Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts

Thursday, September 24, 2015

CRESCENT MOON AND HAIKU


By propping my elbows on Tom's boat to shoot the moon a few nights ago, I finally was successful in capturing a photo of a crescent moon that actually looks like a crescent and not like a blob of light. Yesterday, I tried to upload the photo without success, until I cracked the Google code. A haiku from the past to celebrate my success:

Thin-sliced moon rises
Moving slenderly upward
Higher and higher

Thursday, September 11, 2014

ASPERATUS CLOUDS?


I took the photo the other evening at dusk. Ever since I saw the first pictures of asperatus clouds, I've watched the sky, hoping to see the formations. The clouds in the picture are not as dramatic as some pictures I've seen, but I believe they may qualify as asperatus.

Asperatus clouds resemble waves in the sea.  The clouds do not produce storms, but they tend to form near thunderstorm clouds. On the left in the photo near the tree is the top of a thunderstorm cloud. 
Undulatus asperatus (or alternately, asperatus) is a cloud formation, proposed in 2009 as a separate cloud classification by the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society.
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The clouds are most closely related to undulatus clouds. Although they appear dark and storm-like, they tend to dissipate without a storm forming.
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As of June 2009 the Royal Meteorological Society is gathering evidence of the type of weather patterns in which undulatus asperatus clouds appear, so as to study how they form and decide whether they are distinct from other undulatus clouds.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

LAST GASPS FOR THE TIMES PICAYUNE?

 

James Gill, who has been lampooning Louisiana politicians for more than a quarter of a century, will join The Advocate this week.

Gill’s column will appear on The Advocate’s opinion pages on Thursday and Sunday, beginning this week.

He had been appearing in The Times-Picayune.

“We’re looking forward to having James appear in our newspaper,” said Peter Kovacs, the Advocate’s editor.

“I was privileged to be James’ editor at The Times-Picayune, and the best part of the job was being the first person in Louisiana to read his column.”

“Louisiana has always been fertile ground for a newspaperman, but these are particularly exciting times,” Gill said. “Few other places have the benefit of competing dailies.”
James, the TP is no longer what most people would call a daily.
Today’s announcement marks the second time in a week that prominent journalists from The Times-Picayune signed on with The Advocate.
 
Last week, two Pulitzer prize-winning editors and two reporters left The Times-Picayune to join The Advocate’s growing New Orleans bureau only days after the newspaper was purchased by businessman John Georges.
A number of subscribers stayed with the TP for Gill's columns, so now what?  The Advocate's New Orleans edition has a way to go to before it becomes a real New Orleans daily, since it lacks its own op-ed page and coverage of arts, entertainment, weddings, and obituaries, but they're moving in the right direction.

The photo below the article about Gill shows a screen shot of the alleged shooter from a mounted video camera at the site of the Mother's Day parade.  As soon as the picture was made public, calls came in identifying the 19 year old Akein Scott, who has not yet been arrested.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

FOUR CARDINALS TAKE A BREAK FROM THE CONCLAVE?

 

I report; you decide.

Don't blame me.  Blame Paul (A.), who had his poor, long-suffering wife do the work.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

MADPRIEST'S BACK!


Of Course I Could Be Wrong... is rockin' and rollin' again. You can pop right over there to welcome MadPriest back. He's open for business.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

"MORGAN CITY, LA, IN LESS STRESSFUL TIMES"


Click on the picture for the larger view.

Poignant photo from the past posted on Facebook by my friend Georgianne Nienaber. Used with Georgianne's permission.

Morgan City is located near the mouth of the Atchafalaya River. Parts of the city are protected by levees. Other parts are not. See map at my post below.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

"AND WHY NOT...?"


From an all-biretta blog titled Domus Birettarum.

About the biretta in the picture, blogger Admin says:
...a Spanish Biretta with a tree in the middle of it. This is for a Spanish Philosophy Degree, apparently, thus explaining the need for a large brush on the top and a cascading fringe effect. And why not, we ask ourselves?

Not only do the bloggers blog about birettas, they create made-to-order birettas.
We hope you enjoy the content of this Blog. It is an endeavour of love and for entertainment rather than a deeply serious endeavour. We are merely enthusiasts and creators of clerical headgear, usually the more outlandish and unusual the better.

We also aim to provide our efforts gratis for those who genuinely cannot afford them, at home or abroad. For those who can afford to pay, we can produce bespoke birettas for the price of materials and a suggested (but optional) amount to keep us going.

How kind of them! I wonder if the bloggers create birettas for les femmes d'un certain âge.