Wednesday Morning Coffee Muse

The north wind is whistling around the window frame as I sit at the kitchen table having my coffee and reading my email this morning. They were saying last night that this is a Pacific Cold front. I guess I should probably turn the AC off as this is more than likely the warmest it will get today and the outside temp just matched the inside temp...This place is just way too warm for this time of year.

 

I just love Rob Brezsny's horoscopes, this was in today's email...

Aquarius (January 20-February 19)
Goose bumps and burning sensations coursed through me as I meditated on your upcoming adventures. From what I can tell, your rambles will be both spooky and fulfilling. They'll knock you on your ass and lift your spirits, sometimes at the same time. They'll give you almost more blessings than you can handle, even as they invite you to take on responsibilities that will give you the chance to be a hero. Are you ready to have your certainties challenged in the most useful ways possible?

Free Will Astrology : Aquarius Horoscope.

 

Nothing in the news catches my eye this morning. So I think I'll go ahead an close this out...I am still having issues with Blogger Beta but work arounds are being found. I like the formatting of BlogJet but can't get it to post to Blogger Beta so I am running it cutting out the code and pasting it into Windows Live Writer for posting. Live writer has a plug-in for Flickr that let's you browse your Flickr account (or any other) and place the picture code into your post...I like. If it just had a browser button or right click menu command for capture like BlogJet I would be a happy camper. Since everyone seems to be in software beta mode maybe something will shake out in the near future to make these posts easier.

 

Today's Photo

From this past weekend.

FULTON MANSION STATE HISTORIC STRUCTURE.

Fulton Mansion State Historic Structure is on Fulton Beach Road three miles north of Rockport. The three-story, Second Empire house was built by George W. Fulton, Sr.,^qv rancher and businessman; he lived there from 1877 to 1893. The unusual house features innovative heating, ventilating, and food-preservation systems. It remained in private hands until 1976, when the state purchased the 2.3-acre site. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and was restored in 1983. It is maintained as a museum by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.^qv

Christopher Long

Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/FF/ggf2.html (accessed November 15, 2006).

Ya'll be safe and have a great day.

Tuesday Coffee Muses

Good morning all.

Blogger Beta actually let me post a photo yesterday. Will it let me today? Sadly, I haven't been able to post from Picasa yet which is my method of choice. Oh well, this too will come to those who persevere. If you get down to the bottom of this post and see a picture be happy for me, life is blessed by the little things.

Leave it to a poet to really put Fred First's book into perspective. Tom Montag, The Middlewsterner posted an "Appreciation" of Slow Road Home over the weekend that has me chomping at the bit to dive back in and reread Fred's book...

SLOW ROAD HOME*

BY FRED FIRST

AN APPRECIATION


The question is raised

in some quarters: all these bloggers scribbling, like all the monkeys in the zoo pounding typewriters, can anything ever come of it? Well, if the blogger is Fred First and the blog is Fragments from Floyd, the answer is yes, yes. Out of his blogging, which arises from his life and his place, Goose Hollow in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Fred has created Slow Road Home: A Blue Ridge Book of Days.* A second edition is already in the works for this collection of short essays, many of them blog-post length, about 750 words, all gathered around a theme: this man finding his way in his place.

The Middlewesterner.

If you haven't visited Tom's Blog you should, I discovered it a whileback on Fred's and Patry's link lists (and probably others also). When ever I see the same link on sites of folks whose writings I admire I have to check them out, 'cause usually I find a common interest.

And for the Photo...

Well as you see Beta worked again...Not.

Third times the charm...



This is Fulton Harbour, Fulton, Texas

I am a map nut and this just caught my eye on Lifehacker...

See the world as history's cartographers once saw it. A new batch of Google Earth overlays covers the globe with richly detailed historical maps.

The Rumsey collection includes 16 maps. Among them you'll find a 1790 world globe, a 1680 map of Tokyo, and an 1814 map spanning the Pacific Ocean to the Mississippi--courtesy of Lewis and Clark.

To view these new old maps, you'll need the latest version of Google Earth (use the program's check-for-updates feature if you're not sure you have it). In the layers section, select All Layers, then look for Featured Content > Rumsey Historical Maps.

Pardon me while I scoop my jaw off the floor. This may just be the coolest Google Earth feature ever. I absolutely love historical maps, and there's never been a better way to view and interact with them. Thanks, Jatin!— Rick Broida

Google Earth goes back in time - Lifehacker -...