a walkby fruiting

After long thinking that neighborhood markets, pubs, and cafes’ll get suburbanites back into the social realm, I also realize that those changes are oft-fought-against for the sake of privacy and quiet. Plus, they’re tough to get done anyway, with zoning and building. These are some of the reasons why they’re out in the suburbs, right?
But [...]

With my town’s 90 degrees, I’m reminded of this summer’s stop in dusty Santa Rosa for a dip into the Blue Hole. It lets lovely lazying on the steps with feet plunged in while observing a skunkling skirting ’round the rim. I can only imagine what one must have felt in 1930, storming through Route [...]

How’d the summer get away?

Perhaps ambition gets the best, as it’s tough doing anything but working (and playing) from the road. Most memorable is the South, and starting in Pine Bluff, AR, we’re loaded with American worry even with the beautiful leer of the Ozarks in the rear view mirror, as the highway of abandoned homes leads us to [...]

12 June 2008

Wednesday: rain in Utah, snow above in its mountains, and hail in high winds of Wyoming.
Thursday: sitting in a Topekan cellar waiting out a twister.
Altogether: driving ‘cross the salt plains and into Salt Lake City at eightish, with the sun lightin’ up the green hills surrounding town. Whitecaps looming past Wyoming’s southern horizon, only coming [...]

10 June 2008

We’re starting by letting go. See ya in Salt Lake City, UT.