bbd
- Location
- Dallas, Tejas
- Birthday
- May 15
- Title
- dilettante
- Bio
- A sometimes artist and photographer, sometimes I write too.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “that was enormously
uplifting. thank you! and
you're right,
it does humble
one in…”
5:25PM - “If you fed the leftovers
of that mess of an omelet to
Ouija,
you could have
opene…”
November 24, 2009 09:58AM - “exquisite! such beauty
you've captured, got out of
you
somehow in amazing
talent,…”
November 23, 2009 08:42PM - “Trig, I'm thinking you
didn't really mean to slander
two
people with that one
sen…”
November 23, 2009 08:03PM - “it's not the Krugman
I've come to know...seems like
he's
trying to cover his
ass…”
November 23, 2009 12:34PM
Bbd's Links
- my places
- a modest personal site
- my Flickr pages
- a underdeveloped gallery of mine
- one of my favorite blogs
- top rated
- 10. to all the birds I've loved
- 6. Memorial Day musings
- 4. New neighbors!
- 5. for some friends...
- 3. thank you mom
- 2. Dawn at Prada Marfa
- 7. incontinent screaming
- 8. my beautiful bride
- 9. A town called Marfa
- 1. heffalumps...
- most page loads
- 9. my personal trainer gets flashed
- 8. art in my home
- 4. Dawn at Prada Marfa
- 3. heffalumps
- 2. to all the birds I've loved...
- 10. celebrating color
- 1. bladerunner
- 5. he's in the same damn zipcode
- 7. photoshop portrait sandwich
- 6. incontinent screaming
Dallas and the Dead President's X
The Dallas County Administration Building, formerly known as the Texas School Book Depository. The infamous window is seen inside the tree limb loop.
Live oak trees mature slowly. Forty six years of growth don't amount to much when those trees live to be hundreds of years old.… Read full post »
it's getting cold, and some other thoughts
It was much too cold this morning to go without shoes or underwear—the first really chilly morning we've had here in Hades since last February or so.
She left early, before I got up, so I assume she simply changed her mind about what to wear.
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The book debut party was terrific fun. What made it so are the friends.
It's been a busy couple of weeks. It looks like that will continue for a while—which is a good thing. I've got 4 or 5 bookstore signings to do—a couple that involve
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I'm about to put up a post about the book party/soirée/art on the walls event that happened just two days ago. I'm still processing what went on that night, all that led up to it and the aftermath. The most wonderful thing about the whole
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See a
larger version
here.
This is not the view from our property, but it’s a short stroll away. We own land near a little town of 800 souls in southwestern Colorado. We’ve come here in the fall for many years to look
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Egretta ardea alba
I just love this egret shot of mine. I'm sure the reality is that he doesn't know or care what he's standing on—but the whimsy in me says he's going to be disappointed later on and think "Man, this fish died hard."
I'm sort… Read full post »
You're invited!
You're invited to a party! Word has it that my publisher is expecting my first book to be delivered to them within the next week or so. It has cleared the Panama Canal on it's way from the Asian press they've used to print this modest endeavor.… Read full post »
get closer
I gave a talk a bit ago to some high school art students on photography. It was a powerpoint presentation (actually an Apple Keynote) on composition, color, cameras and conscience. It ranged from copyright, ethics and Fair Use issues, through a discussion on the
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Thoughts from October, 2001
I normally put up a photo of mine to lead my posts. I don't have a photograph to show you. I'll tell you why in a bit.
I don't own this story, I was just passing through. We all were. We continue down a… Read full post »
Barn swallow Hirundo rustica (probably H. r. erythogaster) See this beauty in a larger size here.
This is a shorter than normal post for me, but at least it's themed.
I've noted before how difficult it is to get a decent shot of birds. They seem
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Caveat lector: This is a long post. I considered breaking it up into several uploads, and even cutting some content in this post, but I feel it is better viewed as a whole and this could be a virtual staycation for you as well. (Notwithstanding the… Read full post »
Northeastern New Mexico
I'm not misanthropic, usually, but I love taking the back roads on my solo photo road trips and staying away from people. I've mentioned before that traveling on the blue highways made famous by William Least-Heat Moon is restorative and contemplat… Read full post »
Step in my stream
I retraced my steps.
I do that a lot, not just because sometimes the memory fails and I don't know I've been down a path before, but there is comfort and value in the things I know. So I choose to visit again those things I love.… Read full post »
I hate people
I'm working on a post, long overdue, of some artistic and historical significance. One that will be dedicated to three OS friends of mine, Gary Justis, Patricia/Cartouche and Cherie/Artfish.* But I have to get something off my chest first.
Sometimes I hate people. I… Read full post »
Salon Co-founder Speaks Up About Open Salon
Hey! I'm famous. Yeah, that's Krys Boyd looking at me, Scott!
Well, ok, I'm not as famous as Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon.com who took some heat recently from some OS members on Sandra's blog for not mentioning OS in a recent article in Wired magazine.
(Edit and note:… Read full post »
My fat lazy ass and gravity are one
Ocotillo sunset. Fouquieria splendens
Saguaro sunset. Carnegiea gigantea
Contemplate, if you will, this serene beauty—an ocotillo and saguaro sunset. (And imagine their prickly, furious and frantic impatience to be in bloom before succumbing to their… Read full post »
Tucked away in a back corner of my morning paper, I found something that caught my eye.
Jean Anleu may be the first to be Twitarrested by his own government. To be sure, there are paranoid and repressive governments who fear the Twitterverse, and have taken
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I know some of you are following my son's epic journey this summer in his Fighting Cancer Every Mile cycling from Austin, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska. This is an update, but of a different sort—using some of his words, uploading his photos and showing the
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Andrew Thomas "Tommy" Doyle
1917-1989
At the Del Mar Race Track, just north of San Diego
Last year about this time I posted a Fathers' Day story about my dad. The Pensioners described his love for the ones who worked for him, the
… Read full post »easy early summer dinner
This is a quick and easy staple dinner in our home. Prep and cooking time is less than one hour, but that's taking into account that it takes a good 45 minutes or so for the brown rice to get to that perfect plump nutty… Read full post »
I offended a Dutch book editor.
Apparently, it's an easy thing to do. I thought I was being thorough, but I guess I just needed to get over myself. I'm sure I still do.
I have a Flickr Pro account and have used that service
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This is a continuation post in the Road to Rancho Laurena series. We find ourselves here leaving Silver City, New Mexico before dawn, on the way up to Glenwood to hike the Catwalk National Recreation Trail.
The previous posts in the series are Dawn at Prada Marfa,
… Read full post »Update: Fighting Cancer Every Mile
I posted last October about the intention of the first of three to spend his summer doing something for many other people. You can read that post here. I won't rehash what was said there in this post, but I'm a proud father, and hope you
… Read full post »Sky Dancer
The Living and the Dead
I'm of that age when the worry of being drafted into the gaping maw that was Vietnam occupied a good portion of my high school thoughts. Even though our school had surfing as a PE option, and I had hair down my… Read full post »
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Happy Thanksgiving to my Open Salon friends
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Thank God for my Son-in-Law
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Thank You for the Chemicals, Dirt and Poop in my Turkey
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Note for the Day
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I Am Thankful for Roseanne's Christmas Episode
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Scenes from a Family/Things to be Thankful For
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Flushing the Guys!
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My Sustainable Locovarian Thanksgiving
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