Good morning from Atlanta where it feels like fall.
Nice photo from Arizona!
I shed more tears over all the interviews with students at Apalachee High School. How can they go back? How can their parents deal with sending them back there? Also praying for the mom of the shooter whose son and now husband have been arrested on murder charges.
Some of the Funnies are funny, some are sad, and some I did not understand. Read for comedy and tragedy, and a chance to bobble your head in wonder and the bliss of not knowing.
That’s a very cool photo. What an amazing country we live in with so many different topographies. A good reason that many issues must be dealt with locally.
I am so bummed that I put an extra cup of flour in the sourdough French bread I mixed up in the bread machine. The evidence was the way it raised, (lots of peaks and valleys) and how it felt (dry and heavy, instead of light and airy). I have yet to see how bad that will make it.
I see that the Georgia school shooter has a public defender, at least for the initial proceeding, Zane Harmon. Thinking how that lawyer may be thinking, “Why me?”
Public defenders have tough jobs; I knew one personally in NY and it’s no easy job for believers who choose that course and must weigh so many personal issues while still providing a defense for the accused, trusting the system we have set up in the U.S. They are overworked, as well.
Well, we weren’t able to escape this summer without a heat wave, after all, we’re getting it now. We’ve had such a mild summer (2 summers in a row) that I suppose it was bound to happen. No marine layer, just oppressive heat. But it’s worse to the north of us in “The Valley” of LA, temps are soaring well above 100; we’re hitting around 90 for highs, but that’s miserable enough. (And high humidity which we are just not used to here.)
Happy Friday everyone — Kathaleena, good point @11:07 about how many issues are best dealt with locally still.
Harmonica plays as the moon rises, the sun still at your back. Your horse is tired, you both need water, but you’ve got to press on if you want to hit Phoneix by dawn to catch that snake what cut you out of your share of the stage coach robbery and left you for dead in a ditch a ways back…..
I decided to go with a new email provider, Proton. It is out of Switzerland. It is high on security and does not access info to sell to marketers or use for other purposes according to my research. Son has a friend who uses it so I got an affirmative when I asked son if he’d heard of it. He said it is good.
Good day, all. I took my dad in for a doctor visit, he is the picture of health. When we got home, he thanked me because he has not had a birthday party in a long time.
I have a chokeberry bush next to the deck and the birds are leaving way too much purple poop. What a problem! I will wait a bit to cut the branches back. I hate to do it when there are so many birds taking advantage of the berries.
The header photo: Although I grew up in Arizona, all but two of my first 22 years living in Phoenix or one of its suburbs, to the best of my knowledge I was only in Tucson once, a trip we took when I was 10 or 12. But having read for years how good the birding is there, having wanted ever since that first visit to someday visit the Sonora-Desert Museum, and having seen that the Saguaro National Park has been established since I was last in Tucson, I decided to get hotel rooms for two nights and three days in Tucson.
I made good use of that time, spending the better part of one day with a docent (friend of a friend) at the museum, several hours with her at the Paton Center for Hummingbirds (where I got several lifers, including two hummingbird species), and three or four visits to the Saguaro National Park. And she even drove me around the desert a bit to find my first-ever sighting of pronghorn and a bonus of some mule deer!
At Saguaro National Park I particularly wanted to get a photo of saguaros at sunset, a photo I’ve wanted ever since I first saw such photos, but never managed to get when I lived in Phoenix. Repeatedly I pulled over at little pullouts along the road and got out to walk around a bit, getting photos of saguaro but also of the many cactus and wildflowers in multiple colors of bloom. And I was at one pullout just in time to see the nearly full moon come up over the mountain, gloriously. I got several photos, but soon it was high enough in the sky not to be the “moon rising” shot anymore, and I drove on. A few minutes later I stopped again, and to my delight, the moon rose over a new mountain. I got several shots of it and then decided to try to place it behind a saguaro, and that ended up being my favorite shot.
I didn’t end up being in quite the right place for the sunsets behind saguaro shot that night, being distracted by the moonrise, but I came back the next night and got better sunset shots. And the next night was actually the full moon, and that night I saw the moon “birthed” from the side of a mountain, though I didn’t get any good photos of that. (It’s really tricky to get photos of the moon in a scene that show any details on the moon and also show the scene. Apparently those are usually composite photos, focus on the moon for one shot and on the scene for another and then put them together. The photo in the header is not a composite. It doesn’t have quite as much moon detail as a shot of only the moon would have, but it has some, and I like the photo.)
This was actually the only time on the trip I wished I had a smart phone, because I really wanted to send my husband this shot and have him see it “with” me. It was one of my favorite moments from a really lovely two weeks.
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Good morning from Atlanta where it feels like fall.
Nice photo from Arizona!
I shed more tears over all the interviews with students at Apalachee High School. How can they go back? How can their parents deal with sending them back there? Also praying for the mom of the shooter whose son and now husband have been arrested on murder charges.
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Ah! Southern Arizona! My favorite place.
And it’s again Friday, some people’s favorite day of the week.
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Some of the Funnies are funny, some are sad, and some I did not understand. Read for comedy and tragedy, and a chance to bobble your head in wonder and the bliss of not knowing.
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That’s a very cool photo. What an amazing country we live in with so many different topographies. A good reason that many issues must be dealt with locally.
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I am so bummed that I put an extra cup of flour in the sourdough French bread I mixed up in the bread machine. The evidence was the way it raised, (lots of peaks and valleys) and how it felt (dry and heavy, instead of light and airy). I have yet to see how bad that will make it.
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Turn it into lemon bread pudding!
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I see that the Georgia school shooter has a public defender, at least for the initial proceeding, Zane Harmon. Thinking how that lawyer may be thinking, “Why me?”
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Love the pic Cheryl.
Aj
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Public defenders have tough jobs; I knew one personally in NY and it’s no easy job for believers who choose that course and must weigh so many personal issues while still providing a defense for the accused, trusting the system we have set up in the U.S. They are overworked, as well.
Well, we weren’t able to escape this summer without a heat wave, after all, we’re getting it now. We’ve had such a mild summer (2 summers in a row) that I suppose it was bound to happen. No marine layer, just oppressive heat. But it’s worse to the north of us in “The Valley” of LA, temps are soaring well above 100; we’re hitting around 90 for highs, but that’s miserable enough. (And high humidity which we are just not used to here.)
Happy Friday everyone — Kathaleena, good point @11:07 about how many issues are best dealt with locally still.
And that is a gorgeous photo!
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It’s like the start of a Western movie.
Harmonica plays as the moon rises, the sun still at your back. Your horse is tired, you both need water, but you’ve got to press on if you want to hit Phoneix by dawn to catch that snake what cut you out of your share of the stage coach robbery and left you for dead in a ditch a ways back…..
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I decided to go with a new email provider, Proton. It is out of Switzerland. It is high on security and does not access info to sell to marketers or use for other purposes according to my research. Son has a friend who uses it so I got an affirmative when I asked son if he’d heard of it. He said it is good.
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Good day, all. I took my dad in for a doctor visit, he is the picture of health. When we got home, he thanked me because he has not had a birthday party in a long time.
mumsee
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So glad you are back, Mumsee. With your health problems lately, I was concerned.
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The bread is good enough to eat as bread. I toasted a couple of pieces and had butter and jelly with it. 🙂
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I have a chokeberry bush next to the deck and the birds are leaving way too much purple poop. What a problem! I will wait a bit to cut the branches back. I hate to do it when there are so many birds taking advantage of the berries.
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The header photo: Although I grew up in Arizona, all but two of my first 22 years living in Phoenix or one of its suburbs, to the best of my knowledge I was only in Tucson once, a trip we took when I was 10 or 12. But having read for years how good the birding is there, having wanted ever since that first visit to someday visit the Sonora-Desert Museum, and having seen that the Saguaro National Park has been established since I was last in Tucson, I decided to get hotel rooms for two nights and three days in Tucson.
I made good use of that time, spending the better part of one day with a docent (friend of a friend) at the museum, several hours with her at the Paton Center for Hummingbirds (where I got several lifers, including two hummingbird species), and three or four visits to the Saguaro National Park. And she even drove me around the desert a bit to find my first-ever sighting of pronghorn and a bonus of some mule deer!
At Saguaro National Park I particularly wanted to get a photo of saguaros at sunset, a photo I’ve wanted ever since I first saw such photos, but never managed to get when I lived in Phoenix. Repeatedly I pulled over at little pullouts along the road and got out to walk around a bit, getting photos of saguaro but also of the many cactus and wildflowers in multiple colors of bloom. And I was at one pullout just in time to see the nearly full moon come up over the mountain, gloriously. I got several photos, but soon it was high enough in the sky not to be the “moon rising” shot anymore, and I drove on. A few minutes later I stopped again, and to my delight, the moon rose over a new mountain. I got several shots of it and then decided to try to place it behind a saguaro, and that ended up being my favorite shot.
I didn’t end up being in quite the right place for the sunsets behind saguaro shot that night, being distracted by the moonrise, but I came back the next night and got better sunset shots. And the next night was actually the full moon, and that night I saw the moon “birthed” from the side of a mountain, though I didn’t get any good photos of that. (It’s really tricky to get photos of the moon in a scene that show any details on the moon and also show the scene. Apparently those are usually composite photos, focus on the moon for one shot and on the scene for another and then put them together. The photo in the header is not a composite. It doesn’t have quite as much moon detail as a shot of only the moon would have, but it has some, and I like the photo.)
This was actually the only time on the trip I wished I had a smart phone, because I really wanted to send my husband this shot and have him see it “with” me. It was one of my favorite moments from a really lovely two weeks.
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