April 9, 2026

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

I bet there are some awfully scared fish in that lake.

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
13 days ago

Not to mention any other thirsty prey animals. 🙂

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

Ohhh! It’s adorable!

I want one! If I’m good, can I have one?

I’ll feed it and pet it and walk it on a leash… and it’ll stay small, right? Like… um…

Oh.

Sigh….

Anyhow, it looks a bit like a baby bison, but it’s actually a baby musk ox!

Musk oxen are smaller than bison, and incredibly shaggy.

But not small enough to walk on a leash.

baconboycamper
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

Is that something along the lines of “The Noodle Incident”?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

Sniffle…. It wasn’t my fault!

What did that scaly little yellow liar say?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

Long boards!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

Photographer Ray Leighton (1917-2002), Five girls on long boards, Manly Beach, Australia c1940s

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
13 days ago

Yes… I googled it before I saw your post…

The women are actually surfers, not models, posing with their own boards.

The caption I found on a surfing forum says “Pat Crum, Lillian Galvin, Pam Toyer, Pam Inch and (Lillian’s sister) Dorothy Galvin on hollow boards at Manly Beach, near Sydney, Australia”

There’s an undated quote from Lillian:

“Dorothy (my sister) and I went for a ferry ride one Sunday afternoon and from then on surfed at Manly for years. Met Ray Leighton fashion photographer who took our famous photo on boards on beautiful Manly beach. He was a member of the surf club. I remember the saying there ‘Seven miles from Sydney a thousand miles from care.’ “

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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

But only AFTER I put up this sign.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
13 days ago

Yeah, cos before that, it wasn’t designated, right?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

I’m here. But mine should be simple.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

I know some of these are contested, it at least arguable, depending on your definition of terms…

For instance, hundreds of years BC, the Sumerians, the Greeks, and other groups had codes of justice that could be called constitutions.

The Magna Carta, in, IIRC, 1200CE, could be called one also.

I was taught that San Marino had the first constitution, back in medieval times, but it was several books in Latin, not one document, which is what the US Constitution did first.

Then you could ask, what is a newspaper? What makes building cars an industry? Etc.

I do love the picture illustrating printed money… I don’t think they had US dollars in ancient China.

Greyhame
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

The first printing press was in Germany, but the first printed book was in China?
Might have been a type of lithography?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Greyhame
13 days ago

They used wood block printing.
It was more like big stamps.
A press uses movable type.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

Is this in Oregon?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

It’s Helmcken Falls, in Wells Grey Provincial Park, in BC, Canada.

The 4th highest waterfall in the country, and very powerful.

What looks like a white bowl that it’s pouring water into is actually a huge crown of ice, created from all the spray, so big that traces of it are still visible in summer.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
13 days ago

I’ve never seen that before — and I live here!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
13 days ago

But do you go to Wells Grey Provincial Park?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

Alfalfa, Darla and Spanky… played by Carl Switzer, Darla Hood, and George McFarland…

In the Our Gang comedy “Arbor Day”, from 1936.

This period of the Our Gang films and cast is probably the most familiar to those of us who watched them on TV, retitled “The Little Rascals”.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

Nice hat.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

This has me drooling just looking at it!

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

No cheating there!

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

The sun had to hit just right for that one. I wonder how many days the photographer waited?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Arfside
13 days ago

Could have just been serendipity, too.

Tigressy
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Reply to  Arfside
12 days ago

Time-lapse still.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

I think i got it!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

I see it… but may I say that I don’t really like the idea of finding a plush bear in a pile of sticky and gummy candy?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
13 days ago

Ohh…. that goldfish incident…..

I thought you meant the other one

Alexikakos
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14 days ago

 
One of my favourite songs.
 

 
Grace Slick is 86 years old now.
 

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12 days ago

Can’t recall ever hearing that, good though.

happyhappyhappy
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13 days ago

Arfside
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13 days ago

Artemis II made it around the back of the moon.

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happyhappyhappy
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13 days ago

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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This artistic shop window is a real Art Nouveau gem in Douai, France, was designed around 1904 by architect Albert Pèpe and known as ‘La maison Tournesol’. It is a protected historical monument.

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13 days ago

Needs a new coat of paint (probably had better repair the dry rot and cracks first) or there won’t me a reason to “protect” it much longer.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
13 days ago

Imagine trying to get a broken pane replaced!

Arfside
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
13 days ago

Imagine trying to get a bureaucracy to pay for keeping it up.

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