Goldenrod along the Rim

Golden Rod along the Rim
Originally uploaded by h_dwight_beers

Two more tourists from Minnesota, gazing at a flock of goldenrod, somewhere along the Rim Path. Hope they're not allergic.

Ceramic stare (gimpified)

Ceramic stare (gimpified)
Originally uploaded by h_dwight_beers

I've been rooting about in some of my earlier pictures. This, one has always been one of my favorites. It's basically a colorful ceramic plate hanging on the wall of one of the shops in Old Town Market Place in San Diego. For some reason, this plate seems to be gazing in awe at a bougainvillea cluster growing alongside the wall.

I've already recycled this picture a number of times. This time I've used Gimp's cartoon filter as well as my new style of blur-border.

I hope everyone likes this so much that they click on everyone of the ads on my blog and then (using my Amazon widget) go into Amazon.com and buy a couple hundred dollars worth of goodies.
I've just realized that this probably sounds like shameless begging.
But wait--it IS shameless begging!

Banana Yaya got a Yellow Card...

for tackling (with his hands) Brek (Fast) Shea in the final seconds of the FIFA under 20 World Cup match between the USA and Cameroun in Suez, Egypt  just a few minutes ago.  Earlier in this same game Banana's team mate Djousse was subbed out.

Now,  I realize that a guy named Beers is probably not the best reporter the  blog-o-sphere could have had for this incident.  But, Francis Bacon, is long since deceased and Truman (Breakfast at Suez?) Capote, is likewise no longer with us.

By the way, the USA won 4-1,

and, it should have  been a red...

But, that would have ruined the whole story!

Three Minnesota Lakes visit the Mogollon Rim (gimpified)

Three Minnesota Lakes visit the Mogollon Rim (gimpified)
Originally uploaded by h_dwight_beers

Another shot from our trip to the Rim.

To explain the caption:

I was reliably informed during the brief time I lived in Minnesota that many of the saloons in downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul contained cuspidors for the express purpose of enhancing Minnesota's "Lake" count.  It is for this reason that I think of Minnesota every time I see what we Maine Yankees prefer to call a mud puddle.

Dwight's been playing with Koalas again (gimpified)

Dwight's been playing with Koalas again (gimpified)
Originally uploaded by h_dwight_beers

Yes, it's true my poor mommy and daddy never bought me a Teddy Bear when I was growing up--in spite of the fact that I was demonstrating Republican tendencies at a very early age--and that deprived childhood has apparently led me into this recent addiction to Koalas and my second childhood. Ubuntu hasn't helped either.

I promise this will be the last though, I'm already starting to look for lynx pics.

Mogollon Rim View (gimpified)

Mogollon Rim View (gimpified)
Originally uploaded by h_dwight_beers

Another view along the Mogollon Rim taken last Sunday.

The effect comes from The Gimp's  and FX-Foundry's Landscape Illustrator script.

Fall is found on the Mogollon Rim (gimpified)

Fall is found on the Mogollon Rim (gimpified)
Originally uploaded by h_dwight_beers

The trip to the Mogollon Rim was at least in part, in hopes of doing a bit of leaf peeping. Unfortunately, we were rushing the season a bit, but I did manage to find this one little bit of fall color along the trail to Wood Canyon Lake. This one is ever so slightly gimpified.