Don Cunningham

Paperwhites. A bit of spring in January.

An unplowed path in snowy woods.

Cold, black water flowing through a snowy landscape.

A snow-etched crabapple tree in a cemetery.

Recent photographs.

Dead flower blooming with ice crystals.

Dried, brown leaf lined with ice crystals in the January sunshine.

Grass seedhead with ice spicules.

New snow, ice, and black water.

Scenes from a frosty January day.

A trio of small, green leaves, dusted with fresh snow.

Ice and frost in curves and fractals surround a tiny stream.

Curved trusses inside a covered bridge.

backlit oak leaves edged with frost.

I'm trying to take more photographs, and post them for my friends. Here are a few from December.

...serve with Tom Lehrer's "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" as soundtrack...

Here's the link:
media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/14/...

Tom Lehrer inserted a citation for "Lobachevsky: "Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrizations of Infinitely Differentiable Reimannian Manifolds (unpublished)"(Bozhemoi!) into a paper he wrote for the NSA (when he was supposedly working for the AEC).

After dying, the best thing William F. Buckley did was to piss off Ayn Rand by quoting Whittaker Chambers' review of "Atlas Shrugged": "700 pages of ideological fabulism, I had to flog myself to read it."

Joel Shapiro: Untitled

Alyson Shotz: Mirror Fence. A picket fence with pickets made of highly-polished metal.

Martin Puryear: Lookout. A domelike structure of laid bricks with various-sized circular apertures placed in what appears to be a random pattern.

A dense field of Black-eyed Susans.

A few more from Storm King.

Roy Lichtenstein: Mermaid. The hull of a sailboat painted with a blonde mermaid swimming through white waves.

Andy Goldsworthy: Storm King Wall. A meticulously dry-laid stone wall meanders through trees at the edge of a field.

Zhang Huan; Three Legged Buddha

Storm clouds rolling into Storm King.

Some Photos from a visit to Storm King

Polyphemus moth on porch flooring.

Went out to shake out a rug, and found this Polyphemus moth on my porch.

A deteriorating chain-link fence and stone culvert festooned with Dame's Rocket and Jewelweed.

A single yellow rose in a sunbeam.

Purple False Indigo (Baptisia) flowers backlit by afternoon sunlight.

Sunset over the Connecticut River valley.

A few more photos.

Closeup of the tip of an unfolding fern.

Water rushing by a slate outcropping with fallen leaves on the rock.

Closeup of a backlit yellow bearded iris.

Possibly some species of bittercress growing on the bank of a stream.

A few photos from May.

Close-up photograph of cherry blossoms against a blue sky.

Cherry branches blooming against a clear blue sky.

My cherry trees are blooming!

Close-up of a white magnolia blossom.

Close-up of bright yellow forsythia flowers at the end of a branch.

Close-up of purple and white violas.

Hobblebush blossoms and buds; leaves in the background.

It's looking like Spring...

Today's Poetry Daily offering is one I've always liked and had forgotten.

David Brooks somehow finds a way to blame it all on the liberals/hippies/left in 7...6...5...4...

A fully-open pink variegated tulip with a pale yellow center.

Greenhouse interior with a mass of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, narcissi, and others beneath an installation of small strips of brightly-colored plastic suspended from the ceiling of the greenhouse.

A deep purple, nearly black fully-opened tulip with a creamy white pistil.

A pale pink bloom (?camellia?) against glossy green leaves.

Some photos from the Smith College Bulb Show. Those of us in places where Winter hasn't left yet know what a gift this annual event can be.

“...a lot of regulations are written in blood.”
US Coast Guard Capt. Kyle McAvoy (Ret.)

Octavia Butler seems to do that...
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My recommendation is to now go and read adrienne marie brown ("Emergent Strategy" is her first book).

LOL

#ThingsIDidNotKnowINeeded until now.

I'm envious. I remember reading it for the first time. Mind blown.
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If you're interested in a meditation on this, Howard Mansfield wrote a book about it; "The Same Ax, Twice". (There's a story about the old farmer who brags about using the same ax all his life; he's only had to replace the head twice and the handle three times...)

There's also chalkboard paint...in spraycans...and colors!
www.krylon.com/en/tintable-...

If you *must* have a phone at a protest, buy a burner phone. With cash. From a place you don't live or go. (*NOT* an airport, bus station, etc. store)
If you're arrested, exercise your right to remain silent.
Have a contact number memorized; failing that, write it on your forearm in indelible ink.

One of my favorite places. I've been there several times and I'll be there in early April for a week of contra dancing. The Cathedral tour (you get to see the supporting structure of the octagon and the view from the roof) is totally worth it!

A dried foxtail seedhead in bright sunlight against an out-of focus background.

Ferns with a scattering of snow collecting on them, interlaced with thorns and a few dried red berries.

Pine branch with snowflakes on the needles.

A dried, somewhat bedraggled, Queen Anne's Lace blossom in bright sunlight.

Some photos from the last month or so...

NASA Rocket Engine Fireplace - NASA+ Just what you need for the holidays... the coziness of a crackling and roaring rocket engine!

'Tis the season!
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(from Astronomy Picture of the Day)

The rosette, succulent-looking ones are hens-and-chickens, a variety ov sempervivens.

I can remember the time the National Lampoon published a column by "George Fwill" titled "Why I Love the Feudal System".
Still relevant today.

Dr. Johnny Fever.