"Spring has spring has sprung, The grass has ris, I wonder where the birdies is ..." Apologies to all!

The modus operandi of the trump/musk presidency

Does any other old fart like me think that the increasing demonstrations against musk and trump et alios are reminiscent of the beginning days of the antiwar movement in the 1960s?

Ah, Canada!

The pink has, if only momentarily, chased away the orange evil in DC.

Spring has finally arrived in DC!

A communication from the American Library Association. trump is now attacking the libraries. Keep them dumb, America, keep them dumb!

How far we have fallen since I took this photograph on July 4, 1976 on the New Jersey Palissades! How could we have fathomed what was to come?

St. Hripsime in Ejmiatsin in 1973, then the Armenian S.S.R.

I primeron what happened when there were no safeguards and banks and the rich controled our world. The Great Depression. Oh, what a lovely time we had!!! It's anyone's bet when our October 29th will happen, but it will happen. Alas, the windows of skyscrapers no longer open ...

Parisian Bridges

I wonder if anyone has thought about that time when the wealthy ruled leading to October 29, 1929, and the great Depression which would end only with FDR's policies that are now being dismantled by an immigrant from racist South Africa. Santayana! You knew, didn't you, that no one remembers history?

Nature's abstract expressionism

Nearly all the scaffolding erected to repair the damage to the Washington National Cathedral following the 2011 earthqake has been removed. The north side is now completely devoid of scaffolding and the pinnacles on the central tower might also soon be completed.

Villa Borghese Gardens (2002). DC is feeling bleak and I yearn to be away from the madness and seek out beauty. Photographs help, if only for a moment or two.

We are now Russia's client state. MAGA, my ass! www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The new Caesar: Trump, Vance, and their sickening obeissance to Putin

You have to adnmire the sheer gall of these ignorami. They lecture Zelenksy for not wearing a suit but allow this clown into the oval office and cabinet meetings dressed like a ... what? ... 16 year old pimply gamer?

I shot this photograph at the March for Life on March 24, 2018. Nothing has changed.

Yesterday was a great day for shadows in DC. Trying to look at the beauty in face of all the evil.

Epilogue

Venice (July, 1974)

Armenian khachkar (stone cross) at the Mediaeval Hovhannavank mainly built in the 13th century but incorporating older elements and now with subsequent renovations (the Monastery of St. John) in the Republic of Armenia [photograph Spring, 1973]

Naragansett 2017. At this point in Winter we would all like a little sun and warmth, yes?

I feel like this child when I consider the venality and cowardice in the U.S. Capitol these days. It's notr Musk. It's not Trump. It's the Republicans/GOP. Make them own it!

Buy nothing; sign in to nothing. Eat at home, All on February 28th.

President Biden's statement on the White House page acknowledging the Armenian Genocide has been removed by the Trump White House. Way to go, Armenians for Trump!

Now more than ever! action.aclu.org/give/now

A diminished U.S. Capitol yesterday, cowtowing to a South African racist.

As my country is being dismantled by ignorant, venal imbeciles, my digital memories are partially sustaining me. If Notre Dame can be restored, then our country can. Will I still be around when? It took decades for Charles II to come back and restore England after Cromwell's religious delusions.

Looking up in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress (2018)

The 13th century Armenian monastic complex, Saghmosavank, shot in 2014.

"I cherish Dead Roses as they live between the pages of my books. A fresh Rose is loved for its beauty but the dead one is beyond beauty ... A fresh Rose gives the feel of softness but a dead one gives the feel of past. A fresh Rose lives for days but a dead one-- FOREVER." She replied.” [AK]

"Image in Khorkum," one of two Arshile Gorky paintings presently hanging in Washington, DC's Kreeger Museum. For more about this extraordinary museum, see kreegermuseum.org.

One picture is worth a thousand ...

Sycamores, somehow reflecting my mood. I wonder how Arendt would describe events in our country. "Banality" does not seem to fully apply here.

Winter rose

Taken during restoration of the Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol, it perfectly represents our contemporary captured and raped freedoms.

As I start this new journey, I post an image of all the types of humor would welcome as long as it is not mean spirited, racist to any group, homophobic, mysogenystic, misandric, transphobic ... etc.