Scott’s Themes: Animal Stories

Heckle and Jeckle Talking over the watercooler

May 25, 2019

https://youtu.be/TZfMGEEjLEU These two questionable birds remind me of cartoon characters us kids watched on black and white television in the 1950's, most often perched on a tree limb talking about crazy humans. They were, as they appear here, angular,...

Lone some George – Galapagos Tortoise Sculpture donated to Fountain Hills Park

May 20, 2019

Lonesome George is a famous tortoise from the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific, many hundreds of miles off the Ecuador coast. He was the last of his species and died in 2012 at the ripe old age of 100, one of many species of living things to become extinct throughout...

Nesting Bird- Video Arizona Home for Sale

May 20, 2019

In the front courtyard of a vacant home for sale in Fountain Hills, Arizona, a bird has made her nest in a God's flowing hair. She, quietly, doesn't move as I peek through windows into sad, empty rooms where someone used to live. By the time this house is sold, her...

Arizona Cows On a dirt road to nowhere

May 18, 2019

Where country begins is " when you start to see cows. " We are not in prime cow country in this high desert Arizona.There is much better grazing in Texas, and, even better, in Uruguay.The grass here is sparse amid cactus, junipers, washes, arroyos, ditches, and dirt...

Camel Talk Smoking room, Santo Domingo Airport

Mar 22, 2019

Smoking has taken a beating in the United States. Most smoking in America has been banned from public buildings. All tobacco packaging has to contain scientific warnings that tobacco products are not good for your health. Tobacco is taxed at an exorbitant rate....

Hummingbird’s- Video All you have to do is touch one and they start to fly

Mar 20, 2019

The materials making these mobiles are exquisitely simple - wire, fishing line, paper mache, paint. One touch of one hummingbird and all of them are flying, fearless in space, reminding me of hummingbirds in the Costa Rican Monteverde Rain Forest, reminding me of a...

Hummingbirds and Fish Bolo's Gallery on Calle Isabel Catholica

Mar 20, 2019

There is art everywhere on Calle Conti, leaning against walls in the pedestrian walkways, stacked deep in little shops along with Dominican Republic baseball caps and knick knacks. The canvases are small, medium, and large, but all seem to have been painted by the...

Taking a Nap Same dog, two different days, Same result

Mar 20, 2019

Picture of contentment.......

Museo of Amber Zona Colonia, Santo Domingo

Mar 18, 2019

Pat reminds me to dig deeper into amber, highly valued by Kings and royalty way way back when we had Kings and royalty. Tunneling deeper, I start walking to the Museum of Ambar at 454 Calle Arzobismo Merino Street in the Zona Colonia. It is roughly four blocks from...

Dogs, Cats, Pigeons Central Square, Zona Colonia

Mar 13, 2019

There is always a plaza in these old historical centers, full of people and things to see and do. People who run the country work inside offices that surround the plaza, eat in restaurants on the corner, attend civic functions in the square, make business and romantic...

Feeding Pigeons Zona Colonia

Mar 13, 2019

Homelessness is no stranger in urban environments. Disparity, economic and otherwise, is visible in older rougher parts of cities, worldwide,where no one with money wants to live. Urban flight has created downtown areas where people, who have nothing. sleep on...

Cooped Up Stan's Chicken House

Feb 7, 2019

Stan has had back yard chickens for a few years. They weren't something he wanted as a childhood dream, but his adopted kids wanted chickens so he built them a first rate coop, feeds them, keeps their cage clean, and can't kill them because his daughter would cry. "...