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he seems confused at (or surprised by) his nether regions

This gentleman greeted us every time we came back to our rooms in Catania. Some of our group* kept entertained by making up captions for what we saw, because basically we are unruly children who shouldn’t be left unsupervised.

Catania, Sicily
photographed 2.3.2025

*Yes. I was part of that cohort**.
**Which I think you probably figured out on your own.

Storm Lion

Those clouds seemed nicely fluffy and white and photogenic when I stopped to get them posing behind a stone lion. Later that night, however, in a town 120 miles away, hailstones were so large they crashed through roofs AND ceilings and landed on the floor. And in another direction, about the same distance, a tornado caused damage in a small town. I don’t think the lion knew what was going to happen, but I guess you never know with stone lions, do you?

Albany, Texas
photographed 5.22.2020

Disarming

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This poor guy – he’s got a little bit of a problem with his right arm, doesn’t he?

Dallas, Texas
photographed 5.7.2016

How saints stay warm

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Of course they’d need a warm scarf to ward off the cold. I just never thought about it before.

Chimayó, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2015