a quick one

Mom grows great orchids. 

So I mentioned I would update this more frequently.  That means putting up a quick one from time to time.  Now is the time for a quick one.

I was reading my favorite blog this morning and it delivered me to this tangential web page.  If you click on it, it will take you to a collection of pictures taken by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt.  And if you go there and look at the pictures you will be immersed in a state of nostalgia and history.  There was a picture there of Joseph Goebels (spelling?) which struck me in the gut.  This was Hitler's minister of propoganda and just by looking at him you could sense the evil he literally personified.  Another picture captures a sailor kissing a girl in Times Square on V.J. day.  As someone who likes to take pictures, I appreciate when a moment so precious is caught on print and saved forever.  It is easier to write about a precise moment than it is to preserve the visual idea of that moment.  This picture does that. 

Well, if you have time go check out these pictures and read what the photographer had to say about them.  It would be time well spent.

Thanks for coming by.