Vietnam celebrates their first gay pride! It is so cute to see the gays with only rainbows and balloons and no hot pants and assless chaps!
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Photos of Ashland Oregon’s Lithia park
From my family reunion. Beautiful work McClaren sure does. This park though much smaller still has the quaint wonderland feel that his claim to fame Golden Gate Park has. Really lovely! Could get lost here for days!
Eye of a Needle
Ok… This is crazy! The artist must be a very little person with very little hands to be able to make these awesome sculptures in the eye of a needle!! This takes a very particular mind and pair of eyes and hands to be able to create the below. It is not me that is for sure! I say Bravo!
Here are some photos that will help restore your faith in humanity. We need it right now!
I came across this posting on twitter. It made me feel better, i hope it does you too!
1. This picture of Chicago Christians who showed up at a gay pride parade to apologize for homophobia in the Church.
… and the reaction from the parade.
2. This story about Japanese senior citizens who volunteered to tackle the nuclear crisis at Fukushima power station so that young people wouldn’t have to subject themselves to radiation.
3. This picture of two Norwegian guys rescuing a sheep from the ocean.
4. This sign at an awesome bookshop.
5. This poll about what Snooki should name her child.
6. The moment in which this Ohio athlete stopped to help an injured competitor across the finish line during a track meet.
17-year-old Meghan Vogel was in last place in the 3,200-meter run when she caught up to competitor Arden McMath, whose body was giving out. Instead of running past her to avoid the last-place finish, Vogel put McMath’s arm around her shoulders, carried her 30 meters, and then pushed her over the finish line before crossing it.
7. This exchange between a 3-year-old girl and a shopping center.
8. This note that was handed to a waiter along with a $20 bill by an elderly lady in his restaurant.
9. This sign at an awesome Subway restaurant.
10. This picture of a villager carrying stranded kittens to dry land during floods in Cuttack City, India.
11. This sign at an awesome drycleaner’s.
Elite Cleaners in Minneapolis helped over 2,000 unemployed workers that couldn’t afford dry cleaning. Owner Don Chapman estimated that it cost his company $32,000 dollars.
12. This photograph of a man giving his shoes to a homeless girl in Rio de Janeiro.
13. This picture of a firefighter administering Oxygen to a cat rescued from a house fire.
14. And this one.
15. This interaction between a Guatemalan girl and a tourist she just met.
16. This gesture from a neighbor.
17. These photos of two children collaborating to rescue a dog who had fallen into a ravine.
18. This note on a young family’s check.
19. This exchange between a protester and a soldier during a protest in Brazil.
20. These pictures of a man jumping into rough waters to rescue a stranger’s Shih Tzu in Melbourne.
Sue Drummond was walking her beloved Shih Tzu, Bibi, on a pier in Melbourne, when a fierce gust of wind picked him up and hurled him into the rough waters of the bay. A passerby, Raden Soemawinata, who happened to be on the pier that day to scatter his grandmother’s ashes, wasted no time in stripping down and diving into the bay to rescue the animal.
21. And this photograph of two best friends on a swing.
Oh my gosh! I want this so bad!! (and i also want to 25 as well to while i am at it, if i am going to flashback in 2012).
With Kodak going bankrupt (or out of business or something like that. I know they dont make kodachrome film anymore.) I have been thinking about how sad it is to not have a little envelope / folder thing with a whole roll of film and the strips of negatives. My box of photos is in the second on the list of what to grab if there is a fire (sorry but the kitty has to be first!). I love how if you are lucky, there is a date stamped on the back. I also think about how fun it was when i had my Poloroid camera that shot the long rectangle photos that i took on my second trip to Hawaii. I loved the smell of those photos. I loved the waiting anticipation of everyone gathering around to see what the picture was going to develop into. And i loved that there was a big place to write whatever on the edge of the photo. I loved those dang Poloroids. Needless to say i have been mourning the loss of that slowly dying industry for a little while now.
So, imagine how excited i got when i came across this… on Photojojo.com. (by the way, this is a really cool little company that i stumbled upon that turns out to be based right out of here in San Francisco. It is a company i am going to keep my eye on. They find the coolest stuff and i think that they just may have the stuff to make it for the long run. Watch for a post i am going to be doing regarding a job posting of theirs and you will see kind of what i am talking about.).
It is a DIGITAL POLOROID CAMERA!!! YIPPEE!! I am going to be saving all of my loose change and maybe in a while i will be landing my hands on one of my very own! In the mean time, i am here to share it with you while i am waiting (and preparing for all of the fun and memories i am going to be able to create some day soon!)
Typical walk to go to the store…. Welcome to my neighborhood of Bernal Heights.
I decided that i would take some photo’s of what i see when i walk to the store. It is about 8-10 blocks away and down a huge hill to get to. So i take my time when at all possible.
One of the first things i come across upon my descent is one of my more favorite houses… the “red house” as i call it. It sits on a strange triangular piece of property which makes this house a little unusual. And totally adorable!
You can see the red house and its strange property shape here by looking straight ahead beyond the bushes and shurbs. There is a walkway on both sides of the house and i am about to show you the left walkway next.
…shortcut stairs to Virginia Street.
This is the view from the middle of the path on the way down. Notice our beautiful Mount Sutro lounging in a little fog….
After going down, one has to come back up.
And this is now where i introduce you to my little park… the Eugenia Steps…. These steps are great because, first, they are wonderfully cared for by a caring neighbor who takes pride in his work (birdie told me that there was nothing but weeds until he had gotten ahold of it. Now it is really clean and well tended! Thank you sir!) We start at the bottom looking up in this first photo
Now we are looking down the steps from closer to the top. This is probably about 300 ft. rise from the store at the bottom.
…and because we are so far up there now, it affords us some beautiful views and a place to sit and enjoy them! Yea!
…looking west….
looking north towards the mission.
and on to the last little leg of the steps….
and one last departing shot while the branches of the trees swing apart in the wind long enough to get a photo….
I hope you enjoyed my little tour of my route to the store at the bottom of the hill. It being so beautiful sure helps the pain of walking up almost 400 feet straight up. Keeps one from needing a thigh master though!
