“And if you are lucky, you may observe a whole family of tumble-weeds – but it has to be extremely quiet for that; the only sound audible being the chirping of crickets.”
Interesting fact: tumbleweeds are not native to the Americas. The plant came to the United States from Eurasia, likely Russia, in the 1870s as a contaminant in a shipment of flax seeds. Known as Russian thistle (Salsola tragus), the plant was introduced to South Dakota in 1873, but rapidly spread across the country, becoming a pervasive invasive weed.
“A group of Hollywood stars, representing five hundred of their colleagues, leaving Los Angeles for Washington to protest the manner in which Washington’s Investigation of Un-American Activities is being conducted.”
They are….
” left to right, front row; Geraldine Brooks, June Havoc, Marsha Hunt, Lauren Bacall, Richard Conte, and Evelyn Keyes. Left to right, back row; Paul Henreid, Humphrey Bogart, (spokesman for the group), Gene Kelly, and Danny Kaye.”
Also…
A number of members of the group, but not on this particular flight, endured repercussions from their involvement, being called to testify, blacklisted or harassed. Marsha Hunt, who is pictured here, was blacklisted, and it ended her Hollywood career. She was becoming quite well known before her name was stricken from all publicity.
Hofskirkja Church is the last grass-roofed church standing in Iceland.
I’ve gotten conflicting information in my search. One site says it’s made of sod… but that yellow wall doesn’t look like sod, not that I’m any kind of expert. Another says it’s entirely wood, except for flat stone slabs under the sod of the roof. A third says it’s a house!
The one that sounds the most believable, for whatever that’s worth says this:
“The structure of this breathtaking church is made from a timber frame and stone walls, and it lies buried in the ground to resist bitingly cold winters.
The roof is made of stone slabs and further covered by natural turf.
The Hofskirkja Church still serves as a parish church. It is one of the six churches in Iceland that are preserved as historical monuments and it’s maintained by the National Museum of Iceland.”
What I’ve concluded… and this is just my own theory… is that actresses have been more likely to be chosen for roles and for promotion to stardom, if they have a certain look, if they conform to an exacting standard of beauty.
Ideals change a little through the years, and a bit of leeway is allotted to the ones with specific talents… really fine dramatic actresses and comedic ones… a few singers…
Which is why we recognize, say, Meryl Streep, Katherine Hepburn, Hermione Gingold, or Judy Garland. They didn’t have to be as classically beautiful.
But the ones who do match the standard for their era… who can thus play the pretty girl, the ingenue, the sophisticated lady, etc… sorry to say can be harder to distinguish.
….
Men, even the handsome heros, can have a much broader range of acceptable features. In fact neither producers nor the public always agree on what constitutes a handsome face or a perfect physique.
So men can look quirkier, have different face shapes, facial hair,.body types, etc. It’s hard to find the female equivalent of Humphrey Bogart or Sydney Greenstreet… or that fellow on the left.
If you’re running Windows right click on the image you want.
Select “Copy image address”
See the attachment (I use the < p > & # 1 6 0 ; < p> lines for spacing).
one of the aspects of PostImage was to size the image to whatever is needed…..rarely do I want a small , avatar sized image blown up to whatever WordPress’s limits are—but that , for me, is the only option.
so here is a small image of an older version of the celebrity….
betcha this nudges your memory
I see a kid facing his first day at a new school. We moved a lot when I was young, usually no more than two or three years at any school. So I sense some trepidation in this scene. (Obviously I’m projecting, but I could be right…)
Fortunately my clothes were a little better condition.
I agree that it could look that way, partly because I had a similar experience to yours, being an air force brat, myself…. though honestly, i think I minded less than my siblings.
But the explanation I read is that it represents a poor rural child, who longs to go to school, but can’t afford it, in money or in time away from chores.
In those times schools weren’t free… the teacher must be paid… and he’d also be embarrassed by his ragged clothes, and lack of school necessities.
Very likely. In that time period, people didn’t hardly ever move, unlike our modern U.S. situation. We moved because of Dad’s job, and the whole “upward mobility” thing. And it was mostly in the fall…so when the weather gets chilly and the leaves start to turn, I want go get in the car and go.
For me, it’s been way too many years to still have an influence… and anyway, it was different times of the year.
I’d say probably more in May or June than otherwise…. but I do remember moving in the first few months of 2nd grade.
I used to feel wanderlust…
But now I’ve lived in N. Cal all my adult life. My sister promised her daughter.to never move while she was in school, cos she hated changing schools so much. My brother and I kinda shrugged it off, but she couldn’t.
I still think I’m a bit less attached to “home” than a lot of people cos I have no childhood home.
I was getting better than minimum wage. Over twenty an hour.
It’s harder than it sounds. Lots of emotional stress.
I feel good about what i did. Even when being paid, there’s a great deal of satisfaction knowing that you are making someones life a little more livable.
Les, you are an angel walking amongst us. It is an extremely tough job to do, and the emotional attachments that are made. It does sap everything from you, but you are buoyed from the satisfaction and of the differences made. I still remember that first van you got with the rabbit decals and the fund-raisers… Good on you!
Forever Peace.
I was having a little Weird Al parody in my head while I was sitting there in the car. It happens from time to time. Music pops up at the strangest times. Just the way I’m wired, I guess.
.
That is what you call, dialed in.
Hoverdog!
“houston, we have a lift off”
..
Hoverweeds!
I just gotta….
“And if you are lucky, you may observe a whole family of tumble-weeds – but it has to be extremely quiet for that; the only sound audible being the chirping of crickets.”
Drove that road. Missed the tumbleweeds.
Interesting fact: tumbleweeds are not native to the Americas. The plant came to the United States from Eurasia, likely Russia, in the 1870s as a contaminant in a shipment of flax seeds. Known as Russian thistle (Salsola tragus), the plant was introduced to South Dakota in 1873, but rapidly spread across the country, becoming a pervasive invasive weed.
I did not know that. Thank you for the wonderful info!
…
Got him! (I think…)
Senor Wences: Get in the box. S’alright?
The culprit: S’alright.
No, no…. he couldn’t possibly have done it.
He’s a good boy…. and he’s not even in the same room.
It was some
other dog… I mean … a cat. It must have been a cat.A squirrel? Maybe a squirrel?
….
“Hilts, Cooler King…”
…..
,
Probably not the cast of “The Music Man” this time…
This is, in fact….
as captioned by Getty images…
“A group of Hollywood stars, representing five hundred of their colleagues, leaving Los Angeles for Washington to protest the manner in which Washington’s Investigation of Un-American Activities is being conducted.”
” left to right, front row; Geraldine Brooks, June Havoc, Marsha Hunt, Lauren Bacall, Richard Conte, and Evelyn Keyes. Left to right, back row; Paul Henreid, Humphrey Bogart, (spokesman for the group), Gene Kelly, and Danny Kaye.”
.,
The first time i saw fireflies i also found out that they continue glowing after they hit the windshield.
Bioluminescence does that.
Cool! I wish we got them up here!
Are those ginkgo leaves?
One i saw looked like could be. Maybe.
yes
.,
..,,
Do you ever get that sinking feeling?
Hofskirkja Church is the last grass-roofed church standing in Iceland.
I’ve gotten conflicting information in my search. One site says it’s made of sod… but that yellow wall doesn’t look like sod, not that I’m any kind of expert. Another says it’s entirely wood, except for flat stone slabs under the sod of the roof. A third says it’s a house!
The one that sounds the most believable, for whatever that’s worth says this:
“The structure of this breathtaking church is made from a timber frame and stone walls, and it lies buried in the ground to resist bitingly cold winters.
The roof is made of stone slabs and further covered by natural turf.
The Hofskirkja Church still serves as a parish church. It is one of the six churches in Iceland that are preserved as historical monuments and it’s maintained by the National Museum of Iceland.”
,,,
I keep recognizing all the actors and none of the actresses. Does that say something about me?
Just that you recognize old people. 😉
No, the same thing happens to me.
What I’ve concluded… and this is just my own theory… is that actresses have been more likely to be chosen for roles and for promotion to stardom, if they have a certain look, if they conform to an exacting standard of beauty.
Ideals change a little through the years, and a bit of leeway is allotted to the ones with specific talents… really fine dramatic actresses and comedic ones… a few singers…
Which is why we recognize, say, Meryl Streep, Katherine Hepburn, Hermione Gingold, or Judy Garland. They didn’t have to be as classically beautiful.
But the ones who do match the standard for their era… who can thus play the pretty girl, the ingenue, the sophisticated lady, etc… sorry to say can be harder to distinguish.
….
Men, even the handsome heros, can have a much broader range of acceptable features. In fact neither producers nor the public always agree on what constitutes a handsome face or a perfect physique.
So men can look quirkier, have different face shapes, facial hair,.body types, etc. It’s hard to find the female equivalent of Humphrey Bogart or Sydney Greenstreet… or that fellow on the left.
Yup. Got the movie instantly.
Only know it from Mad Magazine…
They docked Spock’s ears for the movie?
Hee hee…
.,
So…dogs make you look younger???
celebrity
sorry, I can’t seem to make a spoiler box( with an image) that is functional without using PostImage
If you’re running Windows right click on the image you want.
Select “Copy image address”
See the attachment (I use the < p > & # 1 6 0 ; < p> lines for spacing).
He knows how.
He’s posted many images in spoiler boxes… Like all the celebrities we’ve guessed before!
It’s just that he’s always used Postimage for the address, and now he can’t use their site.
He has no hosting site without it that plays well with spoiler boxes.
You may have missed a bunch of experimentation here.
And BTW most of us don’t write our own html tags for spaces and paragraph breaks; we let WordPress do the formatting.
Oh… And I don’t think he’s on Windows.
exactly, Susan. saved me from explaining .
thanks
What are you running on, and do you recommend it? I’m tempted to change to Ubuntu or an equivalent Linux OS.
Pretty sure he’s on a Mac.
thanks anyway, Alex…I got that part down
If you’re finding images on the web, you can often use the original web address instead of downloading or screen-shotting and finding a host.
Some sites won’t accept the traffic, but many will.
And &#@¡ I know this face… Why isn’t it coming to me?
one of the aspects of PostImage was to size the image to whatever is needed…..rarely do I want a small , avatar sized image blown up to whatever WordPress’s limits are—but that , for me, is the only option.
so here is a small image of an older version of the celebrity….
betcha this nudges your memory
Of course!
He’s still got exactly the same face, and I just couldn’t place it!
If he’d just started having that receding hairline a little earlier….
I’m sure he wouldn’t have liked it, but I might have recognized him here.
I guessed correctly right away. It was the mouth.
negatory
Worth a test…
Well, to me, that
Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky
With a name like that no wonder the schoolteacher doesn’t want him. Can you imagine rollcall?
He might end up being a famous mathemetician.
Or…. I dunno… I see art in his future.
A painter!
Maybe he’ll be an artist and paint pictures just like this!
I see you know your Tom Lehrer!
I see a kid facing his first day at a new school. We moved a lot when I was young, usually no more than two or three years at any school. So I sense some trepidation in this scene. (Obviously I’m projecting, but I could be right…)
Fortunately my clothes were a little better condition.
I agree that it could look that way, partly because I had a similar experience to yours, being an air force brat, myself…. though honestly, i think I minded less than my siblings.
But the explanation I read is that it represents a poor rural child, who longs to go to school, but can’t afford it, in money or in time away from chores.
In those times schools weren’t free… the teacher must be paid… and he’d also be embarrassed by his ragged clothes, and lack of school necessities.
He’s looking in the door, but not going in.
Very likely. In that time period, people didn’t hardly ever move, unlike our modern U.S. situation. We moved because of Dad’s job, and the whole “upward mobility” thing. And it was mostly in the fall…so when the weather gets chilly and the leaves start to turn, I want go get in the car and go.
For me, it’s been way too many years to still have an influence… and anyway, it was different times of the year.
I’d say probably more in May or June than otherwise…. but I do remember moving in the first few months of 2nd grade.
I used to feel wanderlust…
But now I’ve lived in N. Cal all my adult life. My sister promised her daughter.to never move while she was in school, cos she hated changing schools so much. My brother and I kinda shrugged it off, but she couldn’t.
I still think I’m a bit less attached to “home” than a lot of people cos I have no childhood home.
,
Penelope would do that, if the dogs let her.
Well, this dog is like… “Whatever… just settle down. I’m sleeping.”
…..
Someone offer that young man a caregivers job.
Tough question: Does it pay better than McDonald’s?
If not, why not?
And does it supply lots more satisfaction?
There’s your opening, go for it.
I was getting better than minimum wage. Over twenty an hour.
It’s harder than it sounds. Lots of emotional stress.
I feel good about what i did. Even when being paid, there’s a great deal of satisfaction knowing that you are making someones life a little more livable.
Les, you are an angel walking amongst us. It is an extremely tough job to do, and the emotional attachments that are made. It does sap everything from you, but you are buoyed from the satisfaction and of the differences made. I still remember that first van you got with the rabbit decals and the fund-raisers…
Good on you!
Forever Peace.
I was very happy with that van. I wish i could have used it more, but it helped more tan just my clients. It was a very useful tool. 🙂
Stranded by the light.
I’m stuck at a red, and it’s gettin’ me up tight.
Stranded by the light.
I’m stuck at a red, and it’s gettin’ me up tight.
You shouldn’t be going out at this time of night!
here’s the way I heard it:
blinded by the light
wrapped up like a dooshin
in the rohrman of the night.
I was having a little Weird Al parody in my head while I was sitting there in the car. It happens from time to time. Music pops up at the strangest times. Just the way I’m wired, I guess.
I got “in the Roman on the right…”