Flowers

Streptocarpus also known as Cape primrose

Byron has been messing with flowers and he brought a couple of his plants to lunch the other day. He won an award at a flower show in Seattle earlier this month, admittedly in the novice category. Another endeavor of which I am almost totally ignorant. More photos here.

10 Short Videos #6135

10 Short Videos #6135

Diesel Pile Hammer 💥

How to fix a weed-whacker - soak the string in water

My virtual girlfriend - Sarah Lezitow

Who Smells More? Ozzy Man Quickies - Seals

Why birds don't crash (and what humans can learn from them)

Driveshaft alignment

Smooth skills

This Machine Saves Us Thousands - cutting threads in holes in plate steel

Bro took it as a challenge - spill proof bowl

Holy moly!! Cheerleader Park Ye-eun, as dazzling as the sunshine

Fairy Tale Castle

Artist's concept of what Tenczyn Castle in Rudno would have appeared at its peak

Tenczyn Castle is about 16 miles west of Krakow in south central Poland. Original built in the 14th century, rebuilt in the 16th and the curtain wall added in the 17th. Burned in the 18th century after a lightning strike. Wikipedia has a floor plan and several images.

Zamek Tenczyn w Rudnie today

MAD White has the story about the artist's concept. They also have several images with sliders that allow you to compare the artist's renditions with older images and the with the current building. Very cool.

Funnies

That's a Walmart Supercenter is the center of the map.

Yo Yo Master

@spotlight_shterna

Yoyo 🪀

♬ original sound - lauren

I saw a reaction video based on this girl with her yo-yo on YouTube. I didn't much care for the reaction and I thought this girl is pretty good, so I dug up the original. I haven't bothered to figure out how to download TikTok videos or I would have uploaded it to YouTube. Instead I just embedded it here.

Brass Door

Spella Coffee

Stopped in Spella Coffee yesterday for coffee. It's a tiny place, maybe ten by ten, no seating, no food, just good coffee. Noticed this door right off and even without coffee I realized I needed a pic. The pic doesn't do it justice, it is much more impressive in person.

Aluminr

It got me to wondering if anyone still makes brass doors. Not many, but there are a few.

Moroccan brass double door

1920s Raised Medallion Brass Elevator Double Doors

Hostage - Netflix Series

Suranne Jones as UK Prime Minister Abigail Dalton (left)
Julie Delpy as French President Vivienne Toussaint (right)

We watched two episodes before we bailed. It was just awful. Seems like the shows creators wanted to show how people react to a horrific situation, but the situation they constructed to enable this was put together by a two year old. With a little more intelligence they might have been able to make something of it, but, I dunno, were they stupid? Or lazy? Or just didn't care. I don't care.

Did cause me to realize that there are two French colonies with near identical names. French Guiana is in South America and French Guinea is, or was, in Africa. French Guinea is now just Guinea. Problem, for me anyway, is that they sound almost alike. Guiana is pronounced gee-ana, and the African one is pronounced ginny.