Raining here this week. I love the rain. Everything gets green, including the moss on the trunks of the oak trees.

My son Rudy put a skylight in his living-room. It doesn’t leak!

I’m playing with Lightroom all the time. Used a blue filter on this color picture to kill the overbrightness of the light fixture.

I’d like to be reborn as a crow. People used to imagine that animals work really hard to get enough food each day. Turns out, they can fill up with about an hour or hour-and-a-half of pecking. The rest of the day is for hanging out. Cawing and flapping. And no computers.

We took two of our grand-daughters to this funny old place in Oakland called Fairyland this week. It’s very much a home-brew folk-art construct. When I was a boy in Kentucky, there were lots of places like this. Disneyland didn’t exist yet.

We even saw a puppet-show of Cinderella. I always wondered about the glass slipper. Would it be comfortable?

We hit a science museum the week before. “How many bones?” This sign made me laugh, remembering an Underground comic strip years ago that started off, “I’d just smoked two big bones of the good old green and…”

The year’s dwindling down. Around this time it gets to be hard to remember what day of the week it is. The calendar breaks and falls apart. And we take a little rest among the ruins of the decaying year, making merry with our relatives and friends.

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