Rob Polk

@curiousrob.bsky.social

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Husband to 💪🏼 Dr. - Dad to 7 - professional educator, business creator, public school board member, Author (Operation Tree Roper) He/him. I've been called a bad Catholic. It could be true. Writing #MG & #nonfiction (Reading > banning & Loving > deporting)

Three swallow chicks peer over their mud house pasted high up on my brick-walled front porch.
Baby swallows peeking over the rim of their mud hut which is pasted to my brick house right under the white ceiling fascia.
Curled up calico cat on a gray-patterned area rug and leaning against the blond oak front door.
Landscape with various weeds, gray woodchip mulch, and evergreen trees in which a young bunny hides in plain view by scrunching down on the mulch center left.
View of small white car with absent rear window.
Panoramic view of a thunderstorm enveloping my property.
A baby killdeer (small brown and white bird with a black neck ring) looking left in the short grass and readyvto duck and run!
Curled up orange and white cat asleep in the egg basket on my back deck.
Rainbow settles near a distant rocky prominence while a tree I planted in the foreground bends toward the bright colors. My checken pen fence frames the lower portion of the frame.
Yellow cropduster flies low over my southern neighbor's alfalfa field.
Kayaking on a local lake and enjoying the view.
Black and white cat resting on my outstretched legs while I watch a movie with family.
View of my clean and empty 5th grade classroom as U2 plays in the background. See ya!
Calm and cool female track athlete dressed in red and black giving thumbs up to a gray-haired guy who's smilng and staggering about like a celebratory fool.
A clear plastic enclosed tray of 14 chocolate cupcakes with swirled buttercream frosting on top.
Close-up view of a curled Calico cat on my bed covering her face with a white furry arm.
Close up view of a cottontail foraging on new grass in my emerging lawn.
White Jesus in scrubs, red robe, and white coat with hands open, stethoscope over shoulders and backlit sun over his head.
Sunrise behind me illuminates a distant sandstone formation rising from the horizon as the full moon hangs low on the left above a nearby poplar tree budding out. Expansive yellow fading to blue sky dominates the top view while a green horizontal alfalfa strip separates the skyline from my bare field at the frame's bottom.
On a wooden kitchen table rests a lighter, a large knife. And a hella delicious-looking double layer cake with pink frosting oozing over everything.
Lower right side foreground shows sprouting Cherry tomato plants in a small plastic dish in a dirty metal shop windowsill. Left of that is a torn and dried paper towel "sandwich" with Cherry Tomato seeds trapped inside. View above the PTs and sprouts out the window shows mulch, trees, and gravel driveway.
Expansive early evening view of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, from miles away to the east. A black foreground rises into the city lights which in turn glow underneath the shadow of Scottsbluff National Monument on the left half of the frame. On the right, a planet or star glimmers underneath the approving glow from the moon above it. Above the length of the horizon, a fading orange sunset blends upward to indigo infinity.
Viewing a sunrise over a tree-lined horizon underneath the spans and through the mount of a center pivot sprinkler system. (Water pipes mounted on top of geared and paired tractor wheels which rest in the track at the edge of dormant alfalfa field. Two dprinkler drip lines drop down from the water pipes atop.)
Morning pre-sunrise lit by soft orange and purple clouds above and expansive bare field in the foreground while a tree-lined horizon encroaches from the left.
Golden orange sunrise sky backlighting a hawk perched on a pivot sprinkler arm at the edge of a grassy field.
Picture of words and a flexed left arm on the back window of a pickup truck I stopped behind at a red light today says, "EDUCATION IS IMPORTANT BUT BIG BICEPS ARE IMPORTANTER"
Two hats that I frequently wear rest on my kitchen counter. Tan hat with red embroidery reads HE SAID LOVE NOT DEPORT. Faded blue had with red stitching reads Make America GOOD Again.
Quotes by MLK on my classroom white board begin with his speech starting with "It is a cruel jest..." and continuing through much of the "meat" of his message.
Sunset view over Scotts Bluff National Monument with a bare-leaved young cottonwood reaching up into a yellow, orange and blue sky while an American Flag flanks the right side and a bare field and dark ditch splits the pic from left to right.
Sillouhetted hawk perched on a section of circle pivot pipe against the yellow, orange, and red background sky with a few treetops and steel hay stack cover on the black horizon below it.
Sandstone land feature rises into orange-red horizon with blueish-gray cloud bank above and scattered city lights pierce the black foreground.
Owl perched atop a pivot as red and orange hues illuminated the horizon.
A picture of my classroom with a hanging poster that reads "Would Jesus expect His Catholic followers to love their neighbors or deport them?"
Balck and white cat sitting on a tile floor with her front paws in a dry water dish stares judgingly at me.
First morning glow seeps through careless clouds above and dark land below.
Newspaper clipping about my son earning National Merit Scholar semifinalist honors last week. Photo shows his school counselor in black on left with him in the middle and me looking on from the right.
Tiny glowing moon disc hovers over my mowed field in the near view, while a green alfalfa field rests under the far view.
The number 50 in bold black outlined by white on a number tag rests crumpled and satisfied on my kitchen counter tonight.
Black and white cat curled upside down on a gray sofa next to a movie-watching child while receiving belly scritches.
Wide angle sunset view with partly cloudy blue sky at top of frame blending into gray clouds and orange glow sunset behind trees on the right and a distant Scottsbluff National Monument far left while unmowed hayfield merges into my green tinged backyard in the foreground.
Calico cat curled up, sleeping in a cream colored faux leather lounge chair.
Paperback book with Black and white printed cover titled BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME. Written by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Young volunteer elm tree about 5 inches tall growing in the wood mulch. My black weed cutting blade rests to the left of the seedling for scale.
Newly-tiled bedroom floor, with pieces of furniture and tools on the perimeter.
Exposed plywood subfloor with the first row of grayish laminate tile installed against the gray wall. Assorted tools and kneepads lay scattered about the remaining area.
Two girls carrying fishing poles and helping each other down a steep hillside toward a winding mountain creek in a meadow flanked by trees.
Trout-fishing girls on a meandering stream in a lush, green, valley with evergreen trees and a sloping mountain hillside in the background.
Thunderstorm in the distance above Scottsbluff National Monument moving towrad the city. My partially mown field is in the foreground.
Three of my children and I are on the lake. Two in kayaks, one is on a paddleboard, and another is in the water, all looking at the photographer.
Distant view of four of my kids swimming in the lake with blue sky above, tree-lined lake edge on the horizon, and several paddleboards and kayaks on a sandy and sparsely vegetative covered beach in the foreground with our trailer wheel barely in view on the right.
Ground level view of young cottonwood tree with white plastic sheath on the right side of the trunk and no branches while left side of trunk is exposed (to cat scratches) but filled with downward growing young limbs. I theorize this us tree's defensive response to adverse stimuli on left side.
Girl with windblown hair and watches waves lap the beach beyond her sandaled toes.