I sometimes wish I could ignore stupidity, corruption, and the various and insidious old boy networks that are everywhere I look. I try to ignore them, I really do, but politics is everywhere. And most often, or so it seems to me, the politically motivated are stupid, corrupt and play favors with abandon. I do […]
Freebie Digital Background Images and Textures
I love playing with graphics. I talk about this love at least once a week it seems. So even though I posted some images yesterday, I want to share some textures I created. Yes, I am working on an Autumn-themed project. I created these images using Gimp, a free to download, open source drawing program. […]
10 Early 20th Century Advertising Images
It is Wordless Wednesday, so today I’m reproducing some advertising images from 1910. Source Poster advertising : being a talk on the subject of posting as an advertising medium, with helpful hints and sensible suggestions to poster advertisers, and with thirty-two pages of full color reproductions of posters used by national advertisers (1910) Author: Hawkins, […]
My Life, Tucson, and Autumn
I first visited Tucson in October. It was a gorgeous autumn. Warm, but not too warm. Sunny, but with the long, slanted light of fall, not the pounding sun of summer. I had visited the Flagstaff and Prescott areas previously, and that was fun, but I felt at home here in Tucson. I moved here […]
Mr. Guy, aka Buddy, Grieves But Still Loves Treats
I thought I would update readers on how my household is doing without our Daisy Dog. We have her ashes so it is seeming more real. Buddy (below) still wants to know where Daisy is and why she isn’t coming home. The only real regret I now have is that we couldn’t have had Daisy […]
Women Not Cut From the Same Cloth, But…
I’ve been mulling over this post for weeks. There are things that have to be said that border so many issues it is almost impossible to write about them without getting lost in tangents. I love tangents but they are slippery and can sidetrack as well as illuminate through example. I know I am not […]