Author: WmX

I stumbled off the track to success in 1968, started chasing shadows that summer. Since then, In addition to farm-laborer and newspaper photographer my occupational incarnations include dishwasher, janitor, retail photo clerk, plumber, HVAC repairman, auto mechanic, CAT scan technologist, computer worker and politico (whatever it takes to buy a camera.) I am on the road to understanding black and white photography.

Juvies

vultures
Juvenile black vultures (Coragyps atratus) chilling in the side-yard.

White Dummies

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar–T.S.Eliot

She broke bad on breaking bad.

breaking bad dogged dvd
Tilly is in post-op day 9, the 9th day of restrained activity. Restraining a puppy, push down the energy in one area it will manifest somewhere else. She broke bad on breaking bad.

surgery

dog at door
Tilly at the door of Georgetown Vet, 0728hrs. Surgery today. Complicated feeling surrounding that but her 9 brothers will carry on the genetics. Prayers please!
Tilly Georgetown
She likes the personnel at Georgetown, enters willingly.

Walker

in the west
Went up a mountain today courtesy of Walker. There were lots of places where he could have stepped off the path. He didn’t. I swatted mosquitoes and horse flies for him. He did me the favor of keeping us alive.