November 22,2004
Corrales, New Mexico

Time just seems to be rushing so fast. Went down to Portales for Jack Carr’s (Heathers Grandfather) 90th. Birthday and I got to meet the whole family. Must have been close to 100 people at the party. A very enjoyable time. Spent 3 days there the first two getting ready for the party and the last day at the party. We then motored back to Albuquerque and have been here since.
Spent the time visiting friends and running all the film shot since I left Omaha. Have made some new images I’m very happy with and will try to scan them soon. One is of an old bed in a deserted farmhouse in Nebraska just below Pine Ridge and the other is of the El Rita Chapel just outside of Espanola, New Mexico. The Chapel is one I’ve been trying to photograph for over 10 years and could only see it up on a distant mesa but could never figure out how to get there. This trip David Marks an old assistant and good photographer who now has his own gallery in Santa Fe, told me how to get there. Thank you David. There are a few others but these two stand out.

David Marks Fine Art Photography
410 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
505.820.7474

Got to go pick up mats from the best little frame shop in the world, Frontier Frames. These folks sure do great work, their info is:

Frontier Frames
2008 Saint Michaels Drive suite D
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505
505.473.1901

Tomorrow we start back to Boulder and Thanksgiving with my son Jesse. Hope to spend two slow days traveling up and then Wednesday and Thursday with Jesse then on to southern Arizona and some warm weather. Seems like the trip as of late has been about getting places and I’m getting a bit disorientated. Look forward to getting back on the road and wondering again, without the idea of a destination or the time/space reference that has been with us the last few months.

Chapel at Santa Rita

Heather at Santa Rita

Frank the man behind Frontier Frames