Provocation of the Moon2/21/2020  I've been house/dog-sitting in Santa Barbara this week. I do this peridically because it gives me time to think and muse...ponder life's big questions. You know, the meaning of life, what am I doing with my life, will I ever find love. I guess watching this new Netflix show, Modern Love set me on this line of thinking. But like this photo that was not taken this trip, this is an old, but haunting question.
So perhaps it is time to get back to me, to doing those things this picture seems to be beckoning me to do.
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Heart of Glass11/25/2019  It's that time of year when I begin get sentimental as I look toward Christmas. This is a little glass heart used to be painted with silver. Over the years, the silver has worn away, but the glass remains, as do the memories. It has been on every tree I have ever had since I was a baby. My grandmother told me it was on her tree before that. That makes it at least seventy years old. I don't pack it away any more. It hangs on a hook stand in a curio cabinet in my bedroom with other Christmas memories.
Things of Beauty Passed11/24/2019  As many of you know, I help at estate sales now and then. I came across this picture I took for a sale a few years ago. It started me thinking: there was a time when items like those pictured here were highly coveted. Now they are lucky to find a home in a museum. Some, like thid hand-painted pitcher and tureen, make a lovely still-life showing the grace and art of a way of life gone by. Lovely to look at, delightful to hold, but they won't buy it, it's much to old.
I was walking near our hotel in Portovenere, Italy, and turned down some stairs that led to a lower street. These guys were very suspicious. Sadly, they didn't speak English, I am not sure what they were trying to tell me. I have a feeling they were warning me not to trespass. I'll never know. 
The Mysticism of Falling Water10/18/2019  I caught this image of a small waterfall at Descanso Gardens in La Canada-Flintridge a while back. There is something mesmerizing about falling water in nature.
Before Sunset10/17/2019  On More Mesa, Goleta, CA.
I love this picture in its faded sort of day way. Along the mesa it is always nice to walk as you wait for the sun to go down. I like the bicyclist in the distance. There's just something peaceful about this scene. A Worker's Worth10/14/2019  I remember when I saw this sign in a construction zone along a highway in Michigan. I never reconciled in my mind how I felt about the message. Yes, there should be a penalty for injuring or killing a worker, but the penalty seems a bit off. I don't know, maybe I'm just reading too much into it, but how on earth would this be fair punishment, or should I say adequate? The bottom line: SLOW DOWN.
From the Lava10/13/2019  Lava beach and tide pools in Hawaiian Paradise Park where I visited recently. Isn't nature is amazing? This little tree is growing on the new lava beach, cold, hard rock. The life force is eternally seeking growth, it seems. Something of which I could benefit by being more mindfully aware.
Chair Abuse?10/11/2019  These guys were hanging out at the art village in Balboa Park, San Diego. Art projects gone awry? I imagine they are still pressed into service though.
Pillars of Santa Fe10/10/2019  These were on the plaza in downtown old Santa Fe. Captured image on my trip there a few years ago. Need to go back.
Yes, that is snow falling. It was November. QwerkiPix Pholog
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