This is the old Burke Building, built in 1895 in downtown Seattle. See the arched doorway in the center of the street level. Then look straight up. This old building had a real Cherry on Top. This is what it looks like now, in the plaza of the newer Federal Building on the same site. …
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Ruffles and Flourishes-Architectural Detail in Downtown Seattle
This week's Photo Challenge topic of Detail was perfect! I had been planning to do a post on this topic for a while, and everything came together nicely. This one also goes with last week's Look Up theme. So I packed up my camera and notebook, got in my car, and drove the 20 miles …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Opposites
Old....And Young In Cambridge, England The young lady, walking in front of the door to the oldest College at the University of Cambridge. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/opposites/
Thoughts on Independence Day
July Fourth is a day to celebrate. But what do we celebrate? Funny, but a man-on-the-street survey found that the average person does not know why we celebrate on the Fourth of July. This is depressing. If Americans don't know why July Fourth is important, how are they going to appreciate their country, and how …
More Proof that Islam is Evil…See Edit Below
ISIS fighters are forcing civilians to give blood to their wounded comrades. Palestinians celebrate the attack in Tel Aviv that murdered four innocent people in a crowded market. A Pakistani woman is burned alive by her mother, for marrying without the family's permission. ISIS executes its own fighters, in a search for "spies" in its …
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What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?
In this 1983 cartoon tribute to D-Day, Charles Schultz takes his Peanuts gang to France. I thank the people of Truth Revolt for the link to this. May we never forget the brave soldiers of America and England who gave their lives so we could be free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-SC890E75g
Memorial Day-They gave their Last Full Measure of Devotion
This Memorial Day Weekend, do not lose sight of the reason behind the holiday. We remember our fallen members of the US Military, who gave their lives so we might live in Liberty, Peace, and Prosperity. These brave soldiers, sailors, and airmen died in service to you, the American People, and it is incumbent upon …
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Jubilant! New Photo Challenge
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/jubilant/ These Jubilant gentlemen dance and play music at the same time, celebrating Life. (surrounded by evidence of death-many of the surrounding buildings are full of bullet-holes and chips from the 1967 war)
Weekly Photo Challenge:(Missing) Face
This lady is around 500 years old, and it is unknown how she lost her face. She is carved in two pieces, and you can see the depression where the peg that held her head and face went. She represents Agriculture, and she was harvesting grain from her family's fields, to feed her family, and …
Thursday Thoughts
I found an interesting statement in a Wall Street Journal review of a new book of the letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, writer of the "Little House" series about her childhood in the Midwest and on the prairie. It seems that, in her eighties, she did a radio broadcast, to the "Children of Chicago", and …
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