Yeah. Sorry. I think that’s it, but I was half in the bag when I made my post ![]()
Did the second pic not load for you, with “resting” climbers in full view?
D’oh!!1!
I did not zoom in far enough to recognize them as people. I thought they were just random rocks poking up through the snow. I was also sitting in the pre-dawn darkness with the screen brightness turned down to match.
Having that many of them right there in the near foreground is perfect.
When people require inspiration, I place my hand on their shoulder and comfort them with:
I’ve lived a long time. And one thing I’ve learned is
farts will always be funny.
My dad laid that one on one of my sons.
True friends leave footprints on your heart.
Thinking about it, this sounds a lot like someone half remembered Yeats:
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
It’s always darkest just before the piano lands on you. --Oliver Faltz
“An optimist believes this is the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist believes this is true.”
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
- Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep.
- Know what to kiss… and when!
- Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do.
- Take heart amid the deepening gloom, that your dog is finally getting enough cheese.
From “Deteriorata,” by the National Lampoon
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three rights make a left.