Motley Moose – Archive

Violets in the rain, under the rosebushes, my front yard.  

While St. Patrick’s Day is not usually celebrated at my ELCA-Lutheran Church – this morning:  we found we raised more money for our solar panels than originally planned.  It’s a good day to be green!  We will have 10% more solar panels!  #yay

PS: Seven continents tonight!  

The scene was portrayed in War & Remembrance and again in Mr. Cruise’s  Valkyrie.

Here is the real man from this story, who escaped with his life.  The last survivor has died in Munich.

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, who volunteered to assassinate Hitler with suicide bomb, dies at 90

Despite his family’s opposition to the Nazis, younger von Kleist joined the German army in 1940, and was wounded in 1943 in fighting on the Eastern Front.

During his convalescence, he was approached in January 1944 by Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, another officer from an aristocratic family, and presented with a plan to kill Hitler. Von Kleist had been chosen as the officer to model a new uniform for Hitler, and von Stauffenberg proposed that he wear a suicide vest underneath, and detonate it when he stood next to the dictator.

Years later von Kleist remembered explaining the suicide plot to his father, who paused only briefly before telling his 22-year-old son: “Yes, you have to do this.”

Raise a toast of your choice to the bravery.  

And remember, Hitler was Hitler.  Don’t make Mike Godwin make another meme.  

cross-posted in orange.

Milky Way Panorama from Mauna Kea

Image Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (TWAN)

There’s more including a view of the Southern Cross.  The Big Picture is amazing.  

JanF and I are endeavoring to bring you the news.  She will update in comments, probably, once or twice a day.  I will not post a new diary until Thursday, as we are crazy-town here in Casa jlms during Lent, which is 3 more weeks.

cross-posted in orange.  

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, by Stefano in SE Idaho on flikr.com

JanF and I are going to give you news clues.

This is your open news thread through Sunday night.

I get stories from my twitter feed, or I look at various web editions of newspapers (in English) around the world.  

Oh hai!

I have overuse and tension in both shoulders and across upperback.  After a knock-down drag-out tension headache over the weekend, I have iced, stretched, and started some very specific exercises with weights.  

Book Cliffs, Flickr user trosier. East-Central Utah, south of the Uintas and north of I-70.

Enjoy the view.  The valley below is scheduled for fracking, which may not only impact the now-pleasant view, but contaminate the water in Lake Powell (and Lake Mead).  

Even More Book Cliffs photos.

JanF and I team up to bring you news.  Here is a big handful for Sunday evening.  See you with a fresh diary mid-week.  

notes: bombing in abbas, afghanistan? kenya elections?  

 

This is NOT from Glacier National Park.  It is nearby, and perhaps tweeted by a BLM person or a State Park person.  I wish I had better attribution, I readily admit to nabbing this from the twitter.  

UPDATE:  commenters have identified the photo as Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska. So my twitter-radar was way off.  I do have taking my kids to Glacier NP on my mind, and son and I are reading Ice Station Zebra.

Jan F and I are bringing your this Open News Thread!  Watch for updates in comments!  I’ll track this through Thursday, probably.  Week is kinda busy ’til then.  

I did find a little bird:



(in story below)

Do you create for others?  For family members, for charity? I recently reflected on for whom I create, and I have a special project for the Lenten season, which I celebrate before Easter.  

Photo credit to the National Park Service

Welcome to your Open News Thread!  This diary will remain open and monitored through Sunday night, when I post my big fat diary.  Jan F will add stories in the comments, and you are invited to add stories too.  

Today my stories all came from twitter links.