Yesterday, In The Garden
06 February 2006
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SOSHANGUVE TOWNSHIP, PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
| View exhibit | These are from my May 2007 trip to Soshanguve, a township outside of Pretoria, South Africa. It's an interesting place, nearly 100% black South African and growing like crazy. There is beauty there, as I've tried to show, but it is also complicated, with its share of problems: AIDS, social stratification, depression and suicide, violent crime. I came away with a deep sense of the complexity involved in bringing hope to Africa.
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
| View exhibit | In the fall of 2005, I spent a week in St. Petersburg, Russia. There's no way in a week you can absorb the power of that city's presence. These photographs do very little to communicate the grandeur and the fearsome impact of the place. As in any place I've ever been in Russia, there is an imposing sense of history added to the feeling of being very small and unimportant in the face of it all.
NORTH FROM ADELANTO
| View exhibit | I took a drive early in the year to visit family in the Pacific Northwest. I got up before dawn and pulled onto the freeway. By the time the sun came up, I was passing through Adelanto, a has been/will be town in the Mojave Desert. From there it was straight north across Death Valley and into Nevada. Early the next morning, I crossed into the southeastern corner of Oregon before spinning westward toward home. I took some pictures along the way.
CHINA
| View exhibit | In the spring of 2006 I spent a week in China. I'm not sure what I was expecting beyond some crazy traffic and a bunch of neon. In any case, what I found was a surprise in some ways. I thought that on the street I might be treated either with suspicion or completely ignored, but instead I found people friendly and curious. Oh, and they can make a mean bowl of noodles.
POLAND
| View exhibit | In the fall of 2005, I spent a couple days in Poland, mostly in Gdansk. I'm not sure what I expected, a rundown gray country maybe, but it wasn't. In fact, it was beautiful. Also, it was quiet and gracious and very Catholic. I would love to see it in the summertime.
SINGAPORE
| View exhibit | I'm not a huge lover of Singapore. A little too orderly for my taste. But there much that is beautiful about that strange, self-absorbed island city.
INDONESIA & CAMBODIA
| View exhibit | In May/June of 2005, I spent a month in Southeast Asia. I love this part of the world and am always changed when I travel there. This trip was no exception. Here are a few galleries of some of the things that changed me this time.
BARRIO SAN PABLITO, CARACAS, VENEZUELA
| View exhibit | I spent an afternoon in one of the most notorious barrios in Caracas, known mostly for its violence and drugs. But in the middle of the ugliness, something very precious is going on.
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DOWN
| View exhibit | Sometimes we move so fast we forget to look at where we are. Sometimes it's good to look down.
ANONYMOUS - LOS ANGELES
| View exhibit | Blank storefronts in a disconnected city. Images from a drive around town.
CALIFORNIA DESERT
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These are from one Sunday afternoon in the desert, which is one of the best reasons to live in Southern California.
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6 Comments:
What is that?
i was hoping someone could help me with that. it was just sitting there growing.
Reminds me of the Old Hymn.
In The Garden:
I come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses;
And the voice I hear, falling on my ear,
The Son of God discloses.
And He walks with me, And He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
He speaks, and the sound of His voice
Is so sweet, The birds hush their singing,
And the melody that He gave to me,
Within my heart is ringing.
I'd stay in the garden with Him,
Though the night around me be falling,
But He bids me go; Through the voice of woe,
His voice to me is calling.
(I recommend a version of the song by Over the Rhine called: Little Blue River/In The Garden)
hi peter! this is anna, natalie's friend. the name of the plant in question is sedum (see-dum, which is a member of the succulent family and happy planted in rock gardens. there are a wide variety of sedums--this one is a groundcover called sedum rubrotinctum. no idea how to pronounce THAT one. can anyone read latin?
the really interesting feature of this plant is that it will turn more intensely red in sunlight, whereas it will be just plain green in the shade. it also has little yellow flowers in the spring.
at any rate, it is a beautiful photo. as an east coast girl, i was not very familiar with cacti until i moved to los angeles. i considered cacti pretty boring, prickly and odd plants that one found in the flower shop at the grocery store--you know, with a bow tied on it. however, after a visit to huntington gardens one day, i was amazed at the variety! the texture found in cacti is almost endless...fuzzy, smooth, bumpy...and shapes, fat and round, skinny, drooping...and all sizes, from giant spiny monsters to teeny little guys. i swear, they almost have personalities. and some are quite funny looking. if you are interested, go visit a garden center over on rosemead blvd. called "california cactus." the funny looking cacti might actually be photogenic...
great blog, by the way. i occasionally visit your blog, or sam's or eric's. it takes the edge off a sometimes long day when charlie is grumpy and fussy. i wish that i could create a blog. maybe one of these days...in between diaper changes and bottles :-) can anyone tell me how to post a comment without creating a blog and selecting anonymous?
it's anna again...i forgot to mention the common name of this plant: "jelly beans." what do you think?
james - thanks for the good words. that's a great hymn.
anna - thank you. nicely done. hope all is well with you and the little one.
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