Wine country

Spent last weekend in California. Made a little visit to Sanoma and watched the niners lose to the Chiefs.

2021

“We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.”
— Patti Smith

“When everything is uncertain, everything that is important becomes clear”
— Sophia Joan

“Pay attention, be astonished, tell about it”
— Mary Oliver

“if there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having”
— Henry Miller
Mt. Tamalpais, Mill Valley

Mt. Tamalpais, Mill Valley

Sunrise

“I’ve always liked the time before dawn because there’s no one around to remind me who I’m supposed to be so it’s easier to remember who I am.”
— Brian Andreas

This week at Sunrise in Lavallette.

beginnings

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. // Thoreau

This starts a new series of abstracts called Beginnings. I have been in a creative funk for a while and am starting to get back into a groove spending time capturing the sunrise in Lavallette this fall.

San Francisco

Spent Labor Day in San Francisco with my son. Took a few walks, went to Alcatraz, hiked in the Marin Highlands. Went to a party with the 49ers. Pretty good weekend all in all.

Got a few new metal prints for sale at batch in Manasquan. Stop by for a coffee and check them out.

San Antonio

Spent the week in San Antonio at a conference for work. I have to say that the BBQ here is the best I have ever had.

Blessings

to breathe in the ocean breeze

to watch the leaves bloom on the trees

to walk with you, hand in hand

Nola

June, 2021

 “...Go because it’s crazy, borderline dysfunctional, permissive, shabby, alcoholic and crazy--- and because it looks like nowhere else” // Anthony Bourdain

Hayden and I took a trip to New Orleans this summer. We saw some incredible live music, ate some great food, drank some good drinks and watched a whole bunch of people. We also drove out to Baton Rouge and saw LSU and Mike the tiger. Sadly, we didn’t run into Coach O.

All in all, a nice little road trip to add to the collection.

Graduation

June, 2021

On to the next chapter Hudson.

The Summer Day

Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean--the one who has flung herself out of the grass,

the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,

who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down --who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

With your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

Beer and BBQ

 May, 2021

Spent a long weekend in Charleston checking out all of the local breweries and BBQ that the town had to offer. There were a lot of offerings.

red plaid Christmas

December, 2020

Vermont

June, 2020

Call this, the pandemic road trip.

Lye Brook Falls - Manchester, VT - 2020

Lye Brook Falls - Manchester, VT - 2020

“Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates… Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won. Choose confrontation wisely, but when it is your time don’t be afraid to stand up, speak up, and speak out against injustice. And if you follow your truth down the road to peace and the affirmation of love, if you shine like a beacon for all to see, then the poetry of all the great dreamers and philosophers is yours to manifest in a nation, a world community, and a beloved community that is finally at peace with itself.”


— John Lewis