Category: Photography
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My Latest – December Morning Ride
December Morning Ride Rolled out in theMorning sunshineA few contrailsCrisscrossed above With deep blue overheadTrailing to very paleOn the distant horizonsAs Sol’s long raysTook the chill away Only a few bikersAnd a couple ofwalkers crossedOur path out and back Another cool, quiet mornOn our multiuse pathEl Loop de Tucson –LE – 12/2/25
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Save Our VA Protest – Black Friday – 11/28/25
Save Our VA Protest – 11/28/25 We arrived at the Tucson VA’s Ajo entrance at 6:35 AM as the dawn was beginning to roll down Ajo. The sun finally cleared the eastern clouds around 7:20. We left the site by 8:30 AM, after the shift change. There were only three of us walking the line…
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The Inevitable End
The Inevitable End Though I may not beThe sharpest crayon in the boxA modicum of intellect resides It occurs to me that reasonAnd desires can rationalizeAlmost anything The resulting reprievesAt best temporaryDon’t mitigate the end As all things doSo it is saidWith a whimper or bang Even the ‘eternal’ universeThough we won’t see itWill eventually…
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Only Three?
What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals? Only three? My favorite (since I haven’t lived in a family situation for many years) meal changes from day to day and month to month. And it’s usually whatever I’ve chosen to eat in any given moment or situation…; -) Today, it’s Borscht … my improvisation of…
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Save Our VA Protest – 11/21/25
5 of us walked the line for this morning’s Save Our VA protest. for the 7:00 AM shift change at the Ajo gate. There was also a bigger protest at the 6th Ave. gate, with about 20 people with signs surrounding that gate. We had about the same percentage of responses as last time, with…
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2nd Sunday Morning Of November – On The Loop
2nd Sunday Morning Of November – On The Loop rode out under a bright blue domefading to gossamer behind the peaksto the horizonsnot a cloud in the skynot even a lousy contrail ghost of the waning gibbous moonhovers at eleven o’clockin the western skyor two o’clock in the southern view morning’s long shadowsdappled the pathand…
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Save Our VA Protest 11/7/25
We arrived at the VA’s Ajo gate at 6:45 am. It was chlly for the morning shift change, but we were dressed for it… There were eventually 6 of us walking the line today. We dispersed by 8:30 am. The percentage of responses this morning was similar to last week’s at between 70% and 75%.…
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Wabi-Sabi
Wabi-Sabi We’re all works of artso they saywith all our imperfectionson full display. So why do the sanctimoniousalways complaintell us how to look and livefrom their distortedperspectives and rules? Ignore them! You are perfect as you areeven when others naysay;sanctimony, their onlydefence …“It’s not natural”“It just isn’t right”“That’s not how I was brought up”“There should…
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Save Our VA Protest – 10/31/25
Save Our VA Protest – 10/31/25 Only four of us for today’s protest. But we had good responses today. It seemed like around 75% responded this morning for the Tucson VA’s morning shift change through the Ajo gate. We did get a couple of negatives, but the rest were positive. Don’t know if that’s indicative…
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Looking Out From The Deck
Looking Out From The Deck bright tassel-like bloomsdangle among the green leavesthe Golden Chain Tree red Split Leaf Mapleoverflows its red glazed potfountain-grass backdrop bark like paper sheetspeeled under wind-tossed branchesserene River Birch –LE – 10/29/25 PS: A memory of looking out at my back yard from the deck on the back of our ‘old…