Monthly Archives: January 2025
…and then there’s this
Holy hell. You may recognize me over there, the second from the right, because for the most part, I still am exactly that fashionable.
near Earth, Texas
scanned family photo – date unknown
birthday girl
I was surely an unfortunate-looking kid, with those teeth coming in all over the place and my cat-eye glasses and sort of everything else. I looked nearly as unfortunate as that birthday cake.
My grandparents weren’t close (physically or emotionally) and decorating this birthday cake with my grandmother is practically the only memory I have of doing anything with her. That’s really sad and weird, but it’s just the way things landed.
And speaking of landing, check out the way that nasty ashtray landed itself right in the middle of the table, right there by my sister’s milk.
Sonora, Texas
scanned family photo – 1964
the four chesters
Yeah, I don’t know what these photos were for – some sort of ID badges maybe? What’s even more of a mystery is why lots of lots of copies (11 of one of them!) were saved all this time.
But this is what my dad looked like (from the front AND from the side) at a couple of points in time.
scans, vintage photos
dates unknown
my first street photography
I was recently reminded (when I was looking a box of random stuff) that my street-photography efforts started much earlier than what I remembered. If you’d asked me prior to this discovery, I would have said 2022 or so marked the beginning.
But here’s proof that I actually did a bit of street photography in the summer of 1967, while on a family trip to Mexico.
Also, check out the guitars for sale in the background…
family photo, scanned
Toluca, Mexico
photographed summer 1967
italian fashion is for real
In case you were wondering, there IS something eye-catching and a little bit exciting in Italian fashion. It is beautiful and it looks effortless (but I bet it’s not!). And somehow, even though we were melting in the heat, the fashionably-dressed Sicilians always looked fresh and comfortable. (Except maybe the ones wearing those very tall shoes…)
Ragusa Ibla, Sicily
photographed 9.7.2022
One Day | One Image 