Althouse: Yellow.

November 10, 2021

Yellow.

21 comments:

Big Mike said...: Another picture that would make a great 1000 piece puzzle. You ought to go into business, Althouse.; 11/10/21, 6:04 PM
MikeD said...: Now that's what Fall is supposed to look like!; 11/10/21, 6:06 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Vienna woods: Take the shot and give her a shot.

link to video; 11/10/21, 6:30 PM
JMS said...: I've been loving all of your fall photos but this one is the best. Thank you for sharing.; 11/10/21, 6:40 PM
Sella Turcica said...: From the Harvard Health Blog:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/intimacy-sex-and-covid-19-2020041519550#:~:text=If%20both%20of%20you%20are,physical%20contact%20and%20intimacy.

True, many forms of intimacy require a closer distance than the six feet of separation recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

This made me wonder about forms of intimacy that can be done at a distance of more than 6 feet.; 11/10/21, 6:52 PM
Phil 314 said...: I am curious; 11/10/21, 7:13 PM
Big Mike said...: Apparently it has been confirmed that Gavin Newsom has had a serious adverse reaction to a COVID booster shot. I’d have even more schadenfreude if it happened to Anthony Fauci, or perhaps Rochelle Walrnsky. But along with governors Murphy and Whitmer, Newsom is right up there.; 11/10/21, 7:15 PM
farmgirl said...: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/finn-and-the-bell/id664663777?i=1000540515084

Idk if this is “appropriate”- it’s a podcast of the community of a small town up here- dealing w/the suicide of a 17yr old. It happened almost 2yrs ago- &this tribute is so well done. I cried throughout b/c I’ve lost family members this same way. I share b/c it so emphasizes my earlier comment on community- what we have lost and what we stand to lose and- how we still have it in us to be connected.

If it’s not appropriate- please delete: I close by saying- I’m glad I listened and today is a growth day for me b/c I did.; 11/10/21, 7:39 PM
rehajm said...: 36 percent approval for Biden is bad but it is the polices that people are mad about.

Who is in charge of those?; 11/10/21, 7:44 PM
Lurker21 said...: I figured Obama was making a joke when he said "I don’t know what the term is in Austrian," but after this "Emerald Isles" bit, he wonder if he may really be that dumb. This from a guy who claims to be from a city that dies the river green every St. Patrick's day.

Chicago-born Michelle Wu got elected mayor of Boston. This is supposed to be a first, since she was assigned female at birth (who knows how many previous mayors identified as female), and since she's Taiwanese she sort of counts as a person of color. But is it also a last as well? Young people growing up in the neighborhoods may learn that it's easier for a Harvard grad coming from elsewhere to grease the right palms and become mayor than it is for a local to rise to the office.; 11/10/21, 9:32 PM
StephenFearby said...: Reading the entrails of a despicable smear. Surprised the WSJ went along with it:

Danchenko Indictment: How Dossier Non-Source Sergei Millian Was Framed
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
November 10, 2021

'...The national media bit hard on the Millian story shopped by Simpson. First, the Wall Street Journal ran a story in early 2017 naming Millian as the key source of the most egregious dossier allegations, followed by the Washington Post. Millian said neither paper printed his rebuttals at length after reaching out to him by email. (In a Jan. 22, 2017, email obtained by RCI, Maremont, a former colleague of Simpson and now a senior editor at the Wall Street Journal, thanked Millian for his “note” and urged him to trust him before breaking the dubious story about him two days later. “I think if you look carefully at the Wall Street Journal’s news department you will understand that we have an unparalleled reputation for fairness and accuracy,” Maremont wrote. “I personally am a strong champion of that philosophy.”) Maremont did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

“The liberal press never printed my statements,” he said. “They all just went along with Steele's and Simpson’s lies.” Millian said he demanded retractions from both the Post and Journal, arguing their articles were “reckless, defamatory and constitute libel,” but they refused to retract them or run corrections or clarifications. (He said he later hired a lawyer to sue the papers for libel, but the lawyer advised him that the statute of limitations had expired.)'

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/11/10/danchenko_indictment_how_dossier_non-source_sergei_millian_was_framed_803079.html; 11/10/21, 10:50 PM
pacwest said...: Farmers are going to be using 30-40% less fertilizer on their crops due to higher prices and long lead times. Do the math.; 11/10/21, 10:55 PM
Chris N said...: One of your best?; 11/11/21, 1:58 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "I've been loving all of your fall photos but this one is the best. Thank you for sharing."

Thanks. This image is something that is very very common here. Lots of yellow, all around. I've gone for maybe 20 walks in this woods with yellow all around like this. I think it's nice, but I don't normally think I've got to get a picture of this.; 11/11/21, 2:06 AM
Ann Althouse said...: It's not that I don't value it. I do. I just don't realize that people would appreciate a picture.

And it's not that I think people will appreciate all the pictures of sunrises that are just solid gray clouds. I don't. But with the sunrise, I'm documenting a ritual, and each sunrise is unique.

The yellow woods at any given instant is also unique, but if I take that attitude to photography, I'll never stop taking pictures.; 11/11/21, 2:09 AM
Jaq said...: OK, I went over the library across the street that I can see out my window, and got a copy of Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men." The forward was very interesting, if you care about writing, but the n-word shows up twice on the first page, along with a couple of "Lawdy lawds!" describing the people in the cotton field along the highway. It's a character, the narrator, speaking, I guess, but still. Wow did we view things differently in 1978. It was written in the '40s, which should have been a warning.; 11/11/21, 5:56 AM
Jaq said...: That is a pretty good picture.; 11/11/21, 6:05 AM
Meade said...: Nature’s final gold is yellow
Which doesn’t rhyme with door hinge; 11/11/21, 7:11 AM
Ann Althouse said...: What frustrates me about the photograph is that it doesn't reveal how downwardly sloping the path is. In real life, it's a dramatic dip down into the woods. It looks flat in the photo.; 11/11/21, 7:26 AM
Jaq said...: " is that it doesn't reveal how downwardly sloping the path is"

Maybe that little bit of skewed perspective is what makes it an interesting photo. You need more than one thing going on (the yellow) to give a piece of art the illusion of a depth of layers.; 11/11/21, 7:34 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: The glowing yellow forest.; 11/11/21, 9:00 AM