Earlier today, at Cape Canaveral in Florida, a Space Exploration Technology (SpaceX) rocket took off for space, carrying two American astronauts in its Crew Dragon Capsule. The team on the ground cheered, and Americans who were watching cheered as they watched the first manned space mission in many years. This is a tribute to the …
For my friend in Thailand
The Thai publisher of the Harry Potter books has come out with a new series of covers, and illustrations from the books. This is the cover art from the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Isn't the artwork beautiful? At WizardingWorld.com they have a whole series of the new cover and illustration art.
The best argument I have ever heard against Executive Orders on Covid Response
From a judge in an Illinois court: “Before I rule, I’m advising everybody in this room, no public outbursts or displays. The court is still in session until you are told otherwise. Since the inception of this insanity, the following regulations, rules or consequences have occurred: I won’t get COVID if I get an abortion …
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #98-Delicate Colors
Others have mentioned that life is fragile. This blogger begs to differ. On our Planet Earth, not only is Life not fragile, there is no niche anywhere on Earth that is not occupied by some form of Life. Living things have been found from the deepest deep-sea trenches under the oceans, to the volcanic craters …
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Memorial Day Tribute from Hillsdale College
On this Memorial Day, with the cemeteries closed down, the parades cancelled, and most public activities not taking place, Hillsdale College has prepared a moving tribute. Please watch, and remember the reason for this National Holiday. Hillsdale College Tribute on Memorial Day
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #97 – Pastimes
One of my favorite things to do when I'm out and about is bird-watching. I have a 1960s Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide to Western Birds, and I keep a "life list" in the back, checking off the birds I have seen. I especially like traveling, and seeing birds that we don't have here on …
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Voices from the Lockdown
In my travels through the Wall Street Journal last week, I heard the following voices, calling out of the Wilderness that is "Coronavirus Lockdown", variously enforced in most of the United States, by Governors and Mayors who don't like the US Constitution very much. They issue various decrees upon their Subjects, forcing them to stay …
Bubble-wrapped America: Hairdressers are afraid to re-open their salons in Washington State
The always-alarmed Press has got Americans so afraid of dying of the Wuhan Coronavirus that they have convinced some hairdressers in the Pacific Northwest that they would be in mortal danger from their customers, if they re-open their salons in the next "phase" of His Royal Highness Jay Inslee's plan to re-open the Washington State …
Skimmers! We Have Skimmers (and Terns, and Gulls)
In October of 2012, Hubby and I went to New Jersey, where he was born, to attend his family Catholic church's 120th anniversary. On that trip, we drove out to the Jersey Shore, and spent a nice day at Cape May. It was absolutely beautiful for October; bright and sunny with temperatures in the 70s. …
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #96-Crop the Shot
I like to call it "Zoom-in-Zoom Out". Instead of taking one photo and cropping out the extraneous features, I find a subject and zoom closer in on it, to see the finer and many times more interesting features that might be missed in the wider view. I took these one day at our favorite day …
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