Althouse: Sunrise with duck.

April 14, 2023

Sunrise with duck.

6:09 a.m.

18 comments:

MadTownGuy said...: Duck à l'orange...et bleu.; 4/14/23, 7:10 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Big News = Big Lies

https://youtu.be/jzpCKjl8OxQ; 4/14/23, 7:37 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Mirror lake... with slight ripple.
Lovely.; 4/14/23, 7:45 AM
TickTock said...: That light is quite something.
And the duck is a nice touch.; 4/14/23, 8:14 AM
Iman said...: A surreal photo. Beautiful!; 4/14/23, 8:18 AM
wildswan said...: The purported "leak from the Pentagon" has strange features suggesting that the supposed info may be disinfo. First of all, a US Air Force Airman, basically a private, would not have access to the briefings. Someone gave them to him. Who? Why? Second, the statement that the Ukraine is losing 7 soldiers for every 1 Russian killed is simply false. In Bakhmut the Russian are attacking entrenched defenders and in those circumstances the attackers, that is the Russians, lose 3 or 4 times as many soldiers as the defenders.. Another example. Outside Kiev last year the Russians retreated, hardly the action of an army killing 7 Ukrainians for every Russian soldier. The Russians retreated again in September, yhis time from Kharkiv. Were they again victoriously killing 7 Ukrainians for every Russia just before a retreat? There's a reason for all this talk and for this leak at this time and here's what I think it is. The Ukrainians have got battle tanks at last and are now training on them. This is creating a delay which the Russians are filling with talk about a frozen conflict or about the Ukrainian casualty ratio and an inevitable loss.
People I respect are against the Ukraine war but with all due respect this is not Afghanistan; we are not the invaders; our Army is not there. Most important - our money has bought weapons and assisted fighters who have crushed the Russian Army and destroyed its aura of invincibility. We couldn't have done better ourselves in a NATO war and with all the box-checking women in combat roles and all the wimps planning military strategy as a series of signals, we probably would have done worse. We've been saved - possibly by blackmail - but saved. We've been given time, a little, little while, to get a real leader as President. But oddly, the best leader we could get opposes the war that's going to bring him back. My response is: In a crazy world, I have faith in Trump's insight when he is back.; 4/14/23, 8:29 AM
Kate said...: Oh, my! As Mary Berry says about perfectly baked pastry, "That's a little bit of alright."; 4/14/23, 8:30 AM
Owen said...: Awesome pic, thanks.

Makes me wonder what the duck thinks of that sunrise. Probably: “where’s breakfast?”; 4/14/23, 9:39 AM
Iman said...: Via duct, vi not a chicken?; 4/14/23, 9:42 AM
farmgirl said...: :0). I might like this one even better.
Embrace the blessings…; 4/14/23, 10:40 AM
planetgeo said...: Classic duck a l'orange...; 4/14/23, 11:00 AM
lonejustice said...: Amazingly beautiful photograph. The lake is so calm that the duck leaves a wake.; 4/14/23, 11:06 AM
Ampersand said...: Exceptional.; 4/14/23, 11:21 AM
lonejustice said...: I would pay to have a copy of this photograph to put on the wall in my home office.; 4/14/23, 3:50 PM
Ann Althouse said...: I like the duck-inscribed arc.; 4/14/23, 3:55 PM
BillieBob Thorton said...: You should print and frame this one.
Very nice.; 4/14/23, 6:04 PM
Josephbleau said...: There is a lot of physics in that picture. A lot of complexity and underlying structure. If I were doing PBS painting, I could pull the trees down into the lake with my 2 inch brush and make those perfect reflections. I don't think there is a simple way to paint a duck's wake when the duck is curving. I could model it with finite element CFD and make a colorful jpeg, but no one would pay me to do it, it's a duck.; 4/14/23, 8:41 PM
Josephbleau said...: It takes a still pool to reflect the stars.

Well, it takes a damn still lake to preserve the path of a duck for what, 20 feet?; 4/14/23, 8:47 PM