I’ve been slacking on the posting. Here’s a picture of my sunflowers taken by Tammy from the other side of the fence:
It looks like they are waving hello.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.
All hail the time of the bunny!
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius
Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?
If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.
“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.
Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker
Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.
This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.
They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.
Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!
Optimism opens the door to great things.
No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”
Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.
Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.
To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.
Good lord, these people are nuts.
It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.
This fight is for everything.
TenguPhule
“GREETINGS EARTH CREATURE. HAVE YOU SEEN OUR BOOK ‘TO SERVE MAN’?”
rikyrah
Your flowers are beautiful??
?BillinGlendaleCA
I got a great shot of a sunflower with a bee in it with my fisheye lens a couple of years ago.
Gin & Tonic
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I got a bee in some flower I don’t know the name of in the Sydney Botanic Garden a few years ago (also showing the problem with depth of field at f2.5 – that’s where your fisheye helps.)
A Ghost To Most
John, I’m roughing out the bowl of the spoon. Do you want a flat bowl, or a deeper one?
Ohio Mom
@A Ghost To Most: How’s the finger you sawed through doing?
Yesterday I saw a monarch fly by, migrating south. Autumn is on its way. Summer is never long enough for me.
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: ? Buzzing in a sunflower, caught in the camera eye, I have no heart to lie, I can’t pretend that that is not a fisheye lens?
mrmoshpotato
@Ohio Mom: @A Ghost To Most: Did the spoon’s creation also see some sweat and tears?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gin & Tonic: The fisheye also got the dam in back as a nice background(that’s the Supulveda Dam for SoCal locals).
Origuy
I was driving through Yolo County, west of Sacramento, a few weeks ago. I passed fields of sunflowers which were about waist high at the most. Turns out Yolo is one of the biggest producers of sunflower seeds in the world. The short ones are female flowers. They grow a few rows of males, which are taller, but cut them down before harvest.
Capri
John, I was in your neck of the woods last week. Was visiting my daughter in Portsmouth Ohio and we went to WV for dinner. Beautiful country.
John Cole
@A Ghost To Most: This is for stirring so flatter is probably better!
John Cole
@Capri: whereabouts?
catclub
@Ohio Mom:
I’ve seen a horse fly and I’ve seen a house fly, but I’ve never seen an elephant fly!
A Ghost To Most
@Ohio Mom:
It looks good. It was not deep. I have put down the tree saw, and picked up my Japanese hand saws. They are amazing tools, but also unforgiving.
A Ghost To Most
@John Cole: Roger that.
tomtofa
@A Ghost To Most: Unforgiving in what ways? I like them much more than western saws, but I know little about either from any advanced perspective.
Capri
@John Cole: Went to the Art Museum then the Cellar Door to eat. Not bad but probably could have used a local’s recommendation.
John Cole
@Capri: New Martinsville?
Mnemosyne
@Capri:
I’ve mentioned before that I read a book written in the 1840s by Frances Trollope called “Domestic Manners of the Americans” that is extremely critical of Americans and really funny.
During her travels around America, she says that the most beautiful place she had ever seen was Wheeling, which was then part of Virginia. It was kind of startling to see a familiar city pop up in a book that is that old.
low-tech cyclist
John: if those sunflowers start saying, “FEED ME,” either get out the chainsaw, or run for the hills!
Mary Ellen Sandahl
@low-tech cyclist: Or if they start loudly rattling their stems.( h/t John Wyndham)