My Side of the Mountain. Looking for Frightful and The Baron.
That view is extraordinary, isn’t it? Mill Mountain rises to around 1,750 feet, and these were taken when my alumbuds and I were at or near the summit.
Depiction of Buddha by Hong Zicheng, 17th Century
From the Xianfo Qizong.
Isn’t IT cute?
My baby groundhog buddy came back, but he’s shy all of a sudden. See the little twerp peeking out of the storm drain?
When I posted his picture on Facebook, however, Blog Correspondent Pete Harrison immediately cautioned me that he might NOT be a groundhog. (And me all alone in my little yellow raincoat!)
Cover to “Grendel” #26, John K. Snyder III, 1988
Comico.
Mill Mountain in Roanoke, Virginia, July 2018 (3)
More mountain madness with the Mary Washington College kids.
I DO realize that those blurry car shots are weird. I just find them trippy and dreamlike! I’ll probably never stop posting them. (And that third really blurry shot makes me think of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game.” The bright, laterally-racing greens just give it a sense of urgency.)
“The Fog of Trump” (Robert Reich)
Why so bitter, bus driver?
Is it because life isn’t fare?
*I’m allowed to crack this joke because my Dad was a bus driver. And because that bus driver I bumped into at Checkers is a real %*&$.
And if you don’t like this joke, it’s just because you’re an opponent of farced busing.
Mill Mountain in Roanoke, Virginia, July 2018 (2)
Figure for “Three Crouching Women,” Koloman Moser, circa 1914
Indian ink and pen and red pencil on canvas mounted on paper.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 