Saturday, February 14, 2009

Dragons at an exhibition

Coach Bell--soon Mr. Bell, associate principal, as my son enters ninth grade this fall--it was a pleasure meeting and chatting with you at the Welcome Night last week. And congratulations on the successful program you've built with the Lake Orion Dragons.

Since football guys like you tend to have little if any appreciation of the arts, the "finer things" as they say, I've amassed a gallery of scenic photography that may be more to your liking. Feel free to break out some Bordeaux and a brie wheel.

Here's a picturesque scene overlooking the Lake Orion High School field turf, just after the Dragons scored the only points of their first-round game against Utica Eisenhower with less than two minutes to play. Good use of minimialism.



This dramatic setting paints the portrait of utter despair. Sterling Heights Stevenson is pulling away. Time is running out. A coach, a team, the dreams of a city... all hopes are in the hands of a fifteen-year-old kid. Our poor little protagonist has no chance at all. Ummmmmmmmmm, right.



The following two frontier landscapes evoke past, present and future.

The first, captured above the bitter-cold tundra of Troy Athens, captures the formerly immovable object, Dearborn Fordson, being moved backwards for sixty minutes by the unstoppable force.



The second, while similar in appearance, is even more breathtaking in its contrast. Both real and surreal, it fills one with optimism, giving us a feeling of what we can all accomplish when we have the dream and the desire.