Knights of the Western Guard -

"Secreting the Ark Out West"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... the secret of two is God's secret,
the secret of three is everybody's secret ..."
- Old Proverb

After so many years -

"She's Leaving Home. Bye, Bye"
digital collage by Mick Mather

After finishing today's post this wonderfully melancholy melody from the Beatles Sgt Pepper album began to insert itself in my mind. I'm uncertain of it's significance within the wider scope of change that's not only happening to me, but to millions of others all over the world. The song itself is sad and rife with implications of some dreadful, weighty secret ... too, there's a sliver of hope that all challenging turmoil brings with it. I'm looking for a silver lining.

A funny thing happened on the way to ...

"Reverse Engineering Department"
digital collage by Mick Mather

This image was already created when I stumbled into some YouTube™ broadcasts of the supposed Mars Photographs Cover-Up. The way I see it, anyone can say just about anything and believably back it up with statistical data, alternative theory, vague and indistinct imagery, ad infinitum. While that sort of thing is fun to watch and think about, I have a BIG problem with cover-up theories such as UFO's and said life on Mars documentation. When is the last time you tried to keep a secret? The minute you say, "you can't tell anyone this, but...", the lid is off the cookie jar and soon everyone will know it was you who spilled the beans! If information like this has really been covered up for all this time then the real story here is in how to keep mum about something a lot more important than whose house the postman, the milkman or the cable repairman is spending way too much time in. I don't know, it just doesn't seem possible given the blabbermouth factor of human nature. As for today's image and the object that's being reverse engineered? So sorry, that's a secret.