Apple Blossom Dreams

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All roads in my mind take me back to that time and I can't forget that won't forget that can't forget that quote "Garlic, wine, women, smoke, and beans" He/him

A grotesque painting of a man in a suit. This painting was made for the movie Picture of Dorian Gray(1945) His hands are red and his face is wrinkled and pale with white hair. His surroundings are corrupted by his presence like silent Hill.
A suit of armor with a large puncture in the breastplate. The arms and legs are overlapping sections and gloves.
A painting of a singing woman in a black dress and a splash of red fabric in her cleavage. She is holding up her hand in a long black glove. Cafe Singer by Edgar Degas
The painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte behind a crowd of people, which mirrors the painting of a crowded park.
The start of a wikipedia article Peter Mills (freedman) Peter Mills (October 26, 1861 - September 22, 1972) was the last known surviving American born into legal slavery when he died in 1972 at age 110. Mills was born in Prince George's county, Maryland on October 26, 1861. After the civil war, he worked on his father's farm every day during the week before leaving to work in Baltimore and Washington DC where he dug sewers, was a bricklayer and plasterer and played baseball in his spare time. Mills eventually moved to Pittsburgh after first visiting in 1881. Mills died after a pedestrian accident in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania on September 22, 1972.
A picture from a Junji Ito story, there are head shaped balloons floating in the sky with people hanged from their necks dangling from them.
A cloudy day at lake Michigan from an overlook. The dunes below are green with grass and oak and pine trees. The sky and water are gray. There are some dark clouds beneath the hazy sky.
A sunny day at the beach at lake Michigan. The sun is a huge hazy blur making the lake shine bright white.
Dune grass growing on a hill, there are trees and power lines over the ridge.
A two track path along a bean field. There are plentiful yellow flowers and white clovers all along the road and between the tire tracks
A wavy day at lake Michigan, there are dark clouds above but blue skies near the horizon. There are columns of rain falling on the lake.
A clear blue sky over wavy lake Michigan. There are some white clouds covering the horizon.
Dark clouds over lake Michigan. There are some gentle waves on the greenish water.
A wavy day at lake Michigan, the sky is mostly clear and the water is blue and green and brown where the sand is kicked up by waves. The waves are loud and so is the wind. Breaking waves called whitecaps are all over the water.
A sign that says HELL in big red letters in front of a snowy background, in the town called Hell in central Michigan
A golden sunset over lake Michigan. There are dark and light clouds all across the sky.
A hazy cloudy sky over lake Michigan, a boat is on the water next to a column of light cast by the white yellow sun. Near the horizon are some orange tinged clouds and the lake has a silvery sheen.
A sunny day at lake Michigan. We are standing on top a dune surrounded by beach grass. The sky is most clear with some hazy clouds giving the lake a white and blue look.
A black and white photo of a large Mexican American family of mostly women all holding guitars.
A painting of a Mexican woman with a machete standing over a demon. In the background is a young angel sitting on the border wall. The words "justicia para los inocentes" and the demon below her has words like cruelty, corruption, dishonest, and racist and swastikas on its cheeks.
A painting made of dark shapes with subtle shades of red on a brown background.
Bead artwork showing a figure with a head whose shape reminds me of the sun. They have a round blue head, two arms, an eagle on their chest, and no legs. There is a deer in one corner and colorful birds on the red background.
The top of a column made of dark stone has a double ended double headed bull, which is missing its horns because they were likely made of precious metal.
The inside of an ancient Egyptian wooden coffin has a painting of a person and hieroglyphs all in black.
A very large statue of a standing pharaoh.
A massive statue of the head of a bearded man on the body of a winged bull. It has four thick strong legs and a long tail to match the long beard. He is wearing a tall hat or crown.
Ancient clay toys with wheels, and a gameboard with game pieces.
A clay pot with bearded faces painted on the sides next to ankh symbols
A long thick root next to a trowel in a black pot. It is over a foot long and has a curve in the middle.
A red leaf plant in a black pot
Two small bunches of yellow flowers on thin green stalks in between the beach grass. The sand has been textured by recent raindrops.
Little baby green pinecones at the end of a tree branch.
A staircase leading down a forested sand dune.
A gentle staircase between two sand dunes covered in forest. A sign says caution stairs may be slippery.
A fossil of a fish that is attempting to swallow another fish.
A skeleton of a large four legged creature with a sail on its back with strange nobbly protrusions all over it's spine
A mask made to look like a white man with long red hair, beard and mustache and a white hat.
A tray full of cut sapphires next to a necklace with a face carved into a blue sapphire stone.
A colorful bead mesh top over some thick clothing with a fur collar.
A piece of black stone with a person carved into it. They look like the guy from katamari with bandoliers crossing their chest. They have an open smile and a hat shaped like a hammerhead shark head.
A clay pot with many smiling faces painted on it, lines around their eyes look like glasses and they have long straight black hair. There is also a statue of a person wearing large earrings.
A monumentally huge totem pole with a bird with a large beak at the bottom. Suspended near the high ceiling there is a spinosaur skeleton.
A fossil skull of a carnivorous dinosaur. It has a long mouth full of sharp teeth.
A massive Hispanic grandma is standing on the Sahara desert and she has a shocked look on her face as she hits a baseball the size of the moon with an angry face and large eyelashes, nearly hitting a passing flying saucer.
A pink tulip with a small spider inside hanging on to one of the stamen inside the flower.
The wall of taco Bell is hitting the vape like me on Friday afternoon, there's a guy wearing protective gear standing next to some kinda valve that is pouring out a vapor cloud that is filling the parking lot and hiding the massive potholes. And an electrician's van drives through. I was sitting in my old car that my brother taped a bunch of random words and images to, that's kinda what my whole house looks like
A closed up pink tulip, a small spider scurried inside as I approached.
A white tulip in front of a lot of weeds I need to cut. The flower has white petals with yellow at the center. The flower parts in the middle are soft yellow spikes.
A nighttime shot with astigmatismatic lens flares shows a freeway going straight through an office building. The sign says "expressway ends Wacker dr Franklin st exit 1/4 mile" and signs say "stop ahead when flashing" "draw bridge ahead" Willis/sears tower is in the top corner.
A couple of wood ducks next to a pond. They have striped colorful heads.
A large statue of a cloaked man with a walking stick at the fountain of time.
The griffin museum of science and industry as seen from across a pond. Two people standing on its steps are miniscule in front of the entrance and its huge pillars. There are large statues of people above the entrance and to either side of it too, and a green dome rises above the rest of the building.
A bush full of bright pink flowers.
The Chicago skyline is very small, just above the treeline at the other end of this large park. There is no one at the nearby baseball diamond but there are people gathered in the field far beyond.
Deep muddy tire marks through the grass where someone tried to drive off this paved pedestrian path, they didn't get very far, and they left one of the little floor carpets in the rutted ground. It reminds me of when me and my friends got stuck in the desert because the person driving panicked and tried to cut across the clay to the main road.
The Chicago skyline from the lakeshore near the planetarium. The sky is full of white and gray clouds above the towering skyscrapers across the calm blue water. Some of the skyscrapers are shiny blue steel and glass, some are brick or concrete, many of them have flat tops. One is notably red and another has a slanted roof with a diamond cross section which everyone used to call the vagina building.