fool around

“Why don’t you just fool around, continue to hug and kiss and touch and wait a few more years?”

“I didn’t think we had time to fool around.”

While “fooling around” with a body of photographs from 2010 — in color, as usual — she decided to flip them to black and white.

Chief among them is that Mother Nature didn’t fool around in 2023 — we have endured 25 natural disasters this year with individual price tags of more than $1 billion.

The book reproduces the whole roll: Crosby fooling around with a little American flag.