Sunday, September 24, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Together To Ignore Each Other
I had to take a second to snap this photo of two people walking on Main Street in Bellevue yesterday. I don't know them, if they are married or if they were even together, but it did seem ironic that they both thought that it was more important to be talking to some else rather than each other.It makes me wonder if they were having their conversations since they left home - or if they might have actually spoken to each other on the way to the coffee shop ...
Friday, September 08, 2006
Co-founder of the Jolly Rancher Candy Company Dies at 91
It is a sad day for anyone who grew up with Jolly Ranchers:
Dorothy Harmsen, who was a co-founder of the Jolly Rancher Candy Company, the maker of tangy, slowly dissolving bricks of fruit-flavored candy, and the owner of one of the nation’s largest private collections of art of the American West, died in Denver on Aug. 29. She was 91.
The cause was a heart attack, said her son, William D. Harmsen Jr.
Over a career in confections that spanned 50 years, Mrs. Harmsen and her late husband, William, created scores of original candies on their farm in Colorado, including chocolates, fruit chews, jelly beans and lollipops. More at New York Times
Monday, September 04, 2006
The Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Dies at 44
The Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin recently died doing what he loved. It's a pity that he had to go, but he did entertain us all - and he knew the risks of his work. Of all the dangerous situations he put himself in, it seemed very unlucky for him to be killed by a stingray.
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