http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/Thoughts to share from White's Creek gorge.ennoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:13:59 PDTBlogger http://www.blogger.com1369125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/07/raising-money-for-fishes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:08:07 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-2433989516797581428A fine tasting!Sorry you guys missed it. What a Hoot!The Hackensaw Boys don't need to be plugged in to rock the house!The Shady Grove Meadery was kept hopping as we tried to drink Mead like Vikings.2009-07-12T11:08:07.712-04:001http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/07/cigna-exec-everything-in-sicko-is-true.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:31:17 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-2408596383429606614Read this next sentence, think about what it says and read it again, because it states in plain language what is wrong with America on so many levels:"A Cigna executive says everything about Canada and England that was reported in Michael Moore's Sicko was true and that they made a costly and concerted effort to derail the message of the movie." Now go watch this Bill Moyers interview on PBS...2009-07-11T09:31:17.314-04:000http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/06/treason.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:28:21 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-1449474158414618074The Whites Creek bald eagle babies have left the nest and are being coaxed from tree to tree by mom and dad. There's a lot of screeching and complaining from the babies and a lot of whistling from the parents. Some things are constant in the universe. My walk last Thursday with a TVA botanist was fascinating. I was concerned that in rebuilding the access trail I might destroy one of the rare 2009-06-29T15:28:21.838-04:001http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/06/to-fathers-on-fathers-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:01:48 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-101505157503756751Are you a biological Father, or are you a Dad?"Let's admit to ourselves that there are a lot of men out there that need to stop acting like boys; who need to realize that responsibility does not end at conception; who need to know that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise a child." "Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the 2009-06-21T11:01:48.285-04:000http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/06/waddyadu-when-u-aint-gotta-job.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:40:29 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-6800511427470589250And you graduated Cum Laude in the worst job market in 35 years? You go kayaking!O'Be Joyful Creek in Colorado.2009-06-13T20:40:29.152-04:000http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/06/quote-of-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:47:23 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-2726089215911578893A journalist looks at newspapers and why they are losing journalists......if Google can successfully sell ads based on a mere list of headlines, shouldn’t newspapers be able to sell even more ads based on a database full of the best local reporting to be had in a given monopoly newspaper market? Except that the nitwits running America’s big newspaper chains laid off or ran off many of their 2009-06-08T19:47:23.504-04:001http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/06/prophet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:13:02 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-2245571184008987475Obama spaketh, and it was good: "We have to find more environmentally sound ways of mining coal than simply blowing the tops off mountains," he proclaimed....Even as the people rejoiced at this good news, coal barons trembled in their temples of black gold. For a decade, these mighty extractors of wealth had been allowed to accumulate unto themselves enormous profits by exploding the tops off the2009-06-06T10:13:02.830-04:001http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/05/weekend-reading-assignment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Sat, 30 May 2009 14:14:24 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-4639500630971984817Government agencies are what we make them be. Anyone who watched the Tennessee State combined hearing on the TVA ash-valanche would have been astounded to see the main line of questioning from our elected officials: "Why didn't TDEC regulations prevent this?"TDEC is a state agency charged with enforcing the regulations passed by the State Legislature using the budget that the state Legislature 2009-05-30T17:14:24.202-04:000http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/05/devils-beating-his-wife.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Tue, 26 May 2009 06:16:40 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-3093853014686078959That's what we used to hear when it was sunny and raining at the same time. For the next two months the sun will set directly up Whites Creek gorge in order to make up for dipping behind the far ridge at 4 in the afternoon in the winter. This gives us a nice side light for late afternoon showers.2009-05-26T09:16:40.774-04:000http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/05/honor-those-who-serve.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Sat, 23 May 2009 05:12:02 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-5426879550446056843I am touched by the respect and honor shown by these photos. They were banned by the Bush administration. We weren't supposed to see them. As it is, you and I must come to terms with the realization that we failed these fallen warriors by allowing ourselves to be mislead into an unjust war. That we failed them, however, does not diminish their valor. May we accept their gift to their country and 2009-05-23T08:12:02.989-04:000http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/05/tva-ash-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Thu, 21 May 2009 12:06:06 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-7667616786320288431TVA skyline taken from Swan Pond Road...Not having much luck out there...Remember Swan Pond?Everything is going great. Fish are even returning to Swan Pond. Here is a nice carp feeding in the crystal clear waters of a drainage ditch alongside Swan Pond Road. (Taken while the nice TVA officer was telling me I couldn't do that. I'm not exactly interested in talking to a TVA officer when I'm walking2009-05-21T15:06:06.955-04:002http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/05/sunday-funnies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Sun, 17 May 2009 09:02:55 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-7931163175351115860A figurine found in the Danube valley in Germany may be the oldest representational art  found to date. It proves that 35,000 years ago humans, at least one of them anyway, had a thing for.... Boobies. What else?2009-05-17T12:02:55.414-04:001http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/05/industrial-solar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Sun, 17 May 2009 08:54:59 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-2584132764723627333This is a good thing and a bad idea, all at the same time. Governor Bredesen has announced a 5 Megawatt solar farm to be operated in conjunction with TVA and UT Knoxville, and will be funded by $30 million of stimulus money. The good part? It's a strong move into solar power production. The bad part? It's a continuation of the wrong kind of thinking where energy is concerned...Centralized 2009-05-17T11:54:59.911-04:002http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/05/swine-catch-human-flu.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Mon, 04 May 2009 16:14:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-41981575742545083The Canadian pork industry may be devastated by pigs that caught swine flu from a human...It had to happen.2009-05-04T19:14:00.763-04:000http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/04/walk-on-last-day-of-april.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:38:44 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-4970442641131914557I went for my usual morning walk and remembered to take a camera. These cucumber trees are just budding out around a small beech. They're wild magnolias.This dog hobble has an amazingly profuse bloom this year. They actually make good landscape plants in a moist location.Fire Pink...Mandrake or mayapple grows in colonies and is all over the place but most people never see the blossom. Spicebush 2009-04-30T12:38:44.874-04:000http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/04/stereotype.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:16:23 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-6254773858150871947Nate Silver...Although there were racist voters in every state -- and although there were also voters in every state who voted for Barack Obama because of his race -- respondents in more rural, less educated states (like Arkansas or Tennessee) were more likely to say that they had voted for John McCain (that is, against Barack Obama) because of the race of the candidates.Tennessee Democrats 2009-04-25T10:16:23.629-04:000http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/04/ed-does-cheney.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:10:35 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-74744330527822117832009-04-22T21:10:35.939-04:000http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/04/flame-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:15:37 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-3022335321256023018This is why you buy native plants from a good nursery. This is a flame azalea from Moutain Mist Nursery in North Carolina. Several others are about to bloom as well.2009-04-18T20:15:37.131-04:000http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-buckeye.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:54:49 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-6217917237517135301This Buckeye is about to bloom. We have several varieties but I like the red/purple ones the best. This is from our Easter walk.2009-04-16T11:54:49.490-04:001http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/04/tennessee-water-dog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:20:26 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-4113317466524787223Who needs a Portuguese Water Dog when you have a Tennessee Water Dog?Ok, so she's a pound puppy grown old but she loves the creek anytime the water isn't hard frozen. 2009-04-16T11:20:26.527-04:000http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/04/socialism-new-gay-marriage.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:42:44 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-3000530671080795164The Republican Party thrives as a party by making elections about one issue. Two at most, since you have to include the "gun in every pocket" distortion of the second amendment. With the realization that a rather large number of Republicans are Gay, have Gay relatives, Gay friends, or Gay children, the issue of protecting marriage (Irrationally done by keeping certain people from being able to 2009-04-15T08:42:44.545-04:001http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/04/photos-easter-sunday-walk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:02:28 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-1978721829884768499Danged eagles are going to force me to buy a longer lense. Their nest looks to be 10 or more feet across and sits in a dead white pine above the creek on the Rhea County side. More than that I'm not telling. I don't know if you can tell from this shot but both birds are in the nest. One of them is just to the right of the tree trunk.Black vultures are amazing flyers and are putting on a show for 2009-04-12T19:02:28.148-04:002http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/04/evening-mist-after-april-storm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:51:03 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-32062374987482431272009-04-10T19:51:03.634-04:000http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/04/oceans-are-cooling-other-lies-and-why.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:53:07 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-2120598489114642455With great sanctimony and firm chinned voice, George Will spoke out on national TV and stated that climate change was a lie because the oceans were in fact cooling down, not warming up.  This was a plain and simple lie. Mr. Will is either deluding himself with the starkly fearful need for climate change to be "not happening" because his entire career is bassed on such fear and self delusion, or 2009-04-08T07:53:07.017-04:001http://whitescreek.blogspot.com/2009/04/evening-4-04-09.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Whites Creek)Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:26:58 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325606.post-77785277067320351292009-04-04T20:26:58.759-04:000