seeking the hidden. So, I think your essay hits the nail on the head ... Thumbs up !
And besides, you need some distraction ...
[video:https://youtu.be/ARt9HV9T0w8]
Don't be fooled. We will survive and end up wherever the wind blows us to.
@mimi
In dark times, Fred provides some local laughs.
seeking the hidden. So, I think your essay hits the nail on the head ... Thumbs up !
And besides, you need some distraction ...
[video:https://youtu.be/ARt9HV9T0w8]
Don't be fooled. We will survive and end up wherever the wind blows us to.
seeking the hidden. So, I think your essay hits the nail on the head ... Thumbs up !
And besides, you need some distraction ...
[video:https://youtu.be/ARt9HV9T0w8]
Don't be fooled. We will survive and end up wherever the wind blows us to.
Nice plants BR! I used to have a big plant table shelf thing I made, 8' long, multiple levels, amongst the jungle were a dozen different violets. I seem to have lost my green thumb along the way... Fred looks well. No sheet on next Tuesday. I live in rural red Texas, and a friend in L.A. just suggested for some Halloween fun I go get some Biden signs and put them in someone's front yard for giggles. One of the town patriarchs. Let everyone drive by and see that. In a small town (200) it would be funny, if you didn't get shot. My buddy that suggested this used to take his lunch to work in an Uzi case... which is well marked.
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Nice plants BR! I used to have a big plant table shelf thing I made, 8' long, multiple levels, amongst the jungle were a dozen different violets. I seem to have lost my green thumb along the way... Fred looks well. No sheet on next Tuesday. I live in rural red Texas, and a friend in L.A. just suggested for some Halloween fun I go get some Biden signs and put them in someone's front yard for giggles. One of the town patriarchs. Let everyone drive by and see that. In a small town (200) it would be funny, if you didn't get shot. My buddy that suggested this used to take his lunch to work in an Uzi case... which is well marked.
What a shocking contrast, but the suggestion of your buddy is also funny, if not recommended in your neck of the woods.
Nice plants BR! I used to have a big plant table shelf thing I made, 8' long, multiple levels, amongst the jungle were a dozen different violets. I seem to have lost my green thumb along the way... Fred looks well. No sheet on next Tuesday. I live in rural red Texas, and a friend in L.A. just suggested for some Halloween fun I go get some Biden signs and put them in someone's front yard for giggles. One of the town patriarchs. Let everyone drive by and see that. In a small town (200) it would be funny, if you didn't get shot. My buddy that suggested this used to take his lunch to work in an Uzi case... which is well marked.
We had a Catbird here for 3 days last weekend. Don't get one every fall, so a treat. They are in the mimic family with Mockingbird and Thrashers. A very cool bird.
Carolina Chickadee, and a bloop of water from the drip.
Red-winged Blackbird, male
male Common Yellowthroat and Painted Bunting
be well all! play it safe!
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13 users have voted.
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
was watching various Robins doing various things on the front lawn yesterday. Much entertainment apparently.
Hi all, hope all are well!
We had a Catbird here for 3 days last weekend. Don't get one every fall, so a treat. They are in the mimic family with Mockingbird and Thrashers. A very cool bird.
Carolina Chickadee, and a bloop of water from the drip.
We had a Catbird here for 3 days last weekend. Don't get one every fall, so a treat. They are in the mimic family with Mockingbird and Thrashers. A very cool bird.
Carolina Chickadee, and a bloop of water from the drip.
Red-winged Blackbird, male
male Common Yellowthroat and Painted Bunting
be well all! play it safe!
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9 users have voted.
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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
@Pricknick
Cool pic pricknick! Some females show that color in the throat bright like yours, and others it is not apparent. Red-winged Blackbird is a fine name for the male, but what about the female? Many birds' names suffer that sort of misogyny.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
We had a Catbird here for 3 days last weekend. Don't get one every fall, so a treat. They are in the mimic family with Mockingbird and Thrashers. A very cool bird.
Carolina Chickadee, and a bloop of water from the drip.
It was the final safari of the trip. No sighting of the elusive leopard so far. The guide,the spotter, the 3 other folks in the jeep didn't see what I saw.
I was treated to a beer back at camp, and the guides all told me, "Spot a male lion during the day time standing, and THEN you are a real spotter!"
I figure I was about 25 feet away from the big cat in hiding.
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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
It was the final safari of the trip. No sighting of the elusive leopard so far. The guide,the spotter, the 3 other folks in the jeep didn't see what I saw.
I was treated to a beer back at camp, and the guides all told me, "Spot a male lion during the day time standing, and THEN you are a real spotter!"
I figure I was about 25 feet away from the big cat in hiding.
It was the final safari of the trip. No sighting of the elusive leopard so far. The guide,the spotter, the 3 other folks in the jeep didn't see what I saw.
I was treated to a beer back at camp, and the guides all told me, "Spot a male lion during the day time standing, and THEN you are a real spotter!"
I figure I was about 25 feet away from the big cat in hiding.
It was the final safari of the trip. No sighting of the elusive leopard so far. The guide,the spotter, the 3 other folks in the jeep didn't see what I saw.
I was treated to a beer back at camp, and the guides all told me, "Spot a male lion during the day time standing, and THEN you are a real spotter!"
I figure I was about 25 feet away from the big cat in hiding.
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8 users have voted.
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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
It was the final safari of the trip. No sighting of the elusive leopard so far. The guide,the spotter, the 3 other folks in the jeep didn't see what I saw.
I was treated to a beer back at camp, and the guides all told me, "Spot a male lion during the day time standing, and THEN you are a real spotter!"
I figure I was about 25 feet away from the big cat in hiding.
@on the cusp
Just asking because the voice of my then husband mocking some white folks trying to dance like some black folks. I never forgot that, because it sounded 'not nice'.
Anyway, I never tried to dance with 'my black folks of the family'. Just didn't work. But I remember my first days in the US, strolling DC's streets on New Years eve. I remember I thought 'omg, these people have rhythm and can dance so well' and they were mostly white folks.
(This was in the eighties and Krauts really couldn't dance so well. But Krauts are learning)
Now I dance by myself. I am pretending having learned to dance like the black folks, while shaking my bones in the wrong directions. Then my sister just shakes her head and laughs. At least something good about that.
@mimi
In lines, with cool Masai Mara warriors, lovely women, just everybody.
I grew up dancing with my black friends. They would show me their moves, I would teach them the country and western two step.
#4.2.1
Just asking because the voice of my then husband mocking some white folks trying to dance like some black folks. I never forgot that, because it sounded 'not nice'.
Anyway, I never tried to dance with 'my black folks of the family'. Just didn't work. But I remember my first days in the US, strolling DC's streets on New Years eve. I remember I thought 'omg, these people have rhythm and can dance so well' and they were mostly white folks.
(This was in the eighties and Krauts really couldn't dance so well. But Krauts are learning)
Now I dance by myself. I am pretending having learned to dance like the black folks, while shaking my bones in the wrong directions. Then my sister just shakes her head and laughs. At least something good about that.
@on the cusp
In my parts of the woods, I grew up in, one couldn't have black friends. There weren't any. Other times, other woods ...
#4.2.1.1 In lines, with cool Masai Mara warriors, lovely women, just everybody.
I grew up dancing with my black friends. They would show me their moves, I would teach them the country and western two step.
Hi Bollox Ref, thanks. Hi all. My mind is 404 not found, 301 moved permanently somewhere else who knows not me.
Yestidday was the beginning of Día de Muertos I think? There was a picture an image in the paperonline:
El Milagro Ofrenda
The Owl Cafe is an historical landmark around here. When I was young and didn't live here we used to stop there on the way to the river, back when Cloverdale had no public access to it and the 101 went straight through town right past El Milagro. time does not exist Right on.
Barefoot in the dirt downstairs, I transplanted some of the thai basil that still propagates prolifically up on the deck. There is one Evening Primrose left, the mother plant she is seven feet two inches tall: Oenothera is an herb.
The seed pods are feeding the goldfinch, they come every day and spread seeds all around. It is turning in to EP land down there. I learned from the wiki this plant is a biennial. Right on.
Also yestidday the dang thing squeezed out a bloom overnight right at the tip top. I thought it was finished weeks ago, but no. Happy Day of the Dead!
The sunflower paintings had a special significance for Van Gogh: they communicated ‘gratitude’, he wrote. He hung the first two in the room of his friend, the painter Paul Gauguin, who came to live with him for a while in the Yellow House. Gauguin was impressed by the sunflowers, which he thought were ‘completely Vincent’.
I remember in the summer it was a whole row, and I cried because someone chopped its head off? Today it is the only survivor and it is still squeezing out tiny blooms. Right on.
I am not really living but just trying to stay alive in this moment right now. C99ers you are great I love you all. Thanks a lot.
[Verse 1]
How can you be sitting there
Telling me that you care
That you care
When every time I look around
The people suffer in the suffering
In every way, in everywhere
[Chorus]
Say, na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!)
We're the survivors
Yes, the Black survivors
[Verse 2]
I tell you what, some people got everything
Some people got nothing
Some people got hopes and dreams
Some people got ways and means
[Chorus]
Like Daniel out of the lions' den
(Black survivors) Survivors, survivors
[Verse 3]
So I Idren, I sistren
Which way will we choose
We better hurry, oh, hurry, oh, hurry, whoa, now
Because we got no time to lose
[Verse 4]
Some people got facts and claims
Some people got pride and shame
Some people got the plots and schemes
Some people got no aim it seems
[Chorus]
[Verse 5]
Like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
(Black survivors)
Thrown in the fire, but-a never get burn
So I Idren, I-sistren
The preaching and talking is done
We've gotta live up, wo now, wo now!
Because the Father's time has come
Some people put the best outside
Some people keep the best inside
Some people can't stand up strong
Some people won't wait for long
[Chorus]
[Verse 6]
In this age of technological inhumanity (Black survival)
Scientific atrocity (survivors)
Atomic mis-philosophy (Black survival)
Nuclear mis-energy (survivors)
It's a world that forces lifelong insecurity (Black survival)
All together now
[Chorus]
[Outro]
A good man is never honoured (survivors)
In his own country (Black survival)
Nothing change, nothing strange (survivors)
Nothing change, nothing strange (Black survivors)
We got to survive, you all! (survivors)
Hi Bollox Ref, thanks. Hi all. My mind is 404 not found, 301 moved permanently somewhere else who knows not me.
Yestidday was the beginning of Día de Muertos I think? There was a picture an image in the paperonline:
El Milagro Ofrenda
The Owl Cafe is an historical landmark around here. When I was young and didn't live here we used to stop there on the way to the river, back when Cloverdale had no public access to it and the 101 went straight through town right past El Milagro. time does not exist Right on.
Barefoot in the dirt downstairs, I transplanted some of the thai basil that still propagates prolifically up on the deck. There is one Evening Primrose left, the mother plant she is seven feet two inches tall: Oenothera is an herb.
The seed pods are feeding the goldfinch, they come every day and spread seeds all around. It is turning in to EP land down there. I learned from the wiki this plant is a biennial. Right on.
Also yestidday the dang thing squeezed out a bloom overnight right at the tip top. I thought it was finished weeks ago, but no. Happy Day of the Dead!
The sunflower paintings had a special significance for Van Gogh: they communicated ‘gratitude’, he wrote. He hung the first two in the room of his friend, the painter Paul Gauguin, who came to live with him for a while in the Yellow House. Gauguin was impressed by the sunflowers, which he thought were ‘completely Vincent’.
I remember in the summer it was a whole row, and I cried because someone chopped its head off? Today it is the only survivor and it is still squeezing out tiny blooms. Right on.
I am not really living but just trying to stay alive in this moment right now. C99ers you are great I love you all. Thanks a lot.
[Verse 1]
How can you be sitting there
Telling me that you care
That you care
When every time I look around
The people suffer in the suffering
In every way, in everywhere
[Chorus]
Say, na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!)
We're the survivors
Yes, the Black survivors
[Verse 2]
I tell you what, some people got everything
Some people got nothing
Some people got hopes and dreams
Some people got ways and means
[Chorus]
Like Daniel out of the lions' den
(Black survivors) Survivors, survivors
[Verse 3]
So I Idren, I sistren
Which way will we choose
We better hurry, oh, hurry, oh, hurry, whoa, now
Because we got no time to lose
[Verse 4]
Some people got facts and claims
Some people got pride and shame
Some people got the plots and schemes
Some people got no aim it seems
[Chorus]
[Verse 5]
Like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
(Black survivors)
Thrown in the fire, but-a never get burn
So I Idren, I-sistren
The preaching and talking is done
We've gotta live up, wo now, wo now!
Because the Father's time has come
Some people put the best outside
Some people keep the best inside
Some people can't stand up strong
Some people won't wait for long
[Chorus]
[Verse 6]
In this age of technological inhumanity (Black survival)
Scientific atrocity (survivors)
Atomic mis-philosophy (Black survival)
Nuclear mis-energy (survivors)
It's a world that forces lifelong insecurity (Black survival)
All together now
[Chorus]
[Outro]
A good man is never honoured (survivors)
In his own country (Black survival)
Nothing change, nothing strange (survivors)
Nothing change, nothing strange (Black survivors)
We got to survive, you all! (survivors)
Well. I thought it was just me! I can't see Fred either, Janis.
For me, turns out it's a browser issue. I'm using a Chrome-based browser, Vivaldi on my old Mac. Everything is up to date. I shut down Vivaldi and opened the site in Firefox, and there's Fred!
So perhaps try another browser. I suspect the problem isn't your location.
Hide and Seek is about right. The Fred photo is hiding from me, which is a shame since I so much enjoy seeing Fred.
Well. I thought it was just me! I can't see Fred either, Janis.
For me, turns out it's a browser issue. I'm using a Chrome-based browser, Vivaldi on my old Mac. Everything is up to date. I shut down Vivaldi and opened the site in Firefox, and there's Fred!
So perhaps try another browser. I suspect the problem isn't your location.
Comments
but, but that's all we do all the time
seeking the hidden. So, I think your essay hits the nail on the head ...
Thumbs up !
And besides, you need some distraction ...
[video:https://youtu.be/ARt9HV9T0w8]
Don't be fooled. We will survive and end up wherever the wind blows us to.
Don't give up.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Danke Mimi
In dark times, Fred provides some local laughs.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Thanks mimi,
for the impulse to survive and dance.
nice plants!
Nice plants BR! I used to have a big plant table shelf thing I made, 8' long, multiple levels, amongst the jungle were a dozen different violets. I seem to have lost my green thumb along the way... Fred looks well. No sheet on next Tuesday. I live in rural red Texas, and a friend in L.A. just suggested for some Halloween fun I go get some Biden signs and put them in someone's front yard for giggles. One of the town patriarchs. Let everyone drive by and see that. In a small town (200) it would be funny, if you didn't get shot. My buddy that suggested this used to take his lunch to work in an Uzi case... which is well marked.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
We have to thank Mrs. BR for the plants
I just chase the cats.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Violets and Uzis
What a shocking contrast, but the suggestion of your buddy is also funny, if not recommended in your neck of the woods.
in the catbird seat
Hi all, hope all are well!
We had a Catbird here for 3 days last weekend. Don't get one every fall, so a treat. They are in the mimic family with Mockingbird and Thrashers. A very cool bird.
Carolina Chickadee, and a bloop of water from the drip.
Red-winged Blackbird, male
male Common Yellowthroat and Painted Bunting
be well all! play it safe!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Fred
was watching various Robins doing various things on the front lawn yesterday. Much entertainment apparently.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
The female of the species.
Red wing female.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
cool pic
Cool pic pricknick! Some females show that color in the throat bright like yours, and others it is not apparent. Red-winged Blackbird is a fine name for the male, but what about the female? Many birds' names suffer that sort of misogyny.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
She's so beautifully understated, Pricknick
Thank you.
Must have been nice to see your namesake again, dystopian
A cat in hiding, for sure...
It was the final safari of the trip. No sighting of the elusive leopard so far. The guide,the spotter, the 3 other folks in the jeep didn't see what I saw.
I was treated to a beer back at camp, and the guides all told me, "Spot a male lion during the day time standing, and THEN you are a real spotter!"
I figure I was about 25 feet away from the big cat in hiding.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
What beer did they award you with?
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
big cat
Some appropriate music:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl-l03pzFVA]
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Wonderful!
Thanks so much.
The music and dancing I have experienced in the African countries I have visited were wonderful.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Did you try to dance with them?
Just asking because the voice of my then husband mocking some white folks trying to dance like some black folks. I never forgot that, because it sounded 'not nice'.
Anyway, I never tried to dance with 'my black folks of the family'. Just didn't work. But I remember my first days in the US, strolling DC's streets on New Years eve. I remember I thought 'omg, these people have rhythm and can dance so well' and they were mostly white folks.
(This was in the eighties and Krauts really couldn't dance so well. But Krauts are learning)
Now I dance by myself. I am pretending having learned to dance like the black folks, while shaking my bones in the wrong directions. Then my sister just shakes her head and laughs. At least something good about that.
Ok, let's dance.
[video:https://youtu.be/iNLXxDMxe18]
BTW, I have seen black folks who could not dance too, very odd, I wondered about where they grew up.
Be well and healthy and hava a little dance now and then.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Damn right, I danced!
In lines, with cool Masai Mara warriors, lovely women, just everybody.
I grew up dancing with my black friends. They would show me their moves, I would teach them the country and western two step.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
oh, lucky you.
In my parts of the woods, I grew up in, one couldn't have black friends. There weren't any. Other times, other woods ...
https://www.euronews.com/live
Tusker.
After dinner, we sipped Amarula.
All good.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Herbaceous
Hi Bollox Ref, thanks. Hi all. My mind is 404 not found, 301 moved permanently somewhere else who knows not me.
Yestidday was the beginning of Día de Muertos I think? There was
a picturean imagein the paperonline:El Milagro Ofrenda
The Owl Cafe is an historical landmark around here. When I was young and didn't live here we used to stop there on the way to the river, back when Cloverdale had no public access to it and the 101 went straight through town right past El Milagro. time does not exist Right on.
Barefoot in the dirt downstairs, I transplanted some of the thai basil that still propagates prolifically up on the deck. There is one Evening Primrose left, the mother plant she is seven feet two inches tall:
Oenothera is an herb.
The seed pods are feeding the goldfinch, they come every day and spread seeds all around. It is turning in to EP land down there. I learned from the wiki this plant is a biennial. Right on.
Also yestidday the dang thing squeezed out a bloom overnight right at the tip top. I thought it was finished weeks ago, but no. Happy Day of the Dead!
The other yellow color is my living ode to Van Gogh's sunflowers painting.
I remember in the summer it was a whole row, and I cried because someone chopped its head off? Today it is the only survivor and it is still squeezing out tiny blooms. Right on.
I am not really living but just trying to stay alive in this moment right now. C99ers you are great I love you all. Thanks a lot.
Survival - Bob Marley and the Wailers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEpygnNZefA
Peace and Love
Hiyo, eyo
A magical reminder to hold on.
[video:https://youtu.be/SV6WXcMPDks]
Hang on eyo
Hi Bollox and Fred
Hide and Seek is about right. The Fred photo is hiding from me, which is a shame since I so much enjoy seeing Fred.
No see 'um
Well. I thought it was just me! I can't see Fred either, Janis.
For me, turns out it's a browser issue. I'm using a Chrome-based browser, Vivaldi on my old Mac. Everything is up to date. I shut down Vivaldi and opened the site in Firefox, and there's Fred!
So perhaps try another browser. I suspect the problem isn't your location.
Tried firefox traveler,
with no success of viewing the photo of Fred. Must have something to do with my inability ; (.
Hmmm....
Sent you a PM re this.
Cant help but agree.
How about: Gold Throated Cattail Gleaner?
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Amazing photo Pricknick
She's glowing.