A nice short current-event series, Aram. The yellow flowers along the path in
the first image were lovely. Were you using the lens/sensor package in your
cellular phone, or a held camera?
I think your generous wish for leaving relief funds for others more in need
will probably be granted; but we all will soon see what the actual text and
associated regulations will be. Whatever the text says your sentiment is
admirably generous. My one nagging concern about the whole exercise with
financial relief is the knife-edge that the nation will be running on
afterwards for a bout of inflation that we have not seen since the mid 1970s. I
know and applaud the financial relief, but, and I hope that I’m wrong in time,
there will be consequences. May they fall benign on all of us when they come. :)
Best regards,
Peter S.
On Mar 26, 2020, at 4:18 PM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yesterday, after over a week in confinement, I packed a lunch and we headed
for the local Arboretum to have a picnic. Well, the weather was not so warm,
so we ate in the car then went for a walk. Easy to keep social distance as
there were maybe 3-4 other couples wandering around the whole place. Even
the few cars in the parking lot were following social distance practices. A
few shots from the arboretum.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/cv/Arboretum-4000.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/cv/Arboretum-4002.jpg.html
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/cv/Arboretum-4007.jpg.html
Today we decided we finally needed to go shopping for something to eat. So,
we got up early to take advantage of the senior only hours at a few stores. A
grocery store (Winco) opened from 6-7:30 for seniors. We got there at about
7:15 and had the place to ourselves. Kind of nice. We were all decked out
in our hazmat gear.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/cv/Winco-4013.jpg.html
Paper goods aisle was picked clean.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/cv/Winco-4014.jpg.html
Then on to Costco. What a difference. They opened at 8:00 for seniors and
the line was literally all around the store. We did not see that from where
we parked, and grabbed a cart and headed to what we thought was the end of
the line. But it went around that corner, and the next and the next all the
way to the front of the store again and into the parking lot. Unbelievable.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/cv/Costco-4016.jpg.html
Everyone was patient and it only took 15 minutes to get into the store. Big
store, so not over crowded, but hard to keep 6 feet away in places. A month
ago I would have thought it deserted. Checkout was very efficient and quick,
as usual for Costco. I did not know there were that many old geezers here
in Yakima. Won't have to do that again for many weeks. We are fully stocked
and spent a big chunk of the coronavirus relief check we are slated to get,
even though we don't need it. I wish they had an opt out option so those who
really need it could get it and we could save the government some money.
Some people are out of work and taking a real hit, but many of us continue to
get what we always have.
Comments welcome.
Aram
Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself
would ever have dared dream.” James D. Watson
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