The day after tomorrow is the 5th anniversary of “One with Clay, Image and Text.” It would be nice if it coincided with my eleven-hundredth blog post. So here is a detail from an old olive tree that caught my eye walking through the park with my good friend Melony.

In a way this tree is a self-portrait. I made it more like myself via photoediting enhancement. It is craggy and bleachy, and has been through the mill, but it abides.