Atardecer en el Puente de “El Vigía”, Mazagón, Huelva (2) by jmmorahu on Flickr.

Architecture by oilyragg on Flickr.

Pacifica Lightning by Konvolinka Photography on Flickr.

untitled on Flickr.

A goal, an assist, two other shots on goal, lots of grinding it out on shifts = team hard hat award. Proud of this kiddo and his efforts today.

Ny-Alesund (Svalbard) by daniele1357 on Flickr.

Kongsfjord and Kongsbreen Glacier

untitled by ndimensi on Flickr.

A view of the Aegean Sea from the Dodecanese Islands.

72/365 {I’m ready for my closeup} by hsstanley – www.hollystanley.com on Flickr.

If it’s not becoming obvious, I also like owls. In one of those alternative-career fantasies, I’d love to work with owls in some capacity. Magnificent birds of prey.

Siberian Eagle Owl (Explore 2nd February 2013) by Susanna Chan on Flickr.

As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.

–Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

Not enslaving future generations to debt: common sense in 1776, unheard of in 2013.

Screw new iPhones. My optometrist has built his own Fix-It Felix, Jr. Cabinet game. on Flickr.