JAPAN!

Sakura. Chidori-ga-fuchi, Kitanomaru Park at Chiyoda-ku in Tokyo. From flickr user Yoshikazu TAKADA (Creative commons license.) Hello folks! As you read this blog post, I'm in the process of heading to Japan. JAPAN! In all my forty-seven-and-a-half years I've only been on the continent of North America and have only visited the US (of course)...

Park City/Salt Lake City Trip: The photos

The rental house in Park City, Emee for scale. 28 Feb 2023. Olympus XA/Fuji C200 Hello friends. I submitted journal comix reports of my stay in Park City (Feb 27-Mar 3, 2023) and Salt Lake City (Mar 3-6) previously on the blog. I don't really have much more to say, other than the trip was...

Salt Lake City Report

Hey all. We are just wrapping up a few days in Salt Lake City after spending the better part of last week in Park City, Utah. Here is my journal comic report. Hope you enjoy!

Park City Report

Hello, friends. As I alluded to earlier this week, I am currently in Park City, Utah for work purposes. I'll be here until tomorrow (Friday), then Emee and I head to Salt Lake City for a few days before going home. Enjoy this journal comic report. I'll probably have one from Salt Lake too. And...

A trip to the Oregon Coast, 17-20 Feb 2023

The beach at Manzanita, Oregon, 18 February 2023. Minolta XD5/Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 lens/Kodak Portra 400 It's the annual tradition: Head to the small beach community of Manzanita in northern Tillamook County on President's Day weekend. Emee's son's birthday is around this holiday weekend, so he brings a gaggle of friends to "the beach house"...

Chehalem Ridge and Wine Country Trip, 4-5 February 2023

Near Penner-Ash Wine Cellars, 5 Feb 2023. Minolta SR-T 101-MC Rokkor PG 50mm f/1.4-Cinestill 400D Emee's event planning company typically facilitates a big event during the first week of February. When the seminar is done, we are pretty burnt and in need of rest and relaxation. I proposed that we would spend the night at...

A Stub Stewart Hike, 2 Jan 2023

Happy 2023, everyone! Hope that this will be a good year. (Fingers crossed.) Emee and I stayed home this year. After a decade-plus of being out of town every New Years, this is still a big deal to me. Perhaps we'll restart this tradition again. Anyways, Emee's friends decided to do a hike on Monday...

Houston!

Hey folks. If you hadn’t already figured out via Flickr or instagram, I’m in Houston, Texas. We’re down here to visit Emee’s family for Thanksgiving, though due to the expense and nightmare of traveling right at the holiday, we came early (Thursday) and are actually leaving on Thanksgiving Thursday. Now Houston is definitely not a...