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After the Rain

Posted on May 5, 2014 2 Comments

 

 

Los Angeles as viewed from Mulholland Drive, February 2009.
Los Angeles as viewed from Mulholland Drive, February 2009.

Like “The Eerie Statue” this is something that I initially posted on Facebook and chose to share here, as well.  Below is the essay that accompanied this image:

From street level, Los Angeles often seems like an endless tangle of concrete; a horrific urban sprawl worthy of being the backdrop to a cyberpunk novel. Certainly, there are parts of it that are beautiful, but these places are for wealthy or long-established households. For most, the Westside’s postwar neighborhoods–with their sprawling ficus trees and lush gardens–are unaffordable. And the further east you drive, the more L.A. seems like a suffocating expanse of pink stucco, broken sidewalks, and polluted sky. It offends the Midwestern eye. It seems claustrophobic, labyrinthine, terrifying. Stuck in traffic on La Brea, you start to question your sanity, and consider moving to Alaska to live with wolves.

And then it rains, and everything changes. [Read more…]

Posted in: Creative Life, Musings, Photography, Travel, Writing | Tagged: Essays, Los Angeles, Mulholland Drive, Photos with Essays

The Eerie Statue

Posted on January 22, 2014 3 Comments
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The darkness and the silence are absolute.

<<Marie, Marie! Stay awake!>>

<<Claude… There’s not much longer now. We’re not getting out.>> [Read more…]

Posted in: Creative Life, Photography, Short Stories, Writing | Tagged: Paris France, Photograph, short stories, Statues

Driving West: Day Three

Posted on September 28, 2013 Leave a Comment

 

Just a bit o' driving...
Just a bit o’ driving…

Holy Lead feet Batman!  I MADE IT TO SEATTLE!  (Well, okay, Monroe.)  I didn’t doubt that I would, honestly, except while I was going through Snoqualmie Pass today–but I’m getting ahead of myself. [Read more…]

Posted in: Epic Road Trip, Photography, Travel | Tagged: Bakery, Epic Road Trip, Game of Thrones, Idaho, Monroe WA, Montana, Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, Wheat Montana

Driving West: Day Two

Posted on September 27, 2013 Leave a Comment
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A list of interesting things in North Dakota:
1) uh…

My first year of college, I dreamed that I was back in 8th grade, just totally rocking a geography quiz game.  My friends and I were standing  in front of a giant map that was a the back of the room, and every country my teacher named, I pointed out with ease.  “How do you do that?” one of my friends asked me, eyes wide and tone reverent.

“I dunno,” I replied.  “I just do.  It’s like the information is just there in my head.  For example, I know that Mozambique–” I pointed to the map, “is right there.”  When I woke up, I was completely flummoxed.  Partly because I was having a dream about 8th grade as an 18-year-old, but mostly because I am pretty bad at geography. [Read more…]

Posted in: Epic Road Trip, Photography, Travel | Tagged: Epic Road Trip, Montana, North Dakota

Michigan: Day Two

Posted on August 29, 2013 Leave a Comment

It’s harvest season! Here are some pictures of the produce from my mom’s garden:

A selection of tomatoes from my mother's garden
These are all tomatoes!

[Read more…]

Posted in: Epic Road Trip, Photography, Travel | Tagged: gardening, Manduca quinquemaculata, mom's garden
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