Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

How stupid are these people?

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

I really should read my own blog.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

This really is a full service blog.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Let there be snark.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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On the Road: Week of June 28 (5 am)

We are doing something a little different this week.  I gave Albatrossity and Bill a week off, and we have two new peeps with On the Road posts on Monday (Mactree) and Tuesday (Mawado), and then spend 3 more days in the Galapagos with arrieve.

Not to worry, though, we will be back to Spring in Flyover Country next Monday!

Paris in the Springtime: Week of June 28 (10 pm)

way2blue – Limeuil, France In June
Tom V – Paris in December

That’s it for After Dark for awhile, unless Paris/France photos show up on Monday or Tuesday.

?  And now we have some wonderful photos from new submitter Mactree.  As you can see, we still have birds today! :-)  May I just say that although I like to do lunch, I would rather not be lunch.

Mactree

Couple of Opsrey fishing & flying

On The Road - Mactree - Osprey 1
Salida COJune 18, 2021

Couple of Osprey

On The Road - Mactree - Osprey
Salida COJune 18, 2021

Osprey with lunch

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  3. 3.

    Anonymous At Work

    So thoroughly conditioned from childhood, all I saw in the second picture was “waste of a good trout” and spent some time trying to identify the species based on location, sizing, and possible coloring below gills (I think Rainbow because red just below gills isn’t prominent enough for Cutthroat).

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    stinger

    I was actually trying to “count the wings” before I counted all the feet and re-read the caption on that top photo! Now I gotta know, did the first one scooch over? (Doubt there’d have been room anyway.)

    Thanks, Mactree!

  9. 9.

    Miss Bianca

    Hey, Mactree, do you live in Salida? I know there are some ospreys that like to nest by the ball fields over near the hospital – or, at least, they were there when I was living there! (waving from the other end of Bighorn Sheep Canyon).

  10. 10.

    JanieM

    Thanks for the candid shots! It’s fun to try to sort out what’s going on in that first one.

    I love watching osprey hover above the lake across the road — such a distinctive pose.

  15. 15.

    Yutsano

    SEAHAWKS!!!

    Ospreys are fun little raptors. Usually wherever there’s easy fish they’ll be around. Lots of fun if you can catch them hunting too!

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    J R in WV

    We spent a week at a friend’s cabin up the mountain and north of Cotopaxi some years back, real high altitude, wood stove, spring water, A-frame. We used the cabin as a base while we rock hounded all over that area, former gold mines, lead mines, up on Mt Antero.

    Once you are above 10,000 feet, you don’t realize it, but you are substantially stupid from lack of oxygen. When we came down the mountain in my little white Ranger PU truck, we realized how lucky we were to not have had any emergency which we needed to respond to intelligently.

    Beautiful country side. We had a snow storm our first exploring trip in mid-June. Rt 50 passes right through West Virginia.

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