America the Beautiful

The photo was taken during my 2016 trip to America. We were sure the orange clown wouldn’t last beyond November. Oh the naïveté! And nine years later, we are back in Trumpland. Great job, America! You’ve truly outdone yourself! I’ve got nothing to say about this photo or what’s happening but this verse of America the beautiful from my personal hero George Carlin. Sleep tight, America!

O beautiful for smoggy skies

Insecticided grain

For strip-mined mountain's majesty

Above the asphalt plain!

America! America!

Man sheds his waste on thee

And hides the pines with billboard signs

From sea to oily sea!

—George Carlin

My normal posts will be back tomorrow.