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Indeed. Atlantic: Fuck off.

"Nine tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." Theodore Roosevelt 🦉🌙 If ever I could conjure a person back to life in their prime, in his case say around 31 years of age; it would be now, and it would be this man. The conjuring performed in the attic of the White House. Which his daughter Alice claimed as her own when told there was to be "No smoking in the White House." Not a ghostly conjure, but in the corporeal state, each and every day for the next 1004 days, to strap on his favorite boxing gloves and spend each and every of those nights looking for a sparring partner. "It is a good thing to look back upon what has been said and compare it with the record of what has actually been done." Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt was speaking of looking back and self-assessing your own words, your own promises, compared to your own actions to fulfill them. This Roosevelt did not need fact checkers. 🦬 Sigh 🌒💫

He's trying & it's not looking good, granted.

But then there's this. Humorous & in the ALT text I'm having a moment 🌙

But there are those of us out there (me a little more slowly that others) calling long haul attention to the plight of our National & State Parks, National Forests & BLM lands 🦉

Only YOU can prevent forest fires, because he's dismantling the United States Forest Service 🐻

"If you see something that looks like a star
And it's shooting up out of the ground...
Don't worry, it's alright, it'll happen to you
We were all children once, playing with toys
And the sound that you're hearing is only the sound
Of the tinkling glasses of high-heeled boys"

Apologies to Traffic 💥🥃

Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth

So we're calling these guys the "Liquor Cabinet"?

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Not that surprising though. I just hope Sheinbaum wisely excises the word "concerned" from her vocabulary.

Rather appropriate 🇺🇦

lolol 😅

Way to Go Virginia! 💙✨

A very old, antiquated map pf Virginia, circa 1600, brought into the light of today (although, I really love this map!) Congratulations to all the people of Virginia! All who stood up of Peter Thiel and his 9 million dollars. I hope your homing instinct takes you back home to South Africa, and please, take Elon with you in tow, as you both go—back home. Now Virginians. You have your billion dollar window. PLEASE use every moment of time wisely and let's kick these bastards out.

🦉CONGRATULATIONS TO VIRGINIA! 🪔

💙Thanks to Barack Obama, Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic Party of Virginia, Ghazala Hashmi, Jay Jones, L. Louise Lucas, Lamont Bagby, Scott Surovell, Kathy Tran, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, Bobby Scott, Jennifer McClellan, Eugene Vindman, Don Beyer, Suhas Subramanyam!

🦉🕊️ I'm climbing back up into the daylight of Life dude! I was telling another photographer about you & your work the other day. Jefferson Holston. Heckuva nice guy, they just moved to Virginia from California as parents of two daughters in an increasingly red region. He may contact you 🌙🌿 Heads up

This is a very large work in progress, around 80-85% finished. I keep subtracting percentages as I keep adding subtle layer into it. I'm posting this on April 21st, 2026. From the original post, on Mar 14, 2026: "The Digital Hybrids are primarily linked directly to the Hybrid Works. Think of them as siblings... When finished, it will be one of the first five or six of my large Digital Hybrids to be available in print form. It's about 65% done as you see it here. Stay tuned, the Sea Oats are coming (far less dangerous than "the Sand Snakes of GoT), plus a few less recognizable architectural features! I'll be finishing this work up in a few weeks, and when done I'll do a Work in Progress string. The composition is built of three primary photographs. The central one an interior view, the outer views worked into place as a digital collage puzzle, in a way. Based on a place I've loved for years and years and years, yet, I've not seen it since these photos were shot there in March of 2023. The Ghosts Forests at Huntington Beach State Park have been growing faster (according to SCPRT signage) and I'm curious to get back there to see just how the salt water levels are settling. It's an eerie thing to behold. The composition is done, so far, in muted avocado greens and natural clay color, with rich deep reds in the bricks. Other elements are about to be added, almost as scrim layers on a stage, which will be foliage, trees, perhaps some of those scary sea oats!" The scary sea oats are in (more on the way) are now in the sky to the top of the walls, to the right of the woman's eyes. Ghost forests are forming at a faster rate these days, the salt water sinks can be seen lower right. More weaving and melding is just around the left corners, the sky, ground, and in the face to a degree. This work will be 48 by 24 inches inches at the largest scale. There will be four smaller sizes too.

🦉 Stage three. Should be coming to a close soon.

#Atalaya triptych, (working title)

#HuntingtonIsland #HuntingtonBeach #SouthCarolina #SCPRT #BrookgreenGardens

🦉 Slowly coming along, akin to the slowly rising tides. 🌙

#Atalaya triptych, third phase, from late March to now.

#HuntingtonIsland #HuntingtonBeach #SouthCarolina

🦉🌙✨ I've gone back into the eerie gorge story I've mentioned in the past. A image first—a new, large Digital Hybrid—which is made both by analog and digital means. Began in 2022.

I pulled a short segment of the words to give a bit more illumination to the Illustration story. #Gothicwords to come 🌒

A beautiful, sprawling oak tree, long a most natural resident of that magical region along the Southern Atlantic coastal zone, spreads its limbs, bark darkened by years of ocean spray, over a small alligator territorial spit at Huntington Beach State Park in South Carolina. Alligators are not saltwater fans. This is a very horizontal image. The sky is a soft grayish blue with faint white clouds in the distant background, the middle distant coast of the other side of the park a thin horizontal line is just below center of the image. The tree is rooted in a small knoll just three feet above the waterline; not nearly enough height to provide a barricade to the waves of an ocean storm any longer. I've been shooting the ghosts forests, the ghost trees, all over, salt marsh tidal pools moving further and further inland. This is one BIG tree, which if you were to approach it, you'd be awed by is sheer audacity to survive no matter the declining odds. In a few years, it too will be a ghost tree.

🦉"Flora Sprawl," #digitalphotograph #CarolinaCoasts

This is a BIG tree—you'd be awed by is sheer audacity to survive no matter the declining odds. In a few years, it too will be a ghost tree 🌙

#Stunday #Nature #ArtYear

"Endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.” #AmbroseBierce

🌙 Things have been progressing on the home front. Slow art seems to be norm for this span of time.

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But. I did finally get back to writing the words on "Presence Hence," and the large, slow digital art builds will land here soon.

#TheWalkerSisters #sevensisters #onebrotherinlaw #RobertShelton

Glad to see it reappeared Anna! I hope you're doing well 🌙

Hey Aaron! I've yet to read it as well.

Cool linemen shot.

That bridge posted as your cover image is awesomely fine🦉🪔

🦉🌙 🪔 Trying to reconvene my thoughts these days.

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Wow Michael!! 💙🦉🌙

For #Stunday. It's a complicated composition. When standing over a river and under an explosion of new green foliage on a dead calm day, it's hard to see where reflections in the water start and stop. From this morning. #Photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #reflections #rivers #green #Nikon #Z8

Thanks for the likes y'all!!! 🪔🌞

Thanks y'all, for the likes 🪔🌞

Thanks y'all, for the likes 🪔🌞