Massey Man

 Massey Man

Johnclarestokes 

Oh the fling always seems a justified thing

Tiring of all the pesky promising

Rid this from the kitchen to the bed

No night visions of spiders in the head

You bask in views from shrubbery cut

You roam rooms long since shut

It's all a beautiful fling

But soon the old familiar comes creeping

Massey was not all he seemed

You suspect a dilution in the poison 

You yearn for the formulations of old

The sticky strips laid upon the threshold 

Massey but a shell of his former self

Soon you find yourself in yellowed pages

It's the story of the suburban for ages

Soon its for old Otto you're longing 

Silverwing's dancing in the stainless sink again.

Rosy Maple Moth

Fourth and won

 4th and won 

Do you ever wonder, what were the judges thinking? Four years ago I entered this photo of my mother and Mrs Margaret Hamilton who passed away this past Friday in the Art League Friends of the Library Art Show. First through third were nature photographs. I thought, I’ll not enter nature, which is my forte, but branch out.

Just recently I entered a contest that Happy Heart Farms who sells chickens sponsored. First place was of cows out of focus, not chickens.

As a consolation, I did take first in a family favorite category.

Again the Art League contest calls for entries, and again you try and guess what to enter. 

One time I was a judge with two others for the Woman’s Club photography contest. One judge insisted on awarding a photo of a rose, which wasn’t very good in my and the other judges opinion. We asked, why the rose? I like roses, I grow roses was the answer. We overrode him.

I think the judges liked cows over chickens, nature over nurture.

Psychic photographer

 The psychic photographer 

I see a metal bench and no Ashley Furniture in your future.

Shadrack

 Shadrack Hancock

At the far end of Cline Feagle Road down from the current Mt Tabor Cemetery is the lone grave of Shadrack Hancock, born 1799 in Montgomery County, Georgia and died May 2, 1855 in Columbia County. Shadrack was first married to Ann Van Zant of Tattnall County, Georgia. They had six children:Henry William, William H.,George W.D.,Durham,Mary Elizabeth, James M.J. Ann Van Zant died about 1835-36. Shadrack married his second wife Cynthia Alexander in 1837 in Tattnall Co.,Georgia. They had 5 children: Caroline E.,Louisa, Margaret, Daniel Levy and Missouri S. Cynthia Alexander died about 1847-48. Shadrack married his third wife, Louisa Jane Dell widow of Aaron Tison.

Shadrack Hancock was a private, company H in the 2nd Florida Militia and fought in the Indian War.

Grace

 Desolations are decreed. Daniel 9:26

Do not neglect so great a salvation.

Low dipped

 Low dipped the silvered trembling wings

Through parting portals of blue

You came

Rest strong my walking on air one

From far flung western stars you return.

Suwannee heat

 In the heat of the Suwannee

I've come to the end of the journey

I had hoped it would end here 

The fever they said was beyond measure

It mattered not, I was cool with pleasure.

Emerald

 Emerald

Synchlora aerata

Is it the warm white wall

Is it the southern orientation 

 daily different moths

Spend time with me

I'm not complaining.

Wrong arrangement

 Ever feel you’re in the wrong arrangement?

Handel

 https://youtu.be/IS7gEykFMD8

Butts

 Butts only

I suppose the male eyes go to the girl

The females to the can. 

Hidden eyes

 Looking directly at me, well, one is.

Look in the nest.