Misc things that sprout in my mind
I want to start out this post with something I said here at RJsCorner about seven years ago: I must admit that I am probably more adventurous than many seniors. I enjoy constant stimulation. I enjoy planning and doing things that I have never done before. To sit around the house day after day is very boring to me. My senior years certainly give me … Continue reading Still Committed To Each Other… But…
The TV show American Pickers is basically about obsessions. Most of the episodes are about a couple of Le Claire Iowa men going to “pick” people’s collections. Many have thousands of square feet of barns, outbuildings, and old houses stuffed with things they have purchased throughout their lives. They dig things out from massive piles and ask if it is for sale? More often than not the answer … Continue reading Collections/Obsessions
Simply stated, I don’t believe in aristocracy. I don’t believe that knowledge or wisdom is necessarily inherited. So, when one generation wants to pass massive wealth or power to the next generation I bristle. The example below is one of the tragic consequences of this practice. While evangelical leader Franklin Graham has been a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, his father Rev. Billy Graham … Continue reading And Then There Is The Son…
I don’t know how many of you have discovered an app called Grammarly. It basically is a tool that resides in the background and watches everything you type. If you misspell a word or don’t have quite the correct punctuation it quickly turns red and if you hover over those reddened words possible corrections are presented to you. Here is how my friends at Wikipedia describe this … Continue reading About Grammarly
I can remember visiting the 1964 World’s Fair in New York on my high school senior trip. It was practically the first time, except for a few short vacation vacations, that I had been out of the State. We took a bus from Indiana to New York and then down to Washington DC. We were the first class in our very small rural high school who … Continue reading Flying Cars
I have been struggling here at RJsCorner trying to figure out the best way to get my photo collection out there. I spend literally hours each week massaging photos to make them their best and I want others to see and hopefully appreciate my efforts. I say, and I do believe, that I take photos and travel as I do for my own benefit but … Continue reading I Love Flickr…
I now have over 3,000 posts here at RJsCorner and in a number of them I made some predictions. Every once in a while I need to revisit those posts, especially those where I got my predictions wrong. This is one of them. In this post below, I predicted that there was no way Trump could win the presidency. But I did leave myself an out … Continue reading Looking Back…
For this Artsy Saturday, I wanted to give you some pictures that I see as the quintessential Cleveland. I am not a sports nut by any stretch of the imagination so their well-known teams just aren’t “Cleveland” to me. The Cleveland Clinic is a crown jewel for the city but I will talk about that in a future post. When I visited the city a … Continue reading Cleveland Treasures
I titled this shot The Frenzy. It was taken at a conservatory in northern Illinois last summer. click on the image to see a larger view. Continue reading The Frenzy
The only way to keep your sanity in today’s political world is to keep away from it. The Oval Office occupant continues to show his vulgar racist side and daily proof that he is a very flawed individual. Congress continues to show us that the two existing governing parties hate each other and will never compromise on anything that makes the other look good. Trying … Continue reading I Am Stubbornly Determined…
For these “InSearchOfAmerica” pics I want to take you to the “Forty Mile Desert” leading into the Great Salt Lake. The forty mile road was as straight as an arrow and there was absolutely nothing living there. It was an eerie place. Continue reading Nothing Lives..
Not everything beautiful is perfect. Somes imperfection in itself is beautiful. Such is the case with this flower I photographed in a Rockford Illinois at the Nicholas Conservatory. Continue reading Beautiful Imperfection
I came across this device during my visit to the Museum of the Appalachia a few months ago. I have seen a lot of historical tools of the past but never anything quite like this. Can anyone speculate what I might have been used for? Continue reading What Is This??
I am pulling off a photo from your 2009 month long trip to the Pacific Ocean. I’m not sure just where this was taken but I suspect it was in Colorado. It is very different from what I am used to. Continue reading Go West, Young Man
I had been in South Bend Indiana a couple of times in the past few years before I realized that it was the home of Studebaker car manufacturing. So, I thought it was worth another trip to that city. It was the last trip I took for the 2017 season. While Studebaker was never considered a mainstream car it was a well made and totally … Continue reading On-The-Road – Studebaker Museum
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