When John Locke said that "the mark of genius is the ability to discern not this thing or that thing but rather the connection between the two" ... if he actually ever said that and I'm not really sure he did ... he couldn't have thought that combining digital photography with painting should be so designated ... but no matter because, genius or no, tricking up some of my old oils with A80 output is good fun on an overcast Saturday morning.

Hanging Rock, shown in the image above, lurks above Second Beach in the Norman Bird Sanctuary just east of Sachuest Point, still bruised from when, ten to twelve thousand years ago, the Wisconsin Ice Sheet sheared off the southern tip from the largest of conglomerate stone ridges that now lie in the sanctuary. Don't forget you can send this picture to a friend ... do that why don't you .. it would be better than either you or your friends driving down to Second Beach to see Hanging Rock for yourselves ... there's more than enough traffic there already.