Dale offers “patterns in black and white” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I modified the middle photo in GIMP using Colors > Components > Mono Mixer > Monochrome. I selected the default values.
The other two photos seemed already black and white, at least for the most part.
I am thankful to the Lord for everything mentioned below and all of His other blessings.
The photos tell their tales with the help of captions.
One day while minding my own business Ryan told me that with AI super intelligence humanity had finally grown up, but the hoi polloi, myself included, were still living like ignorant nincompoops. I told him he had his AI head screwed on backwards.
Over the years, however, something happened to Ryan. One day he told me like a kid bubbling over that the hoi polloi, myself excluded this time, had it right all along!
Then all I heard him say was Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! as he lifted his eyes. I knew he was still having trouble getting his head screwed on straight, but this time I almost wished someone would snap my head on the way Someone must have done his.
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Denise offers the prompt word “snap” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Near the center of Pineville, North Carolina, is a 0.8 mile hiking trail.
This is the most difficult trail I’ve been on this year, but on a scale of 1-10 it is only a 3. It is not paved. It is only 4 feet wide. It goes up and down through the woods ending at the train tracks.
Nonetheless, the trail is clearly marked and a pleasant walk.
Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.
Dale offers the prompt “moss, ferns and fungus” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
It just so happens I have recently run into some fungus on my walks around the Carolinas.
Here are some photos.
I am thankful to the Lord for everything mentioned below and all of His other blessings.
The photos tell their tales with the help of captions.
Once upon a time in the really good old days the tooth fairy fooled tiny tots into thinking she was the one who left the pennies, and as inflation increased, the nickels, the dimes, the quarters and then even a dollar(!) under their pillows in exchange for their fallen out teeth. This was an easy job since the children’s own parents came up with the coins, made the argument and then let her take all the credit.
However, the day came – as inevitably it would – when children stopped believing (and/or parents stopped telling) tales that a tooth fairy might really want their teeth so she began to do odd jobs on the side. There were many opportunities, but she had to pretend to be someone (or something) other than who (or what) she really was which annoyed her.
But work is work and you have to do what you have to do which now included gigs where she played the last universal common ancestor, the big bang, deep dark matter, the mysterious multiverse or God knows what nonsense next. She had no clue what any of this stuff was, but as long as the children knew, since children normally knew quite well what they were told to know, she was as happy as any tooth fairy could be, so happy, in fact, that she decided she might as well – whether she deserved it or not and most likely she didn’t – live happily ever after.
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Denise offers the prompt word “stop” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
McMullen Creek Greenway in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a long winding trail along the McMullen Creek with access to another trail.
The road is wide, gravelly and flat. There is a wetlands to one side. On the other are older homes.
Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.
