thanks Dave
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Reading how our members appreciate the basics and beauty of fog is greatly appreciated. The next time I'm in the midst of it, I'll try and remember to recall the comments in this thread. For, there is beauty in simple things.
People will often ask me why I like being out in the desert. For me, there is a peace inherent to being in the middle of nothingness. Plants and animals are few there - and I often won't see another person. I don't know why these things please me - they just do.
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
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Originally Posted by UTAH
I understand. I often drive to Flagstaff and then unload and ride my Dirtbike to Cameron and back... Being in the middle of nowhere is cool sometimes.
That's why I love the desert and also backpacking above tree line. Vistas and solitude.
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First, a look at the picture that Dave drew for us:
My first up close and personal crossing of the Golden Gate was not over but under---on a troop ship headed the wrong way. It was 1963 and I was 18, the words of Tony Bennett singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" played in my head. Looking up from below I wondered to myself if I would ever see that sight again---heading east. Tony Bennett stayed in my head for the next year and a half.
Now---off to the desertI learned to value my time in the desert during my Utah years. I spent many weekends roaming in the desert. I loved the solitude I could often find there and as strange as it might sound---the vegetation. I have a whole series of photos of desert vegetation, many taken along the Pony Express trail that Hunter and I both love.
As strange a it might seem, I have great reverence for anything (plant or animal) that survives in the desert. Life is all around, all you need do is look for it
Here are two photos taken along the Pony Express Trail----a lovely and alluring place of grand solitude:
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
"The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"
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No fog today, May 27, 1937
That's me on the tricycle, opening day of Golden Gate Bridge.
I don't know but I may have been the first to ride a tricycle across the Golden Gate Bridge. .
Other photo is a picture of the view from a recent listing of the house I lived in in Berkeley but without the fog. The trees weren't there when I lived there.
Dave
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Very nice----I think you are safe to claim being the first tricycle across---not much chance of anyone mounting a challenge to that
Here is another photo along the Pony Express trail which gives you an idea of the solitude that can be found there
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Outstanding photos, my friends. They capture the essence of our discussion.
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
Summit of Round Top Peak 10,381 feet
me surrounded by miles of nowhere
"The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"
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Ahhh... near Palmdale, North East of LA. I only know that from Mapquest. It's one of the few places in CA I have not been.
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
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A very interesting article in the NYT today about the sea fog---and possibly the future of the sea fog. You might have to clear your cookies to see it:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...cisco-fog.html
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Several months ago the NYT hardened their site to non-subscribers. Clearing cookies and other normal methods to defeat their paywall, like going anonymous, no longer work. I'm not sure what they have done, but I have severed diplomatic relationships with them - their content is not worth the effort it takes to read it. New York Times, take down that paywall!
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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That's to bad, I was not aware that they had done that
Last edited by Dave Grubb; 09-15-2022 at 02:03 PM.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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There are many sources doing the same or similar thing...I don't have the money it takes to be privileged to read their version of what happened today, so I live in blissful ignorance......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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