It was a fun month of following Fat Mum Slim‘s photo challenge. I discovered a lot about the importance of paying attention to the time of day. Lounging around in the morning put my shots at between noon and 4 o’clock. Beautiful blue skies became white glares. Shadows blocked out beautiful faces. Colors simply didn’t read…
Category: Wanderings
Making of a Burley Klingon
“Heels and red lipstick will put the fear of God into people.” — Dita Von Teese, on what she’s learned being a burlesque star But then add forehead ridges and bat’leth. You’ll be thanking the stars that you were there. In January, I traveled to Austin to watch my sister perform with the Austin Burlesque Alliance’s…
Dickens on the Strand: Galveston 2015
A great way to start off the holiday season! Dickens on the Strand.
Take Me Out to A Mud Hens Game
“Why does everybody stand up and sing ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’ when they’re already there?” –Larry Anderson (MLB pitcher for White Sox and Brewers, keen observer of life) My most recent trip to an MLB field was May 2014 when I took a party bus to San Francisco to watch the Giants…
The Running Iron, Carmel Valley
“Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.” –Mark Twain (author, humorist, misquoted man) Call me a sucker, but I have fallen for it—the Carmel Valley charm. Wine country meets Old West, the little village is…
Sunset on Phone Camera
On the one night I don’t take my DSLR to Cachagua … amazing sunset. #livinglifeforte
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