Week By Week, Virtual Tevis 2024

Awareness of the outside world. Helmet Watch. TV Commercial has helmet. I think western saddle. Brief clip at the beginning with paint horse. You Tube: Twenty Years of Making an Impact | Wounded Warrior Project’s 20th Anniversary.

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Rodney – 6 miles this week, 24 miles total
Milton – 7 miles this week, 24 miles total
Tuesday 23 April to Monday 29 April

Virtual Tevis Cup 2024
100 Miles in 100 Days
10 April to 21 July

All one-mile walks in hand.

Virtual Tevis Posts [Archives]

Onwards!
Katherine

Feed Buckets, Colors, and Once Again Proving That The Brain Is Weird

Awareness of the outside world. Helmet Watch. TV Commercial has helmet & western saddle. RINVOQ: Disrupt :60 TV

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Remember back when I was having trouble telling the difference between the red feed bucket and the green feed bucket? [Feed Buckets and Color Theory]

We got a gray bucket. [On A Day About Food Another Post About Feed]

Gray bucket has gone the way of all things.

We are back to having red & green feed buckets.

Easy peasey. Red is Milton. Green is Rodney.

I remember there being a problem, but not a shred of it remains.

Weird.

Onwards!
Katherine

Fractal Alphabet Q, Graphic Art

Art of the outside world. Museum of the American Revolution: Rare, Newly Discovered Eyewitness Sketch of Continental Army Sheds New Light on Wartime Life, March 26, 2024. Also articles in The Washington Post & The Philadelphia Inquirer, both of which I could read, then were behind paywalls. YMMV. Hat tip to M.

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Color is quicksilver.

[Fractal Alphabet]

Onwards!
Katherine

Fav Flight Bag, Non-Fiction

Awareness of the outside world. The Tiffany Problem. Non-fiction that you can’t use in fiction. Tor: Putting the Historical in Historical Fantasy, Walton 2019. Medium: The Tiffany Problem — When History Makes No Sense, Povey 2020. Limited access but interesting example before the cut-off. A search on the phrase turns up other examples.

Update. Second site not longer has example above the cut as I remember it.

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A small duffel is my new favorite bag for airplane travel.

When I went to Rochester for a family thing, I took too much. My roller bag is legal but it must be the maximum allowable size. It barely fit down the airplane aisle and was awkward to lift, even though it was only filled with clothes.

(When I pack books as well, my bags can get HEAVY. I used to leave the airline’s warning tag on my luggage handle between trips. But I digress.)

When I went up to Boston for another family thing, I decided to err the other way. Sleepwear, I was a guest in someone’s home, so I had to look decent. My formal outfit. A sweater for warm. The relevant turtlenecks and underclothes. That’s it. One pair of jeans and one pair of casual shoes that I wore on plane.

I loved it.

Things you can do when traveling with a gym bag:

Breeze past the long line of people waiting for their gate-checked roller bags.

Run up and down the hallways of the Philadelphia airport to switch from your delayed flight to earlier flight. Also delayed but earlier from my POV.

Toss into overhead, without whacking people in the seats below or causing well-meaning fellow passengers to jump up and assist. Put under the seat in front if needed.

If the bag looks overstuffed in the photo, most of that is down vest. The joys of traveling from the bottom of the country to the top.

Travel light. Dress casual.

Onwards!
Katherine

Road Closed, Photography

Photos of the outside world. The New Yorker: A Photographer’s Old College Classmates, Back Then and Now, by Eren Orbey, photography by Josephine Sittenfeld, 2017. I like that the photos are recreations rather than duplications, “A red Solo cup has become a crumpled bottle of Smartwater.” [ibid].

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21st Street Bridge
Birmingham AL, USA
April 2024

AL.com: Birmingham closing historic Rainbow Bridge due to ‘deteriorated’ state, Koplowitz 2022.

Technical Details

21st Street Bridge, f/13, 1/100 sec., 20.0 mm, ISO 100. Manual mode & auto-focus. Post production: resized, border, & watermark. No cropping.

Border colors. Gray for project, yellow for Nikon. [Photo Safari The First], [Quarry, Photography, Things]

Onwards!
Katherine