This is a band shell in Sioux City, Iowa.

I was wandering, camera in hand, through the boatyard in Port Townsend, Washington one cloudy March day in 2021 when I stumbled upon this collection of boat stands.

by John Ambrosio

Dillard's work was characterized by spare prose and a deep connection to nature. She is best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Maytrees and The Writing Life.

A sign can be a warning.

You’re on a journey.

Did you count the light bulbs?

One size never fits all.

This is the Green Man, the pagan symbol of renewal and the responsibility and love for nature.

I have no clever metaphor, no leading meaning or life lesson to allude to with this image.

The Common Thistle is, appropriately enough, the national flower of Scotland.

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

Sometimes, life takes a little push . . .

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This is a reflection of your city, my hometown, Kansas City.

Isn’t she beautiful?

Saturday, May 1, 2010, Atchison, Kansas, probably Commercial Street.

Prayer flags aren’t prayers, at least not in the western sense of requests for favor, for condition, or for deliverance.

What does it actually mean, and why is everybody so weird about it? Hillary Busis considers this celestial nonsense.

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So Donald Trump decides he’s going to “fix” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and have the bottom painted “American flag blue”—a dark navy blue—and it costs $14 million to get the job done (a no-bi...

Pretty? Maybe, but dumb . . .

They’ve got the blues in Memphis.

How to think about the latest big number to make headlines.

This neglected silo has found a new purpose in life.

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Were you there?

Yipes! Stripes!

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Keep looking up . . .

Read Pearls Before Swine—a comic strip by creator Stephan Pastis—for today, May 13, 2026, and check out other great comics, too!

Take me to church . . .

For your protection . . .

Finding the light can be hard . . .

Everyone says I fall too easily, and maybe that’s true, but I remember the first time I saw her - auburn hair, huge brown eyes, and a way of looking at you that just takes your breath away.

Goes both ways . . .

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

A 440 or bust

Paint is just skin deep

You had to be there. . .