Seen on the Street category archive
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Open for business, closed to view:
They had also removed the parking lot corals for holding empty grocery carts.
The most surprising thing was that the store was not a zoo.
Ducks on a Pond 0
Here’s a little video. Unfortunately, PodPress does not have an option for “center.” As its creator is fond of saying, “It is what it is.”
If you have trouble using the player, you can download the video.
Prayer Meeting 0
H/T Susan for the pic.
Clouds 0
We had some unusual clouds Monday night.
I understand rain was pouring down at the beach front, which is a ways from here (we got only a smattering), and I could see both the tops and bottoms of the thunderheads:
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Or, more properly, on the CBBT.
I have the boid book out and am trying to figure out what they are. My very tentative guess so far is immature gulls.
Ducks on a Pond 0
I think someone has been feeding them, because, when we came into their sight, they paddled right towards us.
Birds in the Bush 0
When the parents return to the nest with food for the tykes, they take a roundabout path, dodging, pausing, doubling back, while frequently looking around. I’m no birdologist, but it appears to me that they’re being cautious to avoid leading predators back to the nest.
No birds were touched in the taking of this photograph.
And Now for Something Completely Different 0
I’ve been playing around with my new camera.
This looks crude, but some work into it. It was originally 1280×720 and 92 MB in size.
I lightened it and resized it using Avidemux. That took some effort because, although Avidemux is a great program, it’s help file could use some work, at least for the version I have, and, as a colleague of mine once told me way back in the early days of computers,
If the program promises that it will simple, it likely won’t do what you want it to.
If the program promises that it will do everything you want it to, it will not be simple.
If the program promises that it will be simple and that it will do everything you want it to, it will likely accomplish neither.
So far, he’s not been proved wrong.
Note:
The embed works fine for me, but my Windows 7 computer claimed it was missing a plug-in to play it. It’s a standard *.avi file and should not require anything special to play.
If you have problems with the embed, please try the “Download” selection and let me know what error messages you received, using the comments.
Seen on the Street 1
I cashed in some rewards points for a new camera with a long lens.
When Knowledge Means Jail Time 0
White Southerners considered ignorance a cornerstone of chatttel slavery. At the corner of Granby and City Hall Avenue, downtown Norfolk:
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The inscription reads:
Margaret Douglass, a white woman from Charleston, South Carolina, moved to Norfolk with her daughter Rosa in 1845 and lived near hear on the former Barraud Court. She was a vest maker by occupation. In June 1852 she and her daughter opened a school in the second story backroom of her house to teach 25 free black children, both boys and girls, how to read and write. Tuition was three dollars a quarter. After she was seen walking in the funeral procession of one of her deceased students, her school was raided, and she was arrested. She argued her own case in court, pointing out that the wives and daughters of several court officials taught black children weekly in Sunday School classes at Christ Church from the same books she used. After being found guilty, she served a month in jail. Later she mmoved to Philadelphia with her daughter and gained considerable notoriety based on her booklet about her experience in Norfolk that was published in 1854.
Land of the Midnight Eclipse, Reprise 1
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I followed the Eclipse of the Midnight Sun last night on the Astro Viten website.
Cameras were placed in three locations: Tromsø, on the Norway’s north coast; Bodø, on the northwestern coast; and Kirkenes, on the far northeastern coast (you can go to the website to see the last pictures taken at each of the three locations). The picture above was after the eclipse had passed at Kirkenes.
Seen on the Street 1
I drove two miles out of my way to catch a red light so I could take this picture:
Seen on the Street, Quoth the Raven Dept. 0
Probably here to presage the rapture.
H/T Susan, who thinks that someone has been feeding the bird, for the pix.
