Scenes on Sunday ~ Utah Skies
In the sky’s vast infinity one’s soul is manifest loneliness.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
pictures taken by
The Girl Riding Shotgun
Scenes on Sunday ~ Northern Skies
When light fills a Northern Sky, the immensity is scarcely conceivable.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Ghostly sunlight can also be cold.
Music ~ Flat Earth
I have come to believe that the shape of the Earth cannot be proven. ~ Albert Einstein
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Following on from my post earlier in the week about self-deluded people who believe in a flat Earth, here’s a song about a woman who seems to believe that the Earth isn’t round.
When it comes to believing in very strange theories, it’s almost always a woman.
Please listen responsibly.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
well, there you go
the Earth is round, after all
Eating Bread is Killing You
The truth doesn’t change just because you don’t want to hear it.
Wheat is routinely sprayed with a chemical that will give you cancer.
Glyphosate is legally classified as a carcinogen, and glyphosate is the main active ingredient of a weedkiller called Roundup. A federal jury in California found that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide was a substantial factor in causing Edwin Hardeman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Monsanto, which is owned by the German chemicals company Bayer, is facing more than 9,000 similar lawsuits. We all know that German chemicals companies have a very dark history. In recent times the evil corporation Monsanto / Bayer has bullied scientists, suppressed evidence, and hid the cancer risks arising from Roundup / Glyphosate.
Even the US Environmental Protection Agency is not immune to collusion with Monsanto ~ the EPA lied when they stated that glyphosate is probably not carcinogenic to humans. Monsanto knowingly lies when they say that Glyphosate has excellent environmental features….. and extremely low toxicity to mammals, birds, and fish. Roundup was introduced in 1974, is used in 130 countries, to control weeds and improve the yield of more than 100 crops. Every damn year in the USA, over 300 million pounds, (150,000 tons), of Roundup are sprayed on the crops you eat, especially wheat corn, soya, and canola, (from which we get the shit called canola oil).
People will have Roundup ready soya whether they like it or not. ~ Ann Foster, spokeswoman for Monsanto.
That means that a hell of a lot of the everyday products you eat and drink are contaminated with a deadly, carcinogenic poisonous chemical. Eating bread, cakes, cookies, anything with flour in it, anything with high fructose corn syrup in it, drinking beer with grains in it, using canola oil, are all seriously damaging your health. Eat bread, drink beer, and be ill before you die sooner than you should.
There are more damn good reason that you shouldn’t eat bread; gluten sensitivity, wheat allergy, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and heart disease. Bread is not the staff of life, bread is a killer food.
High fructose corn syrup will also kill you though; heart disease, obesity, cancer, dementia, liver failure, fatty liver, bad teeth….. And, the average American consumes more than 60 pounds of this shit every damn year. High Fructose Corn Syrup, and Cane Sugar are not the same thing, and the body handles them differently ~ cane sugar is safer, but more expensive.
Some pray, and give us our daily bread. And some say that Roundup is completely safe to fish, birds, animals, and humans. All I know is that I won’t eat shit.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
there are a hundred reasons why Marmaduke shouldn’t eat canned crap
wilderness imagination
The clearest way into the Universe is through the wilderness mountains.
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leave the city of your comfort
travel into the wilderness of intuition
walk upon the hot virgin dirt
and let free your deepest imagination
no more pain degradation hurt
and your soul is one with all creation
deep in the lonely barren desert
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
go, boldly go
toward the mountains of the moon
Scenes on Sunday ~ Zion Canyon
Where history deepens one’s appreciation of the canyon’s beauty.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
You could walk out of Zion Canyon
but I wouldn’t like to try it.
Snowy Lake Tahoe
This is a cool picture of Lake Tahoe by Rhapsody.
I have a friend who wants me to take her to Lake Tahoe, not if it’s snowing I won’t. Give me a little sunshine and it will be a great road trip.
Rain in England
Rain, rain go away, come again another day.
Right now, where I live, it’s raining cats and dogs. That’s a bit of a shame because it means I’m going to be stuck in the garret until it eases off a bit. Going out in the rain and cold is one reason lots of us English people seem to have coughs and colds a lot of the time.
It’s going to rain for most of the day here, and in fact it’s raining over most of the UK. Our Met. Office have flood warnings posted for several coastal towns ~ luckily not right here.
A lot of Americans think that it rains all the time here in England. As a matter of fact, in comparison with some places in the world, we don’t get that much rain. On average, where I live we get about a couple of feet of rain in a year. In comparison, supposedly sunny Hawaii has an average of 5 feet of rainfall in a year. Perhaps Hawaii is not ever going to be right at the top of my bucket list.
Some say that it rains every day in England. And that we English must love the rain. All I know is that we do get a little sunshine, usually in the middle of July.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
what a grey day
California Flowers
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
In early June this year I will be flying out to Southern California, and then on to Arizona for a week or so.
One of the things I like best about SoCal is the beautiful flowers ~ the like of which we don’t see here in England.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
perhaps I should get a book on the wild flowers of the USA
Bad Weather
there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather
Snow in New Mexico
As far as I’m concerned the weather here is bad today ~ gale force winds and driving rain, courtesy of an Atlantic storm sweeping in from the south-south-west. Some fool decided that severe storms here should have names, and this one is called Erik ~ pathetic. Hurricanes should have names, minor storms over the British Isles shouldn’t. (Actually it’s Met Éireann, the Irish Meteorological Office which names storms here ~pathetic.)
For all of history, today, and into the foreseeable future mankind’s activities have been /are / will be dependent upon the weather. Agriculture relies on the right kind of weather at the right time, travel can be disrupted due to high winds rain, and snow, and power consumption rises if the weather is too hot or too cold.
Right now 70 million Americans across the Midwest are bracing themselves for dangerous storms bringing high winds, cold, rain, hail, and the possibility of a tornado or two. Now that’s really bad weather. But then America does have extremes of climate.
Weather refers to what’s going on in the atmosphere at a particular place, over a short period of time; temperature, humidity, wind, rain / snow, clouds, visibility….. Climate is the long-term weather pattern over a large area over many, many years ~ long enough to generate meaningful statistical data ~ say a hundred years or more.
Which is why all this brouhaha over catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is just so much crap. If global temperatures show a significant warming over the next 30 years or so, then maybe there may be something to it ~ or more likely it’s still just changes in long-term weather patterns driven by the usual suspects.
Our weather is created by the sun, and sometimes catastrophically modified by rare events such as a very major volcanic eruption, (Krakatoa), or a comet / meteorite hitting the surface of the earth, (whatever killed off the dinosaurs). Occasionally local weather can be catastrophically changed by the actions of man; the Great London Smogs for example, but those events are rare and temporary.
Some say that man is killing the planet. And that we need to stop using cars, aeroplanes, electricity, living in houses, and definitely stop eating meat. All I know is that every now and again Chicken Little runs around screaming that the sky is falling.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
snow on the high plains isn’t so very rare
