Painting of the Peter and Paul Fortress by an unknown artist, 1845

The Piker Press publishes my photo of the Admiral David G. Farragut statue in Washington, D.C.

I’m so happy to see The Piker Press today publish my photo of the Admiral David G. Farragut statue in Washington, D.C.’s Farragut Square.  You can find the picture right here.

Farragut Square is a great place to stop and relax on a sunny day if you’re catching a train out of The District.  It’s a couple of blocks from The White House — and there are plenty of food trucks with interesting fare.  (You see, Virginians?  Long Island is NOT the only place who has those.)  DC residents can be surprisingly friendly too.

Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for letting me be a part of the creative community of The Piker Press!



“Stream in the Forest,” Andrei Nikolajewitsch Schilde, 1906

#Ican’tseeshit

Was wondering who the hell “Susan Lilly” was.

Then I put my glasses on and saw that caller ID was just telling me “Scam Likely.”



Variant cover to “Carnage: Black, White & Blood” #4, Stephen Mooney, 2021

Marvel Comics.

2025’s first snow in Roanoke, Virginia

Well … it WAS snowing in Roanoke a little while ago. And it was coming down pretty hard too. Then the sun came out and it vanished completely.

Campbell Avenue at Market Square.



Framed Face Autostereogram by Dominic Alves, 2009

Yes, this is indeed one of those “magic eye” images popularized in the 1990’s.  (I still think these things are neat, even if I am pretty hit-or-miss at being able to see them.)  “Autostereogram” is a new word for me, but it makes sense if you break the word down.

Incidentally, the “Mallrats” (1995) scene to which I’ve linked above is a blooper.  The image contained by the poster at the mall is not a sailboat; it’s a pattern of different geometric shapes.  None of the characters could have seen a sailboat.  (Seriously, pause the image on a laptop and look.)

If the below image is inscrutable to you, you can check out (or share) the larger image over at Wikimedia Commons.



Future Tense.

BritBud last night:     “Happy New Year from the future!”

Me:     “Happy New Year from the shameful and sordid past!”



© Nevit Dilmen, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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