Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why, you had to hide away, for so long, where did we go wrong....

Well...

Here is the first batch of Vacation 2016 photos....

Day 1 - (I was riding in the back seat).  It rained most of the way to Valdosta, Georgia, where we stopped for the night.  This is were we fueled up in Walton - and had Denny's for breakfast.

I have a "steeple" thing...

When I was a kid, my cousins would stop (on their way to Mimi's house) at the fireworks places in Tennessee because it was against the law to own anything that exploded in Kentucky.  Michael McAnallen taught me so many naughty things you can do with an M-80...

That escalated quickly...

But, I guess redemption is on the horizon...(this is kinda creepy to me for some reason).

This was always an indication that you had reached Tennessee...

Georgia...I think I heard banjos...

Stuck in the interminable Atlanta traffic jam...you would think with 14 lanes it would move a little faster...

Yeah...no words...

Uh, okay.

Creepy-assed flying rats follow me EVERYWHERE!  Coo-coo, Toodles...

I have a "tree" thing, too...

Let the sun shine in, face it with a grin...

It seemed like it took FOREVER to see blue skies...but it was worth the wait...

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There is nothing more musical than a sunset. ~Claude Debussy

Ok...

So, one requisite photo (until I get my buns in gear) of a Florida sunset...

I miss it already...

Vacation!!!

So...

Guess where we are!!!!  Mara, Pappy and I are on vacation...in Cape Coral, Florida!!

There will be many more photos to come, but here is just a taste.

Yay!!

Where trouble melts like lemon drops.....

Ok...

Not gonna lie...I'm a lazy slob.  I bought a new external hard drive and I've been too "busy" (cough, cough) to even open the package.  So...I opened it tonight and downloaded all 20 photos I had taken these past couple of weeks.

Total slacker....

You never know what king of CRAP you'll find at Goodwill...(utterly useless CRAP. CRAP, CRAP, CRAP)

CRAP.

A clown extermination?

They must have enjoyed the pancakes at IHoP...

A used diaper and a pack of smokes...out the window Thanksgiving night at Bob Evans...

Soooooommmmewheeeeerrrre...over the rainbow.....

“Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.” ~William Cullen Bryant

So...

Here are nature twins! 

(Just roll with it....I'm running outta material here...)

What's it mean when he's a solid cream color??!!

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“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” ~Vincent Van Gogh

So...

Mara, Pappy and I went to the Cincinnati Art Museum last week to visit the Vincent van Gogh exhibit.  Well worth the trip - his work is absolutely beautiful.

Here are some observances...

“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.”
~Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, July 21, 1882

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“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” ~W.P. Kinsella

So...

I was digging through my old external hard drives (again) yesterday and found a couple of oldies-but-goodies to share.

I really need to get my butt back out there everyday....

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“The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light.” ~Franz Kafka

Ok...

On the flip side of the Supermoon. 

Yesterday's photo was taken on November 14, 2016, at approximately 6:15pm.  Today's photo was taken on November 15, 2016, at approximately 6:15am. 

Cool!!

Now I want a telescope....

“The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.” ~William Shakespeare

So...

This was my first attempt at the Supermoon tonight.  I'm going to try again in the morning...

Strange how the night moves....

Mood...

“I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.” ~Thurgood Marshall

So...

I am having a REALLY hard time accepting the outcome of the election.  Not so much the fact the Trump was elected - and the BS he stated he was going to change, implement or eliminate - but the jackasses who now think that it is now okay and acceptable to treat people the way Trump was urging them to.  Reading stories of verbal and physical attacks just one day after the election is very disheartening.  No one should feel fear living in this country.  EVER.  Fear of what is happening at the political level is bad enough, but when I have to live in fear in my everyday surroundings, well...this is bad.  REALLY bad. 

Please...can we not embrace the hate-mongering, racism and bigotry?  I thought we - as a nation - were mostly past this.

I decided to post photos of pretty flowers tonight.  I need to find some zen.  Maybe this will help.

“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt