tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15669952839676524502024-03-12T21:13:03.404-05:00Sleeping In the Heartland...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-16583835084970917272013-12-19T21:10:00.000-06:002013-12-19T21:10:17.783-06:00D is for . . .deer . . .deerhound.
Image and definition 'sampled' from:
Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language; copyright 1989.
Back to the animals . . .a 'two-fer' this time...
deer, n., pl, deer, (occasionally) deers. 1. any
of several ruminants of the family Cervidae, most of
the males of which have solid, deciduous horns or
antlers. ...
...and
...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-85959104893295174452013-11-16T18:47:00.000-06:002013-11-17T10:12:24.884-06:00C is for . . .cone..
Image and definition 'sampled' from:
Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language; copyright 1989.
For all you geometry and math fans out there...
cone, n., v. coned, con-ing --n 1. Geom. a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at s ...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-53969331471460729802013-10-28T21:20:00.000-05:002013-10-28T21:20:33.742-05:00B is for . . .bighorn..
Image and definition 'sampled' from:
Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language; copyright 1989.
Tonight's random selection and submission for your (and my) edification...
big-horn, n., pl -horns, (esp. collectively) -horn. a wild sheep, Ovis canadensis, of the Rocky Mountains, with large curving horns. Also called Rockey Mountain bighorn, ...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-29324446538978169042013-10-24T20:15:00.000-05:002013-10-24T20:15:37.315-05:00A is for . . .alpaca..
It is easy to let a blog lay fallow. With all the distractions of real life and other online activities ...sometimes a blog post is the last item on a long list of 'things to do'.
This serves as the inspiration for a simple, silly posting activity to perhaps get me back here more often.
I have always been fascinated by the small line drawings or 'pictures' found in ink and paper dictionaries....tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-30945334950152935072013-09-28T22:46:00.000-05:002013-09-28T22:48:37.185-05:00How to write a love letter...
...
" OK, OK. I confess. This book is not really about 'how to write a love letter'. I am just shamelessly throwing myself at the web search engine spiders.
Perhaps my sticky net caught you also my dear reader. If it did perhaps
you are searching for the perfect words to reveal your heart's anguished
desire to claim that of another. If you are on such a mission ...I envy
you.
I envy ...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-40942795784320888542012-09-11T22:20:00.000-05:002012-09-11T22:21:11.462-05:00Ten plus one ...September 11, 2012...
It seems de rigueur on this date to pause to reflect on events long ago.
A dwindling number of elderly Americans can recall first-hand experiences and memories of Pearl Harbor day ...a somewhat larger number can remember the day JFK was assassinated ...today many Americans can remember 'as if yesterday' where they were when the events of September 11, 2001 were unfolding.
The image of ...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-600591864161570612012-09-11T20:15:00.001-05:002012-09-11T20:16:22.986-05:00Colors of the fruits......
And the sleeping blog in the heartland awakens again...
Had the camera with me ...wifey stopped at the grocery store ...killing some time...
All unedited, 'natural' grocery-store light.
Big fun.
...tom...
...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-56011566873716765542011-11-30T23:20:00.003-06:002011-11-30T23:29:34.167-06:00Founding Myths......Ray Raphael is an unabashed, and unrepentant, child of the Sixties. Describing his college years, he acknowledges his official major was philosophy ...but notes "my real focus was on being an activist."His activist spirit was fueled by two summers of civil rights work in the American South of the early ‘60s. After completing his undergraduate degree he "became a full-time activist working with...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-78079379660136475932011-10-09T17:32:00.006-05:002011-10-09T18:01:05.473-05:00Portraits ... by Steve McCurry...We have all probably seen her picture. First published in June 1985 as the cover photograph for National Geographic magazine, her beautiful—yet haunting—eyes fix on us. Disheveled hair frames her life-weary face. Cloth wraps round her, covering her head and upper body, ragged holes worn through, telling us these eyes have seen too much. No smile, no frown, no emotion visible. Just ...those ......tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-1897643397115275102011-10-06T20:41:00.002-05:002011-10-06T20:45:40.872-05:00Stranglehold......A favorite back in the day . . .wait ...a favorite today..!!...tom......tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-69994416847704853242011-07-31T20:20:00.005-05:002011-07-31T20:34:40.996-05:00captcha idiocy......OK . . .I give up.We are all familiar with the 'captcha' technology (by that brand name and others) required for posting comments at many sites. They serve a purpose I suppose ...but sometimes they are infuriating indeed.What, for example, does this one 'say'..?? I have no idea. (Click on the image to see the larger image.).The second word I can take a guess at . . .but wtf for the first one....tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-43504539333560833322011-07-11T23:01:00.004-05:002011-07-11T23:30:18.350-05:00Flaming hot..!!...Oh ...my ...gawd.I have always been a fan of 'puffy' Cheetos. Or more correctly the Cheetos brand of cheese-flavored cornmeal snack. Keep your 'crunchy' Cheetos ...gimme that bag of 'puffy' Cheetos..!!I also love the Cheetos Flamin' Hot Cheetos. But until recently I had only seen them in the 'crunchy' form.Today my youngest daughter brought these into the house...Woohoo..!!.Look at that golden...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-70181632927295915252011-06-22T22:05:00.010-05:002011-06-22T23:21:18.546-05:00Photos May/June 2011...Yes, sadly, I resort to a 'photo-post' in the act of applying the paddles to my moribund blog. I truly am pathetic..The large silver maple tree in our backyard. It is a pain with all the seeds and leaves . . .but it is good for shade ...and the squirrels love it.Click the image for the larger pic ...it definitely looks better..A stained Adirondack chair that sits on our deck under the silver ...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-81705824328311502052011-04-30T22:59:00.004-05:002011-04-30T23:25:58.992-05:00Random Pics 2011...Random pics taken in fall/winter 2010 and 2011.A white moth resting on a window screen, strongly backlit with outdoor light..A bee gets his pollen on at a flower in our yard..A barbed wire fence at a local farm..A pre-storm evening shortly before sunset..A praying mantis found in our front yard while mowing. Luckily I saw him before I ran over him..!!.I will leave this one for you to 'figger ...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-66695930020230380212011-02-27T13:31:00.004-06:002011-02-27T13:45:12.096-06:00...to Be a Cub... Waveland Avenue. 'the Friendly Confines', ivy on outfield walls, 'Hey, hey..!! ', 'It might be, it could be...', 1969, 1984... Many words, phrases, and years evoke only one place and one team for a baseball fan ...Wrigley Field and the Chicago Cubs.When you add the names ...Brickhouse, Williams, Santo, Sandberg, Caray, Smith, Durham, Sutcliffe, Dawson, Maddux, Wood, Zambrano ...when you add ...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-57508677362747667452011-01-26T20:06:00.008-06:002011-01-26T21:15:41.063-06:00Quarterback Abstract...I am a fan of books that list or compile or compare ...places to visit, best books, words to know, etc.. When you start comparing 'this' to 'that' ...in a heartbeat 'my guy is better than your guy' breaks out and soon David is slinging a stone at Goliath. Fast forward several thousand years, mix in competitive sports ...and the 'Manning vs Brady vs Favre' discussion/argument is on."The ...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-62473301075010924542011-01-12T23:40:00.003-06:002011-01-12T23:52:36.270-06:00Gentle Willow......"Gentle Willow is a book for children who may not survive their illness. This comforting story ... will also help all children with the death of friends, family members, or even pets."Pretty heavy task for a kid's book. But too often the specter of death intrudes into a family and into a child's life.Gentle Willow is a thin, full-size children's storybook written by Joyce C. Mills, a marriage ...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-33779030349923054402011-01-01T01:19:00.001-06:002011-01-01T01:20:48.302-06:00Happy New Year's Day 2011....tom......tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-28232773050286454802010-12-15T23:02:00.006-06:002010-12-17T08:32:49.229-06:00One of Iowa's finest......One of Iowa's finest goes home..." 'He was the best pitcher I ever faced,' Ted Williams once told me. 'He was the hardest thrower I ever faced, and he had the best curveball. I hit him pretty good, but he was great.' "--Tim Kurkjian at sports.espn.goPhoto credit: clevelandseniors.comThis is too soon following the recent loss of Ron Santo. Another legend of the game gone from our lives and from...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-5220907803362479552010-12-15T16:42:00.014-06:002010-12-15T19:08:36.148-06:00China: Portrait of a People...Her people number over 1.3 billion ...one of every five humans lives here. Fifty-six distinct ethnic groups are spread patchwork-like across the thirty-three provinces of the fourth-largest country in the world. From subtropical jungles to seemingly endless deserts, from Mount Everest to the border of frozen Russian Siberia, the people of China are as diverse as its landscapes and ...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-79879779711355937852010-12-07T13:35:00.004-06:002010-12-07T13:47:50.830-06:00Lest we forget......"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. ...With confidence in our armed forces with the unbounded determination of our people we will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-8497133309258314122010-12-03T10:48:00.005-06:002010-12-03T11:33:31.871-06:00A sad day in Wrigleyville......Photo credit: flickr user wfbakker2 via Wikimedia CommonsRest easy Mr. Santo, rest easy my friend....tom......tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-9487358199184764862010-11-21T11:28:00.003-06:002010-11-21T11:59:43.190-06:00Bird ... Power, grace, beauty......It is said that if birds knew what they were doing ...they would fall from the sky like rocks. That they do not is a tribute to the efficiency of intelligent design or evolution ...take your pick.Photo credit: gaetanlee via Wikimedia Commons...Continuing in the vein of 'capturing nature' comes Andrew Zuckerman with his signature white backgrounds, and his skill in capturing the beauty and ...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-65851331566846610712010-11-20T10:43:00.003-06:002010-11-20T10:53:02.395-06:00Sometimes......Sometimes someone on the Intertubes gets it exactly right.Gate Rape November 19, 2010 Urban Word of the Day The TSA airport screening procedure.My sister got gate raped at LAX.Kon Tiki got it right and s/he made it 'short-n-sweet' to match the attention span of the average net-surfer.Ya gotta strike while the iron is hot and match the mood of your readers. The topic may be dead in a week ( I ...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1566995283967652450.post-81671116251717797792010-10-21T12:21:00.004-05:002010-10-21T12:37:40.673-05:00Going to space..!!...Technology today continues to amaze.I mean, when you or I or any group can (with enough planning and preparation) send a video camera into space and return it safely (hopefully..!!) to Earth ...well, what is not possible..?!?Too cool.Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.Make sure you check the perpetrators homepage at Brooklyn Space Program dot org for more information and views ...tom...http://www.blogger.com/profile/06445539913213011334noreply@blogger.com1