I started this weekly roll near the end of my trip to Arkansas, and shot most of it on Sunday at Mom’s and Aunt Peggy’s or on the drive home. I tried to stretch it out, but then ended up having to scramble to shoot it on Saturday… Oh well.
Author Archives: James Cockroft
Arkansas 5: food and film
I picked up a copy of Stephen Shore’s American Surfaces some weeks ago, and so I shot some Shore-inspired plates of food from time to time during the trip. Most often, I just had one camera with me, but a couple of times, I had the presence of mind to get shoot both cameras and see …
Arkansas 4: Bookstores!
I love a good used book store. It probably goes back to my childhood: Mom and I clocked a few hundred hours in The Book Swap (across from Richland Plaza shopping center, but now long gone, so long gone in fact that the place where it used to be just looks like a vacant lot) …
The Golden Pioneer Museum
Mom and I were on our way to lunch one day, and she suddenly wheeled into a gravel parking lot outside what appeared to be a wildly painted storage shed, and said “I’ll give you 15 minutes.” I had no idea what I was in for…
Arkansas 2: at Mom’s
Mom has a nice house in a tiny community on top of a mountain on the outskirts of Eureka Springs. Her view is beautiful, Glory be to God, and with the unusually late fall color—trees are usually bare by this time of the year: hooray for climate change, I guess—I got rather snap-happy.
Driving to Arkansas
I had some vacation time eating a hole in my timesheet and to maximize it, I took off November 17-23. Thursday-Wednesday may seem like an odd choice, perhaps, but add in the Thanksgiving holiday (November 24 and 25 this year) and I got 11 days for the price of 5… I spent the first 4 days on …
New Toy!
I’ve wanted one of these for awhile… Alhamdulillah, now I have one! https://youtu.be/5fMOwcNvcIg
