Blizzard Conditions

A Dog's Doge

 

If you're a dog lover, and even if you're not, you may have seen the latest Internet meme.  It's a picture of a surprised-looking Shiba Inu, the national dog of Japan, overlaid with notes in "dog-speak".  That is, with adverb/adjective mismatches, and misspellings optional but encouraged.  The notes must be in Comic Sans typeface and there must be at least one "wow".  (Who says the Internet doesn't have rules?)

Therefore I consider it my duty as a blogger to aid in the spread of this meme.  With an even cuter dog, of course.  One must be original, no?  ;)

Quiet Evening At Home

8 Below Zero

And with 30 mph winds, a windchill of -45.  But that wasn't the coldest in the nation.  With a record windchill of -63, Grand Marais, Minnesota, was the winner (loser?).  I love Grand Marais, the people are nice and the harbor is beautiful.  But I may have to reconsider retiring there . . .

They Call The Wind Maria

But I just call it Brrrrrrr!

Countryside Ornament

Icy Intersections

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Pause, savor, and be grateful, my friends.  Then let's get this weather back on track for summer.  (Woof, I must be gettin' old . . . )  ;)

Grab

 

And a miss.  Juvenile bald eagle feeding on the Mississippi River.

Tracks In The Snow

Starry Starry Farm

 

If Vincent Van Gogh had been a photographer.  (And had Photoshop.)

Shuttered Windows

What's Wrong With This Picture?

 

The Shadow knows . . . 

Have you ever heard a rebroadcast of the radio drama "The Shadow"?  It debuted in 1937 and no, I'm not old enough to have listened to the original, thank you very much.  The "official" radio drama that many Shadow fans know and love featured a 22-year-old Orson Welles as Lamont Cranston, a "wealthy young man about town." It ran every Sunday evening through 1954.

The opening became a national sensation when radio veteran Frank Readick, Jr. raised the hair on the back of listeners' necks with his echoing question,  "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"  He voiced it in such a way that you just knew it was evil with a capital E, and that such a thing exists in the world.

Some things are better left to the imagination.  A strange pronouncement from a photographer, I know.  But your own imagination is more powerful than a thousand cameras.  Try it sometime.

Crispy

Man's Artificial Boundaries