Posted in Art, Painting, tagged Africa, Botwana, Painting, Painting of Elephants on December 20, 2015| 3 Comments »
I painted a safari picture on a piece of plywood, based on a photograph Trisha brought back from Botswana last year. Then I mounted it in an old mirror frame with doors that was languishing around the house. This is the finished product in our entry way. Frame repurposed. Window to Africa established. Here is a larger version of the painting itself.
Posted in Misleading Statistics, tagged Africa, Size of Africa, Visualize Africa on November 9, 2014| 2 Comments »
The size of Africa, being in the center of the world map, often is distorted to its disadvantage. Greenland, Alaska and Siberia look huge, Africa just looks big. How big really is it?
Size of Africa [click for picture credit]
Posted in Cool People, Crack-Ups, History, tagged Africa, Obama, Young Obama on February 15, 2013| 3 Comments »
Obama tweeted this picture on Valentine’s Day.
Who would have thought, when this picture was taken probably somewhere in Africa, perhaps twenty years ago, that we’re looking at the future president of the United States.