scribblings from historic downtown McKinney, Texas: altered art, local color, flora, fauna, cemeteries, irrational commentary, improbable-and-unlikely diy home projects
It was a lovely Friday afternoon in McKinney that Halloween. The cottony white clouds balanced themselves in an ice blue sky while yellow leaves rattled as they were whisked down asphalt streets and across shingled roofs. My friend Jim had just got his monthly paycheck, and he was finally able to make the down payment […]
Phoebe killed another squirrel yesterday. I think this is the third one this month. The younger ones don’t realize the fragility of their own mortality, much like human teenagers. They take awful chances taunting our yellow-dog-who-moves-like-a-cat and once she sinks her teeth in their necks they are goners. She’s becoming more possessive of her victims […]
in my glass….tiny bubbles. was that Willie Nelson or Don Ho?
The cola bubbles are for celebration. I’m finally back with my very own computer after immigrating most of my files to my new MacBookPro. My other laptop was so old I still had Classic applications on it. We have a wireless network in the house, […]
A clip from yesterday’s newspaper (about the stock market) pasted onto mostly found papers. I found a piece of wood veneer that looked like a cartoon character; I just darkened what looked like the facial detail.
I’ve got a basic idea for what I’m going to write for NaNo, as well as a list of characters […]
We’ve had bad news every day at work the last several weeks. I work for a corporation which is in retail, and retail is doing almost as poorly as the stock market. Another “bad news meeting” is scheduled for this afternoon. I hope I still have a job afterwards. You know the economy is bad […]
About a week ago I was reading Hanna’s blog, and learned about something called NaNoWriMo, which is National Novel Writing Month. Well, I’ve gone and signed up for it.
Once upon a time, in my much younger days, I thought I wanted to write a book; you know the “Great American Novel” dream. I majored […]
Where is an FDR when we need him?
All Bush can say is, “anxiety can feed anxiety and that can make it hard to see all that’s being done to solve the problem.”
FDR was pure inspiration: “The rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted […]
I guess I’m in an abstracting mode of photography.
Yesterday I drove to Sherman, a town about 30 miles north of here, initially to photograph some gravestones of distant relatives for my genealogical research. As is the case with a typical huge cemetery, it wasn’t that photogenic. My cohort and I spent most of our time prowling around the back sides of buildings […]
Green Clearwing Dragonfly
I’m fascinated by bugs, especially when I can view one close up. I don’t know why I grew up disliking them, or why I was terrified of spiders. (I still despise cockroaches, though.) Is it a Western cultural thing to see insects and reptiles as evil things? It seems most of the aliens […]
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