Lee Becker Studio

08/09/2025

These days, bombs go off daily while we ignore the danger. They detonate in Congress, the courts, our statehouses, the White House.

04/29/2024

Respect 🫡

04/29/2024

04/29/2024

Happy World Book Day
Woman with a Book, 1932
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)

11/23/2023

I want to touch it!

10/13/2023

420,000 Years Old. The Clacton Spear is crafted from yew wood and shaped into a pointed end. Found at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England.

The Natural History Museum in London has the Clacton Spear on display, where its age is estimated to be 420,000 years old. Tests attempting to replicate it indicate that it was crafted by scraping with a curved flint tool, similar to the Clactonian notch type found at the same site.

It has been the subject of various interpretations over the past century. It has been suggested that it was used as a projectile weapon, a stave, a digging stick, a snow probe, a lance, or even as a tool to ward off rival scavengers.

These perspectives have shifted with academic trends and popular opinion. Nonetheless, what an incredible find, makes one wonder what else is out there yet to be discovered...

Doggerland relic? https://ruralhistoria.com/2023/07/15/doggerland/

08/14/2023

Look at that storm cloud over this crew shipping cattle east of Cassoday, Kansas. Wow.

📸 Phyllis Osgood (her son took the photo)