Today So Tempting

Finished photo-essays ready to go

but it's so much fun to post

images and experiences 

almost as they happen

 Have a safeway Xmas

 Imagery I welcome

regardless of its

commercial intent

 Jocular brown bear doll

over the frozen food aisle

 Mean spirit

of Xmas

 Candy canes

by the bucket load

at the sugar store next door

 Upside down Xmas tree

hovers over bins

of bon-bons

 Fall in in evidence

Alcatraz at Benvenue

my old neighborhood

 of twenty years past

 Unlike Gary Snyder

who's shack on a nearby street

inspired The Dharma Bums,

I had more comfortable lodging

 Ultra violet

buds in shadow

 The exquisite outdoors

on peaceful sidewalks

this time of the year

Grace of roses

Something was broken

then positioned 

on the sidewalk

someone's badge of guilt

Le Flaneur 

as wandering 

contemplative

always 

to be divided

 never to be put together again

 Attractive landscape
a garden corner

on Woolsey

 First Nation activist

who ran for mayor from jail

lost again this election

 Sleepy vista

 on Benvenue

My proverbial 

Garden path in autumn

Arriving just now 

here at the Claremont Library

17 November 2016