I learn much from the elders.

image taken February, 2010, Berkeley or maybe Oakland, California

Dolores Park, San Francisco, January, 2010


chimes in the wind
the jingle of a cat's collar
steeple bells far and near
beautiful rain

Whenever I walk past this building at night, I think of Frank Herbert's Dune trilogy where the people of the planet Arrakis exist with so little water. I see the giant sandworms! The continued heat and absence of rain here in Austin, Texas brought this photo, and Dune, to mind.

Oakland, November, 2010

Berkeley, March, 2010

The incandescent light bulb is thing of function and beauty.

Illusion (unlike my other photos) -

I fracture this,
hammer to stone,
to see sparks fly
to smell air
before lightning strikes
to feel snowflakes
sting the skin
to break your
soft everpresence
and know passion
in the flicker of light
off the wing
of a bird in flight

Texas State Capitol:

Can you find the critter?

Shoal Creek, Austin
It's been a hot, dry summer...

Lady Bird Johnson National Wildflower Center architecture

from San Francisco, April, 2010:

Berkeley, April, 2010

From Austin, summer of 2006 -