I'm a little light on substance this morning. Have had several days of cloudy/rainy weather, a couple of tornado warnings, and all around busy time.
Harvested my first potatoes yesterday. They were all volunteers from last season. But I had to make way for my late season corn, which needed to be planted.
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Things are very tenuous around the world, and there are two major hot spots. Western Asia remains volatile with with back and forth firing between Iran and the US...both claiming the other is breaking the ceasefire. Israel continues to occupy Lebanon and attack Hezbollah. The US and Israeli puppets that run the Lebanese government signed away their sovereignty. I don't think Hezbollah will comply, Israel sure isn't. The Ukraine proxy war accelerates with drone strikes targeting Russia with a focus on Crimea. Russian troops are steadily advancing toward the Dnieper. The question remains, will Russia target the drone manufacturing facilities in Europe? Meanwhile the entire world faces an economic disaster with the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Afternoon folks!
There's some great stuff this afternoon! Starting off, we've got New Orleans piano professor Champion Jack Dupree with material from a bunch of albums he recorded for the Blue Horizon indie label in Britain. After that, we've got a fine acoustic performance from Buddy Guy and Junior Wells live at Guy's club in Chicago. We go back to New Orleans for some funk from The Meters and then we go next door for some serious electric delta blues from the Jelly Roll Kings. Finishing up is a solo album from the Grateful Dead's keyboardist and backup vocalist, Keith and Donna Godchaux.
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
Good morning, good people! I hope you are all in fine fettle and have done your best to stay strong and not succumb to the fear porn throughout the media that is trying to get you to hide in a cave.
An interesting thing happened to me this week. A client was looking for my office phone number and did a simple Google search consisting of my first and last name, followed by attorney. Up popped my Google Business Profile identifying me but there was an image blocking my contact info saying, Permanently Closed. She let me know. The profile had been edited. JtC fixed it, did his usual tech research, and we will never know who did that, as anybody could have made that edit. After he made the edit, my office phone started ringing off the wall with people wanting to hire me.
Hmmm...
I will check it from now on every few days. The decision for me to permanently close is mine and mine alone.
I am pretty sure it was the only other attorney with an office in my little town. Hmmm... Supposed to be a respectful colleague...
Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.
This month the camera club went to the Palomar Observatory located atop Palomar Mountain (5470 ft. elev.) in San Diego's north county. It was a beautiful sunny day with temps in the upper 70s. Along with images of the observatory and telescope I've included images from around the grounds of the observatory.
A little history of the observatory.
https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/about/history.html
Giant Snow Cone - observatory dome
For the sake of brevity I'll condense the 1000 word screed I had in mind down to a few succinct thoughts.
