Wonder if it's thawed out yet...

Another casualty of winter...

Early last month, Omaha, NE.

                                                      (Meant to post this earlier, but forgot.)
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                                                                                                                     Trying to get warm again,

                                                                                                                                      -VSR.

Hints of Spring and Winter's Casualties

Sunshine, a touch of warmth, the piles of blackened snow on the curbs are shrinking.

The first shoots of daffodils in the garden...

Mother Nature is relentless.

The squawking of the Sandhill Cranes fills the air, dozens of northbound flocks high overhead...

One less wool jersey in my layers...

The pavements broken from snow plows and frost lift...

Sharing the rack with a forgotten bike.

Will it ever roll again?

probably not...

                                             Still waiting for the crocuses... Spring any day now.
                                                                
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                                                                                                                     VSR.

Harry S Truman

"Scare words"

Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called farm price supports.
Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan “Down With Socialism” on the banner of his “great crusade,” that is really not what he means at all.

What he really means is, “Down with Progress" ... That is what he means.

                                                                               -H.S T. 10/10/1952
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                                                                                         VSR