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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