Not complaining though. Sure is getting dead around here. It’s not usually this bad when David goes to Rio. And it’s not like he took everybody with him.

Anyway, since nobody’s looking, here’s the rest of the walking around photos from my last card. You can tell I wasn’t in an altogether happy mood. I cracked a bone in my foot towards the beginning of the card so mostly they are either limping or driving around photos. Haven’t been doing much walking for going on a month now. I’m thinking about getting one of those carts like they have at Walmart, but I looked into it and the fastest ones only go 10 miles an hour, and most of them don’t do half that. One of my earliest memories is of a visit to my great grandmother’s. Her second husband had somehow lost both legs and he had a wheelchair outfitted with a nasty little two stroke motor that would do about 40 miles per hour. If I’m ever really disabled I’m gonna fix me up something like that and tool around Burning Man. Ah, the things we think about when going stir crazy…

“I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.
As President, I’ll end Obama’s war on religion. And I’ll fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage.
Faith made America strong. It can make her strong again.
I’m Rick Perry and I approve this message”

http://vimeo.com/19819283

New camera !!! New speed!!???

and I hope all goes well. The little bouts with health issues that my wife and I have faced over the past month has given me a bit more empathy.

Gordon – glad to hear it.

Civi – surviving an airplane crash is kind of a hallmark among serious Alaskan photographers, this place being so dependent on airplanes flying in challenging conditions – even David was in a plane that got its landing gear ripped off by a mountain ridge while coming in for landing at Anaktuvuk Pass (where I have made many safe landings, in weather from 75 or 80 above to 40 below. The difference was is that most have been passengers in the plane, whereas I was flying it.

Thanks!
How’s your health coming along, finished with hospitals and surgery?

Anyway, upwards and onwards, we’ve got no ceiling lights in the building yet, but heat and power to some outlets so have the main computer up and running. The electrician is coming back tommorow to start re-wiring the parts of the building that have 80 year old wiring.

MW…
I have the feeling that you are starting to get loose…
and I do like to walk around with YOU…!

coffee time…

http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/events/slideshow_night_poyi10.asp

You’re Burning!
Great images

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/10/i-was-arrested-at-occupy-bronx-for-writing-about-it.html

On a totally different subject, here’s a small batch of walking around photos from earlier this evening. Most of them are my usual schtick, but the last one is definitely Rio inspired. Wish that it were more lighting class inspired, but hopefully we’ll do better next time.

I challenge you to give me one name of anyone arrested associated with the movement. You must have meant anyone who was still demonstrating, or close enough, after the authorities asked them to move. It’s not nice maybe, but still not exactly the knock on the door after (or before) midnight for being “associated” to a movement. I am not even sure if anyone scooped up by the cops has yet to be charged, not just detained cited an released, for being there.

Respect…peace and tolerance…

I will be back with olives…