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AMERICA'S EXCEPTIONALISM

 

  

It seems to me that there are just too many people going around the World complaining and apologizing about how retarded the United States has become. 

 

 

That's just plain sad and wrong! 

 

In the next few days and weeks I am going to add to a new gallery, with my images, that portray just how great this country is and in so doing take exception with those (including the current administration) that say we have lost it.

For the next couple of months, I will be devoting this blog to this theme.  If you have images you would like to see here, be given credit for, and contribute to this theme, just email them to me at skipw@sc.rr.com.  Use Exceptional in the subject part of your email.  Make your own comments on the blog...but beware of my razor sharp wit.  I may not be nice!  Maybe we can all contribute and continue making something great .... even more exceptional!

 

 To those who "Apologize" for America....If you are so ashamed......Leave!

 

  

  Keep it simple stupid.  If you are so disgusted that your attitude and behavior disgusts me....Leave!

 

But just remember what shore you're leaving and what your headed for.

 

  Go ahead and let the door hit you in the butt on the way out because there are millions of people who are willing to take your place that do have positive attitudes.  Positive attitudes about their Country and their future.  And probably better capabilities as well.

 

Please take the time to visit my "Exceptional America" gallery in the next few weeks and give some serious thought to the positive things in your life and our country.

 

God Bless America!

 

 

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OMG It's Friday!
 

Yesterday was Thursday and I just figured it out.
 

I missed hump day!

 Now Sheri (like in other half)  says I got to wait till next week!

 

Getting old ain't for sissies........believe me.

 

I really have no idea where the week went or what I got accomplished......But, I see there are some things I didn't do.

How could that be?

Maybe I should just downsize and just forget about it!

 

The 13th of the 9th

Neglectful of the blog I have been.  Call it writers block, body aches, migraines, or just plain laziness..........I've had it all and apologize for not writing sooner.  I know your all just at your wits end looking for my wit and absolutely accurate observations about everything and nothing!

 

Sad, but when one doesn't feel particularly well.....Wit is hard to grasp, and you know it's really bad that sarcasm is illusive.  But enough of my self deprecating feeling sorry for myself.  I come to you today as if "Bowing to a Saudi Prince".

 

  Just a shame that you my loyal readers have to go to somewhere else for entertainment.  Like MSNBC for instance or some other news station that hopes to take mushy brains for a walk down the path of one sided journalism.  Oh well!

 

Rather than ramble, I have been converting some of my photos to black and white and sepia toned photos in an attempt to capture at least a part of that elusive "Niche" market of purists who just love to say  "See I am sensitive to the old tyme art stuff"!  Please note I didn't say that in any condescending or disrespectful manner.

 

 

This is an image I made before the lighthouse at Jupiter Inlet in Florida was repainted.  This conversion does one important thing...I don't have to go back and photograph it again because the color of the thing has been changed.  And that saves a huge amount of money.  Timeless photography supplied by your friendly PhotoShop software.  Press a button and you have 794,000 designer shades of brown.  Actually, I think that it is pretty cool.

 

 

The above is a sunset at a marina on "Gratitude" in Rock Hall, Maryland.  A place where I spent summers during my formative teenage years.  Probably kept me from being arrested in some larger city.  The color rendition is nice but also is impressive in black and white.  Both of these will be posted on FAA in a day or so.

 

The weather here is Shangra La south has been just delightful.  Fall for the south means we only get up to the lower nineties during the days and in the sixties at night.  It has, I must admit been a good summer in as much as we did not spend too many days in the 100's.  Man am I scraping up something to write....weather? 

 

 I guess it's better than regurgitating all the "New" stuff I learned at the two political conventions.  Did I mention that I am a political junky of sorts.  My mother was probably right, I should have become a lawyer, then I could have been elected to office in Washington and become rich. Talk about getting arrested!  I am warning you all however, there is a political rant coming.  I just need to ratshit up my anger level up a little more and we'll be there.  OH, did I misspell something there...er, sorry.

 

I have just been told that the dogs are in fine fettle this morning and that it really is past feeding time and I need a refill on the Pike Place Roast.  So it's chore time...see ya all on the flip side.

 

 

 

 

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We do not forget!

 

For all those who think that they can change us.........witness all the scum that perpetrated the 9-11 atrocity.  They are either in jail or "Gone"!

 

 

And to those who wish to change us to some kind of European socialist utopia....we have peaceful elections every four years.  Either get in line with the Constitution or get out of the way.

 

America is exceptional!

 

 

 

tHE 3RD OF THE 9TH

THE SECOND OF THE NINTH

I did build this business!

 

And I hope you enjoy yourself here.

http://skip-willits.artistwebsites.com/

 

It's September, and what we started in May is now but a sweet memory!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first of the ninth.

Long Labor Day Weekend

 

According to Wikepedia.....

Labor Day is an American federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September (September 3 in 2012) that celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers.

 

Labor Day pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers. Gee, maybe the Holiday really does celebrate the fact that we all individually really do build something.  It also symbolizes the end of summer for many Americans, and is celebrated with parties, parades and athletic events.

 

To me, in my formative years, it meant a long weekend at the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

 

 

  The last chance before I had to put my shoes back on and go back to school or later the job. 

 

 

 In any event, it meant that I would be able to spend quality time with my father and mother and later my own children.  Good times.  But it was the official end of the summer.  If I recall correctly even the weather changed on the first of september.  It seemed to get cooler in the mornings and the days were certainly getting shorter. 

 

 

 The Osprey would leave in two weeks, Septrmber 15th like clock work.

 

The geese and ducks would begin to show up around the bay, also in a couple of weeks.

 

 

 

  And the beaches would begin to resemble what our founding fathers discovered those 200 some odd years ago.

 

 

Today, I write a blog and try to sell photographic art over something that wasn't even invented back in those formative days.  Lots of memories and retrospects fill the long weekends today and every photograph I list almost brings a tear to the eye, remembering the circumstances upon which they were made.  The promise of people ending vacations and beginning to spend again for things less fleeting than gas for the car and hotel rooms.  Cotton candy and saltwater taffy spending will hopefully turn into new art for the summer home, the primary home, or the office.  As the days shorten now, the sky begings to reflect the shift in the weather and certainly my attitude...September through November always seemed to yield the better sunsets and sunrises for some reason.

 

 

  Just yesterday, there were four large pieces of art sold on FAA to someone who was obviously opening a dentist's office ... All were dental themes and not mine.  But maybe the economy of the empty chair will start to improve during the fall.  We small business people can only hope, as seemingly the important decisions are being made by men and women whose agenda is at odds with ours.  It's hard to remember not to argue with idiots because they only drag us down to their level and beat us with experience.  But that too may be, like the first of September, a change of seasons.  We'll probably know in November!

 

I wish all my readers, family and friends a wonderful holiday weekend and hope yours will be as blessed as mine.