April 30, 2020

"The Perpetual Game"

Camp McDermott B.O.Q. Patio
Nha Trang, Vietnam 1970

April 24, 2020

Strictly Germ-proof (A poem for the times)

The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup
Were playing in the garden when the Bunny gambolled up;
They looked upon the creature with a loathing undisguised;
It wasn’t disinfected and it wasn’t sterilised.

They said it was microbic and a hotbed of disease;
They steamed it in a vapor of a thousand-odd degrees;
They froze it in a freezer that was cold as banished hope
And washed it in permanganate with carbolated soap.

In sulphurated hydrogen they steeped its wiggly ears;
They trimmed its frisky whiskers with a pair of hard-boiled shears;
They donned their rubber mittens and they took it by the hand
And ’lected it a member of the Fumigated Band.

There’s not a micrococcus in the garden where they play;
They bathe in pure iodoform a dozen times a day;
And each imbibes his rations from a hygienic cup —
The Bunny and The Baby and The Prophylactic Pup.

By Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)

April 23, 2020

"Jack, at Jack's Tree"

Transylvania County, North Carolina
November 2014

April 19, 2020

"Parched Earth"

Death Valley, in the style of maybe Thomas Hart Benton
California - 2012

April 18, 2020

"Build thee more stately mansions, oh my soul .." Oliver Wendell Holmes

Deep in the Cypress Swamp
Atchafalaya Basin Backwaters, Louisiana
November 2019

April 16, 2020

American Exceptionalism

The Back Alley
Paris, Texas
2019

April 16, 2020

"Empties"

An Ed Hopper-esque rendition of a photo of East Butte fire lookout. Still experimenting with Topaz Studio II artificial intelligence software on my 30 day free trial.
Deschutes National Forest, Oregon
July 2013

April 5, 2020

Posted to brighten your day: "Mist Rising."

"Mist Rising"
Atchafalaya Basin Backwaters
Louisiana - November 2019
Photo by DemoTex

Sony A7r4 w/Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens
Shot from Native Watercraft kayak

April 5, 2020

How the world sees my state (South Carolina) right now:

April 2, 2020

Greenville County, SC, is most-traveled large county in US during coronavirus outbreak (WYFF-TV)

We live in Greenville, and the lack of any sense of the magnitude of the COVID-19 danger is incredible. Most people here do not care.

https://www.wyff4.com/article/greenville-co-is-most-traveled-large-county-in-us-during-coronavirus-outbreak-nyt-reports/32017430?fbclid=IwAR0-Gvbg7DErlZVCIJ5YQQ9dJsLFMXwEWFP2bEOp99ZMifJRyf-G03txXpg#