I went to the Windsor (California) Arts and Crafts Fair today, with my photographs and photographic products (luggage/backpack tags), but got rained out a little after noon. However, serendipity still finds me; while I was quite disappointed to have to “close shop,” I was still given the gift of a photographic opportunity. The Bird Rescue [...]
The door bursts open and the shouting begins—bring the camera, hurry, hurry! Saying, I’ll call you back, I drop the phone to the computer table and rush for my favorite visual recorder. I walk out the open front door into the blazing hot sun and find Leonel standing on the dry patch of short weeds [...]
As the sun’s reflection shines in the dark pupil of his bulging eye, and the mosaic lines that constitute the lovely iris pattern, Facundo Chulo sits on a rock in a small, somewhat stagnant pond filled with water lilies and pickerel weed. I see myself reflected in that same dark pupil as I snap photo after photo of my magnificent friend who keeps my garden bug-free and calls when he comes home after a jaunt.
