Three Weeks After Surgery

Recovering from surgery is a long, seemingly endless schlep. Best done by two people: one to do all the work, and one to endure all the pain. 

[Liberties taken with this image to reflect how it feels.]

Next Step

 So, here was my right knee they replaced in June 2017:

  

And tomorrow morning, they are going to whack up and replace the left knee…followed by months of recovery and rebuilding. Just so I can walk, and bend, and make pictures again.

Wish me luck, eh?

1 August 2010

Although made four and a half years ago, this is exactly how I feel today.

M/V Kennewick

"Kennewick measures 273 feet 8 inches (83.4 m) in length, has a beam of 64 feet (20 m), a draft of 11 feet (3.4 m) and a displacement of 2,050 tons. She has a capacity of 64 vehicles and 750 passengers, and has a crew of eight."   [Wikipedia]

Aging (or Ageing, if you are British)

snapshot

Onion, 20¢     30 August 2014

25 July 2003

Setting Sun—1834 hours, 20 Aug 2018

"As many as 90 percent of wildland fires in the United States are caused by humans. Human-caused fires result from campfires left unattended, the burning of debris, negligently discarded cigarettes, and intentional acts of arson."     [U.S. National Park Service]

Postcard from Yesterday

1902 hours, 14 August 2018

Setting sun on the West Coast, between British Columbia and California — Wildfire Season

Street Fair, 2013

Canadian Landscape, 2006

Paris Marché Aux Puces, 19 Mai 2001

7 March 2015

Is it time to stop? to wind down?

I look through the thousands of pictures I have made [note "made", not "taken" or "captured"] and wonder.

Our 38th Anniversary, 2014

Paardenvlees met Groene Peper, Brussels, 2005

Rue Mouffetard, Paris, 2006

Firenze, Italia, 2011

Smith Island—from five and a half miles away

Young Eagle Ascending

Wein, Austria, 2011

Remember When It Was So Much Simpler Then?

August, 2009

At the time I made this exposure, I just assumed that it was a rip on line in the christian bible's book of genesis: "And God said, 'Let there be light…'" Now I wonder if it was an early tremor of the deep shit that trump and his racist republican brethren have dropped us into.


And here is something different from that year: