Althouse: Sunrise with duck.

१४ एप्रिल, २०२३

Sunrise with duck.

6:09 a.m.

१८ टिप्पण्या:

MadTownGuy म्हणाले...: Duck à l'orange...et bleu.; १४/४/२३, ७:१० AM
BUMBLE BEE म्हणाले...: Big News = Big Lies

https://youtu.be/jzpCKjl8OxQ; १४/४/२३, ७:३७ AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...: Mirror lake... with slight ripple.
Lovely.; १४/४/२३, ७:४५ AM
TickTock म्हणाले...: That light is quite something.
And the duck is a nice touch.; १४/४/२३, ८:१४ AM
Iman म्हणाले...: A surreal photo. Beautiful!; १४/४/२३, ८:१८ AM
wildswan म्हणाले...: 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.; १४/४/२३, ८:२९ AM
Kate म्हणाले...: Oh, my! As Mary Berry says about perfectly baked pastry, "That's a little bit of alright."; १४/४/२३, ८:३० AM
Owen म्हणाले...: Awesome pic, thanks.

Makes me wonder what the duck thinks of that sunrise. Probably: “where’s breakfast?”; १४/४/२३, ९:३९ AM
Iman म्हणाले...: Via duct, vi not a chicken?; १४/४/२३, ९:४२ AM
farmgirl म्हणाले...: :0). I might like this one even better.
Embrace the blessings…; १४/४/२३, १०:४० AM
planetgeo म्हणाले...: Classic duck a l'orange...; १४/४/२३, ११:०० AM
lonejustice म्हणाले...: Amazingly beautiful photograph. The lake is so calm that the duck leaves a wake.; १४/४/२३, ११:०६ AM
Ampersand म्हणाले...: Exceptional.; १४/४/२३, ११:२१ AM
lonejustice म्हणाले...: I would pay to have a copy of this photograph to put on the wall in my home office.; १४/४/२३, ३:५० PM
Ann Althouse म्हणाले...: I like the duck-inscribed arc.; १४/४/२३, ३:५५ PM
Captain BillieBob म्हणाले...: You should print and frame this one.
Very nice.; १४/४/२३, ६:०४ PM
Josephbleau म्हणाले...: 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.; १४/४/२३, ८:४१ PM
Josephbleau म्हणाले...: 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?; १४/४/२३, ८:४७ PM