So Terri gave us alternatives this week. Photos of our town, or our favorite town. I live in Western Washington, in a small city considered a suburb of Seattle. This is the waterfront on Puget Sound, just north of the US Navy Base in Everett. This is Silver Lake, just south of my house. And …
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Sorry, I just couldn't resist the urge to put a couple of keyboard diagonals in the post title! Even the "number or hashtag" sign is made up of diagonals. Nature presents us with diagonals all the time. This shrub-steppe hillside in Eastern Oregon presents an obvious diagonal against the sky. For that matter, the clouds …
Continue reading Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #228: \\\ Diagonals ///
The story over at MyNorthwest dot com is about the "decommissioning" of the official Covid-19 response site that has been operating since early 2020. This is due to the fact that the pandemic emergency is over (yeah, right, with medical facilities still requiring ineffective masking for everyone), and site visits had decreased. So anyone wanting …
Do you take the Moon for granted? Or are you fascinated by our huge satellite, that is a significant proportion of the size of Earth, making it unique in our Solar System? Do you look at the Moon through binoculars or a telescope, and wonder what all those craters look like closer-up? Were you alive …
Today is the American Thanksgiving, the most important 100% American holiday. George Washington declared the first of such celebrations, giving thanks to God for bestowing upon America the blessings of a new continent, and the bounty it contained. He acknowledged that the tiny, new country was thriving, mostly due to God, and the efforts of …
Everything in our world has texture. Even thoughts can have texture, even if they can't be seen. Just last night, I captured our soft, shiny black cat on her high perch. Her coat is as soft as mink. Then again, she has so shredded the carpet on her tree that its texture has changed from …
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TikTok is now the most heavily-used social media app in the country. It is owned by a Communist Chinese company called ByteDance. And if that is not bad enough, its employees have admitted that US and European users' data can, and probably is, being accessed by its employees within Communist China. It is well known …
Continue reading Do you or your children use TikTok? You must STOP now!
Does this quote from a young man of my acquaintance prove it? Over at another Web site, he titled his essay "Good Riddance, America." His description of how young people feel and act is quite upsetting. But I think he is absolutely correct. And I think that my generation, the Baby Boomers, started it. I …
Continue reading Ronald Reagan said “Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction”
Last night, while contemplating the abysmal Republican performance in yesterday's elections, I had occasion to think in a new way about abortion. I live in the state of Washington, where abortion is the Holy Sacrament of the Left which runs this state. Unlike the rest of the country, where the abortion issue was at the …
Continue reading A new way to think about the abortion issue
Most of us are familiar with Communist Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping's "Zero Covid" policy. This policy involves an attempt to eliminate the Covid virus by mass-testing and confining populations in any area where even one "case" or positive test appears. entire cities have been locked down and tested if one resident tests positive for the …
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