Grateful !

If you have explored at any length the older posts on this exponentially expanding blog, you may have noticed a certain affinity declared by the author for the music of the Grateful Dead. My tastes in music are wide and varied, but there is no getting around the fact that the Dead put on shows unlike any other band ever, and created a community which attracted people from all walks of life... a "karass" to use the term Vonnegut coined in his wonderful book "Cat's Cradle". Many humans still feel the need to belong to a tribe, the tribe that followed the Grateful Dead were a large and colorful lot, usually non-conformist by choice. Much of the artwork associated with the Dead naturally contained skeletal references, so it should be no surprise that from time to time I photograph death's head images, like this one with a toothless grin, wherever I may find them.