It brought to my mind Theodore Roethke's Wish for a Young Wife. My lizard, my lively writher ...."

[quote=Scruples]I hope you did. If you didn’t you could come over, the refrigerator is yours to search through, coffee piping hot and a handful of Orchid photos. Our wives would gone off shopping. We could walk my dog and smoked some cigars.
PS. Thank you for your service![/quote

You're reply was better than mine. He probably needs some kindness.

Did you have it with people who care for you and for whom you care and after a hard week trying to make life better for other people? Your contribution this week was to make a snarky remark. I expected better from you.

I think she is doing her Jack Nicholson impersonation.

Cat people call that "making biscuits"

Linda, I guess thats me. I have replied exactly 5425 times, actually 5426 counting this one. I have posted exactly "0" images. Maybe someday.

Here's a thought. If you are viewing an image in the gallery and think that you have a suggestion that will improve the image and enlighten the poster, the P.M. the submitter of the image and share your insightful wisdom privately with them. I think all too often the suggestions about improvement aren't about being helpful, but are more about holding forth to show off what the responder knows in a public forum. Yes UHH is a "public" forum, but the gallery is a "private" corner of that "public" forum.

Didn't know what?

Thanks, Jo I'm glad that Bob is still around. I think you might be right about the fellow with birds from India.

Seriously, here is a person who is hobbled up and house bound for the next six weeks or more and who probably has spent most of her photographic life taking color images with an I phone. I'm not sure how an on the move black and white examination of the American psychic no matter how incisive it may be will fire her up to take on photography as a hobby. In fact I'm not even sure about the premise of any book will any particular person to take up the subject of the book as a hobby. I agree that some books have inspired some people to try new things. I do think that Frank's book was a great one and an insightful look at the America of its time.

Thanks Linda, this is a wonderful thing that you are doing. Some folks whom I have wondered about have already been mentioned. Bob Yankle was gone for awhile, but came back briefly and is gone again. (unless he is posting in a section at which I don't look) There was the fellow in India who took wonderful bird images . I believe he passed. Then from Winnipeg was Don who took microscopic images of such things as pond scum. I will go back through my messages to see if I can more accurate names.

I'm late responding to this one. This is another of your more simple presentation of a single subject and you did a great job with it. Except that it wasn't exactly simple, but was replete with verticalities of which the young lady was but one. Thanks for this one.

You took your phone with you when you and your wife went out for dinner? Well at least you are honest about your priorities and typical of so many people who would rather be with their devices instead of the people they are with .

Sometimes those whom we think we have let go come back to us at unexpected times.

Another discussion that is about as popular as a "turd in a punchbowl". Once again we are working on "How to take the joy out of photography"