I'm a professionally trained graphic artist. Yeah I know, "Whoop de doo!" Or as my dear old mother would have said.. "La de daa!" Still, the fact remains that I produce all of my own graphics and hold © Copyright on them all. It's a fact I would like people to pay close attention to.
Don't take any graphics from my blog, (or my avatar for that matter) without asking me first, (or in the case of the desktops..) only when I allow it for your personal, non-commercial use.
As far as I go.. I'm a crazy old coot, (over half a century old) living in the Puget Sound region of Washington, the great Pacific Northwest. Married to a wonderful woman who I love more than life it's self. Have an over-weight wiener dog named, "Nubby." Now, because she has gotten so fat I just call her, "chubby-nubby.." Clever eh'?
I'm not a real friendly person towards strangers. I have a gate at my house and I use it. If you aren't invited, don't just show up. You may not get in. It's the way I have gotten after years of dealing with the real world. For better or worse, it is how I am.