Movin’ on. Movin’ on.
Nov 15th
I’ve been kicking it up around in San Francisco for a little over a year. I really love this city warts and all. The weather is one of the best things about the city. Its rarely too hot, or too cold. Its always just nice and mild! Its been an amazing experience living in a city that’s so full of cultural vibrancy, the let be and let be attitude of everyone and meeting to many geniune people.
Yet, it is time to move on. My heart looks out east, back to Bishop.
It was a little less than two years ago, I stood in front of my little rental cottage as I bid my parents farewell as they drove back to Phoenix. They had come up to Bishop for two days to help me pack up my meager posessions into my truck so that I could drive home to Minneapolis.
It was a bittersweet day for me. I was finally wrapping up my stay in Bishop. It was the realization of a dream I’d had for a long time to actually live in Bishop, doing nothing but climb rocks day in and day out. But it was hardly the end of that dream that I’d imagined, taking that nasty spill off Jedi Mind Tricks and blowing up my foot, not even two months into my stay, and a unfinished tick list a mile long??
So as I drove away from Bishop it was that frustration of unfinished business that gnawed on my head. I was unsure if I’d ever return to live here again, but I think in my heart – I knew I would.
In a week. I’ll return to Bishop to make it my home again for the winter. I’ll be joined this time by a friend of mine from NYC, Leo. I’m sure I’ll be blogging about it and sharing more photographs over the days. I am truly excited to return and I invite you to join me once more again, my friends.
Adoration of the Drag – 2008
Nov 6th
There’s an annual event in DC that falls on the tuesday before Halloween. It’s called the 17th Street High Heel Race and it has grown from it’s small bar-crawl style dash into a spectator drenched affair along 17th Street to watch drag queens that have spent the better part of the year building up their elaborate outfits all for one night.
I’ve never failed to miss one since 2002, and even though I’d moved to San Francisco, by luck would have it. I was hired to do a wedding in DC in late October, and catching that year’s event was a mere matter of extending my return date a few days…
I’ve posted the gallery in its entirety here. But I thought I’d share some of my favorites here.
Highway 1 – A Short Video
Mar 10th
On the second day of my road trip, I pulled over to check out a community cemetery that overlooked the Pacific. I love exploring old cemeteries and this one was one I couldn’t miss!
I made a short video when I was sitting at a little bench by a gravestone marker. Thank you whomever had it put there! You’ll have to excuse the shaky camera work. I was working in the face of a very stiff ocean breeze, any harder and I’d probably have flew right off the bench.