In Ohio ~ Lots to see. #Ohio #Granville #photo #art #brick

For All To See ~ I love the old brick buildings, reading their memoirs told in scars and patches, their stories of survival, of changing with the times. #Westerville #Ohio #BrickBuildings #history #architecture #photography

One Day In Ohio A bit misty on the reservoir, 5 March 2026. #Ohio #snapshot #photography

Supermarket Moonrise ~ Terrible point & shoot phone photo through a dirty window. Still, I kinda like it. The war not here yet. #moonrise #PhonePhoto #DirtyDigital #photography #Amerika

Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops That's where you'll find me . . . IF ONLY. But I'm grateful to Yip Harburg for those lyrics, for that little lift. #HaroldArlen #YipHarburg #Oscale #ModelRairoad #diorama #DigitaPhoto #WizardOfOz

Port Arend, 1959, Late Freight ~ Alco 1069 pulling hard on the Fish Town grade past the Coast Guard station in the late afternoon sun. #ModelRailroad #Oscale #Ogauge #October #GoldenHour #C&NW #photography #diorama

Great. Nice job so far, you MAGA sons-of-bitches, you daughters of the revolting. #MyCountryTisOfThee #MyFlagToo #DigitalPhotoArt #photography #America #Amerika

Our Little Town ~ Much of the snow melted today, but I like this shot from a few days ago. The Canadian Manitoulin and the U.S. Edgar B. Spear, side by side, getting along fine, as have our nations until one . . . #SturgeonBayWI #OurLittleTown #BlueSky #shipyard #🇨🇦🇺🇸

Crazy making? Hand drawing about 1000 rocks on this lime kiln and then painting each individually? Well, yeah, a little. But a lot more beneficial to the brain than watching the Big Orange Bastard. #ModelRailroad #Oscale #Ogauge #diorama #escapism #BigOrangeBastard

Port Arend, 1959 A couple of weeks behind, but I'm happy to once again, legitimately, call the White Cliff Lime Plant a work in progress. #ModelRailroad #Oscale #Ogauge #diorama

Oh, yes sir, Mr. Trump sir, here's that sack of shit you ordered. What's that, sir? Oh, yes, plenty more on the truck. Top quality State of the Union shit, yes sir. #StateOfTheUnion #BigOrangeBastard #DigitalArt #DigitalPhotography #DigitalPhotoRetouching #Oscale #diorama

A Short Treatise on a Long Winter ~ A monotone on monotony. A black & white on gray. But, cheer up -- everything's gonna be swell, everybody's gonna be beautiful. #BlackAndWhite #monotone #abstract #RuiningDecentPhotos #DigitalArt #PixelPushing #FingerPainting

Underside 1 ~ I manipulated the colors (a lot), but otherwise this is an unaltered photo of a hospital bed-table. #FunWithDigits #PixelPushing #photography #abstract

Let's Ride ~ This is Horace, my dapple-grey spiritual advisor. He feels that 14 days in this room ought to be almost enough. His very presence makes me think it may be true. #FunWithHospitals #horses #DappleGray #SpiritualAdvisors #ThereIsNoSanityClaus

One Day in Amsterdam ~ A photo for all you BlueSky fans of things on rails: this cool little monument to the wonderful Amsterdam system of things on rails, shot two years ago. #Trams #Tramways #railways #railroads #Amsterdam #photography #StreetPhotography #BlackandWhite

Vacation View People underestimate how lovely Green Bay can be in the wintertime. #CocktailsForOne #GreenBay #WinterVacation

Port Arend, 1959 ~ Always work to be done . . . #ModelRailroad #Oscale #diorama #welding

Visitor ~ Sometimes, people just show up while I'm hobbying my time away. They want to know what I'm doing. They don't say so, but I know: It's not enough. #spirits #apparitions #SaveOurShip #ModelRailroad #Oscale #diorama

In America, In February, 2026, split down the middle. (But the left looks less white) #pavement #TheGreatDivide #photography #Amerika

FEBRUARY ~ #art #photoart #digitalphoto #playingwithfood #blueonion #photography

Flathead Ford, Bonehead Kid ~ Out of focus now, that senior year (1960-61) when I rebuilt a Ford V8 instead of studying. Did a good job. Meant to put it in a Model A hot rod I was building. Quit. Went off to fail at art school. No regrets. #ModelRailroad #Oscale #diorama #HotRod #FordV8 #memoir

Mocking up a little more of "the look" of a lime works, 'tho anybody who really knows one must be laughing. The rotary kiln, for instance, needs to be about 3 times this diameter. And who knows where all those conveyors go? #ModelRailroad #Oscale #GreenBayWI #BlueSky #TracksideIndustry

Don't take your guns to town, boys* *(any resemblance to any actual human being, murdered in the streets of Minneapolis, is purely coincidental) #Minneapolis #theICEage #Amerika #AmericaGratedAgain #JohnyCash #CountryMusic #Minnesota #LandOfTheFree

Port Arend, 1959 I don't look back to that year when I was 15 with nostalgia. We had problems. And we added the 49th and 50th stars to the flag. Now I wouldn't feel too bad to see a new Mason-Dixon line, but where would we draw it? #ModelRailroad #Oscale #MasonDixon #Amerika

Daily Wordle Prompt ~ A friend suggested, since we exchange Wordle scores daily anyway, that we each must write briefly using the Wordle answer somewhere in that writing. Some days of course are better than others. Yesterday's? Eh, OK. #Writing #Wordle #NoKings #TheQueen #USRoyals

Starting over with this post: At the Concours d'Elegance, One-Armed Baby Jesus and Pogoingo, the bouncing 'bot boy, pause to admire a perfectly preserved 1952 Cadillac Sedan. #MinorBlasphemy #Jesus #Robots #Cadillacs #FineAutomobiles #Diorama #Oscale #ModelRailroad

Port Arend, 1959 The first component of the sprawling White Cliff Lime Co. is nearing completion. That old gentleman is Mr. Olson. Owns the place. Knows everybody that works here, knows their kids names. Pays just OK, but nobody leaves. #ModelRailroad #Oscale #diorama #kitbash #WrappingBoxes

Homage ~ Nothing new here -- my photo ode to the onion, to the chef, sure, but more the peasant cook, the simple meal. To all of our tears. To the great photographers and mere shutterbugs who have recorded such scenes as this since the beginning. #Onions #Cooks #Photography #ifweregonnacryanyway

Awake in the Night ~ Tiny detail from an old (6"x6") oil painting of mine. Digitally altered to remove color, turned on its side. Voila: a whole new thing. Shhh, go back to sleep. #Art #OilPainting #DigitalFunnyBusiness #Sleepless

Port Arend, 1959 The late afternoon light today lends a sort of beauty to even the back alley, the junk behind D.B.McNooch's little machine shop, that sumac that survives in spite of all we do. Murray Skynard's VW van, the latest thing. #ModelRailroad #Oscale #GoldenHour #photography #diorama

MacContemplation ~ Actually, Big MacContemplation. I know, the world is coming to an end and THIS is what I choose to eat? Well, sometimes, yeah. And it was kinda good. (and no, dammit, they're not paying me or giving me free junk food) #photography #composition #color #shape #MickeyDaydreaming

Terror! Is there a goal, beyond spreading terror, in the actions of the Asshole-In-Chief and his Goon Squad? If there is some other objective, please, my ex-friends who voted for this shit (yes you did) let us know. #Terror #MyCountryTisOfThee #GoonSquad #AbstractArt #DigitalArt

Invasive Irony ~ I know people who are concerned about invasive species in America, like these phragmites, because they tend to choke out the natives. These people are all, like myself, white descendants of Europeans who choked out the natives. Hmmm . . . #Indigenous #Invasive #Irony #NativeAmerican

Another Life ~ When I was just a lad of 43, apparently, I did this drawing for T-shirts for our sixth annual wooden boat gathering. Don't know about unique, but I've certainly become antique in the ensuing years. #WoodenBoats #Drawings #FishCreekWI #GreatLakes #Tshirts #Antiques #Art

Coming to Port Arend ~ An inspiration, a few cheap novelty items, a broken toy. Lots more where they came from. Let's see what happens . . . #ModelRailroad #Oscale #Ogauge #diorama #ScratchBuilt? (Kinda)

Green Light As I was walking on the bridge today . . . #photography #PhonePhoto #SteelBridge #SturgeonBay #OurLittleTown #GreatLakes #Go #GoWestOldMan

Port Arend, 1959 Whoever dropped that beer bottle in front of Narrow Norm & Nora's is risking the considerable wrath of Nora. "Call it a dive if you want," she says,"but it's a damned clean dive! Bad enough these weeds in the gutter." #ModelRailroad #Oscale #StreetScape #WisconsinTavern #diorama

Stormbird ~ Come down & grab hold of me. Fly me from this country I thought was mine. #MyCountryTisOfThee #SweetLandOfLiberty #OfTheeIMourn #DontShoot #photography #frost #rust #steel #birds

Somebody Bet on the Bay(s) ~ In a balmy 32⁰, the icebreaking tug, Mobile Bay, returns to Sturgeon Bay after helping a few ships in & out of Green Bay. Got that? Notice her bubbling system at work, a big help in thick ice, unlike this. #USCGCMobileBay #SturgeonBay #OurLittleTown #GreatLakes #tugboat

River ~ Give me your Moldau, your Mystic, your Red, Yellow Knife, your Blue Nile. Give me your Illinois, Ohio, your Little Miami, your Ahnapee. Or, look here, give me this winter, your Kewaunee, your Fish Creek, your Kinnickinnic. #Rivers #photography #Winter #poetry #ARiverICanSkateAwayOn

Self-Portrait as Military Man (from memory) Found concrete, snow, spots of spray paint. Added digital stuff and whatnot. My recollection is a bit fuzzy about the star. #Portrait #SelfPortrait #Art #DigitalArt #FoundArt #LeaderOfMen #InCommand #military #CommiePinko #Etc.

Tugboat Twilight Time ~ Just a look at the scene around town tonight, as the Jimmy L. and the Donald Sarter go out to break a little ice in preparation for the homecoming of the ship Mark R. Barker, I imagine. #SturgeonBay #GreatLakes #Gtugs #Tugboats #OurLittleTown

Winterburn ~ Sometimes I forget that the things I see every day may be, in the right light, fairly remarkable. #sundown #photography #phonephoto #SturgeonBay #OurLittleTown

Port Arend, 1959 (still) For the new year, this hard-working Plymouth WDT got rusty and dusty and painted and windows glazed and a horn and an engineer named Clarence "Clancy" Johnson. Total investment in used loco+upgrades=$25.+hours+Clancy. #ModelRailroad #Oscale #Ogauge #SwitchEngine #diorama

From Port Arend, always in 1959 ~ Good night and joy be to you all . . . #ModelRailroad #Oscale #HappyNewYear #Diorama

Very Important! For maximum efficiency, keep a tidy work area at all times. #ModelRailroading #Oscale #Ogauge #ModelMaking #dioramas #GoodAdvice

Red Tug No. 3 #TugBoat #photography #PhonePhoto #OurLittleTown #SturgeonBay #GreatLakes #winter

Horse's Ass? Well . . . yeah, I suppose, tho' the little white donkey seems kinda sweeter than that. #Horse #JackAss #Donkey #BlackandWhite #photography #DigitalPhotography #AlgomaWI

Portrait: The Prize Fighter ~ Morning After. (Zero in on tiny area of bad photo, find a face where there was no face, crop, enlarge, finger paint in mark-up mode, etc., etc.)(See who's there.) #DigitalArt #PixelPushing #FingerPainting #PhoneArt

Note to Tourists ~ Although this is the first of the species positively identified this season, anecdotal accounts assure us there are others (up to 30 meters) regularly breaking up through the thin ice. And they are feeding. #IceFishing #tourism #DoorCountyWI #ThinkTwiceAboutTheIce #photography