3d print

John Moser 3d print of DEVILS TOWER NATIONAL MONUMENT.

roadside attraction

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Smokey

Natural Bridge was the first tourist attraction in the New World.

While searching for vintage images of Natural Bridge I found the knife I had always used in the kitchen of my families home at the Antique Store.

Big Thanks to the Moser’s getting this wonderful postcard for us from their trip out west.

Beautiful photo of Iceland a friend took with his Pixel 6 cellphone.

Currently reading the best book on the 1920’s I have come across.

“Man Ray understood that beneath the veneer of nihilism lay a serious political mission. All of Dada’s grand, gratuitous acts were meant as a collective rebuke to order and borders and languages and traditions– to everything that makes war inevitable.”

Marcel Duchamp suggested that the Montparnasse community constituted “the first really international group of artist we ever had.”

IN MEMORIAM

“Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations, you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.”
_Dalai Lama

Black Cat Road #2, Ground Hogs Day 2022

black cat road

At the foothills of the blueridge where the mountains are about 400 to 500 feet

artifacts

My Dad’s Morgan Silver Dollar he carried in his pocket everyday and the bronze Roman Coin (circa 315 A.D.) I restored this year.

There is a coin shop next to the 7/11 where I would pick up a Washington Post or NYT during this past year of madness. I couldn’t fully restore the Widows Mie (circa 103-76 B.C.)

Still life with keys and peace dollar : private collection

1890 and 1887 Victoria farthing ; I lost a friend of over 40 years this past December. He was a PhD of History with a great love for the British Empire. His wealth of knowledge is missed by his friends.

Sol Invictus

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Bronze AE3 of Constantine I, Ticinum, AD 313 – AD 314
Diameter: 18mm
Mint: Ticinum
Region: Italy

Reverse
Symbol: TT
Deity: Sol

Flying Eagle Cent

death and rebirth of the Sun

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
_Dalai Lama

WILD LIFE

An unlikely critter befriended us during “stay at home.”

 

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Lee’s final stand

We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.
_Robert E. Lee

Thanks to our current reality show psychopath (potus) divisiveness, some of our public art is being removed or toppled. I’m hoping these sculptures will be taken to Tredegar Iron Works where our Civil War Museum resides.

This was read at the beginning of the impeachment :

“When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.”
— Alexander Hamilton

COVID flyby RVA

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

_Dalai Lama

 

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This is pretty much my last photograph. A composite of a Raven in flight with a totally manual telephoto camera and landscape with Gopro, both shot on site minutes apart. My conclusion of reaching the peak. Years later still shooting a few photos even though the passion is gone. Wish everybody well during these trying times.