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) …
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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 …
On Cross Processing, and other play time
In September 2010, I bought an iPhone 4. I discovered the camera (and Hipstamatic) within days and was soon shooting away like crazy. It’s now mid-November 2016 and I’ve moved into film photography with gusto. All this time, I’ve seen it as play, as learning, as testing out, and it’s been loads of fun, but …
Eating my words, and some good food too
A couple of weeks ago, regarding Muslims in the West, I wrote: If I can stress one thing, let me be clear: there is no plot. There are 1.5 million Muslims, or so, in the world; there are several hundred thousand in DFW. If we all got together, we could do some great things, but the same …
growth
Late last spring, we planted a climbing rose on the empty front corner of the house. It started growing, and I started shooting…
