Flags of Our Mothers & Daughters

 July 28, 2025

   I got Kathy a flagpole for her birthday this year and we finally got it up and there was only one problem:

The flagpole is right side up,

while the Arizona flag is, well, not.

 

   Took me a week, but I finally got it turned around.

Seriously?

   When two vegans get in an argument, is it still called a beef?"

Deena Bean up on Castle Rock

 long before turning to a plant based lifestyle

  A couple years ago I was gifted several boxes of tintypes from a collector back east who didn't want them anymore and he told me if I would pay for the shipping, they were mine.

   Many were labeled as famous people like Wyatt Earp and Jesse James, etc. and while I'm skeptical of those, many were anonymous people captured on film a long time ago and it's those folks that mesmerize me to this day. In fact, I have scanned several of them and then painted my interpretation of who they might have been.

Buster Bancroft,  a known scalawag

 from Saskachewan

Booger Vanderstein 

used wagon salesman

Miss Templeton "Hourglass" McGee

   It is both amusing and horrifying to think someone in the future will probably do the same with our visages, yes?

Bill Booze Bell from the side

"Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning."

—T.S. Eliot