November 14, 2019

Your blogger, gazing contemplatively at the invisible sunrise.

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Photo time, 6:56. Actual sunrise time, 6:50.

67 comments:

Ryan said...

Althouse, come out to LA and you'll get nice sunrises and sunsets, and 70 degree weather.

stevew said...

How do we know it is contemplative gazing?

Quite a winter scene, for November. The deep cranberry colored coat is a clever contrast.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Cmon that Comey-like pose calls for a more Jack Handy-ish caption than time and place. Just assume people who care about the metadata will look up the metadata.

Yancey Ward said...

Behold the nothing that is not there,
And the nothing that is.

Lucid-Ideas said...

I bet there are some very nice, maybe record-setting, and delicious walleye in that lake. And that spot looks like a good one for fishing too. I'm on my way.

Bay Area Guy said...

I'm in Houston where it's 43 F and rainy. Must be global warming.

Drago said...

"Your blogger, gazing contemplatively at the invisible sunrise."

How do we know that you weren't actually just sleeping standing up?

Yancey Ward said...

I see that Elizabeth Warren has billionaires attacking her this morning for her proposed wealth tax ad. I don't think they understand the political optics of this- they are doing Warren a favor.

Mary Beth said...

How do we know you're gazing contemplatively? You might be smiling coyly.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

No Yancey, Liz is so bad at math she thinks taking 2% doesn’t erode wealth. As if checkbook accounts still paid 5% like the old days. The billionaires sound way more sane than Liarwatha.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

'Cuz she's a jogger
She's a blogger
She's a twi-light augur
Just out waitin' for the Sun

Francisco D said...

Were you contemplating three more moths of cold, snowy Midwest weather?

I am still in shorts and sandals here in Tucson. The high is 80, but next week it gets cold with highs in the upper 60's. Time to break out the flannel shirts.

Mark O said...

Are you OK, Ann?

Dave D said...

yancey:

I pity all of us 401K'ers ~5 minutes before Warren is inaugurated. The billionaires will just hide their wealth in other places.

tim maguire said...

Yancey Ward said...
I see that Elizabeth Warren has billionaires attacking her this morning for her proposed wealth tax ad. I don't think they understand the political optics of this- they are doing Warren a favor.


Or maybe they do. "Please don't throw me in that briar patch!"

Charlie said...

"Should I stay or should I go?"

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

RBG is so sick, she can no longer take oral arguments--

... they must be given them to her intravenously

tcrosse said...

By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the contemplative blogress.

Hagar said...

and in yoga pants!

Dave Begley said...

Ann looks cold.

Ryan: I was just in LA. I wouldn't move their unless I was paid big bucks. The weather doesn't compensate for the grief and trouble.

One of my neighbors moved his business from LA to Omaha. He told me yesterday he recalled how it took 30 minutes to drive to a shopping center just 5 miles away. And, of course, the schools are not good.

Srishti Singh said...

Useful contents.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

and for the record,

Eric Ciaramella Didn't Kill Himself.

...yet.

Michael K said...

I'll get my dose of ass freezing in Chicago at Thanksgiving. I grew up there and left once I was 18. No desire to ever go back.

Spent 60 years in LA/OC and no desire to go back to that. Read an obit of one of my classmates today in the LA Times.

Ann Althouse said...

“ Were you contemplating three more moths of cold, snowy Midwest weather?”

A great subject for contemplation— moths.

I visualize 6 moths, the 3 more and the others, which I imagine also as a trio.

Ann Althouse said...

You just need the right clothes.

It wasn’t too cold 25 degrees.

Big Mike said...

A winter's day
In a deep and dark
December

I am alone ...

Except it's only November and Meade was there to take your picture.

narciso said...


The more the merrier:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/470409-tyts-cenk-uygur-files-to-run-for-katie-hills-house-seat

n.n said...

A solitary figure looks out over a cold, gray landscape, inspired to tap a tale of three worlds, hers, theirs, ours.

Rosalyn C. said...

You might enjoy seeing the artwork of Tomás Saraceno -- I managed to discover him through reading a story about Christie Brinkley's ex's engagement to a much younger woman whose parents are art dealers, and while thinking about if and how I might discuss the realization of the Self as it is described in the Bhagavad-Gita (as opposed to losing the self) and experienced through transcendental meditation. His artwork touches on the topic in a fantastic way.

John Scott said...

There's a point just north of Santa Barbara where you can witness the sunrise and sunset over the ocean from same spot. Can't imagine that there are a lot of places that aren't islands where you can do that.

narciso said...


He would be an interestimg witness


https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/624591.html

ALP said...

I want to hear more about your running - especially at your age. I recently decided I had to give it up as it was aggravating my back issues and I'm 'only' 58. Kinda sucks as it was my go to form of exercise. Do tell....

rcocean said...

Yeah if all you care about is weather, LA is great. The great thing about cold is all you have to do is put on more clothes and you're OK. When its too hot, there's not much you can do except go find some air conditioning.

traditionalguy said...

Who is that cute young lady in the pic?

Rusty said...

To be honest, Althouse. It looks like you're waiting for a bus.

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madAsHell said...

RBG is so sick

....but they keep her alive at all costs. On the other hand, Epstein didn't kill himself!!

Anchovy1214 said...

82 in Tucson but don't get caught there in the Summer.

narciso said...

you would think it would matter,


https://twitter.com/FDRLST/status/1195074741121536000

BUMBLE BEE said...

Don't know who it is in that submarine out there, but the other person is Althouse.

gilbar said...

hey! while you're gazing at a dawn, you can't see...
Let's play The Alternative Realities Game!

remember when the democrats said that Trump might not accept the 2016 election results?
when they said that the BASIS of American Democracy was accepting election results?

remember when the democrats said, "there Is NO deep state, to think so is paranoia" ??

remember when democrats sicced the FBI and the CIA onto both political opponents and the press?
remember when the democrats colluded with russians, to dig dirt to alter elections?
remember when the democrats colluded with Ukraine, to alter elections?
remember when the democrats accepted bribes from Ukrainians to influence decisions?
remember when the democrats DEMANDED quid quo pro from the Ukraine, inre said bribes?

Me neither!
All i know is what the main stream media tells me to know; and that is:
There was a school shooting today

I'm Full of Soup said...

Nice legs Althouse!

Howard said...

Nice gams, professor. You look like a runner. Meade is a lucky guy

Big Mike said...

@Anchovy, but it’s a dry heat. I’ve been to Tucson three times, once just passing through on my way to Ft. Huachuca, and to Phoenix twice, and that’s what everybody says.

Maillard Reactionary said...

John Scott @2:42 PM: One is Cape May, NJ, at certain times of the year.

Technically, the western side is the mouth of the bay but it's full of saltwater fish, so it's close enough to be ocean for them, anyway.

Shane said...

This photo reminded me of "Being There", especially the end scenes.

Ann Althouse - cruelly neutral, and politically buoyant.

John Scott said...

Phidippus:

"One is Cape May, NJ, at certain times of the year.Technically, the western side is the mouth of the bay but it's full of saltwater fish, so it's close enough to be ocean for them, anyway."

Only if you were walking along the beach. If you were peering out from your second story condo, Lewes, Delaware would get in the way.

Ann Althouse said...

“ To be honest, Althouse. It looks like you're waiting for a bus.”

The sun came up like a bus
Heading downtown at rush hour...

Ann Althouse said...

“ There's a point just north of Santa Barbara where you can witness the sunrise and sunset over the ocean from same spot. Can't imagine that there are a lot of places that aren't islands where you can do that.”

My spot is like that too... except it's not the ocean, it’s a lake.

tcrosse said...

My spot is like that too... except it's not the ocean, it’s a lake.

A good point.

Francisco D said...

82 in Tucson but don't get caught there in the Summer.

June, July, August and September can be brutal, but you learn to dress and act accordingly. Lots of water and sunscreen, not so much clothing. Althouse would not like it because a lot of men wear shorts six moths (er... months) of the year.

I look forward to Winter because I can wear jeans, flannel shirts and shoes. My stepson (college in Iowa) gets my winter coats.

lavinia said...

thank, Ann, for blogging. A very soft, BIG, comtemplative thank you.

Maillard Reactionary said...

John Scott: I'm not wealthy enough to have a condo anywhere on the Jersey shore. I'm one of those beach-walking people.

Meade said...

Strong woman.

Strong.

fleg9bo said...

A winter's day
In a deep and dark
December...


I'm in Bangkok.
I am in Thai-ai-ai-land.
And Bangkok feels the rain
And Thailand never dries.

Yancey Ward said...

Meade wrote:

"Strong woman."

Did she carry you over the threshold?

Yancey Ward said...

“ There's a point just north of Santa Barbara where you can witness the sunrise and sunset over the ocean from same spot. Can't imagine that there are a lot of places that aren't islands where you can do that.”

My spot is like that too... except it's not the ocean, it’s a lake.


My spot is like that, too, except it is the cat's water dish.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

Bloggin' Hood and Runny-Meade

Yancey Ward said...

"No Yancey, Liz is so bad at math she thinks taking 2% doesn’t erode wealth. As if checkbook accounts still paid 5% like the old days. The billionaires sound way more sane than Liarwatha."

The problem, Mike, is that Warren knows her primary voters and the base of the Democratic Party. No amount of sanity is going to sway them, and by attacking Warren, she can portray herself as the enemy of Wall Street.

Meade said...

"Did she carry you over the threshold?"

"Pay attention, everybody!"

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

Why gaze when you can just look?

Original Mike said...

"Why gaze when you can just look?"

Ha! The views must be garnered.

Bunkypotatohead said...

Gazing at the invisible? A side effect of cataract surgery?



hawkeyedjb said...

"...but it’s a dry heat."

That's what Arizonans tell themselves. That's what outsiders say too. Then they walk outside in July and they realize: It's a hot heat.

Like Winnipeg in January: not for softies.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Her base are idiots. You’ll be surprised I guess at how many normal Americans with 401Ks don’t want Warren and her wealth tax and will happily side with the 1% against idiocy like hers. She can bring us all together!

Ann Althouse said...

"a dry heat"

That means no filtering, soothing moisture in the air. That's very hard on the skin. Very harsh. I don't see how it saves you from the brutality of the heat, which is a feeling on the skin. The lack of cloud cover and the lack of shade trees all make for a punishing sunlight. Yes, the sweat evaporates quickly, but I would be hiding out in the air conditioning all day out of fear of burning, literally burning my skin (and my retinas).

Anonymous said...

I lived 30 years in the frozen north with a typical year having a couple of months when the high was between about 30 F and minus 5 F. Everybody had a closet full of clothes so we could all dress for 20 below, which happened every few years.

I have decided I have two favorite temperatures. One is 72 F, summer shirtsleeve weather. The other is 20 F. At 20 degrees there is no slush, the ground is frozen solid so there is no pollen or mold in the air, the sun is often shining brightly, and if you can dress for 20 below it is a piece of cake to dress for 20 above.