What month is it? December 19, 2024
While most of the yard is dormant, one of the daffodils got the dates mixed up and is blooming now. Unless the temperature gets extremely cold soon, I should have flowers in the garden for Christmas.
The monochrome past December 17, 2024
I’ve been scanning some of my old black and white pictures from back in the days of wet darkrooms and manual focus. Here are a few. The Allis Hotel was the tallest building in Wichita when it was built. Later it became the largest pigeon coop in Kansas. It was demolished early one December morning […]
Memo to Arlo Guthrie November 28, 2024
The dump still closes on Thanksgiving. A thousand years ago, I persuaded my homeroom at high school #2 to nominate “Alice’s Restaurant” for our class song. It inevitably lost out to “The Impossible Dream,” which was the song every class picked during that historical period, but it’s pleasant to imagine my classmates sashaying into the […]

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