This is a painting that my friend from South Africa, George, did. He painted it from a photograph I gave him, a photo I took while visiting my brother in New York last spring.
You should check out some of George’s other work, at
Yesterday was a good day, albeit a balmy 25 degrees. (Taken with instagram)
Chase, emerging out of the mist spraying off the Pacific Ocean. The same mist is shrouding The Goonies rock behind him. It was a weird beach. It was cold and windy, which wasn’t bad but there was an ominous cloud storm thing looming over the water and it kinda frightened me.
Tropical Storm Lee passed near Texas over the weekend, bringing its strong winds to the state, but none of its much-needed rain. The strong gusts fanned some 60 separate wildfires across the drought-stricken region, destroying more than 1,000 homes, forcing more than 5,000 people to evacuate, and killing at least two people. Especially hard-hit has been Bastrop County, about 25 miles from the city of Austin, where a 30,000 acre fire still burns uncontained. Collected here are some of the scenes from around Texas, where residents continue to struggle with a long drought and wildfires that have burned 3.6 million acres since November 2010. See earlier entry Texas Wildfires, from April, 2011.
Above: Flames engulf a road near Bastrop State Park as a wildfire burns out of control near Bastrop, Texas, on September 5, 2011. (Reuters/Mike Stone)
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