I tried to search the image, and ran into a bunch of jokesters….
I mean, I like a joke as much as the next guy, but it loses something when every site copies the one before…
And in spite of so many people saying it, I refuse to believe this is really a Carolina, or Florida, or Texas or ____ (fill in the blank) “mosquito skull.”
We get it… the mosquitos are big there!
In fact, I didn’t find this exact picture on a site that didn’t make that joke, with one or another location filled in.
I did find a few pictures of what I think are similar objects, and if this is one of those, it’s a whale skull.
Actually, it’s a beautiful small beach, in Fort Bragg, California, near the town of Mendocino. Not really a swimming beach… the coast up there is cold.
I don’t know its original name, if it had one, but for probably a century it’s been known as Glass Beach.
It’s full of pieces of sea-worn glass… most from the dump that used to be located there, in the early 20th century, when people thought you could throw pretty much anything into the ocean, and it would just disintegrate, or be carried away.
A lot also came from ships that dumped refuse, including glass bottles, and the currents carried it there.
It’s actually made up of three.small beaches, but when I first went there, two were on private property and inaccessible.
I’m told you can go to them now, and that the one I used to visit every few years, the official Glass Beach, is now part of MacKerricher State Park, to protect it.
40 years ago, you could take home a handful of beautiful glass… mostly clear, some blue, green, or amber colored, some the size of a lima bean, some a couple of inches. Once I got just the bottom of an old pressed bottle, now like a golden glass cookie.
I met a woman had a shop in Mendocino, where she sold bracelets made of beach glass and silver wire.
But my friend who lived there always said not to take too much. The locals all hated a company that came now and then and took a pickup load, but I don’t think it was illegal.
Now that it’s in a state park there are signs saying it’s a misdemeanor to take any…. but the beach is quite depleted nonetheless, from all the years of tourists, and the fact that not much more is being formed.
Gotta jump in here – been there, done that. Ft. Bragg, Mendocino, the whole coast highway. I brought home some eucalyptus branches and planted one of the seed pods about 10 years ago…the tree is now over 30 feet tall. Then a couple of years ago I made another trip from southern Oregon in the middle of the worst winter storm (pounding rain, branches and stuff all over the roads, electrical lines down, etc.) to adopt my buddy Otis (black and tan basset) from the Mendicino Coast Humane Society.
That’d be hard to do – he actually doesn’t photograph well. The dark face, unless he’s facing the sun (or at least in profile, like this one) leaves him with no eyes.
Gary Puckett; I loved the Union Gap’s songs. I’d seen him without the group in the 1990s and early 2000s and he sounded awesome. I saw him again last year, but the voice was gone. 🙁
Anyway, great song selections, Nighthawks.
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Puppy hasn’t learned the correct Chaplin stance yet. (Or grown into his ears…)
Puppy looks like he’s about to sound off!
oh yeaaaaah! definitely a mini-AROOO is coming
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I SO HOPE the moon is moving from right to left in this image.
?
Then it looks as if it’s leaving a vapor trail.
what happens if it’s left to right?
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Great job, overall, IMHO.
Odd choices for a couple of them… I don’t think of Emily Dickinson, for instance, as so very death-focused.
Great ones for Kafka, Shelley, Homer… and obviously Melville.
I’m confused about Lee. The only one I can think of is Harper…. Oh! …. is that a mockingbird fish?
loved Shelly
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they all look plowed
especially the nun
Whadda you expect at a Hollywood party?
We did have this one before, and it turned out to be a mix of movie stars and socialites, which is why so many are unfamiliar.
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The second resulting from not understanding – that you’re supposed to set it all up before you leave your parking spot.
Mine is slow enough to load that I’m usually on the road before it starts nagging…
LOL!
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“Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!”.
War is Hell.
Resistance is futile.
Twiggs and Fargo would love that game.
Is that Montgomery & Rommel?
Or Hoover and Roomba?
well, you’re speaking of the underbelly , the dark side of cat/tank battles
or the opponents of the Kursk confrontation
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Gonna have to go downstairs and dig out some of my Mighty Mouses…
mighty meece
on set, ‘Leave it to Beaver’
Like it says in the caption above?
(They always get me too)
Yes.
Darn it!
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AI or robotics?
Moonwalking Bird of Paradise.
Looks more like cardboard to me! ;o)
I think we’re missing some music here.
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The plane’s the clue — they didn’t drive, they flew!
I can solve it backwards, but can’t find my way “back” going forward.
then right at Albuquerque …
I just did it forward without even trying!
I think it’s a matter of luck.
Looks a lot like one of the late, great Richard Thompson’s Washington, D.C. area road maps.
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That was one serious moose!
I tried to search the image, and ran into a bunch of jokesters….
I mean, I like a joke as much as the next guy, but it loses something when every site copies the one before…
And in spite of so many people saying it, I refuse to believe this is really a Carolina, or Florida, or Texas or ____ (fill in the blank) “mosquito skull.”
We get it… the mosquitos are big there!
In fact, I didn’t find this exact picture on a site that didn’t make that joke, with one or another location filled in.
I did find a few pictures of what I think are similar objects, and if this is one of those, it’s a whale skull.
Yup.
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Ah! Okay…
Great song… Tons of people recorded it, including John Lennon having a hit with it….
But Ben E King was the original, and I think wrote it.
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♫♪”This was a real nice clambake
We’re mighty glad we came…”♫♪
I hope that’s glass, and not plastic.
Skittles.
Actually, it’s a beautiful small beach, in Fort Bragg, California, near the town of Mendocino. Not really a swimming beach… the coast up there is cold.
I don’t know its original name, if it had one, but for probably a century it’s been known as Glass Beach.
It’s full of pieces of sea-worn glass… most from the dump that used to be located there, in the early 20th century, when people thought you could throw pretty much anything into the ocean, and it would just disintegrate, or be carried away.
A lot also came from ships that dumped refuse, including glass bottles, and the currents carried it there.
It’s actually made up of three.small beaches, but when I first went there, two were on private property and inaccessible.
I’m told you can go to them now, and that the one I used to visit every few years, the official Glass Beach, is now part of MacKerricher State Park, to protect it.
40 years ago, you could take home a handful of beautiful glass… mostly clear, some blue, green, or amber colored, some the size of a lima bean, some a couple of inches. Once I got just the bottom of an old pressed bottle, now like a golden glass cookie.
I met a woman had a shop in Mendocino, where she sold bracelets made of beach glass and silver wire.
But my friend who lived there always said not to take too much. The locals all hated a company that came now and then and took a pickup load, but I don’t think it was illegal.
Now that it’s in a state park there are signs saying it’s a misdemeanor to take any…. but the beach is quite depleted nonetheless, from all the years of tourists, and the fact that not much more is being formed.
Been there twice. Once before and once after the addition to the parks.
You could also find pieces of broken crockery.
Gotta jump in here – been there, done that. Ft. Bragg, Mendocino, the whole coast highway. I brought home some eucalyptus branches and planted one of the seed pods about 10 years ago…the tree is now over 30 feet tall. Then a couple of years ago I made another trip from southern Oregon in the middle of the worst winter storm (pounding rain, branches and stuff all over the roads, electrical lines down, etc.) to adopt my buddy Otis (black and tan basset) from the Mendicino Coast Humane Society.
please, post more shots of Otis…. make it your ‘Otis of the Day’
That’d be hard to do – he actually doesn’t photograph well. The dark face, unless he’s facing the sun (or at least in profile, like this one) leaves him with no eyes.
Otis! My man!
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Tennis ball? What tennis ball?
(Low-hanging fruit, sorry…)
I don’t even want to think about how saturated that tennis ball must be.
It doesn’t bounce, it “splooshes”.
“Put it on the ritz?”
Someone misheard.
Maybe it’s the cheesy version.
Of course, this version isn’t cheesy at all….
Properly cheesy!
I’m late today.
Another interesting biography by Pete Beard.
Cars these days…..
LOL!
As long as it didn’t FILM a video of someone being run over…
Gary Puckett; I loved the Union Gap’s songs. I’d seen him without the group in the 1990s and early 2000s and he sounded awesome. I saw him again last year, but the voice was gone. 🙁
Anyway, great song selections, Nighthawks.