In the summer of 2006, after my orchestra played Carnegie Hall, my husband and I spent a couple of weeks touring around upstate New York. We visited Revolutionary War sites, including the battlefield at Saratoga, and Fort Ticonderoga. This is a view of Lake Champlain, seen through the frame of a window in one of …
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Just about the smartest thing I have done in recent years (aside from starting this blog) was to join Ricochet. Through the Center-Right Community of thoughtful, smart, and welcoming people, I have made new friends, expanded my knowledge, and partaken of some of the world's best humor. Doesn't it seem to you that much of …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare
This is a small pipe organ, manufactured in Estonia in 1844. Today, it resides in the Sitka Lutheran Church, in Alaska. I'm guessing that there aren't very many of these around. These are two views of the back of the organ. Here's my husband playing it, to give you an idea of why I couldn't …
Picking up Where Rush Left Off
Yeah, I'm way behind on my podcast listening. The one I listened to today was the end of July sometime. He recited a list of "what the Democrat Party is", entities and causes that many people don't know were Dem strongholds. He started with the ones that are most obvious in today's news: Black Lives …
What I did on my Summer Vacation
Hubby and I went on the Hillsdale College 10-day cruise to Alaska, aboard the Crystal Serenity. We spent about three years' worth of travel budget, but we sure got our money's worth, and more. Hillsdale does a big cruise every summer, and this was our first time. There were "Seminars at Sea", with noted speakers, including …
Photo Challenge: Cherry on Top
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. …
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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