204 / slow fade..

In San Miguel de Allende, I stayed 2 summers in 

this beautiful hotel, the Posada Carmina.

A wonderful old Spanish lady ran it. I had a room with this outlook,

& also a corner room overlooking the street.

I was in my room a lot, painting, & came to love the building,

& Carmina

There was a restaurant below, & a cantina next door.
There is a place named Hotel Posada Carmina,
am doubtful it could still be her; it has been 'upgraded',
unfortunately. It was over 30 years ago..

So was the trip down the Yangtze. The print has been a pinkish brown

all that time (dirty chemicals I suppose) so even photos

reflect the unreliability of memory.

I also enjoy to make changes in memory:
more recently, for the 2nd edition of A Recipe for Dreaming,
I used this as part of one illustration.
click to enlarge

203 / the west/southwest

New Mexico /Arizona area

if only I'd been more organised..

I'd have memory prompts from notes,

or something

this one could be in northern Mexico.

It is enough to have been there, & carry an echo

of the experience, internally.

Photos really anchor that, no?

202 / southwest

more old shots from the southwest USA

in Canyon de Chelly 

as far as I recall..

201 / beach

more scans

I love the variety of patterns

unique 

every day

200 / Byron

Patterns of sand & sea

at Main Beach in Byron Bay

 here on an unusually calm day

These are prints from an analog camera,

I had to be careful with film, I love how I can take

as many as I like, now. 

199 / rocks

waiting for the internet, so I scanned some old prints, 

mostly here at Byron Bay, or nearby beaches

though I think this one might be a mysterious blue pool

at a lake in Bavaria

Byron - some are rarely seen, only after very big tides

sweep the sand away

or I don't notice them every time

water makes a difference 

at least to colour & shapes.

198 / wet

Christmas & New Year was mostly wet

& humid

hot, even though it doesn't look it, somehow

the peacock was in a larger Pandanus

or strutting around a park, north of Byron Bay.