camera shy

"See if I can do it?  No pictures .... PLEASE!" 

On the Myakka Park Canopy Trail with Miss Cali, my 18 year old grand-daughter having a good laugh, with the possibility of ripping her jeans even more.

 

 

 

'little angels'

 

 

 

If you were lucky you might have seen 'em - the little ones - daily with their buckets, in a line holding hands, crossing the road for the beach. One of the many ways in which Janice Howle cared for her pre-schoolers as an early, on-island daycare provider. The young ones always called her "Miss Janice", the adults new her better as - "Mary Poppins (of Siesta Key)".  

Two of my boys once attended. And many years later, Miss Janice reminding me, that I was her first attending baby.

Lillian "Miss Janice" Howle (1929-2020)

 

State Street

All new to me. Walking, not recognizing downtown on a rainy Wednesday night.

 

 

 What I do remember - that old alleyway between State Street and Main.

 

the (great) flood

Trying to prioritize old field notes, interviews, research materials etc. from soaked cardboard boxes, stacked in my recently flooded darkroom. Doing the best to sort through the most salvageable materials. The fifth day of a third edit - forty years worth.

 

 

 A good find here.  

Rejection letter from the prestigious RPS after submitting to a requested, membership portfolio review.

 

 

the Farm

Hard to believe it's been 26 years of tending to the garden.