How Do You Like the Sunset?
Of course, this is another photo from the collection this week. What do you think?
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You can find some of my other photos from Garden of the Gods, here & here.
New Smilies/Emoticons!
Well, I’ve been looking around for some new ones for a while now. Since I couldn’t find the section in WordPress to edit them, I just starting searching through Google for emoticons. By doing that, I very quickly came across a wonderful little set of smilies. Though the site is in Spanish, I had Google translate it for me and I figured out what to edit to make them all show now! (It’s hidden near the bottom of functions.php.)
You can find the translated version of the site here and the non-translated version here.
You can now find this images at the top of the comments section, so don’t forget to use them!
Some More.. Big Rocks.
As the photos continue, I brought in another picture of Garden of the Gods. You can see the last photograph from the weekend expedition at I Think I Like Rocks.
By the way, if anyone is really paying attention, I’d like to point out that this Garden of the Gods in located in southern Illinois and not in Colorado. The Garden of the Gods in Colorado you have to pay to see and, honestly, I don’t think is half as pretty. (But, of course, I’m rather bias.) This one is free and as long as you don’t go jump off the edge, you can climb about anything–that’s stable enough to, that is. (Though you shouldn’t!)
Tails Tuesday #2!
Welcome to the second installment of Tails Tuesday!
Also, welcome to the month of July! This month is full of patriotism and color, explosives and lights. I hope to see a couple of “tails” about the 4th next week!
Anyway, onto the tails!
This good ol’ boy is Tigger. As you can see, he is peacefully laying on our bed. Of course, he woke up when I went to take the picture, but at least he didn’t hide! He is 12 years old now–what’s that in cat years again?–and doesn’t have to do much around the house anymore. (That’s what the young cats are for!)
As always, you can head over to the main Tail Tuesday page to see the rules and how to participate!
Now get out and enjoy your Tuesday!
Some More.. On the Ohio River.
Well, today I picked one of the photos from Cave-In-Rock. Though I didn’t bother to go down into the cave and take pictures, I did take several photographs of the surrounding area—which is beautiful by the way.
Since the cave is literally on the edge of the river, when you stand on top of the cliffs the views are stunning especially at sunset.
If anyone can remember March of this year, then you may recall the pictures of the flooded river. You can look back on them here: How High Can It Go?
Also, we did get out and pick a bunch of blackberries again yesterday. My right hand got scratched up pretty good because of the thorns, but at least it doesn’t hurt anymore and I got most of the thorns out. (Plus, I scrubbed the purple/red off my fingers so they don’t look like they’re covered in blood anymore!)
When we were out there, I kept hearing a bird in the tree above us. I figured it was just one of the mockingbirds being annoying, as they don’t much like anyone. Come to find, I was right next to a little fledgling!
It’s rather cute and, though it’s parents were taking care of it and getting it to fly, I couldn’t leave it out there on the ground with all the cats. So, there’s a little northern mockingbird in the house sleeping. I have to go feed it in a bit. (It really likes blackberries. Go figure.)
I’ve almost got the little one to fly on it’s own. Hopefully it will be good enough to get out on it’s own very soon, without fear of all the kitties. (Tigger will walk over and look at it, but he just ignores it. The bird is smart enough to stop moving when he sees the cat though!)
Update: We released it back outside this morning, after a good helping of blackberries and some flight lessons. Here’s a picture of it in the tree out back.
(See? I’ve already gone and broken my one picture a day rule for the week!)
Now don’t forget tomorrow is Tails Tuesday. I hope to see some of you then!
I Think I Like Rocks.
Why haven’t I just made this into my photoblog? Because I simply do not know how to be “wordless.”
In any case, we went out to Garden of the Gods yesterday, as well as Cave-In-Rock and the Illinois Iron Furnace. (You can check any of the links for more information about those places!)
So, since I took quite a bit of pictures, I’m only going to be posting one a day for the week. Since I’m on dial-up, this does help me out a bit and I hope everyone will come back and view everything when they’re all posted!
This one is one of the photos taken at sunset at Garden of the Gods. I am also submitting it over at Creative Photography.
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As nice as it is outside today, it’s not even 80F, it was rather hot and icky yesterday. I am hoping to get out and pick some more blackberries as soon as J. gets home, since it’s very nice out. (If not a tad bit rainy.)
Changing the Sidebar, & Other Moves.
Anyone that has visited a couple of times, or randomly through today, may have noticed that I’ve been moving and adding things to the three sidebars. I keep moving things around in order to get them in the best viewing order. Hopefully, it all looks fine, as I have been checking everything through Firefox and IE.
If something isn’t working on the sidebars or on the site, drop a comment about it if you would. I can’t catch everything, but I would love to get it looking and working properly.
Additionally, I’ve added a poll because I have noticed some problems with comments. I don’t know if it’s simply that some people have been attempting to comment at the same time and WP doesn’t know quite what to do and cancels one of the request, or if it has something to do with the PHP in the comment section. Either way, the more information I get about it the better I can understand the problem, therefore, fix it. So, please don’t forget to vote if you have the chance. [Removed. If you have trouble, just comment.]
Also, a BIG thanks to everyone that’s dropped in this week.. I am hoping to keep this up and I am planning on getting out into some recently flooded areas for more photos. Don’t forget to drop by next week to see them!
Corner of the Lawn.
Don’t you just love power lines?
I don’t! They just constantly get in the way of taking pictures!
I-69 Protest and The “Protesters.”
I live in Gibson County, Indiana. Many years ago, it was decided that part of I-69 would go through the edge of our county. Sure, not too many people liked the idea because they would have preferred using our existing highways, but things like this happen.
So, that was a long time ago. They bought most of the land for the construction, but didn’t really do anything. Well, finally, they are getting on their way to constructing the interstate. (If you don’t already know, I-69 is the interstate that is supposed to run from Mexico to Canada. You might want to read more about it here and here to understand how big of a project this is.)
Recent events, however, have been slowing down the process. For one, there have been quite a bit of protest lately. People broke several windows at the local I-69 building. People have been camping out in trees on property due to be cleared. People have been chaining themselves to semi-trailers to make them stop working.
Here’s the problem though: These people aren’t even from here! A lot of these protesters are from California. Am I the only one that sees the problem with their logic? They have no reason to be over here, besides to be in the way. They obviously don’t understand that small towns tend to enjoy being left alone.
We are a county with several small communities. Though we are considered part of the greater Evansville metropolitan area, we are not. We are full of tight-knit communities that do not like many “outsiders” coming over to butt into our business. (If you’ve grown up in the city, I don’t expect you to understand it—but it would be nice if you respected it.)
There are not a whole lot of jobs in this area either, so with I-69 finally starting construction, it brings in jobs to many people. Now, some of those people may or may not care about what I-69 is “doing to the environment” or anything like that. These people are just trying to work to survive, which many of us in the county have to do every day.
And in come these protesters that have no idea what it’s like living around here. In all honesty, how do you think those kids got over here? They surely didn’t work their asses off through high school, save it all up, and then one day decide to “help” our community.. They probably got most of their money from their rich parents. So, they obviously have no clue about the “hard life.”
Now there are a bunch of crazy Californians over here, stopping traffic and complaining about the environment. I’m all for the preservation of wildlife and I hate the thought of I-69 destroying forests, but it was decided long ago and we did what we could then. At the present time, all these kids are out doing is keeping people from working and providing for their families.
Example: Some of the protesters stopped a semi after it delivered to a company that is working on part of I-69. They kept him from working for half of the day, which he will not be paid for. How is this peaceful? They don’t know him and he really didn’t have anything to do with I-69—he was just doing his job! What if he has a family and can’t make the bills because they screwed him out of part of his pay? Are they going to give him enough money to feed his family because of what they did? I don’t think so.
A lot of these “protesters” are pathetic. They bitch and moan about how horrible it is that people are doing something, but if they were put in the same situation they would be working on it too. They don’t understand what it’s like living from day to day and they probably never will, because no one makes them.
No one really liked the idea of I-69 coming through here, but we sucked it up and we’re dealing with it. If we couldn’t stop the construction, I don’t see a chance in hell of these protestors succeeding in doing anything but causing harm. All they are is a big nuisance!
Honestly, I wish that the police would charge them all for the amount of money they are costing the people that are just trying to do their jobs. We should follow these kids home and protest outside of their places of work and see how they like it!
You can find out what they are doing in the county by searching it in Google: I-69 Gibson County Indiana.
And in case you don’t think they’re crazy, please read some of this: Stop I-69.
Blackberries!
J. and I, mostly J., picked them over the weekend. By this weekend, the whole backyard should be full of them. Seriously, we’ll probably have a good bucket full when we’re done, especially since it’s supposed to rain for a couple of days off and on.
And so you really understand how big these suckers are, check this out.
