because I kept walking into immovable objects and falling down. The LA County Fire Department paramedics took my blood pressure, which was astronomical, and loaded me into the ambulance for a ride to Cedars Sinai Hospital where the first order of business was to screen me for Covid. A negative result permitted me into the hospital. Close to midnight, I got wheeled into the room where they do CAT scans.

Florida Springs

Most people think "Beach" when they hear Florida Vacation, but the Florida Springs were the first tourist attractions. Even Ponce de León, the first European to visit Florida was said to be in search of the fountain of youth. I don't know if Florida springs make you younger, but they sure cool you off in summer with their year round 72F degree waters. Last week, with a group of musicians and friends, we gathered at Rainbow springs about 1.5 hours north of Tampa. Let's look at Rainbow and several other Florida springs I've visited over the years as well as the Florida spring system below the fold...

Afternoon folks!

Another week, another load of good stuff. Starting off we've got a Chicago blues singer with a bunch of Willie Dixonish material, Big Time Sarah. After that it's down and dirty blues with Big Bad Smitty followed by a Chicago blues harmonica player, Big Wheeler. After that it's on to an album from slide guitar wizard Bob Brozman and we finish up in the diversity department with some zydeco with Chubby Carrier.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people! How's it going in your neck of the woods?

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

I made my monthly pilgrimage to the Balboa Park rose garden with the macro lens last Tue. One of the nice things about a 105mm macro lens, not only is it great for macro photography, it also makes a great portrait lens. So when I didn't find very many bugs while looking up close, I stepped back a few feet and focused my attention on the roses.

Rainbow Sherbet

Yves Smith posted this piece on Naked Capitalism about collapse. It's by Thomas Neuburger. Smith is highly critical of this piece.

I've never been a particularly religious man, but I've always been curious about how we humans fit in with the cosmos, in the grand scheme, and with nature in the small.

When I was in my teens that curiosity led me to The Bible. I started with the Old Testament and was struck by its endless begattings and wholesale brutality and genocide. To my young mind it was not much more than a chronicle of births and deaths, and wars, both personal and of a people, with an underlying essence of fear. Fear of consequences for not adhering to a belief system emanating from a singular high authority and ultimately, a system of control.

Adhering to this belief system was the way, and the only way, into the Kingdom of Heaven.

I did not buy in.