“Reflections disremembering by fractures,” from the Digital Hybrids, 2023. The Hybrid Works are allowing me a total merging of all modes of working combined with multi-media s well as applications. ➡️ #digitalcompositeimage #dci #hybridworks #photoshop #abstraction #surrealism #postmodern #steampunk

🦉 Ditto That—The intro part #theparkwaysprojects #ChestnutTrees #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway #TheSixties #TheGreatSmokyMountainsNationalPark #EastCoasKin "Progress however, like art, is in the eye of the beholders. Concert stems from such vision, and vision stirs the mind and heart." 🌙 🪔

“Mordred & Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.” ≈ T.H. White 🦉117 Days After Winter's Fall Show and Sale “Lofting the pale” "Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens." ≈ George R. R. Martin

"A Slow Craze" from'The Parkways Projects' on Substack ⛰️ theparkwaysprojects.substack.com 🌙 "Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time." #TheodoreRoosevelt 🦉 #Landscapes #Photography #GoodnightBluesky🦋 #BlueRidgeParkway #Nature #RESIST #Stunday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear

"The Sidh mists" ≈ 'The Parkways Projects' on Substack ⛰️ theparkwaysprojects.substack.com 🌙 "Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time." #TheodoreRoosevelt 🦉 #Landscapes #Photography #JuneSea #dream #BlueRidgeParkway #Nature #RESIST #Stunday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear

"Silver Plume" ≈'The Parkways Projects' on Substack ⛰️ theparkwaysprojects.substack.com 🌙 "Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time." #TheodoreRoosevelt 🦉 #Landscapes #Photography #JuneSea #dream #BlueRidgeParkway #Nature #RESIST #Stunday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear

Low cloud ceiling at Clear Creek Canyon this morning 🚲

Branches in the Fog #ClassicMono #BlueSky #treescape #landscape #fog #EastCoastKin

Woman by the shore, Giants causeway Archive #rockintuesday #eastcoastkin

I never had a tree, but I had a room where I was never to be interrupted. I read ceaselessly. Thanks for doing such a good job to promote this event from the get-go. You are always so true of heart, and it shines through in whatever you set your mind to doing or promoting. 🤍

#JuliArty = #Maple #SensoryArt #Journey week C for Canada - 2020 #Phonetography #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #onlybeautifulthings #autumnappreciationroadtrip #bcuzitsCanadaDay #iCitdoyouCit #leafy

This woodland creek was photographed in Rabun County Georgia. It is Moccasin Creek. Such a beautiful hike through the woods. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #creeks #Georgia

"The concrete slabs began to serve as post-modern abstract portraits of not just a single individual, but the multitudes who had knelt, squatted, cooked or just stared into the dancing flames." 'The Parkways Projects' who we once were, and still are.

"Every Picture Tells a Story, Don’t It?" Every One a Portrait of Thousands. "Entropy has its own kind of beauty; it oh-so-very-slowly exudes an invisible flame stoked by the vacuum of abandonment and the passage of others."

"Rocky Knob Agos" A doppelgänger of sorts. I'm honestly not sure where this may lead, but it is a path worth unveiling. After all, we are nothing if not for the sum of our parts. At least it is a high path among the clouds. I've launched "The Parkways Projects." A labor of love, Please join me 🦉🪔

Once I get some sense of how many long, short and sidebar posts to do in a week's workflow, I'll be popping back up over here again. Trying to figure out paid subscriptions now, but I'll always be happy for anyone interested to just stay in a free subscription status! To me, the more the merrier! 🎍

I'm finally beginning to get a groove going on #Substack with #TheParkwaysProjects — if any of you are there too, please drop by for a read and visit ✨ I've been writing up a storm, many of them expanded, and a times contracted from 1st and 2nd Drafts of ideas I've been squirreling away.

🌙🦉 Here's a short story with a rather painful middle, then an oddly granted little illumination. It's a bit of a happy ending, but would be happier still if on my return to the #Virginia end of the #BlueRidgeParkway with a box full of iPhones. #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Landscape #Nature #RockyKnob

#TheCampfire First Tuesday August 5, 2025 Names ~ legacy Hitchhiker ~ hood surfer Dunes ~ trees Fires ~ fireflies Mother ~ daughter Crime ~ redemption Sword ~ camera Peanut the squirrel Be open ~ history Paths ~ premonition Babies ~ home Strength ~ love Susan pt 3 Pete’s music Our ears are open

. It's only July and I need a vacation. Badly. I made the mistake of looking through last year's trip to Glacier National Park. This is looking through the water at Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park. #EastCoastKin #Montana #GNP #photography

I’m going to push this one more time. 😊 If you are a fan of trees, and of #ThickTrunkTuesday, then you really must read the Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak, in which one of the key characters is a fig tree. I loved it and think it should be part of any tree lover’s library. #BookSky

Are we seeing too many bees? #EastCoastKin #photography #BloomScrolling #flowers

🌙 The starting point of words & images🪔 #TheParkwaysProjects #Change #Landscape #Photography #VintagePhotographs #NationalParks #AltNationalParks #Nature #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway #ArtYear #GreatSmokyMountains #ShenandoahNationalPark "99% of Wisdom is Being Wise in Time"🦉 #TRoosevelt

🌙 A Bridge Too Far ≈ Between the Conjunction of South Carolina & North Carolina Swamps #TheParkwaysProjects #Change #Landscape #Photography #NationalParks #Nature #ArtYear #CarolinaBays #NorthCarolina #SouthCarolina #Swamps "Ninety-nine percent of Wisdom is Being Wise in Time"🦉 #TheodoreRoosevelt

wrote about the shocking cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show, and why there's no justification for Paramount's decision that isn't about the craven politics at play: slate.com/technology/2...

I predict that a few of us will be making the “financial decision” to learn everything we can about the business interests of CBS, Paramount and Skydance in order to do everything we can to make sure that not a single dollar of ours goes to them ever again. Integrity matters. #StephenColbert.

Goodbye, CBS. “And that's the way it is.” ≈ Walter Cronkite

You had me at “truthiness”.

🦉 A Bridge Too Far #TheParkwaysProjects #TomOgburn #Photography #Landscape #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyArtShow #Smooth #Nature An old bridge, but with a new & shiny guard rail assembly. Nothing like an allegory there, for we are not about that, no, especially not in Carolina Bay territory 🌙

‪ 🌙 The Tables of Craggy Gardens & Advent of Cumberland Knob 1966. #TheParkwaysProjects #Change #Landscape #Photography #NationalParks #Nature #ArtYear #BlueRidgeParkway #NorthCarolina #SouthCarolina #GreatSmokyMountains "Ninety-nine percent of Wisdom is Being Wise in Time"🦉 #TheodoreRoosevelt

I have to smile, as there seem to be very skittish people among us here #Blueskyart🦋 Be not skittish, look within and with a warm heart. Look for the reveal.

🦉 It is hard for me to not write of my own arguments with my parents when I sit down to try to describe the 1960’s. The 1970’s, and above all, those frail years of the 1980’s 🌙 #TheParkwaysProjects #Photography #ArtYear #BlueRidgeParkway #EastCoastKin In time, we all become above the fray.

🌙 No matter the age or the origin of what we think we see, we're looking at splendor made by the interaction of humans & the land. No matter the peoples, not matter the language, the color of our skin or lineage. We were once part & parcel of terrain like this. The question is today—what are we now?

"I’ll go out on a limb here. The tree in the foreground is probably just a few years younger, or a few years older than I am." #Photography #ArtYear #NorthCarolina #EastCoastKin #LumberRiver #Landscape #Nature #Blackwater 🦉"Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time" 🌙 #TheodoreRoosevelt

. When I'm working, I carry three camera bodies with different lenses to capture stuff without the hassle of lens swaps in a dusty environment. I just found this one from over a month ago and had to look at my calendar to see where I was that day! #WhereWasThisWednesday #EastCoastKin #Montana #📷

From the 'The Parkways Projects,' up now on #Substack "There's a personal family mystery residing within a Staunton building—once a dormitory & sorority clubroom on the 3rd floor of what is now a hotel in the midst of that city—just blocks from Mary Baldwin University. There's history there as well

From the 'The Parkways Projects,' up now on #Substack On that trip I was really collecting a lot of disparate images, mainly to anticipate their use in these projects; this Substack.

To all the memories of those who came before us, when things also seemed insurmountable. But during the span of the Vietnam War, the Senate and the House were not at polarized loggerheads 🪔 🌙 "Ninety-nine percent of wisdom is being wise in time."🦉 #TheodoreRoosevelt For links to my #Substack ⬇️

#BlueskyMonday #Cute #MobilePhotography #Photography 📷

#Stunday is a pretty high bar, but the dahlias at the botanic gardens shook off the Japanese beetles and did their best to add a dramatic old world flair (edits in Lightroom). #Bloomscrolling #VideoVignette 🎥 📷🌱 🎵 Reflected Light, SergePavkinMusic (Pixabay)

My first "sunset" in North Carolina, though it's not very colorful. At least the sailboats and jet ski are out on the lake. #EastCoastKin #LakeNorman #Sailboats #LandscapePhotography #WaterWednesday #ArtYear

Yay! 🌙💙🦋 I finally reached 600 followers for what I know is a very esoteric, historically inclined allegorical account 🌙🦉🪔 #GreatSmokyMountains #BlueRidgeParkway #Nature #SkylineDriveParkway #ShenandoahNP #Photography #History #Appalachia #ArtsYear #EastCoastKin

🪔 "What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them." ≈ Neil DeGrasse Tyson 🌙

Finding the fox: A Susanville wildlife photographer was the first to get a professional picture of the elusive, endangered Sierra Nevada red fox—and his search is not over Here's a data point for those of you lobbying to switch "STEM" to "STEAM" by integrating arts into science education. A…

🎍"He'd brought it up by the time we entered Lancaster, at the site of the old Bundy’s Toyland & the still standing classic toy soldier, standing 16 feet tall & 12 inches thick, welded by some artisan around 1945 or so, into one of the most compelling signs of my childhood." #ArtYear #EastCoastKin

Nope. No story here at all... "COLUMBIA, S.C. — Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone." 🧵⬇️

#Gratitude #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

"Reflections are never what they seem. They are not Place. They are not Home. They are Mirage." ≈ Tom Ogburn

#OTD in 1819 #American #writer Herman Melville was born in New York, US. Melville's literary ambition showed in Moby-Dick (1851), short fiction in magazines, including "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and poems on the moral questions of the American Civil War.