Family portraits

Kevin is always even-keeled, great to have a beer with.  He's into model trains.
Favorite song: "Rhiannon", Fleetwood Mac

Alex is typically bewildered by life in general.
Favorite song: "Suzanne", Leonard Cohen

Leslie is a chatterbox,  always ready to tell or guffaw at a joke.
Favorite song: "White Punks on Dope", The Tubes

Taylor is easily outraged by news programs.
Favorite song: "We Don't Need No Fascist Groove Thang", Heaven 17 

 

Madison is depressed and lonely much of the time.
Favorite song: "Wild World", Cat Stevens

Casey is exasperated and fatigued with the whole damn thing.
Favorite song: "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Paul Anka cover version

Jamie is somewhat prudish and easily blushes.
Favorite song: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", Judy Garland

Jess: is a bit of a worrywort, if not an alarmist.
Favorite song: "Help", The Beatles

Jordan is a congenital doubter and snark specialist.
Favorite song: "I'm Not Angry", Elvis Costello

Sidney is very persnickety about food, among other things.
Favorite song: "Das Lied von der Erde", Gustav Mahler

Dale is a practical joker and tends to get into trouble.
Favorite song: "Hootenanny", The Replacements

Chris specializes in "dad jokes" and droll asides.
Favorite song: "It's National Shite Day",  Half Man Half Biscuit

 

Marion has memorized every song in the Beatles songbook and isn't afraid to demonstrate.
Favorite song: "Revolution #9", The Beatles

Tracy is a ponderer and philosopher, and writes in blank verse.
Favorite song: "I am a Rock", Simon & Garfunkel

Garden galaxies

Spent Mother's Day at the rhododendron species botanical garden in Federal Way WA. Seeing these stelliform flowers, my associative monkey-mind kicked in.

Milky Way photo by Joseph Cowdell

Pleiades Star Cluster photo by Tony Hallas/Science Faction/Corbis

The following one, in case you're wondering, is a debris-filled spiderweb.

Hubble photo via Indian Express

Moving still-lifes: Watching the river flow

Some more water-related monochromes... Gazing down at the mighty Willamette as it runs through Eugene, Oregon.

2018 Retrospect: Monochrome Studies

Directionless
Santa Barbara CA

Obsession
Salvation Mountain, CA

Citadel
Griffith Park, Los Angeles

Rush
San Clemente CA

Gravity
Wilkeson WA

The end
Whiskey Creek WA

Whitewalls

"WALL," Tieton, WA

"Trout Inc.," Manson, WA

Fruit warehouse, Manson, WA

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Rural Ruins

Sometimes driving through the country hereabouts reminds me of visiting the dinosaur exhibit in a museum... massive old ribcages, shattered and patched.

Stanwood, WA

Lopez Island, WA

Lopez Island, WA

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Tree

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Three Winters

Winter 2010-2011




Winter 2007




Winter 2008

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The Week Ends in Black (and White)

My entry in this week's blackandwhiteweekend shows the inside of a rather claustrophobic toilet stall in an otherwise very airy, bright, and swank Palm Springs spa. "Living color" would not make much of a difference with this photo: black tiles, black door, and black jacket make for a somber vista.