I really don't know. Is kindness greater than greed, greater than all the blood money? Is it? Because people have been protesting since the 1960s for basic human rights, for an end to racial discrimination and for universal healthcare, for equal rights among the sexes and for the LGBTQ community, for an end to war and look where we are right now. It's hard to believe that anything any of us non billionaires do make a difference.
But I do know this and I believe this...they want us to be as complacent as possible, to get us numbed with constant breaking news, to gaslight us into believe that when Trump says he'd collude again that's totally fine and not surprising at all. They want us to stay at home, do nothing, turn on the tv, have a pint of whiskey to numb our pain-that sort of thing. That's what they are banking on. Whatever you do, live as a light in the darkness. If it makes no difference in the grand scheme, at least you tried.
But, I bet it will make a difference to someone.
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"Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep
Dreaming about the things that we could be
But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard
Said, "No more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars"
Yeah, we'll be counting stars…"
*OneRepublic*
Five photos taken on 3 June 2022, when I did another drive W and SW of Calgary. Such a windy day! Definitely a challenge for taking photos, unless I was sitting in my car. Rain in the forecast for the nest few days.
I repeated part of the area that four of us had covered on 29 May 2022, for the Calgary area May Species Count. Part of the reason I wanted to go back was to see how road repairs were going along one of my favourite roads. Not good, so I had to change my plans and see what I could find elsewhere. I was hoping to see one or two Mountain Bluebirds and possibly find a Bobolink again. I was in luck, though it/they were distant. The wind was so strong that some attempts ended up with no bird in the shot or maybe just the head. Happy to see this species again, though. A new Mountain Bluebird pair was a nice find, too, plus a Barn Swallow.
A quick check to see if there was any sign of the Loon west of the city showed me an empty pond. However, I was glad to see a pair of Common Grackles and Brewer's Blackbirds there.
On the way home, I drove along a back road that I used to drive more often than I do now. A couple of Swainson's hawks and a family of beautiful Mourning Doves were good to see.
A lovely flower.. I think it is a 'Ceratostigma'.... plant
HBM..!! Have a great week ahead.. thanks for looking..
Ok, it's a long way to go, I'm getting impatient and I had to count it out.... so.... 109 sleeps till the start of the 2015 Whale Watching Season!
Photography ©Lisa Skelton, all rights reserved.
As the autumn winds swept across the fields,
a light feeling rose against the backdrop of a painted sky.
Shades covered the landscape,
and someone suddenly thought
they should start counting the leaves.🍁
⁛ Sometimes, beauty asks for nothing, just to be noticed once.
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Kahn and Etta and Camellias.
Daily Dog Challenge: In A Row
Weekly Themes: Senses - Senseless - This scene doesn't really make any sense so I guess it's senseless :)
An image taken in every month of 2024
1. Leaf, 2. Yellow, 3. #Spray, 4. Coleostephus myconis, 5. Prince of Orange, 6. Campanula 'Resholdt's Variety', 7. Begonia 'Golden Picotee', 8. Geranium 'Concolor Lace', 9. Starburst, 10. Thursday Walk, 11. At home in the frosty north, 12. O
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Meanwhile the six (or, by some counts, seven) subspecies are known by a plethora of names throughout their range, which spans 22 countries from southern Alaska to the tip of Tierra del Fuego. ‘Puma’ is generally used to refer to Latin American cats, while ‘cougar’ is a North American term, but the distinction is unclear. So you might find yourself talking about mountain lions, cougars, pumas, Florida panthers, catamounts or even léons – but remember: they’re all the same cool cat.
The scientific name Puma concolor is also a little confusing as it isn’t quite accurate. Concolor means ‘of one colour’, but that’s not strictly true: young mountain lions are spotted, and adults are a mix of shades, with the overall hue ranging from grey to rust.
The 199 steps take you up to the Church and Abbey and i have heard said that the Count is buried in the walls of the Church.
And on dark nights you can hear him scratching trying to get out.
This seasons daffodils.. enjoying a brief moment of sun..
HBW.. Have a great day.. thanks for stopping by..
Five SD40-2s in command of H-NTWGFD1-09A
BNSF 1687
BNSF 1688
BNSF 1997
BNSF 1940
BNSF 1698
Yes, this is a mainline train with nothing but SD40-2s, just what decade are we in?
Too bad 1687 fell victim to the primer door.
I cannot count the number of times I have walked under these overpasses and crossed both above and below this line of light. I really like it. The two ramps for I-405 here are so independently massive yet the engineers who put this all together left this narrow band of openness between them. It must only be a foot or two wide, and I am kind of surprised it wasn't all just joined together somehow, but there it is. And so every time I walk under this cement ceiling I find myself looking either up or down at the thin strip of light that commands its own place between the two.
Yashica T4
Kodak TMAX 3200
I came here to photograph hadrians wall ( a couple of metres over brow) when these sheep popped into view.
I did a closet count yesterday. Not counting shorts, skorts, rompers, or dresses I had 47 skirts ! I also have 27 tops to mix and match with those skirts which makes a lot of different outfits! I know this could be more than many women have but I still want to go out and get more ! LOL
A photo from each month this year. (man oh man it was hard to choose just one Scotland picture!)
January: small landscapes
February: but not broken
March: pushing against the cold
April: I should go now, quietly
May: untitled
June: a rare moment of stillness
July: beach living
August: and one old truck
September: the arrival
October: in a flurry of chaos and light
November: study in coolness
December: a little christmas red