November 2001
30 medium Folks fishing. Check the activities going on. There's
everything except someone making a cast.
29 medium Lagoon sunset.
28 medium Each spiraling "ring" of growth
continues the same marvelous proportion and pattern.
27 medium Palm logs washed up on the south point of
Hunting Island.
26 medium The boundary between land and sea is easy and
flexible in the natural world. In the human world, we've made it the subject
of crises and catastrophies. Is she dancing or
flying?
13 medium Fresh pressure-treated post.
12 medium Twice-by-twelves. Twicet-by-twelves, if
you're from the mountains.
11 medium Boeing 747from the terminal at JFK. A
security guard threatened to confiscate my camera. Welcome home to the land of the
free.
10 medium Just up the hill from the Vieux Port in
Marseilles, there's an Arch d'Triomphe. And just across the street there's an unfortunate
bit of American influence. I couldn't resist going in to shoot this, looking out through
the window of the burger palace.
9 medium The star ingredients in the most fantastic
bouillabaise I've ever tasted. Marseilles.
8 medium Spices in the market at Nyons. I
encountered the same woman in the Isle sur la Sorges market last Sunday. I walked
into a cloud of scent and realize that they were there long before I saw the display.
Today, we talked about persillade and when she realized I was an American, her face melted
into a look of sweet and simple sympathy as she told me how the September 11 attacks
affected her and her friends. The words were purely about sympathy for a terrible human
tragedy, with nothing said about retribution or anger. It was remarkably comforting.
7 medium One of the cats who live in the Roman coliseum
in Arles. Looks like the ones in the Maurice Sendak books, doesn't he?
6 medium Window in Arles, France.
5 medium The road at the summit of Mt. Ventoux.
That's a semi truck being passed by the car at the hairpin.
4 medium Door knob in the afternoon.
3 medium Pastis. It's what's for lunch in LŽIsle
sur la Sourge
2 medium Doorway to a home in the Citadelle above the
harbor, near the French Foreign Legion barracks.
1 medium Two classic boats in Calvi, on Corsica, for an
annual regatta.