To start with, these favorite finds are all from this month of August, 2022. I have a great liking for clouds, and I keep an album on my computer of just cloud photos. I was impressed with these wispy clouds around Colonial Peak in the North Cascades, when we visited the Diablo Lake Overlook on …
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I read Ayn Rand's huge novel, Atlas Shrugged, in high school, and I liked it then. And it seems pretty pertinent now. Here is a quote from that book. To me, it sounds like what is going on in our country today. In my opinion, Americans need to wake up and resist the not-so-gradual enslavement …
This paddle-board was spotted in late July on Beaver Lake near Bellevue, Washington. It's the first time I had ever seen three on one board. Priceless, don't you agree?
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This is Chesterfield Beach. Yep, concrete steps are what passes for a "beach" at Chesterfield Beach Park in Bellevue, Washington. A boat out on the lake made waves, splashing against the concrete steps.
We live in a part of the world that normally is deficient in sunshine. In fact, we in the Pacific Northwest are the home of the syndrome Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which means that in the winter with mostly-cloudy skies all the time, it can get depressing. And the treatment? UV light, or artificial sun. …
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I saw a news story today about firefighters in Seattle. It seems that, sometimes when the Seattle Fire Department responds to a fire, people at the site attack them. Yes, people are attacking city firefighters! If you know anything about the modern city of Seattle, you know that it is riddled with homeless encampments all …
Our neighbor, dropping by to take a drink from our bird-bath. We are having a heat wave right now, and I keep it full for everyone.
And Germany has been the bellwether. Back in the early 2000s, Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party made the momentous decision to begin the energy transition from "fossil fuels" to "renewables" as quickly as they could. The scare-quotes around both terms are on purpose, because fossil fuels are not fossils (who is to say that …
Shortly after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade, returning the control of abortion to the States, the Leftists who run Seattle and the State of Washington vowed to do all they could to "protect abortion rights in our area". This week, new Mayor Bruce Harrell signed a constellation of bills into law, that …
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