Charlie and I join our resident amateur ornithologist for a morning walk along Mill Creek.

Springing out of “windshield photography” conducted during the return trip on Highway 12 from our Wildlife Refuge outing, this windshield grab of an oncoming Alfa Romeo Giulia, a rare bird in its own right, becomes my “Homage to Vincent Van Gogh”.

 

We recently concluded the National Geographic/Netflix/Amazon series, “One Strange Rock“, dealing with astronauts’ reflections on the earth they saw.  Here is a related but independent time-lapse compilation of actual footage shot from the International Space Station:

The World Below: Time-Lapse | Earth 2 from Bruce W. Berry Jr on Vimeo.

And … while, we’re at it, we might as well start asking “What Happened Before the Big Bang?”

 

 

With my VW-collector friend jamesa in mind, I took a two-minute break (10:11 – 10:13am) this morning while on a flying trip to Walmart (aka Malwart) to quickly document this mildly modded inverted tear-drop Beetle.

Oh, rats.  Meant this for my car blog.  Too late now.  Oh, well … guess it will just have to aggravate my already delicate situation with my hosting provider around alleged over-utilization of server resources for WhileBusy (perhaps destined to disappear in the near future)…

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Many of us have dogs in our lives.  Here, the New York Times takes a look back in its photo archives to see how dogs figured in the public view before social media.  Included is one image (left) captured by my old friend, Lee Romero, when he worked at NYT.  (And I also have a once-in-a-while collection of “Dogs and Their People” at HHR.)

I continue to be astonished by how much false or misleading information comes to my attention almost each day, some of it sent along by well-meaning but misinformed acquaintances.  Fact-checking can be tedious and challenging, but it is a skill that is necessary if one is to be a well-informed, thinking citizen.   In my former profession as a Government investigator in the 60s and 70s, we often had to spend thousands, even millions, of dollars and months of time to get to the bottom of issues that we were expected to pass judgment on.  Few individuals have those kinds of resources to use in their daily lives.  But there are actions and approaches that you can take to help get a handle on truth and facts, as summarized by this Quartz article published today, along with this YouTube video: