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More of the Big Empty. No cultivated fields here.More of the Big Empty. No farmland in this one.

Just arid climate. Death Valley is just a little southwest of here.
More of the Big Empty. No cultivated fields here. Just arid desert. Death Valley, the lowest place in the US, is just a little southwest of here. Broad valley sparsely covered in sagebrush and various native desert species. Distant mountains darkened by shadows of the passing clouds that make the arid landscape look very dark dark. Blue sky and some more clouds.
August 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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The Big Empty was indeed big and empty today.

West of Delta, UT near Great Basin National Park.
Shot from a car of Utah's West Desert. Arid native habitat on the left, and a green field of alfalfa on the right. The backdrop shows arid, jagged small mountains topped by a very blue sky dotted with fluffy, white clouds.
August 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Summer.
Three stones stacked like a cairn. To me, it looks like a person sitting cross-legged. The base is triangular. Smooth river rock, but covered in old mortar. Probably part of an old wall. Stacked atop that, is a reddish stone that looks like a russet potato made of stone was shattered. All roundy potato on one end, and a clear jagged break on the bit of the stone facing forward. The top stone is a bit of white granite with black flecks. Shaped like a human face. On the back, a notch that sits perfectly on the shoulders of the red stone below. I dug each of these stones from my yard. They fit together perfectly. And I have placed red/purple coleus leaves as epaulets and a cape. And placed pinched begonias and impatiens as an offering. Makes me happy each time I decorate it.
July 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I love coleus.
A red coleslaw plants with lime green edges on the new growth and sawtooth leaf ends.
June 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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In honor of Tourist Goring Season.
A large American buffalo dressed with a short sleeved white shirt, a tie, and a Mormon Missionary name tag. Caption: Yellowstone officials start dressing bison like Mormon missionaries in effort to deter people from approaching the animals.
June 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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I love summer. 9:13 pm
I love summer. 9:13 pm. Sky is still blue. Sun is finally dropping below the horizon.
June 15, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Begonias are a favorite.
Pot of pink tuberous begonias.
June 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Must be Spring.

The rocks are out.
My personal.patio shrine that sits on my table. 3 rocks stacked to resemble a human. In front, a spoon rock holds a piece of pyrite crystals topped by a pink blossom from my impatiens. Flanking the figure, an amethyst based topped with quartz, a bit of fossilized bone, and another quartz crystal. All found rocks. On the other side, a crescent of petrified wood (found legally) and a compressed green stone slab made of thin, flaking, green sheets.
June 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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I do love impatiens.
New Guinea Impatiens. Shade loving, dark green leaves with serrated edges. These are pink and white impatiens with some kind of lovely grass in the middle and a small green vine cascading over the edge of the pot.
June 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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It's not difficult at all.
"It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character." Joseph Heller, Catch-22
April 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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An infant with severe measles thanks to anti-vax assholes.
March 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Consequences, cupcake. Consequences.
Tesla on fire in Las Vegas.
March 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Salt Lake Tribune political cartoon from Pat Bagley, a decades long cartoonist for the Salt Lake Tribune. Zelensky is Luke Skywalker fighting Darth Vader portrayed aptly as very small in comparison. Zelensky wields a lightsabre and is deflecting numerous Trump ranting with the sound effect of 'zoob zoob zoob zoob'. Darth Trump, meanwhile
March 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Hayduke Lives!
Black and white illustration of the character Geroge Washington Hayduke from the Edward Abbey novels titled The Monkey Wrench Game and its sequel Hayduke Lives Hayduke is wearing a buttoned workshirt and a large brimmed boonies hat. He has a massive beard and mustache and gritting his teeth while crushing the beer can in his hand.
March 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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I am half inclined to think we are all ghosts…it is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind. They are not actually alive in us; but there they are dormant all the same, and we can never be rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper and read it, I fancy I see ghosts creeping between the lines. There must be ghosts all over the world. They must be as countless as the grains of the sands, it seems to me. And we are so miserably afraid of the light, all of us. Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts
February 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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It's still avalanche season.

Be careful out there.
February 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Weed.
A plastic film canister with a black base and a snap-on Grey cap.
February 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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We've reached the "Degenerate Art" stage of the government take-over.
Official announcement from Donald Trump on truth social. "At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN. I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture. We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!" "Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP," he said. "The Kennedy Center is an American Jewel, and must reflect the brightest STARS on its stage from all across our Nation. For the Kennedy Center, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!"
February 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Time to rally up the demons of your revolutionary soul.

Find the music that inspires you. It's good for ya.

youtu.be/iUD5snx-XOo?...
A verse from Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, published in 1963: And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son? And what did you hear, my darling young one? I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’ Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’ Heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody listenin’ Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin’ Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall https://youtu.be/iUD5snx-XOo?si=g1OMIihN6JhYUyeU
January 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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I'm sure everything is fine.
An excerpt from the Wikipedia article on the 1933 to 1934 period where Hitler cemented his total control of the government and the end of democracy in the Weimar Republic. In retrospect, Hitler's rise to power was aided in part by his willingness to use violence in advancing his political objectives and to recruit party members willing to do the same. The party engaged in electoral battles in which Hitler participated as a speaker and organizer. Street battles and violence also erupted between the Communists' Rotfrontkämpferbund and the Nazis' Sturmabteilung (SA). Once the Nazi dictatorship was firmly established, the Nazis themselves created a mythology surrounding their rise to power. German propaganda described this time period as either the Kampfzeit (the time of struggle) or the Kampfjahre (years of struggle).
January 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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The combined effect of the Enabling Act and the Reichstag Fire Decree transformed Hitler's government into a legal dictatorship and laid the groundwork for his totalitarian regime. By July, the NSDAP was the only legally permitted party in Germany. The Reichstag from 1933 onward effectively became the rubber stamp parliament that Hitler had desired.[14] The German conservative elite, which included the vice-chancellor Franz von Papen, who miscalculated the true intention of the Nazis to monopolize state power, were soon marginalized by the Nazi regime.[15][16] By mid-March, the government began sending communists, labor union leaders, and other political dissidents to Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp.[17] The passing of the Enabling Act marked the formal transition from the democratic Weimar Republic to the totalitarian Nazi dictatorship. Quoted from Wikipedia detailing the fall of the democratic Weimar Republic of Germany to Hitler's party. It was all very peaceful. Until it wasn't.
January 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Since MLK Day is coming up, I thought I'd post this.

More relevant now than ever.

(Lookin' at you, Bill Maher)
A section of MLK'S Letter From Birmingham Jail: First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection." .
January 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Meet Woody.

He's mostly delightful.
A very fluffy Grey male cat named Woody. Also know is Monsieur Fluffy Pants. He looks stoic and regal. But he's still kind of a jerk sometimes.
January 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Pyrite and bismuth.

Crystal formation is weird.
Small sample of pyrite, aka fool's gold. Crystal formation is large square crystals, some with shiny gold appearance. Small sample of bismuth. Crystal formation is small angular bands layered on top of one another at 45° angle. Various colors.
January 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Took this in the late 20teens.

Cool angle on the mountains.
A photo taken from inside my car, facing north to capture the homes and neighborhoods nestled in the foothills, with a backdrop of snowy mountains with low hanging clouds giving a foggy effect.
December 28, 2024 at 2:15 AM