Todd Gerstenberger

Grandson drawing with John Lennon looking over

Like the man said, all you need is love ❤️ ☮️
#JohnLennon

Rolling Stone magazine cover of John & Yoko

Never forgotten…
#JohnLennon

(Came across this issue of RS in an old box of keepsakes)

Lesser Goldfinches on a niger thistle feeder on a snowy Albuquerque morning

Cotton candy snow here in Albuquerque this morning, but the Goldies just go about their business as usual ☺️

Deep in his grave, Zombie Hunter S Thompson grins devilishly and nods…

If she’s serious about attracting the maga vote she needs to spend more bucks on the trademark rubber face 🫠

Delusional.

Apologies to Dr Seuss!

A Sundrop tomato plant WAY overflowing its cage!

You see, scrolling will bring us to the end of this… house, and there is a MONSTER at the end of this house!

(A monster of a Sundrop tomato plant, that is! 😉)

Jack o lantern made with pieces of black gorilla tape instead of carving

My grandson and I made this multiple personality jack-o-lantern…
And it’s recyclable as pie! 🥧
Boo!!

Phil Lesh with the Grateful Dead at Santa Fe 10/15/1982

Tshirt from Grateful Dead fall tour 1982

Grateful Dead at the late, lamented Santa Fe Downs, New Mexico, 10/17/1982

YouTube video by pootard How do you do fellow kids?

youtu.be/98k05_bM2e4

That is as pure an example of “clusterfuck” as you will ever find.

Purple eggplant blossom

“Asian Delight” eggplant blossom. Lots of new growth and blossoms in the garden, the plants dig this cool moist weather. Now comes the suspense of waiting for the first frost— average used to be around 10/20 here in Albuquerque, but has been receding with the changing climate.

Holy gods I expect Ben Bradlee to dig and scratch his way out of his grave and strangle the non-existent printers ink out of the chosen who penned this mess in the name of the editorial board.

Rusty, Abe, Paul, and Brian on stage at the Isleta Amphitheater in Albuquerque, 10/7/2025

Went to see Paul McCartney and band in Albuquerque last night. What an experience!
Here is a screenshot of my text response to a friend who was also there—

Yellow and white gazania flowers in Albuquerque garden

Keeping it in the yard, good ol gazanias providing colorful mandala blooms in our fall rock garden

Can’t say I blame those students. The advantages of the experience are outweighed by having to put up with ICE up their asses. Sad. 😞

Backlit northern sea oats seed pods

Closer to home, the setting sun on northern sea oats pods

A view through the golden aspen leaves in Colorado

Peeking through the aspens, near Telluride

Photo of Lizard Head peak in Colorado, 9/25/2025

Lizard Head Peak, graphite drawing from 2018

Old friend Lizard Head peak, on the road to Telluride CO, from 9/25/2025, and my graphite drawing from 2018

More colorful aspens and majestic mountains near Telluride

The beauty and majesty really does take one’s breath away

Aspens turning gold in the high country near Telluride

Here’s some mountain color, near Telluride CO. Amazingly, the aspens were not at their peak yet!

Ted chile ristras in Albuquerque NM

The Great Wall… of red chile

Sunflower

Morning glory

Late season sunflower and morning glory

Just a footnote, I refuse to use the term the Grifting Old Party uses for itself, since in no way shape or form does that party reflect the classic definition of the word “republican.” Hence my use of * when I’m forced to reference it.

He didn’t write that— too many 25 cent words.
But it raises an observation and a question: democrats may have a low approval rating (hell, they rate pretty low in my mind, not for ideals, for inaction) but in what alternative bizarro world does the republica* party have any “highest” rating level?

If, as the nattering nabob announcers were saying, the NFL has a new “show respect” doctrine, then Dak should get punished too.
Unless he was imitating Sylvester the Cat saying “sufferin’ succotash!,” then it’s okay. 💦 #salivagate

United States of Dead Tshirt, back

United States of Dead tshirt, hand tinted with fabric markers

Before & after—

🎶 Comic book colors on a violin river 🎶
(From a set of fabric markers 😃) 💀🌹

Watch out now
For soft shoe shufflers…

You want to get to heaven? Give away all your money to the poor, like Jesus would. That’s a start.

3 year old grandson pushing a wheelbarrow in our garden

My best garden helper ❤️

I, personally, am in awe 🫡

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