2015

A photo from an antique mall in downtown Seattle

It's looking to be a year of lots of artistic fun, Very excited to have some darkroom printing happening at home, well it was til my transformer for my enlarger started smoking.

I have this enlarger I bought in the U.K in 1995, I have carried it round the world with me since, an albatross, my albatross.

It has been used in San Francisco, London and Seattle...although presently waiting to order new transformer and get working in my dark little room, the largest of the closets and bathrooms I have inhabited yet!

welcome 2015

It has been awhile.

I have been making and planning but not sharing so much - art hibernation. tucked away in the darkness with madness and odd sleeping hours...this is winter for me.

Not a time of outwards but inwards not a time for late nights- I used to like late nights every night, that's what nights were for to be experienced.

I used to live far different then I do now.

Neither right or wrong but this definitely more with the flow of my own rhythms then the tempestuous party animal I once was, who got not much art made due to being busy experiencing.

Been cataloging images and trying to create sense in digital image storage...seven years ago we were living in london, we were outdoors people but our outdoors then was far different then now.

I am grateful to be in a place where the human capacity decreases after a spell, I can not imagine being a Londoner now, I hunger for too much green.

A view in our London wilds of Greenwich Park, South London. Former stomping ground of Henry the VIII

We had no back garden in London but would go to Greenwich Park near every day (in the nice weather) and play frisbee.

These were the trees we knew back in the U.K

Spokane Parkade

I love the Spokane Parkade. I know it serves as a bone of contention among the populace, love or hate, yay or nay.

I like it maybe now that so much 60s architecture has been replaced smaller tighter spaces to fit into.

Snow in September

Faced my first bit of winter in september when visiting Montana. the beginning heat of our vacation soon left and brought snow and cold. This dusting was just the beginning.

Japanese Maple at Kubota Gardens

the sun was out but it was cold at Kubota gardens

the frost has stuck in the park

went to visit the salmon at Carkeek park, they're back!

looks like so much hard work makes one think about the drive and desire to reproduce and how many human folks would do it were they to have to do it the way Salmon do it.

The frost had settled all day and now into the next evening, will it thicken in the night? Talula hopes to gather it all (no matter how little and long that should take) into a ball to then throw at her father.

Thendara M Kida-Gee

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