The Saturday Picture Show, December 16, 2023

 

I don't know, there was just something about this woodsy scene that made me want to look for my hiking boots and a jacket and vest and go for a December walk...

There are more than 400 varieties of holly plants, and they are all beautiful, and make perfect Holiday decorations.

I would like to know more about this neighborhood. I mean, a place where people go to the trouble of making that second sign has to be a nice place to live!

While the rest of us were busy worrying about who's "woke" or reading silly novels, this nice lady got busy and made 48 blankets for 48 people who needed a blanket. Salute!

Very sad picture from Ukraine, but the interesting thing is that the cloud covering the sun looks for all the world like a hole in the windshield.

America is in the process of muralizing every wall still standing. This one was painted in the alley off Lincoln Avenue in Chicago, near the Biograph Theater, where 1930s gangster John Dillinger met his end in a hail of FBI bullets. Dillinger, a ruthless killer who robbed banks for his own enrichment, was the first in what has become a series of really bad people somehow being lionized as heroes. A rumor sprang up that Dillinger took money from banks at gunpoint and then handed it out to desperately poor Depression-era citizens, which was baseless nonsense. Good thing that people are not easily duped today, huh? 

I came in like a Christmas ball....

This cute little Kingfisher bird sends Christmas and Holiday love to all from his home in Port Townsend, Washington.

Many men who consider themselves too short in stature seek to make up for it in various ways. Some become obnoxious bullies, pushing their will on all around them. Some brag about themselves in a curiously adenoidal whine, and some wear lifts and high-heeled boots to bring themselves up to that coveted 5' 8" mark. A very few do all three.

This rare white alligator, born last month at Gatorland, a Florida theme park and wildlife preserve, is this pale because it has leucism, a condition that results in a lack of pigmentation. In order to keep it warm this winter, Gatorland officials have ordered tiny polo shirts with pictures of tiny people on them.