Saturday fun with animals

 This week I have few encounters with critters.

Last week I met a friend's trial new dog, Champ. I haven't seen him this week, so he may not have worked out for her.

He was a rather slow moving older beagle. The interesting part of his  story was that his owner had recently died. And she had died the same day that my friend had lost her own dog suddenly. She was trying out living with Champ for a few weeks, I believe. 

Another blogger recently posted some art by an artist who was also recently deceased, Leoma Lovejoy. Blogger is Southwest Daily Photos. 

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From a Gallery Show by the Red House artists, in 2021 a selection.

My contribution was a ceramic open sculpture of trees (which sold!!)

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Today's quotes:

Every student needs someone who says, simply, "You mean something. You count."  -Tony Kushner, playwright (b. 16 Jul 1956) Be part of the discussion on climate change as we move our society to a critical mass of people who can change the way we live, govern, support, communicate, and save the earth. ---------------- Today's goddess: Amazing goddess figurine from Balzi Rossi (red rocks), who is apparently depicted giving birth. Dated ca 26,000-20,000 BC Gravettian period, it was found in Balzi Rossi caves (archaeological site), Grimaldi di Ventimiglia, Italy on the border with France. Musée des Antiquites Nationales of Saint Germain-en-Laye, France SOURCE: The Mother Goddess site on FaceBook

Bridges help you get where you're going - even if nowhere!

 Sepia Saturday (a day early) brings the idea of bridges to mind.

So I am off to search for any kind of structures that cross space or water...

1890s "Otto Mears’ Toll Road, a daring creation that connected Oray Colorado with the now "Million Dollar Highway."

I've been waiting for a chance to share this structure! I wonder how long it lasted! Isn't it interesting to see the rejected lumber lying about all over the place!

Old Bridge over Flat Creek, Montreat NC 2014

The old bridge with Rhododendron rails over Flat Creek, Montreat NC

Bridge rebuilt in 2022 over Flat Creek - before Hurricane Helene floods washed it away in 2024.

Rod Chase- Twilight in Central Park, NY

Van Gogh, The Gleize Bridge over the Vigueirat Canal

A modern covered bridge (over a road I believe) in Old Salem NC...where my friend stood as we began our tour of the old town.

A true bridge to nowhere, near Arches National Park, Moab Utah. 2025

 The High Shoals Bridge on South Fork River NC (now closed)

by Koowah Shining - The High Shoals Bridge on South Fork River NC,  for History of North Carolina on FaceBook.

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Sharing with Sepia Saturday this week!

Our host, Alan, gives this introduction:

For want of something better, I have given this week's prompt image the title "Bridges To Nowhere". The photograph comes from the extensive collection of my Uncle Frank, and shows a very decorative bridge across a seaside boating lake. As it leads simply from one side of the lake to the other, I suppose you can say that it is a bridge to nowhere, but that is not something that can be said about old photographs in general. Old photographs provide us with a bridge to somewhere, and that somewhere is the past. So, once again, we ask you to share your old photographs here on Sepia Saturday, by posting them on or around Saturday 22nd November 2025 and adding a link to the list below. And if you would like to plan your Sepia Saturday posts for the remainder of the year, here is a list of our weekly prompt images.

 I invite you to consider joining the fun of sharing an old photo or two with Sepia Saturday sometime!

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Today's quote:

I wanted to live my life so that people would know unmistakably that I am alive, so that when I finally die people will know the difference for sure between my living and my death.

 -June Jordan, writer, teacher, and activist (1936-2002)

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Today's goddess:

Beautiful pregnant goddess figurine, created about 24,000 years ago at the Kostenki - Borshevo region on the Don River, north of the Black Sea.

Kostenki / Kostienki is a very important Paleolithic site on the Don River in Russia. It was a settlement which contained goddess/ansestor figures, dwellings made of mammoth bones, and many flint tools and bone implements. Actually it is not a single site but an area consisting of more than twenty Palaeolithic site locations on the right bank of the river, between the villages of Kostenki and Borshevo.

The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Thanks FB post The Mother Goddess

Some laughs - signs

 

Seen in Scotland...

Quote for today:

As long as we’re rejecting ourselves and causing harm to our bodies and minds, there’s no point in talking about loving and accepting others.

THICH NHAT HANH

Open Yesterday's Pages - Happy birthday President Joe Biden!

Wordless Wednesday

 

And that ended that print job!

Latest waiting room visit...at dermatologist's office Monday morning.

Sorry about all the reflections (except this one) in the photos!

Sharing with Wordless Wednesday

See my other blog Open Yesterday's Pages on the Gettysburg Address - on this date in 1863!

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Today's quote:

Guns are the top killers of children in the U.S.

Just saying...

 

What is this? I just found it saved in my iCloud photos...and I didn't take it! How could someone else's photo get saved there? Well, that's my Monday morning dilemma, while drinking my coffee and reading a few blogs and emails. I'm getting ready to go to the dermatologist this morning for my yearly exam. Whoopee!

The neighborhood slowly awakens to dawn. 41 degrees F. Due to be sunny today.

Yesterday my maples treated me to swinging in the breeze...as I awoke these long limbs just swayed every which way with the gusts of wind. It was estimated by Weather Channel at 17 mph...but these were surprising gusts coming through. What a symphony of movement.

And from the internet...

Adding another list just to include peruse, which AC mentioned in his comment:

Today over on my other blog: Open Yesterday's Pages - Louis Daguerre