TRAVEL PICS.

Retired scientist Galen Frysinger has traveled the world and seven seas. (172 independent countries plus 91 dependencies) Get lost in his intricate and dense photo archives. Wow.above: Greenland, Brazil, Greenland, Libya, Easter Island, Nauruvia Galen Frysinger      

PAPER MOON.

Paper Moon. 1973 Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Starring Tatum O’Neal and Ryan O’Neal. Tatum O’Neal won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at age 10. Look for : roaming farmlands of Kansas and Missouri, Addy’s plaids & overalls, soft depression-era bedding. Most important, Addy’s black laced hat.  

ANNEMARIE SCHWARZENBACH.

Mongolian burial tower. Thysville Africa Dancing men in the jungle between Bumba and Aketi (Route Royale). Imam Reza. Turkestan. Bazaar: carpets from Daulatabad. ““Hazrat Ali” – tomb of the 2nd prophet. Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist, traveler and photographer. In July 1939 she and ethnologist Ella Maillart drove from Switzerland to Afganistan via [...]

NATIONAL PARKS.

The National Parks of the western United States are some of my favorite spaces to roam. Through my internet travels I discovered the National Parks Service has a massive digital image archive. Aside from sharing thousands of images the photographs are high res and often wonderfully discolored! From the top: Death Valley, Canyonlands, Devil’s Tower, [...]

Do Your Own Thing.

Free Store. Free Store. The Diggers were one of the legendary groups in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. The Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers who had promulgated a vision of society free from private property, and all forms of buying and selling. The San Francisco Diggers evolved out of two Radical traditions that [...]

AQUEDUCT DAY.

Today BS and I took a day trip via MetroNorth to the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail. The Aqeduct was completed in 1842 and provided NYC with clean water. Today this aqueduct trail weaves between wealthy persons backyards and nature. Totally loved it! The trail is 26 miles long and we traveled 5. Starting in Dobbs [...]

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