January 9, 2026

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“And here’s what I think of this pumpkin costume.”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“My box! My box! I am better cat!”

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Good.

Saucy1121
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Instant Karma

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Nope. Burn the house down.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I didn’t need to see that!

I wish they made white-out for screens that would stay on the picture when you scroll.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

The men are
Telly Savalas and Robert Vaughn.

The woman is standing between them.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 month ago

Yes, yes she is… And in addition to that …

She is…
Actress Diana McBain, who according to two sites, was also a former Miss Glendale, California, in case anybody needs to know.

While….
Telly Savalas is playing the villain, and of course, Robert Vaughn is starrring as agent Napoleon Solo in “The Karate Killers”, a 1967 episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

His name must be “Chewbacca.”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

He looks so proud.

And absolutely sure it won’t fall on him.

Nature’s little engineers.

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

He knows the zookeeper has wired the stump to the fence…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

It’s not the stump I’d be worried about.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Ready for the kill.

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1 month ago

All he needs is a set of bib-and-brace overalls and he’d be an old Backwoodsman explaining how you go about felling trees and what to look for when you do.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Photo by Emma Boyle. Part of a series on stray dogs of Istanbul.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Let me guess…

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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

Missed by that much.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

I’d guess, but I might have to get smarter.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

99 and 86…

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Behind them – Agent 13 or Agent 44?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

They look like toys.

JP Steve
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

I thought they were at first!

happyhappyhappy
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1 month ago

Liverlips McCracken
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1 month ago

These little guys are too cute.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Adorable.

I kept thinking they didn’t look real, cos they’re round and fluffy, with short legs, like stuffed toys, and real lambs have thin wobbly legs with knobby knees.

Well…. maybe this is obvious to most of you… but i just figured it out: what looks like short legs with black feet is the just the tops of their legs. Their lower legs are buried in deep snow, and what I thought were black feet are their furry black knees.

I think they’re Scottish black face sheep, which are extra wooly, with black faces and knees.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Their name is in the .gif’s name.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 month ago

Oh okay… They’re Valais. Very similar sheep… maybe not quite as shaggy.

But you see, I’m on a small android tablet, not a computer… I can’t right-click for info, and long-pressing displays a complicated path, starting with cleoandcompany.net/uploads/etc that gets cut off before the end with the title.

So I can’t see the actual filenames of most images unless i download them… which I just did cos you said that, so I could read it.

But I don’t download every image, especially since when I do, I find that a lot of them are only called “screenshotxxxx…” anyway.

That’s why I don’t always know what they’re called.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

My comment wasn’t meant as criticism.
With my settings, I only have to hover the mouse-pointer over the image to get the name displayed.
Now that we’ve got that out of our systems, what’s for dinner?
I have some lamb in the freezer…

😜

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
1 month ago

I didn’t take it as criticism, thanks… I was just explaining why I often seem to explain things that are “right there” in the filename… but I didn’t see it

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1 month ago

 
I cut out the name portion of the U.R,L..
 
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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

Yes, thanks… But as I said, I usually can’t see that part of the URL until I’ve downloaded the image…

And I did download this one, just so I could read it.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“Road to Nikko” by Kawase Hasui, woodblock, 1930

The descriptions say that Kawase Hasui was known for his portrayals of trees, like these tall Japanese cedars.

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1 month ago
happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I had to blow it up.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

Well, I’m glad you left it intact long enough for me to find the fish.

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1 month ago

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

Those guys look more like quadripuses than octopuses.

I’m assuming “fish” is singular, cos I only found one, but it can be plural, in which case I missed some.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

 

The answer as published in the ‘Daily Mail,’

 
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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

That’s right!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Okay… This is cubism.

Weeping Woman, by Pablo Picasso, 1937.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Recognizable by all means, too.
He was a posterior orifice, but still a genius.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Probably someone he abused.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

It’s a portrait of Dora Maar, his partner at the time, as were most of his portraits….though she hated his portrayals of her.

He was also still legally married to someone else, and tried to make them jealous of each other

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Big Boom!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

Not for 150 years or so… but I was just reading that it could happen again, and if it does, could be twice as destructive as Mt. St. Helens.

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Should we hope that it blows on the side away from the city?

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

No place is safe… a central eruption could pour lava everywhere, but even if only one side bursts, there would still be hot ash, and steam spreading in the air.

And hot mud in all directions, because the mountain is covered with glaciers that would melt.

I read that a major eruption could even destroy a lot of downtown Seattle.

But there hasn’t been one since something like 1400 CE. There were small fissures 150 years ago.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Seattle, with Mount Rainier.

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

Both tall volcanic cones … but Mt Fuji is shorter, and Tokyo is way bigger.

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happyhappyhappy
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Arfside
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

Some of his work made me think of Maxfield Parrish.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

 
Walter Crane was a very talented artist.
It’s too bad that book illustration seems to have waned as an artistic calling.
 

happyhappyhappy
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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

Spiral staircase in the Iowa State Capitol Law Library in Des Moines, Iowa.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Beautiful… but I’d be too dizzy to read by the time I got downstairs.

DancingBuffalo
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1 month ago

“Ummm…excuse me please, but where’s the elevator?”

Tigressy
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1 month ago

As you wish…

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

Cedar Waxwing.

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