more movies for you

more movies for you
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Downers Grove, IL

hello old friend

hello old friend
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Central Camera. Just now.
Chicago, IL

3.

3.
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Lincoln Park
Chicago, IL

bedside.

bedside.
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(home)

that's some pig.

that's some pig.
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Sandwich County Fair
We do this every year.
The biscuits and gravy are to die for.

Sandwich, IL

tunneling

tunneling
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Underground
Chicago, IL

herb jelly (other than mint)

encircled

When a redwood is injured -- like this one, struck by lightening sometime in the hushed twilight that is the steady state of Muir Woods outside of San Francisco -- the burl wood at its base buds and the tree regenerates through fresh shoots. Before long those shoots, too, grow into giants, ringing the roots of their fallen ancestor.

This is a belated post: I snapped this shot nearly a month ago, on my way up to Jackson, California to look in on my mother who isn't well. My aunts joined me there, and we took care of the kind of business that needs doing when lightening strikes and burl wood buds. My sister went before me, and was met by the strength of a dear aunt then, too.

Encircling, strengthening.

white bowl (summer peaches)

boarded & back again

boarded & back again
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Hello, Weekend.

Chicago O'Hare

MIA

(I like this wall very much.)

At the Minneapolis Institute of Art

price point

The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 and was priced at $666.66.

While You Were Out: Apple's Years With and Without Steve Jobs, in today's New York Times.

Steve Wozniak on how they arrived at the price point:

I simply like triple digit numbers with all the things I'm involved with, the cost of making the Apple 1 was around $540 or there abouts and we agreed on the best markup, retail price above the cost of building it, which worked out to $666.

Jobs then tacked on the 66 cents to make it an eye-catcher price for the ads with the sale and promotion publications of it to the public.

potted post box.

potted post box.
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Bellevue, WA

remains of the ride

remains of the ride
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Probably wasn't wise to take that trail ride in yesterday's downpour -- but it was worth it.

boston public, three ways

In total, this place may have the NYC Midtown branch beat. The courtyard puts it over the top. (But don't tell the Rose Reading Room I said that.)

reprieve

Ducked another round of recreational eating and conference schmooze for a free concert at Berklee College of Music. Turned out to be the right decision. 

Thank you, Thom Brennan of the trumpet, and your brilliant, talented friends. Please keep playing. Always.

what you can't see

This woman is bedecked with a sash that identifies her as royalty. From where I sit I'm unable to make out what domain of rural or urban significance she serves as princess. On the seat beside her sits her gem studded seven-pointed crown and a bag of McDonald's take out.

The princess is hungry and enjoying her fries.

Posting from O'Hare International, outbound to Boston Logan.

poolside

Two unexpected hours on the tarmac means I've just now checked in to a vending machine dinner of microwave popcorn and a nutragrain bar. Unsatisfying, when I had Pacific fresh sushi in mind. But hey: there's a pool outside my window.

And dear friends close by.

Bellevue, WA

incarceration // liberation

So much depends on who holds the key.

a rose is a rose is a rose

Two things I didn't know before visiting the surprisingly colossal The Steins Collect exhibit at SFMOMA yesterday:

1) Among her Picassos & Matisse & Bonnards, Gertrude also cherished an El Greco of St. Francis. It wasn't featured in the show, though it would have added tremendous texture had it been. Instead I spotted it in one of the photos of her apartment in Paris. Delighted me because I have a fondness for both the artist and the saint.

2) Michael & Sarah Stein commissioned an extraordinary home from Corbusier. The exhibit includes a full sweep of architectural sketches and blueprints. I neglected to write down the location, so I know only that it's somewhere in France (I hope, still) and will have to go hunt for it.

And a third important point: the image included here has nothing to do with the Steins. It's a Banksy in Chinatown that PT Power was kind enough to share later that same evening, and it was my favorite of my remnant snapshots from the day.

Posting from San Francisco after a very good day.