In My Own Little World

Constantly worried about a certain young man (identifying traits: luso-brasiliano/American, microcephaly, rather small of stature, might be seen in the Northern California area, often dresses sharply), and though I hate to infringe on his manly prerogatives, would someone pester him and keep him safe? Thank you... I have enough shady characters in my life, I know what kind of trouble could be out there...

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My the skies above ZIP 95979 (39.302035,-122.511160) are so DANG BUSY this year. What gives?

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I love how somebody from Sam Walton's family saw fit personally to teach me a lesson this year about the post-Upton Sinclair world of 2017, but really... Did that endeavor absolutely have to reflect on the teacher so that he or she looks like the billionaire white n*gger everyone assumes he or she is?

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Oh boy... I'm sincerely worried about the lack of rain this winter, and what that means for our wildflower bounty in the coming Spring...

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If you feering g3n3ru$$, you gimme money - rinks to the light, GI...

95988 ZIP (Willows, California - Just Off the I-5 Corridor in Glenn County)

Physical therapy, Black Bear Diner delish, lots of shopping, and... PHOTOGRAPHY!

Pretty painted stone, found in situ...

...Hoosegow...

...Mixed with Starbucks hot cocoa and creamer, the Guy Fieri chocolate mint for Keurig can't be beat!

Mom's all settled at physical therapy (no, she's not blind, just kind of dickin'...)

...So I head afuera...

...RILLY?

Pause for the cause.

I'm 40 and funny-looking, and in love with a dude whom I haven't seen in almost a month...

...Anyway, to the back alleys of Willows!

Historical buildings, cool shopping, and that radio tower!

REAL JOURNALISM! Tim and company really take it to the mat! A newspaper with heart and a purpose...

Dandelions make me think of drifters and weeds...

Can't go shopping on an empty stomach, and can't go wrong with Black Bear Diner - all over Northern California and Oregon!

Play Misty for me, Mom!

I've had this for breakfast, and it's pretty bomb.

The reuben is excellent, and habanero sauce goes great with onion rings, IMHO (I wanted the Waldorf, but I'd already eaten chicken salad the night before.)

#02053!

I must say, despite my malingering grudge against their Clackamas-based Interstate subsidiary, the #02053 store is clean and orderly, and seldom out of what I want or need...

Check-out is often a breeze. (And our cashier was que linda!)

On the way home, we pass Thunder Hill Raceway. They have a restaurant, and a racetrack for your car. (No, they do not have Nicole Kidman in her DAYS OF THUNDER hair.)

Beautiful pastureland (a lot of Northern California looks like this, from Sonoma and Solano to Butte, really...)

...Finally, home to lovely Stonyford, California, home of the Stonyford Museum, Hester Ranch (organic! Beef!), and an entrance to Mendocino National Forest...

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(Yesterday, we said good-bye to an old classmate, Chris Buchanan, who passed away due to cancer. RIP, Chris - I'll always remember you from my youth as a super stand-up guy. You will be missed.)

Chico, Rolling Hills Casino, Walmart...

Last full day the Way family gets to spend together as a threesome until next month...

...Driving past Snow Mountain and Stonyford, through Glenn County, and on to...

...Butte County (pop. 220,000 - *AHEM*, gay hookup sites and statistical likelihoods...), and the city of Chico!

Chico is home to Chico State University, Butte College (attended by none other in the past than Green Bay Packers QB and sexy NorCal goober Aaron Rodgers), cell phone towers (pictured), and...

...The Home Depot, where we went shopping for trees...

...And saw lots of flowers...

...And bricks...

...And more flowers...

...Even a bird of paradise! In October!

(Scenic Butte College, a junior college in the North State - colloquially known as Butt University, or Booty School.)

(Chico Refinery)

(Anna Karenina on the WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS, DAWG!)

(Orchards!)

(Yours truly getting close to the casino buffet, and the answer to the mystery of why our stomachs grumble.)

(Our driver, and contributor to the News Coulomb, Eric Way.)

I'm on a see-food diet: I see it, I eat it! (At Rolling Hills Casino, from which I've never been ejected - kicked out for winning!)

...And then, finally, Walmart (of course we're at Walmart - that's Deutsch cheese, yo!)

Sacred Lotus

Original painting from 2012 or '13 (BY YOURS TRULY); acrylic, gold leaf, and rhinestones on birch board - probably destroyed by Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation during my criminal displacement by Donald Falk, Nicole Grays, et alia after October 2014 - called "junk" or "trash" by Nicole, in point of fact....

....Not to mention, a lesser lotus on white paper (the characters reading, "Respect for those who came before; compassion for those who come after"):

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"From the deepest, darkest mud grows the most beautiful lotus."