The Heat to Defeat ALS Chili Cookoff is on Sunday, and here are the trophies, which were sculpted by Vik Sexton.

My Blue Sky account doesn’t get much attention, so I’m resorting to cute dog pictures.

Okay, the pictures have been taken, snow cream eaten, sled sledded.

Thanks, snow. You can go away now.

Cary’s Lantern Festival

From Thomas Hardy’s "The Darkling Thrush"

So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.

Down the street and in my living room

Trump's mouth is a toilet and someone forgot to jiggle the handle.

I posted this years ago on FB. I choose it for my first Blue Sky post because, well, no one has jiggled that damn handle.