in case you couldn’t tell this is not the valley of the valley girls nor the In & Out of L.A. fame and Lebowski glory there’s hardly glory enough to go around on most days in these parts still, folks get by I find enough glory in the aesthetics alone…

I wonder if this sign has outlived that which it signifies, be it the store or the promise I have driven by countless times but cannot recall the last occasion on which I turned into the lot to do laundry or surf consignments I wonder how many times I stopped…

looking cleaner than ever yet I’ve not seen a solitary vehicle facing down a single one of those posts since at least the beginning of 2020 and I imagine the slow stream of hikers trickling down from the Appalachian Trail dried up considerably over the past two years so this…

ambiguous geometry backlit by the setting sun well if strangely proportioned and with a broad base supporting a strange cantilevered overhang in the foreground, a hose left untended alone this scene is soothing to me in spite of its starkness like a summer Friday evening after everyone has left in their…

green grass blue sky red bricks grey clouds what color are the downspouts what color is the water when it rains

the movement of these clouds trust me, they are moving is in a sort of temporal harmony with the movement of life in this industrial neighborhood largely unchanged on the surface for decades but changing if imperceptibly each moment settling into routines already settled into for years prior such that…

a corner planting has outgrown its post reaches beyond the roofline while the lower portions are now exposed as resources shifted to the parts providing food reaching more light the lower limbs were nearly forgotten apical dominance doesn’t always bode well to those below

for once remaining in business and with a fresh new facade on a lazy evening in April beneath a slowly drifting sky tonight no one needs furniture so many lifetimes of urgency can fall away into the past and now all can be well if only for an evening maybe…