Till we meet again

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Mother Teresa

Phil the Greek Speaks

Prince Phillip of the UK, or Phil the Greek as he is known locally, is not consider particularly bright by many.  He is famous for his 'odd' public statements. 

To Scottish driving instructor, 1995: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”

At a wildlife conference in China in 1986: “If it has four legs and it’s not a chair, if it’s got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it’s not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”

At Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme, 2006. “Young people are the same as they always were. Just as ignorant.”

To black politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, 1999: “And what exotic part of the world do you come from?”

To parents at a previously struggling Sheffield school, 2003: “Were you here in the bad old days? ... That’s why you can’t read and write then!”

Asking Cate Blanchett to fix his DVD player because she worked “in the film industry”, 2008: “There’s a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?”

“People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.” 2000.To a group of industrialists in 1961: “I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.”

In Canada in 1976: “We don’t come here for our health.”

To the Aircraft Research Association in 2002: “If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort – provided you don’t travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.”

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Would u hang this ?

ugly or beautiful ...u choose

hanging pillar

The Veerabhadra Swamy Temple is calm, serene and has preserved its sanctity. The outer portion has a massive Dance Hall with numerous pillars supporting the roof. One corner pillar is the famous ‘hanging pillar‘ that does not touch the temple floor at all. Passing a cloth beneath the pillar is said to bring one prosperity in life 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHzxWJuuFSw

Sitting in looking at rain on vacanes

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:   Suspect great tree poems must be so inspired.

the art of spying

Looks familiar?

the wild daffodil

Real life hero

jpr: all of the family keeps one or more rescue dogs!

Mojave Nugget

The Mojave Nugget is the largest known gold nugget ever found in California by prospector Ty Paulsen in 1977 using a metal detector. The nugget, which weighs 156 troy ounces (4.9 kg)  contains 132 pieces of gold and has a total weight of more than 1,660 troy ounces (52 kg).

My space today

Yet our man George Carlin

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?

Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?

Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?

What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks, so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Wakes me about 4:30 am in summer

Heaven and Hell

Heaven Is Where:

The French are the chefs
The Italians are the lovers
The British are the police
The Germans are the mechanics
And the Swiss make everything run on time

Hell is Where:

The British are the chefs
The Swiss are the lovers
The French are the mechanics
The Italians make everything run on time
And the Germans are the police

h s chemistry

jpr: am tutoring my grand daughter. She's close to B avg in a very competitive private H S. The girl is not enjoying chemistry.   Neither is the student above.

Haiti's tent cities

IN THE past year the population of Haiti's tent cities has fallen from over 1m to less than 600,000. Sadly, that reflects official inaction rather than accomplishment. Most of the encampments' residents, who moved in after the January 2010 earthquake, have left because health clinics and water distribution ran out, because landowners and mayors illegally evicted them, or because they gave up hope that aid might reach them. Today, the “people who could get out of the tents [have] already got out of the tents,” says Patrick Rouzier, housing adviser to the new president, Michel Martelly. Those who remain are “the most vulnerable, the hard cases, the lost”, says Leonard Doyle, a spokesman for the International Organisation for Migration.

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flower child

The real deal!!!

The difference in lighting/light is part of the problem

Not likely that anyone other than me will like this painting.  I had fun doing it and love to look at it.  The brushstrokes don't show well in the photo but in reality I think they're amazing, knowing that fondness is purely self-centered.

"Not Far From Mulkeen's"
9' x12', acrylic

COI..cold case

This bird attack happened over a year ago! COI investigators have narrowed the search (DNA mapping) and expect an arrest momentarily. Four year old Reginald will have his justice.

Checking weather before travel

Use NOAA. Forecast maps    Fog rain heat ice etc

World History According to Students

The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked “Am I my brother’s son?” God asked Abraham to sacrifice Issac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Issac, stole his brother’s birthmark. Jacob was a partiarch who brought up his twelve sons to be partiarchs, but they did not take to it. One of Jacob’s sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites.

Name the dog

follansbee, backyard, circa 1980

"chien, jardin , buisson" acrylic, 11 x 15 "

Was ma s dog ‘zero’

COUNTRY FRENCH APPLE CRESCENT

COUNTRY FRENCH APPLE CRESCENT DESSERT
2 tbsp. sugar
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
8 oz. can crescent rolls (refrigerated)
1 lg. apple (Ida Red or other baking apple), peeled, cored, and cut into 8 slices
SAUCE:
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. whipping cream
1 tbsp. almond extract
1 egg
1/2 c. sliced almonds (optional)
Cinnamon
Heat oven to 375 degrees. In small bowl, combine 2 tablespoons sugar and 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon; blend well. Separate dough into 8 triangles; sprinkle sugar mixture evenly over each. Gently press sugar mixture into each triangle. Tuck in edges around apple slice. Roll up, starting at wide end, roll to opposite point. Seal all seams. Place, tip side down, in ungreased 9 inch pie pan, placing long side of 7 filled crescents around outside edge of dish and 1 in center. bake at 375 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
In small bowl, using wire whisk, combine 1/2 cup sugar, whipping cream, almond extract, and egg until well blended. Spoon sauce mixture evenly over partially baked rolls. Sprinkle with almonds and cinnamon. Bake an additional 13 to 18 minutes or until deep golden brown. Cover top of pan with foil during last 5 minutes of baking time if necessary to prevent excessive browning. Serve warm. Great with ice cream.

My old apartment in pittsburgh

Years ago.   Made many friends walking in this city park.  Red marks the spot!

Old bridge redone Nice!

Clendening lake

The old scout camp.   Did a mile swim, canoeing, rowing, swimming merit badges here. Would go again if’n I could!!

People are sooooo funny

While walking around the Island of Curacao we came upon a well kept monument.  A plaque, set in stone, surround with flowers and well tended grass offered an important historical message in two languages.  

Mother Teresa

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” ~Blessed Mother Teresa

Great Lakes

crab apples

The tree on the right (40' tall) is packed with crab apples.

                

Moose music

Taped in Alaska    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pXpzKb74RxE

Ana Morario

End Of An Era.

For more than 150 years English police have worn a helmet during routine duties.  Modeled on a Prussian military helmet of the time, it has become a symbol of policing worldwide.  But the hats are cumbersome, fall off frequently and can't be worn in cars. So the English have given police agencies permission to change to the American peaked cap.  Several forces have done so already with more to follow shortly.  The helmet will still be worn on special ceremonial occasions.  The Scottish and Northern Irish police have never used the helmet.

Majestic!

Millau Viaduct France is 909 feet in height making it the tallest bridge in the world  of its kind.

joke from 1600 BC

royal egyptains

A 1600 BC gag about a pharaoh, said to be King Snofru,  -- "How do you entertain a bored pharaoh? You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish."

Too Fat To Work

Stephen Beer, 45, and wife Michelle, 43, like their food fast - and were spotted coming out of a KFC with a bargain bucket to celebrate their first wedding anniversary.

The couple, of Plymouth, Eng,  became national hate figures when they appeared on the documentary ‘Too Fat to Work’ and admitted they receive $3,000 a month in welfare because they are 'disabled by their weight.'  Their combined weight is 770 pounds.

The Classics Are Still The Classics.

Unfortunately, the quick wit of Groucho Marx is lost to much of the last few generations. But take the time to find copies of 'You Bet Your Life' and one is quickly reminded that a class act is always a class act. Some examples: 

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member.  

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on September 26, 1774. His real name was John Chapman, but he was called Johnny Appleseed because of his love for growing apple trees.

Johnny died at the age of 70; he is buried in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had spent 50 years growing apple trees and traveling to spread his precious trees around his country.

More trail flowers

Like walking trough a 4 mile garden

Bee-n-v

Common are they. Uncommonly exquisite when they line a walking trail for miles without  end.

newspaper advert misprints and .misquotes

This afternoon there will be a meeting in the South and North ends of this church. Children will be baptized at both ends.

'In most associations half the committee does all the work, whilst the other half does nothing. I am pleased to put on record that in this society it is just the reverse.' - Report in Liverpool Echo

LOST from Tyddyn Ucha, Ruthin. Welsh couple, two red stripes on rump and stripe on head. - Denbighshire Free Press

Whole Heap A Little Horses

Go to sleep, go to sleep
Go to sleepy little baby
When you wake, have some cake
And ride them pretty little horses

Black and a bay, sorrel and a gray
A whole heap a little horses
Black and a bay, sorrel and a gray
A whole heap a little horses

Irish Trad           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvN2P-DE-xA

Coketown

In 1940 a chemical  plant that converts coal to coke for steel making had a town built next to it for their workers. "Coketown" was the name given by the residents who lived inside the  dust, smoke, and odorous fumes from the 24/7 pollution of the day.

The plant is still in operation today after massive pollution controls were installed The town is long gone.  Its place is occupied by a mega  million $$ storage facility for gas and oil drilling material and equipment.

sonic boom cloud

A plane at hyper speed  compresses most air in front which then expands aft. The vaporization of the condensed moisture is a bit behind in time which during decompression of the air forms a cloud  temporarily.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-d9A2oq1N38