Nightwalker50

The plan still is to add three more photos onto my current "string" of submissions before going back to doing drawings, but here's the scenario. I am now using a new computer to greatly upgrade the old Windows XP, BUT the Corel Paint Shop Pro9 app remains in the old machine. That is where I scan my new works into and transfer to a flash drive. However, Paint Shop Pro for some reason recently changes the file format from a jpg to jdf. Why? The process is clunky, but it used to work until recently. How to solve this? I am thus thinking of hooking up the scanner directly to the new machine, but I fear quality of the submissions may be lost without access to Paint Shop Pro. I sure hate it when technology "evolves" to tell us what to do. Ideas abound regarding creations, but I am in a residence without air conditioning and have to cower from the heat in the basement and / or try to work at night. With a garden to take care of and a 30th consecutive NLC observing season to

Quite awhile since I last updated here. Desperate times command desperate measures in part. We are in a different world since early 2020 (my last journal). I am twice suspended from "social" media, but three more long-term personal goals are achieved with the passage of time: my 500th artwork since 1980 (?), the million-can fetch from 2007 done mid-2021, and my 40th anniversary of consistent Sun & aurora recording. That's 2,478 aurora event nights observed since Sept. 26, 1981 from my location. Next up: the 30th season of scouting for the elusive NLCs (noctilucent clouds), of which I have 120 events to date scored. Had to greatly bleed my savings over the pandemic, but I still live and continue to survive the hard way. No secure retirement, but nothing is really secure. I am at an age when I can be here this year and gone in the next. You too. Life has its risks, but we can learn from kittens. When the deadly distemper virus attacks a litter of them, one dies & the others

The photography for 2019 is done by the passage of time, and the year has brought me TWO personal milestones, each that took over a decade to attain. In June, I make my 100th discovery of the elusive NLCs (noctilucent clouds) since mid-1993, and on Dec. 19, this profile passes 200,000 page views. Many thanks for being my fans and enjoying my difficult to do works. I have been VERY busy fetching and crushing aluminum cans to help cut down ever higher property taxes, and on Jan. 2, a good old friend in the UK, whom I submitted aurora data to, passed on at age 81. I feel sad but in some way fulfilled now, thanking God for my basic blessings. I am open to change for the better at any time, as I have put down another long year and decade of sky data in my notebooks. More intimidating for the short term is the impending sever cold of the latter half of the winter -- from a low and inactive Sun of last year. For 2020 (now), I want to work on and submit more art of some kind(s) -- black