Category: Rolleiflex
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I am dreaming that California would always have these big puffy clouds and even partially green grass at the end of May. Big clouds make me happy and so do old cars in the middle of fields.
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(pig heart, from pigs butchered in March.) Right after we graduated from college my best friend was told she needed open heart surgery to replace her aortic valve. One of the options she had was to replace her broken valve with a pig valve. But she was told the pig valve might not last as…
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On April 4th, 2010, our wedding anniversary, Arann and I went to Tomales Bay, to the house where we stayed the night we got married. Well, fake married. We haven’t legally gotten married yet. In November 2008, we were at the height of our wedding planning when California passed Proposition 8, denying same-sex couples the…
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If I am walking somewhere and I come to an intersection that I want to cross and the light is red… then I cross the street that is green. If I come to a bus stop and the bus isn’t there… then I keep walking. If I have to choose between instant oatmeal and healthy…
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Sometimes near is better… Especially when I feel so far. Today I am in Dayton Ohio. Tonight I fly to New York. Five more days until I am near again. (The view of my backyard, spring 2010. Photographed on my Rolleiflex)
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(This post contains a photo of a butchered pig and may not be enjoyable for everyone.) I would be editing photos from the pig butchering I went to a couple of weeks ago, but instead I have to do my taxes… this is one time I would rather be editing. Part of this pig, who…
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Reidville, South Carolina.
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I am off to Charleston, South Carolina, for the weekend… Where the waves are a lot smaller, the water is a lot warmer, and in the place of cliffs stand barrier islands of sand. And while I am gone, I have just one request… Take good care of you, for me. And I’ll take good…
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My friends, Rebecca and Nick, like bacon so much that in December they got their own pigs to raise… and slaughter. And ever since the pigs arrived, they have been talking about all the different ways they were going to eat their pigs when the time came. Well, last Wednesday, the time came… and Nick…
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This is Charlie, chef and co-owner of Pizzaiolo in Oakland, and the truck he uses to pick up his produce from the farmers’ markets. And this is his son, Eli. Charlie’s daughter, Matilda, wanted them to put on suits because she felt weird being the only one dressed-up during the group photos, after her impromptu…
somewhere between a handshake and two kisses 