Spring Popping Everywhere

Hello Friends,

Here's another macro phantogram shot recently while visiting our daughter and grand-daughter in the Miami area. I don't know what plant this is, perhaps someone can help me out with that. I shot it with my Panasonic Lumix GX7 with 3-D lens and used frame sides for phantogram processing.

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It seems we're gradually approaching some degree of normalcy. Betsy and I are increasingly comfortable with inviting vaccinated friends inside without masks. Tomorrow morning I'll be playing in a softball league for the first time in over a year, and tomorrow night I'll be getting together with a local poker group, all fully vaccinated and at the same table without masks. It feels a little odd, but we'll get used to it. I expect we'll still be wearing masks in stores and businesses for a while, and Betsy thinks she'll be masking up in public in future winters to cut down on colds and flu.

I wish I could say that politics and civilized debate have become more normalized, but it doesn't appear to be headed that way. I'd hoped to stop writing about politics in this blog, but what's coming out of the republican party, both national and state-by-state is more than a little disturbing. Rather than looking at why voters turned out the toxic Trump crowd and adjust their policies to appeal to more voters, instead they're doubling down on voter suppression and their devotion to their sore loser in chief, his anti-democratic behavior and obvious endless lies.

Barry Rothstein

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