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zBrown
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chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 15, 2013 - 05:50pm PT
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Those people in the video are not the swiftest birds in the flight pattern. They could have gotten the answer had they remembered to knock.
Knock on wood (not Ron Wood), Knock yourself out, Knock on heaven's door (and hope nobody says Who is there?), Litte Richard heard me knocking, had a snappy comeback
Knock knock
Who be dere?
Merced
Merced who?
{no response}
Merced what?
Just what Jeff Ray Dahmer said
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 16, 2013 - 06:48am PT
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Notice the pack of greeting cards, nita? You are welcome.
This is the best, in many opinions, of Linda's pieces. It took me several looks before I saw it. This is the same area that I traipsed around as a young teen, plinking at birds and posts and picking up buckets of crawdads.
This is near the county line on the hwy north out of Snelling, near Dry Creek, I guess, south of the Tuolumne River and La Grange.
This is in the southern end of the county.
She tells me she's lived in Yosemite thirty years. This show is all about how she sees this place. I took the two above before the show ever opened and she says HELLO, WAYNE & CINDY!
There other things at the exhibit, too.
Merced County Multicultural Center
West Main St. at N St., Merced.
http://www.artsmerced.org
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 16, 2013 - 10:46am PT
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These are reputedly from Oroville, just a stone's throw (though who would) from Nita & TTR.
Why 'these' when only one? Good question - bad explanation.
58' wood interurban for Northern Electric Railway (California). Note the corner windows, and the arched clerestory windows.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 16, 2013 - 10:53am PT
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http://www.perryhistory-aoh.com/images/interurban/jetmore/Interurban.jpg
It seems to me that driving every kind of rig that's ever been made and only being rewarded with weed, whites or wine is not that great a deal.
I'll go ask Alice or Terrible Herbst, though.
One thing for sure, that ain't Casy Jones in the bowtie.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 16, 2013 - 04:10pm PT
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All the same, old bean, the numbers add up to thirteen.
2 + 3 + 8 = 13
It takes no Einsteen to seen that.
As for the driver's potential for disaster, we can only pray: In Casei donat Caeser, Deus suscipiet eam.
Never fear, the cowcatcher will catch her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngfHgsV0HRs
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 16, 2013 - 04:29pm PT
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similarly, by the identity property of addition
2 + 3 + 8 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 13
238000
In a RGB color space, hex #238000 is composed of 13.7% red, 50.2% green and 0% blue. Whereas in a CMYK color space, it is composed of 72.7% cyan, 0% magenta, 100% yellow and 49.8% black. It has a hue angle of 103.6 degrees, a saturation of 100% and a lightness of 25.1%. #238000 color hex could be obtained by blending #46ff00 with #000100. Closest websafe color is: #339900.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 16, 2013 - 04:32pm PT
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uh uh
[Click to View YouTube Video]
And those metal grates are a hell of a way to catch cows, I prefer the old-fashioned way.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 16, 2013 - 04:46pm PT
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And I just had an email from Larry Jones.
Let's see, dinner with CO Williams (chili cheese dogs, fries, o-rings and wine), a missive accompanied by infoon the name Aisha, as well as this about that.
Is someone trying to say somthing to me?
"I've attached the pic I was working from so you can see what I was trying to match. I agree the blue is a bit much, but I had painted it at least three times and Frank and I were getting tired of it. Remember that rivers, as with all bodies of water, act as mirrors and reflect the sky."
I wonder about the coincidence but let's chalk it up to God's knowing more than me.
I will say this--the bridge over the Merced River in the photo has obscured the reflection of the sky on the surface of the water. Larry ignored the shadow entirely. Free to paint it how you see it or want to see it. Not the case in portraiture. I appreciate the pains you are taking with the eyes, neebee. Sounds like you know how to go about it, too. What, me worry?
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 16, 2013 - 06:09pm PT
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As Prince Buster observes in "Hard Man fe Dead"
Them seh, the cat's got a nine life
But this man got ninety-nine life, cause...
Them pick him up, you lick him down,
Him bounce right back,
What a hard man fe dead! (Hard man fe dead!)
Them boil one pot of chocolate tea.
And all the fried fish they caught in the sea
They also got six quart o' rum
Saying that they waiting for the nine night to come
It gets me to wondering just what the nine night is, so:
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 16, 2013 - 11:00pm PT
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hey there say, zbrown...
awwwwwwwww, that IS SO CUTE.. with your aunt there, behind you, :)
once again, mouse, enjoyed all the merced art info... :)
oh, and say:
liked them ol train-type machines on track, too, :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 17, 2013 - 07:33pm PT
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The Merced Transpo Center, our Bus Line Hub.
This is on the old SP tracks, now BN. There is no Amtrak service here. It is on the Santa Fe across town about a half a mile.
It seems cockamamie to me to call it the transpo CENTER, when the bulk of Yosemite tourist traffic is through the train, not the Greyhound, which stops here, but not at the Amtrak. The riders of the Greyhound can catch the YARTS bus here, however, and this is where the bulk of Yosemite workers board, too. It is one block off of West Main ST. There is a connecting city bus from station to station, as well. You just have to be able to read the posted schedules and ASK THE BUS DRIVER, cuz it's not easy.
I'm mentioning this only because I met lots and lots of sojourners to Yosemite in the used bookstore, wandering around killing time on their way to/from the Amtrak or the Transpo. We had a visitors' book they could sign to make them feel homesick, I guess. It made for a good keepsake for the family when the owner of the shop passed.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Mar 17, 2013 - 07:55pm PT
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say there hey, Neebee
Glad you liked the photo. It was taken in CA, but my aunt lived her life in Michigan. Her husband, Uncle Bill, took care of my mom on the farm there in Ironwood, after my grandfather died.
So Mouse, not only do you hang with Tim Leary's bro, you also get email from Mr. Jones.
I know something's happening, just don't know what it is.
Some of those cows would boogie on away when I tried to catch 'em. Kinda catch as catch can you might say.
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How are moo?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 17, 2013 - 08:47pm PT
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The Rev's place in Greeley Hill, prior to remodeling. (Actually, it's a cabin at the Arbor Mine.)
The closest RR was the YVRR, not to be confused with the REAL RR.
The closest glacier was at El Portal.
The closest laundry was in the back of the shack. You needed to supply everything from soap to nuts.
http://www.soapnutsniagara.ca/
It wasn't Ivory that was dumped off Glacier Point, zBrown, back then, they hadn't any...it was glowing soap nuts.
The closest gold in them hills was where ya found it.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 17, 2013 - 09:07pm PT
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Mouse, I hope you don't own a Honda because they're palm tree magnets...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 17, 2013 - 09:29pm PT
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the sounds of silence are
car horns and alarm bells
the cyclone moves on
I have no car but
my other car, a vintage
Mercury Zephyr
The Mercury Zephyr was a compact car sold by the Lincoln-Mercury division of Ford Motor Company for the North American market. Introduced as a replacement for the Mercury Comet, it was produced from 1978 to 1983.
Along with its corporate cousin, the Ford Fairmont, it was the first use in the Mercury division of the long-lived unibody Fox platform, which did not completely leave production until 2004.
Zephyr, taken from a poetic name for the west wind, has a considerable history in the Ford line. Yee-haw!
It was first used in the late 1930s for a smaller, less expensive Lincoln, which provided the basis for the first Continental. From 1950 to 1972, it was used on a European Ford model. In 2006, it returned to the Lincoln line once again.
They are now extinct. Kaput. No mas.
A little-known fact, the line-dancing craze started in Detroit.
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