Doug Smart

@buglas.bsky.social

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All Season Bicycle Commuter, Bike Education program lead rider Head Adjuster at Willamette Center for Corrective Phrenology Not troubled with follower count and not following back automatically.

A cartoon depicting Beaker from the Muppets, the Roadrunner, and R2D2 in a conversation of beeps and meeps while standing behind a large truck that is reversing. Noise!
A photo of a McDonalds drive-through menu display with a selection of breakfast items. Every item has a notation of "BACK SOON"
A black and tan cat with its facial markings dividing into four quadrants like an heraldic shield.
A water diversion gate that is part of the Salt River Project in Phoenix, Arizona. This one is at the corner of 16th Street and Maryland. The poster recalls a day looking down through the grate to see water a feet down and the interior walls of the gate covered in crayfish.
Three dogs: Griffin, Tillie, and Cole sitting side by side in a black-white-black sequence. We call this the "Accidental Oreo Pose".
The coffee maker at the now closed La Bombonera in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico - a restaurant that operated for over 100 years. This beautiful machine is all chrome and shiny with three major vessels and lots of valves and tubes in a complex arrangement that looks like it requires a week or more of training to operate.
A Burley kid trailer loaded with four boxes containing fifteen dozen homemade monster cookies on their way to being posted to my son-in-law's Army unit in Afghanistan.
Far Side cartoon showing two cave men facing what seems to be a perched pterodactyl. One of the men has an apprehensive look with an arm raised and finger extended. The other has prosthetic sticks for both arms and one leg, an eye patch, and numerous long scratches on his body. The battle scarred one is telling his friend, "Don't be 'fraid, Dug. Me teach him sit on finger. ... Closer, Dug, closer."
A pair of bright red, speckled amanita mushrooms sprouted through a dense carpet of fallen maple leaves.
Protesters who have arrived by city bus to a No Kings event in Corvallis, Oregon.
A lawnmower unattended in a yard full of bicycles. Behind the mower is a pair of work shoes lying empty and askew with smoke coming out of them.
Donald Trump looking directly at the sun without eye protection during non-total phase of 2017 solar eclipse
A curbside little library styled after Klimt's "The Kiss" 3025 NW Manzanita Place, Corvallis, OR, USA
Three small dogs sitting side-by-side. The two black ones are on the outside with the white one in the middle. This has been described as "The Accidental Oreo Pose".
A sliverfish insect.
An arial view of Bessie Coleman Elementary School in Corvallis, Oregon. The school was built in the last few years as a replacement for an aging school named for a disreputable former US president.
Me and son-in-law ready to roll on bicycles and bundled for winter. SIL hitched to a cargo trailer with Christmas tree. Me hitched to a passenger trailer with unseen granddaughter inside.
Work in progress: the mural "Bessie's Blue" by Carolyn Moses. Along Monroe Avenue in Corvallis, OR. Depicts endangered Fender's Blue butterfly in "tiles" the approximate size of an adult. One tile for each Fender's Blue in existence.
Roomy, covered, and well lighted bike racks at work. Sadly, only one bike parked here.
The Accidental Oreo Pose