Photo Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine
I have a lot on my mind today. None of it am I prepared to organize and share.
Instead, I encourage you all to be kind to one another, to set aside your differences, to embrace what is right, and to move forward as part of the solution.
Enough is enough. Our country badly needs to heal as one nation.
Words matter. So I leave you with these 31 words.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands
One nation, under God
Indivisible with Liberty and justice for all.
Snow begs to be preserved in black and white. Sometimes I wonder why I feel compelled to rob a perfectly fine picture of its color but there’s peace and serenity to be found in these images from home.
These small trees in my back yard remind me some of Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree. Perhaps this is why I like them so. They’re underdogs.
And the giant in my front yard that I often photograph in snow, rain, sunshine, sunrise and dusk. It seems even more imposing here than it does in any other photo in my collection.
I walked with a friend at a local park yesterday.
It was a beautiful day for a long walk at a familiar place.
I always say the official mascot here is the Canada Geese. Yesterday didn’t disappoint. They were everywhere.
The day 
The color pictures we’re fine but the black and white images speak to me.
I had pulled over to have a closer look at something when this beauty went cruising by. It would be a great picture if not for that darn satellite dish in the background.