Team USA

[Hamartia Antidote]

 

[EugeneP]

 

[VCheng]

A view looking west towards Columbine CO, nearly a quarter century after the tragic events of April 20, 1999:



Lest we forget.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

note the dual chimneys

before

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after


Wow..in the before you couldn't see very far...but in the after you certainly can.

 

[VCheng]

Spring has sprung - finally!

 

[VCheng]

Surveying its domain ...

 

[Nilgiri]

Spring has sprung - finally!

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Nice pics!

From one of my favourite poets:

The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You’re one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you’re two months back in the middle of March.

A bluebird comes tenderly up to alight
And fronts the wind to unruffle a plume
His song so pitched as not to excite
A single flower as yet to bloom.
It is snowing a flake: and he half knew
Winter was only playing possum.
Except in color he isn’t blue,
But he wouldn’t advise a thing to blossom.

Whole:

Poem: Two Tramps in Mud Time

Poem: Two Tramps in Mud Time; by Robert Frost

holyjoe.org

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Spring has sprung - finally!

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Missing some yellow. I'll make a note in the morning to grab a couple photos of the museum palo verdes in my yard.

 

[VCheng]

Surveying its domain ...

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And this is the view from Bull Canyon Overlook UT from the vantage point of the raptor:

 

[VCheng]

A panoramic view of the the Colorado River gorge in Utah:

 

[VCheng]

The Hanging Flume:

Hanging Flume - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Suresh Naresh]

USA is what it is because of its people.

Just people? You made no mention of the land's natural beauty.

@VCheng @Hamartia Antidote

 

[VCheng]

Just people? You made no mention of the land's natural beauty.

@VCheng @Hamartia Antidote

Nature is beautiful everywhere. The people, not so much.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

March 2024

Nature is beautiful everywhere. The people, not so much.

I don't think people enhanced the natural beauty of the US much. Well at least we sent most of the strip mining overseas.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Ruth Buzzi dies leaving only Lily Tomlin and Goldie Hawn alive

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/laugh-in-star-ruth-buzzi-scowling-lady-with-handbag-dead-88-2025-05-03/

'Laugh-In' star Ruth Buzzi, scowling lady with the handbag, dead at 88​

March 2024

Remembering Our Favorite Laugh-In Stars

Laugh-In was a rapid-fire sketch comedy show that was "must see TV" long before the phrase had been coined.

www.mentalfloss.com