Pokémon Blue Playthrough part 12: Training montage

Photo(s) of the Week: OTMA in costume

 

Photo of the Week: Winter Wonderland

In honor of the blizzard that is supposed to hit Iowa tomorrow, here are some winter time scenes from the Russian Empire.

Photo(s) of the Week: Bike for an heir

 

Photo of the Week: Sibling bonding

Olga tows Alexei and Joy on a sled in Tobolsk.

 

Pokémon Blue Playthrough part 11: Mew!

Pokémon Blue Playthrough part 10: Abra Safari

Photo of the Week: Passchendaele to Bakhmut, 105 years apart

 

Bakhmut 2022

Passchendaele 1917, for comparison

Photo of the Week: Olga chopping wood

 

Pokémon Blue Playthrough part 9: The Set-Up

Photo(s) of the Week: Last Known Image

The following are the last known photos of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Anastasia and Tsarevich Alexei, taken aboard the steamship Rus in May 1918 as it ferried them from Tobolsk to Tyumen.

Alexei and Olga aboard the Rus

Olga (left foreground with back to camera), Tatiana (just over Olga's shoulder), and Anastasia (center)

 

Pokémon Blue Playthrough part 8: Nugget Bridge Finale

Photo of the Week: Nightmares

 

Light and shadow, motion blur, and Maria making a weird face combine to make a spooky image

Photo of the Week: It's okay when we do it.

 Democratic candidate for Senate from the state of Iowa Mike Franken:

Source: https://twitter.com/FrankenforIowa/status/1352221334915452928

Source: https://twitter.com/FrankenforIowa/status/1584957202317873153?cxt=HHwWgsDUxbKL8_4rAAAA

Pokémon Blue Playthrough part 7: Cerulean City and Nugget Bridge

Photo of the Week: Harvest

It's been awhile since I've done a gardening update so I thought I'd post a picture of my first harvest. It was definitely a learning experience. For example, critters really love eating melon flowers so getting even one cantaloupe was a challenge. The first melon got gnawed on by presumably a chipmunk or ground squirrel and I didn't notice the second one until frost killed off the vines. There wasn't much flesh and it wasn't sweet or tasty but it produced a surprising amount of seeds for next spring.

I had better success with the root vegetables. Lessons were learned with the sweet potatoes, namely that they like their space. Each container is holding three plants. The three in the top container were grown surrounded by carrots, cantaloupe, and sunflowers. The three in the bottom container were grown in more isolation

The carrots were pretty simple to grow and their size seems determined by how early they were planted. The largest one is a little over 13 inches long. In total I had 15 carrots but 4 were small and not worth harvesting so I left them to see if they will go to seed next year.

Overall I planted 4 cantaloupe seeds and got 2 to sprout, although one was extremely stunted. The six sweet potatoes were store bought plants. I don't know how many carrot seeds I planted but it was more than double what I ended up with.

Next year I plan to add corn, peas, and strawberries to the mix.

Khe Sahn Retreat - Men of Valor OST

Khe Sahn Hill - Men of Valor OST

Khe Sahn Base - Men of Valor OST

NVA Assault - Men of Valor OST

Airstrip - Men of Valor OST

Photo of the Week: Friedberg Castle, Tsar Nicholas II and Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig

 

Church Courtyard - Men of Valor OST

Huey Flyover - Men of Valor OST

Hill Fight - Men of Valor OST

Marines Charge - Men of Valor OST

Jungle - Men of Valor OST

Lost Column - Men of Valor OST

Beach Landing - Men of Valor OST

Photo of the Week: Focus

When one thinks of early 20th-century photography one thinks of "hazy" images and ill-defined subjects but the photograph below displays an almost stunning amount of detail and clarity in foreground, background, and subjects.

Right-click and open in a new tab to zoom in.

Night Jungle - Men of Valor OST

Open Field - Men of Valor OST

Main Title - Men of Valor OST

Pokémon Blue Playthrough part 6: Escape from Mt. Moon

Photo of the Week: Raft

 

Photo of the Week: Livadia, 1913

 

Cliff swallows under a bridge

Photo of the Week: Baby snapping turtle

Photographed crossing my driveway

 

Photo of the Week: Ouch

 

Iowa State beats Iowa 10-7

On Saturday the Iowa State Cyclones football team defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes by a final score of 10-7. This was Iowa State's first win in the series since 2014 and the first for current head coach Matt Campbell, who has now beaten all ten of Iowa State's regular opponents at least once. Iowa State has dominated the past couple of meetings but lost on turnovers and special teams. While that held true this year it was the Hawkeyes who ended up making one mistake too many.

It was a long time coming.

Photo of the Week: Slide

 

2022-2023 Iowa State women's basketball non-conference schedule

Nov 2 (Wednesday) vs Winona State [Exh.]

Nov 7 (Monday) vs Cleveland State

Nov 10 (Thursday) vs Southern

Nov 16 (Wednesday) @ Northern Iowa

Nov 20 (Sunday) vs Columbia

Phil Knight Invitational*

*Nov 24 (Thursday) vs Michigan State

*Nov 27 (Sunday) vs Oregon/North Carolina

Nov 29 (Tuesday) vs SIUE

Dec 7 (Wednesday) @ Iowa

Dec 11 (Sunday) vs Jacksonville

Hall of Fame Women's Showcase*

*Dec 18 (Sunday) vs Villanova

Dec 22 (Thursday) vs Drake

Source

Photo of the Week: Tsar on the Beach

 

Pokémon Blue Playthrough Part 5: Hunting for Fossils

Pokemon Blue Playthrough Part 4: Entering Mt. Moon

Hummingbird - Estes Park, Colorado

Photo of the Week: Alternate angle II

It's the second installment of Alternate Angle and today we're looking at the following photo:

The subject is the cluster of people in the center but off to the left stands a lone man holding a small black box: a camera. In the next photo we'll se his perspective:

We see the same cluster of people at a slightly different moment in time, with a camera mounted on a tripod to the right. While I'm no expert on early 20th century photography equipment, I reckon that that is a movie camera, possibly the one that filmed the following clip starting at 1:59:

                         

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