Mira
Mira's JournalStill splashing with water - not quite catching on - but having fun
No matter how much I love the way movement makes sunlight bounce in a pool there is lots to learn about what is possible to show and do.
Here are a few things with my own legs and Mom who is just about worn out watching me dive down and come up grinning.
Thanks for your indulgence while I play with my new toy.
Simple kinda weird sunset tonight
The first shot is an everyday sunset for me right now (yes - I'm blessed ) then the sun emerged in a hole in the clouds. And I had my Sony around my neck and it has spots on the lenses and needs to be cleaned.
Maybe best to just concentrate on the happening and disregard the rest.
First ever underwater photo - I suspect it's not the last
I got an Olympus watertight camera. I could not help myself because I so love the light play in a pool. This is the first one I took, Mom is on the left, and the rest are "others". The camera turned to movie mode suddenly, and I could not get it back to normal shooting, the sun was blinding me, and as usual I'm clueless.
Hope you like this, I do!
Deep South continued - a few more bits of color
Hibiscus -since it is backlit it makes me think of Celebration's love for that
Water - the sunset wasn't that great but the water had special character
Immersion - Spanish Moss
Magnolia Blossoms in a Spanish Moss setting- about as Southern as it gets
The Future Home of Paradise - as seen in Fort Pierce Florida
There was a young nice man of deep color working with a compressor, which he turned off to ask about my reason for taking the photos, did I maybe want to buy the building?
What did I think of Obama? he asked.
What did I think of all of them who keep being so hateful to him? he asked next, and finally - he told me just exactly where it was that Trayvon was killed. Just a short ways back, about 30 miles east of Orlando.
A few from the road going South. Very South.
Mom and I are making our way down to the Keys. First stop: Savannah. Second stop: St. Augustine.
Cheap motels, easy going, stop when the fancy strikes us. Living and looking and learning.
Here's Mom on steps going down to the famous Savannah river. Steps are her nemesis at age 88 and she is proud. She went down them, and then back up.
I love Savannah's wondrous rocky grounds at the river
So along the road we come across the smallest church in the whole USA. That's what they call themselves.
Spanish Moss - creates tunnels of beauty
Mom walking towards the front door of an old plantation (founded 1806)
And here she is sitting and waiting for our tour to start at noon. And we are the only tourists getting to see it
Finally
Look who seems to live in the Savannah river
LOL
The Hate Amendment/NC - Far more than marriage : by Chris Fitzsimon
Far more than marriage : by Chris Fitzsimon
The folks determined to write discrimination into the state constitution are pulling out all the stops to mislead voters about the amendment on the ballot in the May 8th primary.
The pro-discrimination forces don’t want voters to consider the damage the amendment could do to children, families, and workers, gay and straight, across North Carolina.
They want people to believe it’s all about banning same-sex marriage—which is already against the law. But it’s about far more than that.
This week a handful of politically connected district attorneys and former judges appeared at a news conference to basically call amendment opponents liars who are raising concerns about the impact of the amendment on domestic violence laws.
One of the speakers was former judge, tea partier, and current Republican candidate for governor Paul Wright. Wright it turns out not only supports the marriage discrimination amendment, he favors a personhood amendment to the constitution which would define a fertilized egg as a person and claims there’s a United Nations conspiracy about local land use planning.
House Majority Leader Paul Stam, a driving force for the amendment in the General Assembly, also brushed off concerns about the amendment’s impact on domestic violence laws in a letter to the Raleigh News & Observer.
Stam simply refuses to consider the opinion of many respected legal scholars who believe otherwise, including Suzanne Reynolds at the Wake Forest University School of Law. Reynolds, as the Associated Press recently pointed out, has written a treatise on family law that is widely cited by lawyers and judges across the state.
Stam’s closed mindedness is nothing new. He and his fellow Republican legislative leaders refused to allow legal experts to testify when the amendment was making its way through the General Assembly last year.
If they are honest, supporters of the amendment have to admit there’s at least uncertainty about what the amendment will mean for domestic violence statutes and a host of other laws. The constitution is no place for ambiguous, unclear language about basic human rights and legal protections.
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Republican, pro-discrimination lawmakers have offensively suggested that being gay is a choice that people make. The Republican Party platform opposes allowing gay parents the right to adopt children or even provide foster care to troubled kids.
That’s the real agenda here, to deny gay North Carolinians basic rights and protections far beyond marriage. It’s not a marriage amendment, not at its core.
It’s a hate amendment. Remember that when you close the curtain on your voting booth.
source and the rest:
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/author/site-admin/
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