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August 20, 2014
I only got to spend one day at the County Fair this year, hardly fair since I love the place, especially when I get to follow around one of the ranchers. The particularly photo-shy specimen with long blonde hair is an old friend who tolerates me and is always happy to show off her animals, in this case a chicken because I missed the goats, which are my favorite part. It was a little sad saying goodbye to the fairs and to the other aromatic of Sonoma Valley, but all things must end and just as I am leaving so is my guide. Good timing on my part I guess.
August 20, 2014
As part of a major move in my life, I went and spent some time saying goodbye to people and places I love. The City featured prominently in this time and towards the end I made several journeys down. Quite an interesting place, so many different places wrapped and folded into one, but it never seems too big, not like New York or Chicago. Maybe its the hills, tucking districts into the nooks and valleys throughout, but San Francisco has never seemed to be expansive, just continuous. And even here in you can find quiet corners, with people walking alone in what might as well be a ghost town.
July 27, 2014
A good friend showed me around his garden this afternoon, touring past titanic tomatoes ten-feet tall and through the raspberries and corn. As the sun set over the nearby vines he dug his way through the stalks, looking for little dragon scaled popcorn ears.
July 26, 2014
Slamming through the corners, sliding through the hills to get from work to Rivertown Revival I watched the clock shift its way past the local artists I had hoped to see. As I arrived and met my friend, another photographer, we only had enough time to see the closing acts before the crowd slowly trickled out. Only the stubborn and the drunk remained to be washed out by the closing parade, stubbornly marching into the dusk and the encroaching fog blowing in over the hills from the coast. The party wasn't over but we couldn't stay here. So we moved out, and moved into a nice Red Wine I got at work.
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July 26, 2014
Nearby my house, close enough that I get run through here on my morning burn, is what is left of the Developmental Center, a semi-retired mental health care center. Riddled with old oak trees and tucked into the wrinkles in the hills, dusk comes quickly here. The buildings are all slowly eroding as the staff and patients leave and no one replaces them, the program being aged out by the state. Fading remnants of the hope and color that once swept through the place, comforting and cheering up the patients, can be found throughout.
So can a soccer dad and entourage, looking for a suitably haunted locale for a music video. I didn't have any ghost stories for the hunters, just honesty and the reality of a slow retirement for the facility.
July 7, 2014
I had a day off today so I went into the city to show a new friend around, through the Embarcadero, Fisherman's wharf, North Beach, Chinatown both for tourists and the parts where you can buy the things that I have no name for, and then down market and all the way to Noe valley before heading back to the ferry. A very long day, and a little lacking in successful photos until right at the end as we were cruising back across the bay and the sun was setting behind Angel Island.
July 6, 2014
Welcome to the beginning of the photoblog I should have started a long time ago. Now would be the time to set out some goals and guidelines for what will be on here, but I think I am going to start simple with posting one or two photos a day if possible as well as a little bit about what is happening and any writing I get done.
This first photo is a recent shot of a friend and co-worker at my 9-5, walking through the back warehouse and bottling facility of Kunde Family Estate winery.
