Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Consistently wrong since 2002

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

The willow is too close to the house.

Let there be snark.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

In my day, never was longer.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

T R E 4 5 O N

Second rate reporter says what?

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

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Good Morning All,

So far, this feature has been primarily about travel, with the occasional “local” picture or two. I think limiting this to just travel is just that – limiting. So I’m changing this up a bit to include neat, colorful, funny, interesting, poignant, etc. pictures that don’t necessarily require travel.

I’ve found that the most remarkable sights are often around us in our normal, everyday lives, it’s just that you’ve got to be aware – see more. Sometimes life is looking out of an airplane window, touring a sight or museum, but sometimes it’s noticing that silly dog playing with a plant, a character in need of a show, or a brief but amazing life-stage of a tiny, humble insect.

As always, if you’re on a trip or have a story to share, you can just pitch in below. Please hold off sending new pictures as we’re in the final testing stages of a submission function to make this feature less error-prone and a bit more automated. It will be live Friday! Once it is, I hope folks will use it to contribute 5-7 pictures as a set, to be shown in one go.

 

Travel safely everyone, even if it’s just down the hall for that second cup of coffee.

 

Where it was taken: Crane Beach & Russell Orchards, Ipswich, Massachusetts
When: on a perfect beach day, July 3, 2017
Commenter nym: Tenar Arha
Other notes or info about the picture: If you ever go to Crane Beach, always look back inland to Castle
Hill, north towards Plum Island and the Ipswich River, or outwards from the shore into the Atlantic.

Depending on the day of the week, part of my own personal tradition is to stop before or after at Russell Orchards for cider donuts & the fruits of whatever’s in season. Sometimes I even take time to visit Darryl the Pig’s home barn (note the weather vane). Unfortunately, he was sleeping with his back to the stall door, but I did take the time to admire and/or pet some of the other animals ;-)

 

 

 

 

Thanks for such wonderful shots!

Have a great day all, the end of the week is in sight

 

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  4. 4.

    JanieM

    Can the pie filter always display the little image of a slice of pie, instead of text? That would make it much easier to pick up the cue and skim right past, IMHO.

    And a pony would be nice, too. ;-)

  7. 7.

    Mustang Bobby

    Karma time: As I scrolled through and came across the picture of the pony, the radio was playing Copland’s “The Red Pony Suite” performed by the Boston Pops.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    @satby

    Cannot quite give it a full-throated recommendation but it’s a more than decent effort which you might find a diverting enough pastime.

    On Netflix, The Invisible Guest (original title Contratiempo).

  10. 10.

    MomSense

    One of my old haunts. There’s a farm store on the drive in that sells apple cider donuts. Wow, I may have to take a quick trip.

  12. 12.

    jayboat

    @MomSense:
    Apple cider donuts??? I’ll be needing a whole box.

    Just did an amazing trip in the rv- traveled up Highway 61 from Port Arthur to Memphis with a friend who’s a real history buff. She had a plan and we hit plantations in Natchez (Rosedown, Longwood, Stanton Hall), Jug Head’s for fried pickles and catfish, then Windsor Ruins and got the blues at the Hwy 61 Blues Museum in Leland and the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale. Boondocked one night in a Mississippi cotton field somewhere in the Delta and found a parking spot 3 blocks off of Beale St in downtown Memphis. If you really, really want to see the country I think it’s the only way to travel. The plantations were a real eye-opener… seeing up close the opulent lifestyle of the cotton barons right at their peak before the Civil War.

  15. 15.

    MomSense

    @jayboat:

    Yup. Real, raised donuts with none of that overly sweet glaze mess used to hide mistakes. They also sell their own cheddar cheese and the combo of donut and thin slices of cheddar is so good I may have to get in my car at lunchtime.

  16. 16.

    Laura

    What a lovely bunch of photos. An apple cider doughnut sure would hit the spot right about now.
    Maybe tomorrow there’ll be a picture of Poco on the beach wearing his dog school graduation cap and gown . . .

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    Steeplejack (phone)

    @JanieM:

    That’s a good idea! It should be easy to add a pie emoji as a one-character “quote” to the pie filter database.

    Don’t know if/how you could make that the quote to always come up.

  21. 21.

    Alain the site fixer

    @Steeplejack (phone): Yeah, mister techie here has no idea how to create an emoji in Windows, much less store it in a JSON string on the Linux server. I’ll investigate, but it’s not a priority! Real life has taken over and I’ve not yet had time to pull in the quotes and pie comments; I hope to get that done next week.

  22. 22.

    Origuy

    Here’s the full Unicode emoji list. Warning, it’s big and slow to load.
    You should be able to embed an HTML emoji of the right character. The table doesn’t show a picture for pie in the browser, though. Let’s try it: &#1f967;
    There’s also pizza pie: &#1f355;
    That’s ampersand #1f967; and &#1f355;
    That didn’t work. Let me get back to you.

  23. 23.

    Origuy

    Interesting. That was me trying to play with HTML for emojis. Maybe I edited and saved the message so many times it changed my nym to undefined. Sorry about that.
    I should have a few pictures on Monday. I’m going to Shaver Lake in the southern Sierra Nevada. Here’s a teaser.
    Wierd. When I posted this message, the nym on the previous message changed back.

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    jayboat

    @satby:
    Here’s a gallery with 50… I think they can be viewed if you don’t have a book of faces account. Busy this week and haven’t had time to create a flickr set.

  27. 27.

    JanieM

    @Alain the site fixer: there was a picture of a slice of pie tossed up by the pie filter a few days ago. I don’t remember which thread…….but that made me think it was already in there as an option.

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