Bodie Reflected

Bodie reflected was quite interesting--contrast of old old and the clear vibrance of reflections. I find the double bill below rather fascinating. And as you can see, I was not the only one. Bodie was overrun with photographers the day we visited. It was nearly impossible to not get someone with a camer in the background of any shot.

 You can see a few of the interesting items that were on sale at the general store when it closed in 1942.

This is a Weekend Reflection in answer to James's year old continuing invitation to post a reflection shot each weekend. You can find James's post at Newtown Daily Photo, along with the links to others. Reflections are so fascinating--sometimes artsy, sometimes difficult to get without being in the picture.

A Bodie SkyWatch

Bodie State Park is a mining ghost town in the high desert east of the Sierra Mountains in California. The gold and silver mine and stamping mills there were active from the mid-1800s till 1942, when the federal government required all non-essential mining operations cease and men with mining expertise to work in war related materials.

The sky was incredibly blue the day we visited Bodie, making for a colorful, though cloudless Friday SkyWatch



Tomorrow some reflections from Bodie for Weekend Reflections.

Working

London Bobbies


Ever watchful

List of items

Having seen an item in the local paper that the city police had arrested several juveniles involved in a string of recent burglaries and had recovered stolen items, I pulled together the list of major identifiable items that were take from our home four weeks ago (including the dead laptop, though heaven knows why I would want to recover that one.) I have serial numbers for some of them, pictures of others.

We are not in the jurisdiction of the local city police, as we live in the county. In fact, as we live on County Line Road, we are more or less in one jurisdicton but butted up agains three others--the nearest city in our county (6 miles), the next county (across the street), and the nearest city in that county (technically the city limits recently extended to about a quarter of a mile down our road, but in reality a couple of miles). It was the latter who had been reported to have made the arrests.

Our sheriff's deputies had not given much hope on recovering anything--make that no hope. But then again, how well these four entities communicate among each other is sometimes questionable. Sometimes good, sometimes non-existent. Did the constabulary of our nearby city have our stuff in the recovery? I doubt we would find out through our sheriff.

The dispatcher took a copy of the list and my information to pass on to the detective who is handling the case.

We'll see.

Another laugh on the burglars

Earlier I said we would notice things that had been taken for the next six months. I was thinking of little things and things we don'e use regularly.

On the way home from church tonight I was thinking about how differently I am using my laptop without having the desktop.

Then I started laughing out loud.

I realized another thing the burglars took.

My dead laptop.

It was sitting on a table in the front room. I hadn't figured out what to do about it--other than replacing it a few months ago when it quit altogether.

ABC Wednesday--L is for

Look!

 A Lambourgini in London!

ABC Wednesday has reached the letter L. Visit here to see all the Ls.

Geometry in a formal garden

I still have some photos of London to share, but I am breaking out of that mold to catch up to what we have been doing since our return from the UK (other than picking up after our burglars.)

 While visiting kids and grandkids in Spokane, we hiked over to Manito park and visited the formal garden there. Pure geometry for Geometry Monday!

 Symmetry in action!

Sunday's Psalm--27th Sunday of Ordinary Time

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come,

let us sing joyfully

 to the LORD;

let us acclaim

the Rock of our

salvation.

Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;




let us joyfully sing psalms to him.










If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come,

 let us bow down

in worship;

let us kneel

before the LORD

who made us.

For he is our God,


and we are the people he shepherds,


the flock he guides.

If today
you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Oh, that today you would hear his voice:

"Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,

as in the day of Massah in the desert,

Where your fathers tempted me;

they tested me though they had seen my works."

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

from Psalm 95

Photos:

on a Scottish trail, trail at Mt. Rainier NP, Narada Falls at Mt.RNP, Dave's sheep, Arches NP

Another Weekend Reflection in London

The differing angles of the glass in this modern building cause the reflection to be disjointed. Turning around, here is the view of Westminster Cathedral.

James has been hosting Weekend Reflections at Newtown Daily Photo for more than a year now and this Weekend Reflecction was taken almost two months ago in London. How time flies.

Tower Bridge SkyWatch

London

It's been nearly two months and I'm still showing you London. I wonder what I would do with a longer trip. 

SkyWatch posts from around the world will be found linked at the SkyWatch site. It is amazing to see the variety, and yet the unity, among skies around the world and how we react to them.

The blue bits of sky among the clouds here look promising, but the second image gives a truer picture of what we could expect that day, and indeed, before the day was over we would duck into a Thai restaurant along Fleet Street for a long  dinner to avoid the cloudburst.