1) Bicycling:

Photograph by Carlton Reid, art by Peter Drew of Adelaide, Australia.

2) Walking

Matt Green walked across America in 152 days.

“But perhaps the thing I find most important about walking is how connected it makes me feel to the space I’m passing through. I think it’s because walking is the way we experience our homes. We walk to the fridge, we walk to bed, we walk around the yard. We walk to the copy machine, we walk to the coffee machine, we walk around the grocery store. So this is that same familiar stride, that most basic form of locomotion we know so well, but through vast, immense, unknown places. It’s a way to live a continuous line across the country as if it were my home.”

(from imjustwalking.com)

From artist David Horvitz:

I very much enjoyed perusing his things for sale, each of which you may buy a small part, including:

If you give me $3,143 I will go as far away as possible. I live in New York. I will go to Perth, Australia the farthest distance from New York on Earth. I will mail you a photograph of me standing in New York. I will then mail you a photograph of me standing in Perth. I’m a little sad right now and I would kind of like to escape, so if you are thinking about getting one of these and not sure what you want, please take in consideration my emotions and pick this one.

and:

If you give me $437 I will go to Seattle and hang out with my best friend, Naseem. I will send you a photograph of us hanging out everyday. If we fight, and it is inevitable that we will, I will make a video of us apologizing to each other and explaining our position as to why we are angry at the other and how we will resolve the situation. I will post this on Youtube for you. Maybe we won’t fight! But we probably will.

David Horvitz things for sale.

We’re mid-way through Summer. These damn things go so fast. The blueberries in the yard are half-gone. The raspberries are placing the peas into thorny bondage. The kids are popsicle-juice-stuck to the screen door, which is why I have a few spare moments.

Here are a few random pics from adventures so far (click them to make bigger). What’s your Summer look like?

My brother Ezra, standing in a lake in Vermont.

Naming plants is totally going to be my next job.

For my money, Moment of Truth looked suspiciously like Computer.

Self portrait. (procrastinating an edit, I believe)

Truck being eaten, San Juan Island.

Tiny crabs, San Juan Island

Windmills in the Columbia Gorge

Beehive, BZ Corner, Washington

A cat named Ned. He’s awesome. And named after my friend Ned, also awesome.

Vermont. So pretty

Hey! We have a post office box. Did I mention this already? So far, Laura and I mostly use it to place strange little objects for each other…since there’s not much mail yet. Hey, I know, you could put something in there!

This city looks familiar.

That’s all for now!