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There's a lot of scents that I love; all for different reasons. The smell of tar on a spring morning reminds me of the home I lived in until the age of 8. The city would spray tar on the gravel road in front of my house every spring to help keep the dust down and gravel in place. The smell of a rain storm coming. The smell of Turbo Blue fuel being burned in a hot rod. The smell of Georgio...

Night and day are again of equal length and in perfect equilibrium - dark and light, masculine and feminine, inner and outer, in balance. But we are again on the cusp of tra nsition and from now the year now begins to wane and from this moment darkness begins to defeat the light.    ( https://www.goddessandgreenman.co.uk/mabon ) September 21st or 22nd holds the date for the next...

August turned out to be fantastic. One of the driest on record, but with the exception of a handful of hot days it was strangely cool and mild, and the lack of rain kept the humidity down most of the time. Dryness aside, I wish every August could be like this one. Hurricane Laura turned east before any of its rain could reach me, but I got a little from a regular storm a couple of days...

No, this has nothing to do with photography either. A conversation the other day sparked some thoughts. How many of you plan or have planned the major events or circumstances in your lives? Let me explain a little... the conversation revolved around careers and what got us to the point of current careers. It got me thinking... my dad went into the Navy shortly after high school and learned...

I'm going to tell you something. Okay imagine this. So you're standing on that bridge You are looking out across the city You feel the wind through your hair You're looking down at the water - Are you still with me? Fuck, where was I Oh yeah - Then comes that moment that you're standing on the ledge, you know? And then that adrenaline comes. That's the moment you get really scared because you...

It's been a busy couple of weeks. The corn got harvested in three pickings, each two days apart, and in it's place three rows of fall peas went in. I also dug a trench where some of the corn was standing and buried the stalks, after tying a dozen or so of them into shocks for Halloween decorations later on. The weather hasn't been too bad. The rain stopped again, but temps have mostly been...

My Pontiac Firebird is nearly finished and for the last couple things, my husband and I decided to take it to a local restoration shop to button up those things. It cost me $95 to get it towed to the place. We explained the couple things we wanted done and what had been done already. Everything was new or rebuilt on it; I mean everything. There should be no replacement parts necessary. Even...

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Got to see my Father for the first time in over five months.    Through a screen and from a distance but we got to talk a little and he still has the Marine in him and managed to return the salute I gave him. Love you Dad ..... Semper Fi!

More strange weather, but it's not altogether unwelcome this time. The heat and dryness continued for a week after my last post, and we were officially in moderate drought conditions, but then it was like a switch got thrown and everything changed, literally overnight. A cold front rolled in and broke the drought with almost daily rain (I got over 4 inches in just one night a few days ago),...

The trusted black antebellum cooks and butlers that white southern families would so often affectionately refer to as, "Aunt Bess", or, "Uncle Joe", were nearly always secretly the actual aunts and uncles of those families except that they had been born as slaves and as the results of slave rapes by white southern slave owners. This fact is why products like, "Aunt Jemima", and, "Uncle Ben",...

No rain yet. I've only had an inch in the past 5 weeks. The forecasted heat wave didn't fully materialize, though, so that's good. It has been getting into the mid and upper 90's, but no 100's so far. The grass is starting to go brown, but at least I've hardly had to mow it lately. A decent trade-off in my book. - Sunday, July 19 - Just after sunrise. . Cool and pleasant. ....