"suppose we believe one half..."

                                  this beautiful camel was working in quartzsite...his name is "freckles" 

                               this beautiful beagle dog was at the flea market in quartzsite...his name is "freckles"

                                                  it's a sign!...or not...

well the usual poopyness is in place in this desert paradise (compared to large snow drifts)...it rained and was very overcast for about three days and i am sure the desert flora nd fauna are loving it...no solar power but the honda 500 generator worked well for about 5 hours with no problems...and all the electrical stuff got charged and i got some fair reception on the phone for yooptoop....i found a presentation that was so informative that i will try to download it and listen to it frequently...it is entitled "Avoiding Toxic Relationships" which deals with stoicism and the strength of WALKING AWAY...about 25 minutes long...great information...the situation seems to be that the candidates for the head of the executive branch of government are both...well....flawed shall we say...i have a hankering for a younger more vibrant chief executive...actually i was thinking a 15 year old female might fit the bill...you know a bit of attitude and sarcasm without the baggage...anyhow the dismal reality is that the "ship of state" is listing heavily and is underway but not making way...we be dead in the water...bummer...

watched a few DVD's lately...0ne of which was "Waterworld"...the so called "extended" version...the shorter version was "chopped" and this really reduced the quality of the film...i heard that all the money mr. costner made on "dances with wolves" (i have not viewed this film yet) he spent on "waterworld" which i think is a great movie...the long version is worth seeing (almost 3 hours) ..."Don't blame him, survival is all he knows. That's why someday there will be so many like him, and probably so few of us"

"Suppose we believe one half of what he tells us?                                                                                        Johnson-"Ay; but we don't know which half to believe. By his lying we lose not only our reverence for him, but all comfort in his conversation" (from boswells"life of johnson"
 

"A place is a piece..."

 

                                              brighteyes wants to invite rabbit to dinner

                                            rare rabbit image...first night then never again...too many foxes

                                    fox gets curious about red light in camera

59% "deficiency" in "tracking" $1.7 billion bucks worth of "defense gear" intended to prevent "misuse" or theft of stuff sent to Ukraine...sounds about right...billions stolen from the USA government but they spend more billions of bucks to catch people who are impoverished...heard the latest must have item is an insulated coffee cup...made by stanley corp....i just bought an insulated stainless mug for a buck at the thrift...works very well...read in archeology magazine that mr. alexander koch proposed in his Ph.D thesis that European  colonization of north america caused climate change...seems he figures 56 million native people died due to diseases and therefore less crops were planted and therefore more trees grew back and therefore carbon dioxide levels dropped therefore temperatures cooled off therefore the "little ice age" happened therefore crops failed and people suffered...whatever!...first commercial mission to the moon a flop...no dog ashes to be spread...hooray!... secretary of defense has prostate removed...that procedure was not recommended to me...the radiation was less radical...and the "chemical castration" (seems they could come up with a better name for this injection) i was hoping to see the secretary of defense get "the shot" to see if a country can be safe with a head of military with no testosterone...i think they would be more save...much more safe....

"we're here to discover heresy and criminal licentiousness..if there's bacon involved I dread to imagine the depths of depravity that we'll find here in Venice." ???

"A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings." Alan Gussow "A sense of place" 1971

"I cannot and will not..."

this is a painting about how the first sculpture was supposed to be made...a woman outlines the image of her lover as he sleeps and her father (a potter) fills the outline with clay and the first sculpture was made

 every now and then a great image appears on the game camera...the date and time are correct

this is a picture of a pile of rabbit poop and the edge of a cactus which has been nibbled...which is why driving over the cactus deprives the wildlife of life sustaining moisture in the hot hot summers

Missouri governor signs into law a statute which makes it un-legal for Chinese nationals to own agricultural land near a military base...DeSantis made it un-legal to for Chinese to own land in Florida,,,in Arkansas the government took over 160 acres of land owned by the Chinese government and their pesticide and seed company Syngenta...i think i heard that there are several thousand companies owned by Americans in china...sooo....i see where the queen of Denmark gave up her job and gave it to her son...well i hear al gore refer to himself as a "recovering politician"...there is a lot of that going around...it seems to me that after  certain amount of time people just become inert and do not recognize that staying in a job...think ginsberg supreme court...is a bad plan for the big picture..the thing to do is change the play and change the players..."every junkies like the setting sun..." right about now this country needs dynamic leadership and loyalty be damned...

"I cannot and will not cut my conscious to fit this years fashion." Lillian Hellman...she was the first person to refuse to implicate others when asked to testify before the House Committee on Un_American activities...(1952)