Marilyn's Photos - Dec 29 2025 - 2025 Colour Mistakes

 

There we are trying to make up for bad eating, not saving enough money, gaining weight, and failing to excel at a new hobby.  What about the catastrophic colour mistakes we made in 2025?  Shouldn’t we be adding that to the list for things to do in 2026 with some New Year’s Colour Resolutions?   Here is a handy guide to find your 2025 mistakes and make somem commitments to correct them in 2026.  "Overused neutrals and beige dominance. Instead, opt for rich, warm neutrals like taupe, greige, or soft beiges.  Cool grays and stark whites. Instead, choose warmer, creamy whites or softer, nuanced shades.  High-contrast designs. Instead, opt for softer, more inviting colours that create a cohesive and harmonious space.  Neon pinks, electric blues, and vivid yellows. Instead, choose softer pastels or earthy, muted tones.  The "Barbiecore" trend with bright and playful colours. Instead, opt for softer, more natural shades. “ And our key 2026 “resolution” would be to embrace the Pantone colour of the year - Cloud Dancer.  Pantone’s Colour of the Year is described as “a breath of calm in a noisy world” - the next picture is the promotion with the “clouds” and person “dancing.”  This colour in photoshop is hex code #F0EEE9 - it says it has “subtle yellow undertones.” “In 2026, expect to see a mix of vibrant colours like "Cloud Dancer" white, rich teal, canary yellow, and candy pink dominating fashion and design trends.”   Here’s an example of how it is going to play out: “Motorola brings calm to your pocket The motorola edge 70 is being reimagined in Cloud Dancer, with a quilted vegan leather finish, Swarovski crystal detailing, and what Pantone calls “serenity in your pocket.” The aim is to merge luxury aesthetics with tactile calmness, giving smartphones a softer emotional appeal.” Are my clouds too moody?  Too much gray and not enough yellow?  I’ll have to go into photoshop and check them out with the calibration tool.

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Marilyn's Photos - Nov 27 2025 - Hank the Tank vs Taylor Swift without makeup

 

Hank the Tank bear turns out to be an older story, though it was in the headlines yesterday.   It is about a female bear who got too friendly with house interiors.  She broke into homes in Lake Tahoe.  She was named Hank as people originally thought she was a male, weighing in at 500 pounds.  While she was blamed for breaking into dozens of homes, it turns out that the bears in the area have figured things out and many are engaged in the activity.  And while she’s accused of being so big, that’s probably what bears weigh there, anyway. It resulted in a public debate over bear management.  That’s a kind expression for killing bears who break into your house.  It would probably have turned into mass murder of the bear population if they’ carried out the original lan.  Hank, now known as Henrietta, and her three cubs were eventually relocated to separate areas.  She went to a sanctuary and they went to rehabilitation.   Competing in the headlines yesterday was Taylor Swift without makeup.  It sounds like some sort of pornographic revelation. Someone got a shot of her NAKED! It is disgusting. There are many headlines that read:  Taylor Swift “takes off makeup…leaves us with no words.”    It sounds so lurid, doesn’t it?  There are “6 times Taylor Swift went makeup-free.”  Sounds serious.  There are clips of her “taking off her makeup.”   There are a lot of synonyms for indecency  - lewdness, obscenity, vulgarity, immodesty and so on.  Seems like some damaging weakness has been revealed.  It may be what she said about Trump.  The headline says “Trump ripped by singer after Taylor Swift diss:  “Wipe the makeup off his face.”  I only found the headline.  This could be misinformation as there doesn’t seem to be any articles on the actual event and when it might have happened.  I saw a fantastic cloud image with such vivid colours in the sunrise and wondered if I could reproduce it.  I went into Lightroom and manipulated the temperature to get more blue, then increased the vibrance and saturation, along with texture, clarity and dehaze.  This is the glorious sunrise result.

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Marilyn's Photos - Sep 25 2025 - Soft and Fluffy

 

Do you look up at clouds as see fluffy, airy things that seem impossibly fragile?  Can this be the case? - that a cloud weights around a million tonnes.  It typically has a volume of around 1km3 and a density of around 1.003kg per m3 – that's a density that’s around 0.4 per cent lower than the air surrounding it. In the same vein of light and fluffy and seemingly "nothing", there are no zero calorie foods.  Even celery, lettuce and watercress. They are a bit crunchy though -  other fluffy foods are divine - like buttermilk pancakes and angel food cake.  And what about fluffy fat?  This is the soft, jiggly fat on stomachs, hips, thighs, and backs of arms.  That's quite a few places, isn't it?  Also called subcutaneous fat, it accumulates between the skin and muscle, making it easy to see. Of coure it turns out to be harder and longer to lose - just so much of it.  Anothe fluffy thing is fluffy poop.  Today's topic is supposed to be fun and not icky and yucky, so go look that up for yourself. And of course, there are undeniable soft/fluffy things like kittens. While Sophie has a vast amount of fur that looks amazingly fluffy, she isn't quite as soft and fluffy as when she was a kitten. Her fur is still like silk and hangs in the air like little clouds.  There could be a biggest cat fur cloud in the Guinness Book of Records. There are many soft and fluffy things.  All these soft and fluffy things trigger a comfort response in us:  they lower cortisol, the stress hormone, they create a sense of predictability and ritual, they help regulate emotions through tactile stimulation, and they can create and recall memories, nostalgia and identity.   One article's conclusion says it all:  In a fast-paced world where we’re often told to “toughen up” or push through discomfort, comfort objects offer us something gentler: presence, safety, and emotional warmth.  So a direct link to that little plush toy Labubu - no wonder it is causing a frenzy.   Look at these clouds - this is the season for them - they look like huge swaths of whipped cream across the sky.  Two soft and fluffy things in one.

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Sep 7 2023 - Unruly Fans

 

In the headlines today is news of American tennis fans screaming from the stands and interrupting play.  A fan using language from Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime was thrown out this year.  Last year two men were engaged in giving one of them a haircut.  That was considered unruly. So I guess there are people over-involved in the game and those under-involved.  Somehow, they are at the game - who knows if they are there to watch the players play.  Everyone seems to have unruly fans.  Adele had the problem in July.  At a baseball game in Washington, unruly fans were pulling up chunks of grass.   What was the unruly fan doing at a Maple Leafs game in April?  The young fan was spotted eating "liquorice with mayo" during the game.  I guess he was dipping liquorice sticks into a jar of mayonnaise.  Supposedly fans were left in "shock".  I guess they weren't at the CNE this year with its special food fare.   It seems to be a part of sports - one can go to Wikipedia to find a year by year listing of unruly/violent incidents at sports games. It goes way back to the 1800s.  It is HERE. Its most recent entry is December 17 2022 in Melbourne, Australia.  There are other articles ranking the NFL's rowdiest/most annoying/obnoxious, and most arrested fans.  And hop over to the Guinness Book of Records.  What do you get for a search on unruly fans?  You get the loudest crowd roar in a sports stadium.  Would that be unruly?  It was 142.2 dbA in Kansas City in 2014.   Here's a view that could only be from a plane - between the clouds at sunset.

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Aug 10 2023 - Angels Calling

 

Angels Calling is a song by The Tenors. It is played regularly on the Zoomer FM classical music radio station - “Beautiful music for a crazy world.” It is one of those songs requested as a tribute to a loved one who has passed away.    Can’t you hear the angels calling, me up?  Up above? Can’t you hear the angels calling me home?  Me home? Where is home? From Wikipedia:  "In the New Testament, the existence of angels, just like that of demons, is taken for granted. They can intervene and intercede on behalf of humans. Angels protect the righteous (Matthew 4:6, Luke 4:11)They dwell in the heavens (Matthew 28:2, John 1:51), act as God's warriors (Matthew 26:53) and worship God (Luke 2:13). In the parable of the Rich man and Lazarus, angels behave as psychopomps." And a psychopomp?  That’s a guide of souls.  Their role is not to judge the deceased but to simply guide them.   That’s the key to this song seems.  It is compelling and comforting as it gives the sense in the music and lyrics of being guided and taken care of.   How would you know when you look up that you are being guided by the angels?   I think these are the clouds that go with the song.  That guide one up.

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Sep 22 2022 Near Death experiences to Hell

 

Did you know there are lots of articles on "terrifying visions of Hell by survivors of near-death experiences?"  I didn't.  These descriptions come from the website therichest.com A few survivors who have had a near-death experience and were sent to hell have said that they remember feeling extremely sleepy. They claim it was as if they were being forced to close their eyes losing the ability to remain conscious. Many of the NDE survivors who have seen hell say that they moved right through walls and doorways as if on their way to someplace. They claim that they remember being inside of a spiral vortex filled with darkness falling to their inevitable demise. Imagine standing there feeling your skin begin to burn from the extreme heat as the doors swing open inviting you and your soul in. Hearing stories about endless amounts of corpses, skeletons, and skulls from near-death experience survivors who have seen hell are rather common. Walking the path into the deep dark pits of hell would be a traumatic experience for any person.  ...seeing was other people that had a significant part of their body missing.  ...stories from people who have passed on and then returned that some of them were unable to speak. Some of them claim they were consumed with an uncontrollable fear. People who have died and been to hell and back tell of how they experienced an intense sort of anger unlike they had ever felt before taking a hold of them.   After returning from their near-death experience those that have seen hell describe a putrid, toxic smelling hell where corpses lay rotting all over the landscape  Many of hell's NDE survivors speak of begging and pleading for their life and to return home. Survivors of hellish NDEs report being dragged, beaten, and tortured by Satin's most viscous monsters. The extensive Maclean's article on near death experiences - HERE - focuses primarily on Heaven experiences.  It covers Bill Wise's 23 Minutes in Hell.  "A California realtor, Wiese was sleeping peacefully on the night of Nov. 22, 1998, when God pitched him into hell at 3 a.m., so that—Wiese later decided—he could warn others of their peril. He landed abruptly in a five-by-three-metre cell, shared with two gigantic, evil, reptilian beasts who proceeded to smash him against the walls before shredding his flesh... At precisely 3:23 a.m., Jesus rescued Wiese and returned him home, where he landed, terrified, on his living room floor." And what expression is in the Maclean's article?  Heaven Tourists.  Can you imagine planning your NDE experience?  Heaven our Hell.  Choose.

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Sep 15 2022 - That Happy Little Cloud

 

Wake Up on the Bright Side      This comes from Weird Facts on Bored Panda.  These are compelling one-line stories.  You can page through all 50 of the stories HERE.  I include the link because this is a  Is this one true?  I haven't found out.  The treasure trove of Bob Ross's life is reward enough.   Bob Ross's biography has many more events that are stranger than this one.  For example,  he was never paid for his PBS series show.  Another fact:  his 30,000 paintings and the Bob Ross brand and name went to his partners after his death - Walt and Anne Kowalski, and not to his son and brother.  A Netflix documentary tracks the legal battles over the rights to the Ross name after his death at 52.   The Kowalskis had a painting supplies company in partnership with him and they backed his PBS show.  They won the rights to his likeness and name squeezing out his son - even from painting for a period of time.   And then there are all the plush toys and similar products. "Ross painted an estimated 30,000 paintings during his lifetime. Despite the unusually high supply of original paintings, Bob Ross original paintings are scarce on the art market, with sale prices of the paintings averaging in the thousands of dollars and frequently topping $10,000. The major auction houses have never sold any of Ross's paintings, and Bob Ross Inc. continues to own many of the ones he painted for The Joy of Painting, as Ross himself was opposed to having his work turned into financial instruments. In contrast to more traditionally famous artists, Ross's work, described by an art appraisal service as a cross between "fine art" and "entertainment memorabilia" — is most highly sought after by common fans of The Joy of Painting, as opposed to wealthy collectors. The artwork circulating among collectors is largely from Ross's work from before he launched the television show." And remember Bob Ross's voice?  It had a calm, soothing tone.  "Twitch streams created a new interest in Ross and caused his popularity to grow. His videos subsequently became popular with devotees of ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response). ASMR refers to a pleasant form of paresthesia, or tingling, often brought about by specific visual or auditory stimuli. Many viewers found that listening to Ross triggered an ASMR response. According to Joan Kowalski, the president of Bob Ross Inc.: "He's sort of the godfather of ASMR.  People were into him for ASMR reasons before there even was an ASMR." This is repeated in another article:  "Even today, Ross has become an ASMR star...  A video of Ross painting a mountain has a staggering 7.7 million views, with others regularly surpassing 2 or 3 million views." A few of Bob Ross's words are notable and quotable:    We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents. “There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend. “I guess I'm a little weird.  “Let's get crazy.” “Lets build a happy little cloud. Lets build some happy little trees.”

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