A steady rain kept me inside with my camera for most of today. I'm working on a journal piece for the Blog, something about the illogic of asking for fewer regulations and smaller, cheaper government at a time when our country is in dire economic distress and the country's basic infrastructure is obviously crumbling... and at a time when we are involved in two expensive wars... but that piece isn't ready to post. Looking for a photograph for today, I ventured out when there was a lull in the rain and took a picture of a face in a dirt bank, a face that has been staring out at me for the past two weeks. Inside I got a very good portrait of Smokey; so on a day when I snapped only three pictures, I like two of them so much that I couldn't choose between them. On this day, I have two photos du jour.