CREATIVE ARTS WEEKEND
PLEASE POST YOUR CREATIVE EFFORTS.
IF YOU HAVE A PAINTING, A DRAWING, A PHOTOGRAPH, OR YOU HAVE WRITTEN A POEM, OR RECORDED AN ORIGINAL PIECE OF MUSIC, POST THEM!
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 …
• BE SURE YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO POST, TRANSMIT, etc, SUCH PROPERTY, and,
• IF/WHEN SUCH PERMISSION HAS BEEN GRANTED, TO PROPERLY AND CLEARLY ATTRIBUTE THE COPYRIGHTS TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNER(S).
VERY IMPORTANT … IN THE FUTURE, I WILL REMEMBER TO POST THIS CAVEAT REGULARLY.
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Tripping Around L.A.
LACMA, Friday 5 p.m. (© G.Gam)
Santa Monica & Fairfax (© G.Gam)
Chinatown (© G.Gam)
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Cool. Does the Trashy Lingerie store in that Go-Go's video still exist?
Back in 1982 or 1983 I was invited to Jan Berry's (from Jan and Dean) birthday party. Belinda Carlisle and another member of the Go-Go's were there and I spent a long time hanging out with them. Really nice girls.
As for Trashy Lingerie, I don't know the place. I just googled it and it looks like it still is. It also looks like you can order stuff on-line if you're not going to be in L.A. any time soon.
TV and Radio Tower, Chengdu, Sichuan Province
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"Hello world".
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Pathway to ???
Around and about.
And then we're out.
No second chance.
Sliding, slipping,
Grasping, Gripping. aww , hell. I can't remember a poem that i wrote almost 40 years ago.
But no worries (creeeeeeeeek... it is around here somewheres.)
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Move on through life with your blinders on.
Not caring what the world may think.
Just care, as you take your drink,
To stop
and think,
about what comes after.
Don't toss and turn,
Leave it on the slow burn.
Enjoy the now,
and here,
ever-after.
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My apologies for the sprawling and crawling of my free association.
No apology required - you did good.
Cool. It's great when people post poetry. I write sometimes, haiku and free verse.
haiku insults were fun to write, many years ago ...
That's not a genre I've ever explored.
it didn't exactly endear me to an english teacher in high school, especially after it was mimicked by others ...
Now that you're retired, it's something you can pursue again.
right, an art form that collects 4 points and then disappears ...
The Duluth, MN Lift Bridge. The first two shots were taken one after the other - blue hour & golden hour. The last shot is the bridge lit up for cancer awareness.
my first thought was break out the water skis, then I remembered I hadn't done that in 20+ years and it would probably be disastrous ...
Morning...oh yes do break out the skis..😁
In Australia, I'd be more afraid of the land sharks. I should know. I've been there.
You've opened the door to more lawyer jokes.
Q. What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A. A good start.
Q. Why don't the sharks attack them?
A. Professional courtesy.
Morning..nah..shark attacks this year so far..
4 dead
5 bitten including loss of limbs
Croc attacks
1 chomp not fatal...
Safer on land..😁
You didn't deal with the Australian lawyers I did several years ago. Ouch!
Ahh sorry...same thing..
Always to be avoided where possible..
painting the silhouette of a seal on the underside of your red surf mat is still on my bucket list.
... how many people have fallen victim to you in oz?
One in particular. A total monster.
Morning...ahhh looks all good to me...can't see any problems my self..
At least we put signs up so you will know what is eating you..
I think that is very polite and respectful...🐊
PS..the Kiwis are a bit sooky la la when it even comes to a spider..it freaks them out...come across a Huntsman and they are on the first flight out..🤣
I've already survived being bit by the 2 arachnid menaces on this continent ...
Here's a bobcat eyeing the birdfeeders from the opening of small clearing on the edge of the backyard on Tuesday. I keep a burn pile back there out of sight. It's like a gateway to the woods, and I often see wildlife walking through it, but I don't think I've seen a bobcat anywhere near the yard in 20 years. I saw this one twice in one day, morning and evening. It must have been hungry.
At first I thought it was just a neighbor's cat that I hadn't seen before, but it was bigger than a domestic cat, and the white eye spot on its ear gave it away. Also, when it finally walked off its bobtail was unmistakable.
I haven't let Gracie outside since seeing it. She's going stir crazy.
Arvo dig..oh geez that is a bit close to home..
Don't know much about bobcats but do they clear off if they see a human etc or do they stand their ground?
Hmm poor Gracie can you go outside with her, or maybe get a harness and then go with her...that way she can't run off etc..
Makes it very hard when you predatory animals around..😬
I go out the front at night with Mishka she loves creeping around in the dark..only have stray dogs to worry about nothing like that...
Well this was in the tree the other day in my backyard..they can do damage with their claws etc but they don't worry about cats..
Certainly not in a bob cats league..🐨
They usually run from people, but they'll go after domestic cats.
I'll probably let Gracie go outside over the weekend. I have mowing to do, and the noise should scare things away for a little while.
Koalas are so cute.
not so much if your car is parked under that tree ...
It's got its eye on you, Dig.
Nah, it never saw me. I'm pretty sure it was watching birds at the feeders. Probably cardinals, which usually show up in numbers right before dark for a last minute snack. I took the photo from inside, through a window and in low light, which is why it isn't the greatest quality. I had to brighten it up before posting it.
is the clearing close to your pond? that seems the likeliest ambush point ...
Nope, it's not near the pond. I might set up a trail camera or two back there to see what's going on.
both locations sound high traffic enough for a camera. if you're getting regular visits, there's got to be a trail or two. you can seriously geek out on the trail cameras available now $$$.
I know the new ones are super fancy. I have a couple of older ones. Not high quality photos, but they still work, so I'll give them a try.
We have bobcats sometimes, coyotes often. They show up on our security cameras, or sometimes I see them outside or when I'm driving. We have mountain lions, too, but none have shown up on our security cameras. One of our neighbors had a really big mountain lion in their yard one night on a video that they sent to everyone.
The walk in front of our house is like a wildlife corridor. These are links to videos of a bobcat on our front walk in March:
This is a large coyote we had the other night:
Here is a coyote walking across our driveway:
I also have a video of three coyotes on our walk recently if I can find it.
Yikes. That's crazy. I bet people around there keep their cats indoors.
Yes, absolutely. Dogs, too, unless they are walking them on a leash. A new family moved in on our street a few years ago and they have a dog. We live on a cul-de-sac in the hills. I warned them not to leave their dog outside. They said they have a fence that should be OK. It is only about 3 or 4 feet high. I told them I had just seen a coyote easily jump over a 7 or 8 foot wall when I was driving home recently. That convinced them.
When we first moved in here I had a cat who was an indoor/outdoor guy. After we moved here, he never wanted to go outside. I was very glad about that.
I have more videos of coyotes walking around in our backyard, too. I have also seen them a few times when I was looking out the window. I had an encounter with one outside a few years ago when it was walking down one part of our hill. It was more scared than I was.
We have a large wilderness area just a mile from here, the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreational Area. Our neighbors across the street were hiking up there one day and saw a mountain lion watching them. They just slowly walked away. They have never been hiking there again. The people next door to them told me they had a mountain lion in their backyard one day. The property of the neighbor I mentioned that had the very large mountain lion on her video is only about 300 to 400 feet from us. I don't ever want to see one.
I've only seen mountain lions around here twice in my entire life, and the last time was probably 40 years ago.
I had an uncle that lost a full-grown Saint Bernard to one when I was a kid, and those aren't small dogs.
We also had a bear sighting in the Santa Monica Mountains near here for the first time in many years, with cubs. It is a black bear. Foothill areas on other parts of the county have bears, sometimes hanging out in residential areas, but we never do. Until now. I don't want to see one of them, either.
I live close to the front range foothills and there isn't a week that goes by without a story of wildlife spotted in urban areas, and it will get worse approaching the fall with the drought and fires in the mountains.
I had a client that lost her cat years ago to a mountain lion that lives in a little wildlife refuge about 2 miles from me and hunts the neighborhoods surrounding it.
Humans are encroaching on their territory.
the wildlife are adapting to their new environments faster than the alleged apex predators that live in it ...
I think that, as a whole, it still remains to be seen. Human degradation of the natural world has been significant, and in many instances, nearly overwhelming, throughout the long saga of human history. Consider the animal species that have gone extinct, or are now near extinction, as a direct result of human activities.
I can think of a subset of animals going extinct that wouldn't bother me much ...
Okay, if we're posting our local wildlife, here's a photo I took at the Panda research centre near Chengdu, Sichuan Province. I call the photo "FDR Panda". Can you see why?
Where is Fala?
Here he is...
The resemblance to a long cigarette holder?
You got it.
Closing up this Creative Arts Weekend. Thanks everyone. See you all again soon.