When he finds the last of some snow.

When Piglet saw Lisa Chiarelli who took care of him for 4 months, he was just saw excited!!!

To really appreciate how much love and care was needed on Lisa's end, check out his "Before" photo: flic.kr/p/iN2Ydb

And so it has come to this: People buy the most sophisticated computers, the coolest digital cameras, the most advanced automobiles, the most versatile cell phones and handheld organizers, and then . . . and then we forget, or decline, or flat out refuse, to read the directions. Owner's manuals, care guides, how-to directories?

There are lots of theories about why, but one thing is certain: The situation is driving manufacturers nuts -- and costing them, and eventually all of us, money.

Marketing experts, customer service consultants and corporate executives agree on the phenomenon. "There's no question that people are averse to reading the full instruction manuals -- that's a given these days," said Chuck Westfall, assistant director of the technical information department for Canon Inc., the camera and office-equipment manufacturer.

"Over the last five to seven years, there has been a fairly dramatic increase in the number of features, functions and benefits of many products, and as that complexity has increased, the propensity of consumers to sit down and wade through care guides and product manuals has exponentially decreased," said Charles Jones, vice president of global consumer design for Whirlpool Corp.

consumers want instant satisfaction -- they don't want to wade through pages and pages of directions after they buy a product, especially if the directions are hard to understand or follow.

"Nobody's reading manuals because they are horribly written," said consumer consultant Tom Connellan, a customer-loyalty expert. Often written by the engineers who designed the product and by lawyers for the manufacturer, the manuals are usually not written with the consumer in mind, he added. And if the product is made abroad, there's a good chance some of the manual is an incomprehensible translation from a foreign language.

But even when the manuals are easy to understand, they may not be entertaining enough for today's consumer, especially younger ones who have grown up with the fast-paced world of MTV, computer games and the Internet. They are used to having information delivered in a rapid, colorful and stimulating way, and they want directions to be equally snappy.

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Restoration workshop, West Somerset Railway.

Happiness when after many kilometers traveled you finally see your beautiful destination, this time Čvrsnica (2228m) mountain

When Sun rises, it rises for everyone but today a new Sun rises for me … Happy Bengali New Year 1417 !!

French postcard by Editions F. Nugeron, no. Star 130. Photo: Air France / Distribution VU. Caption: Orson Wells (sic), Septembre 1967.

American actor, director, writer and producer Orson Welles (1915-1985) worked in theatre, radio and film, both in the US and in Europe. He is remembered for his innovative work in all three media, most notably Caesar (1937), a groundbreaking Broadway adaptation of Julius Caesar and the debut of the Mercury Theatre; The War of the Worlds (1938), one of the most famous broadcasts in the history of radio; and Citizen Kane (1941), ranked as one of the all-time greatest films. His other films include The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Touch of Evil (1958) and Le Procès/The Trial (1962).

George Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 1915. He was the second son of Beatrice (née Ives) and Richard Hodgdon Head Welles. In 1919, his parents separated and moved to Chicago. His father, who made a fortune as the inventor of a popular bicycle lamp, became an alcoholic and stopped working. His brother ‘Dickie’ was institutionalized at an early age because he had learning difficulties. Welles's mother, a beautiful concert pianist, had to support her son and herself. In 1924, Beatrice died of hepatitis in a Chicago hospital, just after Welles's ninth birthday. He was taken in by Dudley Crafts Watson. At the age of ten Orson ran away from home with Watson's third daughter, Marjorie. They were found a week later, singing and dancing for money on a street corner in Milwaukee. Welles' father died when Orson was 15. Maurice Bernstein, a physician from Chicago, became his guardian. His school teacher Roger Hill provided Welles with an ad hoc educational environment that proved invaluable to his creative experience, allowing Welles to perform and stage theatrical experiments and productions. Welles was awarded a scholarship to Harvard University, but he chose instead to travel to Europe. In Ireland, he strode into the Gate Theatre in Dublin and claimed he was a Broadway star. The manager of Gate, Hilton Edwards, was impressed by his brashness and an impassioned quality in his audition. Welles made his stage debut at the Gate in 1931, appearing in Jew Suss as the Duke. He acted to great acclaim, word of which reached the United States. On returning to the United States he wrote the immensely successful Everybody's Shakespeare. In 1933, he toured in three off-Broadway productions with Katharine Cornell's company, including two roles in Romeo and Juliet. In 1934, he shot his first film, an eight-minute short titled The Hearts of Age, and he married Chicago actress Virginia Nicholson. By 1935 Welles was supplementing his earnings in the theatre as a radio actor, working with many actors who would later form the core of his Mercury Theatre.

In 1936, the Federal Theatre Project (part of Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration) put unemployed theatre performers and employees to work. Orson Welles was hired by John Houseman and assigned to direct a play for the Federal Theatre Project's Negro Theatre Unit. His production of Macbeth was set in the Haitian court of King Henri Christophe, with voodoo witch doctors for the three Weird Sisters. The play was received rapturously and later toured the nation. At 20, Welles was hailed as a prodigy. A few minutes of Welles’ ‘Voodoo Macbeth’ was recorded on film in the documentary We Work Again (1937). Welles rehearsed Marc Blitzstein's political operetta, The Cradle Will Rock, but because of severe federal cutbacks in the Works Progress projects, the show's premiere at the Maxine Elliott Theatre was cancelled. In a last-minute move, Welles announced to waiting ticket-holders that the show was being transferred to the Venice, twenty blocks away. Some cast, crew and audience members walked the distance on foot. Lacking the participation of the union members, The Cradle Will Rock began with Blitzstein introducing the show and playing the piano accompaniment on stage with some cast members performing from the audience. This impromptu performance was well received and played at the Venice for two more weeks. Welles and Houseman then formed the Mercury Theatre, of which Welles became executive producer and whose repertory company eventually included the actors Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Río, Everett Sloane, and Erskine Sanford. The first Mercury Theatre production was William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar, set in a contemporary frame of fascist Italy. The production was widely acclaimed. In the second year of the Mercury Theater, Welles shifted his interests to radio. He adapted, directed and played Hamlet for CBS and Les Misérables for Mutual with great success. CBS gave the Mercury Theatre a weekly hour-long show to broadcast radio plays based on classic literary works. In 1938, their adaptation of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells brought Welles instant fame. The combination of the news bulletin form of the performance with the between-breaks dial spinning habits of listeners from the rival more popular Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy program was later reported in the media to have created widespread confusion. Wikipedia: “Panic was reportedly spread among listeners who believed the news reports of a Martian invasion. The myth of the result created by the combination was reported as fact around the world and disparagingly mentioned by Adolf Hitler in a public speech some months later. The 1975 docudrama The Night That Panicked America was based on events centering on the production of, and events that resulted from the program.”

Orson Welles's growing fame drew Hollywood offers, lures that the independent-minded Welles resisted at first. RKO Radio Pictures president George Schaefer eventually offered him complete artistic control and signed Welles in a two-picture deal, although Welles had a budget limit for his projects. In Hollywood, Welles toyed with various ideas for his first project. RKO rejected Welles's first two movie proposals, but agreed on the third offer, Citizen Kane (1941), for which Welles co-wrote, produced, directed and performed the lead role. Co-scriptwriter Joseph Mankiewicz based the original outline on an exposé of the life of William Randolph Hearst, whom he knew socially and came to hate, having once been great friends with Hearst's mistress, Marion Davies. Kane's megalomania was modelled loosely on Robert McCormick, Howard Hughes and Joseph Pulitzer as Welles wanted to create a broad, complex character, intending to show him in the same scenes from several points of view. On Welles's instruction, John Houseman wrote the opening narration as a pastiche of The March of Time newsreels. Autobiographical allusions to Welles were worked in, most noticeably in the treatment of Kane's childhood and particularly, regarding his guardianship. Once the script was complete, Welles attracted cinematographer Gregg Toland, and actors from his Mercury Theatre. After gossip columnist Hedda Hopper saw a preview screening of Citizen Kane, the attempted suppression of Citizen Kane started. Hearst's media outlets boycotted the film. They exerted enormous pressure on Hollywood, but RKO gave the film a limited release. The film was well-received critically, and garnered nine Academy Award nominations. Welles was nominated as a producer, director, writer and actor, but won only for Best Original Screenplay, shared with Mankiewicz. Today, the film is considered by most film critics and historians to be one of the classics in film history.

Orson Welles's second film for RKO was The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington. At RKO's request, Welles worked also on an adaptation of Eric Ambler's spy thriller, Journey into Fear (Norman Foster, 1943), co-written with Joseph Cotten. In addition to acting in the film, Welles was the producer. Changes throughout RKO caused re-evaluations of both projects. RKO took control of The Magnificent Ambersons, and ordered to edit the film into a ‘commercial’ format. They removed fifty minutes of Welles's footage, re-shot sequences, rearranged the scene order, and added a happy ending. It resulted in an expensive flop for RKO, although The Magnificent Ambersons received four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Agnes Moorehead. Welles found no studios interested in him as a director after the disaster of The Magnificent Ambersons and worked on radio. In 1943, he married Rita Hayworth. They had one child, Rebecca Welles, and divorced five years later in 1948. In between, Welles found work as an actor in other films. He starred in the film adaptation of Jane Eyre (Robert Stevenson, 1944), trading credit as associate producer for top billing over Joan Fontaine. He had a cameo in the wartime salute Follow the Boys (A. Edward Sutherland, 1944), in which he performed his magic act ‘sawing’ Marlene Dietrich in half. In 1946, Sam Spiegel produced The Stranger (Orson Welles, 1946), starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young and Welles. The film follows the hunt for a Nazi war criminal living under an alias in the United States. Although disputes occurred during editing between Spiegel and Welles, the film was a box office success and it helped his standing with the studios. He then filmed The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947) for Columbia Pictures, in which his then-estranged second wife Rita Hayworth co-starred. Cohn disliked Welles's rough-cut, and ordered extensive editing and re-shoots. Approximately one hour of Welles's first cut was removed, including much of a climactic confrontation scene in an amusement park funhouse. The film was considered a disaster in America at the time of release, though the closing shootout in a hall of mirrors has since become a touchstone of film noir. Welles convinced Republic Pictures to let him direct a low-budget version of Macbeth (Orson Welles, 1948). Republic initially trumpeted the film as an important work but decided it did not care for the Scottish accents and held up general release for almost a year after early negative press reaction. In the late 1970s, a fully restored version of Macbeth was released that followed Welles's original vision.

Orson Welles left Hollywood for Europe. In Italy he starred as Cagliostro in Black Magic (Gregory Ratoff, 1948) with Akim Tamiroff. His co-star impressed Welles so much that Tamiroff would appear in four of Welles's later productions. Welles starred as Harry Lime in Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949), alongside Joseph Cotten. The film was an international smash hit. Welles also appeared as Cesare Borgia in the Italian film Prince of Foxes (Henry King, 1949), and as the Mongol warrior Bayan in The Black Rose (Henry Hathaway, 1950), both with Tyrone Power. Welles was channelling his money from acting jobs into a self-financed film version of Shakespeare's play Othello. From 1949 to 1951, Welles filmed Othello (1952) on location in Europe and Morocco. Suzanne Cloutier co-starred as Desdemona. When it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival it won the Palme d'Or, but the film did not receive a general release in the United States until 1955. Welles's daughter, Beatrice Welles-Smith, restored Othello in 1992 for a wide re-release. Welles played the murdered victim in Trent's Last Case (Herbert Wilcox, 1952) and the title role in the 'Lord Mountdrago' segment of Three Cases of Murder (George More O'Ferrall, 1954). Herbert Wilcox cast Welles as the antagonist in Trouble in the Glen (1954) opposite Margaret Lockwood, and John Huston cast him as Father Mapple in Moby-Dick (1956), starring Gregory Peck. Welles's next turn as director was Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955), filmed in France, Germany, Spain and Italy on a very limited budget. Welles played a billionaire who hires a man (Robert Arden) to delve into the secrets of his past. The film co-starred Welles's third wife, Paola Mori. Frustrated by his slow progress in the editing room, producer Louis Dolivet removed Welles from the project and finished the film without him as Confidential Report. In 1956, Welles returned to Hollywood and guest-starred on radio and television shows. His next film role was in Man in the Shadow (Jack Arnold, 1957) for Universal Pictures, starring Jeff Chandler. Around this time period, Welles began to suffer from weight problems that would eventually cause a deterioration in his health. Welles stayed on at Universal to co-star with Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958). Originally only hired as an actor, Welles was promoted to director by Universal at the insistence of Heston. He reunited with many actors and technicians with whom he had worked in the 1940s including Joseph Cotten, Marlene Dietrich and Akim Tamiroff. Filming proceeded smoothly, but after the end of production, the studio re-edited the film, re-shot scenes, and shot new exposition scenes to clarify the plot. In 1978, a longer preview version of the film was discovered and released. Next, Welles filmed his adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote in Mexico, starring Mischa Auer as Quixote and Akim Tamiroff as Sancho Panza. While filming would continue in fits and starts for several years, Welles would never complete the project. Welles continued acting, notably in The Long, Hot Summer (Marin Ritt, 1958) and Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959), but soon he returned to Europe.

In Italy, Orson Welles directed his own scenes as King Saul in David e Golia/David and Goliath (Ferdinando Baldi, Richard Pottier, 1959). In Hong Kong he co-starred with Curt Jürgens in Ferry to Hong Kong (Lewis Gilbert, 1959). In Paris he co-starred in Crack in the Mirror (Richard Fleischer, 1960). In Yugoslavia he starred in I tartari/The Tartars (Richard Thorpe, 1962) and Bitka na Neretvi/Battle of Neretva (Veljko Bulajić, 1969). In 1962, Welles directed Le Procès/The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962), based on the novel by Franz Kafka and starring Anthony Perkins as Josef K, Jeanne Moreau and Romy Schneider. The film failed at the box-office, but during the filming, he met Oja Kodar, who became his muse, star and mistress for the rest of his life. Welles played a film director in La Ricotta (1963)—Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of the anthology film Ro.Go.Pa.G. He continued taking what work he could find acting, narrating or hosting other people's work, and began filming Campanadas a medianoche/Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1966). Filmed in Spain, it was a condensation of five Shakespeare plays, telling the story of Falstaff (Welles) and his relationship with Prince Hal (Keith Baxter). Then followed Histoire immortelle/The Immortal Story (Orson Welles, 1968) with Jeanne Moreau, which had a successful run in French theatres. He appeared as Cardinal Wolsey in A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, 1966) for which he won considerable acclaim. Welles began directing The Deep, based on the novel Dead Calm by Charles Williams and filmed off the shore of Yugoslavia. The cast included Jeanne Moreau, Laurence Harvey and Oja Kodar. Personally financed by Welles and Kodar, they could not obtain the funds to complete the project, and it was abandoned a few years later after the death of Harvey. The surviving footage was eventually edited and released by the Filmmuseum München. In 1969, Welles played a supporting role in John Huston's The Kremlin Letter. Drawn by the numerous offers he received to work in television and films, and upset by a tabloid scandal reporting his affair with Kodar, Welles moved back to America in 1970.

In Hollywood, Orson Welles continued to self-finance his own film and television projects. While offers to act, narrate and host continued, Welles also found himself in great demand on television talk shows. His primary focus during his final years was The Other Side of the Wind, an unfinished project that was filmed intermittently between 1970 and 1976. Written by Welles, it is the story of an aging film director (John Huston) looking for funds to complete his final film. Financed by Iranian backers, ownership of the film fell into a legal quagmire after the Shah of Iran was deposed, and disputes still prevent its release. Welles portrayed Louis XVIII of France in Waterloo (Sergey Bondarchuk, 1970), and narrated the historical comedy Start the Revolution Without Me (Bud Yorkin, 1970). He appeared in La décade prodigieuse/Ten Days' Wonder (Claude Chabrol, 1971), co-starring with Anthony Perkins. Wikipedia: “That same year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave him an honorary award "For superlative artistry and versatility in the creation of motion pictures". Welles pretended to be out of town and sent John Huston to claim the award. Huston criticized the Academy for awarding Welles, even while they refused to give Welles any work.” Welles played Long John Silver in Treasure Island (John Hough, 1972), an adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel. He completed F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973) , a personal essay film about art forger Elmyr de Hory and the biographer Clifford Irving, and his documentary Filming Othello (Orson Welles, 1979). During the 1980s, Welles worked on such film projects as The Dreamers, based on two stories by Isak Dinesen. His last film appearance was in Henry Jaglom's Someone to Love (1987), released after his death. Welles had three daughters: Chris Welles Feder (1938), with Virginia Nicholson; Rebecca Welles Manning (1944–2004), with Rita Hayworth; and Beatrice Welles (1955), with Paola Mori. His only known son, British director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (1940), is from Welles's affair with Irish actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, then the wife of Sir Edward Lindsay-Hogg, 4th baronet. On 10 October 1985, Orson Welles appeared on his final interview on The Merv Griffin Show. He died several hours later of a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles. His estranged wife Paola Mori refused to allow most of Welles's friends to attend the funeral, limiting the mourners to just nine: herself, Welles's three daughters, Roger Hill, and three of Welles's friends, as well as the doctor who had signed Welles's death certificate. Welles's companion for the last 20 years, Oja Kodar, was not invited, nor were either of his ex-wives. Welles's ashes were taken to Ronda, Spain, where they were buried in an old well covered by flowers, within the rural property of a long-time friend, retired bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez.

Sources: Ed Stephan (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

When the sea and the sky become as one

View On Black

I need colors! And I want to take some pics outside...

Even Frida looks so bored...

Cacha-Pregos

Ilha de Itaparica

Bahia

Brasil

" When Your Lover Has Gone

Vídeo:

Luciana Souza & Trio

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nauz6JYWH0

What good is the scheming, the planning and dreaming

That comes with each new love affair

The dreams that we cherish, so often might perish

And leaves you with castles in air

When you're alone, who cares for starlit skies

When you're alone, the magic moonlight dies

At break of dawn, there is no sunrise

When your lover has gone

What lonely hours, the evening shadows bring

What lonely hours, with memories lingering

Like faded flowers, life can't mean anything

When your lover has gone"

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" Cacha-Pregos é uma pequena vila de pescadores localizada no município de Vera Cruz, na Ilha de Itaparica, no estado da Bahia. A Praia esta localizada do outro lado da ilha de Itaparica em relação à cidade de Salvador. É possível chegar através de uma ponte (Ponte do Funil) que liga o município de Vera Cruz ao município de Jaguaripe no continente, ou tomando transporte marítimo a partir de Salvador e seguindo pela estrada a partir do terminal marítimo de Bom Despacho.

Cacha-Pregos tem três ruas principais. Uma que é beira-mar, outra central e outra que é próxima do mangue, também conhecida como Rua do Porto. A Rua do Porto está sempre cheia de pequenas embarcações ancoradas. Nela também fica localizada a famosa Praça do Pau-Mole. Um pequeno conjunto de mesas e assentos de cimento na qual os pescadores idosos e outros moradores reúnem-se para jogar cartas ou dominó. A rua próxima do mar dá para uma praia tranquila, quase sem ondas, pois localiza-se numa grande enseada. Em dias claros é possível avistar a ilha na qual situa-se Morro de São Paulo."

When is a Pelican not a Pelican? When it is swanning around.

(Clare)

When I read the quote I thought of this image taken at Thomas Edison's lab. Change is one of the only constants in our life but with photography I think we can try to capture a thing, a moment, and even a feeling that we keep in our own personal "glass cases."

On Southsea seafront.

#AbFav_FUN_and_SMILES_😍

Us, seniors, we do not smile so easily anymore?

But when we do, it is genuine, with our eyes, and THAT is our beauty!

Have a great day and thank you, M, (*_*)

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Gasoline powered travel across America began in 1903 when a daring fellow, George Wyman, rode a motorcycle from San Francisco to NY in 50 days.

1903 was a busy year for efforts to cross the continent. In May of that year, Horatio Nelson Jackson, Sewall Crocker and a dog named Bud made the trip in a Winton. They needed 63 days to cross the country.

A month later, a team from Packard began their 61 day journey. They took a more difficult path than Jackson and crossed the mountains of Utah and Colorado before heading north to the Transcontinental RR. Packard wanted the PR photos a trip through the mountains would provide.

In July of 1903 a team from Oldsmobile began a trip that lasted 73 days.

By 1907, only eleven trips across the land had been completed by cars. Ten of the eleven expeditions came through tiny Julesburg, Colorado.

The town is well known for being on the routes of the Pony Express, California Trail, Overland Stage, and the Transcontinental RR. For a while the town was also a stop on the Lincoln Highway.

Until I started digging, these early automotive trails were largely unknown, even to people who grew up in rural northeastern Colorado. Recently I learned the Great Race, the 1908 NY to Paris race made famous in the movie of that name, came through Julesburg as did the US Army's 1919 Motor Convoy.

Julesburg was never a crossroads in the truest sense. It was never the destination for early travelers. It is however well worth your time to stop and absorb some of the amazing history this town has experienced.

Oh yeah, I forgot to add, Julesburg is also home to what some claim is the oldest NHRA sanctioned drag strip in the country. I suspect there are caveats to that particular claim.

Happy Trails to all of you.

By the way, this is a forced perspective photograph of 1/24th scale models in front of a real background.

1925 Ford Model T Runabout is by Danbury Mint

1910 Maytag Model F is by Liberty Classics (Yep..... Maytag made cars for a while)

1917-ish Ford Model T is by Motor Max

When buds turned into flowers

15/30 April 2024: A month in 30 pictures

... and when I touched her skin, my fingers ran with blood."

The Handsome Family

Studio 26 -- assignment on photography at noon

Taken on the Corona Arch Trail, at 12:50

It felt a little like cheating, to be in Moab for the start of this assignment, since the colors & drama of the landscape stand up so well to midday bright sun. My strategy was simply to underexpose a stop or two -- as is my wont, anyway -- & most of my shots required minimal processing, or sometimes none at all. (Much more processing needed for early morning shots, to lift the intense shadows.)

I chose this shot as my final image because I think the luminosity of red actually depends on intense overhead light.

(Crop suggested by Stefanie & further tweaked according to Ann's & Nancy's suggestions)

When your sitting and you think an otter pops up, you start shooting franticly and then something dawns on you!

Grain moves became more common through Cartier when the Soo Locks and St. Lawrence Seaway was closed in the winter due to ice, That put more trains across Northern Ontario in the worst possible weather. Westbound grain empty 301 rolls into Cartier just after sun rise on February 21, 1992 with 5406 and 5402. The big fuel tank ex QNS&L SD's stood out in CPR's huge fleet of EMD's. Yes it was cold!

When I first saw this homeless guy a lot of things ran through my mind i stare as him for a while wonder how did he get to that point in his life, what was his life before now and where is his family, I turn around to see if my train was coming and when I turn back around there sat that man with his laptop out, he didn't seem to be bothered with the homeless man and just lean to the side to avoid the smell, not once did he glance up from his screen he was just lost in his world and when his train arrived he packed his case and left. I know this is a common sight in the city that I lived where others don't care about each other.

Empty spaces - what are we living for?

Abandoned places - I guess we know the score...

On and on!

Does anybody know what we are looking for? ~QUEEN

This photo is for my musically challenged group & sliders sunday group.

HSS!!!! to all my sliders peeps

When Tim Tebow played football and won the Heisman Trophy in college he wasn't my favorite because he always beat the teams I followed. Just before Christmas he spoke at our church service at the Greater Little Rock Campus of New Life Church. His message was strong and one of love, understanding and commitment. I now have an all together different attitude toward him. He is special for reasons other than athletics.

PS...My family sits in the third row to the left of the stage so I was very close to the stage. Believe me there were lots of photos taken that day.

HCS

#RememberWhen is the topic for Flickr Friday.

I remember when, before the ball point pen was invented, a fountain pen was the universal writing instrument. Also, since schools aren't teaching cursive anymore, we'll soon be saying, "remember when we used to be able to read and write handwriting?" which, to my way of thinking, is a real tragedy. Cursive is so much smoother to write than printing individual letters, and It pains me to think that our grandchildren may not be able to read the hundreds of handwritten letters and documents that we have saved that chronicle much of our history over the past eight decades.

Few shots in the maze of canals and streets of Venice. I loved playing with lights and shadows and the high contrast.

Tonight 4/26/12 8PM -10pm SLT Old Fogies 2 - You Ain't No Spring Chicken @ Hercynia's Asylum (sister sim to Transylvania)

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When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now

Will you still be sending me a valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?

If I'd been out 'til quarter to three, would you lock the door?

Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm sixty-four?

You'll be older too

Ah, and if you say the word, I could stay with you

I could be handy, mending a fuse when your lights have gone

You can knit a sweater by the fireside, Sunday mornings, go for a ride

Doing the garden, digging the weeds, who could ask for more?

Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm sixty-four?

Every summer we can rent a cottage

In the Isle of Wight if it's not to, dear

We shall scrimp and save

Ah, grandchildren on your knee, Vera, Chuck and Dave

Send me a postcard, drop me a line stating point of view

Indicate precisely what you mean to say, yours sincerely wasting away

Give me your answer, fill in a form, mine forever more

Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm sixty-four?

Au Coquelet

2000 University Avenue

Berkeley, CA 94704

www.aucoquelet.com/

When a man loves a Wookie

Can't keep his mind on nothin' else

He'd trade the world

For the good thing he's found

If she is bad, he can't see it

She can do no wrong

And turn his back on his best friend

If he puts her down

When a man loves a Wookie

Spend his very last dime

And trying to hold on to what he needs

He'd give up all his comforts

And sleep out in the rain

If she said that's the way, it ought to be

When a man loves a Wookie

I give you everything I've got

Trying to hold on to your precious love

And baby baby please don't treat me bad

When a man loves a Wookie

Deep down in his soul

She can bring him such misery

If she is playing him for a fool

He's the last one to know

Loving eyes can never see

Yes when a man loves a Wookie

I know exactly how he feels

'Cause baby, baby

When a man loves a Wookie

When a man loves a Wookie

When a man loves a Wookie

When a man, when a man

When a man loves a Wookie

View Large On Black Because It Looks Better Than It Sounds

Powerful stuff there from Michael Bolton.... *cough*

*gag*

I have only met Suzzy Bankz aka Pandy Pandorakaaki on Twitter in 202211, Never ever met her personally.

She have been proved to me that she is not a person with Conscience, Virtues & Integrity!

Thus I decided not to help in what ever means she requested. I have reason to believe that she is in the C-China Based syndicate of Internet scam network. A Digital Con Artist in reality.

Please , I like to advise you all must always alert!! There always have those evil's hide behind Internet and committing crimes.

Stay safe when you working online & offline.

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed...she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

-Lester B. Pearson

I've been thinking about how when you grow old, you retain versions of yourself at all of your former ages or atleast until consciousness and memory really kick in. So, when you're 64, you're also 63, 62. 61....6. I guess that's what makes getting older so devastating because we have that experience to compare and because it's such a weight to deal with all those different selves struggling to inhabit one body.

But just for a moment, perhaps we will forget we're 64 and that will be the best few seconds of our day.

Please listen:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEUCisD-Q8M

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When confronted with a camera, most people responded with a direct open gaze.

People gathered from far and wide, at a small village for a wedding.

Shot originally with a Nikon FM2 on Kodak Gold 100 film. Negative photographed with Fujifilm X-T1 and MCEX-16 extension tube. Reversal and processing in Lightroom.

Winter Sunset on the Arkansas River in Northern Arkansas.

Canon AE-1 Program

50mm 1.4

Fujifilm c200

Processed with VSCO with f2 preset

A sunset thunderstorm at a windmill farm. What would compliment the power of nature better than the windmills that generate electricity?

..I wake up in the morning with chocolate for dreams

I gain the strength to go on amidst the fiery dispute between right and wrong.

I say to myself – what a lucky young man I am indeed.

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Taken from quite a distance, zooming in and cropping a bit, I tried to capture the midwinter, midnight flowering that occurs above Oslo when the new year begins.

Two minutes after Midnight.

you will fall in love (again) (and again)

...+ يا ليتني عند مثواه أقبله +...

When travelling I either see people getting married or people getting arrested. This time it was the turn of the arrested.

It seemed like a major incident at the time - I actually thought it was a terrorist attack - about 10 police cars pulled up (including an ARV - Armed Response Vehicle), just as I was walking along Commercial Street in London's East End. I saw two guys being arrested and one guy bleeding copiously, who was taken off to hospital. I thought it was another knife incident in London, but I asked one of the cops and he said it wasn’t.

I later found out that a shopkeeper had been attacked. Very impressive police response, given how busy they are with various other things going on at the moment.

Each of us has his own Alice, curious and fearless, ready for new adventures and new discoveries!

But when we get older, Alice becomes smaller, there are fears, insecurities!

But in dreams and through dreams we still are drawn to adventure and achievements, and it helps us to realize the dream into reality!

But even if we sometimes feel lost because of the fact that everything around us is changing and sometimes too fast, Alice somewhere inside and always with us!

This is my current thinking, such was the mood today and I wanted to somehow translate it! Maybe it was she ...

There is 8 photos together!

(Sorry for my english )