Lunch Dog

The Jumbo Mean Wiener, from The Mean Wiener,
Arlington Heights, Illinois. (Photo via iPhone4)

Yes, I cheated. This is the exact same photo I used in today's post at far·ra·go.

So sue me.



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Gone Goose

The Momma goose is gone. I noticed this morning at 3:30am that there was no alert head and neck keeping tabs on me as I loaded my things into the taxi. I walked over to make sure she wasn't still there, but dead or dying. She was nowhere in sight.




The storm yesterday dropped quite a lot of water, and there was much lightning and thunder, but nothing violent beyond the torrents of rain. Maybe she had finally had enough sitting through the extremes of weather, or the rain yesterday flushed her out to find a sheltering tree somewhere.




The eggs — of which there appear to be only two — are broken and empty, so I wonder if a dog or some other predator came along and scared her off the nest, to abandon the eggs to hungry jaws. I know I'm a big sap, but I hope she's okay. And there's absolutely no way I'll ever know.



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Stormy Stormy Night...Day? ...Night?

Today's storm. The above photo was taken during the second wave of thunderstorms, when it got really dark outside...at 11:45am. The photo is slightly underexposed to accentuate the fact that the streetlamps in the parking lot came on. It was that dark.

Here is video of the same storm! If your computer has nice speakers in it or on it, I highly recommend you turn them up!




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Not Carb Logging; CAR BLOGGING!

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A Dude'll Do

Click photo to enlarge.

I'll just let you supply the dirty joke here....



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Smile!

This is another one of those off-the-cuff, contractual obligation shots that I made when I realized I hadn't shot anything all day. It was dark out, so I saw something that would definitely reflect the flash, and that was a rock. I never even saw the hint of a face while walking past. But there it is, a sort of smiley froggy face!

RIBBIT!



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On This Date 32 Years Ago

link ---> American Airlines Flight 191 - May 25, 1979




The spot at which this photo was taken is where the red out-
line comes to a point at the bottom in the map graphic below.
The creator of the graphic offered a correction, stating that,
according to the NTSB, the actual crash site is in the field to
the left, or west, of the marked area.





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