Yeah, that’s what this is. The last time I was at the vet, they had a “treatment”. Cost $35 per ear. They promised it would clear it up. Hah! I think she’s never treated a basset before <grin>
My first hound mix, the infections were so bad he went nearly deaf at 6 or 7 years. I had him for another ten. We learned to get by just fine. But the ear problem persisted on pretty much that whole time.
Not only did I recognize him as the former son-in-law of the great Stan Laurel but he was in Gone With The Wind as 1st husband of Scarlett O’Hara. He is Rand Brooks.
Yes … sadly, subtitled “being tugged to her last Berth to be broken up”…. oil on canvas.…William Turner, 1838
Turner is known as one of the greatest, and by some, the greatest, English painter of all time.
He used thinned oil paint in the style of a watercolorist, in what amounts to shimmering layers of color, described as presaging the works of the much later impressionist painters.
My ex-wife’s kittens used to do this to me…in the morning…on my way to the shower…so nothing between me and their claws and teeth. I didn’t find it amusing…
Look at the features: Thrill-Power Go, Total Contact Brakes,Torque-Flite transmission
and my favourite, Torsion-Aire Ride. Plymouth re-wrote the book on mechanical engineering.
What a time to be alive.
Another amazing image from Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky … I wrote about him, maybe 10 days ago, and his invention of a clever way to take color photographs, long before practical color film existed.
This is Alim Khan, last Emir of Bukhara, taken in 1911, during Prokudin-Gorsky’s long trip, attempting to photograph the whole Russian Empire for Czar Nicholas.
As I said then, he took three black and white shots, in succession, through different color filters, blue, red and green, and projected them, overlaid, to show a color image.
He barely escaped Russia with some of his negatives during the revolution. They couldn’t be printed till it was later done with overlapping dots, then halftones. In the 21st century they’ve been digitized.
It looks like it was taken yesterday, yet it’s 115 years old…
So we get to see the shine on the brass, and the original colors and sheen of the blue silk satin and its gorgeous embroidery, without 100 years of fading.
Some people think colors were more muted then, because all they’ve ever seen are museum samples and black and white photos.
Nighthawks first posted the picture of the boy on June 12th, You followed up on June 14th. I was away from my desktop during that time, but wanted to share with my brother and sister. Took me awhile to find them, but they’re fascinating
They’re Lakota Sioux chiefs, who, according to the caption, counseled with General Miles and settled the “the Indian War”, whichever one that was. It was taken by Grabill, in 1891, in Deadwood S.Dak..
All their names are also on it, in that little rectangle at the bottom, in tiny white letters.
Enlarging, the first is Standing Bull, probably no relation to the Sitting one, cos AFAIK their names come from events, not families.
I like the next two names: Bear Who Looks Back Running, and Has the Big White Horse.
Poor 2nd to last fellow is named Lame.
I thought maybe he could be Sitting Bull, if his name was.misrepresented by the person who captioned the group photo.
I also looked him up, to see where he was ever called Standing Bull.
His name in the Lakota language actually translates to “Buffalo Bull Who Sits Down”. White soldiers called him Sitting Bull, so maybe some said Standing Bull.
But the main problem is the date. 1891, unless that’s wrong too.
Sitting Bull was killed by US soldiers in 1890.
Driving a giant spike into a huge board, next to a rock… It’s she trying to split it? She’s certainly not anchoring it.
Likewise the fellow (wearing a kilt?) drilling a useless hole in the middle of it, with the world’s strongest battery drill.
The other two people are being counterweighted (is that a word?) by objects heavy enough that they should already be lifted high in the air. Maybe they won’t fall cos they’ll get stuck up next to the pulley when those weights come crashing down. If that branch is secure.
And some crazy entity… maybe the one they work for…. is lopping off mountaintops, and building giant structures on the resulting mesas.
Including what looks like a dam half a mile above the river.
Kilt guy may fall first, cos he’s got no rope at all, and Pink Lady is standing on the ground.
But it’s nonsense…. and yeah, the proofreader failed too.
Makes no sense because the rope over the pully from the counterweight splits into two, and the counterweight is at the wrong end if it’s supposed to be counterbalancing the weight of the board and those on it. Typical AI generated image really.
Yeah… I thought last night that Yellow Girl was attached to one of the ropes to the pulley, and either the anvil or the rock.
But I see now that only one rope goes up… her little rope is either knotted to the big rope behind her, or uselessly unattached. That coil at her back looks like the knot on the boulder
But that boulder is so heavy, it would have fallen to the valley and flipped them all into the air, the way it’s set up.
Okay…. I was confused. The only Phoebe Snow I knew about was the singer.
So I just googled it, and discovered that the Phoebe Snow was a named passenger train that ran from 1949 to 1966, between Buffalo, NY and Hoboken, NJ.
Phoebe Snow, the singer, was born Phoebe Laub, but took her stage name from the train.
Meanwhile, the train had been named after a discontinued advertising character, created around 1901 by Earnest Elmo Calkins to promote the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.
She was called Phoebe Snow to emphasize that she rode their trains in all-white clothing, and didn’t get dirty or sooty, because they burned clean coal.
The blurry background is depth-of-field, and has less to do with the length of the lens and more to do with the lens aperture (opening, called F stops). I can get depth-of-field with wide angle lenses just the same as with telephotos.
That being said, there’s no way I’d be out there on the African plains shooting wide angle: I wouldn’t be shooting landscapes.
Hey, nobody said Cleo was the next Emeril Lagasse. But I suppose if you have a dog who even tries to make you dinner, you should feel grateful.
Well…. Unless you’re the one who’s going to have to clean up the mess. There’s not going to be much left in that can, after she splats it all over the kitchen.
And did she wash her paws? And just where did she get that can?
Hmm… maybe I’d dial back the gratitude a wee notch, and concentrate on what she’s accomplished. I do see a few changes between the panels….
it’s something I specifically check for when I see something striped
I check stripes on sleeves, too, for color order and number… and the color ovals on rugs, just to see whether they match, because I’ve known them to be a puzzle difference.
That’s how I manage to solve them every week… counting buttons, searching for things like earrings, necklaces, pockets and Cleo’s dog tag, instead of waiting to notice them. A few other things too.
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“Oh &#@¡! … is that the doorbell?”
Don’t tell Otis…it’s his turn for a bath Sunday.
The shower cap is a cute idea…but I’ve got to really work on my boy’s ears. Chronic problem.
Pops schnauzer had chronic problems with yeast
infections in his ears.
Yeah, that’s what this is. The last time I was at the vet, they had a “treatment”. Cost $35 per ear. They promised it would clear it up. Hah! I think she’s never treated a basset before <grin>
My first hound mix, the infections were so bad he went nearly deaf at 6 or 7 years. I had him for another ten. We learned to get by just fine. But the ear problem persisted on pretty much that whole time.
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I’m glad you got the “bun-size” ones.
You get more in a package, and you don’t need special buns.
Don’t forget the ketchup!
Looks like a pup I met once named Peanut.
.
I had to search it, cos while…
I’m unfamiliar with
And to find out that
He looks enough like a blend of my father and brother that it’s scary.
Well, back when they both had hair, that is…
Not only did I recognize him as the former son-in-law of the great Stan Laurel but he was in Gone With The Wind as 1st husband of Scarlett O’Hara. He is Rand Brooks.
,,.
“The Fighting Temeraire…”
Yes … sadly, subtitled “being tugged to her last Berth to be broken up”…. oil on canvas.…William Turner, 1838
Turner is known as one of the greatest, and by some, the greatest, English painter of all time.
He used thinned oil paint in the style of a watercolorist, in what amounts to shimmering layers of color, described as presaging the works of the much later impressionist painters.
One of my all-time favorites – alongside Caspar David Friedrich.
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My ex-wife’s kittens used to do this to me…in the morning…on my way to the shower…so nothing between me and their claws and teeth. I didn’t find it amusing…
Awww! They woved you!
Mooom! You said when I got big, I could go too!
I’m big. now…. really really big!
“Gotcha! Give up yet?”
,.
Look at the features: Thrill-Power Go, Total Contact Brakes,Torque-Flite transmission
and my favourite, Torsion-Aire Ride. Plymouth re-wrote the book on mechanical engineering.
What a time to be alive.
what caught my eye was the push button transmission
But did it fly?
.,.
Another amazing image from Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky … I wrote about him, maybe 10 days ago, and his invention of a clever way to take color photographs, long before practical color film existed.
This is Alim Khan, last Emir of Bukhara, taken in 1911, during Prokudin-Gorsky’s long trip, attempting to photograph the whole Russian Empire for Czar Nicholas.
As I said then, he took three black and white shots, in succession, through different color filters, blue, red and green, and projected them, overlaid, to show a color image.
He barely escaped Russia with some of his negatives during the revolution. They couldn’t be printed till it was later done with overlapping dots, then halftones. In the 21st century they’ve been digitized.
I’m still in awe.
His colors are so spectacular I wouldn’t have known it wasn’t modern work.
Exactly.
It looks like it was taken yesterday, yet it’s 115 years old…
So we get to see the shine on the brass, and the original colors and sheen of the blue silk satin and its gorgeous embroidery, without 100 years of fading.
Some people think colors were more muted then, because all they’ve ever seen are museum samples and black and white photos.
These show how vibrant it really looked.
Nighthawks first posted the picture of the boy on June 12th, You followed up on June 14th. I was away from my desktop during that time, but wanted to share with my brother and sister. Took me awhile to find them, but they’re fascinating
Thank you!
He does look like he’d have no difficulty sitting still for all those photographs (And possibly the next 115 years…)
..,,
Conclusion: Don’t speak while doing any of these things.
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Looks more like “My brother’s slice of cake” than “The flatiron building!”
Didn’t you like your brother? Why did he get such a skinny slice?
But the Flatiron Building it is, the New York one, of course, in 1917 and, again, in 2012.
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Sitting Bull top left ?
Nope. Close.
that’s the one that looked familiar to me
They’re Lakota Sioux chiefs, who, according to the caption, counseled with General Miles and settled the “the Indian War”, whichever one that was. It was taken by Grabill, in 1891, in Deadwood S.Dak..
All their names are also on it, in that little rectangle at the bottom, in tiny white letters.
Enlarging, the first is Standing Bull, probably no relation to the Sitting one, cos AFAIK their names come from events, not families.
I like the next two names: Bear Who Looks Back Running, and Has the Big White Horse.
Poor 2nd to last fellow is named Lame.
I thought maybe he could be Sitting Bull, if his name was.misrepresented by the person who captioned the group photo.
I also looked him up, to see where he was ever called Standing Bull.
His name in the Lakota language actually translates to “Buffalo Bull Who Sits Down”. White soldiers called him Sitting Bull, so maybe some said Standing Bull.
But the main problem is the date. 1891, unless that’s wrong too.
Sitting Bull was killed by US soldiers in 1890.
Here is his picture in 1883…
.,
the prufreeder
Sorry.
This makes no sense to me.
Driving a giant spike into a huge board, next to a rock… It’s she trying to split it? She’s certainly not anchoring it.
Likewise the fellow (wearing a kilt?) drilling a useless hole in the middle of it, with the world’s strongest battery drill.
The other two people are being counterweighted (is that a word?) by objects heavy enough that they should already be lifted high in the air. Maybe they won’t fall cos they’ll get stuck up next to the pulley when those weights come crashing down. If that branch is secure.
And some crazy entity… maybe the one they work for…. is lopping off mountaintops, and building giant structures on the resulting mesas.
Including what looks like a dam half a mile above the river.
Kilt guy may fall first, cos he’s got no rope at all, and Pink Lady is standing on the ground.
But it’s nonsense…. and yeah, the proofreader failed too.
Makes no sense because the rope over the pully from the counterweight splits into two, and the counterweight is at the wrong end if it’s supposed to be counterbalancing the weight of the board and those on it. Typical AI generated image really.
Yeah… I thought last night that Yellow Girl was attached to one of the ropes to the pulley, and either the anvil or the rock.
But I see now that only one rope goes up… her little rope is either knotted to the big rope behind her, or uselessly unattached. That coil at her back looks like the knot on the boulder
But that boulder is so heavy, it would have fallen to the valley and flipped them all into the air, the way it’s set up.
We all know the coyote falls first!!!
That’s “fall first”
,.
Okay…. I was confused. The only Phoebe Snow I knew about was the singer.
So I just googled it, and discovered that the Phoebe Snow was a named passenger train that ran from 1949 to 1966, between Buffalo, NY and Hoboken, NJ.
Phoebe Snow, the singer, was born Phoebe Laub, but took her stage name from the train.
Meanwhile, the train had been named after a discontinued advertising character, created around 1901 by Earnest Elmo Calkins to promote the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.
She was called Phoebe Snow to emphasize that she rode their trains in all-white clothing, and didn’t get dirty or sooty, because they burned clean coal.
Wow…. what would I do without Google?
So…. Just to say goodnight…
,
“Taken by the late photographer…”
Looks that way…. though before you make plans to attend the wake, I should tell you….
You can see by the blurry background that it’s a telephoto shot.
Hopefully, man and beast were too far apart to collide.
The blurry background is depth-of-field, and has less to do with the length of the lens and more to do with the lens aperture (opening, called F stops). I can get depth-of-field with wide angle lenses just the same as with telephotos.
That being said, there’s no way I’d be out there on the African plains shooting wide angle: I wouldn’t be shooting landscapes.
Agreed. Mounting the latter to a wall would be a female dog.
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Must be a simple one tonight. I’ve got seven!
I got eight.
Hey, nobody said Cleo was the next Emeril Lagasse. But I suppose if you have a dog who even tries to make you dinner, you should feel grateful.
Well…. Unless you’re the one who’s going to have to clean up the mess. There’s not going to be much left in that can, after she splats it all over the kitchen.
And did she wash her paws? And just where did she get that can?
Hmm… maybe I’d dial back the gratitude a wee notch, and concentrate on what she’s accomplished. I do see a few changes between the panels….
I can see the one I missed now….
The last one took me a r-e-a-l-l-y long time to locate…
That’s the one I missed.
It’s hard to see,
I check stripes on sleeves, too, for color order and number… and the color ovals on rugs, just to see whether they match, because I’ve known them to be a puzzle difference.
That’s how I manage to solve them every week… counting buttons, searching for things like earrings, necklaces, pockets and Cleo’s dog tag, instead of waiting to notice them. A few other things too.
It sounds tedious but it’s actually very fast.
Thanks, Susan. And, Yes, much the same way that I do it, but in today’s instalment, it was hard for me to locate for some reason…
You detected my pattern….. broke my code, so I speak
Uh oh….. am I in trouble?
Don’t worry… there are others I didn’t mention.
Late to the party, but I got them all.
Kittens at Play (1897), Oil on Canvas – Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (Dutch, Belgium 1821–1909), (113 x 85cm – 44.5 x 33.5 in)
Louis Wain:
Those ears don’t look like they’re on a happy cat.
Clouded Leopard, for Caturday.
These are some ultra ultra sharp, sharp images. you can zoom right in on in the faces and not lose clarity
I reduced the resolution of the originals to 1080p so WP would accept them without any trouble. The original ones were in the 3000-4000p range.
Red Fody, Madagascar Fody, (Foudia madagascariensis).
Wow.
Ella Fitzgerald. My idea of an iconic singer. I loved to hear her scat with the band.