My aunt’s painting
Posted: July 3, 2016 Filed under: photography, sight seeing, time and space, Uncategorized Leave a comment
This painting, by Ava Milner Hamm, is one of my earliest memories, a landscape of country that starts west of Fort Worth. The painting was always in the two houses where I grew up. I have lived with it in sight (or memory) for all of my life. It always tells me I’m home.
Daylight
Posted: February 27, 2016 Filed under: people, photography, poetry, time and space, writers Leave a comment
Did you notice the daylight today?
The days are short in December.
It comes before dark. Sometimes it passes
in a hurry to get someplace else
More friendly perhaps. Fiji maybe.
We become forgetful and miss it some days.
In March there were six different warblers
in one willow bush. What else could
you possibly want from daylight?
– Jim Harrison, Dead Man’s Float
Finger Snapping Time
Posted: February 21, 2016 Filed under: buddhism, people, photography, poetry, writers Leave a comment
Photograph of Blue Heron by Jesse Sublett
People can’t explain why they’re so crazy
The two evil birds on their faces
The three poison snakes in their hearts
One or another blocks their way
Making it hard to get hold of things
Lift your hand high and snap your fingers
Homage to the Buddha
– Poem #223 from The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, translated from Chinese by Red Pine
Laotian moonshine, look closely
Posted: November 18, 2015 Filed under: photography, places Leave a comment
Bottles of moonshine on sale next to the Mekong River in Vientiane, Laos.
The White Man and Laddawan
Posted: September 22, 2015 Filed under: people, photography, time and space | Tags: laddawan hamric, photography 2 Comments
Me and Laddawan with two friends at a neighborhood bar two nights ago. They were projecting a TV program on a screen behind me. September 20, my birthday.
Backwoods Church In East Texas
Posted: September 20, 2015 Filed under: photography, sight seeing | Tags: backwoods churches, photography, southeast texas 5 Comments
Part of a documentary photography project I worked on in the 70s and 80s.
Orchids, Ingenuity & Recycling
Posted: September 4, 2015 Filed under: photography, sight seeing, states of mind, time | Tags: ecology, orchids Leave a comment
IPhone Photograph
Abandoned Backwoods Church in East Texas
Posted: August 21, 2015 Filed under: photography, places, sight seeing, time | Tags: backwoods churches, photography, southeast texas 6 Comments
Part of a documentary project on backwoods churches in The Big Thicket country of southeast Texas that I worked on during the ’70s and ’80s.
Forever Fashion
Posted: August 19, 2015 Filed under: people, photography | Tags: art, fashion, hill tribes, mekong river Leave a comment
A profusion of textile art on my friend who lives in the mountains on the Mekong River near Laos.
the roy hamric journal 