5.31.6
When we first moved to Hamilton Street, there was a house behind the garage where the parking lot is now. I think the old couple that lived there were named Smith. I don’t remember what happened to them, I just remember noticing one day that they were gone.
The house wasn’t secured very well— the door was probably left unlocked. Anyway, we got in there and played. The electricity was still on which made it even more fun. The *play-house* lasted for a few days before someone must have dropped a dime on us and a big policeman drove up.
The cop rounded up about five of us who were in the house at the time and began writing down names. While the other boys were getting ready to piss themselves, I asked the cop who owned the house. He told me that it belonged to the City. So I asked him who the City was. He was polite telling me what I wanted to hear: The City is the people of Ypsilanti.
I told him we were a people and asked him if that didn’t make us owners. He nodded. I asked him if we were owners, why couldn’t we go in the house.
He started scratching our names out in his book. “Look, kid.” He told me. “You didn’t hurt anything. If I let you go will just you stay out of there?”
“Yes Sir.” And we did.
5.7.6
We didn’t have AC when I was a kid. Some summer days it was just too hot to do anything but load up in the station wagon and go to a lake.
Goldilocks Orchid
My computer project is still stalled. First, the part I thought I needed to repair a computer I borrowed got lost in the mail. When it arrived, it didn’t fix the problem. I hate to leave without getting the project done and I’m left waiting for a new version of the software (that will work on my new duo intel processor Mac) to become available in a month or so— probably or so…
Meanwhile, I have been using my camera a lot. One project is a time-lapse study of an orchid that is blooming 2 years early. My first attempt at this sort of thing, so I’m not really sure how it will turn out. Part of the experimental process is the employment of slave strobes.
Was photographer at a wedding yesterday. My first wedding shoot. I did it just for fun and we did have a pretty good time!
After the ceremony, the newly weds (Patty & Richard) along with Carol and me went out on the town. I took my camera and did some experimental stuff in downtown Ypsi. One shot was of an old friend. I was using a wireless flash that I could hold out like a boom on a mono pole. I’ll be using that technique more.
Jerry Bubenhaufer
I’m learning new aspects of photography everyday. Right now I’m attempting to develop a style of portrait work that no one else is doing utilizing multiple low-power strobes. I’m getting close, but all I have thus far are failures and near misses.
Here a bloom that opened one day, wilted the next, and fell off on the third. Wish I’d known that. I could have taken pictures every couple hours and gotten something different. It would have been fast.
5.3.6
In Ypsi, April rains now bring April flowers— even the Lilacs bloomed late April. Being able to experience 2 full blown spring times in the same year has been uplifting.
Joe Golder
I am staying with my friend Joe who owns 2 houses across the street from EMU’s new library. Joe always has projects of his own going. He rented a piece of heavy equipment and I used it to move big rocks for landscaping along Oakwood St. side of his house.
New Rock Garden
Among my current photographic aspirations is an attempt to find Morel Mushrooms— thus far with out success. Another opportunity has presented itself: Joe collects orchids; one of the orchids (right next to my bed) has sent out a bloom shoot 2 years early! I have my camera set up and am taking time lapse photos every few hours. I may attempt to combine them into a film clip.
Key Largo 18.6'
Some deadbeat bid $6500 on the boat I listed on eBay for a friend back in NC. So I have to run that auction all over again. No more bids from zeros. Now I know why others avoid them!
My new number: 734 418-8787 rings in my laptop. The other night I was in the *hot-spot* at the VFW, and my computer started ringing! That’s both kinda cool and kinda scary…
