Scenes on Sunday ~ New Mexico Snow
On the road, snow is glistening ~ loving the winter traveling…..
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalknet
who would believe that it snows in the desert?
Scenes on Sunday ~ the rocks and the water
if it wasn’t for the rocks, the water would have no music
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Newport Beach, Orange County, California
Santa Fe Trail
‘the trail to Santa Fe means eradicating the Kiowa and the Comanche’
shot from the car on the Road to Santa Fe
Went to Santa Fe in New Mexico ~ change scene to Classic Western movie starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Ronald Reagan as General George Armstrong Custer. And nope, it wasn’t anything like that at all.
For a start it was snowing, and that made it more like a Clint Eastwood nihilistic spaghetti western. Then we had lunch in the coolest New Mexico menu restaurant, which was full of sexy chi-chi women. And after that I took in the Georgia O’Keeffe art museum, which was all about weird multi-million dollar paintings.
O’Keeffe’s work is ostensibly of flowers, but trust me, most of her paintings spoke to me of abstract images of female genitalia. Weird.
The girl riding shotgun and I wandered around a few art galleries too. Either Santa Fe NM is a seriously wealthy town, or seriously wealthy people go there to buy art.
All in all I like Santa Fe, even if it is more Clint Eastwood and Georgia O’Keeffe than Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. An almost accidental little road trip, with an accidentally great result.
Just another confirmation that I’m suddenly living the good life.
Some say that great art is not meant to be understood. And that what you see in a painting is merely a reflection of your own subconscious mind. All I know is that flowers really are sexual organs.
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Scenes on Sunday – California
I’m just a staid English guy being cool in Orange County
Today I am in sunny Orange County, where it’s still a balmy 80 degrees. I like California, it might just be the nicest crazy place I know.
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Wednesday I fly out to New Mexico
at least I’ll be staying at a cool hotel
Scenes on Sunday ~ Desert Beauty
The desert holds its harsh beauty close in secret silences.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
in the desert there is no sense of scale
this natural rock stack is about sixty-feet tall
and some see strange things in these rocks
Monochrome Monday ~ Utah Couds
Grey skies are just clouds passing overhead.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
It’s a big country
Secretly Sexual
Behind every mask there is a face that tells a story
sex
lust
mask
unjust
unknown
unthinkable
so unattainable
unspeakable love
trying to be unread
needing to be unseen
yet unmercifully unmasked
perhaps she is honest, at last
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
hiding behind the unreal
the girl behind the mask
Road Trip Eclipsed
If you’re always looking back, how can you see the road in front of you.
talking
and laughing
towns passing by
sharing quiet intimacy
marvelling at the scenery
enjoying long roads’ rhythms
discovering unknown real America
driving through the country no one sees
California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming
witnessing the marvel of a dark sun at noontime
knowing those uplifting moments will be long gone
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Marmaduke really likes road trips
and so do I
Monochrome Monday ~ Big Bear
The goal of life is to make your heart beat as one with the Cosmos.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Big Bear is a cool place to spend a long weekend
in the summer
no way I’m going up there at this time of year
I hate snow
What Some Women Say They Don’t Want
Should a guy always pay the tab in a fancy restaurant?
Following my ‘Shipping Forecast’ post earlier today, I have been roundly disabused about what women want. A close friend of mine has told me, in no uncertain terms, that most women do not want ‘guys who pick up the restaurant bill, arrange the vacations and buy the tickets, and who will go to wild parties and pretend to enjoy them……’
Funny, she could have fooled me, because where ever I have been with her, whatever great road trips we have been on, whenever we have been to a nice restaurant, or called at a cool bar ~ I have always paid for everything. And, from the first time I met her she has expected me to always pay for everything. (With the exception of a few drinks, or a meal once in a while…..)
Also she has expected me to enjoy meeting her family and friends at various lunches and get-togethers. Quite frankly I don’t want to get to know her family and friends. We don’t have that kind of relationship.
As it goes I don’t mind always picking up the tab, but I object when she says that’s not what she wants, and that it’s not what most women want.
Or, have I got things totally wrong, again?
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
the end of a great road trip
