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1989 LA Rail Show: G&M with Union Pacific’s 8444. Hot winds up to 80 mph here. Trees topple, oversized vehicles are discouraged from travel, and dust leaves the whole county sneezing. Or ...

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1986: Christmas in the big house. I couldn’t find a Christmas picture of us together this year, so this will have to do. I’m so filled with vanity this year. Maybe I knew that soon I would l...

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1985: I apologize for the condition of this shot. Left to Right at an art opening in Don’s loft: George, Mage, Don DeLlamas, and a friend of Don’s. 1995: At the funeral of John and Georges Da...

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Buying a truck;1995 I’ve been following a progression of books, one into the other as if they belonged together. Losing Mum and Pup flowing into No more Words then falling into the memoir Unde...

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…..which are similar to Sunday Snippits We took a few moments to walk the cliffs yesterday as the world around us dipped into sadness. My friend Dixie’s husband, Ken, died unexpectedly. I intr...

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On and off this month, I’ll share some of my collection of G and M pictures. Since I live with a camera in my hand most of the time, I have lots of us pictures. We met in 1983, and I confess ...

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Our friend Mike Hardin died yesterday. He died on a trip north to visit his daughter. I used to eat at Hodad’s when his folks founded it. When they died, they left it to an employee and Mike. ...

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Creating thirty black and white images to share with you was an interesting project. I had no doubt that I could do this technically. I had many thousands of saved pictures in my files to work...

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These two were very powerful writers. I caught this moment by chance as they discussed their upcoming deaths. I cropped the picture, but the uncropped image seemed to say more.

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Years ago, many tall ships visited San Diego. I photographed as much as I could of these ships that day. Only as we were leaving for home did I see this shot. It’s not a true portrait as are ...

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Granddaughter’s dancing the Nutcracker. Sometimes one can ask for nothing more. In this particular shot, the faded colors and the blur made for perfection. I don’t feel it quite translates to...

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Sometimes we have friends we have known for years yet have never met. Two years ago, we journeyed to see the Smithsonian Museums. Thomas came down from New Jersey to visit with us as well as v...

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mrj width = 630></center> When this lovely couple sent out their wedding invitation, there they were in the same spot. Not off to the side, but right in the middle. After this visit, ...

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They argued from birth, but if there was a crisis they stuck together. One has hippy leanings and the other is iconoclastic. Never a dull moment. Himself: Spent an awful lot of yesterday wo...

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His kids called him Pop. Paul was a very passionate man with a great talent for photography. He was a photographer in the Army, and attended ART Center School but didn’t graduate. He had thre...

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We took a road trip one year with the top of the arc a visit to our old friends Katy and David. Katy is an old college classmate from the 1960’s. They live in a small rural island inland from ...

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Dr. Leroy Phelps taught at SDSU from 1966 to 1990. Perhaps in protest to department politics, three professors retired at the same time. We helped them move out. After retirement, Lee took up...

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This grainy picture of Dale was taken in the front yard of the beach cottage in 1982. Dale Thomas Craig worked as Sheriff’s Staff, and he supported artists. He stuck by me when everyone else ha...

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Alex and Megan. They do look alike, don’t they. For me, this more journalistic composition works. More of a documentary style. Taken Christmas 2006. Himself: Enjoyed breakfast with longti...

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The youngest and last granddaughter. She surprised me yesterday by answering the phone as an adult, and telling me to wait just a moment please. Following all that politeness, only then did sh...

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We went to a small high school. Many of those who went there were training to go to one of the military academies. Then there were those of us who were chronic problems in school like me. I f...

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As I grew more insane, she grew more a friend. She was my best friend though I was not her best friend. That will have to do. She helped artists, she helped save the Tijuana Sloughs, and she...

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A painter of ocean paintings he called “Horizon Lines”, Dons work drew steady admiration. He was a painters painter, and just as he was coming in to his own here in our town, he moved. In Seat...

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I spent years baking my hangovers out on the beach at tower four. Winter and summer you could find me there. When I started pushing a broom for the lifeguard service, there was no sunscreen. ...

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Bobbie converted a guest room and a dressing room into two workrooms. Here she contemplates the next step. Himself: Feeling vastly better. His sense of humor has returned even if he has to ...

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