"Hey! Don't MESS with the KING!"

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Photo by Andree in Vermont

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"The Mind of Mary 1245"

Mary Taitt sent me a sketch of a "Zen Rooster" she did, and I pictured her mind at work doing it for this posting. Again, just a way of having fun with the Paint program. And OpenOffice, and Picasa, and a few other tricks those of us lacking Photoshop play with.

Heads or Tails? Ashamed or hungry?

(photo credit: National Geographic)

(contributor: Gail Slaughter)

You can participate! Click: Heads or Tails

"Andree's Visitor"

This is a small "test" version of a larger posting Andree in Vermont is presently working on. It's a picture of a hairy woodpecker at her birdfeeder. Sometimes I do such things just to "try out" a given layout or composition, and see what's what. The poetry is by ME!

The Rancher and the Dude

A Rancher was a-leanin' on a fence when a big ol' Lexus roared up in a cloud o' dust an' stopped. Out jumped a guy in a suit with a "lectronical sumpthin" in his han'. This Dude came up ta th' Rancher an' pointed out over th' field:

"Sir," he said, "I've got a proposition for you."

The Rancher chewed and spat. "Oh?" he said.

"Yessiree," the young man replied. "I'll make a bet with you."

The Rancher squinted. "Bet?" he said.

"Yessir!" said the tenderfoot. "I have in my hand the latest technology. Something every farmer and rancher in this valley wants and needs!"

The Rancher chewed and spat again. "Oh?" he said.

"YES!" exclaimed the eager hotshot. "It's a technological marvel, and if it doesn't do what I claim, I'll give you a thousand dollars in cash. But if it does, you'll just owe me one gallon of milk from one of your cows out there. Does that sound like a good bet to you?"

The Rancher looked the feller in the eye. "Sure," he said.

"I'll bet you I can count all the cows in your field and give you an exact number in less than ten seconds, without moving from the spot we're standing. OK?"

The Rancher scratched his head. "Sure," he finally agreed. "It's a bet."

With that the young whippersnapper whipped out his cell phone, uplinked through a mainserver, interrogated the latest satellite data, downloaded the result, pressed a button to perform an onboard calculation, and saw a figure appear on his cell phone screen.

"You sir," smiled the young salesman, "have exactly 373 cows!"

The Rancher chewed and frowned and scratched and spat.

"Son," he drawled, "at first I thought you was with the Gover-ment. You barged in here with somethin' I don't need, uninvited-like, put out money like it was water tryin' to prove you was on my side, took a foolish gamble, weren't able to do squat without yer damn fool technology, tried to tell me somethin' I already knew, and winded up gettin' screwed on the whole proposition."

The young man groaned. "But wasn't I right?"

The Rancher shook his head. "No, son," he said. "Them's my sheep."

"Robin's Breakfast" by Mary Stebbins Taitt

"Winter Hunting Ground"

"We snowshoed in to Nashua Creek yesterday where we saw a bluejay that had been eaten, perhaps by the fox whose tracks skirted the edge of the ice."

(Originally posted to Silk Creek Portal by Mary Stebbins Taitt)

"Catcrash On Information Highway---Film at Eleven"

the true definition of curiosity

Gail Slaughter sent me this picture, but we don't know who took it... she sent it because my friend and companion Smokey looks just like this intrepid warrior... and Gail was the one who helped rescue him and bring him to me... thank you, Gail, from both of us!

"Senufo at the DIA"

Mary Stebbins Taitt sent in this report of a visit to the Detroit Institute of Arts (one of her favorite places): "It was very cold and windy, the sidewalks were icy, and there was blowing snow, so we walked in the DIA and looked around. I participated in a workshop on Senufo, an African artform. I joined near the end, so didn't have as much time as the others to learn about it, but I had fun anyway." Mary sent in this picture to show us.

"The Inner Beast"

If you look closely, you'll see the artist as she sees herself (at least sometimes!)

Original art by Mary Stebbins Taitt.

http://imagik.blogspot.com/

"Caught in the Act"

Our friend Gail in California gets to see a lot of wildlife, and often captures the unusual in pictures. No, this is not a squirrel, friends, but Br'er Rat! We grow up believing these rodents are awful, but does this little guy look evil to you? Of course not! He's just a fellow traveler in our world.

Detail of original photo by: Gail Slaughter

"Greetings from Norway"

This is Petunia, who came to visit EinP from Bergen, Norway. With Petunia is her dog Jolle, who was named after a character in a comic strip we know well in this country, "Garfield". In Norway, Garfield's friend Odie goes by the name Jolle. Petunia has several blogs of her own, and I found this picture at one of them: http://petuniablogg.blogspot.com/

When I spoke with Petunia she also wanted to give mention of her cats Silver and Todd!

Thanks, Petunia... good health, long life, and peace to you!

ABC Wednesdays, C is for Caterpillar

ABC Wednesdays, C is for Caterpillar, art by Mary Stebbins Taitt.

For a little midwinter fun break.

This is one of my cartoons which I did using an overlapping technique
I'd like to play with some more, sometime, if I ever have time.

"Le petit chat et l'oiseau"

From pictures sent to me by Mary Taitt

Blue Beach Rider

A shot sent me by my good friend, Mary Stebbins Taitt. It gives the feeling of adventure, promise, wider horizons, new beginnings, new hope. That's about all you can ask for from life!

ALBERT EINSTEIN: "Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?"

DESCARTES: "How do we know if there ever WAS a road, or if the chicken was really crossing?"

SIGMUND FREUD: "The chicken clearly dreamed the whole thing up."

DR. SEUSS: "Did the chicken cross the road? Yes, he crossed it with a toad. What he got, so I've been told, was green and black and striped in gold."

Why DID the chicken cross the road? Leave a comment so WE know...