Please note: The first 10 photos were all recently taken in the last year. The rest, I just like them for the historical perspective merit.

Eschew obfuscation! That's my motto, and I'm sticking to it. Do return the courtesy, please.

Now, play on. Music Maestro:

Canned music, playing on the radio. Canned music, without a dime it doesn't go ...

I was born like this. I had no choice. I was born with the gift of a golden voice. And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyound? They tied me to this table in the Tower of Song... and I'll be speaking to you sweetly from a window, in the Tower of Song ...

I hope you'll dance ...

Inciting and inviting me, across the Universe ...

If you could read my mind love? What a tale my thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind the drugstore sells ...

Well, I've been out walkin' ; I don't do that much talkin' ... these days ...

Hush, hush, I thought heard her callin' my name now...

Those other years, the dusty years when we drove the big herds through. I'd try to forget the miles we drove, and Spanish Johnny too. He'd sit beside the water ditch when all the herd was in. And he never harmed a child, but sang to his mandolin ...

God bless the child that's got his own, that's got his own ...

When we stepped never on the cracks, no, only on the squares. Or else, we'd be abducted by the bears. It was so easy then, never making any plans. It was so easy then, just holding hands. Just holding hands ...

Hear come the hot steppa, word up! I am the lyrical gangsta, word up ...

Come on down the stairs to Danny's All-Star Joint. They got a jukebox that goes a doiyt-doiyt ...

There was a man, a very strange and enchanted man. He spoke of may things, fools and kings. This he said to me :
The greatest thing you'll ever know is just to love and be loved in return.

Did ya know that I was made for love, from a world gone mad, hey, hey, hey ...

Hello stranger, put your lovin' hand in mine ...

You weren't your Mama's only son. But still, you were her favourite one ...

Carolina, wind your body girl. Oh Carolina, jump for love! I love the way you groove; I love the way you move. Move to the rhythm; rhythm to the rock. Well now, me love how she shag. Watch how she rock; body it swing just like my Grandfatha clock ...

The men in my lil girl's life ...

Then one night, Daddy died and went to heaven. And, God came down to Earth and slipped away. And, I've never figured out where God and Daddy went? But there was nothing those two couldn't do ...

I am stretched on your grave, and remain there forever ...

One more cup of coffee for the road. One more cup of coffee before I go, to the valley below ...

The redheaded stranger, from Blue Rock Montana, rode into town today ...

I must admit, I felt a bit uneasy when she bent down to tie the lace of my shoes, tangled up in blue ...

Lately I see her ribbons and her bows ...

Ripe strawberries, ripe ...

You're a big girl now ...

Her love was like a desert flower, burning in the sun ...

He said I was a mountain flower. But, now, I've the power of a woman's body, ummm, yes ...

And, his spark took life in my hand, ummm, yes ...

We were so close there was no room, we bled inside each other's wounds ...

But staying with her, and my little bit of wisdom, broke down her desires like a light through a prism; into yellows and blues and a tune that I could not have sung ...

Ohhhh - oh, I didn't mean to turn you on ...

To dance with the lady with a hole in her stocking. Didn't it feel good ...

Somebody said they saw me, swinging the world by the tail, bouncing over a white cloud and killing the blues ...

She got pictures on the wall that make me look up, from her big brass bed ...

And golden lady, golden lady, I'd like to go there. Take me right away ...

When you close your eyes, do you see places that you've never been before? Yet you've been there. You've been walking on the edge of a dream, and you're so much fun to be with ...

Ruby, my love, you'll be my love. You'll be my sky above. You'll be mine tonight ...

Let me in here. I know I've been here. Let me into your heart. Let me know you. Let me show you. That, I'm glad to hold you in my arms. I'd have you anytime ...

And LOVE came running down, like a river on your skin. And you let me in ...

Let it rain, let your love rain down on me ...

Only love can make it rain, like the sweat of lover's laying in a field ...

The bridge, we'll build it now. It may take alotta time ...

She just has to touch my hand to make me stay. She just has to touch my hand to make me say: She's all good loving at once ...

And, emerald eyes is a mystery. She's my place of serenity. And, gettin' back to the way I feel, her honest love is my only real thing. Find emerald eyes in the night, gleaming shiny and bright - as if covered with silver. She's still a mystery to me. The way she sails away slow, makes your day to day life easy - ...

In your eyes, the light, the heat. In your eyes, I am complete. In your eyes, I see the doorway to a thousand churches. In your eyes, I see the resolution to all my fruitless searching ...

When we were strangers, I watched you dancing from afar. When we were lovers, I loved you w/ all my heart ...

When we walked through fields of gold ...

But I know that he won't stay, without Melissa ...

The pressure drop, oh pressure drop, pressure's gonna drop on you ...

The leaves are blowing all around, time I was on my way. Thanx to you, I'm much obliged. 'Twas such a pleasant stay ...

Four strong winds that blow lonely, seven seas that run high; all those things that come and go, come what might. If the good times all are gone? And, I'm bound for movin' on? I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way again. Still, I wish you'd change your mind, if I begged you one more time? But we've been through that a hundred times or more ...

I lost someone dear to me. I lost my friend to the summer wind ...

I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul ...

I talk to the wind; my words follow me around ...

And you who had the honour of her evening, and by the honour had your own restored - Say goodbye to Alexandra leaving. Then say goodbye to Alexandra lost ...

The woman I'm thinking of, she loved me all up. But, I'm so down today. Now, I'm running down the road and trying to stay up, somewhere in her head ...

I'm standing at the crossroads, believe I'm sinking down ...

When you leave Amarillo, turn out the lights ...

I go to bakeries all day long, there's a lack of sweetness in my life. There's a pain inside, you can see it in my eyes ...

I've seen fire and I've seen rain. I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end. But, I always thought that I'd see you baby, one more time again ...

My, my, my, my, my baby. I can't find my bluebird ...

Now at night, I think of how you grinned when you undressed. And then I find I miss you, more than I'd ever have guessed ...

I would hold my life in a sacred grace. And, I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham, if I thought I could see your face ...

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin. Dance me through the panic, until I'm safely gathered in. Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn. Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn. Dance me to the end of love ...

And quiet is the thought of you, the file on you complete. Except for what we forgot to do, a thousand kisses deep ...

Mama, when ya comin' home? Mama, ya don't have to roam ...

And I'm so lonesome, I could cry ...

I asked Hank Williams, how lonely does it get? Hank Williams hasn't answered yet. But, I hear him coughing all night long, a hundred floors above me - in the Tower of Song ....

If you see my Lilly, won't you give her my regards? Tell her ole Spider got tangled in the black web that he spun ...

When we meet again, introduced as friends? Please, don't let on that you knew me when ...

Do you ever think of me in your wildest dreams ...

If you had just a minute to breathe - and they offered you one final wish? Would you ask for something like another chance ...

And I'd do anything I've got to do. I'd cut my hair, shine your shoes and keep on singing da blues, if I could stay here - in Johnny's garden ...

I'm digging in the dirt, to find the places I got hurt ...

Goin' down a hot road. Can't tell the bad from the good. I'm out in the woods. Said I'm lost in the woods ...

Danger! Once we sat in your car and I laughed out load. Danger! And, the habits we've formed now, will be our lives. Danger! We're lost in a cannibal forest, with strangers. Danger, danger ...

Mama told me not to come ...

We could just start over. But it's, oh, so hard to do - when we're lost inside this lonely game we play. We're lost in a masquerade ...

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me. Tell me where did you sleep last night? In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines. I'd shiver the whole night through ...

Watch out now! Take care now! Beware of Darkness ...

Bare trees, grey light. Oh man, it was a cold night. I was alone in the cold of a winter's day. You were alone and so snug in your bed ...

What will happen in the mornin' ...

Meet me at the Wreckin' Ball. I'll wear something pretty and white, and we'll go dancin' tonight ...

I was ready for the love, I was ready for the money. I was ready for the blood, ready for the honey. Ready for the winnin', ready for the bell. Lookin' for the water from a deeper well. I found some love and I found some honey. Found that blood would drip from the honey. Found that I had a thirst that I could not quell .... It took me to the bottom of a deeper well. Lookin' for the bottom from a deeper well ...

Down in a hole, losing control ...

Way down below the ocean is where I want to be, where she may be ...

I need my conscience to watch over me, to protect me from myself. So I can wear honesty like a crown on my head, when I walk into the promised land ...

And, I think to myself, what a wonderful world ...

In the court of the Crimson King ...

Reach out your hand, if your cup be empty. If your cup is full, may it be again. Let it be known, there is a fountain that was not made by the hands of men ...

Will the circle be unbroken, by and by, Lord, by and by? There's a better home awaitin', in the sky, Lord, in the sky ...

I am a poor wayfaring stranger, traveling through this world of woe. Yet there's no sickness, toil or danger - in the world to which I go ...

Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery, make me a poster of an old rodeo. Just give me one thing, Lord, that I can hold on to ...

Lil, darlin', it's been a long, cold, lonely winter. Lil darlin', it seems like years since it's been clear. Here comes the sun, here comes the sun. And, I say, it's alright ...

You might as well be walking on the sun ...

You are. You are. Home, home, where I wanted to go. Home, home, where I wanted to go. You are ...

The long and winding road that leads to you door, will never disappear. I've seen that road before. It always leads me here, leads me to your door ...

Come in she said, I'll give you shelter from the storm ...

Climb in the back, and get in the limousine. Soon we'll be away from here, step on the gas and wipe that tear away. One sweet dream, came true today ...

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ALL good children go to heaven ...

And in the end? The love you take, is equal to the love that you make ...