If you were raised like me, the world has somehow turned out a very different place than you were led to believe. Maybe stranger than you can believe-  bet on it Pal.   I'm continually stupefied at what us humans are figuring out, stumbling across or just generally tripping on or over.  What an incredible gift to be alive in this time, despite  or because of the high and desperate stakes we all face.  But aint nobody gettin' out alive anyway-  Nerd-Think notwithstanding- might as well relax. 

Here's my blog, Eyes in the Pine, dedicated these days to exploring shadow, the daimonic, the numinous, the liminal, and the archaic. The Paradoxical and the Puzzling. Maybe even the Wierd.

Hunter S. Thompson meets Lorretta Lynne meets John Muir meets Camile Paglia in a Streetfight that gets Sexy.

Or something like that.

Been on a road trip South, way South. This blog features many"¦"¦.

Motographs- trying to capture the 'spirit world' with my cheap Motorola phone in Other Side mode. I call these low pixel low photographic skill shots 'motos'. I've never been a photographer until quite recently when Nature called me to get busy. Before that I was pretty much a slacker.

"Spirits"- figurative or literal?

Either way works for me. Motos are just the way these shots look untouched, but I change contrast, brightness to highlite the pattern, the Soul of the Scene. But not fundamentally altered, composed, or retouched in any way. (a very few have been arranged, which will be obvious) What you see was there in real life. Whatever that is. I feel something, then look for it anywhere, sort of see something, snap a shot, and hilight the 'pattern', or spirit, that wants to be revealed.

I feel that the 'other side', 'Nature' -and I'm not sure how to define any of this- wants to speak to us through these images and many others. They want us to listen. Pay attention. I don't know what they want to say, but it feels important that they be heard, felt, seen, however you can and as personally as possible, without knee jerk conceptual overlay, for yourself.

Anyone can learn to do this and the world needs us to do so. This is my message, in short. I'm diagnoses as Bipolar II rapid mixed cycling........