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08/27/2026

We had an amazing print party at Lee's house. My print of Sisteron taken on my Canon USA R5M2 and printed on a P9000 Thanks Lee Wang and Mike Sipe...

08/21/2026

An incredible sunset up here in the great northern woods. Saw a 🫎 moose in the woods but couldn't get a good picture. Hope to see one at dawn.

08/12/2026

08/09/2026

Sunrise at the summer camp in Canada. Peaceful. Serene. Relaxing. 🇨🇦

07/20/2026

At the top of these stairs stands Cathédrale Sainte-Marie-Majeure, known in Marseille simply as La Major.

Its first stone was laid in 1852, when Marseille was expanding around its new commercial port. The cathedral took more than forty years to complete and was positioned so that ships entering the harbor would see it from the sea. It remains the only cathedral built in France during the nineteenth century.

Léon Vaudoyer designed La Major in the Romano-Byzantine style. A Latin-cross plan and twin bell towers belong to the architectural language of Western Europe, while the domes and cupolas look toward the churches of Istanbul and the eastern Mediterranean. Bands of pale and green stone run across the façade, joined by Carrara marble, stone from Florence, Calissane and the Gard, onyx from Italy and Tunisia, and mosaics from Venice. Marseille did not build locally and think small.

07/19/2026

Vallons des Auffes

07/18/2026

We went to a "secret" speakeasy in Marseille last night. You walk through a soap store front, through a cabinet, and into the bar. Great ambiance, cool bartenders, great music, and fantastic drinks.

07/17/2026

Some restaurants become destinations. Others become part of the city itself.

Chez Étienne, tucked into Le Panier in Marseille, has been serving pizzas from its wood-fired oven since 1943. The room is busy, the tables are close together, and nobody seems interested in reinventing anything. That is exactly the point.

One of Marseille’s specialties is the moitié-moitié, literally “half and half.” Half the pizza is topped with anchois, the other half with fromage. It sounds like a compromise until you taste it. Then it simply makes sense. We also ordered the supions, the small squid Chez Étienne is famous for.

My cousins came, along with two of my aunts, and lunch became a proper family table in Marseille. Pizza, supions, close quarters, and several conversations happening at once. No reinvention required.

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07/13/2026

The road to St Remy

07/11/2026

I may have died and gone to heaven. I'm not sure I'm checking my pulse regularly just to make sure that I'm still here with the living. Wow. The best pastis ever. More later. wow . More later. distillery