I am just getting used to black and white again, trying to see my color photos that way. There are some scenes that just cry out to be black and white. Like these clouds. I took this photo through the windshield of our car on the highway. Here in the rainy Pacific Northwest, it's often …
Continue reading Sunday Stills: #Daylight in Black and White
Have you ever noticed that Nature's God abhors straight lines? Just look around you at Nature, and you will see that there are no straight lines in nature. Everything in the natural world is curved. Straight lines belong to items of human manufacture. When explorers and archaeologists are searching for signs of human habitation, from …
Have you ever heard of the Ranken-Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital? Neither had I, until they started paying for full-page ads in the print version of the Wall Street Journal. And they are massively wasting their ad spend in the WSJ, which must be a LOT of money! There are so many mistakes and missing elements …
And they firmly believe the sentiment in this ad I found while reading an article on my phone. However, I beg to differ, strenuously. This is Abortion. I really don't know what lives they are supposedly saving, but it sure isn't this one, or millions like it. I would love to show this picture to …
Back in 2019 BC (before Covid), there was a shindig called the Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration, every June in the Bavarian Village of Leavenworth, Washington. Accordion players would come from around the world to compete, play concerts, attend workshops, and generally have lots of fun. There were competitions for all age groups, from under 10 …
Continue reading Endearing, talented, cute, and fun! Alligator Waltz
And in other news, the War Zone Cesspit of Seattle/Tacoma continues to produce tales of woe, mostly caused by the political policies of the Far Left who run most cities around here. They have favored criminals over victims, homeless over taxpaying citizens, and teachers unions over parents for decades. Here is what those policies have …
The Dictator of Washington State removed the state-wide Covid Mask Mandate as of midnight on Friday, March 11. The wearing of masks indoors remains mandatory for all medical/dental facilities and jails, and on government/public transportation (including ride-shares like Uber and Lyft, which are not government-owned). So on Saturday and Sunday, I kept my eyes open …
Every Friday, the Wall Street Journal print edition has a section entitled Mansion, where they do stories on homes of the rich and famous, and merely rich. Sometimes, they do a subject like "bought an old house and renovated it", and profile families who bought and renovated old houses. There are also many stories about …
A couple of years ago, a Ricochet friend turned me on to author T. Lee Harris, who wrote a short novel (The Eloquent Scribe) set in ancient Egypt in the time of Pharaoh Ramesses II. The hero of the detective story is a young apprentice scribe named Sitehuti. In the first chapter, he acquires a …
Continue reading Are you fascinated by Ancient Egypt? Have I got a Podcast for You!
Cee Neuner runs a bunch of fun photo challenges. First, she runs her "Flower of the Day" (FOTD) challenge...daily! Then, weekly she has her CMMC (Cee's Midweek Madness Challenge). So, this week's CMMC challenge topic is "Rainbow Colors/more than four colors in your photo". [links are to today's challenges] Well, it just so happens that …
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