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Confutatis maledictis

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Visuallyapealing

Artist unknown - rendered image

Bromeliaceae

Bromeliads seed (Wikipedia reference)
Change focal lengths with different cameras, rather than lenses - its cheaper. Coolpix 990

Queens of heart

"Hey mister, will you take our picture?"  A begging opportunity

Note to viewers

This is not a book.  Its not for sale, and intellectual rights to the content are the sole ownership of the

creator - me, the person who enjoys sharing images and words all my own unless otherwise stated.  If you should find reason to pick a bone, make it a funny one.

Charles D. Mistretta 

What expression from cloth and paint

Pinocchio - a Venetian doll.   Credits unknown.  Please submit if able. 

Lizardleap@bromeliad.com

The above URL is ficticious.  Sorry lizards. Thank you brother John for the statue. 

VA Cemetary

Good photo Chris

Lichen?

 Lichens occur in some of the most extreme environments on Earth—arctic tundra, hot deserts, rocky coasts, and toxic slag heaps. However, they are also abundant asepiphytes on leaves and branches in rain forests and temperate woodland, on bare rock, including walls and gravestones, and on exposed soil surfaces (e.g., Collema) in otherwise mesic habitats.

Pastel pastry by Pat for Chris

To catch a lizard

All species of plants, animals, and insect grow well inFlorida's tropical climate.

Rescuing spiders from my wife's shower has become a regular act of mercy (limited collateral damage). The minute eight legs hits the dirt, a lizard is there to feast.

The current governor of Fla. would be considered the spider or the lizard?    

Kidpics

My favorite shooter

This latest Nikon will probably hit the high and low end of the photo enthusiast market. 

The last mango in paradise

Side effects, are they worth it?

Why you call customer service

Nice catch

Thank you Laura and Marcus

Sports

A baseball accident happened yesterday when a player's glove leapt from his hand and attacked his genitals. 

Got your back

...a doodle

Mujer

Daz software - artist unkown

Man in a can

The caption is what the astronauts called the space capsule - also constructed of fiberglass and wood.  The door had a fail-safe clock work lock mechanism. 

Got it, flaunt it

The animal kingdom

Syria rejects loss of chemical weapons control

Syrian Rebels reject Russian weapons prosoal
Above picture not taken in Syria

The children of a typical immigrant famiglia

MY father was the youngest.  He was called Mimi and practiced dentistry like his brother John.  

My grandfather owned a grocery store in West Tampa - the place where family worked.
Edit by Dennis Stafford

Baby boomer mother

High Ma

Oye Como Va

This  poem emerged as a flirtation that hasn't gotten out of control.
I have learned in the past twenty + years the value of loving friends.
A friend who is a lover is to often denied and becomes neither in time.

I Made a Friend Today.We acted garish, strange and gay.
What was on our minds, so foolishly sublime?
I can't tell you!
What I do know is this:
I want to share those feelings grand again.
Invite my soul, sins and all.
Let's make company, no need to call.
We'll jiggle, juggle, giggle and cry,
Share stories, lips and lies.
And always be friends as the crow flies.

St. Petersburg Florida 1999 

Two young men meet and talk. One having completed a tour in Korea,
the other unsure of his future. After listening to a short chapter in the
life of a soldier, the future of the other becomes no less clear. But the
sense of it all is reassuring.

ALL THE THINGS WE WERE WE ARE
SO LITTLE DOES TIME CHANGE
TO MAKE US INTO WHAT WE'RE NOT
OH GOD! REARRANGE

St. Petersburg Junior College, St. Petersburg Florida 1964

St. Petersburg USA

A life clue

A young airman stands in his unit quadrangle while in charge of quarters
and stares in awe at the early evening sky. Was what he was about to see
a warning or a gift? The spectacular display of light inspired this next poem.

Yellow hues of crisp green lightening
Crackling past the moon.
Life is not a storm nor wonder
But an instant doomed.

Keesler Air Force Base 1965 Biloxi, Mississippi

From an old sketch

Styles and characters appear after years of absence.  Is not this scribble a look into a soul? 

Giger's lost work

The color purple~

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