Reflections in that rain puddle

The Washington Post has created a website devoted to the...

Aug 31st

The Illustrated London News has been a great newspaper. Here...

Aug 31st

“The Gap” created with Terragen .9 and tweeked...

Aug 31st

Abbey keeps me fit with the dogwalks. Here a restfull pose.

Aug 31st

“Hidden” created with Elements and Filter Forge.

Aug 31st

Astroturf is a website devoted to discovering and describing...

Aug 30th

The Government Printing Office provides access to the...

Aug 30th

An example of a Google Squared Search. Note the table...

Aug 30th

Google Squared is an enhanced version of the Google search...

Aug 30th

Mr. Fluff and Mr. Friday resting after a busy morning.

Aug 30th

“Under the sea” created in Elements, tweeked...

Aug 30th

Modesitt Begins His SF Publishing

Modesitt, Jr, L.E ~ The Forever Hero ~ TOR, no date ~ 748 pages ~ Audience: adults ~ Rating: Good. ...

Aug 29th

“Paint by Numbers” created and tweeked in...

Aug 29th

Picturing America is an exhibit by the National Endowment...

Aug 29th

The Economist, the well-regarded U.K. news periodical, now...

Aug 29th

Another slightly different look at Mr. Friday.

Aug 29th

Image created in Elements using Aztec brush and tweeked with...

Aug 29th

Reflections — Self-Portraits shows notable artists as...

Aug 28th

The Smithsonian Art Museum has a nice exhibit on U.S. art...

Aug 28th

Pistol Creek on the Green Belt a few days ago.

Aug 28th

“Star system” created with Xaos, tweeked with...

Aug 28th

The Cat Apologist took this image yesterday. Two slightly...

Aug 28th

Well designed exhibit on the Napoleonic Wars.

Aug 27th

The Library at the University of Chicago has a very nice...

Aug 27th

“Solar storm” created in Elements, tweeked with...

Aug 27th

Simple circle tweeked just a bit with Filter Forge.

Aug 27th

In order to showcase its preselected “bundles”...

Aug 26th

Colourlovers has a very nice illustrated history of the...

Aug 26th

“Stained glass” created with Filter Forge.

Aug 26th

“On our way” created in Terragen .9, tweeked...

Aug 26th

Although I’ve yet to see the physical book, the Star...

Aug 25th

Typedia is a Wikipedia-like encyclopedia of type. I suspect...

Aug 25th

While the Cat Apologist says that each cat is her favorite,...

Aug 25th

“Modern art” created in Elements, tweeked with...

Aug 25th

“Nightmare” created in Elements, tweeked with...

Aug 25th

Mr. Fluff is our senior inside cat. He enjoys keeping an eye...

Aug 25th

The British National Gallery presents a display of thirty...

Aug 24th

Altuse.com provides sometimes curious, sometimes useful...

Aug 24th

“Construction” created with Elements, tweeked...

Aug 24th

Here is her original image for contrast.

Aug 24th

An image of a moon flower taken yesterday by the Master...

Aug 24th

“Talking Faith” is a federal government blog....

Aug 23rd

The Union Pacific railroad has updated and improved their...

Aug 23rd

Night Clouds in August. Recent photograph, tweeked with...

Aug 23rd

“Colour-full” back yard flowers photograph,...

Aug 23rd

If you wonder how much federal stimulus money has come to...

Aug 22nd

Those interested in reading ebooks with find this list of...

Aug 22nd

“Magic Storm” created with Terragen .9, tweeked...

Aug 22nd

“Lost” created in Filter Forge.

Aug 22nd

“Lava” created the same way, but much simpler...

Aug 21st

“Hidden cave” was created in Elements, tweeked...

Aug 21st

I saw this root, cut off on the top by a large grass mowing...

Aug 21st

DeeperWeb is an improvement to Google’s normal search...

Aug 21st

Astroturf is a website devoted to exposing fake...

Aug 21st

Delicate flower shot yesterday afternoon when the sun...

Aug 20th

The Department of Defense has launched a new website which...

Aug 20th

The Federal Communications Commission has launched a blog...

Aug 20th

Small, orange flowers remind me of Southern California where...

Aug 20th

Flower image taken yesterday a.m. when cloudy. Tweeked just...

Aug 20th

Green belt near the courthouse photo tweeked with Filter...

Aug 19th

Pew Research has issued an excellent report on perceptions...

Aug 19th

OpenSecrets.org focuses on who gives money to politicians...

Aug 19th

“Gallery at night” created in Elements, tweeked...

Aug 19th

The Master Gardener took this picture yesterday when it was...

Aug 19th

Another attempt/opportunity for a federal agency to reach...

Aug 18th

NARAtions is a blog about online public access to federal...

Aug 18th

“Forgotten lands” created with Terragen .9,...

Aug 18th

“Fireworks” created in Elements, tweeked with...

Aug 18th

Promising Teen Fantasy Series

Llewellyn, Sam ~ Lyonesse: The Well Between the Worlds ~ Orchard Books, 2009 ~ 341 pages ~ Audience:...

Aug 17th

Metacarta is a news site oriented by place. Most useful to...

Aug 17th

If you need concrete examples of the impact of inflation,...

Aug 17th

“Dizzy tiles” created with Elements and tiled...

Aug 17th

This “dirty gear” created with Filter Forge was...

Aug 17th

An interesting, although not surprising, study of cover...

Aug 16th

Eye on the Bailout is a Pro Publica site devoted to...

Aug 16th

“Cosmic storm” created in Elements, tweeked with...

Aug 16th

“Hand-made rug” created in Elements, tweeked in...

Aug 16th

I’ve used oil painting filters on two of the images...

Aug 15th

Colourlovers has another delightful feature. This time on...

Aug 15th

Autobeef is a website designed to collect and make available...

Aug 15th

It’s been some time since I showed a dog walk image....

Aug 15th

The British Museum has an interesting exhibit on Babylon.

Aug 14th

“Drawing the Western Frontier” is an appealing...

Aug 14th

“Colorful cosmos” created in Elements, tweeked...

Aug 14th

“City at night” created in Elements, tweeked...

Aug 14th

America.gov includes a variety of blogs aimed at promoting...

Aug 13th

American Evolution is a website devoted to a reexamination...

Aug 13th

“Bright, bright” created in Elements and...

Aug 13th

“Smooth threads” created with Elements and...

Aug 13th

The University of Michigan has long had the best government...

Aug 12th

The National Archives has joined other Federal agencies with...

Aug 12th

“Swirls” created as a texture/pattern with...

Aug 12th

“Witch doctor” created in Elements, tweeked with...

Aug 12th

I do like these modern tiled abstracts. Created in Elements,...

Aug 12th

While my brother once again beat me to the list of award...

Aug 11th

Newsy is a news site emphasizing video clips related to...

Aug 11th

Yebol is another new search engine/aggregator with some...

Aug 11th

“Dark Future” created with Terragen .9 and...

Aug 11th

“Antique rug” created in Elements, tweeked just...

Aug 11th

“Alien skies” created with Terragen .9 and...

Aug 11th

A marvelous listing of appealing examples of Concept art...

Aug 10th

SFSignal provides us with a list of this year’s...

Aug 10th

“Lost in Red” created in Elements, tweeked with...

Aug 10th

“Bright, bright” created in Elements, tweeked...

Aug 10th

Nextgov examines the contemporary interaction between...

Aug 9th

Online Image Converter is a quick, relatively easy way to...

Aug 9th

“Window on alien planet” created with Terragen...

Aug 9th

“Threads” created with Elements, tweeked with...

Aug 9th

The remake of the SFWA website is certainly different and...

Aug 8th

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America is...

Aug 8th

An interesting study/gallery of Penguin SF covers. We...

Aug 8th

“Dark Fires” = flame fractal tweeked with Filter...

Aug 8th

Three variants of an original simple fractal image. Tweeked...

Aug 8th

The Sixth Sun Series Continues

Harlan, Thomas.  ~ House of Reeds ~ TOR, 2004 ~ 411 pages ~ adults, teens. “Chu-sa Mitsuharu...

Aug 7th

OpenRegs is a non-partisan website dedicated to providing...

Aug 7th

The DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information is...

Aug 7th

There is some controversy about the Joe Pye plant. It may be...

Aug 7th

Although many of the flowers are past their best showing,...

Aug 7th

Although some flowers are beginning to go away, others...

Aug 7th

The Museum of the Rockies has a notable collection of...

Aug 6th

My brother saw this before I did. Information on the World...

Aug 6th

“Threads” created in Elements, tweeked with...

Aug 6th

An image taken yesterday morning on the garage side rock...

Aug 6th

The Sixth Sun series begins

Harlan, Thomas ~ Wasteland of Flint ~ TOR, 2003 ~ 430 pages ~ adults, teens. “The Gagarin sped...

Aug 5th

Newsdeck from USA Today is a brief, colorful overview of...

Aug 5th

Navify is a dressed-up approach to Wikpedia integrated with...

Aug 5th

“Matrix city” created in Terragen .9, tweeked...

Aug 5th

“Too much color” created in Elements, tweeked...

Aug 5th

Our one dog seems to be neglected in favor of cat images....

Aug 5th

The St. Louis Federal Reserve has created an excellent site...

Aug 4th

Science Nation, issued by NSF, is an online, reasonably...

Aug 4th

“Lost Planet” created and tweeked in Elements...

Aug 4th

The Master Gardener and Queen of the Farmer’s Market...

Aug 4th

We still enjoy the colorful patterns/textures on our shady...

Aug 4th

The Louvre collections are unusually notable for their...

Aug 3rd

NationMaster provides reasonable overviews on a wide variety...

Aug 3rd

Ah, the sun finally appeared yesterday afternoon after...

Aug 3rd

Side garden flower image with watercolor filter from Filter...

Aug 3rd

Simple flower image. For some reason, reminds me of bee...

Aug 3rd

Haze and the Federation

Modesitt, Jr. L.E. ~ Haze ~ TOR, 2009 ~ 303 pages ~ adults, teens. “The man in the drab pale...

Aug 2nd

NewsTrendz focuses on which “news” stories are...

Aug 2nd

NewsAhead focuses on stories likely to predict or forecast...

Aug 2nd

“Sun and sea” created with Terragen .9 and...

Aug 2nd

The heavy night and morning rains continue making the dog...

Aug 2nd

Meuzer is an interesting new free online music service....

Aug 1st

The Divine Art tapestry exhibit is nicely done, providing a...

Aug 1st

“Star trails” is a fractal created with Xaos.

Aug 1st

I’ve planted some more dog wood shrubs and they are...

Aug 1st

Some time ago, I created this texture image in Elements....

Aug 1st