Adventures of Isabel

Irises, in January.Everytime I remember to look around, this city astonishes me.

Flo — activist, photojournalist, friend and inspiration — has just posted a beautiful new photoessay from the Spanish-Moroccan border at Melilla.http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/9398
“This portfolio is part of a bigger project focused on the look of borders become manifest, the look of the land and the people when the arbitrary line in the sand takes form. These shots [...]

This friendly looking dinosaur at a truckstop in Cabazon, Southern California:

Holds a creationist museum in its belly.

You climb up its tail, and are greeted by exhibits like this:

Finally, when you reach the top of the stairs, you arrive in the mueum/gift shop, where a variety of dinosaur paraphenalia is sold, and a slack-jawed adolescent stares [...]

The Sun Sets on 2007

from my back porch. 

(Squint and you can see the Golden Gate Bridge)

From my bedroom window.

Happy New Year everyone. More posts in 2008.

Winter 2001: Minnehaha falls, frozen. Me, so acclimated I’m not even wearing gloves.

I’m not going to pretend there aren’t things about California that make me want to spit nails. People, for example, who actually think talking about chakras is a reasonable way to chat me up. Or endless discussions about feelings that never actually [...]

Continuing my series of desk portraits, here is the wreckage of my desk as I near the home stretch of a marathon last-minute paper revising session:

It may not be a system of organization that works for anyone else, but I seem to have done alright for myself with it so far.

Now, if I can [...]

Free community bicycle shop in CSO Metges, 2003

CSO (Squatted Social Center) Metges  in el Forat de la Vergonya in Barcelona was evicted after 6 years. 4 people (and I don’t yet know who) were beaten up in the process.

The eviction happened Tuesday morning, though I’ve only now gotten the news. 
 
This house was one of my most [...]

Mt. Shasta, from I-5 in Northern California
It’s been a rare sunny day in Olympia. And cold! Four months of living in the Bay Area has made my blood thin.On the way up here, I was remembering the only other time I’ve ever been on I-5 between Oakland and Oregon — tail end of what was [...]

I’ve been feeling kind of stressed lately, so I’m trying to remind myself of small things that consistently make me happy no matter how stressed or grumpy I am:

Photobooth pictures
Dancing
Skating
Swimming
Mail (paper, though email’s not bad either)
First cup of coffee (and second! The best thing about addictions is that you create problems for yourself that you [...]

I’m still working on getting all the tags and dates organized, but I’ve started putting some of my photos from the last 5 years up on flickr.Check them out at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/19958499@N03/