Mojo Pin

"All the untidy activity continues,
awful but cheerful."

This is a way more articulate sentiment than I could produce right now (or ever), but it speaks to a certain sense of ennui/dread/wonder/distraction which currently occupies my head. These are the final lines of "The Bight" by Elizabeth Bishop, and are also the epitaph on her headstone. I visited it once, but I can't seem to find the photo I took of her grave. All I have is an image of this tree across the road.

November 2015

Anyhow, when I was on my wild Greyhound trip back from visiting my friend Rose in Chicago (hi, Rose!), I listened to this Jeff Buckley album a lot. There was a bunch of night lightning in the western sky over Illinois, and I caught a calm twenty minutes of sleep to this music. Then a fight almost broke out at the bus station and our bus broke down in rural Missouri, but the adventure was worthwhile.

- "Mojo Pin" by Jeff Buckley, from Grace (1994)

Down by the Water

Rock Harbor Beach in Orleans, MA; November 2016. The Community of Jesus is based here, and its giant black angel statue is eerie, to say the least. Several former members of the community have come forward and called the group "destructive;" the website created by these former members is here.

Weird photo effects due to a roll of Lomography 400 film and a focus-free Minolta Freedom 50N camera. Or maybe they're due to the black angel. I'm not sure.

Cemetery, Orleans

Thanksgiving break 2015, Orleans, MA.

I'm 98% sure this film was several years beyond expired. Thanks, Lomography.

España (Buenos Recuerdos)

Here are some shots, fired from a Minolta Freedom K Focus-Free camera. They were all taken in late January, using Lomography 400 film.

Salamanca

On the bus

Madrid

Toledo and the Tagus River

Lost in Córdoba

Somewhere near San Lorenzo, early March.

Break Photos, Pt. II

This was a roll of some cheap 400 Lomography film, shot over the last few weeks on a Minolta Freedom GT camera, which took clearer photos than I was expecting.

Juniper in the backyard

Clay-Platte Montessori

Beloved meadow-tree

Leavenworth shanty