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As an April Fool, Scout says that all of my photos have been in Explore! This is the first 72 of them made into a poster. Have a
look at Scout yourself - I think you'll find that just for today all of
your photos have been in Explore too!
1. Assorted buttons, 2. Union Flag curtain material, 3. Bee on allium, 4. Windswept trees, 5. Early rose, 6. Letter box at Upton Upon Severn, 7. Selfridge building in Birmingham, 8. Circles in the sun,
9. Brighton Pier, 10. Selfridges in Birmingham - curves and cirles, 11. Cottage garden, 12. Cliff top view at Swanage, 13. Boat at Goring, 14. Waves on Chesil Beach, 15. Aluminium discs, 16. Selfridges in Birmingham,
17. Christmas lights, 18. Foggy New Year's Eve, 19. Selfridge Building in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, 20. Purple Cone flowers, 21. Aluminium discs covering the Selfridge Building, 22. Steam Engine detail Welland Steam Rally, 23. The Selfridge Building in Birmingham's Bull Ring, 24. Bench and blue hyacinths at Hidcote Manor Gardens,
25. More Ammonites, 26. Beach Huts, Greenhill, Weymouth, 27. Selfridge Building - Birmingham, 28. Christmas baubles, 29. Purple clematis, 30. Fairground ride on the seafront at Paignton, Devon, 31. Spot the difference, 32. Elgar graffiti,
33. After the rain, 34. Solitary tree under a stormy sky, 35. A rainbow of milk churns, 36. Sunflower in my garden, 37. Sunflower and fibonacci pattern, 38. Climbing rose, 39. Mauve poppy, 40. We will remember them,
41. 120 years of the Eiffel Tower, 42. Red and white tulip, 43. Concentric circles, 44. Pink summer rose, 45. Used tyres, 46. A spoonful of stars, 47. Beach huts at Swanage, 48. Pink striped clematis,
49. Aviary tiles, 50. Victorian Post Box, 51. Purple and pink beach huts, 52. Cup cake union flag, 53. Christmas clementines, 54. Inside Selfridges, 55. Beach hut and umbrella, 56. Galloping horses at Welland Steam Rally,
57. Mountains, 58. Yellow tulips, 59. Beach huts in Bournemouth, 60. Russian Dolls, 61. That's one small step....., 62. Pink Clematis, 63. Bunting in Eckington, 64. Summer colours,
65. An old telephone box, 66. Stained glass window, 67. Handmade felt Christmas trees, 68. Happy Birthday crossword, 69. Bournemouth beach, 70. First Quarter Moon, 71. Happy Valentine's Day!, 72. A view through the bridge
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the king of arizona mine was known for its gold and silver deposits during the gold rush days, it now lies within the kofa national wildlife refuge and is still known for its golden shine
This was shot for a production of the Sam Shepard play "Fool for Love," incorporating themes from the play and putting to use my '64 Chevy pickup.
Every year in Santa Barbara, Memorial Day marks the annual I Madonnari street painting festival. Some of the chalk paintings really fools the eye
Here is a high tech April Fools joke from Google. The end is surprising when you realize the whole thing is a joke. I was thinking while watching it that it was a great idea for the little ones in our life to have a self diving bike. It's short and worth a look click HERE
One lone hydrangea dared to bloom in January, fooled by the unseasonably warm weather, only to be frozen in its prime by the first freeze. Bayside, NYC -- 1//7/16
I'm a turkey roastin' son-of-a-gun! LOL HAPPY THANKSGIVING, Everyone!
Don't be afraid to roast a turkey! Here's a virtually fool-proof method! (First off, can you roast a chicken? Then you can roast a turkey...a turkey's just a big-ass chicken...treat it as such.)
I don't know if this is a "recipe" per se, but here's a way to cook a turkey and get the above results every single time.
First, make sure that you've removed all of the bags of giblets from your bird. Wash it well. Here comes the big secret...do this, and your roasting is basically a "set it and forget it" type procedure, whether it's chicken, turkey, a roast, etc: Pour about 1/8" of cooking oil into your roasting pan; place your bird in the pan, breast side up, and slide it around on the oil to coat its backside. Now pour about 1/2" of water into the roasting pan. The oil will keep the bird from sticking, and the water will keep the bird from drying out. Now you can riff on all kinds of rubs, seasonings, etc: You can stuff the bird's cavity with oranges and lemons if you desire; rub garlic on the turkey and insert whole cloves of garlic into the cavity; devise a rub or simply use salt and pepper or Lawry's seasoned salt. Thyme goes good on a turkey!
Now that your bird is properly prepared and seasoned here's the most important part: Follow the cooking directions that came on the bird's packaging!!! Your bird has a weight...round that up: If your bird weighs 15.68 pounds round that up to 16 pounds...then follow the packaging direction for cooking a bird of that weight. Typically oven temperatures will be between 300 and 320 degrees. You're cooking low and slow!
About 1 and a half to 2 hours into the roasting take a look at your turkey...don't be afraid to open the oven door and slide the rack out so that you can get a good look. When the skin is about as brown as you want it to be place a tent of aluminum foil over the bird and return it to the oven to finish cooking. I usually like to remove the tent after the bird is done and allow the skin to brown just a tad more.
How do you know when the bird is done? If you're an experienced cook it's pretty easy...if you're worried about it then simply use a meat thermometer...but that can sometimes be an inaccurate method...the thermometer might say that the bird's reached the proper internal temperature, but maybe you want the bird a little more done. If you cook much at all you can look at the bird and tell when it's about how you want it. If all else fails go by the package directions...just cook it for that amount of time, tenting as necessary to keep the skin from burning.
Don't ever, ever, ever rely on those stupid pop-up doneness indicators that some processors insert into their birds. I haven't seen one in awhile, but if yours has one...take it out! They're about as useless as tits on a boar hog!
When your bird's done remove it from the oven, take it carefully out of the roasting pan and place it onto a carving board / serving platter. Let it rest for about 10-15 minutes before you carve it.
Enjoy!
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Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold
Molten, graven, hammered and rolled,
Heavy to get and light to hold,
Hoarded, bartered, bought and sold,
Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled,
Spurned by young, but hung by old
To the verge of a church yard mold;
Price of many a crime untold.
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Good or bad a thousand fold!
How widely it agencies vary,
To save - to ruin - to curse - to bless -
As even its minted coins express :
Now stamped with the image of Queen Bess,
And now of a bloody Mary.
.................... Thomas Hood
In search of a new life and a new hope
Oh but there were some that couldn't cope
And they spent their life in search of
Fools gold...
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More than 130 large metal statues of animals by sculptor Ricardo Breceda can be found scattered throughout the desert of Borrego Springs, California...
Eloquence, (noun). The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
The challenge was to see how quickly they, a team of vintage tractor enthusiasts, could assemble an old tractor. The answer is: pretty quickly!
"Then he told them a parable: ‘There was once a rich man who, having had a good harvest from his land, thought to himself, “What am I to do? I have not enough room to store my crops.” Then he said, “This is what I will do: I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and store all my grain and my goods in them, and I will say to my soul: My soul, you have plenty of good things laid by for many years to come; take things easy, eat, drink, have a good time.” But God said to him, “Fool! This very night the demand will be made for your soul; and this hoard of yours, whose will it be then?” So it is when a man stores up treasure for himself in place of making himself rich in the sight of God.’"
– Luke 12:16-21, which is part of today's Gospel at Mass.
Stained glass detail from the Sainte Chapelle in Paris.
Edith Wilson: The first lady who fooled D.C. and ran the White House
Rebecca Boggs Roberts’s ‘Untold Power’ is a riveting look at a president’s powerful spouse and her efforts to conceal his illness
Edith Bolling Galt in her electric automobile. She was the first woman to earn a D.C. driver’s license. (Library of Congress)
By Barbara A. Perry
March 29, 2023 at 8:23 a.m. MST
Unless readers are aficionados of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, they may possess only vague knowledge that a debilitating stroke incapacitated him in his administration’s final year and that his wife Edith became the unofficial “acting president.” This intriguing tale of how a first lady, with minimal formal education and no government experience, effectively took the reins from the partially paralyzed chief executive and guided his White House, from October 1919 to March 1921, is as riveting as it is improbable.
By virtue of her DNA, author Rebecca Boggs Roberts is well acquainted with Washington’s power dynamics. The daughter of the late political commentator Cokie Roberts and granddaughter of the late House Democratic Majority Leader Hale Boggs, Rebecca also counts on her family tree grandmother Lindy, who served nine terms in Congress after Hale disappeared, and was declared dead, following a 1972 plane crash. Equally genetic, given her father Steven Roberts’s journalistic career, is Rebecca’s flair for writing crisp and engaging narratives. Her book “Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson” is quite simply a compelling yarn.
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. (Library of Congress)
How did Edith Bolling, born and raised in Wytheville, Va., a sleepy town nestled in post-bellum Appalachia, ultimately become one of the most powerful first ladies in American history? As a teenager, she followed her married sister to Washington and embraced the cultural and social life of the booming Gay Nineties city. In 1896, she married the successful, if unexciting, owner of a thriving jewelry store who was almost a decade older than the new Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt. He died a dozen years later, leaving Edith a widow of some means at age 35, unable to bear children after her only pregnancy resulted in a difficult birth and the death of the Galts’ infant son.
Viking
Unlike most women of her era, Edith lived independently, traveling abroad when the spirit moved her, tooling around the nation’s capital in an electric automobile (as the first woman to earn a D.C. driver’s license) and eschewing large soirees for intimate dinners with extended family. She had little interest in politics, opposed women’s suffrage and declined a friend’s invitation to attend Woodrow Wilson’s 1913 inaugural parade and a presidential tea. A friend, the White House physician Cary Grayson, introduced her to the grieving president shortly after Wilson’s first wife, Ellen, died of kidney disease in the second year of his first term.
Although a strait-laced Presbyterian and stodgy academic, Wilson immediately bonded with Edith, 16 years his junior, finding her beautiful, stylish, charming and vivacious. The merry widow added gaiety to his life, and he was as smitten as a teenage schoolboy. Realizing that his lovesickness would appear unseemly so soon after his first wife’s passing, the president initially confined his ardent courtship to secret assignations with the more restrained Edith.
Roberts’s description of Wilson’s wooing springs to life through her careful research of the love notes the couple exchanged almost daily. In addition, the author skillfully deconstructs the second Mrs. Wilson’s 1939 memoir, the first book of its kind penned by a former first lady. This biography is the only one to reflect the recently transcribed memoir chapters written in Edith’s scribbled penmanship and preserved at her birthplace.
First lady Edith Wilson and President Woodrow Wilson, left, arrive in New York on Oct. 11, 1918, to take part in the Liberty Day Parade. (AP)
The Wilsons’ 1915 marriage cemented a fruitful partnership, as the president’s new spouse sustained him through World War I, accompanied him to the Paris peace talks and supported his dogged efforts to secure Senate approval of the Treaty of Versailles. Establishing what modern political scientists now label “the rhetorical presidency,” Woodrow Wilson firmly believed that he could lead Congress and the people by speaking to them directly and in person. It was his overly ambitious cross-country whistle-stop tour that exhausted the president and induced a catastrophic cerebral hemorrhage, paralyzing his left side, affecting his speech and weakening his cognitive ability.
Roberts’s storytelling soars as she leads the reader through Edith’s machinations to hide her husband’s disabilities while maintaining his White House’s functions. She manipulated the Cabinet, Vice President Thomas Marshall and members of Congress to disguise the worst of the president’s symptoms, while making it appear that he maintained control over his faculties and public policy. She literally became his left hand, holding down documents as he signed them with his dominant and unaffected right hand.
From his 1919 stroke until his death in 1924, Edith Wilson maintained the fiction that her husband was functioning normally. She spent the remainder of her long life promoting his legacy as an advocate for freedom at home and abroad. One of her last public appearances, before her death in December 1961 at age 89, was to meet with President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office when he signed the bill creating the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Commission.
First lady Eleanor Roosevelt, left, and former first lady Edith Wilson attend a Girl Scouts exhibit in Washington in 1934, holding jars of marmalade made by the Scouts. (AP)
In that sense, Edith was no different from all the modern first ladies (including Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Pat Nixon, Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton) who supported their debilitated husbands, laid low by illness or scandal, and tried to solidify their legacies if they outlived them. Yet even the influential Roosevelt and Clinton never became “acting presidents.” As Roberts relates, it was JFK’s assassination that prompted the 25th Amendment’s ratification in 1967, providing for the vice president to assume the presidency upon the chief executive’s documented incapacitation. We can be grateful that Edith Wilson’s unprecedented and unofficial substitution for her husband demonstrated the need for such a constitutional remedy for presidential illness.
Barbara A. Perry, the Gerald L. Baliles professor and presidential studies director at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, is the author of “Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier” and “Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch.”
Untold Power
The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
By Rebecca Boggs Roberts
Viking. 302 pp. $30
Barbara A. Perry, the Gerald L. Baliles professor and presidential studies director at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, is the author of “Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier” and “Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch.”
making a fool of herself over her grandchildren :-) Phil Moss
abelmoschus manihot, sweet hibiscus, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Walking on Bribe Island (Queensland) beach, I found what tried to convince me it was gold. It was misleading.
Some of what says is gold is really fool's gold and does not lead to wellbeing or health.
Another cover, the Polish Edition of a Harlan Corben
Original here (a coloured version though) [https://www.flickr.com/photos/58783060@N05/12979851333/]
Pyrite with quartz crystals.
This crystal measures 5cm at its widest point.
116 pictures in 2016 (36) intricate
For those that do travel on to Stockton Beach, there are plenty of signs warning not to take your vehicles into the sand dunes outside the recreational vehicle area. Yet fools persist.
Here is a high tech April Fools joke from Google. The end is surprising when you realize the whole thing is a joke. I was thinking while watching it that it was a great idea for the little ones in our life to have a self diving bike. It's short and worth a look click HERE