Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Some of the little things we saw on our Mother’s Day “cruise” on Saturday:
Spunky little plants!
We saw these little red “warts” on a bunch of different leaves.
Pretty, too — as ants go.
As I recall, these were all taken at Newport’s Yaquina Bay State Park (or is it Yaquina Head State Park?).
Yesterday I took Ruby out to the Oregon Coast. Usually we just go out to Lincoln City. This time we went to Newport via Corvallis so we could go on the route her family would take when she was a Child Yet At Home.
We stopped in at Toledo to visit her Mom’s very active eighty-year-old cousin Wilma. When we got there, we interrupted her work. She was out on her riding mower, mowing a vast expanse of yard.
After that we went on to Newport. One of our stops there was Yaquina Bay State Park:
But before Toledo and before Newport, we were at Philomath. We were past the turning spot before we saw it, so we turned around and went back to it: Southern Pacific Caboose 1160.
Well, folks, this morning I used Paint Shop Pro and two pictures I took on our jaunt to make a simple little Mother’s Day card for Ruby. Here are the two images I used:
(If you click the images, you should see the more complete pictures from which they came.)
That was a really nice 250-mile, 10-hour trip Ruby and I took together. We definitely enjoyed it very much. We didn’t do anything super special for our meals. In Philomath we bought snack wraps at McDonalds. In Newport we bought a foot-long sub at Subway. And in Salem we bought (at McDonalds) fish sandwiches, fries, two pies, a McFlurry, and a milkshake.
Oh, and in Depoe Bay we bought half a pound of salt water taffy.
I had finished doing my coffee, loosing the dog, powering up my computers, and reading my Bible. Read it all
…but what was I going to post?
Oh, that’s right! The title was going to be, “I Spit on It!” — but I’m not yet ready to post that one.
An earlier title for an earlier post: Self Living? — it was to be a follow-up to an overheard comment, “Everyone at ____ just lives for themselves.” I didn’t get that one done either.
So I’ll just tell you that I’m off to a slow start today. But I did post a Mexico flower picture and thought over at Panting Hart.
And I did have two cups of mild coffee. And there’s a cup of mint tea a-brewin’.
And I added more words to my email’s anti-spam blacklist, among them these: tips, crazy, pleasure.
See there — a riveting post, just like that! 🙄
Now for that tea….
Sixteen people banned from entering the UK are “named and shamed” by the Home Office Ya s’pose Michael Savage is feeling shamed?! 🙄
On May 5, Mexican dominance irks other Latinos Is this about Mexican imperialism? 😯
Michiganians mine bodies for cash to make ends meet The worn-out pro-death line ought to work for these folks also: “It’s my body!”
Emanuel: Thwarting Iran easier with Israeli-Palestinian talks Israel, beware! 🙁
What’s your choice for news line this morning?
OK, so I suppose someone with KISS came up with a new moniker for squawfish: pikeminnow.
But whatever it’s called, as of yesterday Oregon gives you the chance to win a reward of $4 per fish you catch. Learn more about the matter here: 2009 Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery
In other Oregon news, someone here thinks it would be easier to change the date of a Postal Service price hike than to change the date of Oregon’s election. Maybe so.
What else is happening in Oregon? I don’t know.
Bye.
Has it come to this?
That photo is undoctored (except for resizing and sharpening). I took it myself. From where I was sitting in one of the over-the-wing emergency exits.
It seems to give new meaning to flying economy class!
(It’s mighty crowded under there!!)
😯