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Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!

While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.

For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.

And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.

Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:

Here is how we got to showing this picture:

While photographing bees yesterday I did also come upon one moth. I took a picture of it from as close as it would allow me to.

Then I spent some frustrating time making endless versions of it that I didn't really like. Then I posted them here. Then it bugged me, so I came back and deleted them. Then I tried again some more, over the course of hours, rather defeating the point of what I said in my introduction above (the one that you are seeing everyday but hopefully no longer reading anymore, which is just as well).

So then I thought that I would include the picture of the original moth, the image that is the original moth before it flew away, and then the zoomed in version. And then deciding that was not enough I again added in any number of pictures trying to bring up the overall quality of this post. But I just couldn't live with it. 

So I got rid of all the moth pictures. And then I took an old painting of a hatching bird I painted 25 years ago and sold at our estate sale a couple days ago. I tweaked this picture maybe a 6 on the scale of 1-10 with AI tools. And I am delighted to show that.

But then I felt like you'd want to see the moth after all this talk, just the original image before it flew away. So now I've included it too.

I think you'll be able to figure out the difference as to who is who.