Your SOTU Founders Comment for the day

Tonight's State of the Union speech was held inside a Capitol surrounded by a fence.  Why the fence, you ask?  That fence was erected because the shrinking violets in the US Congress and Senate live in fear of their own constituents.  Here's what one of America's Founding Fathers had to say about that. How many …

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CFFC: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bark and Leaves

Woof!!   That's the bark. Nah, not really! How about these?  They are two different Douglas Fir trees.  The one on the left was cut down, and I took the picture to show how thick its bark is.  The one on the right is very much alive, growing near Deception Pass on Whidbey Island. Here's …

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