New Jersey and PA

Restaurant Man

It's finally over. I've lost my enthusiasm for air travel, hotels, and rental cars.

• Last Friday, Saturday and Sunday - Reading, PA
• Saturday met Jack with the Museum. Will donate historic photos.
  
• On Monday we moved the show to Stroudsburg, PA and we had dinner with my daughter in Montclair, NJ.
• Dinner with Bob and Marcia on Tuesday.
• Dinner with Eric and John on Wednesday.
• Lunch with Paul Castello - Dinner with Messick on Thursday (the best of the bunch)
• Back to Tucson via Cincinatti and Atlanta.

Home again, home again, jigitty jog. That should do it for that kind of marathon for at least another year.

Old Tucson Studios

Laundry

I read that a minister in a church here in the USA expelled nine parishoners because they voted for the wrong candidate. Then I think about Germany in the 1930s, Serbia in the 1990s, Rowanda any day of the week since the colonial powers pulled out, Oliver Cromwell, Darfore today ... How many steps away from stoning those people was that minister?

Given evangelical zeal, to imagine it can't happen here is simply naive.

Roof Lines

Where Kirosawa story lines are re-encarnated into spaghetti westerns ...

Ramada

Adobe

Up From Siera Vista

From Reddington Pass

Actually, this was shot in March but it's part of the epiphany of discovering that Ansel Adams didn't shoot landscapes. What he DID shoot was meteorology - the atmosphere. My object this summer is to shoot the atmosphere and learn more about shooting effective landscapes.

Clouds Over the Catalinas

A Real Personality

Palm Shadows / Botanical Gradens, Tucson, AZ

Tohono Chul

Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ

Peek-a-boo, I See You

We went shooting in the Tohono Chul Park on the Northwest side of Tucson today. Candy is feeling much better but certainly isn't operating at 100% yet. It's frustrating. I feel like I have about 20 years left, 10 of which are good. I need to do everythihng I want to do in those 10 years or those things will never happen. This period of inactivity is giving me cabin fever.

For what it's worth, the restaurant at the park is worth writing home about ...

Springtime in the Desert

Mariachi

Mariachi

Mariachi music (I know very little about it, actually) strikes me as being Mexican country western in 3/4 time. I know that "La Paloma" and "Cielito Lindo" have been on the Mariachi Top 10 for more than 75 years.

This weekend brought a huge Mariachi Convension to town. The Mariachi musicians occupied two stages at Ried Park. The thing that I found most striking was that the quality of music and musicianship was orders of magnitude better than either the blues concert or NAM Jam, held in the same venue.

Ride Me

Ride Me - A metaphor of Life

We spent a couple of hours at the Pima County Fair. Everything seemed to be within six inches of where it was last year. It was almost like walking into a time warp.

I found this angle on a rolli-coaster and punched up the saturation a bit .. well, actually a little more than a bit. I think it needs to be a large format print. I have just the place for it in my office - though, for the place, I wish it weren't so green!