Continue Reading Art On the Road: Made in L.A. 2023 The Act of Living at the Hammer “At its outset in the mid-1960s, the historic preservation movement contributed to the racial splintering of the nation’s urban fabric. It denied…
Continue Reading Long Beach Revelations. Up for a bit of vicarious travel? The kind where you see a tons of things at once, not knowing where to…
Continue Reading Days of Mourning, Days of Clinging to our Humanity I had driven down to Los Angeles anticipating glorious times among family and Southern Californian wonders, plant life included. Instead my head…
Continue Reading Migrating South. Walk with me. It’ll be the last hike in Oregon for a while. I am going on a roadtrip to Los Angeles…
Continue Reading From Ordinary to Extraordinary – Takahiro Iwasaki’s Push on Perspective. Koganebanamo sakeru ya hon no hana no haruShinchu- to miru yamabuki no iro The golden flowershave also bloomed!The true flowers of spring.They look like…
Continue Reading Perennial Pumpkins Like clockwork pumpkins beckon the photographer at the start of fall, just like sunflowers did in August and September. Like clockwork, the…
Continue Reading Website Woes Dear all – today’s post comes through with all the pictures, I believe if you go directly to the website, but not…
Continue Reading Resilient, flexible, forgiving: the Gifts of Lillian Pitt “…and we will remain here as long as we can see ourselves in the stars.” – Minnesota Poet Laureate Gwen Westerman, from her…
Continue Reading Dropping the Ball Driving east on Highway 14, you are surrounded by a desert landscape with lots of transmission towers and electricity lines. The view…
Continue Reading Sunflowers, Umpteenth Edition. Yes, this time of year again. A few years ago I paired the real flowers with the painted ones (see below). I…