Photo by Phyllis Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that as a photo-artist, Phyllis works at performing visual miracles with her photos, as well as with those of the keeper, who operates with the photo philosophy that if he takes enough shots of the same subject, one of them may turn out to be usable.
Burdened with the hundreds of photos from their recent mountain/glacier trek, Phyllis has been busy working her photo magic; while the keeper does duty with the “delete,” button; and blames his photography incompetence partially on his poor old mother who routinely used her Kodak box camera to cut the heads off participants in family reunions and graduations.
Phyllis and the keeper are confident that they have done their part to maintain the collective inventory of travel photos at the absurd dimensions it claims; and, of course, in keeping with the universal urge to show off travel photos, they extend an open invitation to anyone and everyone who wants to see such things as a bear beside the road in Banff National Park–before and after Phyllis gets through with it.
