183 / early morning

Stayed a couple of days on the GoldCoast, 

overlooking the ocean

didn't have an extra battery, so these

are with my iPad

all on the same morning, I really liked the

 spotlights

there were several dolphins in the foreground

it seemed a portentous start to the day..

182 / door

A door in the lovely town of San Cristobal de las Casas,

I was there for a couple of years in the early '90's.

181 / dance

In Dalhousie, where I lived long ago:

a misty day, Tibetans at a picnic, dancing,

its like a mirage in memory.

I used b/w film because thats what was available.

181 / stones

'sailing along the coast'

At the time I made these small pictures, my living arrangements

were temporary. I would walk on the beach each day

'ancient angel'

& bring home the stones that caught my eye

'precarious moment'

the so-called smart scanner made its own decision

re the borders

'you need not know all the why & how, there is no end to questions'

'I am That 
everything / nothing'

180 / yangtze

A few more scans from that long ago river trip

I wonder if it all went under water?

in places one could see the narrow ledges from which

men sometimes had to pull the boats 

- with ropes - through the dangerous parts;

the paths looked at least as difficult as the river.

179 / china-scans

Somewhere near Guilin, it was August, 

the haze was interesting on the karst formations there

Was in China in 1982, loved the boat ride from Chunking to

Shanghai. Am scanning some of the photos,

the prints are quite poor quality, ineptly hand spotted.

hundreds of idyllic scenes, a finite supply of film

I was living on a farm in northern NSW, at that time,

so was able to appreciate the work involved

a big storm one night made pink waterfalls

   

I was just starting to plan my book on the hexagrams

of the I Ching

Had thought to use Chinese landscapes, but the travelling 

proved too difficult, then, for many reasons.

178 / traveller's palm

took some photos with my iPad of travellers palms

there's a bunch growing a few streets from me

they have fan shaped leaves at the top, 

the older ones turn brown & fall

They have a distinctive flat growing habit

An old painting of mine:

 'a Traveller's Palm gives me itchy feet'