Crater Lake (part 2) and Upper Rogue River

 Here are more photographs I took of my latest trip to Crater Lake and later to upper Rogue River.  I adjusted the photographs of the lake to make sure they are the sapphire blue the lake is in real life.

Mt. Thielsen

The Rogue River 

Crater Lake National Park Photos 1

 Here are a few pictures I took at Crater Lake National Park in southern Oregon today, including a couple of them from the historic lodge:

A Few Reads for Tuesday

 Conspiracy theorists are hard at work trying to figure out whether Senator Mitch McConnell is still alive or dead, more or less.

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In real obituary news, actress Louise Lasser, 87, best known for her role in the 1970s  cult television soap opera parody Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, died of natural causes yesterday at her New York home.

She was also known as Woody Allen's second wife before they divorced and he became infamous for poaching long-term girlfriends' adopted daughters and marrying them.  Louise was more age-appropriate, but that was a different era.  She was in a number of her ex's movies during that time.

Snip:

Louise Jane Lasser was born on April 11, 1939, in New York. Her father, S. Jay Lasser, was a renowned tax expert who wrote the book Everybody’s Income Tax Guide. Though Lasser studied political science at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, she couldn’t resist the lure of the stage, joining the school’s musical productions alongside the likes of Margo Howard and Stuart Damon. 

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Even though Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (aka MH2) was popular and critically acclaimed, I have yet to see it.  I have been wanting to get the DVD boxed set of the show, but I never got around to it.

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A Few Reads for Monday

 Obit:  On June 22, ten days after his Good Morning World co-star Ronnie Schell passed away, Joby Baker, 92, had died.  He had been long married to Andre Previn's ex-wife, Dory, until she died in 2012.

Baker was also featured in Elvis Presley travelogues, er, movies and in the Gidget films.

His death was announced Saturday.

Snip:

Joseph Baker was born in Montreal on March 26, 1934. After his mother died when he was a toddler, his father — who had affectionally nicknamed him “Jobela” — took him to live in Oahu, Hawaii.

When Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941, Baker escaped injury in the immediate aftermath when the house he was living in was hit by friendly fire. He and his stepmother quickly left the islands, taking the RMS Aquitania with thousands of other evacuees to San Francisco, he recalled in 2022.

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He later left acting to sculpt and paint full time.  This is a site featuring a few of his works.

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Is Mitch McConnell dead or isn't he?  There are a shit ton of rumors circulating that he is indeed "brain dead," but it doesn't explain why his wife, Elaine Chao, took a trip to China on official business.

Adam Mockler:

Some Sunday Whatever

 This author isn't saying anything new.  Authoritarian "thinking" has been a part of this country since its beginnings, and that includes the religious whack jobs.  You can explain them and their "thinking" all you want--and they are NOT "conservative--but nothing can be done about them.  They are lost.

Democrats don't need them and don't want them.  There are millions and millions of people who don't vote--those and current Democratic voters and independents are where it is at.

"Conservative" voters have to die out.

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I was out of town on vacation last week with little internet access and didn't hear about the death of Alan Greenspan, who was a Randian type, literally a disciple of hers when he was young all those many decades ago, but he somehow secured a spot as the head of the Fed for many years.  He died so young, only 100 years old.  He died on the 22nd of June, while I was in the Mount Hood area going on enjoyable hikes to know about it.

He had been married since the late 1990s to broadcast journalist Andrea Mitchell.

Greenspan proved right the old saying, "The good die young."  Kind of like Henry Kissinger, who also had made it to the century mark.

Snip:

Greenspan was born March 6, 1926, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, where he showed mathematical acumen from a young age. In his early years, he attended the Juilliard School and played jazz saxophone and clarinet in a band.

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This part was unintentionally hilarious:

“Ayn Rand and I remained close until she died in 1982, and I’m grateful for the influence she had on my life. I was intellectually limited until I met her,” Greenspan wrote in “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World.”

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That doesn't say much for his "intellect" to follow somebody who clearly had a personality disorder or perhaps even a form of autism.  She never played with a full deck.  At least Greenspan didn't become a boy toy for her, thank God.

Andrea Mitchell did note her husband continued to love jazz and was a diehard baseball fan, so Alan did have a few virtues besides the "virtue of selfishness."

Alan Greenspan died from Parkinson's disease.

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Some Saturday Reads

 A bunch of chickenshits in white masks claiming to be "patriots" tried to create havoc in D.C. at the Metro, but they don't even know how to use it.  Furthermore, despite their loud mouths,  they know they are way, way, way, way, way, way outnumbered.

Adam Mockler:

The "fair" is proving to be a complete flop, just like everything else Trump touches.

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LOL right-wingers are upset about Planned Parenthood funding.

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Friday Reads

 It was an absolute and total disaster in Trump's "fair," and it is bad.

Adam Mockler has details:

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