A Few Days Off

August 12/13, 2026

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day... is by no means a waste of time.”

John Lubbock

While I may not be lying on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, but tonight I am in need of a break, tomorrow night is a meeting of my community’s Veterans Club and Friday I will be in New York at a goodbye dinner for my granddaughter who is leaving to start her sophomore year at her university.

So, I am taking a few days off. I will return with more analysis of the events of the day Saturday or Sunday.

But first, some images from our September, 2003 trip to Australia.

Sydney, Australia’s Famous Opera House

Alice. An Australian Aboriginal Artist and Her Original Artwork She Sold to Me.

Ayer’s Rock at Uluru in the Heart of the Australian Outback.

Alice, An Outback Town

Orchid Growing Naturally in the Sub-Tropical Northern Australian Rainforest