a dc dusting...

...of snow.

washington d.c.

december 2010.

love and health to all...

doggone...

...missed that snowstorm by about 200 miles or so...

...c'est la vie...

...oh well, that's the breaks...

love and health to all...

to the nation's capital...

...no, not ottawa silly...

that be d.c.

happy holidays & peace in the new year...

love and health to all...

back in the day holidaze...

double exposed seasons greetings...

380 back in like '82.

melorra, david, marv and me.

love and health to all...

one day...

...when i get older, with a home i call my own, i'd like to have a vegetable and herb garden for pizza. maybe even a pizza oven too...

dufferin grove park, toronto, ontario. fall 2010.

love and health to all...

eyes closed and in...

...sudan with mohammed wardi...

...havana and bamako with afrocubism...

... in toronto, with mad dog... he shows up at the dufferin grove farmer's market every thursday and plays his guitar for the people. this day it was raining till the sun came out. mad dog had designed a styling slicker to cover his instrument and his body, allowing him to carry on through the changes in weather.

the sun came out right as i was giving props to mad dog for his crisp cover.

toronto, november 2010.

love and health to all...

the chalk mystery

chalk.

that was the name of my brother sam's imaginary friend when he was young. he used to talk to him, talk about him, and chill with him too. chalk always seemed like a cool dude and a good friend even if he was invisible to the rest of us.

one recent cold early december toronto morning i woke up and directly in front of my house was a chalk drawing. beautifully crafted, it said happy b'day guy with what appeared to be a steaming slice of pizza just beneath the words...

who, i wondered, was the birthday guy?

i couldn't help but think whether this was the work of the only other sam i've shared the same roof with for more than a year and that being my downstairs neighbor, sam. sometimes he calls me guy and i thought, well, it's december and my birthday is coming up and maybe he's the artist? i asked him if he had created this great work of sidewalk art and of course he said no and that in fact, he himself, had been wondering who had created this street graffiti chalk drawing directly at the foot of our stairs.

happy b'day guy and a slice of koronet's appearing out of the blue and even after a couple nice days of snowfall, it's still there on the sidewalk directly in front of my house.

sam and chalk and mom too, thanks for the early birthday wishes...

sam and the chalk drawing in little portugal, toronto, canada, december 2010.

love and health to all...

back empire state way...

a bob dylan and johnny cash fusion getting my tired eyes started on a late dimanche canadian morning.

a paper to write, the island of manhattan on the horizon, hudson rivers, peconic bays, the east coast of america.

the world never ceases to amaze and confuse, this first week of december, no different in a sense like that crazed december in 1980, a decade and a decade and a decade ago, a december and a big apple back then, mad death and new life, 1980 to 2010...

some still here, others gone, illness and accidents, tangible smiles and then sweet memories...

this crew is love. posting up on springs stoop, back in the day, some city slickers out for good country beach living...

sammy, davey and susannah enjoying that good atlantic ocean air, long isle, ny, perhaps the early 1990s...

love and health to all...