I shot this pic on Thanksgiving Day about 8 years ago. Picture was taken from my son's backyard; he lives on the water. I just happen to look out the patio door and caught this view. I raced to my car, parked in the front of the house, grabbed my camera, ran back inside and out the patio door. And this was the result of that mad dash.

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chek101

Thanks Firm ... she is just too adorable! I can't wait to get my hands on her!!!! I am back home now waiting for visiting hours so's I can do just that!

Ok the PM MACHINE: think about it ... we're talking about a machine that produces MORE ENERGY than it uses with no help from any other energy source other than its own built-in momentum, and of course gravity. Wouldn't it be nice to have your car go forever, no refueling? A PM device could make that happen for you. It would be worth kazillions and not only because it will no doubt become a new energy source, but also because it is assumed it can't be built.

I was talking about this with this physics professor last month ( teaches at a college in PA) -- thru emails etc -- he is all about explaining why a PM machine can't be built and or why it can't work. I stumbled across his web site when I was checking out what other people were coming up with as far as their latest attempts went ... of course, all failed attempts.
I got a huge kick out of seeing some of the weird and whacky, yet ingenious gizmos these people were turning out. Amazing stuff! Now these guys (and they were ALL guys) were mostly engineers of some sort ... you know ... they had names with a whole bunch of letters after it, and all that. So I got to thinking. Know what? Maybe these guys all got the same locked-up brain! One wired by the constrictions formed by the kudos of contemporary science. I barely went to school, so I don't have any of that tying me down.

What prompted me to write the physics teacher, was that he pointed out, that from all the emails he received discussing PM Machines; he has never heard from a single woman, then added, what does that infer?
HAH! Yeah, well, time for a change, Jack, I thought! So I emailed him and took him to task just a tad. I asked him this question,
"How could you as a scientist say that building a PM Machine is impossible
according to the "known" laws of physics." That sentence in itself negates
the statement. You are stating that you do not know everything, so how
can you possibly know it can't be done? "

He replied "Good question! But there are some things we do know!" Well, "some things" doesn't cut it with me. We did go on to correspond for quite a bit more after that.

My peabrain logic tells me there is weakness there, and where there is weakness ... there is a loophole and loopholes contain answers, a way in. That to me means something is gonna give. Give up its answers? Maybe. I know a heckava lot of inventions came about as the result of happy mistakes. Not planned, but DISCOVERED by accident. They didn't know what they were about to trip over. Neither do I? But telling people it can't be done (shame on you Professor) already puts folk's brains in a choke-hold. Why would anyone bother after reading his blog? Ideas like that belong back with the dotes who believed the earth was flat. NOT in this day and age.

firmbeliever

Thanks Chek for the explanation, I get it, so this would be a more environment friendly method too for cars etc...

If you could only come up with a new invention idea..

I am rooting for you, GO CHEK!, you have the brains to get there...

METERRE

I just wish I could get inside chek's picture.
By the way, here's a picture I took, when i went to the beach. The dog is my aunt's.
Just thought I would also share a view.

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chek101

Don't tell me where this beach here, because I would be there in a flash with a fist-full of carving knives going after that driftwood(?) tree(?). Phenomenal shot, just awesome!

Alright, now I'm mad all over again, it brought a really bad memory to mind. One I thought I had gotten over.

About 25 years ago ... yep waaaay back then ... we bought our first house. The house was about a block from a dead end street that ended in a small strip of beach, hardly anyone went there that's how small it was. Since I was a city kid just moved to the burbs, I would walk down there and check out the water view for about 15, 20 minutes and walk back home. This was my habit when I walked my dog. Every time I went there I'd spot this old piece of driftwood just laying there in the sand. I could see it was an interesting piece, but when I went to flip it over I saw that it had a couple of million bugs scurrying all over it and in it so I let it drop and never went near it again.
FOR THREE YEARS, that old piece of driftwood just layed there on that beach. The last time I went to that beach, I just kept looking at it becoming more and more drawn to it. That's it, I thought ... that thing is coming home with me today! So ... I ran home, got an old sheet and brought it with me back to the beach, only this time I went back with my car.
When I got to the driftwood, I began kicking it all over the place making it roll over and over. This seem to knock all its freeloaders clean off! I then rolled the wood onto the sheet, wrapped her good and put it in my car. No easy feat this, the piece was about 4 feet long and about 2 and half ft wide. Felt like it weighed about 40 lbs.

Anyway, when I got her home, I hosed her down good, and then sat her smack dab in the middle of my front lawn. The amazing thing about this piece was the way I set her up. Laying there on the beach you really couldn't see it, but turn her straight up, tall-ways, she looked just like this most spectacular church I saw when I was in Italy. Or maybe it was an opera house (La Scalla Opera house?), anyway, every inch of this building had a carved figure or design on it ... I mean EVERY inch! Positively the most exquisite structure I've ever seen. Carved figures stood to either side of every window and opening. THAT'S EXACTLY what my piece of driftwood looked like. It looked just like that church/whatever, with huge front doors open, steeple above steeple, carved statues aside small openings and a wonderful structure at the top that resembled a belfry. It was an unbelievable piece! I was delighted that I finally went after it and brought it back home.

Well ... let me tell you! I put it on the front lawn that afternoon, next morning it was gone!!! And I know somebody local took it, because you could not see it all that well if you were driving by, you HAD to be walking to notice what it was. So some passer-by saw it's magnificents up close, and that was that. Till this day I would like to sneak into everybody's backyard on the block and see if my driftwood is there. Of course, I know I am not allowed to do that, but boy, nothing would give me greater pleasure. Because not only would I pick it up and take it back, but I'd make plenty of noise while doing it, hoping the crook who took it will come out and try to stop me. They broke my heart when they stole it from me. I couldn't believe it! That piece layed on the beach ALL THOSE YEARS, and they waited for me to show them its potential?

How sad is that? Well, anyway, didn't mean to cast a shadow over your lovely photo; it just brought that old memory back. But I'm not kidding ... if I ever see that piece again, And I will KNOW it if I do, she's coming back with me, period!

Wangdoodle

Very peaceful and relaxing. Good eye. You are a great photographer!

rpg219

Chek you have great talent! It is beautiful!

Clough

I am not privy to the other responses, but I do want to say GREAT SHOT! Lighten up the bottom a bit and it might be something that could be a fine painting if someone wanted to turn it into such a thing.

Jesushelper76

This is a picture of one of my favorite places.

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Jesushelper76

The face of God is amazing. Isnt it. (;

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Clough

Dear Jesushelper76,

I think that they are great shots too!!

Clough