Category: friends

BNSF

Bill Underwood painted a series of trains cutting through western US landscapes while living in exile from New Mexico, I saw the paintings laid out in the dim light of a suburban basement on the southside of Richmond. William J Underwood, where are you now?

Rt 360 Westbound

Ray Wittenberg of the Oxford American writes:

I’ve been replaced!…. how fickle is the fickle finger of fate!?!

No no, 8 years, different technology, Ray and Sophie, tri-x film, 21mm, Leica. Jim and Sophie, digital, zoom lens. Change and sameness. Same dog. Same model car. Same activity, different road. Dog conserving her energy in 2010, riding lying down.

continuity

thirty-nine years ago Jim and rode bikes down the eastern seaboard, took a right in Jacksonville, rode to the hill country in Texas. Today we rode a loop around Slabtown, thunderstorms encircling, warm rain. Good.