February 15, 2026

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
19 days ago

Hullo Spot.

SusanSunshine
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19 days ago

Lake Retba, a naturally pink lake in Senegal. 

Before I searched, I thought it was going to be one of the pink lakes in Australia that I searched another time.

There are more pink lakes in the world than I ever thought, especially as I would have thought there were none.

Most, like this one, are very salty, and are pink because of salt-loving pink algae… but I read that there’s a fresh water one in Canada.

baconboycamper
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19 days ago

There is.

  • Dusty Rose Lake (British Columbia): Located in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, this is a truly pink, non-saline freshwater lake. Its color is caused by suspended sediments (glacial rock flour) from the surrounding landscape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Rose_Lake#:~:text=The%20lake%20is%20unique%20among,is%20purple/pink%20in%20colour.

SusanSunshine
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18 days ago

Kinda looks like you can’t get there from here, as they say…

No roads to it, not even hiking trails. Just a pink dot on a map, and when you click the link to a closer view, instead of bringing it into focus, even the dot disappears.

Not a single picture of it.
It’s almost like the article is purposely evasive.

I don’t think it really is, cos Wikipedia is constantly edited by antibody who wants to do it. It’s probably just that the lake is hard to reach and maybe to photograph as well.

The lake is described as having no oxygen at all in the water, so nothing lives in it… no fish, no plants, not even microorganisms.

I wanted to see the color, to see how different it looks from the salty ones.

One picture I found on a couple of other sites, outside of Wikipedia, shows a rather barren landscape, with a pale, brownish pink lake… But it doesn’t look like a BC landscape, and further, the same image is identified elsewhere as being a lake in Africa!

baconboycamper
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18 days ago
SusanSunshine
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Reply to  baconboycamper
16 days ago

Thanks!
Somehow I missed this.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
19 days ago

An incredibly varied output.

I’ve seen 6 out of these 10… plus Spartacus, so I know not every one of his films is on this list.

Some are all time favorites, yet there are 4 here that I have no desire to see (Full Metal Jacket and the last three.)

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
19 days ago

OMG… I read this wrong at first, and it meant something utterly.. um… let’s just say incorrect… blush.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
19 days ago

That’s some kick.

Remember, there’s her womb and all her abdominal muscles in between that little foot and mama’s skin.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
19 days ago

Beckham?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
18 days ago

I’m actually not either.

Arfside
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Reply to  nighthawks
17 days ago

There seem to be a few pics of it on google.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
19 days ago

“La Mort aux Trousses” is a French idiom, translated as “Death At The Heels”, meaning “death on one’s/your heels”, ie, death chasing you.

If that isn’t enough levels to the translation…. I understand the expression, but heels in French are les talons, not les trousses.

I only know un trousse as a bag or kit, like a sewing kit, a carpenter’s bag… un trousse de medicin… a doctor’s bag. .

Anybody speak better French than me? It’s a pretty low bar.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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19 days ago

Better translation than “The Death with Trousers” …… 😉

Tigressy
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
19 days ago

Death in Breeches.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
19 days ago

That’ll do it.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
19 days ago

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Too soon?

Last edited 19 days ago by Tigressy
mr_sherman
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Reply to  Tigressy
18 days ago

It’s been a few thousand years, so probably not.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
19 days ago

Harbor seal?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
19 days ago

It’s actually a Saimaa ringed seal (saimaannorppa in Finnish), considered the most endangered seal in the world.

It lives only in Lake Saimaa, in Finland, and today there are only about 400 left.

A Finnish conservation group sells textiles woven by artisans in the pattern of their rings, to raise funds for their preservation.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
19 days ago

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
19 days ago

Oh my!

I didn’t know Daisy was that kind of girl…. er… duck.

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Reply to  Tigressy
18 days ago

Doesn’t compare to the dancers at superball half time show.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
19 days ago

This is from….
The Twilight Zone…

I said the other day that when I look at some photos, they have a certain look that tells me they’re probably from that show.

That doesn’t mean I recognize every photo from it.
This one I didn’t.

It’s from a 1961 episode called “Deaths-Head Revisited”.

Pictured is…
Joseph Schildkraut, playing the ghost of Alfred Becker, the inmate caretaker of Dachau concentration camp.

When the sadistic camp commander revisits Dachau after the war, Becker and other murdered inmates rise up to put him on trial


 

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
19 days ago

Point made?

SusanSunshine
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19 days ago

Daddy may be the King of the Jungle… but nobody messes with Mama.

The power behind the throne.
And if he doesn’t behave, in front of it, too.

SusanSunshine
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19 days ago

It looks so fragile… but it’s been strong enough to stand for over 120 years.

This was 1902, maybe 1903, and it was completed in 1905.

It was built by and for The New York Times, but that big sign on the narrow end says “To Let”. That’s because the Times didn’t use the retail spaces at ground level, but rented them for stores.

Alexikakos
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19 days ago

 

The contents of this box is political in nature, but I get the feeling that others on this site might like it (you’ll have to paste the U.R.L.).

 

happyhappyhappy
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19 days ago

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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19 days ago

Very interesting.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
19 days ago

I’ve recognized his art for years, and didn’t remember his name.

He invented the iconic and often repeated first cover for the New Yorker.

SusanSunshine
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19 days ago

I could dredge up another one.. but I’d get some whacks from Clara.

P.s. what’rwe gonna do with “sedge”? I can’t wedge it in anywhere.

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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19 days ago

The early 16th century angel roof at St. Wendreda’s in March, Cambridgeshire. Sir John Betjeman said it was ‘worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see’. High praise indeed.

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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19 days ago

Bunny Eating a Dandelion Flower, for Bunday.

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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18 days ago

I realise now, a day later, that the caption should have been “Is there somefing in my teeff?”

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