THE LAST '15
Fewer of us write checks or letters so there is less need to annotate the date. Artificial intelligence via phones and computers do it for us. But there is always that hump of getting over the correct last digit.
As you slide into acceptance that we've reached the midway point of the second decade of the 21st century, consider our blue marble 100 years ago.
World War I raged. The British ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine. 1,195 died. Woodrow Wilson was President, the New York Yankees wore pinstripes for the first time, the Boston Red Sox won the world series, "Typhoid Mary" was finally arrested, Lassen Peak in California, seen here, exploded in a volcanic eruption with debris still evident,
Ralph DePalma won the Indianapolis 500, fire destroyed most of Santa Catalina Island, the one millionth Ford came off the assembly line in Detroit, a court in Georgia accepted the official formation of the new Ku Klux Klan, City Hall in
San Francisco was dedicated, Cornell was the NCAA Football Champion with a 9-0-0 record, Wimbledon was cancelled due to WWI, Regret won the Kentucky Derby, William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State, a mob lynched a Jewish man in Georgia, unemployment was 8.5%, the Germans first used poison gas as a battle field weapon, DW Griffiths The Birth of a Nation was released and created the foundation of modern film making, Audrey Munson, portraying a model, became the first actress to appear nude on screen, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Romain Rolland of France, the Vancouver Millionaires won the Stanley Cup, 600,000 to 1 Million Armenians were slaughtered by Turkish soldiers and the cost of a first class stamp was 2 cents.
Do you wonder what this new year will be remembered for 100 years from now?
SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE
THE LESS COLORFUL COUSINS
These are growing out of a pine cone-notice the thumb?
Wishing you well being, mindfulness, celebration of the moment, light, happy adventures, and good hours in the blogosphere in 2015.
2014 THROWBACK
See you down the trail.
I had huge fungus pop up in the wash after the rain a few weeks ago, clusters of 30 to 40. When it dried out they disappeared over night. Speaking of fungi, several handfuls of edible fungus are going into the risotto tonight.
ReplyDeleteBon appétit! A nice way to begin a year. And Cheers! as well.
DeleteI was going to ask you if any of your photographed 'shrooms were edible, Tom.
ReplyDeleteSorry, they are not. We thought they might be Chanterelles, until closer examination.
DeleteAmazing photos, Tom. Since all that rain we've had many kinds life sprouting out to see what happened. Your class of '64 looks happy and thrilled, and I bet they all still write checks, as I do --although Nob Hill Groceries has a counter machine that writes the whole thing for me and debits my account before I even sign it. Oh brave new world, with such contraptions in it!
ReplyDeleteI am slow to adapt to payment without writing the checks. I think it may be my Scot's heritage insisting I "check it out" first.
ReplyDeleteI thought some of the fungus reminded me of buildings I saw in the south of France.
You've captured the glory of mushroom ness. Happy New Year. Are those things edible?
ReplyDeleteStephen-thanks. You know what they say about being a mushroom (being kept in the dark and fed bull shit). Those in the post are not edible. Happy New Year.
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