Michael Jackson Smith

We will always love you, Dolly Love is like a butterfly As soft and gentle as a sigh The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings Love makes your heart feel strange inside It flutters like soft wings in flight Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing #DollyParton

#watercolor #painting #art

The Dust Bowl made the Great Depression far worse Once the drought hit (1932–1936), the Great Plains became an ecological disaster zone. Crops failed across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. #photography #DortheaLange #DustBowl

Unless your a Native American, you were descended from an immigrant.

See what you're missing on X, lol.

I drove past a church & noticed the lawn filled with common mushrooms, large ones & small ones, a whole community scattered like families living here & there. They looked so beautiful that I went home to pick up my camera, then sat on the lawn to film them at ground level. #photography #digitalart

Gyms have contraptions that look like they were designed by a medieval blacksmith who hated people. A treadmill is literally the original punishment device. The Victorians used treadmills in prisons to break inmates. And now they’re sold as “wellness.”

I scanned plastic wrap, then digitally turned it into an abstract image. #scanart

Can't see the forest for the leaves #forest #digitalart

Scientists are discovering that plants possess mysterious powers. Dr. Masatsugu Toyota made a remarkable discovery that took the global scientific community by surprise. Plants are so sensitive that they can feel sensations like touch and injury. #ecology #photography

This is a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 (also known as the Kaydet) biplane, a trainer aircraft used extensively during WWII.

#writing #digitalart michaeljacksonsmith.substack.com/p/the-helico...

Dusk - A quiet, reflective moment—two figures standing at the railing, watching the sky dissolve into dusk. The kind of evening when conversation fades and the sound of water takes over, leaving only silhouettes and the slow drift of light. Handcrafted Artistic Greeting Cards ©Michael Jackson Smith

My first attempt at layering in GIMP. #digitalartㅤ

Too much baggage. #digitalart

My Handcrafted Artistic Greeting Cards. #Photography #DigitalArt

Whether people know it or not, they hear Bach everywhere: in pop songs, film scores, heavy metal riffs, and in the quiet logic of Einstein’s equations. Bach is the ghost in the machine. Einstein simply recognized the ghost and invited it in. #music michaeljacksonsmith.substack.com/p/einsteins-...

Listen, pal, just because your ancestors starred in a Hitchcock movie, doesn't mean you can taunt me. So quit your crowing and take a look at my beak. #photography #birds

World Penguin Day.

A one word story. #photography

Sea oats dance in the breeze as if listening to the sea’s song. Beneath their culms and leaves, their roots knit the shifting sand into place, building and holding the dunes that protect the coastline. Their seeds feed the small dune animals-beach mice, marsh rabbits, crabs, and seed eating birds

White Ibis–A quiet sentinel of Florida weather, pausing at the edge of light and shadow. A bird known for flying off before storms and returning before the skies have fully cleared. #photography Handcrafted Artistic Greeting Cards © Michael Jackson Smith

Carrie Jacobs‑Bond (1862–1946) Composer of more than 175 songs, she became one of America’s most beloved writers of parlor music. Widowed young and nearly penniless, she supported herself by painting, giving lessons, and eventually publishing her own songs. #music

Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself." #climatechange #photography Rachel Carson

So, the administration forgot that Iran could close the Strait of #Hormuz and upset the global oil distribution chain? #IranWar‌ #oiltanker

I started making my own greeting cards. #greetingcards #art #photography

I've been using the same version of Copilot AI for months. It's been really helpful in solving setting problems, etc. but tends to overdo the script. It should join on&on, anon. I named it Mallory today. Anyone who's watched "Heartland" knows what I mean. #heartland #copilot #AI

#LOL

A zorse is a zorse, of course, of course, unless a zorse is a talking zorse, and if a zorse is a talking zorse, we'll call him Mr. Zed.

I think I'm finally done with X. I have 210K followers and have a reach of 50. It's a swampland of misinformation. #cyanotype #art

Trying to convince someone their argument has sunk is like watching the last air bubble rise — and they’re still shouting from the bottom that they’re right. "Same as it ever was." #opinion #philosophy

Venice, Italy #art

Last Exit #photography

Much of contemporary music has returned to the tribal music of the ancients. #music #art

@rebeccabradvica.bsky.social You have created such a positive, influential account ♥. Thank you for following me!

When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? #williamblake #art Half & Half Digital Art™ Michael Jackson Smith

@ulmenzauber.bsky.social My childhood home was on Elm Avenue, but by that time, all the trees had succumbed to Dutch Elm disease. Sad.

Old Men at a Car Show #photograph #digitalart

Homer's ghosts on Ios, Greece. Was there more than one Homer? #art

Thanks to Trump's tariffs, I have to discontinue my #cyanotype #art. The existing supplies are either too expense or inferior. I'm livid.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over a curious volume of forgotten lore— As I nodded, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis the pizza man at last,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—Only this and nothing more.”

The archer #digitalart #art

FDR's unfinished portrait #cyanotype #art

Agios Chapel Ios, Greece. #photography #googleearthpro #Aegean

Do It Anyway - Keith M. Kent #prayer #poetry

Panagia Gremiotissa Church Ios, Greece. #photography #AegeanIslands #GoogleEarthPro

Chora, Ios, Greece #aegean #photography #googleearthpro

I take my hat off to you. Whoops! #cellphone #gopro

I ♥ this poem. #love #Sandburg michaeljacksonsmith.substack.com/p/love-is-a-...

Although Columbus did not set foot on the land that is now the United States, he did open the door for European exploration of the Americas. I filmed the replicas of the Nina and Pinta when they were in town using period music for the sound track. #ColumbusDay youtu.be/ylSnt6XFN74?...