Stopped by Delaware and saw a lot of trees
Over the weekend I went down to Philadelphia and moseyed on down the street to meet up with a friend in Delaware. While down there I ended up shooting an assignment for The News Journal. Cokesbury Village in Hockessin, a retirement community, hosted the northern leg of Delaware Hospice’s annual fundraiser, the Festival of Trees....
Miller’s Crossing
Ralph Miller doesn’t complain about the back aches or the mice chewing up crops or the lack of hands around the farm. The 77-year-old retired minister knows what he singed up for and he wears it all with a smile. We are always building on the past, yet unified in our signaler endeavor of eking...
Bones and kids
A couple of you saw me tweet this today and were curious about what I was up to. “Walking around in the woods w/ boy scouts showing me where they found the dead body. Now I’ve nvr seen Stand by Me, but I imagine it’s this” Well it turns out a group of friends were...
Birds on a wire
San Antonio seems to be under some flight path for many migrating animals. Last spring there were tons of grackles, I’d never seen them before but they look like something between a raven and a crow, and some of them are pretty mean to as you’ll see in this video. A couple months ago we...
Veterans Day 2009
This year for Veterans day I was sent to a new GI Forum housing and a work center for homeless veterans. It’s part of a larger campus called Haven for Hope which is all designed around aiding the homeless and low income folks in need of a hand. The campus isn’t open 100% yet, they...
Stopping by at Can’t Stop Street
Everyday as I leave for work I drive past a man who walks up and down my street with a broom. When I come back he’s still walking. Years ago I lived next to a women who every Thursday morning, before the sun came out, would cruise through recycling bins. A few months later the...
Lost in translation
When I was handed an assignment sheet to cover the San Anto Cultural Arts press conference, I was a bit confused. They’re going to crown King and Queen Huevo? “Eggs,” I thought. “Am I losing something in translation here?” It turns out my two years of bumbling through high school Spanish had once again come...
They came from over the hills
Do you remember that scene from Jurassic Park where the Tyrannosaurus Rex first appears? I never remember the dinosaurs or the car or the screaming kids from that scene, I mean I do eventually, but it’s not the first thing I think of. I remember the water, and how it vibrated like a door ringer...
Late night drive
The other night we finally had some rain in San Antonio and it brought along some lighting to boot. In California lighting storms are pretty rare and I was feeling the itch to explore the light. So I grabbed my cellphone, sent off a Twitter update– “Going for a late night drive in the rain....
deer in the city
The buck lifted his head and stared at me as I tried to move closer. I was driving around Fair Oaks Ranch looking for a picture to go with a story on stage 3 water restrictions but wasn’t having any luck. Some days are like that. It also didn’t help that my eight hour shift...
Tea for 61
Tea parties are pretty strange. I mean, if you think about it, they’re pretty strange. Men in sharp black suits and polished shoes not going to the office. Women in flower-adorned hats and their Sunday best not going to church, well Sunday church. Everyone stopping in the middle of the day and dropping all their...
Blue Therapy
I was in knots as I walked out of the office. So much on my mind. So much to process. I looked up and saw a shade of blue sky that gave me an excuse. So for the next twenty minutes I walked around and thought only about blue. It was calming, for the time...
