microsculptures

on the head of a pin

It began when I was five years old,” says Willard. “I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to. That’s how my career as a micro-sculptor began.”

Willard Wign’s micro-sculptures are now so minute that they are only visible through a microscope. Each piece commonly sits within the eye of a needle, or on a pin head. The personal sacrifices involved in creating such wondrous, yet scarcely believable pieces are inconceivable to most. Willard enters a meditative state in which his heartbeat is slowed, allowing him to reduce hand tremors and sculpt between pulse beats. Even the reverberation caused by outside traffic can affect Willard’s work. Consequently, he often works through the night when there is minimal disruption.

Dr Gordon Peterson

has 5 phds. A leading immunologist claims norovirous is 20x deadly as the flu but that we all have had previous exposure to this kind of strain.

New mls soccer anthem

lover Atlanta FC. With a South American attack and European style defense.

thought for the day.

The boys of H company....movie

real story of Iwo. Jima.

Planking? Who knew..

A 62-year-old former US Marine has broken the world planking  (lying stiff as a plank with only toes and forearms touching the ground) record with a time of eight hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds.  God that's exciting.  Sorry I missed it.   But had to attend the 'watching butter milt championship.'

a bit of the Irish

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Marriage is the same.
Oscar Wilde

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.
Hugh Leonard

Me darlin' was sweet, me darlin' was chaste
Faith, an' more's the pity.
For though she was sweet an'though she was chaste,
She was chased all the way through the city.
Anonymous Irish verse, circa 1790

Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape

Thank you Jesus.

Forewarned is forearmed Ma used to say.

The incubation period - between infection and showing any symptoms - lasts up to 14 days, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Woman who walks ahead....movie

Most enjoyable....authentic

Does it ever stop

Canadian Jean Vanier, a devout Catholic and a religious leader who founded a celebrated organisation for people with learning difficulties sexually abused six women in France, an internal report says.  He set up the global network L'Arche in France in 1964 and died last year aged 90.  The women were abused while seeking 'spiritual guidance. 

Portrait by Caroline Weldon

Sitting Bull.....one of four paintings by the artist.

Guy Penrod

guy and family...only one daughter!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq4Tlt5yQ8E

Jpr: ma loved the man...he s a preacher singer!

Coming this spring

Now men first rule, take cover behind something big

Old man with dog contest

winner Bill Operete from Mule's Bottom

Congrat's WVa, McDowell County voted most miserable place to live in US.

 

- 35% of population, 50% of children live in poverty.  

- leading causes of death, suicide and drug overdose, 

`-the highest rate of drug-induced deaths in the United States, Ten x’s national average.

- lowest life expectancy in the nation, declined while national average increased,

- 40% of school children lost a parent to drug addiction., 46% do not live with a biological parent. 

- unemployment rate at 48%.

- less than 6% have a college degree, 50% of adults never finished high school.

- median income, $22,154, third poorest county in the United States,

- 47% of all income is from Social Security, disability insurance, food stamps, etc

- two thirds of households have no wastewater treatment,

- many communities have no fresh water,

- largest private employer, Walmart. closed in January 2016. 140 lost their jobs. 

- One third of the county's food bank resources (serving half of the population, 4,000 families) came from that Walmart,

- Only one quarter of high school students are proficient in reading.

Christianne Paul

Das est eine gutter Dutcher Actress!

super shop lifter , Walmart

Found owl's nest under bridge

walking trail where me dawg and I track

Under the bridge I call Hoooo Hoooo Hoooo and the chicks start to roar back from hunger. Nest is up to left side of left most steel beam. Note small stream of bird sewage. Can't see'm just hear'm.

Star Shoplifter Dick's Sporting Goods

Dimesh

Description

Dinmukhammed Kanatuly Kudaibergen is a Kazakh singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is university trained in classical as well as in contemporary music and is known for his wide vocal range of 6 octaves. He has performed songs in twelve different languages.

National Crises> Americans be en-guard.

Pubs are continuing to struggle with 18 closing a week in Britain.  "Pubs are struggling under a triple whammy of high Beer taxes, rapidly rising Business Rates and VAT. As a result, a third of the cost of a pint is now made up of various taxes,"   JP's consultant, Stuart Cullen, well known PUB aficionado, calls it a national emergency.  'People are drinking at home, fueling rates of family violence, suicide and creating a generally boring population.'   

Player piano lessons

Lessons free player piano $1900.

RIP Joseph Shabalala,

Founder of Ladyship Black Mambaz

let it begin (again)!

       

Brown Penny

I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,'
And then, 'I am old enough';
Wherefore I threw a penny
To find out if I might love.
'Go and love, go and love, young man,
If the lady be young and fair.'
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
I am looped in the loops of her hair.
O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
One cannot begin it too soon. 

William Butler Yeats

shortest 4 lane highway

Indiana State Road 520 is a four-lane connector about 1,000 feet (305 m) in length.

Funny

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman all went to Hell. The Englishman wound up in a blazing furnace, and the Scotsman was put in beside him burning away. The Irishman wound up in a lavish bedroom with a beautiful blond film star in his arms. "That's not fair," complained the Englishman and the Scotsman, "rewarding Paddy like that." "That's not the Irishman's reward," said the Devil. "That's the girl's punishment."

Useless factoid, PUBS

The Bell Inn in Aldworth, Berkshire, UK,  (recently named England's Best Pub) has been run by the same family for 250 years. The Macaulay family bough the place in 1770, six years before our Declaration of Independence.

s.

fledgling cardinals

 they look like the mother

There is another sky by Emily Dickinson

There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,

Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields -
Here is a little forest,                                                  
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been;
In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum:
Prithee, my brother,
Into my garden come!

Really?

great voices. Enjoy. With the brandy

Me back yard

What the hell are you looking at. Its cold.

Chinese Proverb

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Proverb

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”

-- Eskimo

cuddles

jpr: Lighten your load a bit!

Morning Rain by Tu Fu

A slight rain comes, bathed in dawn light.
I hear it among treetop leaves before mist
Arrives. Soon it sprinkles the soil and,
Windblown, follows clouds away. Deepened

Colors grace thatch homes for a moment.
Flocks and herds of things wild glisten
Faintly. Then the scent of musk opens across
Half a mountain -- and lingers on past noon.


jpr: I can hear Chinese muisc in the background! Lovely!

Compliments Of John Patrick

 I was at the bar the other night and overheard three very hefty women talking at the bar. 

Their accent appeared to be Scottish, so I approached and asked,

"Hello, are you three lassies from Scotland?"

One of them angrily screeched,

"It's Wales, Wales you bloody idiot!"

So I apologized and replied,

"I am so sorry.

Are you three whales from Scotland?”

And that's the last thing I remember.

Humans Inhabited Ireland longer than believed.

Butchering marks on a bear bone discovered in 1903, but just reanalyzed has been dated to 12,500 years ago.  Further examination proves the marks were made when the bone was fresh.  The find is the first proof that humans inhabited Ireland during the Paleolithic Era.  Previous findings demonstrate the oldest evidence of human occupation dates to 8,000 years ago.

Vince Lombardi Trophy

Named after the coach who won the first 2 Super Bowls.... Vince Lombardi

The man attended catholic seminary in high school where he became a daily mass and communicate for the rest of his life.

My furnace....part III

All hail thou incarnate chassis, the raised next generation. Welcome, may thee be as kind as your ancestor. Cost $3054 USD