Category: Photography
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Save Our VA Tucson Protest – 4/24/26
Three of us held the line at the Tucson VA’s Ajo gate from 6:30-8:00am for the morning shift change. The responses were similar to last week’s, 75%-85%, from what I could see… Some people’s car windows are tinted so dark it’s impossible to see the response or lack thereof through them, especially with the rising…
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An Inverse Relationship
An Inverse Relationship From the beginning of human communities,even the less than sharp among ushave understood that the ‘common bond’of roots and neighborhood fadeas wealth and power are gained. Now, experiments in psychologyhave formulated a mathematical maxim: Empathy is inversely proportionalto individual wealth and power. In experiments where fourroughly equal persons engagein some mundane task,where…
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Tucson Sunset 4/21/26
Tucson Senset Tucson’s High Sonoran sunsetsalways breathtakingEach one differsdepending on time of yearcloud formationsand ‘thickness’ of the atmosphere A panorama of crimsonsyellows and orangesshades of sky blue and dark graysas the western mountainsrise up to swallow the glowand dusk fades the light away –LE – 4/21/26
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Who Knows?
Original is from the late ’90s; just revised to make current… Who Knows? – v2 Who knows the whys of wherefores gone awry?Who sees through the skin of the curved blue sky,Or plumbs the depths of chaos and causation, Seeking a genuine realization, orPerhaps just a wisdom pearl and dissolutionBack to an essence universal? –LE
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Blue Skies…
blue skies common enoughin the high Sonoran bright sun-etchedbar and QR codes specify place and bearingon this narrow pathway the riverbed sandy and drygreen and yellow splotches deep in its sway with desert trees and shrubsroots to the flowing river below ground out of sight since the 1950sonly flows above ground in downpours now yes,…
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Save Our VA Tucson Friday Protest – 4/17/26
Four of us anchored the line at the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA this morning from 6:30-8:30am for the shift change. Response rate was similar to the last few weeks, with somewhere between 75%-85%, with 3 very observable negatives. There was a definite head skake of ‘no’, a bouncing ‘bird’, and a ‘get a…
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Mid April Morning Ride
A Mid April Morning Ride bright blue skya circular roll of cloudsaround the Tucson basinlike the city just blewa giant smoke ringwhich rolled ever so slowlyout to the four square horizonsending in a marble skyby the return home not many on the Loop todaya few morning dovesalong the wayand a few spandex-cladbikies in a hurry…
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Not Convincing?
Not Convincing? too much hatred and vitrioltoo much finger-pointingmaking me numbinglyuncomfortable index fingers pointing atwhatever-whoeverwhile remaining fingerspoint back at the point-er but who really is to blamelooking into any reflectivesurface will show you whoshould partake in the shame we need cleansing fire or raincleanse this infested pyramidup to the top of the chainwhere sit the…
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A Morning Ride In Early April
A Morning Ride In Early April – Tucson Loop a hazy sun burned through gossamer cloudsabout eleven o’clock in the eastern skywhile iridescent blue backdroppedthe Tucson Mountains not far west started slow, only a roadrunner, a cottontail, and a skinkthen, almost too quickly, the crowds emergedspandex weinies, walkers, and joggers galorehardly any space between the…
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Save Our VA Protest – One Year Anniversary
Save Our VA Tucson Protest 4/10/26 – One Year Anniversary Three of us anchored the picket line at the Tucson VA’s Ajo gate for the morning shift change. We arrived at 6:30am and left around 9:45am. This was the one year anniversary of the Friday morning, Save Our VA Tucson protests. There was a rally…
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