Day 5127: Easily Distracted & The Slow Loris.

"Carnivale": junk papers collage, markers. (7-3/4X13")

  

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    Click: De Barge, I Like It.

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 I love journaling. I even love my journals. I have over 140 that are retired, just sitting there. I guess I should go through them and see what was on my mind back then? I still jot in a journal once in a while, but actually, this daily blog has turned into my journal of the day. I'm pretty sure it doesn't seem like it takes up as much time as it does. Just the thinking and looking for what might be interesting eats up time, but the real glutton is my going down various web rabbit holes that call out to me. I regularly find a topic that surprises me, so I want to check it out before I add it onto the page. While I am in the darn rabbit hole, it's not unusual to be excited by another rabbit hole, and you get the idea? 

I do have an Instagram account that I haven't touched in years. I know that Instagram is better than FB, but I can't allow myself to go there. The last time I did, it gobbled up three hours before I realized I had missed an appointment. I admit it, I can't handle it! I may start an Instagram Anonymous for like minded people, in my spare time? In other words, it won't get done.

This isn't even what I planned to write, so I'll get to it tomorrow.?

   The Slow Loris  

With large round eyes and a fluffy coat of fur, you might describe slow lorises (genus Nycticebus) as adorable—but did you know these primates also have a venomous bite? They’re one of the only mammalian species on Earth to possess this rare trait. A gland under the loris’s arm produces a chemical that turns deadly when mixed with loris saliva. Those bitten have reported anaphylactic shock, extreme pain, and infection among other side effects. 

 

  

 

A 3+ minute video, Egyptian Pyramid, here.

 

 

Just because ...

Monday's Smiles ... 

 

Hoping you see all the good things in your day.

  

 

 

  

Day 5126: Manhole Covers Around the World & Mt. Ranier's Shadow, plus one.

   

"Telephone": junk paper collage & digital, a color study.

                                                                       

  

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 Click: Brothers Strut, (Reggae) Thinking Out Loud

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More Manhole Covers from around the World. 

Bergen, Norway

Kutaisi, Georgia

London UK

Odessa, Ukraine.

Vilnius, Lithuania 

  

Lisbon, Portugal

Shanghai. China.

Potsdam, Germany.

Thisted, Denmark

Madrid, Spain

I have so many more I can share, let me know if you want to see more. I wish, but these are not my photos.

 

During an early morning sunrise in Tacoma, Washington, Mount Rainier can create an extraordinary natural spectacle—a massive shadow stretching across the sky.

When the rising sun is positioned behind the mountain, Mount Rainier can block the first rays of sunlight and project its enormous silhouette onto a layer of clouds above the horizon.

The result can look almost surreal, with the dark triangular shadow of the mountain rising into a sky filled with brilliant orange, pink, and golden morning light.

This unusual phenomenon is most likely to occur during late autumn and winter, when the Sun rises farther south and can align closely behind Mount Rainier. The right combination of clear visibility around the mountain and clouds at the correct altitude is also needed for the shadow to become visible.

From Tacoma and other locations across Washington's South Sound, photographers have captured this remarkable sight at sunrise.

It may briefly look like smoke or volcanic ash spreading from the summit, but it is simply the enormous shadow of Mount Rainier projected onto the clouds.

A mountain, a sunrise, and the perfect atmospheric conditions can combine to create one of Washington's most spectacular natural sights.

  

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A 2+ minute video, Freelance, here.

 

 

Just because ...

Satin Bowerbirds

Sunday's Smiles ...

   

Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.