Proving Myself Inept

Originally Posted Friday, August 16, 2013

I go on trips and take hundreds and hundreds of photographs, then I post a few here.  The rest. . . ?  Why do I imagine that I can't show my travel snapshots here, that people will grow any more tired of them than they do of the portraits I post?  It is a temporal matter, I think.  Who wants to keep seeing images of a trip that no longer continues to happen.  Somehow I must figure out a way to make them all one continuous trip that goes on forever, to make a narrative marvel of it all.

Here's a photo I took at Mesa Verde a few months ago.  The day was brutally hot.  You can only go to see this site with a tour group.  It makes sense as it is an important archeological site, and we know what morons will do, morons being morons, I mean.  So I was stuck with a large group of them.  Morons.  And of course the Park Ranger was a moron, too, or acted one in order to communicate with the group. 

I'm not doing a very good job, I guess of making this journey into a magical narrative.  But the picture is good enough, I think. Click on it to enlarge it.  I've turned the site into a toy replica, something, perhaps, that you could buy for the kids at the Park's entrance.  Oh those Injuns were a clever people.  Hard workers, too, apparently.  They packed up and disappeared one day.  They must have gone to Mexico. 

In the news, the Muslim Brotherhood is calling for an Islamic state in Egypt.  They burned down Coptic Churches and Christian bookstores across the country yesterday.  I know it is difficult to tell which team you are pulling for.  Who are the good guys?  The press keeps getting it wrong.  For those of you who have been against the ruthless bastards who rule Middle-Eastern countries, you might be getting a view of why.  The Bush Doctrine has changed your lives forever.  Obama has been a big follower of the doctrine himself. 

Oops.  I don't know if I can do it.  The pictures will have to speak for themselves.  But read Osborne's "The Wet and the Dry" if you want to get a grip on the middle-east.  I like my politics mixed with aesthetics. 

And now the entire entry is invalidated.  I went back and looked, and I'd already used that picture on the blog before.  I don't have time to rewrite (if you can call this "writing") today, so I will simply post an iPhone panorama from Pagossa Springs.