Beautiful photo. Almost looks surreal.
Tom Corbett Space Cadet was my favorite show in the early 1950s. Thought I died and went to Heaven when Star Trek premiered and couldn't believe that it lasted only 3 seasons, but I was quite happy with all the various spinoffs that Star Trek generated. I'm really hoping to live long enough to see a working food replicator, and it seems we are getting close to those wonderful medical little hand scanners used by the Medical Team. Gene Roddenberry's imagination seems to have been prophetic in the many areas of technology.
Thanks for the AM chuckle, but its that "voting" part that really bothers me.
It is definitely a "keeper"! I downloaded it and studied it for a full 5 minutes because no matter where I looked in your photo, everything was just perfect. Couldn't have timed it better.
How lucky you are to live in a country that has such a rich history with so very many castles and grand estates. A photographer's paradise.
YoungEsqr wrote:
Oh Lord! You must have gotten a check from T. Bone Pickens or from the Koch brothers. HELP!!!!! and I DO mean "Bone".
I don't know about T. Boone Pickens, but the Koch Bros. are Libertarians, so you can't lump them up with the average Conservative. BTW, the Koch Bros are HUGE contributors to PBS programing.
NBC seems to have a chronic problem with truth as illustrated by their poorly edited version of the Treyvon Martin incident. They really got the racist ball rolling with their out of context, inflammatory editing of the story. The press apparently has forgotten why we have the First Amendment. Many of them fit into the category of Novelists rather than Journalists.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/14/zimmerman-trayvon-martin-nbc-news-column-rieder/2516251/We have always watched NBC and FOX because we wanted to get all sides of the news, but I think that Brian William's credibility has diminished in the public's opinion and we will find other news programs and hope that they are truly journalists.
SteveR wrote:
No kiddin'. My elementary school was right across the street from the foundry of Pontiac Motors. We grew up tough, with a lot of kids the sons of factory workers. We played a version of Red Rover called Buck Buck. Rough and tough, but it got all the aggression out of us before we headed back to class.
I sometimes wonder if more recess time and allowing the kids to run around and get the kinks out wouldn't be preferable to dosing them with Ritalin?
Unbelievable! If a bunch of kids today ever decided to play Red Rover, Red Rover at recess they'd probably be expelled & brought up on charges of assault and battery. Sad, really sad, that kids today will never know the freedom to be kids that we experienced growing up. :-(
We keep ours in the garage where there is a very HD wire that runs to a GenSet in the basement. The Generator is on wheels, so when we need it we roll it over to the open garage door and let it vent that way, but it is kept dry at all times. The plug-in for it is near the door.
[quote=u02bnpx]My major objecyion to so much contemporary music is the burying of the lyrics, which I hear (or don't hear} even in fine entertainers like Springsteen or Jagger. Re the "lion" song that opened Perry's show last night, how many of you knew that these were the lyrics? (Supposedly, her young female fans adore her for her assertiveness, among other things.)
"Roar"
I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath
Scared to rock the boat and make a mess
So I sat quietly, agreed politely
I guess that I forgot I had a choice
I let you push me past the breaking point
I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Already brushing off the dust
You hear my voice, you hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the ground
You held me down, but I got up (HEY!)
Get ready 'cause Ive had enough
I see it all, I see it now
etc.........
Is that what she sang/screamed? Could have fooled me. Other than the word "tiger" I understood none of it. When it comes to music, the younger generations seem pretty happy wallowing and reveling in mediocrity. There was a time when a performer(s) came out on a stage, with a curtain for background, told jokes, sang or danced and we all appreciated THEIR talent, not the creativity of the special effects entourage. There are no more Beatles, Elvis's, Roy Clarks, Flatt & Scruggs, Dions, etc., who relied on their pure talent and not pyrotechnics or LED displays to make up for what they lacked.
There are many of us "Yanks" who cringe when we hear our, admittedly difficult to execute, National Anthem sung by "warblers". Being a traditionalist in most areas, I do not believe that this is the way Francis Scott Key imagined his 'rockets' red glare' to morph.
I agree. I'm just wondering when real talent will trump special effects?
Loved your pictures of the old trains! Years ago when we went to Disney World I was delighted to see the old trains and I could have spent hours just riding around Disney World on those old trains.
Beautiful. Just Beautiful. I knew a Japanese artist years ago who used to paint pictures that looked like your photo. Same sort of focus on the detail of something very ordinary in the foreground, but with a mysterious mistiness to the background that made the ordinary outstanding. Thanks for sharing.