Trivia and critters

 

I try when I awaken at night, to remember something in nature that I saw that day. Fortunately I have house plants!

The first Peanuts comic strip debuted on October 2, 1950 and featured Patty, Shermy, and "Good ol' Charlie Brown!" Happy anniversary to these wonderful young people of all kinds!

When we were reading Peanuts in the papers daily, we might spend an evening watching 2 movies, a cartoon, and a news reel from the comfort of our cars. There was no grass there then!

from Swedish artist Jenny Soderlund.

The Dryads by Debra A Hitchcock

Sharing with Saturday's Critters

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There’s power in love to help and heal when nothing else can. There’s power in love to lift up and liberate when nothing else will. There’s power in love to show us the way to live.

BISHOP MICHAEL B. CURRY ---------------------- Come visit me at Life in Durango please.

Soft fog

 

Fog is rising above my Durango CO neighborhood. 

Sharing with City Daily Photos whose theme is soft.

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There is in you something that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself… that is the only true guide that you will ever have.

HOWARD THURMAN

From mountains to EMPs

 

From the internet...fortunately good photographers are traveling around in Colorado capturing the fall colors and sharing them on FaceBook.

My photo this morning. Another day of cool rain...temperatures in 50s.

Just wanted to have something to post for today!

I've read John Walter's newsletter today, about how EMPs will easily destroy our civilization,

 Electromagnetic Pulses. 

I've also read One Second After - a 2009 science fiction novel by American writer William R. Forstchen. The novel deals with an unexpected electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States as it affects the people living in and around the small American town of Black Mountain, North Carolina.

Released in March 2009, One Second After was ranked as number 11 on the New York Times Best Seller list in fiction in May 2009

There have been several sequels to this novel, and the last book I tried unsuccessfully to read was about an elevator to the moon by the same author. It had been proposed decades earlier by another sci-fi author, and was deemed scientifically implausible due to atmospheric friction on the cables.

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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

 -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)

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I'm continuing to watch  the Prime series "Genius" about Einstein. It is kind of good, and kind of continues with the same theme of how hard it was for him to work in a world that didn't recognize his talents. 

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Blog-aversary

 Today says I've been blogging since 2008! My first blog was Goddess in Clay. It's been completely dismantled, and no longer exists in the la-la land of blogs.

So I wrote a few months, then decided to expand and include posts of my own functional clay work...which I started making also in 2008. I had retired in 2007, and recovered enough to start working in the community studio in downtown Black Mountain NC.

Those first efforts were pretty sad, but I was not deterred. I had already studied ceramics and got a BFA many years before. I even spent many Saturday mornings in summers selling my wares at the Tailgate Market.

In the meantime, I would sit here at a computer (I think I've been through one CPU tower and am on my 3rd laptop) and read about other people's lives all over the world, and share little bits of my existence.

For me it was fun to have different topics for different blogs. And so the pottery one, where there used to be recognitions based on how many pottery posts were made in a year...evolved into all art...Alchemy of Clay. 

And since people really responded to photos of the area I lived in...Living in Black Mountain was born (2013-2024) then finally retired as I focused more on this one, When I Was 69 (2013-present.)

However, I had other interests, and started Three Family Trees (2018-now) about my genealogy interests, and Open Yesterday's Pages (2024-26) about anything historic, and then Inner Workings  started just last year for my more serious thoughts.

Then the opportunity came to move to live closer to one of my sons, and perhaps breathe better in drier conditions, so I moved to Durango CO, and within a month I knew I needed to start a new blog Life in Durango!

And I even tried at one time to write a blog about the clay studio, which I kind of let fall away after a while. Most of my blogs are still active, except maybe the goddess one...so I put goddesses in whenever I feel like it, wherever I'm writing. And I sure don't have anything to say on most of them, except this and the Durango one. I keep trying to skip this one...but hey, something is worth sharing, and boom, here I yam!

I enjoy interacting in comments...and making replies. I know few other bloggers do this, but that's ok. I do have busy days when I just barely read blogs at all...but there are seldom days where I don't connect to the www out there at all. I admit to being a blog-addict!

So when blogger started having problems last month or so, I was really worried. I've thought of this as a safe place to store all kinds of information. It's not just the social connections, it's an archive for me. 

I know some of you have been blogging longer than I have, and it's really great to have those friendships. And I also have the sadness associated with those who have died, or just stopped blogging for some other reasons. I have a good-bye blog which will automatically post (if blogger so chooses) whenever I'm no longer able to write here. I just keep adding little bits to it, taking some off, and setting the publication date forward a few months time. So there might be a bit of silence before it finally is posted...and I imagine that's just the way it will have to be.

Until then, I'll see you in the funnies!