Video – Holiday Season Messages – Poignant, Witty, Funny

I found this video to be entertaining and engaging which is quite something for an advertisement. I am sure that some may deem it a bit hokey, but if viewed in light of the season, I think you will find it cute, humorous or poignant depending upon your mood at the time or your general disposition.

I watched it and thought of a couple of subtexts:

  • “Can’t we all just get along?!” – Rodney King
  • “Some of the best things in life are simple.”
  • “You never know what effect you will have on someone or something.”
  • “Live and learn.”

And I am sure this list goes on. If you can think of a witty, poignant or thought-provoking subtext, why not add it in the comment section?

 

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Year of Yosemite (YOY) – Day 144 (Hetch Hetchy Perspective Change)

Hetch Hetchy House Closser

A closer view of the house-like building on the cliff at Hetch Hetchy

Yesterday’s post showed a picture of a building we spotted on the way back from the Wapama Falls hike. We hadn’t noticed the building on the way in, but as I noted in the previous post, the views are often quite different when hiking in the opposite direction, i.e. returning along the same path.

To add to this, I changed the perspective a bit by zooming in with my bridge camera. After all, if you have a large zoom, why not use it? Here the house is more of the main subject and not just an object of interest. You can decide which picture better portrays the scene, but I think they both have merit for different reasons.

I guess the point I am trying to convey is…try more than one perspective if you have that ability. I didn’t have a true wide angle lens, but that might have given a different impression/view as well. In the era of digital photography, the cost of “trying” something different is really minimal so give it a try!

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20161130

“Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.” — Bette Davis

“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.” — Stanislaw Lec

“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” — Agnes de Mille

“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” — Doug Larson

 

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Year of Yosemite (YOY) – Day 143 (Hetch Hetchy Surprise)

House at Hetch Hetchy

A House-like Building at Hetch Hetchy

I was taught that when taking photographs, always look all around. Occasionally there is a great scene waiting to be captured, but it is behind the photographer.

That can also be somewhat true of hiking. When returning along the same trail, if it is not a loop, the scenes usually look different. It may be the lighting or the way the branches of a particular tree align with the background, but there is something along the twice trodden path that makes it different when viewed in the opposite direction.

We were leaving Hetch Hetchy as the sky was threatening and on the way out, across the lake, I noticed the scene above. There was something there I hadn’t noticed prior to the return trip. A house was beautifully positioned at the edge of the cliff; a lakefront view. It is nestled so nicely among the ledge and the trees that it blends well with the surroundings. (right-hand side about 1/5 of the way left of the margin)

I wouldn’t mind spending some time in there, but then again, who would?

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20161129

“Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.” — Yiddish Proverb

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” — Stephen R. Covey

“Stop talking the moment when you find that you are not being heard.” — Vikrant Parsai

“Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions and great wizards of emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.” — Dave James

 

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Funny Bears Video – Natural Humor

Bears often find trees to use as scratching posts. Those who study bears will often place wire on trees they understand are popular with the bears to harvest the hair and analyze DNA for tracking information, etc. We don’t often get to see the bears enjoying themselves so much, but I think you will also enjoy this humorous video that is accompanied by a very fitting musical score.

From the YouTube Video Listing:

Published on Nov 11, 2016

Sometimes bears have an itch they just have to scratch! Episode two details below. The second episode of Planet Earth II focuses on mountains.

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· Nordics (BBC Earth channel), 13th Nov, Sunday, 8pm

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Year of Yosemite (YOY) – Day 142 (Wildflower – Clarkia)

Wildflower Clarkia

One of the many wildflowers at Yosemite during the spring


The Clarkia is particularly attractive with its multi-color petals. This variety is very showy because of the dark purple claret cup shape on each of the pink petals and the white bottom border. It is truly a beauty. The Owl’s Clover can be seen at the center left completing the pink theme. The photo was taken along the Wapama Falls Trail, Hetch Hetchy.

NOTE – Similar pictures have been labeled as Clarkia williamsonii, but I could not definitively identify this specific variety as such. Any clarification would be appreciated and this post would then be modified if appropriate.

You can read more about the Clarkia family of wildflowers at the link below:


Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

California Native Plant Society

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20161128

“Guests bring good luck with them.” — Turkish Proverb

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” — Marie Curie

“…Memory is a glorious grab bag of the past from which one can at leisure pluck bittersweet experiences of times gone by and relive them.” — Hal Boyle

“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” — Kevin James

 

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