2. Yesterday's photographs showed much more of the lake iced over. After a warm day yesterday, the ice had receded, but there was still enough of it to give texture to the surface of the water:
3. To the west, at the beach, it was more iced over. I wouldn't walk on it, but there were 2 people who had walked out on the ice and were carefully taking one more step and then one more step. I didn't stop to photograph their folly, and I presume they got away undunked, but it made me think of this video I saw yesterday on TikTok:
4. I got out to the end of the peninsula, and look:
5. Do you see it? Would I have seen it if another sunrise photographer had not gestured? See?
6. That bald eagle hung out there the whole time we were hanging out waiting for the best moments of the sunrise and talking about the fine points of getting out to photograph sunrises. I actually have a recording of the conversation, because I'd taken video of the bird and then turned the video on again by accident as I pushed my phone into the phone-specific interior pocket of my jacket. So I have a video of a bird that barely moved and another video of the inside of my pocket, which at least photographed in the pocket darkness in an exciting sunrise color:
7. The ice on the lake there is completely gone, but for some reason, somebody pulled out 2 big plates of ice and set them on the wall:
8. Here's the view to the north, with some shoreline ice:
9. And here's that sunrise we waited for:
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The eagle has landed. It's morning in America.
Is there a link to their obituary?
The ice floe video made me think of that famous scene in Way Down East (1920).
Good one Meade!!!
I see hypertrophy not atrophy.
So why think, per hardin, conditions forcing improvement are inherently wrong? Attitudes ought reflect my thinking.
You gotta work the muscle, and the brain is a muscle to me, to see gains.
Me? Oh, I've worked plenty thank you very much.
Last winter was way snowier here in MT. Easier to get around now and the cold air is actually exhilarating, yes?
Yaktrax are working great ..
It could be worse.
In Canada they only have two seasons,
this Winter,
and next Winter.
In referencing the eagle has landed and morning in America,
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/the-eagle-has-landed-best-trump-reelection-ad-yet-video/
Qw connot compartmentalize what we think we do.
Winter solstice is the day of the maximum rate of cooling (summer: heating). It gets colder after it has a chance to work for a while.
Today starts next summer in Australia. Possibly last summer.
This is a link Althousedley if not now in the future will love. We will make it so.
Blank looking in the face of hostile over-educated misits scurrying 'round:
Better than cruel neutrality.
We all appreciate and love the Walker protests way way back then.
And yet now we demand demand demand more.
Yet nothing is rancid.
misits
I removed the f and it became more powerful. As a brilliant word-surgeon I say: Don't stop removing every letter, don't stop, don't let those letters come soon.
Better than tomorrow, the less words you don't remove.
Guildofcannonballs said...I removed the f and it became more powerful. As a brilliant word-surgeon I say: Don't stop removing every letter, don't stop, don't let those letters come soon.
My handle "chickelit" derives from "chickenlittle." When Twitter came around, I wanted "chickenlittle" to match my blogger handle but it was already taken. So I started lopping off letters until I had something novel.
I've got nothing but love for Rashida.
She really ought to know.
"Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing
Many many men can't see the open road
Many is a word that only leaves you guessing
Guessing 'bout a thing you really ought to know, ooh!
Really ought to know, oh, oh, oh
I really ought to know
You know I should know, I should know, I should have known."
https://genius.com/Led-zeppelin-over-the-hills-and-far-away-lyrics
Do you see it? Would I have seen it if another sunrise photographer had not gestured? See?
Is it possible you'll see copycat photographers in the future? And what if you ran into garage mahal, an avid bird photographer?
Is the present state of !The Impeachment! more like Schrödinger's cat or the Cheshire Cat?
Peach mint, and cheshire cat.
Do you see it? Would I have seen it if another sunrise photographer had not gestured? See?
The first thing I saw in the photo before I read the caption, was the eagle silhouette. Driving about rural Iowa, you get adept at spotting Bald Eagles from afar. Both perched, and soaring. They are distinct.
Nice...but too cold... I'd rather be at Deir El Bahari or Karnac.
Schrödinger's Impeachment: We won't know if he's impeached until the Senate tries to do something with it. Then the House will either object (meaning they hadn't finished impeaching him yet) or they won't (in which case he had been impeached). At present, the President is both Impeached and not Impeached, at the same time.
Cheshire Impeachment: "Well! I've often seen a crime without an impeachment," thought Alice; "but an impeachment without a crime! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!"
In "Bride of Frankenstein" (soon to be a major motion picture), the Creature jumps from ice floe to ice floe in order to get on board the ship "Prometheus." It is homage to the scene from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" where Eliza jumps from ice floe to ice floe on the Ohio river to escape slavery.
Canada on strike!
Driving in Northern Michigan a few weeks ago (near West Branch) we came across a bald eagle standing just off the shoulder of the highway, a bit down into the ditch, busily consuming something. Paid no attention to the traffic.
Yes I saw the birdie right away.
Narr
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The eagle has landed. It's morning in America.
...is it a bald eagle, or one with a luxurious comb-over?
So Trump just signed a bill that allows any future president to give amnesty to millions of illegals.
Dave Begley@230pm: see how GM Fraser treated that one in Flashman. Always a chuckle.
Narr
Man, I miss that guy
Maybe he really is a moron.
In the Southern sunbelt city where I live now, it gets pretty cold--and I come from the northeast. The weather people here always act that it's a big surprise that the temperatures get as low as they do every year; and then always promise a warming trend . . . that never seems to materialize (unil April or May, sometimes).And they never factor in the wind chill. Often I catch the morning weather and it and they say the temperature will be about 45 degrees, and I think, "Well, that doesn't sound too bad." Until the wind chill freezes my nuts off.
So as it happens, I've decided against quoting Buckley's Dictionary.
I'll quote it a lot late stage Guild.
This is a link hopely.
The problem is that the defense bill opens the door to a kind of lawfare that Kamala Harris has already proposed. If she proposed it, it’s bouncing around in Democrat circles. Breitbart has the story.
Close call:
California Considering taxOn Breathing
It is in these times that we can really see the benefits of green renewable energy, like solar, to keep our homes nice and warm.
In other news, a shit-faced Robert De Niro is out promoting his new movie: link
So during the week, it has been episodes of Star Trek. Now showing: The Rifleman.
Talk about your lawlessness. Lucas would been a great FBI/DOJ guy. He also should have gone to prison and hanged just about every episode. I've long wondered how many people he killed during the run of the show. Someone did a count and it is near 115.
"So Trump just signed a bill that allows any future president to give amnesty to millions of illegals."
Please talk about any future presidents more and what Trump allows them to do.
Thank you.
It makes total sense: Trump allows future office-holders to do things previous, but most especially future, potUS to do things. No future potUS could just, you know, do those things, but/except Trump.
Oh NO! Worry worry worry cry!
Just like I never liked Dr. McCoy, I never watched The Rifleman, not because of the mass murder of the main character, but because of his insufferable son.
I've heard talk of eagles in Madison, but I haven't seen one myself yet. We'll see if they displace the hawks from the local radio tower. (Blessedly, years ago the hawks displaced the previous residents: crows).
from the last thread, footage from amy robach's interview with guiffre from three years ago, will not be in the Epstein special,
"Miracle On 34th St" my ass!! Lawyer up, Santa!!
a new 'Claus' in their contract?
Santa Insurance: Why more professional Santas are getting insured
https://katu.com/news/local/santa-insurance-why-more-professional-santas-are-getting-insured
So far we have an impeachment in embryo. An impeachment fetus.
It has to be delivered to be an impeachment.
Glad to clear that up.
"It has to be delivered to be an impeachment."
The impeachment would be delivered. The impeachment would be kept comfortable. The impeachment would be resuscitated if that’s what Pelosi and the managers desired, and then a discussion would ensue.
It’s the Dog Ate My Homework Impeachment.
"...but because of his insufferable son."
Kid's a real candidate for PTSD.
Until the indictment (impeachment) is handed up to the bench (Senate), the Senate can ignore it as if it did not exist. At the same time, McConnell can set a date for consideration and the House prosecutors can show up with their charges or not. If they don't show, case dismissed.
I've seen many episodes of The Rifleman, and yet I don't recall any episode in which Lucas McCain murdered anyone. Details?
Note to Tom Steyer: Just because you can afford to put your goddam TV ads up every five minutes, doesn't mean that you should.
tcrosse:
There may be a steeply declining marginal utility of political advertising, but it seems general and cumulative. Once people are sick and tired of seeing politicians ("I approve this message") everywhere, a new entrant may be tarred with the same brush even though s/he did not really cause the glut. I often think the curious thing is not why there is so much money in politics, but why there is so little, compared to the annual advertising budgets of Coca Cola, McDonalds, Anheuser-Busch, and others. Over-saturation may be one of the reasons. I also suspect it may be that the difference between a standard-issue Democrat or Republican doesn't make that much difference to the profitability of most businesses -- so why spend a lot of money on one rather than another. Still another factor is that maybe the real action is in the lobbying dollars, rather than the advertising dollars.
I have seen a couple eagles this year in places I would not expect them. I saw one from my car in Virginia when I was driving south, for example. I used to have to look hard to see them. They seemed to follow the migrating ducks like wolves follow caribou and wherever there was a patch of open water in the ice on the lake, it would fill up with a lot of ducks, and if instead of looking at the ducks, you scanned the sky and the ice around it, you had a decent chance of seeing one either standing on the ice, in a cottonwood tree, or in flight.
Ha, I see in the other picture there are ducks in a patch of open water.
Now that the ospreys have gone off to their winter homes, and the bigger fish have mostly migrated south, the local eagles have to make do with carrion, sea ducks and the occasional gull.
I heard someone say the Trump impeachment was aborted. But I think it was actually a miscarriage in the 12th trimester.
Trump is impeached. The House did that when they held the floor vote.
The question is, now what? seeing that Pelosi left it on her desk while she went off on vacation and her "leadership" is publicly mumbling about perhaps they will never tell her to deliver it to the Senate. The Framers never expected a situation like this, so it will probably be up to the Supreme Court to step in and fill in the void.
If John Marshall was still chief justice, he would go through a long exposition about how if you do this, that will happen, so that won't work; and if you do that, this will happen and won't work, and so on, until only one possibility for a workable solution remained.
The bottom photo is special. And I’m a little jealous that all the trees adjacent to my lake are nasty cedars - ugh. They’re just not photogenic...
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In the spirit of the holidays, I’m sharing my Mom’s recipe for Green Goddess dressing. It’s certainly pungent, but it’s also fabulous and unusual.
1 clove of garlic - minced
1/2 tsp. dry mustard
1 tsp. Worcestershire
2 tsp. anchovy paste
3 tbsp. tarragon wine vinegar
3 tbsp. chives - minced
1/3 cup parsley - snipped
1/2 cup sour cream
1 cup mayonnaise
salt + pepper to taste
Simply whisk all the ingredients together and you’re done. I use Bibb lettuce, but that’s up to you. Also, if you don’t want to shell out six bucks for a tube of anchovy paste, a tin of flat anchovies in olive oil (drained) can be chopped into paste in less than a minute.
All these cold weather pics (as beautiful as they may be) remind me of the old Johnny Horton lyrics, "when it's springtime in Alaska it's forty below".
Brrrrr.
I meant to bring this up a couple three years ago:
Rock-N-Roll is dead.
Quality symphony orchestras are next...
...Just thought you should notice.....
Moderation status:
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Its a rhyming exercise:
http://carolineglick.com/israels-winner-take-all-election/
Scott Adams says they didn't impeach Trump, they voted to impeach Trump. Pelosi has to do the impeachment.
The bottom one is nice. The foreground is filled with light.
Hagar said...
Trump is impeached. The House did that when they held the floor vote.
The question is, now what
The answer my friend is :
Election and Nullification or Affirmation.
We will be in the 60s most of the coming week here in Oak Ridge, TN. This is warmer than normal, but isn't unusual for this part of the country- happens pretty much every December, January, and February at some point.
Trump should start tweeting and asking where the articles of impeachment are- are they stuck up Pelosi's ass?
https://babalublog.com/2019/12/21/narcotics-trafficking-is-the-weapon-of-choice-for-venezuelas-socialist-dictatorship/
"Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself" by Florian Huber is about the madness of government encouraged suicide at the end of the Third Reich. Edmund Burke famously stated, "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." Burke was an eighteenth century British statesman/philosopher generally viewed as the philosophical founder of what used-to-be modern political conservatism. Below is a short summary of the book review:
[W]hen along came Hitler in the Thirties with his heady and hypnotic ideas of making the Fatherland great again. His rhetoric was thrilling and mesmeric as he whipped German society out of its torpor and into a state of sustained frenzy and excitement.
After he took power, bleakness of outlook gave way to a sense of relief, leaving people optimistic and exuberant.
The Nazis initiated social reform projects that had once seemed impossible — workers’ holidays, days off, family allowance, tenants’ rights protection, mass tourism, motorways, a national holiday in every month of the year to celebrate one thing or another.
Owning a house was no longer a utopian dream, travelling no longer a privilege — as long as they shut their eyes to the increasing repression, the Jewish pogroms and the lack of intellectual freedom.
But then Hitler’s new Germany began to fall apart.
The row-back began with the failure at Stalingrad on the Eastern Front, where Germany’s blitzkrieg expansion ground to an ignominious halt against the dogged Red Army. Newspapers at home were suddenly filled with death notices of men killed in action — 2,000 every day.
The tide turned not just militarily, but emotionally.
The love affair — the so-called Fuhrer liebe — between the nation and its leader began to sour. With the D-Day landings in 1944 and the opening of the second front, adoration turned to apprehension.
As it dawned on people that failure and defeat were an increasing possibility, the bubble burst and the psychological shock wave was immense. ‘The emptiness was palpable,’ writes Huber. ‘They felt a collective loss of meaning. Any thought of what might come afterwards was terrifying. After Hitler there could be nothing. No Reich, no political movement, no national community.’
As he headed towards his own destruction, Hitler took his devastated people with him. When he took a pistol to his head and pulled the trigger in the last days of the Reich, the only course that made sense for far too many of them was to do the same.
Their desperate plight was summed up by the once loyal Nazi worker who, as the war came to an end and the regime collapsed, declared: ‘Everything I believed is turning out to be madness and a crime. I can’t carry on.’
It could be the epitaph for his entire generation.
On The Rise of Skywalker:
The Critical Drinker put up part one of his review. Warning, spoilers through and through. He does a thorough job in reviewing movies, and I like him in particular because we agree about 100% of the time, even right down to the details, so his broad opinion, if it is favorable, is always enough for me to check something out without watching the entire review. He thought the movie was an absolute disaster- worse than the previous two movies. For the record, the last Star Wars movie I watched was "Revenge of the Sith", and I swore to never give the franchise another penny or minute. I had hoped that the new work would might bring me back, but probably now won't.
Oh hes pretty brutal. Some others like dave cullen, an irishmen with asimilar atttitude were a little more charitable.
From when i saw the first one in 1981, to this pastiche as bad as dark phoenix probably worse.
another interesting thread by the inimitable Roscoe B. Davis
Always remember, from the very beginning, they were against him, long before he was elected. This is who the swamp is. Lie, cheat, and steal. @realDonaldTrump has faced the headwinds and delivered everything he said he would.
Harry Reid in his own words.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1208046275708555265.html
(Harry's words included in the thread are not RBD's opening statement)
I saw representative Clyburn on CNN and he was actually arguing that the House was like a grand jury that issued an indictment based on a determination that there was enough evidence to go to trial. And I thought that would surprise a lot of Democrats who thought the House had actually determined that it thought Trump had done something wrong. It would have been nice to ask Clyburn if he could confirm that Democratic leadership agreed with him, but it was CNN, so . . .
did Clinesmith resign, or was he reshuffled? Didnt Barr or Horowitz say he's still 'serving' but in a different capacity? Did he use the word 'retire'?
FISA Judge Orders FBI To Identify All Cases Involving Lawyer Who Allegedly Altered Carter Page Email
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/21/fisa-carter-page-fbi-review/
The Uncovering – Mike Rogers’ Investigation, Section 702 FISA Abuse & the FBI
https://themarketswork.com/2018/04/05/the-uncovering-mike-rogers-investigation-section-702-fisa-abuse-the-fbi/
Collyer ordered the FBI in a secret court filing earlier in December to identify all cases handled by Clinesmith
Clinesmith worked on the Clinton email scandal also
“Nasty cedars...not photogenic”
Give them a couple hundred years.
Or SCOTUS may refuse to touch it, and !The Impeachment! will just sort of hang out there, slowly twisting in the wind, until rendered moot by the next election.
It is !The Impeachment! that will carry the asterisk in the future as an action not by the People's House, but as an exercise in partisan political malpractice by this Democratic Party caucus.
Lakes don't have beaches Mary. So flyover of you. And sad. Beaches are on the ocean. Coastie
So I am flying to Wisconsin tomorrow. Before flying I feel the need to get east coast international cock. I did a guy from Lynn the city of sin. Portuguese. You don't find that type of trade in Wisconsin they are fat and white in Wisconsin.
Pelosi impeached him, then made a joke of it.
The beaches on the North Shore are not much to write home about either.
Last night I impeached some bourbon; this morning I awoke and impeached some coffee. So far a pretty impeachy day.
There will be much breathlessness on today's newspeak shows. George Stephanopoulos, Chucky Todd, and whomever CBS has these days, will be literally breathless, along with their expert guests as they discuss how the impeachment will affect DJ Trump. They will talk about the stain of it all. The fact that the Republican Senate is not willing to play by Dem rules (the nerve of them), and how Nancy P is actually brilliant in not sending the articles over to the Senate. Breathless.
Dumb and dumber all the way down.
“Nasty cedars...not photogenic”
Give them a couple hundred years.
I imagine he's referring to Virginia "cedars", which are, in fact, uppity junipers. When they're old, they become trunks with ragged canopies and scraggly undergrowth.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/congressional_follies_trump_is_still_your_president.html
There is fraud all around:
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2019/12/16/viewpoint-how-the-glyphosate-cancer-controversy-became-a-moral-crusade-and-a-threat-to-scientific-progress/
Uppity Junipers would be a great name for a band!!
These landscape photos are exquisite, Ann.
The photo under 6 (from your pocket) is better than a Rothko painting. If you were already a famous artist, you could call it Orange on Orange, and the critics would be excited about this new stage in your career.
Interesting
https://mobile.twitter.com/r_irredeemables/status/1208411852826390528
I could have gone with "jumped up junipers", but I'm feeling particularly racist today.
“Lakes don't have beaches Mary. So flyover of you. And sad. Beaches are on the ocean. Coastie”
Silly parochialism. Primary definitions in several dictionaries include lakeshores, and lakeshores are included as synonyms.
Which brings up an interesting story. I have four generations buried in Benzonia, MI, a small village founded in 1858 from a group from Oberlin, OH, in order to found a Christian college in the wilds of MI. (I have mentioned earlier here that Civil War historian Bruce Catton is buried in the next family plot over in the Benzonia cemetery). Benzonia was founded on the SE shore of Crystal Lake. On the western shore of Crystal Lake is Frankfort, which sits on Lake Michigan. Fifteen years after Benzonia was founded (1873), the residents decided to build a canal between Crystal Lake and Lake Michigan. The idea was to make Benzonia more easily accessible. To that effect, they dug a canal. Unfortunately, with the lack of GPS enabled cellphones, etc, they mismeasured the height of the surface of Crystal Lake. It turned out to be a bit over 20 feet higher than Lake Michigan, and upon completion of the canal, the level of Crystal Lake immediately dropped those 20 feet. All was not lost, because that opened up nice lite colored sandy beaches along the lakeshore.
The sandy beaches shouldn’t be surprising. It is only a couple miles from the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. When I was young, in the 1950s, we would journey every summer up to Benzonia to visit my grandparents (and great grandmother). I distinctly remember the nice sandy beaches in neighboring Beulah, the village that sprung up next door on Crystal Lake, after the lake level dropped 20 feet, leaving the sandy beaches exposed. Supposedly some of the nicest lakefront sandy beaches in that part of MI. We would go swimming there most days, weather permitting. And would take an obligatory trip every summer to Sleeping Bear dunes (not yet a National Lakeshore). The Dunes have a Main Dune Climb to the east (see linked article). That used to take hours to climb. Or so it seemed to a small kid. Went back in the 1980s after my grandmother stroked, to visit her in the hospital. For a healthy adult, it took maybe 15 minutes. Then a couple miles along the top, winding your way through the sand dunes, and then dropping down to Lake Michigan. Great hike, but completely beyond us as kids, when the younger boys couldn’t even get to the top of the initial climb.
"Bilwick said...
I've seen many episodes of The Rifleman, and yet I don't recall any episode in which Lucas McCain murdered anyone. Details?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jDA2SugzA0
Is "Sleeping Bear Dunes" the same as "Indiana Dunes State Park" that we went to when I was in high school?
I spent many summers in Michigan on the lakes.
I remember seeing a bald eagle in the U.P. feeding on a dead deer at the side of the road. It was in 1973 and it was a BIG deal. Except for the friends in the car with me, I don't think anyone in my high school class had ever seen one. Now they're everywhere. No need to head for the wilds of the U.P. I see one at least once a week driving around NE Wisconsin. They especially like the open waters below the dam in Kaukauna. And it's not just eagles that have made a comeback. I saw my first pelican on Green Bay around 20 years ago. Now they are everywhere by the hundreds.
Michael K, Sleeping Bear Dunes is a Nat'l Park in northwest lower Michigan. (On the exterior pinky finger of the "mitten", as we call it.) Indiana Dunes is on the Northern edge of Indiana, making outside the mitten, altho not far off its extreme southwest corner. A person could easily get them mixed up in childhood memories. In their flora and topography, those dunes are very similar.
Yes, I saw it immediately.
I walk Lake Washington, and I keep the dog on a leach......because she is breakfast. She's in the avatar.
Now they are everywhere by the hundreds.
I've lived in the same Seattle neighborhood for a loooooooooong time. I never saw eagles as a kid. I see them all the time now!! Eagles are the apex predator in the area.
Nevertheless, I don’t doubt that White folks like HRC, Biden, and Comey had a measure of racially-tinged contempt and envy for Obama, as a president if not as a person. I also don’t doubt that he was sensitive to it, which may explain his lukewarm support for Hillary’s candidacy and his relatively low profile since 2016.
Give the guy a chance to enjoy his millions. Tough to do on a gummit salary.
98 people at Biden's town hall today, plus the crazy guy.
Ann, FYI, Army and Navy recommend their servicemen stop using TikTok
https://www.pcmag.com/news/372673/us-navy-bans-tiktok-citing-cybersecurity-threat
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