by thadmin | Mar 18, 2014 | Beauty, Joy, Travel
by thadmin | Mar 16, 2014 | Beauty, Joy, Travel
Here are some photos shot the day before yesterday. While it certainly doesn’t look like it, these images were taken during Cyclone Lucy, down at Piha beach about an hour’s drive from...
by thadmin | Mar 13, 2014 | Beauty, Navel, Rant, Travel
So I have returned to New Zealand. To be honest, I never thought I would ever return. Certainly not through lack of desire, but rather lack of means was my assumption. But I must never forget the generosity of family, and so it is through the good graces of my...
by thadmin | Feb 7, 2014 | Historical
Recently, a pal of mine (hi Gary!) gave me a small packet of old BW negs and what look like contact sheets of some of them. It is a “Hold-Pat Snapshots” album, without evidence of prior ownership or provenance. I think Gary said he picked them up as a flea...
by thadmin | Dec 6, 2013 | Beauty, Historical, love
I just posted some more new scans of old illustrations. This time from Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark: Agnes Lickfold was my maternal...