Brandon Woosley

The last step in reorganizing our home office and master bedroom was getting to set up my audio components. Turns out the turntable needs a new belt, but I’ll be here listening to CDs, if anyone’s looking for me.

From today’s walk.

It has been a long week, too many things to do, and too little time to look at anything through the lens of a camera (even one that’s on my phone). I just remembered that I need to look up more often. There is nothing magical about it, as far as I can tell, but when I’m in look down/look ahead mode, the world gets smaller. When I look up I remember how much is happening above my head, outside of…

A nice way to start the day, if you have to be up early.

Pareidolia. Seeing order and meaning in things which do not possess such meaning. For example, seeing faces in things that do not have faces. I love it.

I just liked how this looked.

Let me tell you a story. My son Zach stopped at our favorite coffee shop on his way to work yesterday to get an espresso (for me) and a croissant (for him), our usual Wednesday routine. Sadly, the shop was out of croissants on this day, so we headed to work. I texted the people I know at the other location of that shop that we frequent and asked them to set aside a croissant if they could, and…

A piece of art that sits in a parking lot on one of the main streets near my house. Tonight I loved the way the brake lights from the passing cars were playing on it. In person, the colors just kept rippling along the surface of the…I’m assuming this is a shark fin? Anyway, I love it.

This project is challenging me already. Ridiculous day, and this is as much of the outside as I had an opportunity to capture.

Sorry. My goal is to put up a fresh picture every day, just as an exercise in observation and consistency. But I spent the day in church and then moving furniture. So this is the only picture I had time to take. Still, I do enjoy staring into this tangle of plants in front of our house.

This is my favorite load-bearing pole in the world. It never fails to tickle me. This sign has been there for at least 2 years. The decision to put a basket of Ricola in front of it to make it harder to walk into is a new one, and suggests to me that the sign was not getting the job done.

This is the stuff that keeps me sane. For the uninitiated this is my younger son Zachary, after doing some volunteering at Grey Bears, an organization that supports Seniors through a variety of initiatives, including a massive thrift complex. Zach loves to help organize things in the thrift area. Today someone who was there with him thought these glasses would be the perfect accessory for…

This is Abbott Square, the downtown gathering space in Santa Cruz. My son Zach and I start our morning here a couple days a week before he goes to his job, because our favorite coffee shop, Cat and Cloud, has a location there. I get my morning coffee and Zach gets a croissant. What you see here is the aftermath of Zach sharing some of his croissant with the small birds which frequent the Square.…