What's More Americana than Route 66 on Creative Arts Three Day Weekend
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cool old truck pictures, amac!
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Your three Route 66 photos are a great take on Americana, love the style.
Some varied shots from my collection
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The vase in the last photo is really interesting.
It's a large urn, embedded into the stone wall. It's in the campus of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, and I believe the students practise their skills making urns, because there are hundreds of them all over the camp us.
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Is that how they earn their degrees?
They do it to just pass the pottery class exam.
I meant "urn" their degrees...
LOL
Route 66, I used to live near there. I will have to find some pictures from that era.
For now I will post the video that I am currently most infatuated with, that of Nanci Griffith on Austin City Limits somewheres wayback when. She has passed on, but her music still lives and breathes. An excellent storyteller, she sets up the song ad then delivers on the promise... I hope you enjoy.
Going Up...
Evening... speaking of cars a foreign national decided it was a good idea to imitate a cop car in Sydney the other week.. people were very suspicious when he pulled them over due a very obvious glaring mistake...
He had false ID, was carrying a gun and said he worked for the consulate...he was arrested and couldn't work out why people were dubious of him...
I'm less than a mile from Route 66, and drive it locally all the time. It's just a 2 lane blacktop like so many other roads, but with historical buildings along it here and there – old gas stations and cabin-style motels built in the 1930s which have been converted into small stand-alone apartments out in the country. I've always wondered why they were built so far out of town, but they were. Seems like they would have been great targets for criminals travelling Rt. 66 to rob, like gangsters heading down to their hideout in Hot Springs, Arkansas back in the day. There are several of them, though, so I guess it couldn't have been too much of a problem.
Here's a whole mess of pictures taken yesterday. I'll put them in the next comment so they can be minimized if anyone wants to.
It's been super hot lately, but the heat finally broke and is supposed to stay away for at least a week. It's only 68 degrees outside right now and feels like a crisp fall morning. It's great.
All of these are from yesterday. It was nice to be able to go outside without sweating from just standing there.
Here's a Black Swallowtail on a Dahlia.
Here's Gracie playing with a neighbor's cat that has practically re-homed himself here. He used to only come over once every few days, but he almost never leaves now. I think other cats at his home are mean to him. Sometimes they wander over here, and every time they see him they try to fight him. Poor guy. He gets along great with Gracie, though.
Look at that face, lol.
Sharing a drink at the bird baths.
Here's the garden now.
Cherry tomatoes.
Regular tomatoes.
Only now starting to ripen after the late start this year.
Zucchini.
Cantaloupe.
Cucumbers.
Looking back.
Remember a couple of weeks ago when the corn was being eaten up by something and I was worried I was going to lose a bunch of it? Well, the bugs apparently moved on and the corn completely recovered. I had forgotten that corn is in the grass family and can recover from damage really well. It's looking great now, and is just starting to tassel.
Gracie in the corn.
And playing again.
Here's a wren feeding late season chicks. I was worried about them surviving the heat, but with the cooler weather now they should be good to go. They'll probably fledge in another week or so.
This might be a honeybee, but I'm not sure. It seems awfully dark for one, but maybe not. Whatever it is, it's loaded down with Moss Rose pollen. That big yellow blob on its back leg is all pollen.
Here's Gracie wondering what I was looking at.
And here she is lounging around the bird baths, looking up at birds in the trees that were scolding her. They wanted her to leave, I suppose. LOL
Happy August. Fall is almost here.
Great photos!
Thanks, G.
Wonderful picture essay.
Thanks, Buzz.
I like gracie's personality, especially the last picture. " nothing to worry about here little birdies" ...
Yeah, she's petty cool. She keeps doing things that remind me of Bella, and a few that remind me of Buddy. In some ways he's kind of like a combination of the two.
She's getting more interested in the world, and it's getting harder for me to keep a figurative leash on her. She's always wanting to wander off and explore, and it's making me nervous after losing the others.
your area looks a bit rural and typically prime hunting time will be at night. having a garden and bird feeders turns your property into the local grocery store for predators. you can only try to eliminate the ambush locations.
My new way of doing things so far is that I never leave her outside alone in the daytime, and she doesn't go outside at night at all. It's becoming a pain, though. Like I said, she wants to wander around the yard now, and it's getting harder to make her go back inside when I want to. I guess I'll just have to get used to it, because I am not losing another one.
Morning... absolutely fantastic photos Dig..you have an amazing garden and the veggies look great..
Yes it will be hard for you trying to keep track of Gracie as she wants to explore the world.. that's about all you can do is be with her but easier said than done..
My cat loves creeping around out the front of my house at night..as there are few stray dogs around I always go out there with her and wait till she wants to come in..
So I am sitting out there with a blanket around me, freezing my arse off, waiting for the cat..the cops have slowed down a few times and once I even got spot lighted by them... luckily they didn't ask me what I was doing..🤣
Lol, at least your cops are keeping an eye on things. That's probably a good thing.
Lately I've been shaking a treat bag to lure Gracie back in, but she's getting wise to that trick.
just yell turn that bloody light off and stop shining it in my eyes, you bloody bobbie wanker ....
Yes they do and they aren't stupid..might fall for it once or twice then they know what you are up to..🐾🐾
train her to come to you by doing something pavlovian, only for cats. my cat howard was extremely independent, but his major weakness was food. when he was young I'd shake the box his food came in and he'd come running. then later in his life he'd come if I slapped a yardstick against my leg or furniture, or turned the vacuum cleaner on. he liked the yardstick struck flat against his back right at the tail. he liked the vacuum cleaner because of the upholstery brush and later because he was a shedding nightmare, no brush. I figured he hated puking up furballs.
My cat used to love being outdoors but I always kept him inside at night. When we moved to an area with lots of coyotes, and the occasional bobcat or mountain lion, he never once wanted to go outside. I was very happy about that.
That's what I'm trying to do by shaking the bag of treats. It works, just not as well as it did at first.
I'd be happy about that, too. What luck. Hopefully Gracie will learn the expected routine and give in to it.
... female kitty (ahem). my cat howard was 20 lbs, so he was very food motivated, and always came running.
... well, it was almost a run.
Morning..sounds more like Howard came thundering along..😁
he swallowed his aggression as he got older, but he was very regal ...
As they all are very regal...they always seem to have that look as they stare at you...
It feels like "peasant"..🐱
he would imitate me at home on the couch when I wasn't there. the ex hated him ...
"Spiritual Skill Brings Peace and Harmony"
Calligraphy by Wang Xizhi (303 A.D. - 361 A.D.) with Orchids
(© G. Gam)
Interesting. Looks like lots of layers there.
I did that one a few months ago. It does look like it might be several layers but as far as I remember it's actually only two.
Very artistic. Don't be humble.
Thanks. OK, I'll try not to be.
Arvo...out in the bush at the moment burning paperwork that I don't want to go in the bin..use to come here and have the place to myself..those days are gone now..BBQs about every 10 metres sigh..and worse people..
Any koalas in those trees?
Arvo..no they are the wrong type of gumtree..the Koala's don't like them...which is just as well as bush fires go through this area roughly every 10 years...
Arvo...ahhh gotta love the Great Southern Land..
A new species of stick insect has just been found up in Qld..it is 40cm (15 inches) long...he will fit right in here..what a cutie..😊
... uh, no comment.
What??
It's cute..gotta love long legs and a slim and trim bod...and those wings would be excellent for landing on your head..in the middle of the night...
I reckon an insect that big is in the right place and I'm not the one that should be worried about the cat bringing it inside and releasing it under the bed ...
Wow. Weird that something that big hadn't been found before.
Looks like something out of Sci-Fi.
Didn't we see something like that in Quatermass and the Pit?
"Starts in Saint Louie, Joplin Missouri, Oklahoma can sure smell shitty. You'll see Amarillo, Gallop New Mexico, Flagstaff Arizona, don't forget Winona, Kingston, Barstow, San Bernardino"
Thanks to all; back Thursday night.