Dave wrote:  Hi Jim, Here are some pictures for the blog. An immature male Yellowthroat. Yellowthroats are members of the warbler family. Also Cardinals male and female at my feeder set up. This is the slow time for bird photography. Hopefully it will improve as fall gets closer.   Dave

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In my last posting here I spoke of PhotoShop and recording memories – another subject I enjoy thinking about is politicians – not as candidates but as a person working their way through a career as we all did in our 20’s through some future year (Our working years).  I like to read about how they studied, practiced, and worked at being successful as as person in a career.  Well, Thomas and John have always been fun to read about and that reading made me jump onto PhotoShop just for fun:

Political debate in 1800 when things were slow – John and Thomas – Thomas won!

I was thinking about the speed of technological change and how it impacts me even before my eyes are fully open at my breakfast hot coffee.

Every morning on TV, the politicians are fighting it out for the mid-term’s – often miss-using events that happened overnight. But think about how it was 200 years ago before TV, cell phones, internet, and even before postal service. How many days dit it take to transport a letter from Virginia to Massachusetts – and who would transport that letter? Politicians had to fight with old information – but they did fight just like today.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, July 4, 1826. 

Adams was 90, and Jefferson was 83— They had been rivals, indeed enemies, for some time; Jefferson had defeated Adams in the presidential election of 1800. But they had repaired their differences and had pursued active letter writing with each other years before their deaths. 

On that final day, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Adams died at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts, and Jefferson died at his home in Monticello, Virginia. 

John Adams whispered his last words: “Thomas Jefferson survives.” But he was wrong – Jefferson had died at Monticello a few hours earlier.

John Adams spoke without complete information! But in those days politicians had an excuse – Information flow was slow – it took days to move information from Monticello to Quincy.  When John was on his death bed he could not wait that long to see if Tom was really surviving, so he spoke with what he assumed was correct!

As you swing through life, join me and study the politician as a person – it is fun – later on you can worry about his/her political position – if you see it as fun.