Michael C. Roberts is a retired professor of clinical child psychology, who painted rocks during the pandemic and dropped them around the neighborhood as inspiration and motivation. Because he cannot paint with any artistry, perhaps they were not very inspirational. He returned to photography. His images have been published in literary magazines and on journal covers. A photographic book is available on Amazon: Imaging the World with Plastic Cameras: Diana and Holga. As he ages, he particularly appreciates the gnarly. The previously verdant forms endured nature’s challenges through heat, cold, wind, sun, rain, lightning, fire, and snow and attained a new rugged and textured beauty. These mementos of past vibrancy possess their own beauty in aging and changing in nature.