Vibiant

I’m wondering where it got to, and rather embarassed that I lost it in the foist place.  I seemed to have misplaced a year, I’m actually 33, though I thought I was 32.  Thinking back, I’ve been consistently behind a year for a while now, more than a year, so I’m attempting to discover where the gap falls in.  I was alternately terribly depressed and supernaturally busy during tmy late 20’s, so it’s possible I had 2 28’s instead of a 28 and a 29.  Also, until just recently, I was in exile, of a kind, where I had dropped out of contact with much of the rest of thwe world, which may have had the added side effect of unintentionaly stretching out 30.  I’m very confused.  It feels like I missed out on 32, since I went directly from 31 to 33.  It would explain all my gray hair, though. 

OK, let’s see if I have this straight:  The schoolyard  bully is trying to get my lunch money, so he frightens a nerd almost to death, coercing him to try and take my lunch money and then give it to the bully.  I am perfectly capable of defending myself, so what do I do?  Do I: A.) punch the bully in the face, or B.) punch the nerd in the face?  The answer seems pretty obvious to you, right?  So why is Israel wailing on Lebanon, and not Syria?  I really hate it when I agree with the President, but once again, I, along with George, am wondering why Syria isn’t getting punished like the gimp it is? 

This is all quite aside from the fact that it seems that Israel has only one foreign policy:  the 500 pound bomb.  They could really think of no better options?  If we behaved this way we would have invaded every country that wasn’t part of the Coalition of the Willing, which would have been, virtually every nation on earth.  [I make very few excuses for the way the US behaves in the world, but compared to Israel we're Switzerland.]  If I didn’t know any better, I’d say the Israelis have a massive inferiority complex, which makes them lash out at anyone within reach.  Like Lebanon, the nerd. 

OK, one more from Chimney Rock.  The actual rock, so to speak.  I would like one of these in my backyard.  And yes, while all the photos in this series are of the photocollage variety, this is not the only type of picture I take.  The styles vary, depejnding on what I’m trying to capture, though this is a good way to take pictures of subjects that cannot be photographed any other way.  For example, there was no other way to to get far enough away to photograph this cliff.  Immediately behind me was another precipice.  It does add some distortion, but then again, all wide angle lenses do that.