Sometimes being out of focus is a creative thing. When in focus this flower is a beautiful thing but out of focus it becomes a play on colors. I love the combination.. Continue reading Out Of Focus…

This emblem I found on a 1953 Ford tractor at the Antique Tractor show is indeed a work of art. How come we don’t see things like this anymore? Continue reading Industrial Art..

A Snippet Here, A Snippet There.. I have a daily ritual that seems to be pretty constant. After I do my “morning business” I spend an hour or on the Internet to see what happened in the world in the last 24 hours. I am now pleasantly cruising over all the political news and most of the stuff from the Middle East. That stuff only gets me depressed…  But one part of the morning exercise that I enjoy is reading all my blog friends posts. Unfortunately most of my buddies from the last half dozen years are no longer around … Continue reading I Miss You…..

Lillies are one of my favorite flowers and these are out early this year. Continue reading Lillies..

This is another story about my dad in his early years.  This one is about his brothers and sisters and his relationships with them. When starting these stories one thing that became glaringly obvious was there is really no photographic record of the Walters clan.  I don’t have any pictures of my aunts or uncles or even grandparents for that matter. They just didn’t seem to do pictures in those days. Maybe they were just too expensive? I inherited all the memorabilia of my parents and included in that was just a handful small photos and few legal documents. So, these posts on … Continue reading Sonny and His Sisters and Brothers

One of my favorite snacks is Halo oranges. They are tasty and easy to peel. It seems that all of them that I peel result in the rinds as shown above. I guess I am a creature of habit but it does have some creative aspects. In my mind it looks like an orange swan…. Continue reading Creative Peeling….

If you are a “wise” guy you can look back on your life to see where you have been and to learn lessons from past successes and especially the mistakes. This is one of those posts. I don’t think I am your typical senior citizen if someone like that even exists. I have been kind of a misfit at many times in my life. For one thing I am a pretty liberal guy where most “old people” I come across these days seem to be of a very conservative slant.  As kids we are always asking “why”, why this, why that. Most of … Continue reading I Am A Rock, I Am An Island…

I lived in New Jersey for four years and visited there for thirty before that so diners were very familiar to me. When we lived there they became a regular eat-out place. We make an annual trek to a town near Indy to buy our Spring flowers and discovered this “new” diner near there. It is nice to see that the old is new again. Continue reading Ode to the Diner

They called my parents the Greatest Generation I guess because they grew up during the Great Depression and were steeled by World War II. This post is going to tell you some stories about my dad. My dad was born in 1923. I’m sure he never traveled further than Indianapolis, which was forty miles away, during his first eighteen years. As mentioned in a previous post his father was a pig farmer and that was probably dad’s total life experiences through his high school years. Belle Union where he grew up is almost non-existent today and was not much even in dad’s … Continue reading The Greatest Generation…

I just ran across this picture in my Lightroom database. It was taken about twenty years ago but still one of my favorites. It was taken in my backyard from three houses ago. Continue reading Foggy Morning..