I'll just leave this here, but it shows that if guns are in the home, and someone is tempted to use them in situations where they really aren't needed, things like this might happen.
And this did happen. (This was in Pennsylvania.)
Three dead in a fight over snow: Man, 47, shoots feuding neighbors with handgun and rifle for shoveling snow into his yard - before turning gun on himself
I have a backlog of links to photography contests from last year (all via the Daily Mail, which alerts me to them) -- I may put together a post just with those links, so people interested could use that as a starting point. Now that it's January 2021, the 2020 contests will start reporting their winners, so this year I'll try to keep up.
The first contest I'll feature here is the Travel Photographer of the Year contest.
Daily Mail article:
The Web site: Travel Photographer of the Year - 2020 Winners
I decided to keep with the vertical stripes theme this week, but this time the stripes are red. The lighthouse this week is the Mersey Bluff Lighthouse, on the bluff that extends out of Devenport, Tasmania into the Bass Strait, pointing generally toward Australia. This map link shows the location within the full context of Tasmania. If you zoom in, you'll see that the intent of this lighthouse was to guide mariners around the bluff and to the Mersey River.
I acquired the information below from the Seaside Lights Web site page on this lighthouse.
"Work on the lighthouse started on October 16 1888, and was completed almost 12 months later on May 28 1889. The original Chance Bros. 4th order dioptric lens was first lit on 2nd August 1889, and used kerosene. The first lighthouse keeper was Mr W. Jacques, transferred from Swan Island. A second house was later built for the assistant keeper.
In 1920, it was converted to automatic acetylene gas operation and was de-manned. The keepers' houses were let to local tenants until they were demolished in 1966.
The Lighthouse was converted to hydro electricity with gas standby in 1952, and a 2nd order (700mm) fixed lens was installed. In 1978 it was further converted to all electric operation."
This page also says the stripes were painted on the tower in 1929.
According to the Lighthouse Directory, the tower is 16 meters tall.
Below are the pictures; there are many, as it has easy access.
This final beautiful shot is from Chilby Photography.
Seriously, Lake Shore Drive in Chicago is a Highway 41 highlight, so I spent some time on it. Here, we reach the end of the drive and head inland.
Well, it's an eye-pleasing theme.
Three of these women are also natural mothers (i.e., they've given birth). Can you figure out which ones they are?
Heather Monique
The filibuster should go. Its time has passed. I've become convinced of that.
An op-ed like this helps. (As does the quote from Alexander Hamilton, below the link, which is taken from the column.)
"If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority, respecting the best mode of conducting it, the majority, in order that something may be done, must conform to the views of the minority; and thus the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater, and give a tone to the national proceedings. Hence, tedious delays; continual negotiation and intrigue; contemptible compromises of the public good."
Despite the fact that I peruse the daily offerings from the Instagram account of the astonishing and improbable Demi Rose Mawby, I have endeavored not to feature her TOO often on this lightly read blog. But every now and then, she provides something that can't be ignored.
This is one of those times.
Demi Rose sizzles as she flaunts some serious underboob in a tiny top and silk skirt while posing in Ibiza
