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Avid fan of the word avid. Avid about movies, reading, photography, music, cats, anime, Mets & Dolphins.

A deer stares at me as I walk by. It’s standing in long grass with woods behind it.
Annihilation, women with machine guns enter a forest; Flavors Of Youth, drawing of a young man in a crosswalk with his back to us, heading for a group of buildings; Scarlet, young woman in a white gown holding a sword against a red fiery background; Stand By For Action, stars Brian Donlevy, Charles Laughton and Robert Taylor.
Cover of audiobook ’Rebecca’ by Daphne Du Maurier. A color overhead photo of a woman with reddish hair wearing a black dress and wrapping her arms around herself. Head down, so you can’t see her face.
Cover of the book ‘The Crime In Car 13’ by Stephen Chalmers. It has a drawing in gold and yellow of a train, as seen from above, racing down a track, smoke billowing from its smokestack.
My cat washes her face as I try to sneak a pet and then she begins to bite my thumb
Black and red ship called the Navibulgar sails on blue river below and blue sky above.
Black and white photo of Thomas Mitchell looking concerned.
Upside down US Flag.
Movie posters: Third Finger, Left Hand, a hand with a wedding ring on it, with Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas in background; It Happened Tomorrow with Dick Powell and Linda Darnell; Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig in the ocean belches fire and black smoke; Edge Of Darkness, closeup of Errol Flynn.
Cover of the book The Poppy War by R.F.Kuang. A. Golden phoenix flies over a young woman brandishing a sword in one hand and with flames dancing on her other hand while an army of soldiers appear in the background.
Audiobook of A Night To Remember by Walter Lord. It shows the Titanic, bow down, beginning to sink. Lifeboats surrounded by small blocks of ice are in the foreground.
A chipmunk sits in a field of grass.
Movie posters: The Andromeda Strain, two men in hazard gear on a strip of film; Fountain of Youth, five people stand in front of a pyramid; Remarkably Bright Creatures Sally Field and some guy sitting next to each other looking at an octopus; The Perfect Storm, a fishing boat tries to climb a giant wave.
A park bench sits under a circular hole in a brick wall. You can see trees through the hole. Branches hang along the top of the wall. Spotty sunshine and shadows light the scene.
A small deer stairs at me as I take its picture. There’s a tree to its right and more trees in the background.
My cat curled up on a dark red sheet. She’s got black stripes and dark brown fur. Ears at attention. Big green eyes and black pupils.
Posters: Cast of Glass Onion against a blue sky backdrop; Kiki’s Delivery Service, Kiki and her cat JiJi fly over a city on her broom; Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harrison Ford with a determined look on his face and holding a whip over his shoulder; Ex_Machina, Alicia Vikander in robot form.
Actress Audrey Hepburn sips coffee in a diner. A stop smoking sign hangs on the wall to her right.
Cover of the book The Hiroshima Men. On the cover General Groves; Senkichi Awaya, mayor of Hiroshima on the day the bomb fell, Col. Paul Tibbets, John Hersey.
Photo of the White House under sunny sky, with water fountain and sculpted bushes and trees to the left and right of the frame.
A brown and grey bunny sits in the grass with its back to the camera. Left eye visible, its ears up.
Cover of dvd Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark: a smiling Harrison Ford brandishing a whip.
Godzilla, the monster with smoke surrounding it; The Blue Dahlia, Alan Ladd front and center; Sunrise, jazz band in upper right, young couple center and jezebel lower left; The Train, Burt Lancaster with machine gun with fiery explosions in background.
Donald O’Connor makes a face while holding two guns across his chest.
Cover of Valcour: The 1776 Campaign That Saved The Cause of Liberty, by Jack Kelly. Revolutionary warships battle under red, black and white storm clouds.
Posters for: Bataan, drawing of four soldiers running at you. Bataan written in big red letters. Architecton, a man leans face forward against a huge stone structure. Outcome, photo of Keanu Reeves Hero, Jet Li and Zhang Zi Yi strike action pose. Li has a sword.
Black and white photo of a dead tree that’s fallen into a pond. Branches extend from the trunk which is mostly submerged. In the background is a row of trees lining the shore.
Photo of Arthur Hunnicutt wearing western clothing and cowboy hat. He has a full beard, salt and pepper in color.
Photo of my cat chilling out on the couch. Half her face is covered by her paws. Her eyes are open and she’s looking upward.
Cover of the audiobook His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine by S. C. Gwynne. It shows the British airship R101 over a green countryside.
Book cover. The Getaway by Jim Thompson. Closeup of the grill and headlights of a car.
Posters: What We Do In The Shadows, vampires being goofy; Desperate Journey, closeup art of Ronald Reagan and Errol Flynn; Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, artwork of Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Phyllis Thaxter; Fires On The Plain, a lone soldier stands on a rocky landscape with two dead soldiers in the foreground.
Cover of the book The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 by John L. Hopkins. Photograph of two old soldiers holding hands. One is sitting on a wall, the other is standing in front of it. The one sitting is wearing a Union hat, the other is wearing a confederate hat.
Photo of a light shining through the fog and mist and casting a shimmering reflection on icy water.
My cat peeking out behind a curtain. The sun shining through the window highlights the tiger-like colors on her back. Plenty of white whiskers on display.
Book cover: The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel by Douglas Brunt. A ship rides a rough sea with dark storm clouds overhead.
Posters: Stolen: Heist Of The Century, a black gloved hand hovers over diamonds; The Crash, reflection of a teen girl in a car’s side view mirror; The Stringer, a picture of a photographer in Vietnam; Marty, Life Is Short, photo of Martin Short
A face appears to be carved from a rock in the Valley of Fire state park in Nevada. Green desert brush dots the sand colored landscape.
Calvin from the Calvin and Hobbes daily comic strip sits at the dinner table and lets out a loud burp.
A family of geese. Pop on the rock, mom and the kids near the waterline.
My cat resting on the floor. Her head and front left leg are in the sun while the rest of her is in shadow. She is staring at me as I take her photo. Her coloring is brown, orange.
Small trailer with advertisement for The Man On The Shrouded Exhibit. Has a photo of the image of a man’s face on the shroud.
Posters: The Crimson Rivers, a shrouded monk surrounded by red hellfire; The Crimson Rivers with stars Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel; La Femme Nikita with Anne Parillaud holding a gun as she sits on a floor looking over her shoulder; Leon with closeup of Jean Reno with sunglasses on.
Black, red, and green cover with a purple train on its tracks, heading toward the viewer. Two word title of the book, Tokyo Express, in white letters at 90 degree angle to one another. Author’s name in lower left corner: Seicho Matsumoto.
Photo of actress Gladys Cooper in a scene from ‘Now Voyager’.
Cover of the book The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Green cover with white letters.
My cat laying on the floor inside her play tunnel. There’s meshing that allows her to see out. She’s on her left side.
Movie posters; The Loneliest Whale, blue whale in a blue ocean; From Up On Poppy Hill, boy and girl on a bicycle; The Rutles, the band in colorful satin clothing; Bugonia, a bald woman looking up as a curtain of blood spreads over her face.
A white cat hides in the tall grass. There are trees and branches in the background.
Cover of the book The Spamalot Diaries by Eric Idle. Blue cover with yellow border and an illustration that’s been covered by a purple checkmark indicating I’ve finished reading the ebook. Like I might forget I’d read it or something.
Movie posters; Sisu Road To Revenge, guy with machine guns stands atop the tail section of a crashed airplane; Thor: Ragnarok, Thor and The Hulk in some sort of multicolored design (sorry, I can’t figure it out); Spirited Away, young girl with brown hair and wearing red clothing looks over her shoulder; Hair, stylized drawing of hippies dancing for joy.
A fisherman stands in a rock strewn stream about to cast his line.
Book cover: The Labyrinth of The Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. A drawing of incredibly tall book shelves with the tiny figure of a girl standing between two shelves. She is casting a shadow from an unseen light. There are two books on the floor behind her and a chair.
Black and white photo of large birds sitting on tree branches.
Title page of When Books Went To War; the stories that helped us win WWII, by Molly Guptill Manning.
A red cargo ship passes by a tree filled patch of land. The trees are casting shadows on the water.
White wispy clouds float under a mostly blue sky over a river. Land off to the right of the picture.
Movie posters: Stagecoach with a team of horses leading a stagecoach; Spectral, a soldier covered in metal gear carrying a machine gun; Watership Down, a group of rabbits on a hill; The Boy and The Heron, drawing of boy with partially shaved head glancing behind him.
A black and white photo of a tree’s shadow across the back of a building. Part of the tree is visible in the upper right corner of the picture.