Happy Anniversary
Today my parents have been married for 63 years – congratulations!
Since they are fans of this subject, and because it’s been almost a month since the last storm drain photo, I mark the day with sunrise and drain.
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Olympus mjuii, Fuji Superia 400, developed and scanned commercially
burnt embers 
Please congratulate them for me, for being together so long and for being supportive of your work. Wonderful.
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Thanks Lynn, I will next time I am out at their place, which will be soon.
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Congratulations to your parents! Wonderful … I just love this image. A real stunner ..
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Thank you Julie – I am glad you like this shot. It was one of those moments that had to be photographed, over and over.
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Happy anniversary G&G!
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Thanks Rachel.
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A very beautiful photograph. (It was my birthday yesterday and my daughter gave me Kwädąy Dän Ts’ìnchį: Teachings from Long Ago Person Found. Will read it this winter, with pleasure.)
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Hi Theresa – I am glad you like the photo. It was one of those times where I made half a dozen photos rather than just one, generally being parsimonious with film. I just couldn’t stop shooting all the angles. And then I shot on my phone too.
I hope you enjoy the book. There is quite a bit of good writing in it, but I found that everything of my own that I have had to read aloud recently has needed to be edited prior to the readings. I guess I should get in the habit of speaking my writing aloud before signing off on it. But the information is interesting, and some of it should mesh very well with your interests in ethnobotany and the like.
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I expect to find it fascinating. And as for writing? I still remember a translation you made of a Paul Celan poem more than 40 years ago! Gulls.
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Ha! I lost that “translation” but maybe it will show up again one day – it would be interesting to see it again. And you remember more than I do because I had no clue about the Paul Celan part – even then. I was asked by my creative writing prof and I had to go back to the stacks and find the book of poems through geographic memory – a useful skill for an archaeologist, but not remembering words well is still a fault I have to work around.
Writing has fallen away from me I am afraid. 40+ years of writing technical reports and 20 years of gov’t memos did nothing to help. The idea of writing for pleasure after a day of “writing” for work just did not occur to me. Kind of like with photography – when I was shooting dozens of images a day on archaeology projects, making photos for pleasure just did not happen. Anyway, I think you will find the writing understandable if a bit awkward (“AWK” as one of my teachers would declare in red on my essays).
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Your parents had a look at old family photos from 1955/6 this afternoon, There was a baby there who looked awfully familiar!
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Well, one does hope that parents looking at photos of their babies find them familiar 🙂
But perhaps you mean they saw photos of me, and they still look familiar to how I am now. Perhaps that is because I was born with a moustache?
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Too much testosterone
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Your parents will drain a glass or two tonight!
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I should certainly hope so!
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