This is the time of year when emptiness can predominate. All the leaves have fallen off the deciduous trees, leaving their branches empty. But still beautiful. In the autumn, most beaches are empty of people, since the vacationers are gone. We were fortunate to visit Cape May, on the Jersey Shore, in October, when the …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #277: Empty Spaces
Hello, everyone. This week's challenge is going to be great fun for me, as I am always in the habit of looking both up and down for good photos. It's amazing what you can spot, if you look down around your knees. We have been some places recently that had beautiful flower containers on the …
It occurred to me today that it's been a long time since I did a Limbaugh Quote post. Here's a short, sweet quote from Rush, about how he felt about school. I'd get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother would have …
I just love watching out for funny or original signs, and they seem to be just about everywhere. In the 1980s, there was a popular TV series called Twin Peaks, that was filmed in the local town of North Bend, in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. The town takes full advantage of that little …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #272: Billboards and Signs
One of the great benefits of having a cell phone with a great camera, is that you always have it with you to capture those scenes that just show up without warning. Yesterday, as we were walking back to our car after the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra concert, we took a stroll through the Puget …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #270: On Display
On my way home from work this afternoon, I followed a bus run by Everett Transit. And then I burst out laughing. Take a look at this, and I will tell you why. And, by the way, this is funny-tragic, not funny ha-ha. It seems that our all-environmentalist all the way City of Everett bought …
Continue reading The Government of the City of Everett, WA is a bunch of Chumps
Remember when, to get you to do your chores at home, your mother would tell you that the world does not owe you a living? You were supposed to do your part to provide for yourself by doing chores around the house. Well, it seems that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, in …
We were told back in 2020 that the Covid virus was lethal, and that seniors everywhere were succumbing to the respiratory infection. We heard alarming stories of nursing homes virtually emptying out, as their residents died in their numbers. We were forced to wear masks whenever out of our homes, and sometimes even in our …
Since the Washington State Legislature instituted an onerous "carbon tax" on all "polluters", the price of gasoline has skyrocketed. Washington now has the second-highest gas prices in the nation, and it is set to go higher forever. There is no upper limit. Here is a local station, a week ago. And here it is today. …
Continue reading Government thinks the people are stupid, forces utility to lie to customers.
As per this detailed article in the Epoch Times, YouTube is now officially the propaganda arm of the World Health Organization (WHO). Their new (well. not really new) policy comes just in time for the new government Pandemic Panic. Here are some quotes from the linked article. [emphasis mine] YouTube has introduced a new “medical …
Continue reading Is it time for creators to abandon YouTube now?
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