Memorial Day

…and all that I have forgotten in the ensuing 49 years.

She is ??

After 65, the warranty ends and you are on your own. 

Good luck.

Jim Brown, Sucia Reef Cafe and Bar

painting on Masonite by Bill Mitchell, 1996,

patina by time and weather

Paris 2002

There is nothing that pleases me more than looking at some of what was the best in my past.

That alone is what has made everything I have done worthwhile to me.

Harold E. Hansen, painter and printmaker of Wisconsin, born 1943,

on the wall of the ophthalmology department at my HMO yesterday.

Does this mean that Christians are towed away, or that Christians will tow your car away? I waited and watched, but got no answer.

Standing in my backyard the other day, watching the clouds. Took a picture—how could I resist? Then later, in the virtual darkroom, 

I spotted the contrail of an airplane far overhead. See below:

Been taking, making, developing pictures for sixty years now and I am still amazed and delighted.

Springtime at Mark Saito's House

People taking photographs tend to believe that the essential reality is captured at the moment of exposure. From painters and other visual artists, I learned that that is not true; it is an evolving process up to the last stroke by the artist—even after the picture is hung for display.

I recommend watching Timothy Spall's extraordinary portrayal of J.M.W. Turner in the 2014 movie Mr. Turner.