Fiat justitia ruat caelum on Creative Arts Three Day Weekend
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First-things-First; A BIG THANKS to BUZZ for taking charge of last week's article!
RED BOX RULES: AN IMPORTANT REMINDER
From time-to-time, I should remind all members of NT, etc., that when posting photos, artwork, etc., it's important, when posting, that you own, and/or legally represent the licensing, copyright, etc., of what you post, and TO PROTECT YOUR WORK, TO INCLUDE YOUR COPYRIGHT SYMBOL/INFORMATION; and/or, WHEN POSTING COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY BELONGING TO PARTIES OTHER THAN YOURSELF, TO …
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Let justice be done...
From what has just happened, so far it has been done, but what effect that will have is yet to be seen.
I had to look it up on google translate. my take on the day...
And you are welcome. And I thank you for quoting what I often say about the movies. And fortunately this weekly Creative Arts series normally gets enough contributions that it will probably remain on the Front (Home) Page without too much struggle, considering the American political news these days.
My 15 year old computer finally died after recently struggling to stay alive. I have lost a lot that was on it, but I have saved many of my photos on flash drives and all the photos I have taken with the Panasonic camera I've been using for a number of years are still on its memory disc, so I will be trying to load them onto this new computer I am using in order to be able to continue contributing to the creative arts weekend articles. What a great relief it is to turn on a computer and not have to wait 10 minutes for it to be warmed up and ready to use, and to click on things and not wait 2 or 3 minutes for a connection.
You should be able to pull the hard drive from the old computer and purchase an inexpensive enclosure to make it an external drive. It's all really simple and easy. Then you can pull everything from it at your leisure.
I think it's the hard drive that died from old age, or maybe the problem is because I kicked the shit out of the computer when it wouldn't work.
cool. I have a box of fried laptops and the only reason they didn't get tossed was because of all the pictures on them.
Views from the Train - Traveling from Xi'an to Beijing
(All images © G. Gam 2024)
Nice views from the train, although it seems to be a little misty for the middle one.
Thanks.
I like that.
So last week we were in the Seattle area to vacation.
Throwing fish at the famous Pike's Place Market.
Chihuly Glass...
...and Garden.
At the top of the Space Needle.
Taking a rainy ferry ride from Anacortes to Friday Harbor
There was a Orca pod family of 4 first spotted just inside Friday Harbor on our whale watching tour.
Saw a small herd of elk in the Olympic National Forest on the HOH Rainforest Hall of Mosses trail.
It was too foggy to see much of anything up on Hurricane Ridge, but we did see this Black Tail deer and her baby.
Spent the night in Port Angles.
Hung out on the beach at La Push and Rialto.
I've edited 71 images so far and I have many to still go through.
Evening evil..great range of photos from your holiday..
Love the deer and orcas... hope you had a great time..
Thank you shona. We did have a good time, but we did a lot and it was good to be home too.
I look forward to seeing more of your photos..
Yes it is nice to get back home again...I was away for 1.5 years in my younger days.
Went to Europe, Britain, Israel and Egypt...cant hack 26 hours in a plane now though..so stick closer to home..
Beautiful photos. It looks like you had a great trip.
... with the mrs blending in wearing some flannel.
sneakers, levi's, obnoxious t shirt, and flannel used to be my standard uniform back in the day...
A really nice group; interesting and well done to say the very least!
Looks like you had a good vacation and saw a lot of interesting things
I love the pic with the Chihuly Glass.
Chihuly is great. One of my favorite contemporary artists. I've seen several of his pieces in person at various locations, Including an exhibition of his work at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts several years ago, as well as in photographs and a documentary on PBS.
Many thanks for taking us along on that trip. Those weird things sprouting out of the ground make me think of a couple of Sci-Fi movies I've seen - for example, the movie Battleship that I watched recently, and one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
The "weird things sprouting out of the ground" are pieces by the outstanding glass artist Dale Chihuly. Check him out.
LOL. You just threw water on my fantasy.
Hope you stopped at Port Townsend on the way to or from Hurricane Ridge. Always used to take the Ferry when we were camping on Whidbey Island to Port Townsend. Loved that trip no matter the weather. There used to be this harpist who would play... Ahh. To be young again.
Evening...one of our tugs heading out to push the ship out of the harbour.. it's loaded with wood chips from the pine plantations...
... got a match?
Not since Superman died.
(Sorry. Ancient joke.)
... totally 60's. your breath and a buffalo fart is the 70's version... (not you personally...)
Further proof that the 60's were a vastly superior decade than the 70's.
More of this is needed.
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I hate those itches you can't reach to scratch...
Morning Vangy.. you loppy?
>sigh< ... 2 people separated by a common language...
Means are you scratching and itching..
Eg..that cat looks loppy..it's scratching because its got fleas etc..
I wouldn't have guessed that...
... and I won't say what my first thought was.
Evening..come on spill the beans..😁
... uh, no. just use your imagination...
And this...
The brushies rolled up again last night.. they eat apples and bananas and love rose bushes..I like them and I am wrapped they are here..can be noisy though they growl and hiss and if they get inside your roof it's big trouble.. they pee everywhere...
My SIL from Ukraine tells them to "go away", and tells my brother to "get rid of them" because they eat her veggies and roses...
I can hear the brushies laughing from my place... it's not happening, they are protected..🤣
You have cute little furries hanging around your yard. I have this:
and its more cautious neighbor
Morning...are they harmless or poisonous? Nice looking snake though..
Harmless, and in fact beneficial, as they keep the venomous ones away. But good luck convincing my dog of that. He wanted to kill them, and hated when I got close enough to snap a pic.
He sounds very protective of you.
He is.
He has also killed a few snakes, and it would not have surprised me at all if he'd taken on both of these.
Good guy.
He's a good guy, but he's convinced he's a big guy. Black snake bites tend to cause nasty infections, even though they aren't venomous, so I didn't want him going after them. Also, I want them to kill mice and the gypsy moth caterpillars that have descended on our part of Virginia this summer.
Sounds a very beneficial snake to have around... unfortunately here if a dog is bitten they are cactus (dead) within a very short time..
Sometimes the vets can save them it's mega $$ and they are never the same again..the venom does something to the blood cells..
We have anti venom etc for humans and animals and most human's usually survive but have life long health issues.. but we do lose a few people each year, often they don't realise they have even been bitten...
We have timber rattlesnakes and copperheads here, and they are venomous and occasionally fatal. But they avoid black snakes, so I don't mind having black snakes around, as long as they don't surprise me.
The more fatal snakes are generally in the south and southwest. I live in the mid-Atlantic, where the critters aren't so scary.
When I was a little kid I used to spend a lot of my free time in the ravine behind our home, or the nearby forest, and I would play with the salamanders and snakes. However, luckily, the snakes I encountered were garter snakes or similar harmless ones. Rattlers were in the area and it's a damn good thing I never came across one.
Yes, black snakes. Technically eastern racers, I believe. One is coiled on the surface of the ground, and one is just peeking its head out of a hole in the ground.
When I found them, the one hiding in its hole was above ground, but it slithered home pretty quickly.
Ooops, I read your question, typed a response, then forgot to hit "post" before you edited your question.
I had a garter snake living under the front porch steps for a while, but the dog killed it. Shame, it was cute.
Sorry to mislead you. I changed my comment when I read on and saw that the following comments answered the question I had asked.
Great, adding another day of therapy.
I see your green snake and raise you one judgmental green snake.
Okay, I'll see your green snake and raise you one garter snake.
Wow Snuffy.. what a great looking snake..
Sorry for that.
Nice..
I'll call that Garter snake and raise you one Florida Burmese python.
LOL, if dragons were real I would have raised you with a fire-breathing dragon, but because they're not, you win, I'm folding.
Arvo...this is one of our deadliest..the Inland Taipan..get bitten you are as good as dead...one bite there is enough venom to kill one hundred men..
Not my photo and I would not be seen for dead if I came across one of these..they are also highly aggressive and will chase you to attack..
Nicely marked though if the camera is not shaking...
It sounds like they might make a nice pet.
Yes you can send it to yours "friends".. gift wrapped naturally..😁
... or matching belt and hatband.
PETA
people eating tasty animals?
Morning ...I was trying to think of something as well.. funny I got people eating and then drew a blank after that...that is hilarious..
it's an old joke that infuriates bunny huggers...
Arvo..I will remember that..
Some of my rellies kids are all green and vegan....this will go off like a bucket of prawns in the sun..
all is fair in love, war, and comedy...
And another in a study of reflections and ripples from Garnet Lake....
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Arvo...is that the natural colour of the lake or was it a cloudy day making the water darker?
Took that one last night at 7:06 PM. The sun hadn't set, but the mountains surrounding Garnet Lake put the western shore of the lake in shadow. Water, it turns out, mirrors the colors of the sky, and depending upon perspective, the features/colors of the land. This is my round-about way of saying that the lake itself is normally clear, with the shoreline reflected in the most of the picture with a little tidbit of darkening but still blue sky in the foreground....
This picture of Raveena (RIP
) on Memorial Day Weekend, 2016 is taken in the morning on the shoreline but looking in the same direction as the picture above.
Water is a mirror that is alive with wind and light.
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She sure was a pretty girl.
That is a SUPER portrait, perfect to invoke the memories never to be forgotten..
Morning Thomas..what a gorgeous photo..
Yes they break our hearts when they no longer walk beside us..💔
Perfection!
our pets teach us unconditional love, loyalty, and how to grieve for a loved ones loss...
We are looking incredibly good in this thread! Very impressive.
I will add some reptiles of my own later today.
I thought no politics were allowed here...
Morning!!!
Not my photo .
A fair assessment.
??? What about the flags?
last time I played golf in the south there was a gator in the water hazard. I chipped some water balls in his direction until a course marshal told me it was their mascot and it's name. kids in my state that live next to golf courses have a cottage industry diving for balls in the water hazards and reselling them out of their backyard stands. I've seen a few salvaged clubs for sale too. I don't suppose that's a popular side gig for kids in florida.
Which flags? The Ukraine & Israel flags?
Yes. There was a comment about no politics - those two flags are politics. Actually I think it would be preferable if this group were apolitical.
The "no politics" comment I took to imply that politicians were "reptilian" - otherwise, consider the flags as functional art …
Okay, then I'll 'waive' my feelings about it.
A Fishing Companion of Mine.
It's a little big to be used as bait, so do you consider it to be competition?
I'm trying to convince him to accept the practice of "catch and release" … but so far, all releases are post-digestive.
Sounds more like my phishing philosophy.
number 8 on the extra value meal menu...
Hey, A.Mac, have you ever thought of using a different kind of bait?
If you ever did, you might change your mind about "catch and release". LOL.
A few planks from a pedestrian bridge in Richmond, VA. We all need to be reminded that American history has some ugly moments that need to never be repeated.
Hey, A.Mac., are you thinking of renaming the weekly article "Creative Arts Four Day Weekend"?
Consider every extra minute a bonus; otherwise, thanks to all and see you Thursday.