By Luke T. Bush
The tag stated America's Mattress but the salesman assured me it was made by Sealy.
Was it? A Sealy mattress shouldn't wear out in two years. A pothole -- not a shallow dip -- grew in its middle. I had to stuff large towels in that depression to more or less even it out.
Note that my previous mattress lasted for fifteen years.
You've been warned.
Polychromatic Plastic
I spent over an hour trying three different photo-editing programs to get this final Image. Was it worth it?
© 2025 Luke T. Bush
PLATTSBURGH CITY, NY - 7/20/25
I'm downtown taking a photo when a woman behind me asks if I'm shooting through the windows across the street.
No.
"Then what are you taking pictures of?"
That car over there.
I walk away to return home and grab my tripod to take extreme closeups of flowers. As I'm walking across the street towards some day lilies that same woman yells at me.
"Are you a pedophile?"
I turn around and give her a definite No.
Why did she ask if I was a pedophile? Apparently it was the car photo I had taken earlier.
I set up my tripod, concentrating on the flowers. High magnification means verry thin depth of field. The area in focus can be only 1 millimeter in depth. Also the slightest breeze can ruin the shot, a blurry flower.
Suddenly the same woman is next to me. "Why are you photographing flowers?"
Because they're ugly.
I continue to concentrate on setting up my shot.
She finally got the hint and left.
I managed to get some good shots.
PLATTSBURGH CITY, NY - 7/18/25
© 2025 Luke T. Bush
As I reported a while ago a flower and milkweed garden hear Champlain Monument was mowed down. You can see where it was in the lawn photo, the patchy area. There remained a sign describing Native American plants but that is now missing.
That garden bed was vital to all sorts of insects especially monarch butterflies, an endangered species. A second garden closer to the monument remains (so far) where monarchs can still fuel up with nectar.
© 2025 Luke T. Bush
PLATTSBURGH CITY, NY - 7/2/25
This afternoon protesters gather in Trinity Park to express their concern and outrage over US Crime Minister Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bull (Bill.)
