"When dawn spreads its paintbrush on the plain, spilling purple... ," Sons of the Pioneers theme for TV show "Wagon Train." Dawn on the mythic Santa Fe Trail, New Mexico, looking toward Raton from Cimarron. -- Clarkphoto. A curmudgeon artist's musings melding metaphors and journalism, for readers in more than 150 countries.

Quotable coffee

  • "En El Principio era el Verbo y el Verbo era con Dios, y el Verbo era Dios.” --San Juan 1:1 (“In the beginning was The Verb, and The Verb was with God, and The Verb was God.” )
  • “…le mot, c’est le Verb, et le Verb c’est Dieu.” (“The word is the verb, and the verb is God.”—Victor Hugo)
  • "Above all, I want to make you see,"-- Joseph Conrad
  • "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough, "Robert Capa
  • "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory."--Apocalypse Now
  • "Mr. Kurtz. He dead," Heart of Darkness. Joseph Conrad
  • "I am haunted by waters, " A river Runs Through It, MacLean
  • "No verbs? No news."--Clark
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