Trees Turning

Photograph of trees and brush turning colors taken from above a bend in the gravel road between Gibson Dam and the road to Benchmark, Montana.

--Mitchell Hegman

Sun Canyon Cabin Window

A photograph I snapped this morning in a rustic cabin at Sun Canyon Lodge located in Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front Range near Augusta.

--Mitchell Hegman

Welcome to Sequin World

If sequins were people yelling rather than decorative thingumajigs, my house would be the equivalent of a huge stadium filled with thousands of fanatics.

Let’s begin with this picture:

 

The photo is of a few of the zillions of sequins I have vacuumed, swept, pinched, and dabbed from my floors and carpets over the last few days.

I sometimes suspect that the sequins are breeding in the wee hours, though I know better.

I know where they came from.

Technically speaking, they came from my clothes washer.  More specifically, the sequins were shed from a dress in my clothes washer—a long, slinky dress (once) covered with them.  The sequins virtually poured onto my floor when I first opened the washer and pulled forth a pile of clothes.  The other articles of clothing were measled with sequins.  Now my whole house is afflicted.

I am guessing the dress had directions for washing.  I would further guess that gentle washing by hand was suggested.  Here is the thing, I am an electrician and Ariel Murphy is an Ariel Murphy and neither an electrician nor an Ariel Murphy is inclined to read some silly directions before proceeding on anything.

We know how to do stuff!   

--Mitchell Hegman

Rainbow Searchlights

Photograph of compact discs purposely shot out of focus for effect.

--Mitchell Hegman

Three Inventors

·         The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

·         A gentleman named Thomas Crapper invented the toilet.

·         Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna led the attack on the Alamo and later helped invent chewing gum.

--Mitchell Hegman

List of Things We Are Born To Do

List of Things We Are Born To Do

·         Pretend-drive abandoned cars in weedy fields when we are children

·         Walk along soft sand with bare feet

·         Juggle emotions

·         Run without a sound

·         Kiss on the lips

·         Travel to distant stars

·         Jump from stone to stone

·         Drink water from the palms of our hands

·         Tell our children we love them

--Mitchell Hegman

List of Things We Are Not Born To Do

List of Things We Are Not Born To Do:

·         Walk with a cane

·         Die in a roadside ambush in Afghanistan

·         Live with our eyes shut

·         Juggle fire

·         Walk on our hands

·         Sit on our hands

·         Live in abandoned cars

·         Use the word tintinnabulation in any form of normal conversation

·         Eat sticks

·         Ignore stars falling from the sky

--Mitchell Hegman