Month: September 2004

  • McFaddin Beach, along the Texas Gulf coast

    Silence is a fence around wisdom. Anonymous

  • BBQ’d crabs with Shiner Bock Beer – a Texas specialty

    Do not overcook this dish. Most seafoods…should be simply threatened with heat and
    then celebrated with joy.
    Jeff Smith (The Frugal Gourmet)

  • from the archives. taken in autumn 2002, Montreal, Canada

    May we make wise choices in how and what we harvest,
    may earth’s weather turn kinder,
    may there be enough food for all creatures,
    may the diminishing light in our daytime skies
    be met by an increasing compassion and tolerance.

    Kathleen Jenks
    Autumnal Equinox (this site has music, so adjust sound before entering)

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. Taken while at my brother’s house in Austin, Texas. As I was admiring the flowers this little fella came right up to me Notice how one of his wings is missing.

    Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which
    if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air… Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.
    Luciano de Crescenzo

  • this photo was taken the last time i saw my Mema in 2002. She passed away today. i’ll be back in
    Texas for a few days.
    Anna Belle South 1911-2004

  • another image from Soundwalk. this one consisted of a metal container of water, that
    when charged by sound, vibrated until water sprung up!

    Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see
    judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise
    above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
    Nancy Kerrigan

  • this picture, as well as the two below were shot in the vacant kitchen of a hotel in downtown here in Long Beach while i was on Soundwalk 2004, a walking sound installation exhibit.

    You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist. Isaac Asimov

  • You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain