He Knows Exactly Where He's Going

The Old Fool Sings

If you only knew how much fun this is. 110 in shade, we played for two hours and lord forgive me for being so happy. These are really good people. 

The Pie!

Hannah

Hanna & Luis & Ted & Ray & Sean & the other guy that I don't know & the drummer who you can't see

He Knows Exactly Where He's Going

He Knows Exactly Where He's Going

                                                    He Knows Exactly Where He's Going

He Knows Exactly Where He's Going

Iran? Anyone?

Psss- my children all attended LAUSD all the way through. The money I raised went to LAUSD schools.

The reason I decided to do these images, was so there would not be a dialog. This is my blog, this is the way I see things.

This was a response to Romney#3
"Wow - well, Obams is a millionaire too, has done nothing for the past 3 1/2to help the millions of Americans without jobs, and has created the largest tax increase in history with a health care plan that was voted on by a Democratic majority Congress that hadn't even read the bill (and the CBO continues to raise its estimates of just how much more the deficit will cost future generations. With his intent to turn America into a Socialist European economy by taking away *your* choice on how you want to spend *your* money, who is the one that is truly expecting Americans to bow forward in tribute? If you had to physically write a check to the government each month instead of having taxes quietly taken out of your paycheck, you'd be protesting against the real threat, Obama"


I'm upper middle class, there are 6 digits in front of the decimal point. I'm willing to pay more taxes. I've personally, over the last 15 years fund raised about $200,000.00 for my kids schools. I donate my time to the Boy Scouts and to Community projects I went to Mexico with a Christian Church group to work on a summer camp for Mexican orphans. I don't have a Bachelors degree. I've been lucky because I'm very smart and can teach myself things.

I can't understand why anyone would complain about paying to teach children. I can't understand with anyone would complain about helping the elderly or the poor or the handicapped. I can't understand why anyone would complain about helping people that are stupider than you are. I got food stamps once, I went in and showed them on paper than my family could not survive on what they were giving us. They told me that the purpose was to make it hard so you would get a job and get off food stamps. So I got a second job and didn't tell them because they would take away any chance of surviving. I'm guilty of fraud- I'm one of those criminals the Tea Party tells you are stealing your money and your right to spend it.

You know, really, I think it comes down to me having an over sized ego and that I think I'm big enough and strong enough to help people and save people. Sorry.

Wait til you see the others I'm generated. I'm having fun. I've not been this political in years. I was out knocking on doors for McGovern.

Smile, it'll be over soon

Romney#3

                                          HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE HE'S GOING

Romney #2

                                            HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE HE'S GOING

Political Photoshop#1

                                     HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE HE IS GOING

Old Things - Including Me

Got fascinated by these things on the Yosemite trip this year

The bristlecone pines are the oldest single living organisms known (though some plants form clonal colonies which may be many times older). The oldest bristlecone pines are single plants that have been alive for a little less than 5,000 years. These very old trees are of great importance in dendrochronology or tree-ring dating.
The oldest (non-clonal, acknowledged) living organism known is a bristlecone pine tree nicknamed "Methuselah" (after Methuselah, the longest-lived person in the Bible). It is located in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of eastern California, however its precise location is undisclosed by the U.S. Forest Service to protect the tree from vandalism.^[7] The age of Methuselah was measured by core samples in 1957 to be 4,789 years old.

 The watercolor

The 2nd try when I wasn't happy with watercolor

The lake where I went swimming when I got frustrated with the stump

Goldilocks ought to watch out

They are all coming home at once next week-end. Should be fun

I'm not dead

Ah just been busy. I know I've not posted for a month. Just got tired of it. Well, lets see. I backpacked in 10 lakes above Tuolumne Meadows the second week of July.  Came back with a couple of drawings and two watercolors. We just sat around. Did a couple of day hikes. Maybe I'll scan the better of the two watercolors. They really take me 4 hours to do one, so that kind of takes the whole day with lunch in the middle. We went with a couple I had never met and had fun. Went swimming every afternoon. My buddy fished. We took a long out of our way drive back. Read Dave Eggers book about the guy that got arrested in New Orleans after Katrina for trying to stay and help people.

Then had to get year end done at work. I needed to get another give away CD for the band, so I redesigned our logo into a the silly CD cover above and burned a bunch of them to give away at performances. Ended up updating our band My Space with current stuff and changing out the band pictures. One more member has bit the dust. So I had to take him out.

We're playing more. We're repeating gigs. It looks like we have a monthly thing at Westchester on the first Friday of the month and a 4th Sunday at Anaheim and the monthly thing at Melrose plus other places that want us back. We've added 4-5 new new songs to the playlist and have rehearsed accordingly.

And I started Grand Jury Duty today. I'm the Sargent at arms. 10 days in the next thirty. They tell us when. I can't tell you any more or I'll have to shoot you.

Wrote a new song:

The Old Man

He sits there in the sun
Most of the day
In fisherman's fedora or baseball cap
Pulled down straight away
He had liked to cast a few
When he could hike the mountain streams
In his day

CHORUS:
The old man wants to tell you
What's wrong with everything
But you've learned not to listen
So he'll mumble it to the wind
Until the lonesome listless afternoon
Drags to an end

The pretty girls stroll by in the glare
With hardly a glance
The wife doesn't want him around or underfoot
And the kids are long since gone
He'd sure as hell give them guidance
In his day

He was the Grand Dad that had to be in charge
The one that would poke you when you were ten
You knew he wanted you to be like him
But he was an old fool even then

CHORUS

God save me from those listless days
And sitting in the sun
I don't want to be useless or forgotten
Or just another old son of a gun
Bless me with a load of laughter
To pick and sing and howl at the the wind
In the end.

CHORUS

The real effect is with the repetition of the chorus to drive the theme home- and of course some catchy melody to drive it more. The song has the chord progression of Big Rock Candy Mountain, without the melody- got my own to add to it. But the progression actually gives the song its timbre.

Inspired by the old men who sit across the street from where I work and are there when I ride by on bike at 5:00 pm. Sad.

Our new banner in Facebook

This photo above is of the real remains of her garden outside their house in Tyringham, Mass just around the corner from my littlest bear's college. I met the 92 year old still living in the house. Was made to feel like historical stalker. This was the house in 1898

IN HELENA'S GARDEN

the sunset window

Through the garden sunset-window

Shines the sky of rose;

Deep the melting red, and deeper

Lovelier it grows

Musically falls the fountain;

Twilight voices chime;

Visibly upon the cloud-lands

Tread the feet of Time.

Evening winds from down the valley

Stir the waters cool;

Break the dark, empurpled shadows

In the marble pool.

Rich against the high-walled grayness

The crimson lily grows,

And near, O near, one well-loved presence

Dream-like comes and goes

-Richard Watson Gilder

Our buddy at camp

I can't think of anything else right now. Does that catch us up?