Here is where I should insert a politically correct generic greeting expressing an emanation of joy and wishes for the viewer's general well being....

Happy Planting season, Southern Hemisphere!






Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as any document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.

How will we defeat communism unless we know what it is, what it teaches, and why does it have such an appeal for men, why are so many people swearing allegiance to it? It's almost a religion, albeit one of the nether regions.

And we have got to fight it with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to have them at places where they're accessible to others is unquestioned, or it's not America.

—Dwight David Eisenhower

From the remarks of the President of the United States at the Dartmouth College Commencement, June 14, 1953.

My home image is a picture from Templin Gardens in Fergus ON, taken some years ago by yours truly. The moon comes from the parking lot for the Booth Rock Trail at the Rock Lake Campground in Algonquin Provincial Park, ON August of 2005. 4 second exposure at F2.8, ISO 100.