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Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, AK 10/10/2011
Had these two guys, plus a Brambling, all in the same patch of weeds.
Pumpkins at the McGrath Street Pumpkin Patch in Ventura, California awaiting people to pick them as their holiday decorations.
All over town are these patches of pretty pinkish-purple tiny flowers. I can only assume they are a weed? But I don't care, they are pretty and fun and add a dash of color to everything.
While I was parked on the side of the road (mind you, this was an out of the way back road), taking pictures of the clouds a car comes screaming towards me blasting its horn! I wasn't sure what to do. I mean part of you wants to be brave and go ahead and play chicken. The other part is trying very hard not to make a mess in your pants. Turns out it was my oldest son! How the hell he just happened to be on that road while I was parked and snapping away is beyond me. We seem to have a connection that way though.
Well this photo came about because he was following me to the house and I spied an easier-to-get-to patch of these flowers. He had no clue what i was up to, but as I got out of my car I simply smiled and said "Purple Flowers!". My son shakes his head. I could not resist, had to get a shot of the purple shoes with the purple flowers. Sheesh.
Meu primeiro trabalho grande... foi a confirmação para o patch na minha vida, obrigado a todos q. acreditaram q. eu conseguiria... agora rumo à colcha!
A couple more shots from our visit to Goodnestone Gardens, near Canterbury in Kent.
A small collection of flowers illuminated by the strong afternoon sunshine.
To its credit, Monticello doesn't shrink from the great controversy of Thomas Jefferson's life. Most of the ancillary buildings that once stood around Monticello have long since fallen to dust, but the historical foundation that owns the estate has built replicas of some of them, including this slave cabin. This would have been one of several such cabins that stood on a little terrace to the southeast of the home. Jefferson owned as many as 600 different slaves throughout his life, which worked out to as many as a hundred or so at any given time. Other slave cabins would have stood on other patches of ground down the hill. These cabins close to home would have been for the house slaves. This is where Sally Hemings would have lived.
The cabin the historical society envisions is actually kind of nice, though who knows how close this comes to what was here in Jefferson's day. All indications both from Jefferson's records and from archaeological examinations of the site are that this structure fits the footprint of the structure that stood here before, so the size is at least right. And everything in the historical record suggests that Jefferson treated his slaves well. There's a certain sketchiness about the Sally Hemings thing that nobody knows what to do with--the girl was only 16 when she bore Jefferson's child, and she was a slave, which doesn't suggest consent was much of a concern, so the tale of romance depicted in films seems a bit optimistic--but all in all Jefferson seems to have been a considerate owner.
There's a temptation by some--especially those who romanticize the South--to look at this nice cabin built by a generous owner, then, and say, "You know, being a slave really wasn't all that bad." You usually hear this sort of talk from people who chafe at the idea of a speeding ticket and would never tolerate being owned by somebody else. There was this fun moment during the whole Cliven Bundy mess, for instance, where in the middle of fighting against paying the government a fee for grazing cattle on public land, the old man went on an "And another thing" tirade in which he said that black people were a lot better off in slave days, and that's just never been the kind of argument I could get behind. For one, the kind and generous owner was far from the norm, but even if it had been, people were still owned. They still had no freedom to choose anything about their lives, and their children or husbands or wives could always be sold out from under them with no notice at all. They still had to live in ways the people of modern America simply can't imagine, because there's no frame of reference for it in even the saddest of our lives.
It looks like an enlightened guy like Jefferson would have realized that. He might have saved us all a lot of trouble.
Unknown species of jumping spider (either a Jotus sp. or a Maratus sp. I am guessing) in the leaf litter of a bush trail. I liked the pretty royal blue iridescent patches the spider had on the back of the head (and parts of the underside and legs). Any I.D. suggestions welcome! [Glenbrook, Blue Mountains, NSW]
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pr le mettre en valeur j'ai chercher les motifs secondaires et les ai quilté avec un fil qui reprend toutes les couleurs du patch
I was trying to catch up after being sick all weekend when the new format invaded. I am usually ok with a gradual or gentle change like the navigation bar change a few months ago but this change is a total and complete overhaul to the whole Flickr experience. I spend about 80% of my Flicker time on my PsVita (a handheld gaming console) using my laptop to upload, copy & paste, dragging pics onto the map and watching video posts for the other 20%. This format does not work well on the PsVita unfortunately, although after 30 minutes searching I finally found how to edit titles, decriptions etc., and I use it now as I type this. The Help Forum is going nuts with complaints (check it out for a laugh) & I seriously hope they don't keep this format. You can't even see photos posted in the comments after a few comments are left unless you click on view more comments.
Sorry for the rant. If you got it you may feel the same way as Patches above does.