Saturday, April 18, 2020

The Saturday Picture Show, April 18, 2020

If you can name a more courageous person than Jackie Robinson, I'd love to hear about him or her. This week, baseball would normally have honored the anniversary of his breaking the MLB color barrier on April 15, 1947, but nothing is normal this week, or month, or year. This old baseball trading card shows Jackie stealing home, which he did 20 times over his career. Always one of the most exciting plays that you rarely see anymore.
OK, this one is the hands down, or paws down if you will, winner of the coolest mask of the year.
Two edifices, both reaching for the sky and bringing knowledge from it.
You have to hand it to the people who built this...cake holder. It withstood a tornado this week.
Paul, John, and George in 1959.  They had big plans and big dreams.  They all worked out fine!
They really do things differently in Canada, that's for sure. The man you see in the turban is waiting social-distant style to get into a store in Canada. Nothing special about that, except for the fact his name is Harjit Sajjan...and he is Canada's Minister of National Defence. If you have a picture of his American counterpart Mike Esper doing the same, I'd love to see it.
I am crazy about things that are a) turquoise and b) multi-functional. This cool getaway camp trailer has a roof that is also a boat, so you can take your dinghy with you, and that's nice.
I'm not about to make a corny joke out of this...it's a painting from the Dutch Golden Age, called Cob With Pearl Earring, by Johannes Vermeer, who was also known as The Jolly Green Giant.

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