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Sunday, August 12. 2007

Mist

Today on the Farm, 5:30 AM. For the full effect, add the sound of an early-rising croaking raven to the photo.

 

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 19:57 | Comments (18) | Trackbacks (0)

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Very lovely and a soft way to end the day. God bless you.
#1 John Hetman on 2007-08-12 20:04 (Reply)
Hoo! What the heck were you doing up at 5:30 AM anyway? Besides, if you just slept in a couple of hours that nasty old fog would burn off and you could get a nice picture.
#2 Jephnol (Link) on 2007-08-12 22:01 (Reply)
Actually, that is a nice picture. I love the mist.
#3 Donald Douglas (Link) on 2007-08-12 22:19 (Reply)
Fog always ruins a picture. I can hardly see the UFO I photographed in this photo because of the fog:

http://tinyurl.com/yq8sfo
#4 Jephnol (Link) on 2007-08-12 22:41 (Reply)
Jephnol, i looked for the UFO --couldn't find it--it must be an IUFO (invisible unidentified flying object). But, tracking thru your blogs, really enjoyed the very interesting pics, graphics, and stories--good stuff! Turtle story esp, illo & all.

And you can always photoshop an inverted pie plate across that gray sky, wot the hell anyway --we KNOW they're OUT there!
:-D
#4.1 buddy larsen on 2007-08-13 10:43 (Reply)
Concur with Buddy. Nicely done Jephnol.
#4.1.1 Luther McLeod on 2007-08-13 11:04 (Reply)
Thanks guys!

Buddy, I know that UFO was out there. I am going to shop it in there just like you said so it will truly be fake but accurate. I mean I just feel the truthiness of it… In my reality, we are not alone.
#4.2 Jephnol (Link) on 2007-08-13 12:27 (Reply)
That's it. I'm moving in. Prepare the yurt
#5 vanderleun (Link) on 2007-08-12 22:46 (Reply)
yurts are great
#5.1 Habu on 2007-08-12 22:56 (Reply)
Love yurts.
#6 Jephnol (Link) on 2007-08-12 23:04 (Reply)
One of Ro Yorbison's greatest songs, "Love Yurts".
#7 buddy larsen on 2007-08-12 23:58 (Reply)
That's gotta be an all-time song title for succinctness: "Love Hurts". Not 'sometimes love hurts' or 'lost love hurts' or 'love once hurt', but, LOVE HURTS!

Oh, Roy O.
#8 buddy larsen on 2007-08-13 00:32 (Reply)
Naw man ...everybody knows ...Love Squirts!
#8.1 Anonymous on 2007-08-13 01:42 (Reply)
Love (hair) shirts.
#8.2 Jephnol (Link) on 2007-08-13 10:14 (Reply)
Everything that is, exists.
Nothing can simultaneously be and not be.
Each and every thing either is or is not.
Of everything that is, it can be found why it is.
#9 Anonymous on 2007-08-13 01:46 (Reply)
I don't know what everyone else is talking about. Frederick Law Olmstead would give that an "A"

Soft road curving out of sight, edge of treeline hanging into the open view, artificial meadow with specimen tree in it; man, it's all good.
#10 roger de hauteville on 2007-08-13 11:21 (Reply)
Agree. I read somewhere that the early photogs would get that soft effect by putting vaseline on their lenses. I tried it, and ended up spending five hundred bucks at the opthamologist's.
#10.1 buddy larsen on 2007-08-13 11:37 (Reply)
My comments #2 and #4 were tongue-in-cheek critiques. Sorry for the confusion. Last night I ran afoul of a single, liberal she-bear and her man-cub. The ensuing conflict was epic in its scope and subsequently I returned home sober, kicking dirt, and spitting mad. Call my efforts at a ribbing ill advised, but the intent was friendly and personally cathartic.

Mea culpa.

It's a lovely photo.
#10.2 Jephnol (Link) on 2007-08-13 12:17 (Reply)

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