Thematic Photographic 2 - Whiter

Sometimes putting up walls isn't a bad thing. Not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Thematic Photographic - White

Carmi's theme this week is something I have plenty of, even though Punxsutawney Phil promised an early spring!   I like this theme, for it's mental clarity and fresh beginnings.

White: Encourages us to clear clutter or obstacles.

Did you know there are more shades of white available commercially than any other color?

Snowhenge

This year we've been experiencing a good old fashion Minnesota winter, and many folks have been taking advantage of all the gifts winter can bring us!

Funny thing last night, but a friend posted on Facebook this experiment and I had to try it for myself, and it just so happens, it's filled with a whiter shade of pale whites.

Here's a tried and tested trick for a large amount of hard boiled eggs.  You can bake them in the oven at 325 for 30 minutes.  Perfect for Easter Egg making, tasty and easy to peel!

The Mag - 160

I dwell in Possibility -

A fairer House than Prose-

More numerous of Windows -

Superior, for Doors.

  - Emily Dickinson

 

 

 

 

Faun, Horse, and Bird - 1936

Pablo Picasso

BARBERINI FAUN

Awakes

 

Lost in the Mountain Wilds

 where barren rocks and forest kiss,

From the Temple of Pan he emerges

drenched in beastly babel

and other somber cries.

 

He submerges

beneath birds in hollow cedars.

One's thoughts light, like bulbs with wings 

as troubadours and dancing masters

arrive on gallant steeds.

 

Whilst playing pipes for muse-worthy tales

and songs of toads in boats

 half-man and half-toads

 bearing fertile glens

rebirthing for sometime or another.

 

 

 Thank you Tess Kincaid from Magpie Tales, for birthing word to poem and thought to post, for your Sunday blog, The Mag.

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A Word on Robots.... Just saying

TO CAPTCHA OR NOT CAPTCHA?

THAT IS THE QUESTION

So many are asking.

 

Just a quick note for anyone (pulling their hair out or kicking their feet) about having to prove whether you're a ROBOT or not, like we really need to know?

 Even cute little robots can be annoying right?

 

 

 

SO, THERE IS AN ANSWER!


Although it's just a slight answer- please don't shoot the messenger!
 

BUT!

 Here's a secret I discovered.  Perhaps you have too.  Those numbers (that often are nearly impossible to read) mixed with letters -
 
don't bother with them!

 You can insert the letters only and forget about the numbers! 

The only good robot is the working one Ha! ha! Or, the robot playing in movies, am I right? Or am I right?

 

Well, at least it's kind of an answer, when you have many posts to read!

 

 

Feel free to leave other thoughts or ideas on the subject.  I know I'm interested!

 

 

 

Sepia Saturday - 168 - 16 March 2013

   
"The smaller the dinner table, the better the side conversation: you can gossip about the guests without fearing whether you will be overheard.  It just isn't good table manners to exclude someone from their own ridicule.  That's why the juiciest side conversations occur at a table for one." - Bauvard, The Prince of Plungers.



My Sepia Saturday post is only slightly on our theme topic, beginning with this table, although it's a much longer and narrower version than our theme table featured in this week's Sepia Saturday.  I'm also following groups of men flavored throughout, along with some cameras.

GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER?

 

From the Minnesota Historical Society and the Norwegian American History.

 

 

 I was on a search for tables!

 

 

 

 At first, I had the thought to display tables from all over the world and back to Minnesota again.

Until this photo below dropped into my hands, and forced me to change directions completely.

 

 

 

GUESS WHO'S IN THE DINER?

 

 

Do you spot the gentleman in the corner speaking on the telephone?  This is where my story begins.

Is he a desperate criminal?
Or, perhaps just a reporter calling in his latest scoop?
Possibly, he's a biographer, detective, or federal agent?

Did I hear you say, he's just a nobody making a call?
I don't believe that!

 Popular screen stars and genuine gangsters of the 1950's often wore fedora hats and trench coats in their movies or their "tough guy" roles in real life.  Sometimes, it was hard to distinguish the good guy from the bad guy because they dressed alike and they all carried guns.

 

 

 GUESS WHO'S NOT A PHOTOGRAPHER?

 

 

 

 

 Your guess is as good as mine, but they're not all photographers or reporters.

 

 

   Criminals as a rule, lived most of their lives in secret, always on the run, and usually fully aware that their cover must be protected.  Without a doubt, they would ditch the press unless they had some evil plan otherwise devised.   This crowded lunch counter shows how easily one could become lost in an afternoon crowd if necessary.

 

 

A photo from Pete's Bar in the 1950's.

 

 Of course slipping into a movie theater was always a good dodge, for a safe hideaway and on many occasions it was an easy slip.

 

 

I wonder if hard criminals even bothered to purchase a movie ticket?

 

 

Even today, if one was serious in tracking criminals from years ago, a great source of documents are stacked high on shelves, and stored electronically by now in the J. Edgar Hoover Building's reading room in Washington D. C.  and within that building is a goldmine of history. 

 

Minnesota had their own dealings with the likes of many of those hard-nosed criminals at one time or another.   Some of the FBI files there are for the Barker-Karpis gang which range with about 76,159 pages, while Alvin "Creepy" Karpis consist of (2,360 pages) and Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Frank Nash, and the Kansas City Massacre (15, 786 pages) But, greater yet are the pages for John Dillinger and his gang with (36,786 pages) and all of these pages remain highly valuable to historians yet today. 

I think John Dillinger had history in many cities.

 

 

What about the more famous and elite members of law enforcement?    Who were all those important but often forgotten ones, that worked diligently themselves in arresting those hard known criminals?  So often there isn't more than a name, if that was even mentioned.   As a rule they weren't given as much attention as the bad elements that they brought to justice.

 

 

William Emil Steffen, Detective- Chicago Police Department, served 32 years on the force and also served as a guard for the county jail witness room for 12 years.  He was so well liked, for his duty with the police force that upon his retirement at age 63, he was asked by Captain Daniel Gilbert of the States Attorney's office to remain as part of his personnel.

 

 

Many of them were written about, and included in famous movies, but credits were never properly listed.  But those in the real world know who they are and what they've accomplished.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Many of you remember Marge Gunderson (on the left) from the movie Fargo, she's described as being more of a mid-westernized hard boiled detective then merely the Chief of Police for Brainerd, Minnesota.

Some sources say the basis of the movie is a true story that evolved in Minnesota, while other accounts are that it's a compilation of events in which took place all around the country. 

 

Know this, the two Cohen writers (of the movie Fargo) are also brothers, Joel and Ethan (who went to school with one of my best friends)and they are from St. Louis Park, Minnesota.  Frances McDormand, who played Chief of Police Marge Gunderson is Joel Cohen's wife in real life.

 

So who knows where writers really obtain all their information right?

 

 

 

Guess The Winner at the Turkey Wrangle?

 

 

 

 

 

  Now really, who is the hero here?!

 

Just another example how many photographers get out there and cover stories like this turkey race on November 25, 1955 the day after Thanksgiving while onlookers crowd around a Minneapolis sidewalk to catch a glimpse-

and the credit for the photo goes to?

 

 

 

 

They stand in the rain, sleet and snow just for our safety

 

but we remember them, and some of us may be lucky enough to catch a name.

 

1959 Minneapolis Traffic Officer

 

 

1910 Minneapolis Police and Jail Guards showing off their shotguns.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guess What Happens When Someone Pays Attention

 

 

 

 

From the Minnesota Historical Society her is Gov. Luther Youngdahl, (from 1-8-1947 - 9-27-1951) burning straight jackets in Anoka, Minnesota.

  

 

On Halloween night 1949, Minnesota Gov. Luther Youngdahl stood aside a bonfire outside Anoka State Hospital and, with fanfare, burned 359 straitjackets and hundreds of other restraints he said were sinister relics of a more barbarous time.

"By this action we say that we have liberated ourselves from witchcraft - that in taking off mechanical restraints from the patients, we are taking off intellectual restraints from ourselves," the governor said.

 

 

 

 

 I'll close with a table somewhat in resemblance to our theme photo today.

 

 

 

A picnic with President Harding and industrial notables, at the Firestone Estate 1921, (along the back side of the table Firestone, Edison, Harding and Ford) from the Library of Congress Prints and Photos.

I hope you enjoyed how I set my table for Sepia Saturday today- for your dessert check out other Sepia Saturday posts.

 

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Six Word Saturday - 16 March 2013

"The nice thing about being an empty headed pessimist is that your glass is only half air." - Bauvard

I CAN RESIST ANYTHING BUT TEMPTATION!

- Oscar Wilde

Especially my temptation to share a superb quote -

 

and so begins my friendship with the thoughts of Bauvard.

 

 

EVER READ THE PRINCE OF PLUNGERS?

Ever heard of author Bauvard before?

I'm very fond of quotes, and have a wide range of quotation books besides, my Google usage. This is how I stumbled upon Bauvard.  Not that I appreciate all quotes by Bauvard, but many are quite perfect for my liking.

Cover of "The Prince of Plungers

by Bauvard

 

 

Description of The Prince of Plungers-

A middle class comedy of manners which lives up to working class standards.  A witty farce in the tradition of Wilde and Moliere, full of highly stylized dialogue mixed with the most implausible plot and characterization imaginable.

 

He's also the author to Evergreens Are Prudish.



This has been a Six Word Saturday Post
for Cate, from Show My Face
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Guess What?

Guess what's on the market?

Of course, to even consider whether you'd be interested or not, do you have a spare $2,895,000 (oh shucks with closing costs and all just round it off to a healthy 3 million.)

That's right, with taxes of a little over 48 thousand dollars a year you can own the old "Mary Tyler Moore" house in Minneapolis located on 2104 Kenwood Parkway. 

Although, Mary never actually ever lived there.  But she did visit often.

Pictured here from the old days, when Mary's sitcom was being filmed.

Surely you recall Mary Tyler Moore's show from the 1970's sitcom featuring Mary as, Mary Richards a 30 something never married independent career woman fighting her way into the business world?

You could never forget Lou Grant, her boss and possibly this exchange between them. 

Lou Grant: Mary, I don't want you to take this wrong, but you're a jerk.
Mary Richards: How could I possibly take that wrong?

Mary and Lou Grant (Ed Asner) her boss(holding Ted Baxter, a buffoonish anchorman played by Ted Knight) at their Television station WJM.





Secretly, I think it was watching this show, and rerun after rerun that guided me into the banking business in downtown Minneapolis.  Seriously, at the time didn't most women dream of being just like Mary?  Even if we weren't 30 years old yet?  I know I envied her style.

 

2104 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The house, is currently listed for sale, (not even one offer on the table) I know after confirming over the telephone just now.  But this time since it's last sale in 2007 they aren't bragging about it being the "Mary Tyler Moore House" but true fans will always remember.

 

 

The house is not located on either lake but it does beam ever so magnificently between Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles, in Minneapolis.

 

 

 

 

Mary and her best friend Rhoda, (Valerie Harper) sharing a conversation in the ever changing studio apartment that Mary rented for $130.00 a month in the television sitcom world.

 

 

 

Right now today, this could be your enclosed front porch and entry way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These stairs lead up to the second level of this more than two story house featured for sale today!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course the house that Mary and Rhoda romped around for their sitcom didn't look anything like this.  In fact the show listed their apartment building to be located at 119 North Weatherly which doesn't even exist in Minneapolis, or anywhere near there.  The sitcom was actually filmed on stage in Los Angeles, but the cast did make it out here to 2104 Kenwood Parkway where all the outdoor shots were filmed.

 

 

Lovely place isn't it?

 

 

 

 

For those of you that never viewed the show, Mary Tyler Moore is sitting on the arm chair on the left of this picture and her best friend for life, Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper) is sitting on the couch leaning over and wearing a red dress.

 

 

 

Note the ever changing famous window in Mary's apartment?  It's always fun to follow the many different views outside her window and furniture arrangement the show brought to her apartment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the door is their manipulative, self-centered landlady Phyllis Lindstrom played by Cloris Leachman.

Rhoda to Mary: It's a magnifying mirror!  Mary, why didn't you warn me?  I thought it was a relief map of the moon.  When they sell those magnifying mirrors they should include a printed suicide note.

To magnify or not to magnify that is the question?

 

Of course the house was divided into separate apartments for the show, (here Mary is visiting Rhoda in her own apartment) and today the real house on Kenwood Parkway is a single family residence.

 

 

 

Just look at another famous person we've all come to know and cherish sitting with the Mary Tyler Moore gang years later, with a few décor changes.

 

 

 

Not to mention dear Betty White, she too, made appearances on Mary's show.

 

 

 

 

 

Do you remember what Mary's thoughts were on the news?

 

 

"If it weren't for the rotten things that happen in this world we couldn't put on the news show.  We should be grateful to all the people who do those rotten things.  We should stop them in the streets and say, "Thank you Mr. Mugger, thank you Mr. Thief, thank you Mr. Maniac."

 

 

We know Mary wasn't serious, but it does make you reflect on just what our news is all about doesn't it?  Just don't linger too long in ill reflections though.  Just like this pretty picture below life is good, and it's a darn splendid neighborhood right here waiting for someone to raise their family in a wonderful Minnesota spirit. 

 

 

 

So what do you think?  Isn't this a charmingly, quaint rear patio?  In case you're wondering, if the house features a pool, not yet anyway.

 

 

 

 

So there it is, the current owners of the famously old and never forgotten, Mary Tyler Moore House, have put their 9,500 square foot home featuring 7 bedrooms, 4 full baths and 5 partial baths on sale.

 

 But the memory of that sitcom lives on, and famous celebrities still have to pay their respects to Mary and her friends.  Just like Ellen DeGeneres, generously did in August of 2011, see photo below.

 

 

Live next to the famous Mary Tyler Moore statue (featuring her favorite hat tossing on the opening of her sitcom) right on Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis.  Here Mayor R. T. Rybak officially declared this day as "Ellen DeGeneres Day" in which Ellen graciously accepted and mentioned that today, tomorrow and every other day should be Ellen day!

 

 

So, whether or not you're in the market for a famous house such as this, you have to admit this is television history, and fond memories of a long ago time in the business world, reaching in the limelight of today. 

 

Gone but never forgotten.

 

 

 

The Mag # 159

"I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony."  - Gustave Flaubert

Image by Robin Gosnall of Meal Beach, Burra Isle, Shetland

 

 

 

 

EUPHEMIA

 

Across this water lies

Scalloway

with the sea on three sides.

Somewhere between there and here

Euphemia's body lies

deep below the ravages of time

in a grave unmarked.

 

Waves of forgiveness nevermore

matter not now.

Her heart shipped to shore

long before

all hopes floated beyond her lover's shore

caught along the coast of their unforgiven time.

 

She harbored no ill reason or rhyme.

Gone yet not forgotten, now

her blood line flows evermore

upon the Shetland Islands

forever more.

 

 

 

 

My poem speaks for Euphemia Elphinstone, just one mistress of James V of Scotland (a King of Scots) and she was the mother of his son Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney.  He was given the recreated earldom of Orkney and Shetland and the position of the Sheriff of Orkney.  James V of Scotland had 9 known illegitimate children.



I don't know if anyone else has posted this, but I wanted to let this water speak for itself.

Michael J. Wood's youtube video, Meal Beach, Burra Isles, Shetland.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fzgo49undU

For more Magpie Tales

go here

 

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Robin Gosnall, photographer of our prompt photo, admits to whistling at this very beach just to see the seals pop their heads up from the water to look at him.

Isn't that just the sweetest thing to see?


 

Saturday Centus - Monday Edition

"If the innocent are unjust, I'd rather be counted among the guilty." - Valerie and thoughts of a fairytale wolf!


Saturday Centus for Jenny, at "Off on my tangent blog" with the prompt of CODE RED, in 102 words and any style, and my Centus is in honor of a special lady's birthday- I won't mention her name, but she can if she stops by and wishes to herself! Happy Birthday YOU know who!

My Wish For You

 

 

Friends to share walks with

Owoooooooooo!

Who's that we see stopped in the woods?

You might think it's Little Red Riding Hood's

dog, but it's not.

It's not even Little Red!


Keep walking....

I wish for you - good news calling.....

 

 

 

and a seat on the bus

 

 

Knowing full well how those Little Red Backpack people
hog all the seats
and the beach!





I wish for you, tasty things to eat!

 

  the latest fashions!

My biggest wish for you, is NO code red from the winds

and that your life isn't upside down!

 

 

Like mine!

 

 

For more Saturday Centus post you know you want to see

go here okay

 

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Spring Forward

The times they are a changing, - Bob Dylan

 Benjamin Franklin among the first people to suggest Daylight Saving Time, writing in a 1784 essay that adjusting the clocks in the spring could be a good way to save on candles, according to Discovery.com. However, it wasn't adopted until World War I, when Germany and Austria adopted it to save on fuel in 1916. Other countries followed suit, with the United States adopting it in 1918, according to webexhibits.org. 

Said the penguin to the sleeping polar bear,

"Did you hear me?"