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Black and white photo of a rusted out sunken ship. The deck of the ship is covered by a colony of sea lions. The ship sits in the harbor in Ensenada, Mexico.
Time is free, but it’s priceless. / You can’t own it, but you can use it. / You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. / Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. Harvey MacKay
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Junkyard Series…did someone give up their studies? Have these laws been superceded? A defrocked lawyer’s debris? / Take a memo: Laws can be overturned.
Here is one of the many paths in an English trench in Belgium. With the snow on the sand bags, it’s a shot I couldn’t resist. Samsung Digimax D103 / 7.4mm / F/ 7.1 / 1/180 Sec
So many of the Soldiers from WW1 came from South Africa, Egypt, Australia and New Zeland. So many had never been to Europe and so many never thought it would be the placed they died on. This is the South African Memorial in The Somme, France.
There were so many of these graves, who knows who is there. Most don’t even have a full body there. They were unrecognizable.
Why some dummy would want to bring this overpowering weed into California is beyond me but it seems that someone did and did it intentionally a long time ago. This prickly beasts can live on almost no water, no dirt, no sunlight, and no room so they can literally box out every single bush and plant they surround. Worse, the thorns you see here are about 2 inches long, hard as sticks, and sharp enough to be used as needles on leather! Step on one and you’ll be cursing the day this invasive species first popped out of the ground. Jump back from that first step and get another dose of agony in your other foot and the likelihood of you falling and SITTING on more of them increases dramatically. I’ve never had one go all the way thru a shoe but I’ve pulled them out of the bottom of tennis shoes. Deer seem to be unphased by them, as are turkeys, squirrels, raccoons, skunks, and many other four-legged, medium-sized animals tho I can’t imagine why. Cut them down with a mulching lawnmower and the suckers will stick you LONG after the plant is history; the needles just turn brown and stay put. Why in the world these things need to be this nasty is beyond me. They don’t attach to things as well as burrs, their needle help distribute neither seeds nor pollens, and they aren’t cute, edible, or removable. One of Sacramento’s most cherished parks is the American River Parkway that weaves from Sacramento thru some of the most beautiful riparian landscapes around. In places, it has been completely taken over by this bane and even the occasional grass fire doesn’t kill them dead enough to not come back before everything else does and spread like the same sort of wildfire! I bet Medieval warriors saw this vile looking flora and created really awful weapons from its design. They may not have been WMD’s (If you don’t know what this is, don’t ask and you’ll be better off. Trust me.) but they would have been lethal nonetheless!
The meaningfulness of Junk. small tribute to thedeaddadaists
Water, water everywhere, no bridge….
“The dignity of man is not shattered in a single blow, but slowly softened, / bent, and eventually neutered. Men are seldom forced to act, but are / constantly restrained from acting. Such power does not destroy outright, / but prevents genuine existence. It does not tyrannize immediately, but it / dampens, weakens, and ultimately suffocates, until the entire population / is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid, uninspired animals, of / which the government is shepherd.” Alexis de Tocqueville
The logo for Whats the Point Pictures
I was just drawing to spend some time having fun and.. ta daah, here is some mental shit to post :)
Indeed.
Spinning Around, a Useless Joy Spinning around, / a useless joy looks like fun / ‘till you get off / and your done face flat on the ground / mouth full of dirt / head spinning it’s a useless joy, unless you are a child. / it’s meant only for the innocent / children on the schoolyard. / Children are resilient…. Not for souls like me.
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