Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #208: Summer Vibes

Summer time, and the living is easy.  Right?  Summer is when many people go on vacations, the kids are out of school, and there are no heating bills (but there are cooling bills!).  Heat doesn't agree with me, so summer is not my favorite season of the year; but we have gone on some great …

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Keep on the Sunny Side

With all the gloom and doom, and BS going around these days, it's time for something sunny and optimistic.  Let's search the archives for some sunny photos. A sunny day along the Clark Fork River in Montana. The sunny side of the street, in Cape May, New Jersey. The late-afternoon sunny beach at Deception Pass. …

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Seattle-area crime report, July 13, 2022

Here are today's stories regarding the increasing level of crime taking place in the Seattle area.  Most local police departments are short-handed these days.  And the Seattle City Council is still hostile to law-enforcement. Prolific catalytic-converter thief arrested, released a day later.  Arrested in Bellevue, east of Lake Washington.  King County judges release suspects all …

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The multi-billion-dollar Webb Space Telescope, showing us our Universe

Much has been made, in the press, about the huge cost overruns on the Webb Space Telescope project. It's time now to ignore all the cost overruns, and see the result of decades of scientific work by NASA and its private-sector partners.  Today, the first images taken by the Webb telescope in its orbit around …

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Your fun science story for the week-Head of Hercules Found in ancient shipwreck

I found this original story at the Daily Wire, about how divers exploring a Roman-era shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera, found the missing piece of a statue, where the body was recovered about 100 years ago!  Here's a picture of the body of the statue, which resides in the Greek Archaeological Museum. I …

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Sunday Stills, Monthly Color Challenge: Seeing Red All Over!

Red is my favorite color.  In fact, I finally got the chance to have a red house!  In our complex, with its detached condos, we get re-painted every five years or so, and we were up last year.  I finally got the "barn red" I've always wanted, and we get lots of compliments.  It sure …

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Dispatch from the deteriorating Puget Sound area

Here in the Seattle area, like in many cities across America, we are seeing a deterioration of many different areas of society.  Public schools are failing, having been closed for many months during the Covid pandemic (by governments).  Parents are pulling their kids out of public schools, so reduced numbers of students lead to less …

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The first consumer product designed for the Great Reset?

The Swiss company, On Holdings, manufactures running shoes.  I first heard about this company in the Wall Street Journal, in an article about their new "Sustainable" running shoe model, the CloudNeo.  This shoe is designed to be used, worn out, and then returned to the company for recycling.  For maybe the first time, a consumer …

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Boat, Waterfront Place Everett

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #207: Seeing Double

Double trouble.  Double indemnity.  Double-cross.  My photos for "seeing double" aren't all reflections, but they are all double.  How about this formidable pair of musicians, the Eyer Sisters? Both young ladies are excellent musicians, and they stole the show at the Accordion Celebration this year. On my outings to the new Waterfront Place development on …

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Biden bestowed the highest civilian honor on an anti-police homosexual activist

...who just so happens to lead the US Women's Soccer (socialist sport) Team, which has done much better than the men.  Megan Rapinoe is a smart-ass who has no compunctions about trashing police and her own country.  She is thoroughly undeserving of the high honor of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and over at RedState.com, …

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