@Bollox Ref
because I asked him politely to let me snap a photo, and not die.
Nevertheless, he was letting his woman(women) do their thang, and just resting up for the next fight with the next lion.
I have taken a picture of a male lion upright during the day, but cannot find it.
@on the cusp
Spend the night eating, fighting other males and jumping females.
A teen-age boy's dream!
#2.1 because I asked him politely to let me snap a photo, and not die.
Nevertheless, he was letting his woman(women) do their thang, and just resting up for the next fight with the next lion.
I have taken a picture of a male lion upright during the day, but cannot find it.
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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
This is a still life I did the other day. The painting was done by my paternal great grandfather in 1893. The house is the original family homestead in Trenton N.J. I've also seen a photo of the house that was taken around the same time as the painting with a notation on the back that said the house was built in 1774.
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We come from dust. We will return to dust.
That's why I don't dust. It my be someone I know.
Reminds me of recently putting a poor musical manuscript of a song into viable sheet form, from Mrs. B's great-aunt, a concert pianist in the 1900's.
Looks like Fred has the right idea.
This is a still life I did the other day. The painting was done by my paternal great grandfather in 1893. The house is the original family homestead in Trenton N.J. I've also seen a photo of the house that was taken around the same time as the painting with a notation on the back that said the house was built in 1774.
@Bollox Ref
I don't know if the house is still there. When I first saw the photo 6 years ago I asked my brother and sister if they knew if the house was still there. My sister said she had done a little research and thought it might still be there but wasn't sure.
This is a still life I did the other day. The painting was done by my paternal great grandfather in 1893. The house is the original family homestead in Trenton N.J. I've also seen a photo of the house that was taken around the same time as the painting with a notation on the back that said the house was built in 1774.
@Socialprogressive
awesome story and photo SP! The quality of the artistry is very high IMHO. Yer photo ain't a bad composition either. My wife and I lived in a historic house in the NE-most square mile of NJ, so other end, Rockleigh. Pop. 92, all millionaires, one renter, in this awesome old house. The guy that owned it was old and he was born in it. Washington camped in the field next door. We loved it. Could only see lights of other houses in winter when all the leaves fell, and were 20 minutes from Manhattan. A couple years in the early 80's that seem like a dream now. Those are great old houses in the Garden State, and if you weed through them, some pretty good people there too.
Looks like Fred has the right idea.
This is a still life I did the other day. The painting was done by my paternal great grandfather in 1893. The house is the original family homestead in Trenton N.J. I've also seen a photo of the house that was taken around the same time as the painting with a notation on the back that said the house was built in 1774.
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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
@dystopian
I wonder if you would find the same solitude 20 min. from Manhattan today?
#3 awesome story and photo SP! The quality of the artistry is very high IMHO. Yer photo ain't a bad composition either. My wife and I lived in a historic house in the NE-most square mile of NJ, so other end, Rockleigh. Pop. 92, all millionaires, one renter, in this awesome old house. The guy that owned it was old and he was born in it. Washington camped in the field next door. We loved it. Could only see lights of other houses in winter when all the leaves fell, and were 20 minutes from Manhattan. A couple years in the early 80's that seem like a dream now. Those are great old houses in the Garden State, and if you weed through them, some pretty good people there too.
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We come from dust. We will return to dust.
That's why I don't dust. It my be someone I know.
@janis b
Wow, those are some wild images Janis. You are always impressively creative. Will have to stare and study these a bit...
Thanks for posting and hosting Bollox, and hi from warmer climes -
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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
It appears Fred has mastered the zen art of doing nothing. Like only a cat can, and maybe a few lucky people, have. I have long understood lizards in the sun, or my lizard-brain does. Cats really know how to nap, people could learn a thing or two. I love yer sign...
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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
I gotta fly, but here is a pic of one of the Texas state birds at our birdbath. They are real cute until you try to have a garden or flower bed around one.
Nine-banded Armadillo is the proper correct name. 'dillo' is what most call them here.
I saw a poster in town today that had something about a groundhog day event... here??? Where there are no groundhogs??? Kinda wonder if they got something planned with a dillo?
Remember to NOT wear your horned fur helmet out for a while...
Have a good one all!
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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
that dillos do burrow. That must be an awfully big burrow.
I gotta fly, but here is a pic of one of the Texas state birds at our birdbath. They are real cute until you try to have a garden or flower bed around one.
Nine-banded Armadillo is the proper correct name. 'dillo' is what most call them here.
I saw a poster in town today that had something about a groundhog day event... here??? Where there are no groundhogs??? Kinda wonder if they got something planned with a dillo?
Remember to NOT wear your horned fur helmet out for a while...
@dystopian
It's ears look a lot like the ears of a rhinoceros.
I gotta fly, but here is a pic of one of the Texas state birds at our birdbath. They are real cute until you try to have a garden or flower bed around one.
Nine-banded Armadillo is the proper correct name. 'dillo' is what most call them here.
I saw a poster in town today that had something about a groundhog day event... here??? Where there are no groundhogs??? Kinda wonder if they got something planned with a dillo?
Remember to NOT wear your horned fur helmet out for a while...
Have a good one all!
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We come from dust. We will return to dust.
That's why I don't dust. It my be someone I know.
Armadillos live anywhere from seven to 20 years. They give birth once a year, and always to a litter of four males or four females.
Despite popular belief, only two types of armadillos can roll themselves into a ball: the Brazilian armadillo and the southern three-banded armadillo. Both are found in South America. Armadillos are the only living mammal with a hard shell.
Northwestern University has celebrated its annual Dillo Day since 1972.
@janis b
It is a good sized burrow, more than a foot across, and about a foot tall. If you startle one, they might jump about 1.5-2 FEET straight up into the air, and straight back
down, needless to say not much of a glide path on them. A .22 rifle round will mostly just bounce off of their armor, unless just the right place and angle. They eat ants and termites like an anteater or aardvark. Their range has greatly expanded north since about 1960 or so.
Armadillos live anywhere from seven to 20 years. They give birth once a year, and always to a litter of four males or four females.
Despite popular belief, only two types of armadillos can roll themselves into a ball: the Brazilian armadillo and the southern three-banded armadillo. Both are found in South America. Armadillos are the only living mammal with a hard shell.
Northwestern University has celebrated its annual Dillo Day since 1972.
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
@dystopian
having gotten their start when a tortoise and a hedgehog decided to do a “horseshoe theory” thing and, lacking forces, joined skills instead to outwit a young, still-living-with-his-mom jaguar.
I gotta fly, but here is a pic of one of the Texas state birds at our birdbath. They are real cute until you try to have a garden or flower bed around one.
Nine-banded Armadillo is the proper correct name. 'dillo' is what most call them here.
I saw a poster in town today that had something about a groundhog day event... here??? Where there are no groundhogs??? Kinda wonder if they got something planned with a dillo?
Remember to NOT wear your horned fur helmet out for a while...
Coups for industry! Coups for the dead! Coups for [the sugar] industry!
HI! I'm Joe Beats Biden. Say, what chance does a deceased returning war veteran have for that good payin' job, more sugar, and that free mule we've all been dreaming of? Now take off your shoes. Now you can see how increased spending opportunities mean harder work for everyone, and more of it, too! So, do yourself a favor, Joe. Join with millions of your friends and neighbors, and take off your shoes!
Coups for industry! Coups for the dead! Coups for [the sugar] industry!
HI! I'm Joe Beats Biden. Say, what chance does a deceased returning war veteran have for that good payin' job, more sugar, and that free mule we've all been dreaming of? Now take off your shoes. Now you can see how increased spending opportunities mean harder work for everyone, and more of it, too! So, do yourself a favor, Joe. Join with millions of your friends and neighbors, and take off your shoes!
@janis b
but I’ve met him personally, he is one based Hawaiian. Here he touches on many topics, including fearless talk about the scourge of “ice” (meth) and drugs and individual responsibility for choices, even in his own family. If I may indulge in a little hyperbole, his spiritual roots in the earth reach way, way down, like Tūtū Pele’s, to beyond the Mohorovicic discontinuity.
At the other end of the spectrum, the intellectual cleverness, wordplay, and queer sophistication of quantum physicist Karen Barad:
#9.1
but I’ve met him personally, he is one based Hawaiian. Here he touches on many topics, including fearless talk about the scourge of “ice” (meth) and drugs and individual responsibility for choices, even in his own family. If I may indulge in a little hyperbole, his spiritual roots in the earth reach way, way down, like Tūtū Pele’s, to beyond the Mohorovicic discontinuity.
At the other end of the spectrum, the intellectual cleverness, wordplay, and queer sophistication of quantum physicist Karen Barad:
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May you live in interesting times
Italian and dutch governments collapse
Fred's got the right idea.
Shocking thought!! Fred is RED. He must be a Putin Puppet!
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Fred is also ORANGE. Must be a Trumper in-purr-ectionist! n/t
Fred is from Alabama
A red state. Hmm........
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Kenya cat lying down
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Needs to bury his face in the grass
If he's going to do a 'Fred'.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Only reason he raised his head
because I asked him politely to let me snap a photo, and not die.
Nevertheless, he was letting his woman(women) do their thang, and just resting up for the next fight with the next lion.
I have taken a picture of a male lion upright during the day, but cannot find it.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Sleep all day
Spend the night eating, fighting other males and jumping females.
A teen-age boy's dream!
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Alternate Kenya Cat (Tsaavo)
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Look at the stealth on that cat! n/t
Actually, it just looks that way. It was part of a group of
3 or 4 (can't recall) out in the open and in transit. That one walked in front of our vehicle maybe 4 or 5 feet away, completely unconcerned.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Serval standing up :-)
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Serval standing up :-)
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Thanks for Friday Night Photos tonight, BR.
Looks like Fred has the right idea.
This is a still life I did the other day. The painting was done by my paternal great grandfather in 1893. The house is the original family homestead in Trenton N.J. I've also seen a photo of the house that was taken around the same time as the painting with a notation on the back that said the house was built in 1774.
We come from dust. We will return to dust.
That's why I don't dust. It my be someone I know.
Wow!
Lovely stuff SP. Does the house still exist?
Reminds me of recently putting a poor musical manuscript of a song into viable sheet form, from Mrs. B's great-aunt, a concert pianist in the 1900's.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Thank you, BR
I don't know if the house is still there. When I first saw the photo 6 years ago I asked my brother and sister if they knew if the house was still there. My sister said she had done a little research and thought it might still be there but wasn't sure.
We come from dust. We will return to dust.
That's why I don't dust. It my be someone I know.
Hi Social
How romantic a painting and still life, thanks.
Thank you, Janis
We come from dust. We will return to dust.
That's why I don't dust. It my be someone I know.
great stuff SP!
awesome story and photo SP! The quality of the artistry is very high IMHO. Yer photo ain't a bad composition either.
My wife and I lived in a historic house in the NE-most square mile of NJ, so other end, Rockleigh. Pop. 92, all millionaires, one renter, in this awesome old house. The guy that owned it was old and he was born in it. Washington camped in the field next door. We loved it. Could only see lights of other houses in winter when all the leaves fell, and were 20 minutes from Manhattan. A couple years in the early 80's that seem like a dream now. Those are great old houses in the Garden State, and if you weed through them, some pretty good people there too.
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
Thank you, dystopian.
I wonder if you would find the same solitude 20 min. from Manhattan today?
We come from dust. We will return to dust.
That's why I don't dust. It my be someone I know.
Evening all
Thanks for posting and hosting Bollox, and hi from warmer climes -
Who's the dancer Janis?
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
My shadow self n/t
Evening, Janis
I really like your shadow shot. It has a playful mood about it.
We come from dust. We will return to dust.
That's why I don't dust. It my be someone I know.
Thanks Social
I look forward to hearing more about your family's 18th century residence and life, if you know it. I can also be serious.
wild stuff Janis!
Wow, those are some wild images Janis. You are always impressively creative. Will have to stare and study these a bit...
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
great pic BR!
It appears Fred has mastered the zen art of doing nothing. Like only a cat can, and maybe a few lucky people, have. I have long understood lizards in the sun, or my lizard-brain does. Cats really know how to nap, people could learn a thing or two. I love yer sign...
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
Great pics all!
I gotta fly, but here is a pic of one of the Texas state birds at our birdbath. They are real cute until you try to have a garden or flower bed around one.
Nine-banded Armadillo is the proper correct name. 'dillo' is what most call them here.
I saw a poster in town today that had something about a groundhog day event... here??? Where there are no groundhogs??? Kinda wonder if they got something planned with a dillo?
Remember to NOT wear your horned fur helmet out for a while...
Have a good one all!
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
I just learned from your reference and google
that dillos do burrow. That must be an awfully big burrow.
Nice shot of the Armadillo, dystopian
It's ears look a lot like the ears of a rhinoceros.
We come from dust. We will return to dust.
That's why I don't dust. It my be someone I know.
Armadillos
https://www.terminix.com/blog/education/armadillo-facts/
neat beasts indeed
It is a good sized burrow, more than a foot across, and about a foot tall. If you startle one, they might jump about 1.5-2 FEET straight up into the air, and straight back
A .22 rifle round will mostly just bounce off of their armor, unless just the right place and angle. They eat ants and termites like an anteater or aardvark. Their range has greatly expanded north since about 1960 or so.
down, needless to say not much of a glide path on them.
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
Am always reminded of Rudyard Kipling’s tale about armadillos
having gotten their start when a tortoise and a hedgehog decided to do a “horseshoe theory” thing and, lacking forces, joined skills instead to outwit a young, still-living-with-his-mom jaguar.
http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/161/
I really enjoy your enthusiastic appreciation, dystopian.
I'm wagering that after your study you will recognise the drying flowers.
Caturday comes a day early!
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Thanks for the laughs, TLM n/t
Against coups now? Come to Hawai‘i, we gotcher coups rights here
https://www.hawaii-nation.org/soa.html
Coups for industry! Coups for the dead! Coups for [the sugar] industry!
— Firesign Theatre
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Skippy Ioane — Hawaiian Consciencism #2
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6SLSTeVOz0]
Thank you lotlizard for your tender literary references,
and the Hawaiian Consciencism video. I look forward to watching and listening to more.
I find much pleasure in the culture of the islands.
Skippy Ioane will probably be too spicy for many tastes,
but I’ve met him personally, he is one based Hawaiian. Here he touches on many topics, including fearless talk about the scourge of “ice” (meth) and drugs and individual responsibility for choices, even in his own family. If I may indulge in a little hyperbole, his spiritual roots in the earth reach way, way down, like Tūtū Pele’s, to beyond the Mohorovicic discontinuity.
At the other end of the spectrum, the intellectual cleverness, wordplay, and queer sophistication of quantum physicist Karen Barad:
https://dailyinspirationblog.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/how-queer-is-quant...
Thank you lotlizard, I enjoyed Skippy Ioane,
his language, philosophising, music and humour.
An old, but forever favourite ...
[video:https://youtu.be/TlxTYAbCDQU]
Our cat Ellie...
Has taken to sleeping in the bathtub...
She's always liked an open drawer...
She's become a bit addled in her old age.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”