daily dose of imagery
I have admired this blog, the daily dose of imagery, for quite a while. Is a picture worth a thousand words? Yes and no, it’s apples and oranges, and there are always fine & rotten fruits out there, depending where you look/what tree you browse. The the daily dose of imagery is always exceptional mental eating & nourishing browsing. Someday I will find myself in Toronto with my father, and I want to buy this blogger dinner, and watch him and my dad talk photography, they could have a lot to say to each other…
Anyway, I am currently driving across the country, and I will most likely retreat somewhat to the visual tree of art, instead of the word orchards I usually harvest from, and try to share some pictures I will see along the way…. Diving across the country (this must be time 20+, as I used to live in Colorado) has always been primarily a visual experience for me, whole journeys only recollected in a flash of image or two; Pennsylvania interstates like a tunnel of trees, glimpses of endless freshwater lakes near Cleveland & Chicago, Dawn over Iowa, Illinois flatness with farm silos sinking into the visible curve of the earth like masts of ships, crumbling buildings surrounding the Kansas City Royals stadium, depleated faces in Nebraska highway rest stops at 4am, sunlight splattering across the book cliffs near moab, utah, etc, etc, etc, the endless visual etc of America… What pictures & moments are in your hearts from your drives?
Filed under: on the road
Andrew Love buddy! (I left a comma out of previous statement b/c it sounds different depending on where you put it… which I found excessively amusing.)
Aaaaaaaah! I didn’t know of this blog or this move or the multiptude of records til your recent e-mail and reading all this… looking at your photos… makes me cry! You found your passion. I am so happy for you! Look at you all shiny, happy and beaming and not in a manic way!
I love you; I miss you; I’m proud of you.
Did Jess tell you I was all set to move to Park City then I got the job in Lugano, Switzerland? I will move to Europe in August but will drive cross-country first so I will stop to see you guys in SLC (don’t worry — I don’t need a place to stay if you don’t have room… I’ll have Mufasa, too).
I am so sad I missed such a FABULOUS time of your life, but I think there was actually a logic in it, as I was at the opposite end of the “found-my-passion-in-life” spectrum.
Also — just a trivi tidbit for the day: SLC is actually less than half Mormon these days. WHo knew?
LOVE YOU! AM PROUD OF YOU AND HAPPY FOR YOU BOTH!
Bec