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September 2

From the road, the lake looked pretty enough. So we stopped, hoping to find a nice, shady bench to eat the plums we’d gotten earlier in the day. Found a bench, close to the water, and soon realized why no one was sitting there: the water was disgusting – full of green and brown algae with that lingering stink that crawls up inside your nose for a few hours.

So we took a walk instead, where we saw a long hedge that was completely covered with spiders’ webs. But aat least they didn’t stink, and some of them had water drops caught on them.

Clear Lake*, California

*Ironic, no?

photographed 7.29.2012

September 1

What goes on inside my mind on a car trip:

Look! Trees! They are pretty! Tree. Tree. TreeTreeTree. I get it. Trees. Horizon – I need an horizon. Music! I can’t stand John Mayer. What’s with that? Need a different song! When’s lunch? Where’s a rest area? Tree? Tree. Waffles are delicious! Ooh – a tunnel. Tree. Tree. TreeTreeTree.

(Sorry, I didn’t mean to frighten you. But it probably DOES explain a few things, doesn’t it?)

inside a tunnel on Highway 199, between Crescent City, California, and Grants Pass, Oregon.

7.31.2012

August 31

Storms were brewing over the sand.

White Sands National Monument, New Mexico

photographed 5.1.2010

August 30

In back of the church.

St. Mary of the Assumption
Megargel,Texas

photographed 5.27.2012

August 29

OK, Hurricane Issac: don’t do this.

House along Pontchartrain Boulevard
Post-Katrina
New Orleans

photographed 4.2007, 20 months after Katrina