Cash on the Line

The Long Sufferin never leaves the house without commenting on how beautiful it is here on the South Coast. Now this is a mystery to me cause once you've seen a tree you've pretty much seen a tree. It's not like the unending variability of the architecture you see in any large city.

But it does seem that there are a whole bunch of folks who really like the wilds and the woods.

So here's a juicy contest just for hose of you who are out hugging the trees and paling with the owls, The U S a Landscape which covers a bunch of territory. I mean there are fruited plains and all sorts of sights and places to go and capture and what with the holiday season fast approaching here's not a one of us who couldn't use a coupla hundred extra dollars to buy turkeys and cranberries with. (Why is it that the President can take time out of his incredibly schedule to pardon the Thanksgiving turkey but no one gives a care for the poor cranberries slaughter across the country to make cranberry sauce which in living memory i cannot remember a single person eating.)

So take the link and have a look at the contest and see if it is something which you might be interested in and then come back to the trawler for one of my many posts about what to get for the artist in your list and make sure that even if they have been naughty instead of nice they get something they can actually use and not an old tie which they will never wear and in Coos Bay wearing a tie is a sure sign that you are a foriegner and no body wants to be an outsider from Eugene or Portland cuase all they do is stealk our resources and tax us and then out vote us on every issuie and you wouldn;t want to be part of the corrupt political machine so you'll check my suggestions out and buy something that anartist can actually use or want.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/dispatches/2013/11/01/landscape-photo-contest/3316393/