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Good morning. 🦅🦅🦅

18 September 2026

Yesterday morning, while I was outside tending to my bird feeders, I looked up and noticed something moving through the sky on a path that would take it directly over my backyard. For a split second I wondered—is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it was a very big bird. As I focused on it, I realized it was a bald eagle, and there I stood flat‑footed, a scooper full of seed in my hand and my camera sitting a good hundred feet away inside the back door.

There was no chance of making it inside, grabbing the camera, and getting back out before the eagle passed, so I simply watched. It floated by with that lazy, effortless glide they use when they’re not in any hurry, until it disappeared behind the forest trees. I’ve photographed eagles before, but always at a much greater distance. In my mind’s eye, I can picture the detail I would have captured if I’d had the camera with me—more than what’s in the photograph I’m showing you today, which I took a little over two years ago. That’s how these things tend to go more often than not. It’s just the way of it.

Life is full of missed opportunities—moments you lose for one reason or another. The important thing is not to close yourself off from future opportunities because of early choices. Those mistakes can narrow your path more and more as the years pass. One question that always appears on a job application is your level of education; employers want to know you can read, write, add, and subtract. Another is your criminal history; they don’t want someone who might steal from them. Don’t cut yourself off. Graduate. Stay out of trouble. Keep your future open.

“Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.” — Andy Rooney

“Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened.” - T. S. Eliot

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Era un giorno qualunque di un anno senza fiato.

#photography #photo #summer #sunrise #morning #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #sunnyday #morninglight #summervibes

📍 Taunus, Germany 2026.

#photography #photo #nature #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #forest #forestphotography #wald #fineart #fineartphotography #mist #fog #morning #sunrise #fujifilm

Good morning. 🌻🌻🌻

16 September 2026

I get up, come in here, and stare blankly at my computer screen. Same old story every morning. Surely I must remember something worth mentioning. Maybe it’s just that the things I remember don’t seem worthy to me.

In January of 1972, I shipped overseas with nothing but the uniform on my back. It was the first time my gear had ever gone missing. A day or two earlier, when I arrived at the Greyhound station in San Clemente, California—just outside Camp Pendleton—I discovered my seabag hadn’t arrived with me. So there I was, about to ship out with absolutely nothing.

A friend handed me a utility uniform and an old, beat‑up pair of boots that were missing one heel. There’s no way I walked without a limp wearing those things. Everyone must’ve thought I was some kind of pirate—Pegleg Pete reporting for duty. That’s how I flew overseas.

It took months before I had enough uniforms to function. I had to replace everything myself, and as a private, my paycheck didn’t stretch far. It might have gone farther if I’d had the slightest idea how to manage money, which I didn’t. My sergeant eventually took me to the clothing sales store. I don’t remember the details, but I’m pretty sure I signed some form that let them take money straight out of my pay. Let’s just say I wasn’t the brightest bulb in the box. Plenty of potential, sure—but it would take a few more years before any of it turned into something useful. I was nineteen, and not a mature nineteen. I probably looked more like sixteen.

On quiet mornings, when I’m sitting alone with my thoughts, I still wonder what became of that seabag full of uniforms.

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo — far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.” — Jodi Picoult

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Good morning. 🦋🦋🦋

14 September 2026

I just came in from outside after walking with Charlie. The AC guy is here checking out our HVAC systems—one for the house and one for my wife’s little quilting shop. We try to stay ahead of things instead of waiting for something to fail. So far it’s paid off; we’ve gotten about fifteen good years out of the home unit with no issues… knock on wood. Summer days without AC in Louisiana are no joke. I don’t blame the AC guys for coming early in the morning—our inside unit sits up in the attic, and that place turns into an oven by midday.

It should start cooling soon, but not today. Down on the toolbar at the bottom of my computer screen, a little message pops up announcing, “Hot days ahead,” like it’s sending me a warning straight from the future.

I’m sitting here with my feet propped on the corner of my desk while Charlie is stretched out at the base of my chair—pretty much a perfect snapshot of our daily life. Around the house and on the property, if you find me, you find Charlie, and vice versa. Even in the evenings, when I wander into the kitchen looking for something to snack on, Charlie is right there beside me, like two conspirators ready to divvy up the loot.

That’s right—me and Charlie. We be mates. Friends till the end.

I think I’ll end this here. Lately I haven’t felt much inspiration when I sit down to write, so I just drift into whatever’s happening right in front of me. Like the Roomba, currently bumping its way down the hall making all kinds of noise. It’s a Skynet conspiracy.

“In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.” — Graham Greene

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
— Walter Winchell

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” — C.S. Lewis

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Is it hard to make arrangements

with yourself

When you're old enough to repay

But young enough to sell?

• Tell Me Why, Neil Young

Fall in Florida 🍂

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Echoes in Monotone

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Southsea Kite Festival 2026 — Southsea
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Good Morning, Misty Tentacle - One of two taken from the same position, this is a view of High Knoll in Minnekhada Park, taken from across the Pitt River.

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It was so cold here at 6 AM. This is a salt lake; people usually take off their shoes and walk on it for healing but I couldn't. If I did that I would get sick instead of getting healed. So I just enjoyed the FREEZING landscape

#saltlake #lake #nature #naturephotography #potd #photooftheday #sky #morning