This morning when I went out the front door to walk across the street to our mailbox, I noticed that our neighborhood was shrouded in fog. We have a pear tree in the yard, and on my way back home I noticed that it was shrouded in spider webs, made more visible by the fog-deposited …
He Said it Better Than I could: If I were Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bid Welcome to our Guest Writer for today, Ricochet Member OmegaPaladin. I am very impressed with his essay on what he would do if he were the CDC Director. My sentiments exactly! I would start by taking the various department heads in a room to get my point across: Professionalism and competence earn respect. At …
The Mammoth Site
On our South Dakota trip, we spent a pleasant afternoon at the Mammoth Site, near the town of Hot Springs. For some reason, we thought that there were probably few people at the Hot Springs that day. Here's why. That's what WeatherBug told me. We were very pleasantly surprised to find that the site of …
Lens-Artists Challenge #116: Symmetry. It’s hard-wired.
In my graduate studies in Psychology, one unit we studied was "interpersonal attractiveness". The professors at my university had done numerous studies of what makes a person attractive. They asked thousands of study subjects to rate photographs of various people, male and female, young and old. There are many dimensions to attractiveness, and different people …
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Eww!
Have you ever seen a house with a worse color? This one just popped up in my neighborhood. Yuck!
Retirement: Things I will NOT miss about my job.
I have been retired for about three weeks now. The first almost two weeks were spent on vacation, so they almost don't count. Here is a list of the many things I will not miss about my last job (I was there for 12 years). Punching a time-clock. After much of a career as a …
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It must be uncomfortable to live in Seattle these days
With the city council overriding the mayor's veto of their bill making drastic cuts to the Seattle Police Department, and the number of homeless camps increasing all over the city, residents of Seattle may be worrying about the safety of themselves, their homes, and their children. Especially since for a few years now, Seattle police …
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Autumn is Here! Watch the Dancing Leaf!
This little video was taken through my second-floor bedroom window, looking down on a vine maple tree in the backyard. The leaf in the lower center looks like it is dancing in the air. Can you figure out how that leaf stays in the air?
He said it better than I could: Guest Writer Henry Racette on the open U.S. Supreme Court seat
Today, we feature another of our Ricochet writers, Henry Racette. Please enjoy and respond to his post on filling the new Supreme Court vacancy brought about by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday. About That Vacancy Now that the coronavirus crisis is essentially over but for the continuing economic disaster being wrought …
Lens-Artists Challenge #115 Inspiration
I am always inspired by the monumental, and not-so-monumental, works of human ingenuity. Whenever I see a bridge, or a mountain road, or a tall building, it reminds me of how people, down through the ages, have altered their environment by building things to make their lives easier, or to commemorate occasions or people. Structures …
