A New Nik-Name

Plotnik's old friend Dick is one of three brothers, and, believe it or not, their names were Tom and Harry. So it's only natural that the new NikName for a man who grew up in the middle of Tom Dick and Harry should be The Great TDH, TDH for short.

Look, it's a lot better than Dick-Nik, right? How about Tom-Nik and Harry? No.

When TDH showed up at the door last Friday and told Plotnik and Ducknik all that he'd been doing for the 40 or so years since he and Plot had been boyhood friends down in Stiletto City, he didn't mention that he has become such a fine photographer. These are only a few of TDH's photos of late October flowering plants at the Conservatory of Flowers.

So The Great TDH becomes the fourth camera person to appear on
The Great Plotnik's List of Names, following The Great Shutternik, Beburee-san and The National Treasure. Beburee-san's pink lotus hangs in the parlor, Shutternik's Eiffel Tower lives in the kitchen, and there are several National Treasures on view at World Headquarters, including Janis Joplin's agonized mid-chorus scream.

Plot may like this one the best, a big red anthurium that looks like a sombrero, the kind of bloom Lewis Carroll may have imagined sitting in the middle of a ballroom floor with strange mushrooms dancing around it.

The Great TDH. TDH-Nik. Maybe even Nik of the North. North-nik? TDH-Nik? Hmm. More name work may be needed. But the photos are terrific.