A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Down low atop the overpass. East Derwent Highway, Lindisfarne. May 2012.

Theme Thursday and I still haven't posted?

Damn!

NEIGHBOURS.

Gay bars?

NEIGHBOURS!

Hay cars?

NEIGHBOURS!!

Toppled Tsars?

NEIGHBOURS!!!

Hekmatyar's? Gulbuddin Hekmatyar???

For crying out loud, NEIGHBOURS!!!

I don't know why I am, just that some days I am.

Comments

Mrsupole said…

Have you met Sam I am, or are you two neighbors?

So who is Gulbuddin Hekmatyar? Is he or she one of your neighbors?

LOL

I like how you got down low to take the picture of the bridge overpass, that is pretty cool.

Happy Theme Thursday!! Have a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day wishes for your wife.

God bless.

10 May 2012 at 18:37

Kris McCracken said…

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is an Afghan Mujahideen leader. He's not a real nice bloke, and I'm not sure that he'd make a great neighbour.

10 May 2012 at 18:50

Mrsupole said…

Especially if you were a woman. They seem to treat women as lower class citizens in a lot of those countries. I wonder what a woman did to cause such hatred.

GBA

11 May 2012 at 00:26

Kris McCracken said…

There is a long history to the role of women in nomadic, tribal society and the emergence of Islam into that environment. Unfortunately, there exists those who want to exploit their own power base and repress others.

18 May 2012 at 13:10

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