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Richard, sometimes I make the video and take pictures to go with the music or song and other times I dig into my file of videos and pictures. It all started when I got a phone that took photos and videos.  So for about the last 8 years I have been playing around with making videos trying to utilize whatever is around me by coming at it with different angles.
Part of the thing with me is what we see as everyday today might not be there in 20 years' time.   So part of my purpose quiet often is to have a record of the present time knowing that things can change very quickly and be gone before you know it.

Jeff Stormy morning might be an idea for the September CSOTM. if you suggest the word Stormy . Look forward to hearing it played and sung.     

Grah and Richard you both picked good songs to put up. Richard having Al on autoharp playing and singing is the sort of thing I could imagine Jerry Garcia doing if he was still around.

Carpe diem ( Latin for either seize the day or seize the moment) EB I  like this  tune and it is something of value worth listening too. Its good to hear or see that your not hiding your talent but letting it be available for all to hear.

Thank you, Jim and Brian, for your kind comment.     Sitting on the bus today surrounded as usual by commuters on smartphones. The lady next to me a stranger disengages from her phone and speaks to me.  Are you going answer that phone in your jacket because its annoying me hearing it make that sound she said to me. It was then I  became aware that my phone in my pocket had Robert ringing me. I like your poem Brian.

Takes me back to a time when music and groups like the Mama@Papas were putting out great songs good choice  Richard.     

Just to get the ball rolling here is a song with the word Picture in the lyrics called "Write You A song Honey"
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FFEve-SAk4

Lord Piri thou be great the one with judgment gavel

Please don’t throw me out into the rabble

Sir Jim our gallant knight from the realm of chordie.

If I could raise a titter or a smirk a happy Jester I would be

It’s not easy writing when locked up in collar and cuffs, cap noose and girdle

Down the Elizabethan trail we go another entertaining hurdle

Auld ways can still make my days

Forget Tv give me these word plays

To brighten up my days     

Ouch Piri and Brian
Living on the dark side
It's a good fun lark no walk in the park
Throwing words at a dart board
That don’t always hit the mark
Years ago I wrote a poem about a place I regularly go to
Called the why a rapper actually spelt Wairarapa
Then I thought no need to put these words
On paper inside a cardboard covered wrapper
People might think I’m a rapper
With age my mind dimmed.
With words I began to sin
I didn’t want to repent
As I didn’t need money to pay the rent
Hyperbole and rhetoric most probably prove I'm eccentric
Using these words that I thought were heaven sent
I have fallen into the Rap Trap.
The new poetry rabbit hole.
As the business dude said time for a new paradigm shift
Even with my assumption that my  poetry wasn’t for Rap consumption
I sold my soul for not even a dollar so a rapper could use my poetry  when they holler.
If my story is told on a movie picture screen at the end the director will say that’s a wrap
I hope if they do they don’t call the movie Why A Rapper
They could portray me as a man with a horse who is a bear fisted scrapper
As I ride my horse being chased by a posse from Chordie Town
Some of them well-dressed and dapper while  others just in their pyjamas and dressing gowns
Comfortable on my saddle at a canter ahead of their horse patrol thinking of words that fit my banter
I find comfort knowing
That when Shakespeare
Spoke in an Elizabethan banter
It was not fit for a modern day ranter

Cheers Jim
New Zealand  exports 90% of all its Dairy and other faming produce. Our big markets are China the Middle East  and Europe. New Zealand Lamb racks also have a big market in the USA along with our wine products. When your local USA  farmers can't sell their own product locally at a viable price I can see why your government quiet rightly isn't keen to sign a trade deal with New Zealand for your country to import our meat and dairy. Apparently there is more than enough food to feed the world out there it's just that no one has come up with a fair way of doing it.
Back to Titus and Alfie.
I like people who march to the beat of their own drum and get on with life in their unique way. Though I couldn't hang out with Alfie or Titus all the time they would be fascinating characters to spend a few hours or maybe a day with. I'm sure the conversation wouldn't be a boring one.
I will attach two videos, one on each of them just incase anyone is interested in having a look..

Alfie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it8FNOhl4gQ&t=212s

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Meet Alfie, with no qualifications, he makes a living doing odd jobs on his tandem bike | SWNS
Meet the young entrepreneur who left school with no qualifications but now makes a living doing odd jobs - on his tandem bike. Alfie Cookson,.
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Titus

(4) The Man With No Legal Identity - Off the Grid in Appalachia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3eJ1t13fk&t=2595s