Spouting Off… Being Loud But Not Being Obnoxious One of the things I missed the most about my hiatus from RJ’s Corner is spouting off. It does the heart good to question everything and sometimes put forth a thought or two. I plan on doing that rather frequently in the future here on the new/improved blog so get used to it! 🙂 I hear all … Continue reading How About…
If tattoos are so beautiful how come no one except convicted murderers, put them on their face?? Question everything… Continue reading If Tattoos Are So Beautiful…
This is an exerpt Continue reading Play of Colors…
The Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City is an impressive building on the capital grounds of the State government. Since I have Pawnee blood in my heritage I am always looking for info about that tribe. Of course they, like almost all native American tribes had a presence in OK. Here is some info about that found in the center. Continue reading Oklahoma History Center
I found this old truck in the WalMart parking lot a while ago. It really gave me a moment of joy. But… When I looked in the back of the bed I found a hand-scrolled racist sign about our president it ruined the moment and cheapened the item it was attached to. I won’t show or repeat the sign here but I have found variations of it … Continue reading Nice Truck But….
This blog has been in a three month hiatus due to me just getting tired of the political dialog. I have made some basic changes to prevent that from happening again. One thing is that while I will continue to allow comments, at least for now, I will not reply to many of them. I know this is not good blog etiquette but that is the … Continue reading Rising Again…
Here is another macro-photo. I title it “Eye of Newt”. It is the rusty eye from our rusty lawn chicken. Continue reading Eye of Newt…
I just got a haircut recently and a memory came back to me from my childhood. In order to get it back where it belongs on the far fringes of my memory I have to post it here. I don’t have nearly as much hair as I did back then and I get it cut much less frequently now. But it was a tradition for … Continue reading The Bi-weekly Haircut…..
This is one of my favorite Springtime views. It is looking out my bedroom window. I wish it could stay like that all year. But then again I guess I wouldn’t appreciate it as much if it did… Continue reading Springtime View…
My search of America certainly includes our southern neighbors. I visited Guadalajara Mexico for the first time in the mid-1980s. It was quite different then than it was just ten years later when these pictures were taken. Guadalajara or GDL is a very artistic place. I spent months there setting up a manufacturing plant which of course, was shut down ten years later and moved … Continue reading Our Southern Neighbors…
My family on the Walters side just weren’t very social critters. I only recall one quasi-family reunion in my life and that was for an aunt’s funeral. My dad had four brothers and sisters who in total had four children so there is not much of a clan to start with. Dad was the baby in the family, the others were considerably older than him … Continue reading My Clan… Or Not…
I find so many fascinating things to take closeups of. This one is of a simple pond waterfall in our back yard. Continue reading My Mind’s Eye – Water
We just happened to come across this museum on our way home from Santa Fe this Spring. It is a fascinating place that tells the story of the Upper Plains of Kansas. One thing I do know is that the Upper Plains is a very windy place. I think it could be the wind energy capital of the world if they filled it with wind … Continue reading Praire Museum – Colby Kansas
The Great Sand Dunes National Park is just north of Alamosa Colorado. I guess formed because of it unique environmental conditions. It is a very interesting place to visit. They say the night sky is some of the most wondrous in the country. I wish we had taken the time to see it. Click on any picture below to see an enlarged slideshow… Continue reading Great Sand Dunes National Park
I am one who rails against anyone who insists that I know my place. That is that I keep within my sphere of life. The British have always been more in that mode that we Americans. The Royal Family with all it kings, queens, dukes, arch-dukes and all that is about knowing your place. They are the privileged ones and the rest are surfs doing … Continue reading I am a TWiG on the Tree of Life…
Let’s go back to the small town of Antonio Colorado for a visit to the home of the town eccentric. Some of us, myself included, are eccentric to one level or another but there are not many people who are up the the level of the owner of the abode shown below. It would have been interesting to have been able to talk with the … Continue reading Eccentricity is What it is…
There are thousands of small towns still around in America. Antonio Colorado is somewhat typical of many. They have survived and even that says a lot about them. Antonito, Colorado was formed, like many other Colorado towns, from the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. The town has about 800 residents and a few businesses including the Golden Nugget Night Club shown here. When we stopped in … Continue reading Antonio Colorado…
I am keeping a daily watch on my two containers of tomatoes. Maybe it is like the old saying “A watched pot never boils”. The plants are absolutely beautiful but there just aren’t many tomatoes on them. Maybe too many frogs and chickens watching them. 🙂 Continue reading Tomatoes, tomatoes…
Time for some more story tellin here. I think it would be boring (at least for me) to try and tell my story in chronological order so I am gonna skip around some. All my life I have had a hankering to grow stuff and several times during my life flow I have been fortunate enough to do just that. There is just something about watching … Continue reading Growing Stuff..
The 5-foot-4, 100-pound Madison designed the intellectual framework for the Constitution, including federalism and the so-called Virginia Plan — the blueprint that determined the structure of our government that emerged from the Constitutional Convention, with its strong executive, bicameral legislature and independent judiciary. He was a strategist who helped assemble the alliances and map out the plan necessary to the Constitution’s implementation, including the campaign … Continue reading James Madison, My Hero…
New Mexico is fast becoming my favorite State. I love all the mountains and even the arid landscape but especially the adobe houses and buildings. In the future I will be including many of the towns and such but for this post it is all about the countryside. Click on any pic below to see a larger version slideshow. Continue reading New Mexico Countryside
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