Weeks 18 and 19 (Blackbirds)

I doubt it caught a fish that big.

Crow, Raven, Rook?  Some member of the corvidae.

P.S.  The answer to last post's question is posted in the comments.

Week 17 - Abstract Art

Abstract art.  I can't stand abstract art for abstract's sake (e.g. painting squares and lines and pretending that it's profound), probably because I don't understand it.  I can appreciate the beauty in things that common people (people without a special perspective) don't understand (e.g. the beauty I perceive in the Navier-Stokes equation), but I can't imagine that anyone can understand "art" that looks like it was made by a grade-schooler.  I mean, is there really all that hidden meaning, or is the observer making the piece out to be something more than it is (like English literature classes... but I digress).

I'll take my personal definition of abstract art to mean something that is devoid of references to the physical world.  I take pictures of what becomes "abstract art" because it is visually interesting... nothing more.  Feel free to add your interpretation and fix a value of thousands of dollars to the following image if you are so inclined, just understand that no deeper meaning was intentionally captured.

That all being said, anyone care to guess what this is?

Week 16

IN GOD WE TRUST

Another metaphor this week.  No matter what abuses we have undergone, or what imperfections we exhibit, we have reason to hold up our heads and smile if it's IN GOD WE TRUST.

Week 15

Family has flown the coop for a couple weeks.  Here's the metaphorical moment of the week (hint: I'm the bird in the foreground).

Cabrillo National Monument