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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 11, 2013 - 01:52pm PT
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The card that I just sent, right? I can't remember the scene, but will look toute de suite and get back to you. I'm dropping in there this morning and if I see it I'll recognize it. Was it the El Cap watercolor by Helen Swickard?
Here's the low-down on LA's show.
http://lindaabbott.fineartstudioonline.com/event/36474/merced-from-my-point-of-view
I want to meet her since I have been taking so many photos downtown and of the homes in the older section of this Tree City USA. Is Chico listed as one of those? I'm sure Visalia must be. Petticoat Junciton tried to become one, but the Shady Rest isn't all that shady.
QSM/Shady Grove LP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjQMRSMuDYI
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 11, 2013 - 01:57pm PT
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This brick is exceeding sharp and bubbly-like. It's kinda like razor-sharp on some otherwise juggy edges. And in the dark that's Werner-bait. The gobies feel good now, though. Neosporin, every time. (Not that stupid.)
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 11, 2013 - 11:52pm PT
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PROBABLY will never catch fire
but, might light a flame in the blues world of Manteca
[Click to View YouTube Video]
COULDN'T resist
don't these wolves look good, mama, howling 'neath the trees
[Click to View YouTube Video]
And yes La Crescenta and/or La Canada are tree cities and I am a member of the Arbor Society.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Babble on, watch out for the Devil and sin.
-Shamel Ash (post #1315 (1/10 of 13,150) ask Nita - I don't get it either)
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 12, 2013 - 12:24am PT
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Right on top of it TTR - must admit, I do not know my number.
-River (don't call me Phoenix) Birch
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 12, 2013 - 01:34am PT
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Now the wintertime is coming
The windows are filled with frost
I went to tell everybody
But I could not get across
Well, I wanna be your lover, baby
I don't wanna be your boss
Don't say I never warned you
When your train gets lost
This is a good blog my daughter Bevin hyped to me. I liked it nicely. '...because she has no illusions of superiority; when she's being human she's just divine.'--Mouse
http://www.thewildercoast.com/
"Let's went."
There are lots of those cards, they sell them in sixes but were closed today. I'll send you a box or whateveryou would like.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tree_Cities_USA
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 12, 2013 - 03:48am PT
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"Critics have already pointed out that the Stones could have been formed by lightning strikes on Earth."
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/512381/astrobiologists-find-ancient-fossils-in-fireball-fragments/
The same with ancient alien fossil climbers, even some terrestrial varietrees.
Our top authoritrees are in agreement.
They want no more sound bites, no moredog bites nor pissing dogs.
What could be worse?
Barks worse than bites? A question for the future to decide.
I once heard, yep, I did, a phrase that has stuck in my head like some old Grateful Dead: "the tyranny of another generation's music."
Trees do not have ears but can detect sounds, so that puts the ancient question to rest, BTW. Trees are like dogs, notorious for shedding.
There is a tale that some long-ago wag may have used the name in jest.
Waggy: "Let's call this part bark, Shaggy. It's got dog pee all over that bottom part, just like yore foots. And it's all shaggy, too."
Shaggy: "Bite me."
Bottom.
Top. The top of this palm appears in the center of the next shot.
I fight authoritree and authoritree always wins.--John MelONcamp
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 12, 2013 - 04:44am PT
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Winter trees, in Obviouslese.
Yosemitrees. And Indians.
Currier and Curriuouser.
Direct inquiries to me about price. I will tell you not for sale.
Nope.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 12, 2013 - 05:40am PT
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hey there say, mouse....
neat share...
wow, timid! :), mouse, and zbrown, think it was:
my mom and i love! trees....
will go look at the tree city link...
thanks for all the neat tree shares...
say, mouse have you seen the great tree thread, here, yet?
i have soooo many neat tree tops, all in their solo glory,
can't share much now though... perhaps someday...
neat plate, neat globe...
i am thinking to try to make some neat globes, with the grandkids,
they like those...
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say, painting is going very well, now, at this stage... LESS scare, ;)
also, had to days two cold, i MEAN:
HAD TWO DAYS, too cold to paint...
yours got first rotation, then the egret for big mike...
ol' doug can wait a bit longer, good to say, and
the next fund-raisers will fit in among the gift things to folks...
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 12, 2013 - 09:12am PT
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This was shot by a cannon, I think. The sounds of silence. I also think that is Lembert Dome in the back, which shows how much I know.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 12, 2013 - 12:28pm PT
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I've posted to the Great Tree thread.
It's very "grovy" there.
And looking at a tree's shapely head
Up in the winter air
Is somewhat the same as looking at
A pretty lady's hair.
It's all in the moment with a camera. Your picture-taking is like mine (and so a lot of us) in that respect, it seems.
The process goes like this as I see it:
We are struck by the moment and lift, frame/compose, shoot, at least with a digital camera.
Or, like you told me, about when your were taking shots with film, like this: Lift, frame/compose, THEN wait till it's perfect so you don't waste film (thus losing spontaneity and some of the FUN) THEN shoot.
As I'm walking though the park or along a street, the view is constantly changing, so how can I be sure, that what I see is real...
(Sorry, slipped into song mode.)
You get the idea, I thingk.
The man who considers himself an artist will set the shot up, wait for the right conditions, shoot, then go home and look at what he's done, judge it for himself, then do it all over. Am I right, Claude Fidler? Am I right, Dean? I would need to type this whole page over if I wanted to remove that extra "g" in the last paragraph, were this a negative.
But I hope this little disquisition helps show you what
I DON'T KNOW. How can I find what that is except by listening to criticism? And you know how I feel about critics, neebee. My new friend Larry might have some things to say.
I only know that what I think I seem to have seen or heard or otherwise experienced may or may not have been real or true.
It's why I don't think of myself as a bigot, though I have prejudices.
I was taught to distrust Russkies as we all were as boys and girls, except the very youngest. (Vitaliy would have been an outcast. Anastasia would have been shunned or deported--freakin' ice climbers AND Russkies, the double whammy.)
My new buddy Larry is Russian. And his stage name is not Pablo, like I dyslexically thought--SEE?--but Pobla. He is also a devoted fan of his home, Merced. We are gonna get along just Hunky, Dora.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 12, 2013 - 02:16pm PT
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So, Pablo turns out to be Pobla. His little "Pobla Studio" is on Main St. in the Tioga Hotel building, next to the empty lot where the Greyhound Bus Station used to sit.
FLASH--This Just In!
"At first she just looked and tilted her head sideways back and forth.
Then, she went to the window and barked. Then I said 'what's that?'
That sent her off her rocker. then she calmed down.
Same reaction she has when the cyotes sound off around here."
The report on Tim's dog when he had her listen to the Wolf Howl on YouTube. We are truly spreading the joy around here!
Getting back to Pobla Studio, the gent's name in Russian is the origin of Pobla. I don't recall what he said his first name was, but the second was Lavrentiy, or Lawrence, or to me, the stooge, Larry. Pob/La is the combination of the two names. Might be a diminutive of Pavel on the first name.
He puts art and photos up in the front and in the studio he makes art. The art he puts in the window, he says, reflects what is happening in Merced's life. It's a window blog, man.
We have much in common, I'm thinking, and a lot to learn from one another. I call the dude Larry, in jest, but the name will either stick or not. Our visit yesterday morning was cut short by the arrival of two young friends, Irene and Mike and their daughter, name forgotten before I could write all this down. Irene laughed and so did Larry, when I used the name to indicate I knew what Lavrentiy meantiy.
Later in the day I met this person.
This corner, by the way, is the same one where the bicycle wreck I photographed took place. The store on the corner is Sunny's, a wigged-out shop selling fake hair.
But we are done with stick-on muttonchops and toupes, are we not?
Teewinot.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 12, 2013 - 03:15pm PT
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About time for a Flames appearance by Prince Buster. The relevance is apparent by the title alone. Right?
TIME LONGER THAN ROPE
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kiss teet - a derisive facial expression and hissing
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 12, 2013 - 04:21pm PT
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hey there say, mouse...
thanks for the 'good morning merced' ...
great people share, :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 12, 2013 - 07:26pm PT
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I'm laughing! It hurts!
Kiss teet: A sucking noise made with the tongue pressed against the teeth used to express annoyance, frustration, or contempt.
Busted!
Kissteet gonna be de nex' on-screen rage, mon!
kissteet32.
kissteetnlibs.
ikissteetniliketeet.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 12, 2013 - 08:51pm PT
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This one almost had me stumped (note cool orange shirt):
My cat:
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 12, 2013 - 09:13pm PT
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You let us know when you two get the hole big enough. This looks like more fun than ice climbing, even.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu3BM6sNm-M
Mock Turtles/I Can Dig It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGSHIidlesQ
"Cool orange is better than burnt orange in most applications except chiaroscuro....and where blue turns into grey, it suggests hope."--Berndt C. Enna, Paint It Black, Absolutely: The Art of the Rolling Stones
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 12, 2013 - 09:44pm PT
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It's way early, sure.WTF! Slainte!
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 12, 2013 - 10:26pm PT
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Uh
Knock, Knock
Who's there?
Manteca
Manteca Who?
{no response}
Manteca What?
Man! take a look that cat looks more like a dog.
Stay tuned Stockton on deck, Merced in the hole (when it gets finished).
Blossoms Manteca, CA
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EDIT: Could be Duh.
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