March 30, 2022

"The Sky Is Crying" is a good song for this rainy Albuquerque day. Of course rain can be

a blessing. It provides us drinking water and helps plants grow. And in Ukraine it
creates Ukraine mud that literally fouls up Putin's war machines.

Rain also brings floods and landslides so there is that. It can be a mixed blessing.

The Sky Is Crying, lyrics and performance by Elmore James

https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/29380397/Elmore+James/The+Sky+Is+Crying

The sky is crying, look at the tears roll down the street
The sky is crying, look at the tears roll down the street
I'm waiting in tears looking for my baby, and I wonder where can she be?

I saw my baby one morning, and she was walking on down the street
I saw my baby one morning, yes she was walking on down the street
Made me feel so good until my poor heart would skip a beat

I got a bad feeling, my baby, my baby don't love me no more
I got a bad feeling, my baby don't love me no more

March 30, 2022

BBC: 'Wild shots: Scottish Nature Photography Awards March 30, 2022.

The winners of the Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2021 have been announced.'

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-60912679

This gallery puts the critters and places of Scotland on display.

March 29, 2022

I just got done watching The Last Waltz (again), the documentary of the last concert

performed by The Band back in 1976. The documentary was released in 1978 and I
always enjoy how it takes me back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Waltz#The_Band

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PART 2


PART 3

March 28, 2022

CBC* Your Pictures: Sheila's Brush** is in full swing, March 28, 2022.

* Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/cbcnl-gallery-march-28-22-1.6399179

[This past week might have been the first full week of spring in Newfoundland and Labrador, but what is March without Sheila's Brush**?

A lot of photos shared with us this week showed the (hopefully!) last bout of winter weather for the season, so here are some of our favourites.]

This is a pleasing gallery showing ice, snow, places and the critters of Canada.
See below for access to an explanation of "Sheila's Brush".

**'Who's Sheila, and what's with her brush? Here's the folklore behind the term...'

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/sheilas-brush-explainer-1.5965924

[Newfoundland is hunkering down for a vicious spring storm this weekend, as an incoming weather system promises to ignore the calendar and dump freezing rain and snow across the island.

Following days of balmy temperatures hitting the teens, some regions are anticipating the incoming weather system with contempt and disappointment.

But a late-March storm is far from unprecedented in the North Atlantic: in fact, it's so familiar, it even has its own special name.

Enter "Sheila's Brush," a moniker for the unseasonal blast of snow and wind suffered by Newfoundlanders and Labradorians after St. Patrick's Day.]

There's more text and a graphic at the second link here. I came to enjoy the photos
and stayed to become educated on regional language.

March 28, 2022

Al Jazeera: 'El Salvador declares state of emergency after gang killings.

The measures come after 62 homicides were reported on Saturday, making it the most violent day in nearly 30 years.'

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/28/el-salvador-invokes-state-of-emergency-after-62-killings-in-a-day

[El Salvador’s parliament has approved the state of emergency that temporarily suspended some constitutional protections in the Central American country following a wave of killings attributed to criminal gangs.

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“We approve the exceptional regime, which will allow our government to protect the lives of Salvadorans and confront criminality head-on,” said Ernesto Castro, the congress’s president, said after an extraordinary session early on Sunday.

The country registered 1,140 murders in 2021 – an average of 18 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, but still considerably lower since the end of the civil war in 1992.

In 2015, El Salvador, home to some 6.5 million people, recorded a rate of 103 homicides for every 100,000 people, one of the highest in the world.]

There's more text and photos at the link.

March 27, 2022

BBC: Your pictures on the theme of 'into the blue', March 27, 2022.

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-60873404

The color blue, like savoir faire, is here, there and everywhere!

March 27, 2022

BBC: The medieval-era boats hiding in the River Foyle, Northern Ireland

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-60866202

[Every so often, when conditions allow, archaeologists are rewarded with another offering from the distant past. Two more boats, understood to be from the medieval-era, have emerged from the River Foyle. The boats, known as logboats or dugout boats, were found
at a "dugout boat hotspot" near the Lifford Bridge.

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Marine archaeologist Dr Niall Gregory said the two boats now bring the total number found at this particular section of the river to 15. Overall, 21 such boats have been found at the confluence (meeting point) of the rivers Mourne and Finn into the River Foyle. Logboats are made from hollowed-out trees and can vary in size depending on the tree trunk used,
Dr Gregory told BBC News NI.

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About 500 logboats have been found across the island of Ireland, he said. One of the largest recorded was found in lower Lough Erne and measured nearly 60ft (18m) long and 3.2ft (1m) wide. "These two boats found at the Lifford Bridge site were cargo ferry boats," he said. "These boats were designed as work horses, to move and manoeuvre with some degree of agility within a moderate to strong current.

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Logboats are "notoriously difficult" to date based upon hull size and shape alone, and carbon dating is the only definitive means of obtaining a conclusive date. Dr Gregory estimates - based on the hull shape, use of medieval nails, distorted wood grain and remains of sapwood on the exterior - that they are of a medieval-era. Previous boats found at the site have been dated from between 600 AD to 1520 AD, he said. Dr Gregory believes these boats, from their characteristics, are more likely to be later rather than earlier in that range.]

There's more text and photos at the link. These types of articles always interest me. I
have edited the text to maximize the information provided in this OP and still meet our
4-paragraph rule.

March 25, 2022

Reuters Pictures: Art in support of Ukraine as seen in various countries March 24, 2022

https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/art-in-support-of-ukraine-idUSRTS6KLOR

Let's all do what we can to support the people of Ukraine.

March 25, 2022

Reuters Pics: See (Judge Ketanji Brown) Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings

https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/scenes-from-jacksons-supreme-court-confi-idUSRTS6KDTY

See it all here, some faces we hold dear and others that we don't want anywhere near
these proceedings.

I have taken liberties in editing the title to provide information and clarity.

March 25, 2022

BBC: Your pictures of Scotland: 18 - 25 March, 2022

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-60793679

It's all here! Critters, places and people galore. This weeks' gallery has my
(barking) seal of approval!