Hmm...during the bear market I scaled my payments way back and let my credit card balances run up again, but with stocks riding as high as they have been I'm gonna liquidate a big tranche to zero out my balances and free up lotsa credit. 🤑 Painting is "The Letter" by Edmund Blair Leighton. #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #finance #personalfinance #markets #thoughts #stocks #investing

We're not out of the dog days yet, but it's not too early to get a sneak preview of the season to come. This vibe is really captured in this view I captured, what I call my "Autumn Fire Windowward", like opening up a portal into those glorious colors in our very near future. #art #photography #autumn #forest #leaves #woods #trees #fall #fallfoliage

In a world where our houses have less color than Borg cubes, our road traffic is monochrome, our clothes are clad in neutrals, the bright vivid colors the darlings wear in George Sheridan Knowles's "The Duet" are a breath of fresh air. Be less like the Borg, and more like them. #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #fashion #aesthetics

TBH my (married...) best friend was more girlfriend-like to me than most actual "girlfriends" are, and our times together had all the characteristics of dates, so it turns out I've been in a relationship and had a girlfriend after all? 👀 Painting is Hugues Merle's "Romeo and Juliet". #self #life #dating #relationships #girlfriend #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #romance

The Badlands suffused in twilit clouds are truly special, like you slip from our world into some shadow realm of an alien planet. I dare say my new photographic piece "Dark Sentinels" goes some way to capture that atmosphere. #art #photography #sublimelandscape #Badlands

It's still the dog days of summer, and you know what that means: hot sun...and thunderstorms! These two darlings in Pierre Auguste Cot's "The Storm" are having the time of their lives fleeing one. Ah, to be this young and have a torrid summer romance... #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #summer

Vibing to this tonight, and it really brings back memories of earlier in the summer, when I was driving through the Cascadian rainforest to this track as late as 3 AM, the fog, the stars, and the road my only companions. #music #self #thoughts #travel #scifi #sciencefiction #TV #television

We're so addled by statolatry we think if a government writes something on a paper and stores it somewhere that makes it "real". It's time we the people reclaimed our power to decide social reality. #society #politics #names #thoughts #statism #authoritarianism

That special ambiance of a SoCal freeway has been captured so many times in so many ways; this piece, which I call "Westbound on the 10", is my own latest contribution to that vast tradition. #art #photography #freeway #highway #road #SoCal #California #SouthernCalifornia

Not sure if you too think she has an angelic face one could look at forever, but as for me, this fairest and earliest of fashion models never gets old. George Romney's "Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante" #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #LadyHamilton

When you gaze at the maritime horizon from the beach, what landmass are you really looking toward? The answer might surprise you. Read more at my #blog:

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This post's featured image is a photograph by Patrick Hauth. #geography #geometry #greatcircles #rhumblines #latitude #beach #coast

You've probably heard of Old Faithful, America's most famous geyser; it's well worth seeing, as I did this summer. Here's my very own picture of an eruption. 😀 #art #photography #Yellowstone #OldFaithful #geyser

Poised, decorated, spiffy, and ready for a fun day; Paul César Helleu's "Portrait of a Woman" shows off a great vibe to cultivate in feminine fashion. #art #traditionalart #illustration #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #fashion

Some never admit it, but the whole world loves a beautiful girl who can hold herself up like she's the finest thing the gods ever created and dance so well one's very soul vibrates in her presence, someone like Pierre Carrier-Belleuse's "Young Ballerina Holding A Black Cat". #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #dance #dancer #ballet #ballerina #balletdancer

Hey, one of those mods from Simcity 4 got too realistic for its own good...or is it the verdant fields of Iceland? Nope! It's the American West's very own Hayden Valley, a very picturesque section of Yellowstone that's a bit more obscure than the likes of Old Faithful. 😀 #art #photography #beautifullandscape #Yellowstone #summer

Just sparing a thought for someone I know who has an even more brutal commute than mine: over 200 miles each way. Lucky for them they only do it like once a week, but still! 👀 Painting is James Hayllar's "Girls in Carriage Riding". #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #commute #commuting #supercommute #supercommuting #travel #thoughts

Sometimes the dawn of a new age is seen not in the core, but in the periphery. Driven by assassins to the edge of the known universe, a lone genius must not only be an inventor but also intrepid explorer. #books #scifi #sciencefiction #scifistory #sciencefictionstory #scifinovel #sciencefictionnovel #spaceopera #spaceoperastory #spaceoperanovel #novels #farfuture Ebook: https://www.amazon.co/dp/B092SZ6N7V/ Paperback:

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Learned my best friend is moving away...far away. The only person I've ever met in my life who I even liked that much, and now they'll be gone... 😔 Painting is Frenk Dicksee's "The Mother". #thoughts #self #friends #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

The maiden in John William Godward's "When the Heart is Young" might be all choked up inside, but there's a certain loveliness to being caressed by Mediterranean sea breezes no matter what mood you're in. #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #sea #ocean

A fair girl luxuriating in the sensations of spring, grass underneath her, flowers all around her, trees sprawling above, her face inspiring viewer to wonder her thoughts and feelings. John William Waterhouse's "Ophelia". #[0] #[1] #[2] #[3] #[4] #[5] #[6] #[7]