world famous in Puerto Rico

the time for love is anytime

2012-01-29T00:00:00.000-08:00

her passport shows a face from another time and place

2012-01-27T00:00:00.000-08:00

Last week during one of my many bouts of Colorado nostalgia, I dug into a box of old negatives and scanned a few.

Will, urban camping.

My old Jetta. I have now owned two 1986 Volkswagens with rear driver's side damage.

Mexi, you are dearly missed.

Nate and Molly. This photo is one of my favorites. This was senior year when Clayton, Nate and I were roommates and Molly lived just down the way. We all stayed up late that night partying. But not crazy-like, just four friends on exactly the same page. I loved that night.

I want to tell you so much, 'I love you'.

2012-01-25T00:00:00.000-08:00

This is one of the most wonderful things I've ever seen created. I've probably watched it about 20 times now and it just keeps getting better.

I had that dream again

2012-01-22T00:50:00.000-08:00

heaven knows I'm miserable now

2012-01-20T00:00:00.000-08:00

There's a little flooding around Kookville today.

In Philomoth, the next town over, Mary's river flooded it's banks.

Robert glassed the bottom of the board today. I'm sure that when they see it a lot of people will think board looks like a piece of shit, but I couldn't be any happier or more excited about how it's turning out.

south beach state park

2012-01-19T00:00:00.000-08:00

I can hear you when you sigh, through the water in the sky

2012-01-18T00:00:00.000-08:00

every now's a big surprise

2012-01-17T00:39:00.000-08:00

the snows of Kookvillemanjaro

2012-01-16T00:00:00.000-08:00

enginerding

2012-01-15T00:35:00.000-08:00

It was good while it lasted. I had my Canon S80 digital camera for more than three years, which is an exceptionally long lifespan for any electronic device in my unsympathetic hands. But it held in there for quite a while and took both some great photos and an absurd amount of abuse. When it finally stopped working over the summer, out of curiosity I completely disassembled it. The internals are fascinating, but what was particularly interesting was the front lens element. I discovered that it was exaggeratedly concave, and when held up in front of the New digital camera I bought, it acted just like a fisheye lens. So, when school started up last week I went down and used the lathe in the machine shop to make a small lens adapter that slides onto my camera. And now I have rough fisheye attachment..

This is my friend Alex, who's also in the ME program with me. He's a Datsun 510 Fanatic and an incredibly generous source of help and information to anything car related. Talks are currently in progress for some possible van body work..

I needs to be bee'd with

2012-01-13T00:00:00.000-08:00

we're running late in a running late game

2012-01-11T22:03:00.000-08:00

The re-shaping is finally finished and today I took the board into Pura Vida to fill in spots where the foam had been damaged. Tomorrow I'll give it one last go-over and it'll finally be ready to be glassed. Getting pretty damn psyched to see this thing finished, and can't wait to get it in the water!

Pinhole Polaroid

2012-01-08T22:10:00.000-08:00

I suddenly got interested in pinhole cameras and decided to try and make one myself. Since I don't have access to a darkroom and all that stuff, I couldn't make the normal film/photo paper kind and instead had to try and use polaroid film instead. I started by buying an old Polaroid Land Camera. They're not expensive, but aren't often sold at thrift stores because, as it was explained to me by a few thrift store employees "We don't see anyone wanting them, so we just throw them out or move them along to our bulk stores." Anyway, I got mine off Craigslist for 10 bucks. And yes, you can still get the film, it's made by Fuji and can easily be purchased here: BH PHOTO.
Also, here's a link to a whole website dedicated to the features of each of the Land Camera models: LAND LIST

Interested in making a shitty pinhole Polaroid camera too? Read on.

I got the el-cheapo model 210.
First step is to pull the front panel off the camera and to remove the lens. I didn't take any pictures of that, but it's just 4 screws on the back and the whole front pops off.

Then you'll need an aluminum can, scissors and some sand paper.

Cut out a small square..

I changed my mind, cut a circle instead. I think it's a little safer that way, but I don't know why.
Sand both sides. There's paint on the outside and some sort of gnarly thin plastic coating on the inside that keeps the can from corroding that you'll want to get off.

Open the back of the camera and remove the back half of the lens. It's held in place by a thin spiked washer. Just get a small flat-head screwdriver and the washer pops right out.

Take the lens and trace its outline on your aluminum for size. Then take the Smallest pin you can find and poke The Tiniest hole you can in the middle. (Smaller is better for some reason. Look it up if you're curious why. Then let me know.)
After poking the hole, go ahead and re-sand the aluminum a little to remove any burs. Then cut away the excess aluminum around the circle you made.

Now put the aluminum disc in where the lens used to be and secure it in place with the thin spiked washer you took out. Hopefully you didn't mangle it when taking it out cause then you'd be fucked.

Boingo! Done. Now all you need to do is figure out some sort of way to cover the hole. I just use a strip black electrical tape, but I'm sure they has got to be 1000 better ways than that.
Here's the first two pictures I took with it. Unbelievably, there's a discernible image, albeit a shitty one. Plan on wasting A Lot of film. The next four I tried did not come out at all. Since you don't know how big the hole is you can't use a light meter, so you've just got to guess how long to expose things for. It was bright and sunny and these were exposed for 30 and 45 seconds respectively. Good luck!

why put a new address on the same old loneliness

2012-01-06T18:48:00.000-08:00

from A to B and back again

2012-01-05T22:47:00.000-08:00

Whelp, I'm back in Kookville after a long and relaxing couple of weeks in Seattle. I've never done so little in my life. No work, no social life, no picture taking, just eat, sleep, repeat, for 3 weeks.

only as the day is long

2011-12-30T16:05:00.000-08:00

the further on in time the more we leave behind

2011-12-24T23:04:00.000-08:00

have you ever escaped from a shipwrecked life?

2011-12-20T00:00:00.000-08:00

take advantage of my heart before it falls apart again

2011-12-19T00:00:00.000-08:00

here I go, I'll tell you what you already know

2011-12-14T22:53:00.000-08:00

Digital photo, taken through the viewfinder of a second camera.

one day at a time

2011-12-11T00:00:00.000-08:00

A few friends and I hiked the two miles down to surf the cove at the bottom of Cape Lookout this weekend.

unschooling

2011-12-10T00:36:00.000-08:00

Kombi and Will

2011-12-09T00:00:00.000-08:00

One year ago my good friend Will, the co-founder of Road34, flew down to Lima, Peru and bought a VW Kombi van. He ended up driving it thousands of miles around South America, from Peru, to Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia, on the most remote roads and through tiny towns and all types of amazing terrain, meeting plenty of interesting people along the way. He coaxed and tinkered the van through a laundry list of ailments and eventually drove it all the way back to Peru where it was stored in a casino garage.
Now, he's back in South America, reunited with the van and has just begun driving it all the way home to Fort Collins, Colorado. It's all recounted in hilarious, beautiful detail in words and photos in his blog: Kombi and Me.

pockets full of empty

2011-12-06T00:00:00.000-08:00

Finals finals finals finalsfinalsfinalsfinalsfinalsfinalsfinalsfinals

old friends

2011-12-05T01:04:00.000-08:00

It's finals week out here in Kookville, and I'm worn out. I'd describe the absurd amount of work I have to do, or complain about it, but I know it'll be over in a couple days and then I can go out to the beach or go for a ride or sit and think about how I'm only going to have to do this one more time before I'm done with school for good.

Nate and Molly, Fort Collins 2003.

dodge the raindrops

2011-12-01T23:00:00.000-08:00

A Polaroid from campus this morning.

piles for miles

2011-11-29T00:00:00.000-08:00

Andy and Fred.

old wine in a new bottle

2011-11-28T01:13:00.000-08:00

Giving thanks in and for SF

casual decadence

2011-11-25T00:00:00.000-08:00

A few riding pictures from late summer/early fall

losing leaves in all four seasons

2011-11-24T00:00:00.000-08:00

copilot

2011-11-23T00:00:00.000-08:00

8 months on, zero maintenance and the little plant still seems to be stoked to be along for the ride.

surfing oregon

2011-11-21T00:00:00.000-08:00

summertime flashback

2011-11-20T00:00:00.000-08:00

These couple of photos are from a weekend in July when I was up in Seattle. Kelsey had organized the third Polka Dot Rocker, an alley-cat/points race which combines large distances, just about every steep hill in the city, and shots of whiskey. Although I grew up in Seattle, I unfortunately never paid any attention to street names or addresses, which makes me horrible at 'messenger'-type races. I had an awesome day though, despite riding farther while collecting fewer points than probably anyone else. It just felt great to be hauling ass through the city again after living within Corvallis' 20-block radius. I had good legs that day and went for a hell of a ride. And, it's always great to end up at the Summit, sharing beers with old friends.

Met up with Craig, who was wearing the winner's bag from the previous race.. Spoiler alert - he won this one too.

Big thanks to Kelsey, who put in a ton of work to make this happen.

Mary!

off the rails I was and off the rails I was happy to stay

2011-11-19T00:00:00.000-08:00

she fell in love, you see, with someone I used to be

2011-11-16T00:00:00.000-08:00

Art installation on campus.

sunrise

2011-11-15T00:00:00.000-08:00

I see the morning light

Well it's not because

I'm an early riser

I didn't go to sleep last night

26 gas stations

2011-11-14T00:00:00.000-08:00

Been digging through an old box of Polaroids that had been sitting at my parents house in Seattle. This is from sometime around 2006 or whenever it was that Kimmy lived in Bellingham. We took two trips together from Washington out to Colorado, although I can't remember which one this was. This is right after we arrived at Scott's old house in SLC. I remember that it started snowing just after I took this and he had a great party at his house that night and it just kept snowing and snowing and everyone got good and wasted and happy with the music turned up high and the the snow piling up outside.

occupy a small street

2011-11-13T00:00:00.000-08:00

The view from my old apartment. 12th and John.

He sat down at an electric piano, which looked like a desk. His hands formed chords.

2011-11-12T00:00:00.000-08:00

Went to a reading by Aimee Bender this evening.

I hate the big decisions that cause endless revisions in my mind

2011-11-11T00:00:00.000-08:00

I snuck out to the beach this morning with Bryan and his dog Mowgli. The surf was big, stormy, unpredictable, and a lot of fun. Plus, it was 64 and sunny on the coast and foggy and winter in the valley.
On paper I really don't have anything to complain about. Tomorrow is the end of week 7 out of the 10-week quarter, I'm going to graduate at the end of next quarter, I'm healthy, live by myself, etc etc. But committing every ounce, 10-12 hours a day on staying up on school work eventually takes its toll. So it was good to finally get a chance to sneak out to the beach this morning, even if I still had to come home and pay my dues this evening.

fall country mile

2011-11-04T00:00:00.000-07:00

Do you mind if I always love you?

2011-11-01T00:00:00.000-07:00

These pictures are from a couple of rolls that I shot on my half-frame camera.

This is at the start of my trip through California, in August.

Leo Carrillo state park

San Onofre.

Stopping in SF on the way back to Oregon.

the torture of chalk dust collects on my tongue

2011-10-28T00:00:00.000-07:00

It's week 5 of the 10 week quarter. 15 more weeks before I graduate. So close to being finished. And yet, sometimes the work starts to gather in dangerously large piles, consisting of material I don't particularly understand, and on which I will be tested very soon, and I wonder if I'm ever going to make it. But then, finally, 8 or 10 or 12 hours later, I've finished what I can for that day and I feel good knowing that it's enough, and I walk out of the engineering building and go home and I know I'm one day closer to being Done.

surfboard update 3

2011-10-25T00:01:00.000-07:00

Things have been pretty busy here in Corvallis town with my senior project and other school-related obligations. Seems like every time I finally had a free second, it's been dark and/or raining. And, because my 'shaping studio' is just the sidewalk outside my front door, the board project had to be put on hold for a little while.
I got some time over the weekend to do some work though, and after getting a new outline cut out (shortened the overall length by 5 inches and pulled the nose and tail in a bit to hopefully help it turn a little faster), I started to sand the deck and rails.
There's still a bunch of holes in the foam that need to be filled in and a good amount of sanding/shaping to go, but it's already quite an improvement. (from what it started out as at least..)

This is right after I stripped off all the old fiberglass. Pretty hideous.

After the first bit of sanding.

lonesome winds have come again

2011-10-20T00:00:00.001-07:00

tow the mark and walk the line

2011-10-19T00:00:00.000-07:00

Tareytons

2011-10-16T00:00:00.000-07:00

The night Scott found out that my parents have a 21' sailboat moored near our house in Seattle, we were all pretty drunk. True to form, he was instantly, passionately insisting that "We should Take that thing somewhere!". I was all for it. That was 7 or 8 years ago. Since then, we'd reassured each other repeatedly that it would happen at some point, and although we never knew when or how, we both meant it completely. Finally, in September of last year, we both had 2 weeks with nothing to do, and made the trip happen. Over a period of 9 days we sailed from Lake Washington, out to the Puget Sound, around and among the San Juan Islands and back. It was by far one the most unique and amazing experiences of my life. The photos really fall short on capturing what it was like, sailing out in the open water among the islands, which are incredibly undisturbed and undeveloped, but there are a couple fun ones from other points along the way.

Of all the other sailboats we saw out in the San Juans, our boat was barely half the size of the smallest one, and we were four times as drunk as the drunkest crew. We borrowed the dingy the night before we left, and I can confidently say it's the shittiest thing that's ever floated.

Going through the locks that separate Lake Washington from Puget Sound.

Obviously, we had to gun it while passing by this..

We stopped in Bellingham the second-to-last night and got to hang out with Chris Mandell and his wonderful girlfriend Arielle.

This is it. The last day, motoring home on Lake Washington.

step two

2011-10-09T16:11:00.001-07:00

I scrounged up some free lumber from around my neighborhood, two empty cat litter buckets from my neighbor, a bag of concrete from the hardware store, and made a pair of shaping stands. Total cost: $4.50.

stripped naked

2011-10-06T00:11:00.000-07:00

The Xit Maui longboard, aka Longdick is my first surfboard. I bought it 4 years ago here in Corvallis already completely trashed and covered in ding repairs. I've put my share of dings in it as well and eventually it got to the point where it was so beat up and cracked that it was more patches than original fiberglass. But it's been a great board, a surprisingly fun shape despite it's appearance, and I'm way too attached to it at this point to part with it. So I stripped it down to the foam core and am in the process of sanding it and doing a small amount of shaping to coax it in the direction of something functional again. Updates to follow.

I still believe in the phrases that we breathed

2011-10-04T01:04:00.000-07:00

Details are unimportant, but in general, I took some time off, some stuff changed, other stuff changed a lot, then I took a look back at all these posts and realized missed doing this blog, so now I'm back. That's it.
Here's the most recent rolls of film I've developed/scanned. These are from the early and late spring of 2011.

Chi Chi beach in NW Washington.

In March my friend Tyson came down from Bellingham to visit.

Kimmy was visiting from Vermont at the time and drove down with him.

This is a cool little property just outside of Corvallis. A friend of mine rented a house here for a while. He also sold really good pot. I'd come by once in a while and we'd get all stoney baloney and stroll around the property checking stuff out. The property's owned by a cranky old man who's a bit of a hoarder. He kept a huge garden and had a grove of fig trees, but also piles of cars, rusting farming equipment, and rotting sheds full of the most random stuff imaginable.

Luna

My friend had a half dozen sheep that he was raising.

res ipsa loquitur

2009-10-25T03:19:00.000-07:00

Well, this is it. The time has come for me to sign off from this thing. A year and a half. 200+ posts and the occasional word or two that has hopefully captured or created a few memories for those involved, as it has done for me. It's been fun, but lately it's starting to get a bit stale. Maybe not stale, but among other things, I've been more into printing photos and less into uploading them. Email vs letters. They're both just words but one says something different than the other.

Anyway, so no more posts. I'm done with this for now. If I ever get around to setting up something different that's worthwhile, I'll put up a link. Thanks to those who have said kind things and thanks to all for dropping by.

aloha,

-Alex

no one wants to hear about your 97th tear

2009-10-20T00:00:00.000-07:00

This is an old roll from sometime over the summer.

No more searching for the snow shovel.

This is part of the robotics lab where I work. I don't actually know how to use this stuff, I just make drawings on the computer.

loving her was easier than anything I'll ever do again

2009-10-14T00:00:00.000-07:00

Pete and I drove out to Hana on one of the mornings.

We checked this little gem of a spot, but it requires a real specific swell direction and wasn't getting any action that day.

Pete tricked me into thinking the water in this cave was warm. "It's like bathwater" he says. I kinda knew better but jumped in anyways and sure enough it's plenty cold, but it's probably the clearest water I've ever seen and incredibly refreshing. As we were getting out, a tourist couple showed up and were like Oh, you can swim in there?
It's So nice, I say, you gotta jump in, it's like bathwater.

The last night I was there we slept on the cliffs above Honolua bay.

Epic point break.

We surfed it the next morning. It was waist-high at best and breaking onto about 2 feet of water over the reef, but was still one of the best mornings I've ever had.

And then to the airport. Pete, how can I thank you enough?

"Stay together friends.
Don't scatter and sleep.
Our friendship is made of being awake."

your love is not lost, my heart is still crossed

2009-10-12T00:00:00.000-07:00

This is the morning I left for Maui. I've missed a staggering number of flights in my life and each time it happens I swear up and down that I'll never put myself through the stress again and yet I almost missed this one too. I ended up making it, but just barely, when I got to the gate they were already boarding..

The first big swell of the season rolled in the day I arrived.

This is my friend Pete's dank little house tucked away in the jungle.

The good doctor himself. Pete and I have been bros since 6th grade.

The wind died down after the first or second day and the waves cleaned up a lot.

Pete's house is on a huge piece of property that includes a farm that supplies this little fruit stand. Jonathan would hook us up every day with all kinds of fresh fruits, smoothies and banana bread. Mahalo bro!

I had a birthday while I was out there. I drove to the top of Haleakala that afternoon to try to get even further away from people as well as to try and figure out how the hell I'm suddenly so old, at least on the books. I turned 30, but I feel more like 16.

This is at the top. It's 10,023 feet in all, which is pretty crazy considering you drive up from sea level. It's usually really windy and chilly up there, but that afternoon it was comfortably warm and with no wind at all. I sat up there for a long time not wanting to leave.

I hate places where there's a line unless it's a rollercoaster

2009-10-09T00:00:00.000-07:00

your dark mascara bids me to historical deeds

2009-10-06T01:55:00.000-07:00

pass the bag that holds the bottle

2009-10-05T00:00:00.000-07:00

in case an angel loves me and lifts me up with angel hoofs

2009-10-02T00:00:00.000-07:00

when things are all you think of, and plans are all you make

2009-10-01T00:00:00.000-07:00

cried pennies on Sunday morning, laughs nickels on Saturday night

2009-09-30T00:00:00.000-07:00

Craig, Rob and Kelsey crashed here for a night a few weekends ago on their way down to a two day stage race in Eugene. Although we stayed up late drinking beers and Wild Turkey, they still crushed it in the races. 1st place overall single speed, 1st place overall fixed gear, and 5th place overall cat C's. Baller!

blinded by cataracts of the quotidian

2009-09-29T00:00:00.000-07:00

This is the last roll I shot on the 'waterproof' camera before it finally stopped working. In the last year and a half, I can't think of a single day that Andy wasn't the last one out of the water, and on this afternoon, the waves were so clean and perfect that neither of us could stop surfing until long after dark.

there's an ocean in my eyes cause I know that this is goodbye

2009-09-25T00:00:00.000-07:00

photographs show the laughs in between the bad times

2009-09-23T00:00:00.000-07:00

the location has been relocated

2009-09-22T23:19:00.000-07:00

Back in Oregon again. Maui photos sometime.. later.

here today, gone to Maui

2009-09-11T00:00:00.000-07:00

I'll be seeing an old friend and surfing without a wetsuit for the next couple of days..

please don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them

2009-09-10T00:00:00.000-07:00

The not-so-waterproof camera finally stopped working. I've got a proper diving camera on order and will post some photos as soon as I get a chance to use it.

Rorschach test

2009-09-08T00:00:00.000-07:00

What did you notice first: Nixon, or the glassy unridden wave in the background?

my powers of perception and thoughts so sublime, they'd never do you justice in reason or rhyme

2009-09-04T00:00:00.000-07:00

there is no difference between childhood and adulthood

2009-09-03T22:26:00.000-07:00

In my opinion, the management of this McDonalds was no less than begging me to remove a letter and get the biggest laugh I've had in forever by putting up a sign like "NOW SERVING ANGUS"..

plus minus

2009-09-02T23:40:00.000-07:00

Steve Young aka Corndog aka Mr. Dank Bags at work. Craig shot these with my camera last summer while I was back in Seattle.

please enjoy the party while your music is reached

2009-08-31T00:00:00.000-07:00

I drove out to the Gorge amphitheater a few weeks ago and met up with Scoot and Erin and a few of their friends from Salt Lake to see two nights of Phish.

This is one of those fun things you can sometimes find amongst all the partying at a Phish show. Someone thoughtful enough to put up a note warning about poop all over a toilet, and other people creative enough to start translating it into a bunch of languages.

Time to leave.

just another wish you wished in a very long list

2009-08-26T01:32:00.000-07:00

she's talking of tranches of truncheons in battle, of bruises from bottles that never get better

2009-08-24T10:38:00.000-07:00

love starved backwood teaser farm girl hot eyed bride

2009-08-21T00:00:00.000-07:00

I rode out to the county fair a few weekends ago.

in the old dives of parallels, I stirred in the waitress’s wonder

2009-08-17T00:00:00.000-07:00

little lights in the houses say there's somebody staying up late

2009-08-13T00:00:00.000-07:00

This is what we saw of the tail end of a fairly large swell that hit Mexico and California at the end of July.

just sort of glide along

2009-08-12T00:00:00.000-07:00

my mistakes were made for you

2009-08-11T00:00:00.000-07:00

cut the knot, or untie it, as you choose

2009-08-10T00:00:00.000-07:00

you thought I was blind because I shut my eyes

2009-08-06T00:00:00.000-07:00

It seems like I've been in the water every day lately, which is fine with me. I bought a camera that was supposed to be waterproof but apparently it isn't.

time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana

2009-07-10T00:00:00.000-07:00

Willy rolled through town

Chazz was here a few weeks ago too. He was doing a huge tour from Denver all through the NW and down to SF.

the shape of the road is the road

2009-07-02T00:00:00.000-07:00

Because the landlord decided to raze the property and build condos, Andy had to relocate Freddy Fakler surfboards. So the chickens got a ride to their new home. The old location will be greatly missed.

I'm sending most of me to sunny country side

2009-06-25T23:27:00.000-07:00

Sorry if you've checked in and haven't found anything new recently.
I've been making an effort to take things super easy out here lately. It's been good.

think I'll come back here again, every now and then

2009-06-06T20:18:00.001-07:00

These are a collection of stills from the Pacific City Webcam during March and April of this year.

moments like this never last

2009-05-20T00:00:00.000-07:00

I shot this roll with my half-frame camera.

sought azure and elliptical routes

2009-05-09T00:13:00.000-07:00

I blame you, I thank you

2009-05-03T00:00:00.000-07:00

wordless chorus

2009-04-25T23:25:00.000-07:00

eat, drink and be maui

2009-04-22T23:49:00.000-07:00

This was awesome - today my bro Pete, an incredible dude who I've known since 6th grade and who's been living on Maui for the last 5 years, gave me a ring and told me to hop onto the website for the youth center which he runs in Paia. They just got a webcam up and running of Paia Bay and there he was, on the beach beside the youth center, with the sun shining and some solid late-winter swell rolling in behind him.
you can scope the youth center site and live webcam of the waves here.

we would give anything for what we have

2009-04-22T00:00:00.000-07:00

Nate spent the summer of 2003 in a tiny town somewhere in northern Japan, but stopped in Paris on the way to visit me and do a bit a traveling together. In the months leading up to this I'd already managed to destroy one camera, and a second one was soon to follow shortly after he arrived. So the days we lounged around Lake Como, the chaotic G8 summit we marched against in Geneva, the week we slept on beaches and hitch-hiked around Corsica and an endless slew of other epic adventures during that two week visit can't be recounted in photos but only by either Nate or myself when we've had a few too many brews or are otherwise feeling overly nostalgic. Which in a way, for stuff like that, seems more appropriate anyway.

I've got a couple photos from when he first arrived though. This is a game we played while waiting for the bus one day called 'throw an almond as high as you can and see if you can still catch it in your mouth'

Although the name would suggest otherwise, the Lizard Lounge is one of the best bars in Paris and we spent plenty of afternoons here. I have Clayton to thank for this one. It's never crowded nor ever completely empty, and has the most comfortable atmosphere of possibly any bar I've ever been in. You can spend hours there, reading or just hanging out, drinking good coffee or demi-litres of Heineken or 1664, and eating their grilled sandwiches and fresh salads when lunch or dinner rolls around.

Of course Nate insisted we see all the typical tourist spots..

remember the promise as a kid you made

2009-04-20T00:00:00.000-07:00

I backpacked around for two weeks in the spring - halfway through the trip I spent a night on this ledge above the city of Grenoble. This was sunrise the next morning.

miles on a bench beckoned me

2009-04-17T00:00:00.000-07:00

es una cosa muy seria

2009-04-16T01:24:00.000-07:00

if life were easy and not so fast, I wouldn't think about the past

2009-04-14T00:00:00.000-07:00

how it was

2009-04-12T00:00:00.000-07:00

I lived in Paris in 2003 for just shy of 9 months. I'm scanning some of the negatives this week and will post a few of them.

I can't forget what you've forgotten

2009-04-10T00:02:00.000-07:00

Paris, 2003

I carry your heart, I carry your heart in my heart

2009-04-08T00:53:00.000-07:00

the past is a strange place

2009-04-07T00:00:00.000-07:00

rest area tree - Kelso, WA

maybe in a paper boat we'll both just float away

2009-04-01T00:00:00.000-07:00

1500 Pike

2009-03-30T00:00:00.000-07:00

- Actually, they are the real artists,
you said, spinning the ice in your glass.-