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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01928575364294578440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12949162.post-8527483140049893982013-03-08T21:16:00.001-06:002013-03-08T21:16:11.598-06:00Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01928575364294578440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12949162.post-14098778683144928842013-03-08T16:55:00.003-06:002013-03-08T21:17:08.625-06:00Friday frost along the way.Friday morning, leaving for work.<br />
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Just past the school zone I had to pull over.<br />
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The sky was blue to the west (right). A light fog settled on top of corn field<br />
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On the left, the rising sun hit the line of trees covered with hoar frost.<br />
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The last photo is the view if I looked to the right - fog over cornfield.<br />
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And that should explain why the right side has a tint of blue to it.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01928575364294578440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12949162.post-73991524524921510452013-03-01T09:38:00.002-06:002013-03-01T09:39:21.199-06:00Silos.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01928575364294578440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12949162.post-31866552743109403042013-02-19T12:27:00.000-06:002013-02-19T12:27:18.904-06:00Snow in Woodstock.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's been a mild winter (knock on wood). </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01928575364294578440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12949162.post-61332288642846127382012-12-06T14:51:00.000-06:002012-12-06T14:51:20.787-06:00Black and white thoughts.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Once I decided on this photo and started posting it, I had a couple strange thoughts flash through my head:</span></div>
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<em><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">My entry of a</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">That skewed thinking brought to mind <strong><em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Handey" style="color: #0b5eb4; text-decoration: initial;">Jack Handey</a></em></strong>, a humorist best known for </span><a href="http://www.deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com/" style="color: #0b5eb4; text-decoration: initial;"><strong><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Deep Thoughts</span></strong></a><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> seen between 1991 and 1998 on <strong><em>Saturday Night Live</em></strong>. Here are some of his funnier one-liners:</span></span></div>
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<em><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica;">The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.</span></em></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><em>It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><em>Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.</em></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.</span></span></span></span></em></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01928575364294578440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12949162.post-36391230960392465552012-12-06T13:31:00.002-06:002012-12-06T13:31:15.244-06:00Winter words.<br />
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<i>(Close to home, my backyard and my neighbor's trees. December 2011 photo.)</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01928575364294578440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12949162.post-85096271353290257782012-11-16T10:43:00.001-06:002012-11-16T10:43:52.043-06:00Grand Kids.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Enough barns for a while. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took Saturday afternoon, 11-03-12. Day was cool and a bit overcast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Top picture from Sony camera with a bit of HDR processing to get that look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bottom picture from my android cell phone. Not bad!!!
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In the driveway this morning<br />gray clouds, lowering sky<br />a break in the clouds<br />bright light, a shimmering dove<br />hanging there, only momentarily,<br />a thought of the words of this poem<br />starting, a title, a line or too<br />a feeling of a need to remember<br />to capture the thought<br />The break closing,<br />before time for a photograph<br />frozen only in my mind<br />Reappearing, going with me,<br />at the town dump, unloading recycling<br />reminding me of your presence<br />of the grace, the dove descending<br />captured in flight once again<br />brighter now, hanging in sky<br /><br /><br />September 12, 2009<br /><br />Copyright by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01928575364294578440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12949162.post-8638480704688836252012-10-15T14:13:00.000-05:002012-10-15T14:14:42.782-05:00Nothing gold can stay.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01928575364294578440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12949162.post-71710919798013771842012-07-03T12:07:00.001-05:002012-07-05T09:15:11.663-05:00A bowl of blossoms.<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">These blossoms, in bowl, are from hanging basket I got around Mother's Day. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(I always get myself something that time of year.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Late in coming, these strawflowers are really taking off.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>(After the fact, it wasn't too bad a wind storm.)</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just got home and caught these passing overhead just before all turned dark and sprinkles started.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I took these Saturday on the way home from work and errands.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In town they looked like a range of white mountains. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I had to get out in the country a bit to really appreciate.</span><br />
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Eleanor Friedberger (born September 2, 1976 in Oak Park, Illinois) is part of the indie rock duo The Fiery Furnaces with her brother Matthew Friedberger.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">You know i do my best thinking when i'm flying down the bridge.<br />
Humming to myself and kicking up my kicks<br />
..have to... for my life<br />
I hope i won't crush like another summer,<br />
I'm back on the bridge was just a wooden half,<br />
Like he said it was back in 56.<br />
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I thought i'd learnt from my mistakes,<br />
I thought he'd learnt from my mistakes,<br />
I thought you'd give me the right advice,<br />
I thought he let me in for one last time.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01928575364294578440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12949162.post-31249736271068228452011-08-24T13:11:00.001-05:002011-08-24T13:12:08.802-05:00Sun down drive way.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beautiful sunset Monday the 22nd. </span><br />
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