(11-01-2025, 10:40 AM)Alliecat Wrote: I am thinking how very much I would enjoy living somewhere where you can Just Get Stuff.
I totally understand. At least I don't have to pay a hundred bucks for a round-trip ferry crossing, but it's still an hour and a quarter drive one-way to "get stuff" other than very basic basics. I don't need to live "ten minutes from Costco" (as some relatives frequently gloat about, as though that makes living in a drab brown clone community somehow worthwhile), but a half-hour from real grocery markets with reasonable prices would be good. I'd also like a house with a real roof so I don't hear the wind blow and the rain beating down.
I have not yet encountered topless pineapples, but if it's more profitable I'm sure it's only a matter of time until that becomes the norm.
Fun set of Halloween pix. I guess I missed seeing these while I was away. I commented on some of them on Flickr.
I really like the "oops" pic -- it looks very ghostly indeed! In fact, the blur reminds me of a "ghost photo" that spooked me when I was a kid, the cover image on the Scholastic paperback edition of Haunted Houses by Larry Kettlekamp.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2935...ted-houses
I realize, now that I'm somewhat more aware of photographic techniques (you know, How Light Works and stuff), that the "ghostly" image was likely a relatively simple time eksssposure, but when I was a gullible kid, I was convinced it was real! I mean, why would anybody fake such a thing, right?
Looks like you made the most of All Hallow's Eve despite being deprived of a H'aloha'ween pineapple.
They're not dolls, they're action figures!