Huge Cottonwood

This multi-trunked cottonwood is growing near the ruins at Quarai, NM.  More about these ruins soon.

Another Mural

Mountainair, NM

Choo choo

Mountainair, NM.  The protruding smoke is a nice touch.

Another Fixer-Upper

Near Truth of Consequences, NM.  A little bit of repair work and you'd really have yourself something.

Broccoli

Laura displays a choice specimen.

Chow down!

Thought for Today

And don’t kid yourselves, it’s not about BP, one single oil company, and it’s not about Obama or Cameron, about single politicians. There's no politician left in our Western hemisphere who has not been pre-empted by the system he or she voluntarily chooses to function in, and who doesn't voluntarily participate in perpetuating the hologram their voters long for in order to continue their feeling of comfort, so they can sit in their oversized homes and watch pictures of dying birds on oversized plasma TV's.


And please don’t be too eager to proclaim you're different, or better than that. That’s nothing but the easy way out.

Remember, you’re not watching real life with real people, you’re watching a 24/7 theater play that has no other reason to be than to provide you with what it knows beforehand you will respond positively to. Remember that, and then look at the dying pelicans.

Ilargi
The Automatic Earth

Petunias

Photo by Laura.