Disturbance
Exeter, California
2017

Family Time
Exeter, California
2017

Family time, or what passes for it these days (he’s engrossed in his smart phone).

Sacred Datura
Exeter, California
2017

Sacred Datura, a.k.a. Jimson weed, is a familiar plant to desert wanderers and also readers of Carlos Castaneda’s book The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Reading that book while an undergraduate in Kansas in the early 70s was instrumental in my decision to apply for graduate school in Arizona. It was not the books treatment of the use of Sacred Datura that drew me to Arizona however; rather it was that the book (along with perusing various issues of Arizona Highways magazine) made me fall in love with the Sonoran Desert even though I’d never been there before.

Lives Real and Imagined #46
Exeter, California
2017

Lives Real and Imagined #45
Exeter, California
2017

Urban Forest
Exeter, California
2017

Dreaming of a Previous Life
Exeter, California
2017

Homage to the Unknown
Exeter, California
2017

I took this shot because the scene reminded me of what I think is a fairly well-known photo by a well-known photographer, but I can’t for the life of me recall who that photographer is. I had thought it might be Edward Eggleston but failed to find any image like this of his.

Captain Pike?
Exeter, California
2017

Captain Pike was the first thought that came to mind when I saw this. Anyone out there nerdy enough to know to what I’m referring to here?

Spent Beauty #23
Bozeman, Montana
2017