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Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens, NC
Greetings, I spent a wonderful Sunday afternoon at the Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens in Belmont, NC, just outside Charlotte, NC. They have an event Something's A-Flutter where 800 butterflies are being released in The Orchid Conservatory. If you are in the area before November 2 it is a fun place to visit and great photo opportunities. I used an Olympus E-510 with a 70 - 300 mm zoom lens on a monopod to shoot these photos. I do NOT use macro settings!
Monarch Butterflies at Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens. Olympus E-510 at 78mm, 1/250, f/5.6, ISO 100.
Monarch Butterflies at Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens. Olympus E-510 at 78mm, 1/250, f/5.6, ISO 100.
Happy Fall
The fall colors in this part of the North country are quite spectacular. They won't last long though as it's windy and is supposed to start raining tonight. But the colors put me in mind of pumpkins and so I did my October BOM with Halloween in mind and posted a pict in the October BOM album. One of the presents we got at quilt camp was a package of charm squares, mine were a child print and so I decided to do up a top for the local crisis center. One of the other quiters gave me her package of charms - so it turned out to be a bright, happy quilt top (see the Woodsykids60 album). I love this time of year. Absolutely.
LOOK WHO'S HAUNTING THE HOUSE!
This was posted on a message community board with the following story. The Picture was taken of a home in Ravenna, Ohio. It was taken by the owners 14 year old son in May of 2008. It displays what appears to be a young girl in human form looking out the window. She seems to be wearing a blue outfit of some type. The owner and her son were the only ones home at the time and there are no younger children in the family. They have no idea why a young girl would show up in the window of the house. It's reported that the house also has a history of supernatural activity but never to the point of seeing an apparition, at least until this point. The house was built in the early 1930s.
Submitted by: Tipper
Original Photo
Close-up
Staff comments:
Apparently Tipper is not the actual owner of this photo, so I would ask if anyone out there knows the actual individual that took this photo, I would hope to hear from you. I would really like to know more information about this home and about the haunting.
Submitted by: Tipper
Original Photo
Close-up
Staff comments:
Apparently Tipper is not the actual owner of this photo, so I would ask if anyone out there knows the actual individual that took this photo, I would hope to hear from you. I would really like to know more information about this home and about the haunting.
Girlfriend of the Week!!
Sorry all, it completely slipped my mind. Life crept in and slapped me! My mom had to be rushed to the hospital, heart failure, but the warrior woman is holdijg her own. Keep us in your prayers. I'll do GOTW next week. OR someone can volunteer to take it over. Just PM me.
A CONTEST
Name (and show if you can) the very-very first Biblical Painting in the world. I will post my entry when I get back from golf later this afternoon; Four!
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Do Facts Matter
I know this wont change anyone's mind; however, when you pull that handle you'll know for whom you're voting.
For you that are happier with the lighter side....just scroll on by. As JG said, I'll never know. I pulled this from another group and thought it worth sharing.
October 4, 2008 12:00 AM
Do Facts Matter?
Recriminations.
By Thomas Sowell
Abraham Lincoln said, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”
Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on Election Day, just a few weeks from now.
Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are being fooled a whole lot of the time.
The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain — which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing on this crisis.
It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama’s rhetoric and the media’s spin enough to make facts irrelevant?
Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Sen. Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years — including the present year — denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big risks that could lead to a financial crisis.
It was Sen. Dodd, Congressman Frank, and other liberal Democrats who for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set up an agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today’s financial crisis.
Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the president. So did Bush’s secretary of the Treasury, five years ago.
Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration “right-wing ideology” of “de-regulation” that set the stage for the financial crisis. Do facts matter?
We also hear that it is the free market that is to blame. But the facts show that it was the government that pressured financial institutions in general to lend to subprime borrowers, with such things as the Community Reinvestment Act and, later, threats of legal action by then Attorney General Janet Reno if the feds did not like the statistics on who was getting loans and who wasn’t.
Is that the free market? Or do facts not matter?
Then there is the question of being against the “greed” of CEOs and for “the people.” Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.
Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines? Liberal Democrats, including Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus, at least one of whom referred to the “lynching” of Raines, as if it was racist to hold him to the same standard as white CEOs.
Even after he was deposed as head of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines was consulted this year by the Obama campaign for his advice on housing!
The Washington Post criticized the McCain campaign for calling Raines an adviser to Obama, even though that fact was reported in the Washington Post itself on July 16th. The technicality and the spin here is that Raines is not officially listed as an adviser. But someone who advises is an adviser, whether or not his name appears on a letterhead.
The tie between Barack Obama and Franklin Raines is not all one-way. Obama has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae’s financial contributions, right after Sen. Christopher Dodd.
But ties between Obama and Raines? Not if you read the mainstream media.
Facts don’t matter much politically if they are not reported.
The media alone are not alone in keeping the facts from the public. Republicans, for reasons unknown, don’t seem to know what it is to counterattack. They deserve to lose.
But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed their hatred of America.
Another thing that wasn't included in this piece is that Barnie Frank's partner, Moses, worked for Fannie while Frank was on the Finance Committee. He said he didn't see a conflict of interest.
For you that are happier with the lighter side....just scroll on by. As JG said, I'll never know. I pulled this from another group and thought it worth sharing.
October 4, 2008 12:00 AM
Do Facts Matter?
Recriminations.
By Thomas Sowell
Abraham Lincoln said, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”
Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on Election Day, just a few weeks from now.
Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are being fooled a whole lot of the time.
The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain — which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing on this crisis.
It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama’s rhetoric and the media’s spin enough to make facts irrelevant?
Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Sen. Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years — including the present year — denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big risks that could lead to a financial crisis.
It was Sen. Dodd, Congressman Frank, and other liberal Democrats who for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set up an agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today’s financial crisis.
Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the president. So did Bush’s secretary of the Treasury, five years ago.
Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration “right-wing ideology” of “de-regulation” that set the stage for the financial crisis. Do facts matter?
We also hear that it is the free market that is to blame. But the facts show that it was the government that pressured financial institutions in general to lend to subprime borrowers, with such things as the Community Reinvestment Act and, later, threats of legal action by then Attorney General Janet Reno if the feds did not like the statistics on who was getting loans and who wasn’t.
Is that the free market? Or do facts not matter?
Then there is the question of being against the “greed” of CEOs and for “the people.” Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.
Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines? Liberal Democrats, including Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus, at least one of whom referred to the “lynching” of Raines, as if it was racist to hold him to the same standard as white CEOs.
Even after he was deposed as head of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines was consulted this year by the Obama campaign for his advice on housing!
The Washington Post criticized the McCain campaign for calling Raines an adviser to Obama, even though that fact was reported in the Washington Post itself on July 16th. The technicality and the spin here is that Raines is not officially listed as an adviser. But someone who advises is an adviser, whether or not his name appears on a letterhead.
The tie between Barack Obama and Franklin Raines is not all one-way. Obama has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae’s financial contributions, right after Sen. Christopher Dodd.
But ties between Obama and Raines? Not if you read the mainstream media.
Facts don’t matter much politically if they are not reported.
The media alone are not alone in keeping the facts from the public. Republicans, for reasons unknown, don’t seem to know what it is to counterattack. They deserve to lose.
But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed their hatred of America.
Another thing that wasn't included in this piece is that Barnie Frank's partner, Moses, worked for Fannie while Frank was on the Finance Committee. He said he didn't see a conflict of interest.
Where is everybody??
I stopped by, the door was open, but, there isn't anyone around. This is how groups die people. When there are no new posts and even the moderator isn't pumping life into the site then people tend to no bother coming by to visit! It would be ashame to just drop it, but that's where this is headed. Where are we headed? Since I hate politics and all the lies of the politians I want nothing to do with discussing them. I picked out who I would vote for the first thing and have never listened to them all lie, since. I have voted every single election since I came of age, and will do so until the end. Can't we just leave it lay in a gutter somewhere and find something interesting to post, well interesting to the majority, and maybe some lightness as well. A little family humor, kids do say the DAMNEST things you know! If we don't go something soon we won't have a no glitter spot to post in!
