.....(CLICK ON ARROW.) Chunk at home, with Sunny Girl. He tells two "finger" stories, with the help of Sunny, including his celebrated 44 Magnum tale, which concerns the late "Mountain Ray" and a certain exploding Smith & Wesson handgun......Mostly for fans of the SUNNY GIRL.
.....Mountain Ray was a U.S. Marine, loved the Santa Ana Mountains, loved his dogs.
.....He and Kathie and I—plus Ray's "dark green" Marine buddy—once saw a whoppin' big UFO together, in the sky above Live Oak Canyon. Good times!
.....Raymond had a green thumb, they say. Knew the Latin terms for every variety.
.....He and his crop are now gone.
.....I think of him often.
(Some of you were asking how I get that "painted" look. In the case of the two Sunny photos above, mostly I relied on the "ink outlines" filter in Photoshop, though I also boosted saturation and then contrast. In the case of yesterday's Sunny photos, I used the "accented edges" filter instead, but I also boosted saturation and contrast. I sometimes add some "sharpening," which can produce weird effects. No doubt real photographers are horrified. Do I care? I do not.)
