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The Death Map - where you are most likely to die from natural disasters or bad weather in the US. 

And as I have been saying all my adult life, you are much safer in earthquake and wildfire country than in other areas where extreme temperatures happen every single summer and every single winter (not to mention tornadoes and floods).

Anyway, it's 4 something a.m. and I can't sleep.  I slept from about 11:30 to 2:30, then woke up and could not get back to sleep.  So I finally gave up, got out of bed, and made some toast and started reading news stories on the interweb.  Hence the Death Map.

Now I will go back to bed and try again to take a trip to dreamland.

strange weather

It's way colder in Seattle and Portland now than it is in AMSTERDAM.  

How strange is that?

It's still warmer here in San Francisco than in Amsterdam though.

I want to go back to Amsterdam anyway. 

Seattle and Portland, not so much.

something borrowed

Mission Dolores, originally uploaded by Tom Coates.

Statue at Mission Dolores.  I am borrowing someone else's picture again today for a December View.

I have not felt like taking pictures this week myself, but there are so many good ones out there I can borrow anyway, taken in December locally by others. :)