I shot all these photos within yards of one another. In one yard. So, in one yard within a few yards… uh… so to speak.
And I did it all within the space of a couple hours.
Because that is what early Spring is like in Southern California. I would still rather live in the Bay Area in Northern California where I grew up, but it does have some perks.
If you like flowers…
And birds… and beaches, and palm trees, and boats, and sunsets, and good weather.
And stuff… I promised you stuff.
That ‘stuff’ just happens to be a Japanese maple tree, just so you know.
But yeah, flowers.
And birds.
But if you don’t like them, there is only one more of these posts, so hang in there.
Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. I will be honest enough to admit that this peculiar belief, while obviously an opinion and not a fact, does fall somewhere in the murky middle ground. But it is not a fact. I mean, it is, sort of, but it is really a misstated opinion, and therefore my ‘opinion’ that it is an opinion and not a fact stands.
Yes, guns rarely kill people without the help of a person. But the ‘guns don’t kill people’ wording is misleading. Hammers don’t hammer nails. People hammer nails. Right. But they use hammers to do it. Does anyone ever say that land mines or bombs or knives don’t kill people? Cars don’t kill people, it is drivers that kill people.
By this logic, nothing kills people but other people. Also, when it comes to guns killing people, nobody disagrees that the guns have help from people. The problem is that the guns are too good at helping people kill other people. Lots of people.
The other argument is that if people didn’t have guns, they would kill people some other way. I will grant you that that is also a fact. But nobody ever threw knives from a hotel window and killed dozens of people across the street.
It is also argued that the best defense against a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun. Yes… in cowboy movies and action thrillers. The number of times where a trained, armed civilian stopped a mass shooting is more rare than alien anal probing. You hear about it, myth-like, but have you ever seen it happen? If this was going on all the time, then there wouldn’t be a day that goes by that it wasn’t mentioned in the news in all those states where people carry guns.
The ‘fact’ is that a lot of those bad people get guns by stealing them from good people. And it is these same good people who keep fighting the laws that would require more background checks, longer wait times, less loopholes, and refusal to allow people with mental conditions to buy guns.
So you know what? I will let you have this one. Call your false argument a fact and not an opinion. Just keep flooding American streets with guns. And someday, someone you know will get shot. That is an opinion. I hope it does not become a fact.
This post used to be the top of a taller post, and on that base on the bottom, which used to be the top, there was an owl box – a house for owls. Owls never used it. It had been there for a few years, so we – that is to say Mollie’s boyfriend Ben – took it down and cut up the post.
I flipped it over to use the base as a stand… or the stand as a base?
I am making a leafy vine design. Sort of a Lord Of The Rings Elf kind of a thing. I don’t know how far down I will carve, how intricate it will be, or how it will turn out. I don’t plan these things that far ahead.
But I will keep you posted. HA! See what I did there? Because this is a post about a post.
Vaccines work, and that is a fact. There are some strange ‘opinions’ floating around out there about vaccines. I think it started with confused overly-religious people who figured that if god wanted them or their child to die, they should just go along with it.
Then, you know, other crazy opinions – also known as paranoid delusions – began circulating. Now in the old days, these ‘rumors’ had to be passed from mouth to ear and so on. Now we have the internet. You can find something on the internet to support any opinion you have. The problem is that people read stuff on the internet and they think it is true.
Yes, there is some risk associated with vaccines. There is some risk associated with aspirin. Or taking a shower. But showers work, and so do vaccines. That is why Polio isn’t around anymore.
Think what you want, but even if the Covid vaccine does kill a handful of people, compare that to the number of people who have died of the actual virus.
Oh, and one more thing. Nobody is putting trackers in the vaccines. They already have them. In your phone. And your computer. They can watch you from satellites. You tell all your friends where you are going and where you have been on Facebook.
If they wanted to implant trackers, they would put them in Big Macs.
Yes, I am still posting little videos I took with my first drone… the not-so-good-one, that saved video on my phone. This one is really short, but features a bouncy Garage Band tune with a 70’s feel which is perfect for aerial views of the Bay Area and the little town in the hills across the bay from San Francisco where I grew up.
The Earth is not flat. End of discussion. Oh, go right ahead and not believe it if you want to, but might I suggest getting an opinion that isn’t so easy to disprove? We have been in space. We have photos. Hell, if you go high enough in an airplane you can see the curvature.
I understand that the notion of being stuck to the outside of a huge ball hurtling through space held down by nothing but gravity is a scary notion, but this seems like an odd notion to hang on to..
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