9:32 p.m. 64 degrees

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Lately on Saturdays, My favorite brothers Tom & Ray on CAR TALK keep me company on public radio while I head out across the long expanse of city driving driving driving. Trying to remember where I saw the gaping jaws......

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Talk Amongst Yourselves

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The photos are going to do all the talking today. More from my treks over bridges and into downtown. My inner mute button is stuck in the ON position. But the driving tours continue. Wordier posts may resume sometime in......

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Post 200...Who Knew?

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More pictorials of my cruise through the city east of downtown. Over bridges, past murals, fading graffiti posters, across greenbelts, through tunnels, past ginseng warehouses, and all manner of urban lore. Oh yes, even in LA the glittering light and......

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More Are Coming

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Meager offerings tonight. One photo taken on my new route home across the Spring Street Bridge. More are coming. A mosaic of faux mail from Flickr. Lovely I thought. And reminiscent of Nick Bantock. . Dr Anne Lucas, 2. faux-mail,......

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The Secret Life Of Clouds

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A few more peeks at the visual feast that is Artful Blogging. Rain soaked days. More than I can count now. A new way home has me paddling through Los Angeles with new eyes. Tomorrow I'll take the camera with......

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1:23 a.m. 52 Degrees

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Today was a day made for enchantment. Los Angeles after rain. Like fine tuning the focus on a lense. Every particle of blurred dust wiped clean. And snow in the mountains so close, so close. Winter has returned to the......

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Maybe I Can Find An Old Habit To Slip Into

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My sister Dottie is a Sister of St. Joseph, an order of nuns that originated in LePuy, France in the 17th century. She sent me these beautiful photos of Ramona, one of the sisters, making lace. A bit of history......

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The Journal Laboratory

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The underpainting experiment continues in the journal laboratory. Digital words are all I'll add to complete this page. Yesterday evening these clouds heralded the arrival of rain. The golden ones look especially innocent, but look at that dense black man...

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Oh, I Can Do Both.

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Today, among other things, I underpainted a stencil. Added more sketch lines over the top. Made a pig nose. Like almost everything I strongly disliked it at first. Now I'm growing fonder. The piece I always end up loving the......

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An Ode To My Shoes

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See. I really do have more than one pair. What's In My Journal Odd things, like a button drawer. Mean Thing, fishhooks, barbs in your hand. But marbles too. A genius for being agreeable. Junkyard crucifixes, voluptuous discards. Space for......

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