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Post by timothylane on Jul 18, 2020 17:34:01 GMT -8
I especially like the first two photos. I take it you can't identify the flowers in either.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 18, 2020 18:26:51 GMT -8
Thanks. No, I don’t know what kind of flowers they were. But they covered the shoreline for about 50 yards wide and 7 yards deep. It was just a blanket of white, yellow, and some other shades. I probably should have tried to attempt a panorama. There were a lot of solid patches of a mustard-like yellow. But, again, that really wasn’t captured in the photos. There were a lot of people out today. The road (Hwy. 3) from the Kitsap Peninsula, which leads toward the Hood Canal Floating Bridge and then over to the Olympic Peninsula, was packed. It became bumper-to-bumper stopped traffic an entire 6 miles from the bridge. I backtracked and went to Port Gamble by the opposite side and that was a good decision. Port Gamble is a small (very small) tourist destination. But it’s beautiful and the motif is small-town. And they’ve got one big-ass American flag. You can even see it from Google Map.  They’ve got a few yuppie-type shops and that’s all well and good. There’s a yuge grass area for just laying out in, picnicking, or whatever. Actually, it’s got quite a few yuge grass areas, including an old cemetery. There’s a place you can rent kayaks. I’ve never done that, but it looks like fun. But it’s like being in the middle of a Twilight Zone episode. It’s a beautiful, sunny day and you have all these idiots wearing masks. My route today looked like this:  RouteCamThe green circle is where I started and stopped (and parked, obviously). In total, I did about 12 miles which was just right. A few places on the way up (it’s a constant upward climb) I ran into several other bikers. Usually it’s just me and most others are hiking. And it’s disconcerting to see some 40-something (or even 50-something) not only keep pace with me but pass me up. Well, I did what I could at one point. The competitive juices were flowing. I stayed more-or-less behind (and not losing too much distance) some twenty-something humorless yute. He passed me by going up a hill and I good naturally said “How about a tow?” He said nothing. Yutes more and more are getting very anti-social. They don’t even look approachable. Young people are all in their little cocoons. If you want to start a conversation with anyone, they pretty much need to be older than 40. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 19, 2020 20:17:59 GMT -8
Tonight mountain 8.78 mile biking adventure looks like this:  TrailCamGiven that I was pooped from yesterday’s 11.92 mile adventure in Port Gamble, I took it pretty easy. But I couldn’t resist the nice weather and hit the trail at 6:38 I keep confirming my theory of the anti-social nature of today’s yutes. I don’t stop on the trail and back-slap anybody. But I usually give a nod or a “hello.” And if they are between the ages of 19 and 32, you are almost guaranteed that they will ignore you. So I ride by these two young couples on the way up. They didn’t acknowledge my existence. But one of their kids (a 4-year-old boy) who was lingering behind about 15 yards waves at me and says “Hello. How ya doin?” And he initiated this, not me. Maybe humanity won't be beaten out of him by angry feminists, soy-boys, and whatnot. So I’m pretty sure that America is in for a shitstorm. Rotten people on the bottom can in no way fix the rotten people at the top. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 19, 2020 20:23:07 GMT -8
I shot these a couple days ago on Green Mountain in the late, golden light.  GoldenCam GoldenCam |
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Post by timothylane on Jul 19, 2020 20:59:22 GMT -8
Those flowers look white, not golden, to me.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 20, 2020 7:54:16 GMT -8
The flowers are indeed white (or white-ish). But the light of the Golden Hour (as photographers call it, from shortly before sunset or before sunrise) has painted them.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 25, 2020 19:34:58 GMT -8
Here’s an album of photos from today’s 14.5 mile mountain biking venture. Note the panorama of the Hood Canal Bridge. The rose is from my garden, but all the others are from today. I'll post some other thoughts about this later. (Hint: Lots and lots of idiots were wearing masks.) Port Gamble & Salsbury Point Park |
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Post by timothylane on Jul 25, 2020 19:39:21 GMT -8
I especially like the very first one, that very complex flower (naturally I don't know what type). I'm curious what that white vaguely sword-shaped item is in the leftmost photo of the second row.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 25, 2020 20:10:57 GMT -8
I think you're referring to the tangerine rose? It is a nice one.
The white thing is an overturned kayak.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jul 25, 2020 20:11:58 GMT -8
Me too. I first thought it some sort of boat or kayak, but that metal thing on the tip has me wondering.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 26, 2020 7:42:17 GMT -8
It could be a beached spaceship. But that little cove there is where they rent kayaks. It might be fun sometime but I like the freedom of my land kayak (called “a mountain bike”).
In and around Port Gamble, everyone was wearing a mask. This is a more upscale, elderly, and yuppie crowd. But age didn’t matter. I’m not sure I saw anyone without a mask in and around this small town.
But one mile west at Salsbury Point Park, the place was packed. And I saw only three people with a mask. The park was populated by what I would cell the Demos or what you might recognize as The Walmart Crowd. Given that I am now a regular customer, I guess I’m one of them now.
But it felt creepy being amongst so many irrational people. You could easily see that these masks were useless. Many of them were at least momentarily not worn over the nose. And when eating, people had them off. This is now a pure superstition. There’s nothing else left to call it. Unless you’re wearing some industrial-quality mask, they are stopping nothing.
So you have this extremely weird situation where people seem to believe their lives are at grave risk…yet they leave the relative safety of their home equipped only with a porous piece of cloth covering their faces which are not worn tight and often are not worn completely at all. I really did get the felling I was in some kind of sci-fi movie. At any moment I expected them all to turn on me, put their hands out in front of them like in the old Frankenstein movies, and zombie-walk their way toward me chanting, “You shall wear the mask.”
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Post by timothylane on Jul 26, 2020 7:49:35 GMT -8
I don't think Frankenstein's monster ever said anything like that, but I'll admit I've only seen the first 2 movies (with Karloff as the Monster) as well as a 2-part TV version from the 70s. Now, putting a mask on Dracula might be useful, provided it's not something he can easily take off when feeding.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 26, 2020 8:19:16 GMT -8
This is not a terribly exciting panorama. But I shot it so I wanted to complete the stitching together of it: Port Gamble BayYou can see a few clam-diggers down on the beach. (You can zoom in and get quite a bit of detail.) I think the foreground group was a family of Asians from what I was able to catch from their talk. Otherwise, they were too far away to see clearly. I’m overlooking the beach at the top of about a 50 foot cliff. It’s just high enough that you definitely wouldn’t want to fall off it. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 26, 2020 8:28:18 GMT -8
The weather was perfect yesterday, about 72 degrees. Total trip time (not including getting there) was 2:58:04. I guess that’s handy to know. It will certainly be handy for the Dictator Governors to know. Hopefully Apple doesn’t share this information with the Health Nazis.
I felt as physically strong as I’ve been all year, helped in part by losing a teensy amount of weight. But I still think I’m on my fifth or sixth iteration of KFF. I mean, I did read somewhere that this flu can have lasting effects. Although I felt physically strong, I have not felt a core sort of “vitality” and sense of easy-well-being for quite some time. But I did experience that a few weeks ago on an outing, which I had noted. So I know it when it’s not there.
Maybe it’s just age catching up with me. I know my knees, for instance, aren’t getting any younger. But it does feel as if there is something in the background weighing me down a little.
Still, I’m not complaining, just observing. I’m not sure if I have enough left in the tank to go out today which is going to be another beautiful day with temperatures going as high as 82 in the afternoon.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 8, 2020 20:08:21 GMT -8
Here’s a bit of an extreme panorama taken at Foulweather Bluff Preserve. ( More info.) Google Map ViewThis is five shot stitched together looking south and into the very northern edge of Hood Canal. Of course the weather was almost perfect. But I’m sure Foulweather Bluff is named for a reason.  FoulweatherViewYou park on a road which is fairly remote and about as far north as you can get. The hike to and from the beach is about .7 miles roundtrip. I got up there late in the afternoon, about 6:30. It was an interesting trip that seemed to go through time zones although it was only 25 miles. I went from my home, which was overcast and dark, to sunny and warm. Just a touch south is The Hansville Greenway which I knew nothing about. But I’m going to check that out. It’s a fairly yuge area and should be good for the bike. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 8, 2020 20:23:03 GMT -8
That is another very nice photo. You have some beautiful scenery up there.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 9, 2020 9:16:55 GMT -8
And it’s such a labyrinth of waterways, islands, hills, rivers, and mountains that I’ve seen only a small part of it. I’ll tell you one thing: As I’m traveling up Hansville Rd., especially when it becomes Twin Spits Rd., you get a glimpse of some very nice houses and some expensive properties. These may not be Hollywood mansions but some of them are doing pretty good. And, of course, I saw more than a few of these nonsense posters — probably time zones away from where any black person actually lives.  Let me briefly refute that: 1) Black lives (or any lives) matter to law enforcement and to innocent civilians when they commit criminal acts. 2) I assume this applies to a female fetus as well.
3) But humans commit illegal acts, such as crossing borders illegally.
4) Science is regularly completely wrong. 5) Hitler loved his dog. 6) When you're kind to the cruel you are cruel to the kind. The last one reminds me of an article I read in American Thinker this morning that posits that “niceness” is the be-all, end-all for these godless heathens. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 9, 2020 9:31:55 GMT -8
Some wealthy liberals use such signs like a talisman in the hope that by displaying them the black-lives-matter- boogie-man mob will pass by their door and attack someone else. Like a crucifix against Dracula.
Others use such signs like a Dale Carnegie course, with such signs promoting "positive" (read "right") thinking thereby getting their minds attuned to the left-wing rubbish spewed by the media and academia. In this way they reach the mental state of "I'm OK, you're OK" which is very comforting to fakes and phonies who don't actually walk the walk of leftism.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Aug 9, 2020 9:47:02 GMT -8
Surely so. I think that is inherent to virtue-signaling. Virtue-signaling isn’t about real virtue. It’s about assuming a posture in order to insulate yourself from the mob. That mob may be in your HR department or somewhere else. But people know it is out there and ready to pounce.
Now, if one of those multi-acre estates offered temporary housing for the “homeless,” remedial reading classes for black yutes who have been the victim of single-parenthood and public schools, or just shared their beaches on the weekend as recreational facilities for those who don’t have their kind of money, then I would get down on my knees and be truly impressed.
Cardboard signs are easier.
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Post by timothylane on Aug 9, 2020 10:32:36 GMT -8
There are all sorts of ways to virtue-signal. They'll proclaim themselves "hate-free" even as they no doubt hate the conservatives they think (without actually knowing anything about them) are all haters. Many decades ago, the Almanac of American Politics pointed out that Marin County (CA) women in cashmere sweaters would go to their local boutique barefooted to show solidarity with the poor. There was a vogue for a while of ostentatious goodthinkful welldoers (a term that combines 1984 and We) spending a night on a sewer group (probably kicking a homeless person off and making him locate another unused one) for the same reason.
And it's not just people virtue signaling. Cities do it too, and probably states. You may recall that there was a movement years ago of cities declaring themselves "nuclear-free". I'm sure the radiation departments at local hospitals would be surprised by this. (Louisville, one of those cities, has several hospitals.) It had no effect, either on US military policy or possible Soviet nuclear war plans, and even the Demagogues running them probably knew that. But they got to preen themselves on how pure their hearts were -- without actually doing anything.
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