http://www.talesofsendingcards.com Changing The World One Card At A Time Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:47:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_969" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Burney Falls in the Fall of '08"][/caption] Hello everybody!  I am thrilled to the bone!  How about them Democrats! It was such a sweet victory that blogging seemed lackluster by comparison, so I skipped a couple of weeks (times two).  I even bought a vintage coat on ... http://www.talesofsendingcards.com/a-sendoutcards-kind-of-weekend-at-burney-falls/ Email Picture Hello, my name is Colin Powell, and I'm a recovering cabinet member of the Cheney/Bush Administration.  I'm here today to explain why I support Barack Obama for the next President of the United States. First, let me say, that my pre-war speech to the United Nations accusing Iraq of ... http://www.talesofsendingcards.com/powells-tribute-to-kareem-rashad-sultan-khan/ Lake Lucille in Wasilla, Alaska See Lake Lucille.  See how peaceful it is.  Listen to the Palin rally in Johnstown, PA. See the little duck. It is very sad and lonely. It cannot eat any of the dead plants. It cannot eat the dead fish.  Fly away duck!  Fly away ... http://www.talesofsendingcards.com/who-fouls-her-own-nest/ Nothing sneaks up on this pair. Speaking of which, Winter snuck up on us, folks---without much warning, too.  Our four-way irrigation thingy froze this weekend while we were out of town.  Water spewed around the well for three days and two nights. I think there's some irony here.  What if I ... http://www.talesofsendingcards.com/how-to-shrink-the-national-debt/ [caption id="attachment_621" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Caltrans to the rescue"][/caption] What a wild weekend!  Chris and I rode out the first winter storm of the 2008 season on the southern Oregon coast, Brookings to be exact.  Don't get me wrong, we had a plan. The plan was to ignore the nasty political climate while ... http://www.talesofsendingcards.com/fog-drip-winter-storms-and-sequoia-sempevirens/ [caption id="attachment_2807" align="alignleft" width="479" caption="What do those ET's want with our mountain? "][/caption] What a monster!  My wide-angle lens just couldn't get wide enough. This lenticular cloud blew in with last night's sunset, folks---the biggest one in some time.  If it was a spaceship, we're all in trouble. Technically speaking, weather people call ... http://www.talesofsendingcards.com/spaceship-visits-mount-shasta/ [caption id="attachment_2754" align="alignleft" width="472" caption="~moon rising before sun~Mount Shasta"][/caption] When I got up this morning (still riled up about last night's debate) the sky was pretty dark, but there was this incandescent spotlight peeping over the southern rim of Mount Shasta.  Within seconds the crescent moon, its dark side back-lit by ... http://www.talesofsendingcards.com/bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-mccain/ It is not yet time to flee. Take heart and concentrate on the spinning spiral while imagining a brighter day.  (This hypnotic moment brought to you courtesy of the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory AOML.) Moving on.  As our country threatens to make landfall somewhere in the vicinity of social capitalism, ... http://www.talesofsendingcards.com/spiraling-towards-social-capitalism/ [caption id="attachment_2686" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Spaceship headed for Mount Shasta     "][/caption] Here it is, folks, the only evidence that the weather forecasters knew what they were talking about.  Our 20% chance of thunderstorms all boiled down to this one cloud yesterday.  But what a cloud it was!  My pic doesn't begin to ... http://www.talesofsendingcards.com/all-clear-for-landing/ [caption id="attachment_2653" align="alignleft" width="484" caption="red sky in the morning~Chris Tatro (sendoutcards.com/site) photo"][/caption] Hello and a red sky good morning to everyone! There's a 20% chance of rain for our area in the form of thunderstorms. It would be exciting to have the rain but we don't need any lightening. Speaking of excitement, ... http://www.talesofsendingcards.com/consevative-dna-is-not-dominant/