I know that this blog can be pretty heavy reading sometimes. So to perk it up a bit, I’m trying to add some imagry. When I was a kid, I used to like to sketch … especially in school while in the middle of a boring english class. However, I never got very good at drawing, as I just didn’t have a natural talent for it (I’m just not a “body-oriented” artistic type). But sketching was nonetheless a pleasant enough way to pass some time. I still have some of my creations, so I recently scanned them and fired up my Adobe Photoshop for some digital enhancement. Here’s one of the results. It’s the old train station near where I grew up, a place of nice memories from when I was a kid. Don’t go looking for it — it was torn down years ago.

I always had a thing for trains, and for a decade or two I was a full-fledged railfan. But I gave that up back in the early 90s, and good thing too since railroad fans are often accused these days of being potential terrorists (see the article about railfans in the May 24, 2004 issue of Time Magazine). So you shouldn’t take pictures of trains in America anymore, but hopefully sketching from memory (and then digitally enhancing it) is still allowed.