Potsdam Conference, July-August 1945. President Harry S. Truman introducing his driver, Private First Class Warren E. Baker to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, both from the same home town. President Truman had been inspecting the 3Rd Armored Division near Frankfurt, Germany. Photographed by CPhoM William Belknap Jr., released July 26, 1945. Official U.S. Navy […]

Potsdam Conference conclusion

On the road today, we are traveling to meet old friends. This is our first vacation since Covid started. As we traveled North to Ohio, the mountains in West Virginia were gorgeous.  but when we crossed the Ohio River, the clouds were spectacular. At my age, getting together with old friends is so important. Better […]

No U-turns

The Maasai are a prominent semi-nomadic ethnic group of cattle and sheep farmers inhabiting large parts of northern, central, and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. While other tribes of the Great Rift Valley area have welcomed many of the accoutrements of modern living, the Maasai have held on to much of their traditional lands and way […]

A Peek At Village Life On The Maasai Mara – Photo Review

Earth rotates around the sun,a solid year has now begun.Another birthday brings me gifts,health, happiness, and higher lifts. Breezes blow flames that have now passed,along with lessons hearts surpass.Loved ones fill candles on the cake,to enhance all wishes I make. Wish for mass healings to take place,so all pollution is erased.Hope every mouth savors and […]

Wishful Birthday

Tin roofing? Yes, of course. However you don’t often see tin siding on a barn. This old structure needs a little TLC, at least a paint job! You can see at the peak of the roof the overhang indicating that originally there was a pulley and rail for loading loose hay into the barn. This […]

If this old tin barn could talk

I look up, and downliquid heart in pools, I drown waiting for the sun to ariseagain in my heart capitulation strongand armed with love and lighta transformationin kind with the river, I flow with time Photo by 12019, Pixabay Twitter #vss365 prompt word used: liquid. Follow me on Twitter here. Submissions for the Nature Speaks […]

liquid heart

emotions fill the skyand my heart with sanguine lovea pain, like an albatross of hope and dismayconjuring various realities in someI’m filled with anticipationwhile in others dreadis a constant companion yet, it’s in between them bothwherea mystery comes up from the shallow river water, to the ice capsof the tallest mountaintops the shadowed, and shaded […]

sanguine love

dark and lighta playful design and entranceinto a world seen, and unseenwhere heart and mind create the nature of reality a savior in betweenthe play of consciousnessand the depths of the sea hiddenunderneath the nexus of humanity Photo by tommyvideo, Pixabay Twitter #vss365 prompt words used: dark, entrance, play, savior. Follow me on Twitter here. […]

the nexus